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VOL. IX.
CLARE, MICH.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER  134,'1886.
NO. 33.
A "BRIEF" STATEMENT.
Apologizing   for its
reading matter our nei
dearth of  local
•hbor across the
way said last week: "A part of our force
have been engaged during the week getting out ii supreme court record and
brief for W. A. Burritt, in the caso of
J. R. Brown vs. Alexander St. Charles.
Heretofore all records and briefs from
the Glare circuit court were sont to tho
city to be printed, and this job, now being
done at the Democrat office, is the first of
the kind to be done in Olare county."
The abovo is unkind to say tho least,
iu view of the fact that The Pbess Job
Rooms are the only ones in Clare having
the facilities for doing work of the kind
referred to, a fact which our neighbor
was glad to recognize when he borrowed
from this oiSeo tho type to use on the
job he is doing for Mr. Burritt. Tms
Pbess office has the honor of having
printed the first Supreme Court Brief in
this county aud the work was all done at
homo too, the type used being the samo
which was unhesitatingly loaned to our
neighbor to holp him out on a job which
lie had not the facilities to print. The
Joan was made in a neighborly spirit and
it is exceedingly unpleasant to rofor to it
now, but the quotation abovo is such a
misrepresentation of the facts that this
statement of the truth is made in justice
to this office.
Attention Comrades.
JEEMS HOLDEN JAILED
Unpleasant Plight of  the   Great
Moralist and Jumping-jack
Statesman.
OUR DEAR FMMHN DISTRESS,
And Zada See Figures Prominently in This Case Too.—Is
Jeems Crazy?
self away iu the attic, while in that
condition. If this'theory ia well
stuck to it Avill be difficult to convict our old friend of any criminal
intent. *
IS__.:B_,I_I_A    ITEMS.
Midland Republican.
Last Friday night after Mrs, H. N
Bradley had   returned   home   fremj   -Parwdl still feds snip o£ tho
...   "So do Evart and Clare.
On Wednesday evening, .Tan. 5th, 18S7,
the first regular meeting night in January, the officers of W. S. Hancock Pout,
(t. A. E. elected for the ensuing yoar aro
to ho installed. All comrades aro ro-
<|uostod to be present, as it needs uetirlv
all to take part in the in stallation.
A. A. Shaver, Coin.
W. S. Cooley, Adj.
next
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Election o£ officers,
-Monday evening.
I. 0.
0.
F.
2__*rTry our 50c tea
et.   S.J.Defoe.
, best
in
the.
mark-
1\ -P" _B-orninsr>s _*?u__i._M_*e M1U.
A good extension table
A good wool matress
A good woven wire spring
A good walnut set ef .hairs.
A.,_£00d bja. 1 J.Q9m_ sgfe    ..
Tci-eated this   war  on
$ 3.50
J.00
3.60
7.00
lam
furniture..
Give me a call aud get the benefit of
at. T. P. Horning.
C
ATTORNEYS.
W. PERRY,
ATTORNEY at LAW,
Opfjck Over Gihbrson's Stc   i:
CLARE,        -       -        MICH.
"heaton,e. D„
a, a W _*■ IE »,
Office  in  Cunlop's Biuck Block, . v St.mks,
CLARE, MICH.
1-1. BROWNE,
L A W Y E R,
HARRISON.. _-__
W. GREEN, '
AT
the Perkins lecture in company with
her brother  Geo.   Miller  and Miss
Zada Sep, who  had   been   living £t
Mrs,    Bradley's  for  some  time,   a,
noise   was  heard   up   stairs.     Mrs(
Bradley feared that there was a burglar in the house and as a ladder   was
found up at the windaw* of Miss See's
room there seemed good ground for
the suspicion.   "Word was sont to .1.^
sheriff and officer Mike Timmons wasj
sent to the scene.   A search was ■ instituted and there was blank  amazement at finding Mr. JamesS. Holden
editor of the Midland   Sun,   secreted
in a low, unfloored attic, into   which
he had crawled by a small obscure
passage from   the  girl's   room.   He
was  taken   to   jail.   On    Saturday
nubs   on*': _s.E.\vs.
Charley Johnson cam*', home sick from
camp Tuesday.
Charlie Bigley is suffering from an attack of tonsilitis. ..     *
Health Officer   Carpenter visited the
schools on Wednesday.'
