The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-16
Brockway.

Many from the old town attended
the street fair at ale last week.
Misses Birdie Magner and Irene
Shanahan spent Sunday in Mt. Salem.
Miss Ella Mckinney's arm which
was broken some time ago is improv
ing nicely.
Haying is about finished i'm this local
ity. with preparations being made foI
the oat harvest.
Jurden & McGrattan are getting
their two threshing outfits in shape foI
this seasons work.
Brockway is putting on metropolitan
airs with full tledged circus for to-
morrow saturday
The wire has been purchased for the
new It. ,Ioseph's Catholic church fence
and the same will shortly be erected.
Mrs. Elleary Herman is spending
the week with her parents in this vii
lage. She will during the next three
weeks join her husband who is work
ing in Detroit.
Bill has had his hair cut and we un-
derstand the boys have all applied FOL
a lock as a souvenir. Bill we under
Beauty. He has received many'Teplies
but inasmuch as his eyesight is failing
him, he is in the market for giltedge
secretary preferably of the feminine
gender. If she is redheaded and all
right he will take her to his heart.
They were all sitting around the stove
one raw evening last spring, chewing
tobacco, and after the sage of the even
ing had delivered the seat stew" story
conversation drifted into fishing chan
nels being inaugurated bya keg of de
crepit herring Geo. Cook had on sale
and an unsuccessful trip Bill Streeter
had made TO Lexington for fresh sup
ply. Couldn't get any Ell? Dere did
mt tell you be golley dat de wind
wasn't right for catchin' dem herrin'
When | was workin' over dere on de
Canada side de fisherman were just
about discouraged. Dey had tished ov-
er month and hardly caught anything
just because be golly de wind KEEP blow
in due west. One mornin' / went down
to de stable and happenin' to look up
see de wind had changed and was blow.
in due east. Coin down To de water
never see such sight as was in front
of me. Why de water was full of de
htii ~ anu 40 IVY hSP piiih III he'u W
climb de bank to keep dry, de water in
de lake risin' dat fast. | had whip
wit me and don't you believe il but wit
one snap | killed % ten pound herrin'
] den ran back to de shanties and toll
de boys to hurry up and dey could catch
all de fish dey wanted for de mex month
Gettin' out de big net dey made de cast
and be golly dey pulled in so many her
rim dey dasn't hitch de horse to il but
had TO send to de village, when about
200 persons come down, when after
much trouble de haul was landed, and
be gOlly dere was enuff herrin to I'LL tree
fish shanties besides tree double wagon
box and be gol il just took de full
crew four weeks To take care of dat
haul of fishes"
This story not bringing out the de-
sired applause Fred turned directly Ia
Tom Ross and enlightened that gentle
man OH the quality of pigs in general
and one hog in particular, that was
raised on his farm in the remote past
"Tom, years ago de oil man went TO De
troit be gOl and brought back little
shoat in a bag, All we raised him on
milk and lnjun meal. After we had
him about "A year Brant, de drover,
come along and made de oil man a bid
for de hog and de oil man took de offer,
hog to be delivered alive i'm Port HUI
ron, an of course be gol ] was elected
To go. We had a wagon wit an Is foot
box an be gol don't you believe it had
To put four foot extension on de rear
for de pig to stand on. Den be gol wit
his snout he kept de flies brushed off
de horses all de way TO Port Huron.
DE pig was just about "a feet long not
includin' his tail, which would make
him about % feet long" Here Tom
Ross acted just like he did one day dur
ing leap year when talking to local
old maid and we thot for few min
utes he had tainted. Amos Fisher was
struck dumb, refusing to talk for three
days Bill Streeter cried, 40 Lord, but
that beats the squaws," while Jack
Glassford squirted another COB of Plank
Road at the cat. Fred got what he de
sired, and in three minutes he like Rob
lnson Crusoe could say I'm lord of all
i survey with the preface "23 for
yours"