Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-01-26
What We Do At School.

LOCAIS.
Mollie Hayes is at school again.
Ira Goheen was absent Tuesday.
Addie Palmer visited the High school
Tuesday.
Frank Baxter was absent Tuesday
afternoon.
N. B.-Visitors are requested to re-
frain from grinning (?) aloud.
Laura Bates and Lillian Springer
visited in the High Room Tuesday.
Emerson Cooper visited the school
Tuesday in company with Alex Mills.
Blanche Biddleman is the new
scholar in the High Room. She came
to school last winter.
Mrs. Beard and Mrs. Ferguson visit
ed in Miss Darcy's and Mrs. Drum
mond' s rooms Thursday.
A change has been made in the
school column, and hereafter an essay,
a story, or perhaps a poem, will be
given instead of the Questions" and
ANSWERS"
We now resign our pens to our
ADLER successors, Grinnell and High.
Adieu.
The following is composition writ.
ten by member of the senior class
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Yale, Jan. %, 1894.
| was born June Z, 1877, ut this place
Yale, which was then known as
Brockway Centre.
We lived in the house in which /
was born (the house was on Main
street but is now torn down. for about
seven years, and then moved TO the
home where we now reside.
During the first two or three years of
my life was amused by my brother
who is eleven years older than /. We
had Il dog, Pat, and brother Charlie
made cart and II harness for Pat and
would take me on long Journeys
around town in this beautiful O. turn
out. When | became older. Lille
Cooper, Leah Darcy and Maud Grandy
were my chief playmates, my brother
then going away to school. But to our
dismay my parents decided to build
house in another part of town and
move away, but before our house was
finished Lilies parents boughta house
near ours and we two were not separ-
ated after all.
/ started to school when | was six
years old, in the old school building
which is now used for town hall. My
first teacher was Rev. Sam Bettes who
gave nle Il whipping with tie insole of
his slipper.
went to school next in what is now
the primary building and WAS taught
by Miss Allen, now Mrs. Noble Hunter
of Capac. On account of limited room
our grade was moved to the Duffie
block and Brown building respectively
where we we're taught by Miss Brown.
While going to school in the Dnffie
Block one might think | had better
of vegetables than of gram
mar. On account of sickness | was
obliged to stay out of school for two
weeks, during which sine the class
vas progressing finely When / re-
turned to school we had an examina-
ton in grammar. One of the questions
was: "What Is a caret?" / wrote in
al seriousnesS-"A caret IS vegeta
be. OF courses they had that while
was absent. Oar new school building
WAS then built end we were installed ut
the beginning of the school year, 1888,
being in the sixth grade. Two years
later, while Mr.. Petrie was principal,
we were admitted to the High Room.
The summers OF the years | was nine
and2 ten years Old respectively were
spent visiting in Canada. i enjoyed
this very much as most of ouT friends
livedon farms ana it was much pleas
anter there than liz town in the sum-
mer time. When l was fourteen |
began taking violin lessons of j. o.
! took Just nine lessons
when j Johnnie movsf away and had
no teacher till Prof. Sturgis came up
this sall and l began taking again.
WhenI first started to learn to- play a
violin / had very poor instrument
but papa got me new one for my
last year.
At tho beginning OF the year 1891 |
siarteda dairy whichI have been keep
ing ever since.
Last summer / visited friends at
CrosweH and spent a very enjoyable
time, as among the people | met was a
lady violinist who attended the Detroit
of Music last winter. We
planned many happy hours together,
but our plans were all shattered, tor
The lady was visiting was taken sick
and | had to come home much sooner
than l expected. The journey home
was anything but pleasant. We drove
out with slow horse and Buggy
without any top. 1t was a very warm
day; we passed many places that were
on fire and it was so windy it was inn
possible to hold an umbrella. We
started at 10 a. m. and arrived at D.
m, very warm and covered with dust.
School started soon after and Ihave
been studying ever since, taking just
one day to visit the CToswell Fair: