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POLYGAMY'S PENALTY.
Grant   Escapes    Imprisonment-
Other Isabella County News.
NUBS    orr- Ns-R-Ws.
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Bieknell has been invoicing this week.
Mrs James Ostrander of Loomis spent
Sunday in Clare.
A. A. Shaver and  E.  B.  Horning: in!    The efforts of Lewis Grant  to  prevail
.Saginaw the first of the week upon Judge Hart to reconsider h-Tin-
Isaiah Feighner shipped a  carload  of tei,ce °* ^ month in state  prison,  wore
Rattle from Mt. Pleasant this week. successful.    Grant confessed to having I "*/'" -""w "•iJU" ^cu.yu ...^..urg.
C, W.  Perry has  been visiting his  abandone<* bis wife and child in Canada1/ Loie Goodman, brothex*nf Will,  has
parents in Genxsee county this week.       | stfTeral J**™ a#o and then marrying an?feen engaged to teach the Jffinklo school
other woman  in  Isabella  county  with\thisterm- ;-*'''
7hT, -?%h« "3ince5esiaed- bufc ^w No!      A large number of Swceds came from
1 heard of the  sentence she begged of J Muskegon this  week to *work  in   To
lumber woods near Meredith.
George Rattio of Olare and Miss Kittle
koegan of Hatton were married last week.
Henry Ort was in  Moredith on business Monday. . _
Dr. and Mrs. Chaso are T visiting  their
son, 0. S., in Clare this woek,
It is understood  that -Judy's mantle
has fallen upon George Bcfldmrg
NO. &9j
HEAVY DAMAGES
A Smith, foreman of F. H, Randall's Judge Hart to recall the sentence "and
camp near Coleman, came out Sunday, have the matter settled in some other
He reports everything lovely in camp.        way.": _This the Judge  consented  to do
Tho Jim Carr case is to be argued in and Grant paid his legal wife $1600 to
the supreme court at its next term.   The settle the difficulty.   The  Mt.  Pleasant
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papers in tho ease havo already been filed.
Jim I_irkp<itr'ck Sundayed in Clare.
The rumor that he would never como to
Clare again appears to have been incorrect.
A boy's watch, picked up on tho night
of tho Hinman fire, has been left at this
office. The owner can have it by calling
and proving property,
Mrs. W. A. Goodman was able  to  o"
cupy her position at the organ in tho _V
E, Sunday school last Sunday  and  her
"many friends  wero  glad to  greet her
again.
Wo will have to  knock  oft'  70  from
Democrat says that "all parties are happier over the result."
Adelberfc Chamberlain who was arrested in Clare for horse stealing near the
Halfway, plead guilty in the Circuit
Court last week. Sentenco was suspended until noxt term on account of tho serious illness of the prisoner's father,
The supervisors at tho regular session
neglected to prepare the drain tax and a
special session of the  board  has  been
Lpalled for Saturday, 26th instant, to  fix
' the matter up so that the supervisors can
spread the tax on their rolls.
Sheriff Pickard now denies having
mado the slighting remarks regarding
"the Irish vote," attributed to him   dur-J
    -    -.«...    uuo j_r_sa vote," attributed to him   dur-J.'
Floyd Post's majority.   In ono town in ing the campaign, and which contributed! _
Gratiot   county it  has been disr>nvn<wi  *.. i.._-i_»--■    --
,?     Gratiot  county it  has been discovered
i%, that a mistake was made in tho official
return.    This reduces Posts majority in
the district close to 500.
AIL ROAD TIME TABLE.
Jb\ -St IP*. M. X_. «,
Time Card In effect Mar SO, 1886.
-fORTlIWJvST.
•p.m. A..t. _>.__,
1125 1145....
1130 11(1 S30
222 212 C2_
324 735
3 43 ....
357 813
505 0 20
5 40 1000
8 48
415
4 35
5 65
0 30
Toledo
Detroit
D. Tj. &K
Holly
Grand Blanc
„   "Phut
East Saginaw
for j«. c. tfroru
A.M.
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<Jt-0
1050
9 50
10 50
10 03
1100
1135
p..r.
515
frWU.
