1900-05-18; Clare Sentinel

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Clare   Sentinel.
Established 1878.
CLAKE, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1900.
New Series.: Vol. 8, Ho. 25.
Happening.
New Advertisements.
Davy & Co., dry goods, clothing.
L. E. Davy to Evart Wednesday.
Albert Lasher to Temple Monday.
Judge Canfleld ot Harrison Was in
the city Saturday.
0. H, McDonald made a business
trip to Reed City Tuesday.
W. A. McWatty was in the city
Tuesday en route for Baldwin.
Mrs. W. 0. Fuller of "Farwell was
shopping in the city last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. 0. D. Lawton of Evart
Visited friends in the city over Sunday.
0. W. Perry was in Harrison Tuesday to attend the funeral of the late
Asa M. Tinker.
Beni. Graff of Chicago, now working
in the interests of the Modern Woodmen, was in the city Tuesday,
We publish in another column a
very interesting letter from Matie JB.
McKinley, of Darjeeling, India.
L. T. Olds has been suffering this
week from a severe attack of sciatica
but is on the gain at this writing.
Special communication of John Q.
Look Lodge, F. & A. M., next Tuesday evening.   Work on lM. M. degree.
Lon. Tatman recently purchased the
residence now occupied by David Fox,
and will occupy same in the near future.
Miss Hazel Goodman of Saginaw
spent Sunday at the home of her
mother, Mrs. K. M. Goodman, of this
city.
Dr. Gray reports Mrs. Freeman Mc-
Carey of Grant township suffering
from a severe attack of typho-malarial
fever.
The chimney in Davy & Co's store
burned out yesterday, someone
thoughtlessly turning in the Are
alarm.
Mrs. Allie Boyd, late of Flint, has
cuanged her residence and her present
address is 146 Whitman street, Cleveland, Ohio.
The water mains in Main street
were found to leak in two places the
first of the week but were successfully
repaired at once.
Mrs. Dell Kump and little Haltie
returned the first of the week from
Saginaw where they spent several
days visiting relatives.
Dr. Sweatland, E. Shaul, M. Zagley-
meyer and E. E. Gmber of Shepherd
are fishing along the trout streams of
Clare county this week.
Mrs. Bertha Goodman went Saturday to South Bend, Indiana, where
she has accepted a position in the insurance office of Frank Goodman.
Don. Hatch of Farwell was in the
city last Saturday, and making the
Sentinel a pleasant call, renewed his
subscription for the coming year.
Miss Merrlette Riser of Saginaw is
in the city, guest at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Charles Calkins. She will
remain the greater part of the summer.
H. T. Carson gives a lawn party to
bis Sunday school class this eyening at
his home on east Sixth street. Harry
has the largest Sundav school class in
the city.
Mrs. Wm. Wolsey went to Chicago
Monday summoned thence by a message to the effect that her brother,
Mr. J. Kreuger, had suddenly died the
day before.
Bell 'phones recently put in: D. E.
Alward, residence, 58; Mrs. G. Ders-
nah, residence, 61; Miss Emma Sex-
smith, residence, 62: S. A. Gleason,
residence, 63.
M. G, Smith of Mt. Pleasant was in
the city the first of the week and paid
tbe Sentinel a friendly visit. He is
now on a fruit farm three miles beyond Mt. Pleasant.
Memorial services will be held in
the opera house on Sunday morning,
May 27, at half past ten o'clock. This
will be a union service and all are invited to participate.
Miss Edith Grinuell of Mt. Pleasant
spent Sunday at the home of her aunt,
Mrs. F. C. Sanford. Tuesday she
left for Milwaukee where she will become a trained nurse.
Orson Gould returned Tuesday from
a visit to relatives and friends in Lapeer, and later he and his daughter,
Mrs. W. L. Lyons, will make an expended visit to friends in New York
ofcate.
jars. James Mills of Bay City'and
Mts. Jessie McLelland of Bronson are
visiting at the home of their brother,
Fred Stanley. Their mother has been
very ill but at this writing is much
better.
