1901-08-15; Clare Sentinel

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Established 1878.
CLARE, MIOHIGAN, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 15, 1901.
New Series: Vol. 9, Nov. S&
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Bickiiell
Brothers
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I    dilLL!   Mich;
To reduce our stock one-half in the next Thirty Bays we will reduce all
pricei? on Clothing and Bress Goods to Wholesale Prices. See large hills for
particulars and prioes quoted. '
3/etlaw ^Discount Stamps
Will supply your home with many
useful and ornamental articles which
cost you nothing.
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Save the 2/ettow ffioys
AND   YOU
WILL   SAVE   MONEY.
&eilow ^Discount Stamps
Are given free with your purchases
by nine different merchants in Clare
3/ellow discount Stamps
AU go together no matter where you
get them. Call and see the elegant
presents at Bicknell Bros.   -
a
MANY
OTHER
ELEGANT
AND
COSTLY
PRESENTS
DISPLAYED
AT ,
BICKNELL
BROS.
BIG STORE,
THIS
ELEGAJST
LARGE
COMFORT
REED
ROCKER
SENT FREE
-       FOR
TWELVE
HUNDRED
YELLOW
DISCOUNT
STAMPS.
| EXGfMGE
GLEANINGS
An advertisement continues to get
its work in until the last copy of the
paper containing it is destroyed.
Alfred L. Seeley, giving his occupation as a showman and his residence
as Chicago, and Miss Adella Fowards
'W actress by profession and her residence Madison, Wis., were licensed to
wed Wednesday afternoon.—Traverse
City Ea*gle.
-•£.. Percy Cummins   of   Baldwin   was
•'"> buried Monday. The burly was ex:
framed and a post mortem examination held. So strong is the sentiment tbat foul play existed that the
, boy's brother, James Oummins, bas
been placed under arrest and is now
in Lake county jail.
Tbe postoffice department kt Washington bas announced that for the purpose of facilitating tbe money order
service, it will furnish free of charge
to business firms, for distribution to
their customers, special application
blanks with the firm's name as payee
printed thereon. Translations into
any foreign language will also be
Y       printed on the blanks uoon request,
According to repoits Hied at Lansing the total number of acres of land
assessed in Michigan this year was
34,139,861.33, as compared with 33,-
036,270.41 in 1896. The total value of
Che real estates as assessed is "$1,017,-
Of-^643, and of personal property, $311,
501,048; total, $3,326,632,641.' The aggregate value as equalized by county
beards this year are as follows: Heal
estate, 1923,878,583; personal, $311,907,
k.2; total, $1,235,806,025.
One driving along many of our highways can but notice the neglect of
those in charge of the roads in the
■•% -matter of complying' with a well
known statute in regard to destroying
it^ioxious weeds, etc. Aside from the
pride the officers should feel in the
■matter, there is a severe penalty to be
• imposed upon highway commissioners
and overseers for neglect or refusal to
perform their duties in this respect,
this law becomes operative upon complaint of any person, so beware.
Things are lively in bicycle circles
|- Muskegon owing to the invalidity
f an ordinance prohibiting wheelmen
■from riding their bikes on city side-
i    s?a}fes>  As decided by the municipal
court yesterday in a test case, bicyclers resumed tbeir liberty and as a
consequence wholesale arrests have
been made, tbe victims including
many prominent gentlemen and
ladies. • They will be arraigned under
an old ordinance of 1871, prohibiting
any one from riding or driving on
the sidewalks.
Clare people should always remember that ft pays to patronize home industries and home merchants. It is
your fellow citizen who contributes toward your churches, supports your
schools, pays for the many city improvements. It is your neighbor who
is in business that is as fully interested
as any one can be In the general welfare of the town. Then patronizetbe
home business man and do not allow
the cheap department store proprietors of other cities to beguile you into
taking vour money out of the town
to help build up and support institutions in competition to our own home
city.
Observation.
The writer took a trip to the north
pari, of the state recently, and gained
some information which may prove
beneficial to some of our readers who
have thought of going north, aud with
tbis idea in view, we give you'briefly
something of an impression of a "portion of the northern country.
We went to Baldwin and from there
north on the P. M. to Ohanevoix.
It seems to be a general characteristic
of the people in any part of tbe north
Half of the lower peninsula to hold to
the idea that, just outside of their
town, even though that be located on
a barren waste of unproductive sand,
there is a fine farming country in
every direction. In many places on
the west coast of Michigan there is
good land, and fruit in abundance is
raised there, but the summers are too
short and the land mostly too light to
be as productive as that in the south
and central portions of the state.
At tbis time of the year -"-Charlevojx
the Beautiful" is indeed as in name,
and the cottages, hotels and boarding
houses are catering to the wants of
large numbers of resorters who come
north to avoid the intense heat of the
summer months.
