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OLAEE, MICH., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1895.
New Series': Vol 8,Ho. 12
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CHURCH AND SOCIETY If EMS.
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COTTONS,
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"It don't pay to take for granted
every tiling you "hear," said a citizen
to the Observer one day last week.
The Observer remarked something to
tne effect that his experience
tallied precisely with that of the citizen on that subject. "You see,"
continued the citizen, "here are these
meetings going on at the Gospel Hall.
I have heard all manner of things
from there. If all the terrible things
that are reported as having been done
and said there were true, why, to put
it mild, the place ought to he closed
up by the marshal on the charge of being disorderly. But not half the
things have any truth in them, and
thosethat have any foundation whatever have been greatly exaggerated."
The Observer interrupted him long-
enough to say that people in general
often make a mountain of a mole hill.
The citizen continued, "I staid away
from the meetings a good deal, not be
cause, of anything I heard when I did
attend, but because of things I heard
were said when I was not there.- I believed my informant instead of going
myself to find out. I find that is the
<sase with nearly all those who stay
away because of things they have
heard. Strange as it may seem, some
of the most bitter in their remarks
against the meetings have not attended them even once. Their opinions
are all from hear-say. There is, no
doubt that remarks have been made
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at the meeting in a moment of excitement that seemed unwarranted, uncharitable and unchristian, but I do
not believe the motive behind them is
bad. I tell you that when I see some
of the fellows up there who have been
as bad as can be, break down and start
at the bottom for a new and better
life, it makes me think that everything else ought to be over looked. If
only one of them out of the scores of
them who profess to be converted
sticks to it to the end, it's worth all
the trouble.
that power on petition of the council.
The city treasurer is made also treasurer of the school funds, and the city
clerk is general accoutant for the city.
The only good provisions of the bill
we already, enjoy, so all I can say is
"We want to be let alone."
TIME TABLE.
Trains leave Clare as follows, standard time:
GOING-EAST:
No, 6-"-10:03 a. m No. 8—3:50 p. m.
GOING-WEST:
No'. 1—8:55 a.m. No. 5—6:34 p. m
HARRISON DIVISION
Arrive at Clare from Harrison at 8:30 A. M
Leave Clare for Harrison at 6:40 p. M.
POPULAR LINE FOR
Saginaw. Bay City, Port Huron, Flint, Detroit,
Toledo, Manistee Milwaukee and Chicago.
BUSINESS CARDS.
.JOHN GIBERSON,
Attobnet at Law
Ofitce est Doherty Block
CLARE,       -        -       MICHIGAN
J*. H. CARPENTER, /W. O.
Physician, Subgeon and Accoucheur.
During the winter months the boats
of this company will run between Lud-
ington, Manistee and Milwaukee,
daily, weather permitting. Time of
leaving can be obtained from the company's agents; making connections for
all points west and northwest.   .
Sleeping cars between Bay City, Saginaw, Detroit and Chicafio..
Drawing room cars between Manistee and Detroit.
Connections made at Port Huron and
Detroit"in Union Depot for all points
South, Canada and the. East.
For further information see Time
Table of this company.
J. H. Gallivtsr, Ag't, Clare.
Office first door south of Doherty opera house
"block. Professional calls promptly answered
day or night.
O. W. TAYLOR GOODMAN, M. D.
Office and Residence,
j 708 South Michigan Avenue.
> , SAGINAW, MICH.
JE. F». THOMAS, iVi.D.,
Physician and Surgeon, makes specialty of diseases of women and children. Calls
promptly answered day or night.
Office in Dunlop Slock, Clare.
JC.  ROGKAFE*LLOW,
General Insurance Agent.
None but the best Companies repre-
• sentd.   Office over Saperston's
store.   Clare, Michigan.
Ii ft Unfcume,
TUBULAR WELL MAKER.
*
A man may guy and a man may lie,
and a man may puff and blow, but
he can't get trade by sitting in the
shade waiting for business to grow.
The United States mint is the only
buisness that can make money without
advertising.
*
Time Table,
TRAINS,'"LSAYE CLARK-
NORTH. .      SOUTH.
1:15 p. m. 2:55
"$*"*; H. Bennett* G. P. A.
Toledo^.        J. S. Geaghan^Agt,01are,
I Warrant my wells never to
fail as long as tne metal
lasts, and to give sufficient
water for any GAMP, MILL
orFA M. »
Correspondence Solicited. .
