1897-12-31; Clare Sentinel

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Established 1878.
LAEJB, KIOH., FRIDAY DEO. 31,1897.
New Series: Yol. 6, ...'.No.
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For your Xmas and New
Year's table you will find at
our store a great variety of
the necessary good .things,
such as
Malaga Grapes^
Oranges,
.Banannas
■ and other kinds of fruits,
all kinds of nuts, etc., and a
nice assortment of candies.
Clare Retail Market Prices.
(Thursday, December 30, 1807.)
Butter, lao. Eggs, Me,
Chlolsens, dressed 10c,   . .Oats, 22o,
Corn, shelled 350, in eftr i3o, Best lard lOo.
Hogs, live S3, dressed©. Potatoes, JSUo.
Baled hay per ton S8 to $10, Salt perbarrel 85c.
Bran, $12 per ton. Apples, ¥60
Flour 55 per bbl.      ■   .' Oil Meal ¥1.60 per cwt.
Wheat buying at 83C* Onions 65c per bu.
TOLD OF A CITY.
Any kind of ©ur delicious
and pure home-made candy
at lOct per lb.
Special orders for baking
promptly filled at reasonable
prices.
Oysters? too.
We sell only the best of
goods as cheap as the
I'lu-upest.       Oall in.
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Farmers:—
We need lots of fresh
butter and eggs in our bakery and we pay the highest
market prices-
VanBrunt & Son
Happy New Year!
The old year is dying.
.  Uncle Tom's Cabin tonight.
Resolutions are now in order.
Tbe days are growing longer.
Congress reassembles Jan'y 5th.
City schools reopen next Monday.
Miss Kelly is visiting in Saginaw,
Last Friday was the shortest day of
the year.
H. T. Carson to Saginaw the first of
the week.
F. B, Doherty was in Saginaw tlie
first of the week.
The figure 8 will begin doing double
duty on Saturday.
C, Gt Himes was* down from Pinconning to spend Christmas.
Miss Roth of Detroit, is the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. C. tl. Sutherland,
W. Wolsey was doing business in
Detroit several days this week.
The post office will be closed on
Saturday, from 12 m.till 2. p. m.
Miss Jessie Ilane, of Remus, Micb. is
visiting Miss Bertie Shank in Clare.
E. Sexsmith and E. D, Alger were
reconnoitering in Shepherd this week.
Ed. Whitney has been enjoying the
holiday season with friends in Ithaca.
Asa Aldrich, of the Temple school,
is spending his vacation at home, in
Clare.
Prof. Jos. Northon of Alma is spending the holidays with his parents in
Vernon.
There were 53 Fridays in this year of
1S97, hence The Sentinel was issued
53 times.
Tbe saying "a erreen Cbrstmas makes
a fat graveyard," was not in eyidence
this year,
Geo. W. Smith of Vassar was shaking hands with former friends here
this week. *■•--
S. Blumberg received a vjsit over
Sunday from his brother, Alexander,
of Detroit.
Mrs. F. M. Cbamberlin, Bernice and
Don, of Saginaw, spent Sunday with
Clare friends.
New Year's dance at Duncan's hall
this (Friday, evening, Bill for the
eyening, 50c.
' .David Wolsey is home from the Big
fiapids Industrial School for the holiday vacation.
.More Local Xc.vs on Fifth Page.
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Business is business and we must
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Resectfully Yours,
The Publishers.
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IJANUARY
Clearing Sale
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We want to close out all winter goods before our annual
inventory on February 1 and put prices on to
make them move.
We have the largest stock of hand and machine
made harnesses in the city and we ask you to call
and see us when in need of anything in our line
We make our goods all right and will not be undersold by any one anywhere.    'Nough said.
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The time for - blankets and robes is here
and we have a fine line for stable and street. Our
stock is a large one and we are ottering them at
greatly reduced prices to make them move.
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Sleighs and all
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Miss Mabel Pierce of Coleman, speht
Xmas with Misses Pearl and Winnie
Dwyer of Clare.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S, Bicknoll, of Shepherd, spent Christmas bere with the
former's parents. j,
Miss Alice France of Saginaw, speht
Xmas with Misses Augusta ancl Sarah
Orth, of this city. \
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Doherty are
spending the holidays with relative's
in .New York state.