Dr. Eeeder reports the following
sick at Loomis: Zella Skyring, Mrs.
R. McQuaid, Nettie Burrel, Edward
Scoville, Mrs. John Anderson,' Frank
Burrel, and Jrvin Edgar's little girl.
AU are doicg well.
Miss Inez Smith, the obliging saleslady for Davy & Co., is taking a two
weeks' vacation and Monday left for
a visit to friends in Portland and
Lyons. Miss Anna Lange is assisting
in the store during her absence.
We leai not the death of Mrs. J, J.
Saxton of Farwell which occurred
Monday, she having died of heart
disease. She leaves a two weeks' old
baby. Postmaster Saxton has the
sympathy of a large circle of friends
in his sad bereavement.
Gregory Martell's residence on west
Fifth street is being greatly improved
in appearance this week. The one-
story wing is being made two stories
high, a new roof is being put on and
it will be newly painted. Lasher
Bros, are doing the work.
A circular is sent out asking people
of the state for contributions to erect
on the lower end of Belle Isle a column 220 feet in hightb, this column
to be completed by July 24. 1901—just
200 years since the founding of Detroit
by Cadillac, the French soldier.
A. J. Lacy returned from Lake
county Tuesday and as evidence of his
ability to use the rod successfully,
brought with him a nice lot "of brook
trout. The editor had trout for dinner that day. Thanks to the thought-
fullness of friend Lacy.
Mrs. Dan, Carmicuael, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Cunningham inHatton township
the past week, returned to her home in
Mt. Pleasant Tuesday. She was accompanied by her sister, Miss Lizzie
Cunningham, who will make an extended visit there.
A two months old baby boy was recently left at ..the home of Robert
Malcome in Vernon and the child's
brief history seems to be not well
known. A note was left with the
child telling its age and giving as the
little fellow's name. "Happy Eugene,"
Mr. Malcome will keep the child.
G. Lansing of Herrick was a caller
at the Sentinel office last Saturday,
paying his subscription in advance for
bhe coming year. He recently moved
back onto his farm from Mt. Pleasant,
accompanied by his daughter and son-
in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dawson,
who will run the farm this summer.
LeRoy Everden, who some eleven
weeks ago had the misfortune to lose
a part of his hand by the explosion of
a shell, held an accident policy in the
National Protective Society of Bay
City and this week received a check
for $82.80,—which is $7.50 per week
during the time he was laid up. 3,t
nays to be protected.
The Pere Marquette time table
changed Monday, but is about the
same as heretofore. The west bound
9:02 a. m. train now leaves at 8:45 and
the west bound 3:00 p. m. train now
leaves at 2:12. The east bound 9:19
a, m. train now goes at 10:00 and the
train for Harrison leaves at 6:25 p. m.
Other trains leaves as "before.
David Fox has secured the contract
for doing the carpenter work on the
Doherty-Duncan block on which will
be commenced in the very near future.
As there were many bids in for this
job and several higher than Mr. Fox's,
the fact that he secured the job shows
conclusively that the builders have
every confidence in his ability as a
workman.
Miss Sadie Wilson, the popular
music teacher, went to Ann Arbor
Tuesday where she will take in the
May Festival in connection with
Michigan's famous conservatory ot
music. The Festival is of three days'
duration and performers of world-wide
fame are annually secured for this
event. It is the musical event of
the year in Michigan, and few will enjoy it more than Miss Wilson.
Now that the base ball season has
arrived the question of organizing a
home team has been asked and we are
informed will be affirmatively answered. Clare bag the material for an
excellent team and when organized
for work has heretofore been well
backed by the citizens, nor will this
organization be an exception. A
meeting for the purpose of completing
the organization Will doubtlfess be
held in the near future.