Clare,      -       -     iVlioii
ALLISON,
CITY AND COUNTEY
Building Mover.
Buildings, Safes, Boilers, Smoke Stacks, Presses, Mag Poles and Heavy Machinery
Moved and Raised.
Jack Screws to Let.
Clare, mioli.
FOR SALE.
Desirable house and lot for sale on
west 7th street. Price and terms will
suit. John GiSEEsoiir.  24tf
The city marshal has done a fine
thing, with the assistance of their parents, in stopping the boys from catching on sleighs. Now he has begun a
crusade upon children and youth loafing and hanging about the depot at
train time. He asks, and ought to
have, the co-operation of every,citizen
in the community. It is a public nuisance, dangerous and disgusting* Help
the work along,
Fire Escapes.
Clare had a remarkable series of
escape from serious fires during the
past week, there being no less than
four close calls. Two of the four were
from lamps and two from stove pipe
or chimney. To begin with, last Saturday evening as Jurdon Schilling was
about to blow out his lamps and close
his store, he discovered signs of fire
about the stoye pipe in the ceiling,
and closer inspection showed that it
had got such a start that it would
have taken but a short time longer for
the fire to have been beyond control.
As it was, a little water was sufficient
to extinguish it.
Sunday evening a large brass lamp
was left burning in ^the telegraph
office at the F. & P. M^lepot as usual.
The operator was out of the office for
a short time, and in his absence the
lamp got to "acting up." Portu-
nately Alvah Carpenter in going by
saw the trouble and hunted up some
one who had keys to the office, and
got in just as the lamp made its last
flicker and exploded. Prompt action
saved a-second loss of a depot by fire.
Tuesday evening a hanging lamp in
the sitting room at A. J. Doherty's began to show explosive symptoms. Although the oil ran over on the outside
and burned, melting the metal in places, the girl employed by the family
bravely caught up the lamp in her
apron and dress and carried it to - the
door and threw it out, burning her
hands and clothing severely and running imminent risk of being burned to
death by her clothing catching fire.
Yesterday noon the fire, alarm-was
sounded on account of fire in the roof
of the Markley house on Vernon hill,
at present occupied by David Dawson,
near his green house. The department
responded very promptly, but it was
found that a stream of water was
not needed. The new ladders however
were of great service, and it is probably
due to their use that the real seat of
the fire, in the roof, was so readily
reached, a dozen buckets of water at
the proper points putting out the
flames. Mr. Dawson wishes to express
to the firemen sincire appreciation of
their prompt and efficient service in
saving his home.
La Tosca Hive will not meet Wednesday, Feb. 20.
At the Baptist church Sabbath
morning, the subject will be, "Overcoming the World." There will probably be no evening service.
The Ladies' Aid society will meet on
Tuesday afternoon, February 19th, at
the home of Mrs. W. T. Weir. We
hope to have a large attendance as
there is plenty of work.
The Ladies' Union will meet Friday,
February 22d, at tne tome of Mrs. W.-
H. Elden. A full attendance is requested. The meeting last week at
Mrs. W. H. Goodman's was largely attended and very interesting. .
The "Other Aid" society will meet
next Wednesday afternoon, February
20, with Mrs. A. H. Coors. All are invited to come. The meeting at Mrs.
Gorr's was well attended. Mrs. Ed.
Hawkins joined the society and Mrs.
E. B. Horning visited us.
Following are the prayer meeting
leaders of Christian Endeavor society
of the Congregational church for the
balance of February and March*.
February 10—Mrs. A. A. Shaver.
17—Edna Elden.
"       24—The President.
March 3—Louise Bruske.
"     10—Ethel Elden.
17—Mae Bicknell.
24—Mrs. Will Parrish.
31—The President.
COUNTY COFvTENTEOW*
The Republicans j&iet im  Com**^
tioni at Harrison, Wednesday,,
JIS^'
E. D, Palmer NomKiated for Cosaty Gosiio-
missioner of Sefeools, asid <5©o. J. Gee*^
sains, A. J. Bolnerty asa'd H. 13. Roys
Chosen Delegates to State Gosaveat:.Qi3»
Once in two years it. is necessary for
meet
in conaw
SCHOOL NOTES.
Mesdames Parrish, DeVogt and
White visited the lower rooms, Fri-
day.
Some in the high school and grammar rooms are becoming quite proficient note readers in music.
Two new pupils have entered school,
one in second intermediate and the
other in the giammarToom.