It is estimated that ten million dollars in gold will come down from tibfe
Klondike in the spring.
W. J. Lansing, who teaches 'Jn
Gratiot county, is spending tbe holidays in Clare and vicinity. »
0, F. Boorom returned on Tuesday
from Escanaba, where he bas been
employed for some time in a printifjg
office.
Saginaw Courier of last Saturday:
Miss Lilly Asline of near Clare. ?ls
the guest of her cousin, Lilly Raymond of Rellis street.
Mrs. Libby and neice of Austin, 2*?.
Y., returned to their home, Tuesday,
having spent Christmas with Mr. ana
Mrs. Ed Russell, of Vernon.
The superiority of Clare county aa a
winter resort is becoming more manifest. Reports of people being frozen
to death in Arkansas are coming in;
• Pat Battles, who is working for D.
Kelly in Kentucky, was summoned
home last Monday on account of .the
serious illness of his brother, Frank,
of Vernon. ' -        V
AVm. Wolsey was down to Detis-t
this week attending the sale of._s"U-e
great dry goods bouse of Strong^iUqi fe
Co. He procured nice big bargahs-Tb.*
tbe clearing sale that he is just starting.
The State lands of the several classes in Clare county which are subject
to sale by Land Com'r French, amounting to following number of acres are
as follows: Swamo lands, 5-46.36*,
primary school lands. 1,822.26.
Experiments will be made in the
spring on the Wisconsin & Michigan
Railroad in tbe use of electric iocom-1
otives. If tbey are successful, the
new motors will displace tbe old steam
engines altogether on the road.
Aoout twenty of the young people
of the city enjoyed a pleasant sleigh
ride, and oyster supper last Wednesday evening, the oyster supper being
served at the hospitable home of Mr.
ancl Mrs P, Murphy, three miles east.
A number of the friends of Mr. and
Mr*. O. II. O'Dnn-i'd participated in
piu-iessive pedro ;.*. Uicir home last
Tuesday evening. Refreshments of
exquisite taste were served and a
happy and recherche evening passed.
The silver paper of Shepherd, The
Graphic bas suspended publication.
Its death throes were something awful. The editor tried hard to make
the venture a success, buo two newspapers in a one newspaper town won't
work.
Exchanges are warning the widows
of veterans to be on their guard against
a swindler traveling over the state
who represent that they jan have their
pension increased. He charges $5 for
preliminary expenses ancl that is the
last the widow sees or hears of him.
A. T. Stevens is a taxidermist of no
small ability, as the deer heads which
he has recently mounted, will, testify.
Two of the natural looking heads may
be seen in tbe Central drug store, one
of which was bagged by Thos. Hutchinson of Sheridan, and the other by R.
M, Mussell.
Advertised Letters.—List of letters
remaining uncalled for in the Clare
post office for the week ending Saturday, Dec. 25,1897. Persons claiming
these letters please call for 'Advertised Letters:" William Allen, H. D.
Bowman, Emma Clark, Mrs. Mina
Davidson, Minnie Jones.
The Mt. Pleasant Times says there
was a meek looking young man in that
city last week selling "fourteen nice,
fine, pure linen handkerchiefs for one
dollar." And oh—what a roastig the
husbands received when they showed
their won-der-ful (?) bargins tc tbeir
wives. Their wiyes will do the buying
hereafter.
The Sbntinbi* has just received a
package of "Fifty Years Improvements in Farming," an exhaustive
treatment of the subject issued by
the New York Tribune, which we will
furnish free to all subscribers of the
Sentinel as long as they last. "When
ih town call at the Sentinel office
and get a copy of tbe Valuable work.
Mt. Pleasant has a new dog ordinance
which enlists the aid of every small
boy of the city in enforcing its provisions. The clause which will do
this is one providing that half of tbe
fee which an owner must pay to get
his unlicensed dog out of the pound
goes to the person who -sets the
poundmaster on the track of the offending canine.
<£: BlariKets.
