The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-02
Brockway.

McKenney on the farm ut present.
Mrs. Nj. Wagner who has been sick
for some time past is getting better.
Mrs. A. Lovelock and mother Mrs.
Il. Newton were Yale visitors Satur-
day.
Sundays rain certainly spoiled the
small potatoes rs that was all the tubers
required to make larger crop.
William Streeter is mourning the loss
of the "Blind Roam" Funeral private,
with flowers. Obituary next week.
Samuel Fields has severed his con
nection with the Brockway House and
is working on farm west of Yale.
Sarah Stevens, of Detroit, is at pre-
sent visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs.
Christ Stevens and family in this vii
lage
Wheat harvest is now on and the
crop is going to be fair, not half as bad
as the jingoes tried to make out early
in May.
Mrs. NJ. Carney, of Detroit, is visit
ing her mother-in-law Mrs. ID. Carney
and other friends in this locality at
present.
Say Mr.. Pathmaster, or whoever is
responsible, wouldn't ii be good policy
to cut the weeds that now infest the
streets Of the village?
Mae Hoskin, Yale's prominent music
teacher, was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Patrick Cottar and other relatives and
friends in this vicinity last week.
Nellie Magner spent sunday with her
parents in this village. Miss Magner
is employed in Port Huron drug
store. She has secured school near
st. Clair that she will teach the season
of '07-S
Ella Mckinney had the misfortune
one day last week Of falling out of a
cherry tree and breaking her wrist in
two places. Medical aid was quickly
summoned and the injured member is
getting along as well as can be expect
ed.
The school board has voted to retain
Ella McKenney as teacher for another
wear. which is a wise move OH their
part. as the young lady last year gave
excellent satisfaction and as long as
such is the ease changing teachers is
demoralizing for school and pupils.
On Sunday afternoon the Old Town
Angels and the Emmett Sluggers met
i'm battle array OH the diamond at Ed
ward NeatOn's. The battle was fierce
and fast and as the umpire was hit
with one of Edwards spit balls he re-
fused to give "a decision. so to date
who are the winners is still in the air.
Mr. and Mrs. Eleary Hartman for.
merly of Peck, spent part of the week
with the latter's parents Mr. and Mrs.
NJ. Magner in this village. Eleary last
week disposed of his barber shop in
Peck and is now working in Detroit
where he has secured iirst-class posi-
ton. His wife will shortly join him in
that city.
The dying ont of the talk of a Jap
American war has brought disgust TO
one Brockwayite, veteran of the
Indian rebellion, who during the last
few weeks has been putting his Wind
chester in shape for war, as he states
commission would be given him on the
breaking out of hostilities. And. no
doubt he would receive some kind of
a commission for with his tall COM
handing figure, nut brown hair, fierce
French Imperial and dark complexion
he would make an ideal officer.
Fame is certainly a fleetng bauble
no matter how obtained and a person
is no sooner in the ground than the
past is forgotten, swallowed up in the
future. No more remarkable celebrity
ever trOd st. Clair county soil than
Charles Brockway though granted it
may have been questionable il was
celebrity just the same, yet in spite of
it all no one can be found today to To-
cate the exact spot in Mt. Carmel GENE
terry where his remains rest. Charlie
was veteran of the Civil War, and a
member of Archie Madison Post G.. A.
r., former Brockway society, and a
few years after his death the Post pur-
chased a memorial tablet for the grave.
After the stone arrived the officers of
the post nor none of its members could
state exactly where the grave was 10.
Gated and after eXhausting every means
they knew of they abandoned the quest,
and the marker was stored i'm the barn
of well known farmer west of this
village where it remains to this day,
silent testimonial To "what might have
been"
The storm last week did considerable |
damage i'm this vicinity the heaviest |
part seemingly following a diagonal
path from VIM. Jurden's on the town
line TO James Kelley's on the Memphis |
road. William Jurden's barn was bad |
ly shaken and moved several feet off |
its foundation while his house standing |
nearby had close call. The next |
place struck was the farm of Thomas |
Ross where a shed was blown down, |
part of the barn unroofed and hay |
loader turned turtle. The next place |
struck was Fred Carvings where another |
hay loader was smashed to pieces. |
From here it seemed to raise until |
James Kelley's orchard was struck |
where it played havoc with the trees,
twisting them out by the roots and |
leaving trail of destruction behind il. |
Raising here the force of the wind was |
spent in the heavy woods just east of |
Kelleys OnloOkers who saw the blow |
state that it resembled typical cyclone
and the people may indeed be thankful |
under the circumstances that no great. |
er damage was done and no lives lost.
The old settlers again: "In those
palmy days when "Billie" Roberts run
the Brockway House, DIR. Gowan was
chief advisor officer and John Gustin