Charley Kane has been absent from
school during the past week, owing to
a burn received which has prevented
his attendance.    u
The formation-of habits is of"the utmost importance, hot in educating the
intelligence alone, but its value with
regard to the moral actions is even
greater still.—Badestock.
A spelling match between the second grades of the second primary and
first intermediate rooms took place,
Friday. It was closely contested, the
latter room winning. Joey Galliver,
Clarence Stanley and Bertie Gaunt deserve special mention for the excellent
spelling done.     '      ' ■ .
"What do you think of the bill that
has been introduced in the state legislature relative to the charters of
small cities," asked the Observer of a
prominent citizen who keeps himself
posted on what is going on. "Don't
like it at all," was the prompt reply.
"There is hardly a commendable
feature in the whole bill. In the first
place it is too sweeping. It proposes
to give entirely new charters to about
55 of the smaller cities of the state,
just for the sake of making them uniform. There isn't any need of their
being -uniform, anyway. You might
just as well stand 55 men in a row and
then cut them down to 5 feet 8 inches
in height, just for the sake of uniformity. Besides that, nearly all the
cities effected are already working
smoothly with their present charters.
If there are one or two charters that
need changing, why, change them."
""But don't you think some of the
.provisions proposed are good ones,"
was asked. "Probably there are. but
not good enough that they will fit
all cities. What is good of or one may
be poison for another. Take, for instance, the clause- that provides that
the school district and city limits
should have the same boundaries. It
may be all right in some towns, but
for Clare it would be a great injustice
to the residents just over the city
limits, but now in the district, and
<greatly increase the tax burden of our
citizens. The bill puts too much
power in the hands of the mayor. The
city limits *can he changed too easily,
the board of supervisors being .given
February Crop Report
Cold weather prevailed during the
month of January. Snow fell in the
early part of the month in sufficient
amount to afford good protection to the
wheat plant. The average depth of
snow in the lower peninsula on the
15th was about eight inches, and at
the end of the month there had been
noTeduction. In reply to the question,
"Has wheat during January suffered
injury from any cause?" 192 correspondents in the southern counties answer
"yes," and 295 "no;" in the central
counties,34 answer "yes,"and 142"no,"
and in the northern counties, 8
answer "yes," and   90 "no."
The total number of bushels of
wheat reported marketed by farmers
in Januarv, is 1,061,838, and in six
months, August—January, 7,296,941,
which is 1,952,971 bushels less than
reported marketed in the same months
last year. At twenty elevators and
mills from which reports have been
received, there was no wheat marketed during the month.
The condition of live stock averages
from 93 to 97 pel* cent, comparison
being with stocklngopd healthy and
thrifty condition.
Advertised Letters.
Unclaimed letters remaining in the
Clare post office for the week ending
February 9, '95. Persons calling for
same will please say, "Advertised:"
Abel Halstead, Elijah Johnson, Jas.
Kay, D.Lyons, JohnMcKinnon, Frank
McKennon, Dr. J. Sloan, Mrs. Belle
Loring, Mrs. Mary Miller, Mrs. Jno.
Pickering.
Brant's Balsam is effective, none
better, is lasting, large 25 and 50 cent
bottles, of-Musseil, the d-cuggist.
Democratic   County   Convention.
The Democrats of Clare County
will assemble in convention at the
court house in the city of Harrison on
Monday, February 25th, 1895, at 1
o'clock p. m. for the purpose of nominating a county' commissioner of
schools for Clare county to be voted
for at the coming spring election; to
elect three delegates to the Democratic
State convention at Saginaw, February
28, and to transact such other business
as may properly come before the convention.
Each voting precinct will be entitled
to representation in the county convention as follows, being one delegate
at large from each township and ward
and one additional delegate for each
25 votes or major fraction thereof,
of the total vote cast for governor at
the last general election:
Arthur, 4 Franklin, 2
Frost, 2 . Grant, 6
Greenwood, 5 Hamilton, 3 .
Hatton, 4 Hayes, 3
Bedding, 4 Sheridan, 5
Surcmerfield, 2 Surry, 11
Winterfleld, 4
Clare, 1st w'd, 3 Harrison, 1st wd, 3
"     2d    "   7 "        2d   "   4
"     3d    "   6 "        3d . "   4
W. W. Habfer,       F. C. SAHFOKDj
Secretary. Chairman.
Hard Luck.
