The Yale expositor., 1907-12-06
BroCkway.

Mrs. ). Balmer is very sick this week.
Rallies are now the order of the day.
Mrs. Carrot Quain is on the sick list
this week.
Thomas Ross is engaged in clearing
up new land this week.
Michael Magner spent the latter part
of the week in Port Huron.
Mrs. NJ. Wagner is confined to her
bed this week with sickness.
Mr. White now occupies the McKen-
ney homestead on Main street.
Birdie Magner is visiting this week
with friends in Melvin and vicinity.
Mollie McKenney spent part of last
week with her mother in this village.
Mrs. f. Hartman, of Detroit, is Wis
iting her parents Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Mag
ner at present.
The hay market is active, nearly
every farmer in this locality moving
his produce to neighboring markets.
Ella McKenney, teacher of the Brock
way school is making preparations for
extensive Christmas exercises to be
held during the holidays. The pro-
gram will be of high order.
Melvin Russell and family, who have
been in Illinois during the past few
years, have returned to Brockway and
are now dOmiciled in the Gray house
pending repairs OH their own home.
Fred, the sage of "Podunk" has given
new recipe to the world for the re-
claiming of barren trees. lie says they
are like bad kids and should "be licked,
by gol.' What do you think of that?
\ local j. u. has tried the experiment
but no results are recorded yet.
The many friends of Stephen Balmer
will be pleased TO learn that he is able
to be around again. Mr. Balmer is one
of our villages best known men, and a
man intimately associated for term
of years with both the political and So
cial life of the township, holding at
various times many offices of trust and
confidence in the gift of the people.
Some three years ago he retired and
moved to this village, where he is an
hOnored resident, and we are glad to
see the upright figure and genial
face again on the street, trusting he
will be spared many years to us, as we
cannot afford to lose him.
President Ross and secretary Glass
ford of the Brockway Bachelors Club,
are at present arranging for the third
annual cOnVScatiOn of the fiourishing
society whWh will convene in the
Brockway House sometime during
January next. With only couple of
exceptions the policy of the society re-
mains intact, as in other years, the fact
being that it has if anything grown
larger and the officers will spare no ex-
pense to make next years meeting the
best ever. Addresses, Rotations, etc,
are on the list with lots of oysters and
dance as fms. If you don't belong
to the b. Il. G. you'd better get aboard
the bandwagon and brace up.
William Streeter, of "61" fame has
long felt the need of some "bundle of
calico" to warm his cherries hearth,
and share his joys and sorrows, and
during the past month has secured the
services of a matrimonial bureau, and
man of pills in nearby town. BE
tween the two the fair William has
been placed in communication with
several buXom DANES who are willing,
if not anxious to be the solace of his
declining days. Out of the bunch Bill
has selected one of excessive charms,
the intention being that she was TO
reach the "Old Town" on Thursday,
but owing to delays of trains she will
not arrive until Monday or Tuesday.
During the past week the neighbors
have been surprised at the activity
manifested around "Moro Castle" Bills
stronghold, while general housekeeping
and renoyations were in progress. Bill
says his intended is prodigy in
household economy, and with a nest
egg of $4,000, and that "Pomp'' will
be relegated to the barn on the advent
of the new mistress. He further says
that he will give the busy bodies an
example of progressiveness and follow
the pet theories of "Teddy" Roosevelt
when he denounces "race suicide.
Here's health, Bill