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We EKLY TCT "Yl S V ITOR. JAS. A. MENZIES, Editor and Proprietor. A LIVE PAPER MAKES A LIVE TOWN. INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS, NEUTRAL IN NOTHING. vol. vn, No. 13. BROOKWAY CENTRE, St. Clair Co., Mich., THURSDAY, Aug. 9, 1888. Price: $1.00 per Year. Holden Bros.' Column. I Wo have just received a large stock of and having had several years' ex perience we feel confident that we have selected a stock of goods that Trill please our customers and the trade in general. We o'lj ' first Class Goods and sell thea at ih Lowest Possible Price. Never before have we been able to j present such a complete line of Dry ; Goods, such as SUITINGS in all the latest colors. DRESS GOODS, u great variety and very cheap. WASH GOODS of all kinds. SATINS, Chambry, Ginghams and Indigo. In PRINTS, an elegant line. WHITE GOODS of all descriptions Bed Spreads, Lace Curtains. Em broidery; Hosiery and Notions of all kinds. In this line we certainly have the Most Complete Stock of Fine Goods in the village at Prices Away Down. We have a large Stock of the very latest styles. You will always find this depart ment full. Our 50c. and 35c. Tea AND 20c. TEA DUST are acknowledged by all to be The - Best -in - Town. , A good stock of WALL PAPER! WINDOW BLINDS ! AND FIXTURES! BUTTER AHD EGSS WANTED. Highest Prices paid for same, Boots & Shoes Hats end Baps Thanking our patrons for past fa vors," we expect by fair dealing to merit a continuance of the same. The Old Reliable Firm OF Holden Bros. Brockway Centre. Local Expositions. Six cabinets for s Lot) at (Joujrh's gal lery. Miss Minnie Welch has bren very ill the past week. Y. II. Palmer was in Detroit last week on business. A. AV. Ferguson and family visited in Almont this week. This section was visited by a light fall of rain on Monday. Joe AVhitworth did the first job of threshing this season last Saturday. Sam Morgan, who has been away for some time, returned home last week. .lohnJardine has purchased Mrs. M. F. Miller's house and lot in this place. Fd. Collins is home from the north woods where he has been working for a time. MatT. Miller, of Hay City, visited old friends in this place during the past week. .7. Y. Xey. of Pracebridge, Out., is the guest of his brother, the doctor, at present. Lew McDougall and bride were the guests of Phil McDougall and wife the past week. Hugh Mclntyre, father of William, moved from Hoseburg to tliis place on Saturday last. Miss Annie lloway. of Port Huron, is at present visiting her parents and other friends in town. Miss Waring, of Ionia, Mich., is here on a visit to her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. (i. "W. Waring. Wear & Paisley have something in teresting to say to the ladies in a change of adv. this week. Head it. The Kapley House hack has received a new coat of black paint, and is very much improved in appearance. Anthony P. Williams, deputy United States internal revenue collector, of At tica, was in the village this week. Miss Sophia Wear, of Mayville, has been visiting her parents and other friends in this place the past week. Wm. Mclntyre intends removing to Hoseburg soon and open up business again about the middle of October. More of our citizens left for Caseville last Saturday, where they will while away a few days tenting on the shores of lake Huron. John C. Keeler, at one time in the clothing business here, but now of Richmond, visited among old friends the lirst of the week. Phil McDougall has sold for Ander son & Co. in this section thirty-seven steel binders this season. This is a re markably good business. A notice printed or written upon a postal card that a note is due or about to become due is not considered un mailable as an offensive dun. "Will .1. Kapley and wife, of Minden City, stopped over here Monday night on their way home from Caseville, where thev have been visiting. Walpole Island has been greatly im proved lately. The Indians have put up swings and erected several long tables, and also put a fence around the picnic grounds. A Cleveland club has been formed in the village with about forty members, and the boys now wear white plugs with black bands to distinguish them from common people. Mrs. II. F. Leonard and son Freddie and Miss Tuna Welch are visiting among friends in Detroit. They will also go to St. Clair and New Paltimore before returning home. Misses I Jertie Carroll andXellie Fllis, after an extended visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Fllis, took their departure Monday, the former for a visit among friends in Ohio, the latter to her home in Walkerville, Out. Married at the residence of J.S. Duf fie, Port Huron, by Uev. J. McFldowny, David Tectzel and Mrs. Amanda Currv, both of Jlrockway Centre. The Fxros- itok wishes the happy couple many years of married life. Lee Saunders lias been doing some painting and frescoing on the interior of his barbershop lately. lie is not only atonsorial artist but an artist in many