We took a steamer at Charlevoix
and went down to the end of Pine lake
on which Is located BoJ*ne City. Pine
lake is eighteen miles long ahd having
high banks is a beautiful lake, the
scenery being highly picturesque.
This is located in the lumbering district of Michigan and the waters of
the lake are used over which to ship
lumber, it being connected with Lake
Michigan.
The 1900 census gives the population of this village 912, but when it is
known the vast amount of lumber put
out of this town in a year, besides
other industrial pursuits, the wonder
is that these 912 people are able to do
it all. There are three lumber mills
in the village, all built along the lake
snore, the lumber almost all being
shipped by boat.
W. JET. White has the largest hardwood mill In the world, its daily
capacity being 130,000. It is equipped
with a band, gang and circular saw,
and a most interesting sight it is to
see it in operation. Mr. White owns
a railroad connecting Boyne Falls
with Boyne City and its various
branches run out to the timbered land,
of which he alone owns 73,000 acres.
It is estimated that there is timber
enough there for a twenty years' run.
Another saw mill with a 30,000 daily
capacity is owned by Wangle, White
& Co., "W. H. White being an ownelr.
Gottlob Von Platten owns a 30,000
daily capacity saw mill which is kept
in better condition than any mill
plant we have seen, A)l the buidings
are painted red, trimmed with white,
and the docks, tramways and lumber
piles indicate that the owner believes
that success is attained by doing what
you do, Weil. Thirteen years ago Mr.
Von Platten assumed an $8,000 indebtedness of his father's, took the little
mill at Advance, three miles from
Boyne, and at the end of the first year,
then a bov of but eighteen, had paid
$1,000 and Interest. At the end of
the third year the plant was clear of
debt, and he moved it to Boyne.
Thirteen years have since elapsed, and
now he is rated at between $75,000 and
$100,000. It was persistent effort, patience, and keeping everlastingly at it
that made this young man, and We
mention this as an example worthy of
imitation.
Besides these mills there are several
enterprises in the town, a tannery,
tbe plant of which will cost something
like a half million dollars now being
in coarse of construction, and a chemical plant Is soon to be put In. There
Is also talk of a cement factory being
built.
M(\U
Reduction
sale
<_£ Co.
EVerg.hing.oWear
a.   LoWest    Prices
August
Reduction
Sale
Odds and Ends of Summer Goods, Short Lengths and
Remnants of Dry Goods and Small Lots in Every Department
at Greatly Reduced Prices.
Dress Goods Bargains
DoubleFold Worsted Plaids, worth 121c, j
.       atper yard........    ,  82C
Double Fold Worsted Novelties, worth
12-io, at...,.        9C
36-inch     Fine   Half    Wool    Worsted
Granites, worth 25c, at       19C
36-inch Fine Black Serge, nearly all wool,
per yard —     25C
36-inch Heavy Gray,  All  Wool  Home-    0
spuns.-regular 50c values     39C
Bed,  Blue and Brown Fine All Wool
Cashmeres, 50c values,.,;.     39C
56-inch, Heavy Weight, Black AU Wool
Skirting, $1 50 value, per yard    I .OO
REMNANTS OF DRESS GOODS AT  ABOOT
ONE-HALF VALUE.
Wash Goods <& Prints
All our Lawns, Printed Dimities, Muslins, Etc., former prices 12_c to 18c,
atper yard  IOC
Good Quality Indigo Blue Prints  4c
Best Fancy Prints — 5C
Good Light Prints.... ,. 3JC
Colored Silk  Waists
ONLY A FEW LEFT
$4,50 and $5.00 Waists  3.98
3,00 Waists  2.38
COLORED COTTON SHIRT WAISTS
AT HALF PRICE.
Children's Caps    .
50c Caps at...  ,    25c
25c Caps at      15c
Ladies' Sunbonnets at..,       I5c
An Umbrella Bargain*
48c    •For *e'a8t' eoIor Cotton Gloria Umbrellas-.
made with steel rods and fancy trim-hed*'
oak bandies.   Ladles' or Genlemen's Sizes.
Clothing
Department
Just received 60 Pairs Men's, 24 Pairs Boys'"
Wool Cassmere Pants, dark colors, nea-a
patterns, worth regularly $2.00 per pairra.
luck purchase enables us to sell them at
1.50 for Boys', 1.65 for Menfs
Another Lot of Men's Fine Worsted and
Cassmere Pants from Suits of
which we have sold the Coats and
Vests. These are worth $2.50 to
$3.50 per pair, your choice for...... 2*..As<Zy
All our $2.00 and $2.50 Fedora Hats in
Black, Brown and Tan, your choice       _,
for    1.5Q-
Fancy Underskirts
AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES.
$3.00 Colored Mercerized Skirts at    2.19
2.00 Colored Mercerized Skirts at    1.48
1.25 Colored Chambra Skirts at     89c
Children's  Dresses in Prints and
Percales at 25c eacli.