The Bell Telephone company have
made another great inprovement in
their service at Mt. Pleasant by putting in a power generator which will
save the opera tors about 2,500 "grlndB"
a day, and not annoy and interfere
with each other as was the case when
the hand generator was in use. They
also expect to commence a line from
this place to Frankfort within a few
days, taking in every town on the
Ann Arbor railroad.—Tribune.
Jeff. Grounds recently sold his fine
eighty-acre farm in Sheridan to Elder
Moffat and is now in Gladwin county
running a saw mill. He was in the
city Saturday, paid in advance for the
Sentinel, and in a pleasant conversation with the writer told us he intends moving to Alberta In the fall,
having already bought a tract of land.
Jeff, is a hustler and we very much
dislike to see him leave this county.
But here's wishing him good luck in
his new project,
Levi Lambert, of Hartwick, left at
this office Wednesday two genuine
curiosities in the shape of large sea
shells, which were found in a little
stream at the head of Grindstone
Creek. While digging for a lost iron
wedge, the shells were dug out of the
muck at a depth of over two feet from
the surface, and nine in number were
found, and have the appearance of being there for ages. The two at this
office measure ten inches in length by
eighteen in circumferenence, and are
perfect specimens. The question is
bow did they get there; were they
brought from the coast &y the Indians,
or was this country at one time an
ocean?—Evart Review.
Bills are out announcing the second
annual concert by the Clare fire department at Doherty opera house,
Monday evening, May 28, "An elaborate and varied urogram of sixteen
numbers has been prepared and everybody wUl be treated to a big laugh
from first to last." The names of
Will Adams, Mike Ash, Frank
Doherty, Will Hlrshel, Mr. Irish, appear on the program, besides the
great vocal quartet, Sutherland, Davy,
Calkins, and Wilson, with Lewis as
accompanist. Miss Bernice Cook, of
Mt. Pleasant, a vocal soloist of state
reputation, will be present to delight
the audience. Miss Hildah Dunlop
will appear in new songs, and Kirk-
bride's full orchestra will render several late selections. The admission
fee has been placed atlOc, 15o and 25c,
and reserved seats are for sale at the
post office. As this entertainment is
given under the auspices of the firemen, the life and property preservers
of the city, a large attendence should
be present.
But a short time ago Wm. Archam-
boult, oldest son of John Archamboult,
who lived many years in Clare and
but last summer moved to Harrison,
was well and enjoying life with the
rest of the vigorous young men of the
county seat. Wednesday of this week
his remains were interred in the Vernon cemetery. Together with other
young fellows he was jumping one
night when in some way he sprained
his foot. Nothing serious was
thought to result, but blood poisoning
set in and last week the foot was
amputated. Monday noon he died
from the effects. Will was a young
man of excellent habits; steady and
industrious, and has many friends in
Clare and vicinity who will be pained
to learn of his fatality. He was a
Maccabee but only a short time ago he
lethis $2000 policy expire. The funeral
was conducted from the home of his
uncle, George, of this city Tuesday,
Rev. W. H. Bodlne officiating. The
parents especially will greatly miss
their son as he did much toward the
supporting of a large family. The
Sentinel unites with their many
friends in this expression of sympathy.
A. J. Doherty met with the committee of the Board of Alderman the
latter part of last week and talked
over the matter of renewing the contract for electric lights and running
the water works for the next five
years. They practically came to an
agreement, there being but a few
dollars difference between them, Until this difference can be alleviated
the contract in force the previous
years will be continued. J. A. Jackson, G. W. Lee and Thos. Dwyer constitute the committee and in an interview with Mr. Doherty he said the
gentlemen were fair in every particular and that they were working for
the best interests of the city. The
city fathers have been petitioned to
haye two more arc lights placed,
on Second aad Seventh streets, and it
is quite probable that the petition will be granted. Mr. Doherty is
in a position to light the city and run
the' water works at a less expense
than can the city possibly do it and
with this fact in mind we • feel sure
that the tax payers will be perfectly
satisfied with the agreement made between their public sevants and the
electric light manager.