T.  & Af
Mr. Bradley made complaint before
Justice  Mick lev,   charging  Holde^tederod,1,uruhasod for *_
/ Clare school. i
witli    breaking   into   the  dwelling
house with rhe intent to commit the
crime ol adultery with the girl named above. Mr. Holden rejected assistance of counsel, said it was a put-
up job, anil pleaded guilty, saying he
was ready to go to prison, and more
ofthe same sort. The question of
insanity being raised, he scouted the f N Bickno]1 re6i?no(i
idea and talked of being  willing   toy 	
suffer-for the right, etc' "rl*he .natter,
was afljourried -'till Tht^afft-Tltec*.
23. Mr. Holden said ho did not
want bail, and he was returned to
jail, but on Monday  he  was   bailed
MICH.
W
Miss  See
in  Farwell
Senator-elect Post and -wife of Coleman
will spend Christmas iri Clare.
^F. H. Randall has sk^ddca* about  1500
telegraph poles so far this winter.        **%
Miss Gertie Murdock^ will jspend the,*
vacation with relatives sp-East Saginaw./
Isaiah Feighner and H.. W.Pierce made
a business trip to East* $aginaw Tuesday, s"
The school tax in this^district is §1.18
,qu a hundred dollars; aB other taxes 95
cents. X
John Jackson and wife will go into
camp after Christmas aa cooks for E.  L.
Pratt.
?
Tho men in Frank Randall's camp will
come out tonight to sporid Christmas at
home. " V
Let us all have a morry Christmas
strive to mako it a m_rryf day   for
and
someone else. |
A set of physiological |harts has heen
the; use  of the
Masquoraders are all going to the G.
A. R. hall Friday night a»d- thoy anticipate a fine timo.
An infant child of Mr. *%_i_ Mrs. 0- N-
Goodenow died on Friday, night last,
having lived only a few h*_i_.
Two big clothing firms!
working the generosity of j
big advertisement for the
this week and E. D. Wh.
by.the s__i^lji)t**u-ij.to~_^
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The school hoard at „
night instructed the {jjjj^
with the teachers-no-flf^^V
rest ofthe -year.
Detroit,. are
[>v. Alger as a
Ives,     v "
A_B_4»orship
ryas elected
tontrnct
lyed, for the
i
_ ,     „-    ,     , . ,,,,        „  .     ,   -_r   • Tha M. E. church has Yrma. tastefully
out by Mr. Larkui.     The nfia.r   UqJ decorated for tll0 cj.ristn.|. oXorciseS on
caused great excitement.   It is a ba.{ >riday evoning.    Two trcj_* will be load-
. Card parties are all the go at Mt. Pleasant.
The now Baptist church at Mt.  Pleasant was dedicated last Sunday,
The position of P, M. at Horr in this
county is worth only $2 a month but a
ohange in post masters arouses the samo
indignation that is reported from the b:
ger places.
V. F. Conlogue's horse ran away at Mt.
Pleasant yesterday,  throwing Mrs. Con-
Qogue and two  girls   out,  injuring the
j ladj internally and bruising the girls con-
'   sidorably.   The   cutter  was demolished
and the horse hurt.
On Sunday the F. & P. M. railroad
tore up thoir track at Mt. Pleasant that
j?an down to the T. & A. railroad depot,
destroyed the abutments of the bridges
^End pulled up the piles, thereby break-
thfe connection. On Monday the T. & A.
railroad seized tho abandoned road bed,
repaired the bridges and relaid the iron
as far as they could creep.
"Jenks" writes from Claro to tho Mt.
Pleasant Tribune: They havo a bigamist throe miles south of here, near See-
ley's corners. He married a smart yenng
lady six or seven year, ago, from the
southwest of "Yernon^ and they went to
live in Mt. Pleasant. But he was too
lazy to work and he left her in ahout two
yoars and ran off with a married woman
oi Mt. Pleasant. They soon parted, hows
ever, and he returned to Yernon the first
of last August, and November 1st a woman from Iowa came and they were made
one twain without any divorce, and such
is life.
AROUND  _-*__._-. COUNTY.
The Sunday, schools of Farwell will
give concerts this evening.
Corning lodge, F. & A. M., will instaty
their new officers next Monday  evening*
Miss Eva Hampton's school* at tha-
Randall school house closed this week
Thursday.
,jg^ / J. B. Johnson of Farwell, has taken a
_pb of cutting and skidding ahout 900,000
feet of pine for J. L. Littlefield.
There will be a Christmas tree at tha
Bradley school house in Sheridan. A
good time is anticipated and all are in»
vited.