K1J7
7 40
C3ff
say
710
7 52
8 35
arr.
arr.
dep.
215 HUSO
.Tust Saginaw
• .-fflyjami
Coleman
Mt. Pleasant
CX,.__._s$
IfurrfHon    dep.
.Farwell
Evan
Heed City
-.utHngton
a.m. r,?f.
1120, 5 50
MSS, tj»8
to his defeat. He says that he did nothr
ing to create race or religious prejudice.
Williams's saw mill at Holland burned
on the night of the 13th instant, and
John Hayes, the nightwatch, was cremated.
The Mt. Pleasant Democrat complains
that the republican  newspapers  of  Mt.
Plaasant   and neighboring  towns were
'ilj-fq-etrun to suit it during  the  campaign.
ffi) Now that election is  oyer we have no
hesitancy in letting  tho  secret  out—it
wasn't the purpose of  their publication
to please the Democrat.
There, .was a fair sized audience io: at-
SOUTHEAST,
A-M;  **•. *'"'1'. I Plaasant
io';'. 3 50 10
9 31 2 60 9__.
8S0 142 7 58'
811 120 787
7 59 105 7 20
7 00 1150 C 05
6301100   516
Rev. C. W. Smith will cdjiduet revival
meetings at Parwell, comijbeiicing Dec.
11th and continiiing two TV-ag&s.
By the breaking of a chain Al Pox received slight injuries the otjber day while
at work with a team pulling, stumps.
R. Lamb is paralyzing typ poor doer
up on the north branch of %ho Tobacco.
He js-with a party of G-fctiot county
hunters. ..<■«
Chet Chase of Howard Cjjty, has had I
hard luck with a felon on.f^J^right hand
and will lose the use of onolund' perhaps
two fingers. |!
Tho young people's lifltary society
met with Miss Lillie ConveJ^o on Wednesday evaning at J. A, Webb's, and had
an interesting and profitablo^ession.
D. W. Lamb has unliini'm confidence
in the new railroad and the   iiensfits its
peoming will confer to Clare, -and ho is buying lots in tho village as fasfcjos ho can.
Supervisor Rockafellow 13; engaged in
putting the finishing touch oii the Grant
township tax roll. He ha_! also made
rolls for three other townSiiips in the
county. '<?
While pulling stumps njfnr   Lamb's
The   Jury   in   the   Tubbs    Case
Awards Mrs Perry $2,437.50.
The suit for damages brought by Mr/?.
Gilbert Perry of Loomis, against James
Tubbs, Samuel C. Z0$ and Thos. W.
Walton, has attraoJ-M.^onsiderable  attention not only in Loomis but in Clare
and thoughtout Isabella county as well.
On the evening- of March  15th, Gilbert
E. Perry started from his homo in Loom?
is to walk down tho railroad track ^to] a
saw mill where he  was employed.   One
mile oast of Loomis, the engineer of the
the west bound passenger train  saw  an
object on the track a few rods in front of
the train. L It was juow'ing_fasjb^and^he
could not distinguish the object plainly
but he put on the breakes f and  reversed
his engine instantly, but the train which
was running at full speed could  not  bo
stopped   before  it   reached  the   object
which had attracted the engineer's attention.   A moment later and ho knewj that
the train had run over a man. , Stopping
tho train'and backing  up  the Jmangled
form of Gilbert E. Perry was found  and
picked up.QMr. Perry lived until a few
minutes afterjs.he train arrived at Loom-1
is, but was not able  before  he  died to
threa
the    way trom  three  hours  to
mouths to get a telegram through,.
A painful accident befell Floyd, tho 5
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Calk-
inn, on  Tuesday  afternoon.   The fit-la
fellow fell from a ladder a distance'of ten
or twelve feet with a small stick  in  his
mouth, striking in such a manner .as  to
tear the roof of his mouth in  a horribla
manner and nearly severing  the palate,
Dr. """Vitherspoon attended the, unfortunate child and he is  doing  as  well  as
could be expected,   'Tis said that Ployct
exhibited wonderful nerve by remaining-
perfectly composed and endeavoring to
offer no resistance whilo the stitches were
being taken in the mangled flesh by  the
physician.—Standard.    On Monday Mr.