S~ Large gray cotton blankets, sold for 49c. at 42c,
2^ Heavy brown mottled blankets., sold for 69c, at 55c
j-**-^ Fine fancy cotton blankets, sold for $1, at 79c,
•*£: i nound wool mixed blankets, sold for $1,25, at $1.
^ 5     "        " " "      $1.50, at $1.25.
•*•-; Very line gray wool blankets      "      $3, at $2.50.
g- Flannels.
Sr Heavy red twilled flannel at 17c.
Jtr Heavy gray flannels at 15c and 20c.
2£r Dark pfaid outing flannels at 34e a yard.
Sfc: Heavy dark outings, drei.s styles, sold for 7*c, at 6c.
Sr All bostoutings 8c a yard.
St.- Heavy white outings 4c a yard.
S*r Mill remnants of 10c outings at 7c a yard.
*EE Hosiery.
j*r Ladies' natural gray wool hose| worth 25c, at 19c.
g~ Ladies black wool hose 22c worth 29c.
jjr Misses black wool hose extra values at
•r 15c, 20c, 25c, and 35c.
****-" Misses' heavy ribbed cotton ileeced hose reduced
Jtr '  to 12J.*. a pair,
gjr Misses' very heavy seamless ribbed hose,   worth
ff— I2jc, at 10c a pair.
Ladies' Underwear,
Heavy gray wool ribbed vests and pants was a big
bargain at 50c, now 42c.
Fine all v?ool ribbed vests and panis,  white or
gray, were $1 now 85c.
Union su ts, heavy fleeced cotton, worth 50c, to
close at 42c.
Men's Furnishings.
Heavy Jersey shirks reduced to 35c.                    . ---35
Extra heavy Jersey shirts, blue or black, 45c.    ', ■ .---3r
Heavy wool Jersey shirts, worth 850, at 62c. ^»
Finest cotton fleeced Jersey shirts, worth $1, at 85e - ---3r
Heavy mackinaw jackets $1 and $1.25. *-lX
Heavy all wool socks, worth 30c and 35c, for 25c. ^3?
Rest home knit mittens, worth 45c, for 35c, r^''
Heavy faced mitts 25c. .^
Three Bargains in Men's Underwear. -^
Heavy two thread non-sbrinking shirts and draw- rS
ers, former price 75c. for 62|c. ^g
Very heavy wool ileeced, former price $1 now 85e. rS
Extra heavy  camel's  hair  plush  back,   former ^
price $1 now 85c. ^
25 per cent, off regular price on Cloaks ^
and Capes. ^
15 per cent, off regular price on   Men's z£
Overcoats and ulsters. -z%
We thank our many patrons for the liberal patronage bestowed upon us during the past year  and  wish
them a happy and prosperous New Year.
DAVY & Co
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A Christmas Wedding.
A pleasant but quiet wedding oc-
cured at TJrbana, Illinois, last Christmas eve, tbo contracting parlies beinu
former Clare people who bave many
warm and sincere friends here. Tbey
were Mr. A. C. Burnham and Miss J.
Madge Brodie. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. M Mills of the
TJrbana Baptist church, at the residence of Prof. P. G. Holden. The
house was decorated with holly. The
bride was dressed in white silk witb
white roses. After the ceremony
Professor and Mrs. Holden gave the
assembled party a dinner.
The bride is a highly respected and
talented young lady and the groom is
a young man of energy and worth. He
was graduated from the Clare public
schools, later pursuing his studies in
German]', and is now one of the professors of the University of Illinois. Tbe
Sentinel joins with tbeir hundreds
of friends in wishing.tbem long continuance of their useful life so happily
begun.
He criticised ber pudding, and
didn't like her cake, he wished she'd
make the biscuits his mother used to
make: she didn't wash the dishes and
didn't makestews.and sbe didn't mend
his stoekings as his mother used to do.
Oh, well, she wasn't perfect, but sbe
tried to do her best, until at last she
thought the time had come to have a
rest; so when one day he growled and
whined the whole day through, she
turned him up and "fanned" his pants
—as his mother used to do.
Society says kissing must go—It
goes in many instances when the
lights are burning dimly. Also that
band-shaking is a yery dangerous
thing to indulge in. And another
very fashionable thing is that butter
should not be served at swell dinners.