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LETTER FROM INDIA.
Miss Matie McKinley Tells More
About Her Far Off Home.
Queen's Hill. Darjeeling, India.
April 13, '00,
My Dear Friend Edgar:—
How many times I have tried to
write a short letter to you and an
article for the Sentinel but you see
how beautifully I have succeeded.
The time slips away so rapidly that
the weeks come and go and I • cannot
make it seem possible that I have
been in India almost three months
and from home four months.
Well Edgar, where shall I bfcgin to
tell you of all that has happened since
I left Glare? I think the letter which
I sent to the League must have
reached you before this, and that contained in detail, the happenings since
1 left you until 1 reached Calcutta, so
I will not repeat, but will tell you
something of my present place of
abode, Darjeeling.
I left Calcutta, Feb., 28th, with
eight children fvho were placed in my
charge, en route for our school in Darjeeling which opened March 1st. The
journey of 300 miles takes a day and a
night, with several changes and stops
and is most tiresome especially when
one is responsible for a number of native little children who are not sup-
nosed to remain two seconds in the
same position.
Two of the little ones are only three
and five years of age, and about an
hoar after we left Calcutta they were
both seized with homesickness and
such a time as I had for an hour.
Finally we changed to our right train
and I got all the little ones tucked
away for the night, but my rest was
somewhat broken, as you may easily
imagine.
The Indian trains are made up of
little carnages which have three seats
running the whole length of the compartment. Then there are two other
seats which are kept hooked up on
either side of the carriages and which
may be let down for sleeping accomodations. One misses the long accomodation coaches of the home trains,
but traveling in India is much more
pleasant than in France. Most of .the
railroads of India are the narrow gauge
lines. When we left the principal
road and started up the mountains we
changed to a narrow line with little
open carriages which hold about six
persons each. The scenery up the
Himalayan route was beautiful. The
road forms perfect loops and at times
I could look out of my compartment
and. see four or five coaches almost
parallel with it, as they wound round
these loops. It would be impossible
to 'climb directly up the mountains so
the road has been cut out of the sides
of the bills. I haye never seen anything to equal the beauty and grand-
ness of this road. At times I held my
breath as we sped along, for I could
look up thousands of feet to the top of
the mountains. In many places
along the road we saw tea plantations
which cover the sides of the mountains. These planters lead a rather
lonely life, but they make, money very
fast.
When we were up about six thou
sand feet the mist began to -gather
and by the time we reached Darjeeling, which is 7000 feet above the
sea-level, we were en veloped in a rariet,
and the appearance of Darjeeliinj*:«»a8
not .very inviting; but soon tMs mist
cleared away and. the next morning
the sunshine was very beautiful, and
since that time I have seen the rmosc
perfect days,—day3 so clear, 1/hat the
distant mountain peaks looked <as of
only one mile away, and Mt. Kinchin
Junga, which is the second highest
mountain peak in the world, is xsery
often visible, and it fills 'One wlth-awe
to look at that line of ibiffh j peaks
whichare about 15000 feet higher than
Darjeeling. Kinchiu,being 28,169\feet
high, while Mt. Everest, the highest,
peak in the world, is 29,002.
I wish I could describe the appearance of Darjeeling in the earliy morn-
ing hours, oh a bright day. As II
stand facing the north, I can see>these
monstrous peaks glistening in the-
early morning light, while the lower
ranges are still in the shadow, and. as
the eye drops lower and lower from
one peak to another, until finally it
discovers the sleepy little village of
Darjeeling hidden among the hills,
awaiting the cheering touch of "ths
sun to wake it into life. Soon the
mountain roads are alive with the
dark-faced men , and women, • <each.
laden with a burden of stones, which
is carried on the back, by means otoa
grass rope which passes over the! forehead and around the stones; thus
they toil up the steep hills cawying
stones, with which to repair ,ttie
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