Calkins took his son to Ann Arbor to be
treated by an eminent physicians at the
University hospital.    Upon  examination
the doctors gave it as their opinion that
the injured, boy  would  wholly  recover
from  his  injuries under  proper   care.
They returned to Harrison Wednesday.
i
North  Sheridan,
Mr.  and  Mrs.
Poet,   also    Jack
Jerred, are under the  docto
r's  care.
give any account of the accident. It was
claimed that Perry had been drinking
heavily at tho Tubbs Houso  bar  before/
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mill the other day one of thif standards
broke and the whole machiipf. fell to the
ground. Some of the men.iprrowly escaped serious injury,
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J3?*-Drawli!s -loom Cars on "Day Trains, NVw
Sleeping Cars on Night Trains between _j«s;li«nr,
Detroit and Toledo.
tA^Olifces at Toledo in 1'nlou Depot mid tlio
Boorty House; at Detroit In Depot, foot of Third
street, Jefferson Ave.
HATES AS I_0*W AS THE LOWEST.
SAKTOlil) KEELEK, SUpt.
D. I'dwarus, Malinger.
ATTORNEYS.
/~1 W. PEltRY,
ATTORNEY at LAW,
Oi'fich Ovnn Gmsusos's Stc   i!
OLARE,       -      -       MICH.
HEATOK.E. D.,
_.. a w y E re,
I    IN   DUNLOJ.'S   lllUCK   UlliCK,   UP Sl'AIKS.
 CLARE, Ml (:U.
Obfic
in the'Congregational church yesterday
. morning. Rev. C. W. Smith pastor of
the M. E. clmrch preached an appropriate sermon. Excellent music was furnished by the Congregational church
choir.
P.ev, Mr. Munger will preach in the
Russell t-chool house, Vernon, next Sunday, and every alternate Sunday thereafter during the year.
Miss Etta Wilson, teacher in district
I No. 3, Wise township, reports tho follow-
»ing pupils not absent during the first
i month of the term: James Marlin, An-
Snie Lansing, Minnie Lansing,"! Gertie
j Badglej-, Lucy Shears, Jennie Bowen,
f Clara McJames, Lottie Hart, Maud Hart,
1 Rosa Loomis, Dollie Robinson, Mabel
Robinson, George Lansing, Annie Hart.
starting down the track and was infcoxi/
cated in tho saloon.   Therefore the widow, by her attorney E.  D.  Wheaton  of
Claro, commenced a suit in the  Isabella
Circuit Com t against James Tubbs  the
proprietor of tho hotel  and  saloon  and
Samuel C, Zeiter and Thomas  W.  Walton the surities on the saloon bond.   The
case came on for trial this  week   beforo
Judge Hart and a jury at Mt. Pleasant
resulting after two days  in  the verdict
in favor of Mrs. Perry for  $'2,487.50 besides costs.   Tbo  defense  claimed  that
Perry was perfectly sober when he loft
Loomis and had caused his own death by
carelessness in walking on the track, but
w « I tho  jury  evidently thought diifctfently
.^f-^Sflrafc^ w^^"jas.th^r Verdict shows,   A stay   of'^ pro
granted   and    the    defendants talk of|
It is not probable that a L_uh teacher
will be employed in the jCliire schools
this year unless the need hBC^toee more
imperative than  at j>r—"'''" ^ '  "'"
aSJ^o,^a^ta'b^4fe^. „._,
district hasn't the neo-Ssary-Wao        ..
S. J. Defoe, tho ne,w grower, whoso announcement to our readers appears elsewhere in this week's Peess, is a pleasing
gontleman and will no doubt make-i
friends in Olare. His stock is new and
well seleoted and he will do his best to
merit a good trade.
Died, on tho 18th inst, at Gypsum.,
Ohio, the daughter of W. A. and EmirHy
L.   Coomer,  of East  Saginaw,
— z
and Mrs. C. Bates   has had several
nervous chills lately. ,♦*'
Besides Mr. Penrosi4'e folks, three,
other fiiiniliw inovel into (,a>w* Icuit
wevk and they wmie to .stay. We
f-t'ti't'. th«y will prove to be #ood
noigliliors nnd we-ire <^l.-id to Imvo
till siU'h lind honie.s aniOMi>- us.