Shoe Department
BAt-GAlNH IN OUTING SHOES.
Men's Drab Canvas, Leather Soles, former
price $1.50, now       1.15
Men's Check Cloth, Leather Soles, former
price$1,00, no ,      /OC
Men's 75c and 85c Outing Shoes now     50c
Boys', Sizes 3 to 5, Rubber Soles, were
65o,' now    40C-
Boys' Drab Cloth   with Leather  Soles,
were 75c, now........'.     OUCT-
Children's Sizes 13 to 2
Drab Cloth, Leather Soles, former price
70c. now  OUC-
Dark Green Mixed Cloth, Rubber Soles,
were 60c, now  Oafe
Low Cut Oxfords Styles with Rubber «
Soles, were 40c and 50c, now  3UC
New Straw
flats
1-3 011.
'avy
dc Co.
Shetland Floss
All 60IOHS,
Per Skein   Tfc
Eighth Grade Examination.
In accordance with a rule of the
board of education there will be an
eighth grade examination held in the
high school room Friday and Saturday, August 30th and 31st. Through
some misunderstanding or otherwise a
part of the past year's eighth grade
did not take tbe final examination
given by their teacher at the close of
the school year. In accordance with
an existing custom the eighth grader
in May took tbe examination for rural
schools conducted by the commissioner of schools and twenty-nine of
them passed it successfully. When
the results of that examination were
given out about half of the pupils
dropped out of school. In previous
years pupils had remained In school
attending to their work fco the very
end. The board then ruled that inasmuch as other schools of the same
grade as Clare do* not have their pupils
take the eighth grade examination
for rural schools and since the superintendent of public instructions has
printed in the instructions for these
examinations "Pupils of the graded
schools may take the examination but
will not be given a diploma" that all
who Wished to be promoted to the
ninth grade should take the final examinations given by Clare school,
The school year had been badly
broken; school had closed for three
weeks on account of small pox and the
board reasoned tbat for pupils to be
out another month, and that the last
of the school year, simply meant a
very low standard c f scholarship.   Be
sides the teachers of those pupils were
complaining that they were deficient
in some of the subjects that are essential to successful high school work.
At least it must be admitted that "tbe
standard of work of necessity, during
the past year has been none too high.
There are many schools in the state
tbat are smaller and occupy buildings
much less convenient than ours and
yet are on the Normal and University
approved lists, and the only reason
that we are not on these lists is that
the standard of scholarship In our
schools has not yet been high enough.
lt is expected that something be
done in this direction this year and so
In the Interest of the 'welfare of the
school I plead that this eighth grade
question be closed up before cbe beginning of the school year as the
teachers for this year should not be
hampered with this matter.
Experience shows that pupils of rural* schools eannot justly be measured
by the same standard as tjjose from
town schools. The country boy will
do successful high school Work with
less preparation than will the town
boy. In coming to a large school for
the first time he usually is possessed
with more ambition and zeal than is
his fellow student from the town.
At the opening of the school year
those members of tbe Clare eighth
grade who desire to en,ter the ninth
grade must have passed their final examinations and squared tip theh*
year's work,
Any pupils who failed in a part of
their eighth grade subjects are Invited
to take this examination as also are
any from the country who* desixe- to
see what they can do.
Philip A. BB-CWETrs-Sapt..
Mrs. Alfred CRapplev
* Mrs. Alfred Chappie passed* frocs-s
this life Monday,- August I2th, after 8*.
year's illness, the cause- of her. deatl->
being cancerous tumor.
Deceased was born in Colourn,. Ontario, thirty-five years age-and came to
Mlchigau about fourteen years- ago-
She lived in Meredith a short time?
and has since lived in* Clare. She*
leaves a husband and four ehildTen,-
Beatrice, Stanli-y, Byron- and* Elmer,
who mourn the loss of their dearest,
friend.
The funeral was conducted-frorofcbe-
home yesterday afternoon,. Rev.. W. J*
Hathaway officiating and- the remains^
were laid at  rest  ih  Cherry Giwes
cemetery.
A0GT1ON1-KB.
I am prepared to attend* A*uc-J*-**_3
Sales in any part of the country duria.gr
this fall at rates as reasonable- as- a»-j?
practicable auctioneer, •
38-bf. W. S. .Csobe-k*.
The Sentinei. and Saginaw Coams*-^
Eferald, both one year $1.40—stricttl^
in advance. fcfi.
Picture framing to order at WSS-
loughby's. _____________     34'fc?r
Toledo Excursion..
Sa&day, August 38th, will be y-CHKr
next opportunity to visit Toledo' •_*&■
cheap rate. Special train-' will'leaf?©
Olare at 5:25 a. to. Pare*-for the Toa-ml
trip $1.50, >