We have heard of all kinds, sizes and
colors of fools, but the thing that
such an idiotic fad takes tbe mon.
There are a whole lot of us who have
a weakness for good butter, and light,
warm rolls, who propose organizing a
society of our own
Tbe Luetgert tragedy has been reduced to rhyme by a western editor.
He says: 'A sausage maker's only
wife lay boiling'in a vat. There was
caustic potash present, but she didn't
care for that; for her kind and loving
husband,With becoming- patient toiled,
to keep the embers burning and stir
her while she boiled. Her anxious
neighbors came about and raised a
merry din; but her husband was too
busy; and refused to let them in. But
she kept tlie pot a stewing and was
fairly overjoyed, when her bones were
in solution save one little sesamoid—
and the jury disagreed."
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H6 Holidays
We always close out the balance of
winter stock on hand.     Now is your
time to get an A-Wo.-l suit for little
money.
Look in our windows.
Suits, former price $20 to $28,, your
choice now for $15.   All new goods.
Good heavy black pants $2.
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Hold Your Grip.
Though you may not have much,  my
friend, to rouse your gratitude,
An'think the treatment Fate  deals
out is rather harsh an' rude,
Don't mope an' pout au* chow the rug
an' stand around an1 cuas.
Put hold yer grip an' thank tbe Lord
it isn't any WUS.-—Denver Post, ■•
I An idea of the tremendous amount of
pine taken out of northern Michigan
since the lumber barons began their
extensiye operations twenty or thirty
years ago may be gained from some
figures regarding a single firm's work
in the past ninteen years. An employe
of Pack, Woods & Co., of Oscoda and
Au Sable, figured out tbe other day
that the amount of lumber cut at the
company's mill at Au Sable, which
has recently closed' down for good,
would make a fence six boards high
around the earth at the equator and
another from north to south around
the earth, passing through the poles;
or a fence around the United States
and around each state in the union
where'there is not a water boundry.
'•There are others," as tbe following
from the Midland" Sun will prove:
"The latest swindle to be worked in
this city was perpetrated a short time
since by a peripatetic spectacle man,
His plan was to sell spectacles on the
installment plan, collecting all the
way from $1 to $12 and promising to
return in a month for the second payment, It is needless to say that the
initial $1 collected was more than the
glasses were worth and that he has
never come back for the second installment. Quite a number of our citizens
have glasses carefully laid away oh
thci shelf as a memento of his visit."
Ye gods, will people neyer learn to
give the faker the wo-by ? The only
safe way Is to- patronize the hoine merchant, He will do better by you eyery
time than any fly-by-night individual
or even a Montgomery, Ward Co.
flldrc Local ott Fifth Page.
Pork Dangerous—Veal Unwholesome:.
"Pork is the source of trichina; for
this, reason   it  should   be    cooked
thoroughly.   Hogs are almost altvavs
fattened so as  to  be   actually   diseased before   killing, and  we    find   *
here also a common source of tuberculosis; it is also generally  believed  that
pork-eating is a common  source  of.
scrofula," writes Mrs. S. T.- Rorcr in.
the January Ladies' Home  Journal*
"1 certainly know  that persons who-
indulge freely in pork have very un- .
healthy, rough" and  easily  irritated-'
skins.   Veal (equally indigestible with-
pork) may .not contain the dangerous-
eerms of the mature ox; the  fibre,
however, is dense and difficult of di-   •
gestion,   Unless it is thoroughly boil-    ■
ed and  chopped  rather  fine  it  had,
better not be eateh at all.   It should
never, under any circumstances,  be
given to children,"
Every farmer in Clare aud northern
Isabella counties'choula. subscribe for
the Clare Sentinel and Michigan
Farmer, both together for only $1.50 a*
year. Remember, the Michigan,
Farmer is not a monthly periodical,
but a weekly and the official paper for
tbe State Grange and Farmer's Ciob.
We are only able to offer the low rate
named above for a limited time.
Remember. That we are positively
going away and until Jan, loth, we
will make our best $2 cabinet photos
for $1 per dozen. We are also offering
some big bargains iu frames- All sizes.
We will close them out,
F. H, His & Son.
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