Wm. A. Thompson kjlJod ;i fafc
cow on the l*ith instant and took the
mfr'nt into PidCitrd's cum n whore he
sold it for 8.'!(i..S7; then ho litis the
roiitfh tallow and hide which Fie expects to .swell the amount to $4-1 or
§4.3. Hh couldn't #et anyone fo look
at it until he met Mr. Pickard who
v.'tis eager to buy the whole heel'at 5
cents a pound. The cow weighed
737^-pounds with over two bushels of
rough tallow not included.
■AM
carrying the ctiso to tho  Supreme Court.  8th page
AROUND THIS COUNTY
Tho stnro-soyopticon fizzled at  Harri-
:ltm.
Farwell boy.-* skated on tho mill pond
last week.
Hamilton and Hayes townships nretry-
Mrs/j**--1" t<> get a settlement
JI. BROWNE,
LAWYER,
HARRISON
W. GREEN
MICH.
ATTORNEY AT
HARRLSON,     -
LAW
MICH.
Coomer was visiting friends at  Gypsum j    H. K. Wickham  v/ill   commenco  the
where the child was taken with diphther-  practice of law at Meredith,
ia  which terminated   in  membranou^'   Thirteen dollars a ton is the price paid
croug.   Tho friends  of  the family  in^or hriy delivered at tho camps.
Claro will be, pained to learn of this sudden death. Harrison s   cigar   factory commenced
. n        ,     , it-.,,,,    business this week, employing five hands.
A flow of water was reached in tho tilt'
Pleasant city well on Saturday last at a A. B. Toman has built a house at Far-
depth of a little over 300 feet, The wates; fison, using 2x_ instead of lumber. He
J lowed from tho top of the well in suffici- H^bi't mean that tho building shall fall
•nt quantities to supply the city, but as  down. * j
o   its qualities the Democrat has not     Mosher & Fisher  of  Bay   City,  have I
MORE    LOCAL-,
...—    —..      v_-.ni _._J.     DC
dinner at the G. A. R. hall yesterday.
All places of business in Clare were
closed yesterday from nine o'clock until
four.
Persons    wishing   -photographs -will
please call for  sittings  on  Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of each week, as  I
shall bo away the balance, of the time,
E. H. DeYogt,
GROCERIES & PROVISIONS.
I
W GB0CI1Y.    :■;
I
■pLOYD L. POST,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SODrCITOR IN CHANCERY,
and REAL ESTATE AGENT
COLEMAN,      -      -      MICH.
mar 8_.iv
A TTENTION FARMERS.
ED. UNICUME CLARE,
Manufacturer of
Iffarcy's Patent Tubular  Wells.
This  is  the well for camps, mills,
and farms.    It never fails.
I am also contractor
 for	
CfBADIXCt     LUMBER   RAILKOADS.
rrespo.Jeleiice  BoiicitctS.  s-a
Cos
pAINTING, PAPERING, 4c"
JAMES L WELCH,
Will promptly  fill   all  orders
Painting,      Paper-Hanginsr,
Ivalsomining, Etc.
BECOEATING A  SPECIALTY.
Cliarstes BLeasouable.
-a®-Leave orders  at Goodman &
Go's hardware and paint store.
^arpenteFworkT
CARPENTER & BUILDF7!
pies t spocificatiojis nmn k mm'4
, "Worlc «Su__^rax._eeeI.
Grant and Hatton townships have each
J employed an attorney to help on the set-
' tlement.
Neither the President's nor the Governor's proclamation was read or referred to
in yesterday's Thanksgiving service in
Clare.
Annual election of officers of Evergreen Lodge "No. 101, A. O. IT. "W., on
Tuesday evening, Dec. 7th. A full attendance is requested.
The ladies of the M. E. church will
hold a social at the resicence of D. J".
Fox, next Priday Eve., Dec. 3rd. All
are cordially invited to attend.
learned.   That paper wants the work con«
turned until  pure water, spit or oillS-Jr
struck and it don't care much which      1 %l   ,^
a rn+i • Clty by rail.