Sunday night O. J. Showers'hotel, at
Long Pine, ISTeb., was totally destroyed
by fire. Mr. and Mrs. Showers escaped
in their night clothes, -saving none of
their personal effects. The house was
insured for $3,000, but there was no
insurance on the contents. Mr Showers wasformerly a resident of .this city
and was for some years proprietor of
the Beed house, on West Genesee
avenue, and was afterwards proprietor
of the St. James sample room on Lapeer Street. For several years past
one misfortune after another'seems to
have overtaken him. He had been
doing well at Long Pine, but his loss
will be a heavy blow, as he looses fully
$10,000.-Saginaw Courier Herald. Mrs..
Showers, mentioned above, is a sister of B. Jeffries of Clare, and is
quite well known herehy old residents.
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder
WorM'f Balr Highest Medal a*I Diploma,
? candidate could; be
a caucus was held*
political parties to
convention in the winter or early
springtime for the sole purpose of
nominating a county commissioner of
schools, and chosing delegates to fhe-
state convention. v At every tMi&
such convention the arduous tasft: is
increased by the necessity of appointing delegates to the circuit judicial
convention. This was done two years.
ago.
The republican county convention
was held at Harrison, Wednesday, tlie .
prohibitionists will hold theirs, at
Clare Monday next, and the democrats
at Harrison on the Monday following.
The republican state convention will
be held at Detroit, February 21, and
the prohibitionists at Lansing on the
same day. the democrats coming just-
a week later at Saginaw.
The interest of the convention, Wednesday, mostly centered in the nomination for school commissioner, and the
delegations were quite complete,especially from the lower half of the county,
as all the candidates were from Clare..
As the contest for the commissioner-
ship had been quite spirited, it was
suggested that the Clare delegates
meet in caucus to^see if any gen*eral agreement on a~
reached. Such
at eleven o'clock and showed 10 votes
for E. D. Palmer and 6 ior W. J. Hutchison. The caucus, except as showing how the Clare delegation woul#
likely vote in the convention, was*"
without result.
The convention was called to ordei
at half past one o'clock by Isaac Har*-
ris, chairman of the county committee'
who called Geo. J. Cummins of Harris
son to serve as temporary chairman
H. M. Boys of Farwell was named as?
temporary secretary.   The usual committees were appointed and1 the temr-
porary organization made permanent-
W. A. Goodman and Frank Morrissey
were appointed tellers.
The first informal ballot for school -
commissioner gave E. D. Palmer,  20y
W. J. Hutchison, 19*; E. G. Welch, 11;
scattering, 6.
. The second ballot gave Palmer,
Hutchison, 24; scattering, 5.
The third vote was formal and
suited, Palmer, - 32; Hutchison,
The chairman announced E. B. Palmer as the nominee of the convention.
The convention then chose three**
delegates to the state convention.
They were Geo. J. Cummins, Harrisoni
A. J. Doherty, Clare; H. M. Boys, Far-
well. -     '    .
Whereupon the convention adjourned.   	
Prohibition County Convention.
The prohibitionists of Clare county
will meet in convention at the office
of John Giberson, in the city of Clare
on Monday, February 18th, at 3o?clock*
in the afternoon, for the purpose of
electing delegates to the state convention to be held at Lansing, Feb>
21st inst., and to transact such other-
business as may come before it.
Let there be a good attendance, as^
matters of great importance to our
party: will be considered.
We are entitled to be represented by
five delegates, and. let's see to it that,
the full quota shall go.
J. A.'-OosrosiLSE, Chairman;-
Johjs* GmERsois; Secretary.
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24.
A Moral With a Lesson,
A minister wished to ascertain what>
influence the hard times had upon his
congregation and said, at the close at
his sermon,"! would ask every one who**
is still able to pay his debt*v to= rise
from his seat.". The whole congregation arose, with the exception- oi one
man.   The parson then asked; that all
those that were unable to meet their
bills should |! rise.   Thereupon   the
afore mentioned solitary*   individual
got up, hungry looking,, poorly clad
man, whose features   revealed   the*
terrible struggle of one fighting hope-"
lessly against the vicissitudes of this
world.   The minister regarded him:
attentively,yet kindly. "How is it^. my
friend," he said, "that   you are* the
only one among all these people who?
cannot pay his debts?" *?Sir," answered!
the man hesitatingly, "sir, I publish .
a newspaper, and these my brothers
who rose just now- are all my subscribers, and55—But the minister interrupt [
ted him hastily.   "Let us pray," he
said.
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