other ways. It is his intention to have his place. attractive. Waterman & Benedict, of the Bank rupt Store, wish to say to the people that they will bo prepared next week to show a complete new line of their pop ular luster band dishes. Come early before the stock is again broken. Much Injury is done by the use of ir ritating, griping compounds taken as purgative. In Ayer's pills, the patient has a mild but effective cathartic, that can be confidently recommended alike for the most delicate patients as well as the most robust. Puy your salt at the lied (J rain House at .). per barrel. Win. Petles has been very sick lately but is on the improve. Dr. 11. Clyne lias improved the ap pearance of his new barn by a coat of paint. Austin Lutz has been very sick the past week with inflammation of the bowels. Phil McDougall and family Sundayed with friends and relatives in (I rant Centre. F. II. Drake and family visited friends and relatives in Port Huron, Sunday. ll.il. White is now engineer at S. (). Welch S; Son's mill in place of Fd. Keefer, discharged. Mrs. D. D. Chesebro and Miss Davis, of Dt'truit, are the guests of W. Cowing and wife at present. Miss Jiina West, of Canae, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. ,1. D. Jones Fri day and Saturday last. Frank F. Brooks and family have moved to Drown City, where they will make their future home. Miss Fliza Kaysen, who was visiting J as. Holden and family, left for her home in Strathroy, Out., last week. Pert Praidwood takes the place lately Idled by John Sullivan in tho store of Colerick & Martin. - Almont Herald. Fou Sam:. We have a set of Com mentaries on the Holy Pible which we will sell cheap. Call at the FxroMTMt ollice. (ien. Phil Sheridan died very sudden ly Sunday evening, about 10:;0, at his Xouquitt. Mass., residence cause heart failure. The machine agents have been busy instructing the fanners hflw to engineer their new binders. They all stop for supper. The latest swindling dodge perpe trated upon fanner:! is to deliver bogus telegrams and collect u) cents for each message. Mesdames D. McMartin, O. L. Ashley and C. F. Finery left last Saturday on a month's visit to friends in Carson ville, Mich. Miss Mattie Jones is visiting her brother and many friends at Fvergreen. She will visit at Cass City before her return home. Mrs. F. P. Peecheraud children have returned to their home in this place after a six weeks' visit to. their old home in X'ew York state. Mary F. Lowrey has filed a bill in the Circuit Court of this county asking said body to grant her a divorce from her husband Isaac F. Lowrey. Xo medicine in the world is in better repute or' more widely known than Ayer's Sarsaparilla. As a safe and cer- ain remedy for all manner of blood disorders, leading physicians and drug gists everywhere recommend it in pre ference to any other. D, (J. Williams had a narrow escape from serious injury last Friday. In climbing a ladder at his new house and on nearing the top, one of the rungs broke and he fell backwards but he happened to catch the ladder or he would have landed on top of his head. Sandusky's new paper, the Sun, has reached our office, and shines as bright ly as a new silver dollar. It is a four- column folio and printed all at home by C. A. Paeon. In politics it has a Dem ocratic tinge. It is ably edited, well printed and should prosper. May its shadows never grow less. Pelow is a list of delegates elected in this township last Thursday to attend the convention held in Port Huron on Saturday fast: W. H. Pallentine, .). D. (iritmcll, F. II. Drake, Phil McDougall and Wm. Pidleman. 'W. II. Pallentine was elected iy delegate from the 2nd district to attend the State convention to beheld ab Detroit, August 23d. A very peculiar accident happened to James Wood last Friday night, just after lie got fairly started for home from Brockway Centre. In gaping he put his jaw out of joint on both sides, and was obliged to ride home with his mouth wide open and not able to speak a word. Of course he was somewhat, frightened, thinking he had the lock jaw. It only required a few moments for Dr. Paterson to assure him that he still held a lease of lif e. Capac J o urnal. When something in a paper don't ex actly please you, call around and Btop the paper. In all probability the same is very good reading for a hundred other persons, and the editor will prob ably gain a dozen new subscribers to take the place of the one dropped off; therefore he can survive the loss of your patronage. Another thing should be thought of too, and that is, when you hear of something particularly in tercstimr in a paper you can borrow it fron a neighbor. NOW Straw Hats, Wool Hats, Fur Hats, StiffHats, Boys' Hats, Child'n'sHats ALEX Pachelor logic: "Marriage is a lot tery; lotteries are illegal; therefore I simply obey the law by keeping single." The man who puts an over-check on a horse, and then tightens it until the horse's nose is pointed into the sky with the bright sun dazzling his eyes causing the poor