A father can give  his  young son  no
better present that a year's reading of tho
Scientific American.    Its contents wii_|
lead the  young  mind  in the path  off
thought; and if he treads there  awhile
he'll forget frivolites and be of some  account, and if he has an inventive or  mechanical turn of mind,  this paper   will
afford him more entertainment,  as well
as useful information, than he can obtaL
elsewhere.   Copies of this paper may h\
seen at this office and subscription received.   Price, $3 a year, weekly,
purchased 20,000,0(10 fet of lumber in this
Touri*^   The logs will he taken   to  Bay
Andy Aldrich the disagreeable and incompetent postoffice clerk in this village
has at last demonstrated that he posses°s
es at least a small portion of good sense
The I-Ogister  says:   "Parwell is now
fsure of the Toledo & Ann Arbor railroad.
' -Parties looking for investments can   find .
no better opportunities than in this vicin-1
ity.     We look for   a   big  boom  in the
spring."
The Standard says that Harrison has
sixteen saloons and most of them are opened every Sunday in direct violation of
the law. People going, to church en
rbounter men beastly intoxicated. Such
desecration of the Sabbath is a violation
of tho law and society and should not bo
tolerated.
Having- OppJieil in the "Utiildiiiff Por-
n.'-'rly o:ri«f>i(jd I>y Messrs.  Dawson & Co., a c-omplofo slock of
MEBIIS a.. PMISIOIS,
I am   Prepared   to  soil   First-Class
Groceries, ns Cheap as
the Cheapest
BY     FAIR     AND    HONEST
DEALING   I    HOPE    TO
l.UILD UP A TRADE
WHICH     W I L L
PROVE PROFITABLE
Botto to my Casteers aud to Mseylf.
B&*1 SOLIC-T A SHARE OF
YOUR PATrtON-AUE AND
SHALL TRY TO   PLEASE YOTJ,
/ lively   shingle
^ farmers are busy getting  out logs  and
/    wood, and but few shingle bolts will be
Mrs. A. Jennings of Lansingville desires to express to Mr. and Mrs. John
Cunningham his grateful acknowledgements for their kindness to hira
week.
last
thrre will be a change in the office The
change will be for the better no matter
•who is selected to succeed Andy whose
romtness for the position Ms l0ng been
racpe_.__.ed by every patron of the office
The people of Clare are to be congratulated upon his departure from the villas
lor among the young people ho has been
a  demoralizing   influence for   months.
*k - vow, ^^^r^ZjT^^^
chuclde-headed. Jnrl ™ w. Jzl° . ^.He was unable to
The purchase of the Field logging railroad from Harrison to tho Muskegon
river, by the T. & "N. M. By., is conditional upon Harrison's coming to tho
front with a $15,000 bonus. This makes
tho sale practically unconditional for
Harrison people know which side their
bread is buttered on and will act accordingly.
Tho peoplo  of Sorthorn  Grant  and
Sheridan   townships  severely  criticized
tho nonappearance  of the  Prosecuting j
Jfiittornoy at the YFyun trial  last Priday. j
como   as  tho Pbesh
f,
S. J. DEFOE.
.
Is  at   the  same  old  stand
the stock  of everything
in   the   line   of
and
BlissButhShavorenterfnniofin i
I M of her friends last Satnrdnv » " chucld°-iea^, and in his eonversatioTfCVT? T"10.W  Oomo  ns  tim pOT*s*j,
I She had to.   -n^**!^..8760"* .^tNr in common decency.   WW^  but  the  telegram he1
.    . 'vnon in sent from Harrison was so Ion-,  in  com
ing that the case had gone down before !
the dispatch was delivered. Vr'onldn'f■;
it bn a «,x*l r/iiiji for jjtt, ^..^ U) K>t  ,)U I
foot an inquiry into the cause of tho mi-,
satisfactory tele..nip.i Eerriee betva-eiJ
Clare and Harrison?   It now  takes  all i
GE00BEIES & PEOtlSIOMTS,
Is complete,  and  new goods are
received almost every day.
0"
.(WEST
"»il!i
j-f1'*
':ome,^e and be convinced that no
dealer can nndev.se) 1 me.
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