The Yale expositor., 1900-05-04

THEN AND NOW.

and, also, for town that would grow
enough to let him grow with it. That
young man wanted to find soil in which
he might set a newspaper with a fair
chance that the plant would not witheI
and die in infancy. In welding his
horoscope of the future in this search
he fixed it finally upon little spot
known as Brockway Centre. With
many doubts and misgivings, he had
the courage to set his plant in an un-
developed territory and an untried
place.
The name of that young man is not
yet known around the world, neither is
his check vet good in the banking
houses in the old world. But in both
these respects he has as much, if not
more than when he started journalism
in Yale. The man and the town have
at least had a moderate growth. When
the Expositor first drew breath and sent
forth its cry of life, even Yale was not
old enough to be christened. Let US
take glance backward from the now
to the then. The then rests in a by
gone of almost score of years. There
was but little encouragement then to
place a plant in Yale, and 1t required
courage and resolution to do il. At
that time there was only a narrow
gauge railway track, and the accommo-
dations, compared with our present ia
cilitieS for commerce and travel, were
far narrower than the track. Then
there was no flax mill, and compared
with to-day the wOolen mill was but a
baby doing business in little wooden
structure. The grist mill was the old
stone one. AT that time not a single
merchant had the comfort of selling
goods between solid brick walls. The
best store building in town was MOTH
ing but shell compared with present
edifces.
And the people have changed more
than the structures. 1t is but brief
period, yet excepting the Holden Bros.
not single merchant is doing business
in Yale to-day whose name was in the
Brockway Centre directory, and only a
few of them yet reside here. In those
days Reuben Emery ran the CONNER
cial House; VIM. Scott was the baker;
McKenDa sold drugs; Mills handled
lumber; Macarthur tinkered time; Bart
lett * Vanderlip built tombstones;
Mrs. Van Wagner sold women's head
gear; Waring had general store;
GOrdan was the grocer; w. IL. Palmer
was on deck with general store:
Michaels handled different kind of
yard stick; Hollywood & McKinnon
supplied groceries: James Brown was
doing the lime act; Henson was jewel
er; Mrs. Fraser sold sewing machines;
s. b. Hughes was the barber; Fuller
bought butter, eggs and grain; RAM
shaw made and mended harness; Hick-
ey IL Roswell had Just dissolved and
Roswell was at the old stand; Leonard
sold hardware; A. q. Brown, furniture;
Wyman ran general store; Grandy
dealt in millinery and dry goods; Jas.
Brown was undertaken; and Holden
Bros were on deck with store full of
everything.
For these eighteen years lying be-
tween then and now the ExpOsitor has
gone on it's way through thick and
thin, rain and sunshine; always trying
to be the exponent of the life, and keep
the record Of the community's history
Amid this history it has been our lot
to record nearly 1000 marriages and
deaths. Regardless of the mercenary
gain we have tried to ever have the
paper stand for the best interest of the
town and country; and on all questions
the moral and material inter-
est of the whole people, we have tried
to be true to our motto, "For the Right"
That we have failed in our ideal effort
and ambition is self evident, but we
have the conscious satisfaction of hay
ing tried to do our part in the moral
and material onward march of the
All this has required work. For
almost a thousand times have we lock-
ed the forms aud pulled the press
which sent forth type-tracings of
thought, or thought multiples to the
people. For an equal number of times
we have did the work of fixing our
makeup (our toilet and sending
forth weekly editions of the towns
history. We estimate, and safely, too,
that we have in this period put forth,
counting all forms and styles, more
than million copies of the Expositor.
In the various processes the labor re-
quired to do this, is simply enormous
in the aggregate. Reader, do you
know that week by week, and week
after week, we have kept at our post
until the sum total of printed matter
sent out from this Office i'm the paper
alone, amounts to more than 10000
columns. Enough if put in book form
TO make good sized library. And all
this had to be done letter by letter in
the slow and laborious process of COM
position. In the setting up and taking
down of all this matter each letter TO
be handled separately. The vast num-
Der of these letter pickings is beyond
if we could even ap-
estimate them. If farm
Or having large crop of wheat, oats,
rye, corn and other grains, should at
tempt to count it all grain by grain,
his task would be somewhat similar,
yet a less one than ours has been.
In doing all this work we have had
many kind words of cheer and much
substantial help from the people who
have always been The Expositor's
friends. AS we turn our face to the
future, dip the tiller, and the sails be-
gin to swell as we set out on another
year of life, we can but express our
thanks for the help rendered; and our
strong confidence that the same good
will, cheer and helping hand of the peo-
pie will be ours to rely upon.
And what shall that future bep We
,ya,,f 10 m, olra ~ haffar than tho naQf