creature unmeasurable misery, should be prosecuted for cruelty to ani mals. A very successful bush meeting was held in the grove on Morrill's Hats Fri day, Saturday and Sunday last, by the members of the M. P. church of this circuit, it being the last quarterly meet ing of this conference year. Pev. Mul holland was present and assisted in the El exercises. The proceeds from collet ions and other sources amounted to l . Pev. .). M. Crandall has received a unanimous call from this circuit to re main another year. Pev. Sam Pettes is now holding tent meetings in Detroit. Sam tells the De troit Journal that some time this month he will start on another southern trip, going as far south as the (iulf of Mexi co. Jiewiii tnen lonow me Atlantic coast around to New York, nnd thence home by way of the Hudson river, Frie canal, Lake Frie and up the river to Port Huron. He will do gospel and temperance work all along ttie route. (ireat is Samuel, the evangelist. The dog days which commenced on Wednesday of last week, were so named by the ancients because the sun being in the same part of the heavens with the dog star Sirius, obscured it from view. The time in which the star was lost to sight was reckoned at 40 days. Sirius was called the dog star from its being utilized by the Egyptians in early times as a celestial sentinel or watch dog, which by its place in the sky gave warning of the rise and fall of the Hoods of the Xile. A bushel of corn distilled will make four gallons of whiskey. (Jovernmcnt tax on four gallons of whiskey, $3.00. The whiskey, made ripe and old by the new Jay Fye See process, sells rapidly at 84 per gallon, making ."$16 for four gallons. Of this 810 the farmer gets 5 cents; the government gets 83.00; the railroad gets 83; the manufacturer gets 84; the vender gets 80.23; the user gets the devil: while the tax-payer and producer foot the bill from the earnings of honest toil not connected with the whiskey trade. Fx. Saturday night Richmond was again visited by members of the race of bold, bad burglars, but the gentlemen failed to "burgle" to any great extent. The stores of Knight & Poutcher, (Jrennls & Perkins, (i. V. Ilaskin, C. J. Cud worth and II.E. Harrison were entered, and the loose change, amounting from 81 to 80 or 83 at each place, wns taken, except at llaskin's, where it is thought the chaps were scared out. The store of Cooper & Son and the post olflce were also tried, but no entrance eject ed. In nearly every instance t an en trance was made by prying up a win dow. Two chaps who have been work ing in town for the past lew days are b'.ispoclcd. --kichmond Ktvlew. IS THE ro IHTY- GENTS' FURNISHING . -&Jt X-jO-w Prices Men's Shirts, Boys' Shirts, Men's Shoes, Boys' Shoes, Overalls, Underwear. Choice Line of Groceries Always On Hand. We always pay the highest price lor Butter and Kg?. Please give us a call and get prices. ILadies Please Head WK HAVE A SILK PARASOLS, CASHMERE SHAWLS, &C. which wo are selling regardless of oost. Dcn't wait until noxt season and pay foui times what we fell tnem for. ire are selling Lawns at 3 and 4 cents per yard; Ginghams, 7 and 8 cents per yard; Satines, 8 and 9 cents per yard; Prints, 5, 0 and 7 ceuts per yard. In Ladies Fins fa m Leal A FRESH STOCK OF GROCERIES constantly on hand, and at rock bottom prices. Soliciting a share of public patronage. wo are your respectfully WEAR So rAISLEY One door north of Leonard's Hardware. IT 'S WORTH YOUR NOTICE. o Being the last month of our year before taking inventory, we will give you the follow ing prices on Clothing. Suits not mentioned will bo cut in proportion; 110,00 suit for $" 8 25 10.00 suit for $12.50 12.00 suit for 9 25 17.00 suit for 13.25 14.00 suit for 10 75 16.00 suit for 13.25 15.00 suit for 12 50 20.00 suit for 16.25 $22.00 suit for $18,00. This will continue through this month; avail yourself of the chsjjice. We also invite your inspection of all our other lines, which you will.find complete and cheap. In conclusion, do not forget our Millinery depart ment, where all styles and fashions can be found, and where you can be waited on with alacrity. W H PALMER . sTpbT IAL tsiat U n n at ITT a nra i . n, I WW J III li II 1 1 h .: I A I vNlted the assignee's of I?oot, Strong & Co. last week, nnd iNHight poods for spot esh, so low, we urc enabled to sell them in our cus tomers for Less than the .Wholesale Other Houses. Prices of W are prepared to glvo you rare nanrAlns In nil the dry Roods line, nnd An examination of our stork Is All we Ask to Insure your farortng us with your orders. . . ' Respve! fully yours A. & Fi. O'Learv, Brockway, .Mii'n. TIME! GOODS - o- NUMBER OF to all - in Both Quality and price BEAR IH BHD! LZ3 Is selling goods at Astonishingly Lw Trices. Look at tho following: Single Harness, from. ?0 00 up Double Harness, from 21 00 up Gray Robes, 4 00 Blankets, from So '.ip 5-ring Halters, 75 Web Halters, 25 and everything else accordingly. WALLACE BROCKWAY CENTRE. 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