Two business mon of Meredith-assault-?
ed and battered each other and then each
had the other arrested. They were both
found guilty and fined.
Tho Enterprise says that "nine tonths
of the people of Mt. Pleasant say Amen."
The Democrat says "tho verdict of the
mry was tha verdict of the peoplo and
gives universal satisfaction." The Tri-
bunp^says: "We havo just cause to feel
proud of the estimate placed upon us by
the honorable, respectable business n^r.n
of Mt. Pleasant." These opinions rofer
the outcome ot the trial or Wm. Havem
ior assaulting the editor ot the Tribun
A verdict of "not guilty" was rendered,
not on the eyidenct. which the jurors.
vt> 'abb taken, into cowi^eiration,
ii.nrf f<-*t).'jiu,
Trarrahtr-"I£is"d.i--_tti- t^ee»wh-ft
the victory __ that editor Brown's enemies
are crowing about.
Eagleville News.
Wo are very busy cutting and skidding
logs for the mills in tliis vicinity. Bass-
wood, ash, oak and maple are wanted.
There is much complaining about taxes this Avinter, the taxes being ahout one
quarter higher than last year. Ahout a
third is county tax. ■«
Miss Adella Thompson's school closed
last Friday, she having taught two terms
in the same district, aud they wanted to
engage her for another term. Miss
Thompson lias concluded, however, to attend school in Bny City.
Matthew Keebler is tho father of a new
njyhter.
YEKNOX.
Charles Ackerman has returned from
Buffalo, N. Y., where he has been {spending the bummer with his parents.
Mrs. D. J. Brewer is expected home
from Dmidee on Saturday next, She
will be Wflcomed by her neighbors aud
friends.
The Christmas Eve festivities in the
ponverso district promise to. attract a.-
large crowd to the school house Friday
owning. Something not down On tho
program is expected to take place.
What ia it? .     -
DHIS AND   THAT.
matter in every  respect.
worked for Mr. Holdeu
in ilia printing omee, six or S-vcirj-*^1* "j l"i" uvi,,.,,.,,... _.-_-. .
years ago, and under the impulse of
this event, reports are rife   that  are
not creditable to either.   She makes
a  statement   exonerating   Mr. and
Mrs. Bradley from any knowledge of
the affair.
ed with presents.       :     f
Postmaster   Giberson has  been  noti-
.-..__"=_k|ed by the department uc(t to  issue   any
money orders payable td'the Louisana
lottery company. '*
The  itch  is   an   irritating   influence
among  the   school children,   and    the
ATTORNEY
HARRISON,
LAW
MICH.
TpLOYl) L. POST,
ATTORNEY AT  LAW,
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
and REAL ESTATE AGENT
COLEMAN,       -      -       MICH.
mar S_-iv
A TTENTION FARMERS,
ED.  UNICUME CLARE,
Manufacturer of
Marcy's Patent Tubular  Wells.
This  is   the well for camps, mills,
and farms.    It never fails.
I am also contractor
 for	
(DBDAIKO     LUMBEl-   RAILROADS.
Correspon-leiice  Solicited.  s_
The news of Holden's arrest and*
the details of the trouble as related/
in Clare caused no end ot talk, but
very little surprise among his old acquaintances here. Most people
whom the Pbess heard express their
opinions, seemed willing to accept
either theory in explanation of
"Jeems"' unfortunate plight. The
"woman in the case" is the
young lady whose name figuredi
prominently in a former sensation at
Farwell, for the mention of which in
D. Whituey Jr. and Whitney   &
lick's .taxes in Grant  township,   amounting', to §2828, were received and receipted
?
Miss Lettie Clark will spend vacation
wookin Kalkaska, under the parental
roof.
Mosos Burt has gone back to his old
home in Ontario, intending to remain
their until Feburary.
A member of tho school board startled
the teachers and pupils greatly one   day
school board have called the attenticSte ^is week by visiting   the schools.   This
of Health Officer Carpenter to the fact. / iihusiial  proceeding  is   exciting   much
/   coinmaut.
Henry Stevens and M. O. Austin  start
out today on a trapping expedition, their
TaxpftT-zs pf Grant.
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for by Township Treasurer Ehrhardt this [equipage and supphes being stowed on a
\'mammoth toboggan which    they    will
/ "bhemselv.-S draw across the country.   The
Barbara Pick, a pupil in the grammat  R00a places to trap that Hank and Mel
school, was taken sick Monday and  had   ,jori*fc j^^ „]_ about are  mighty   scarce
a hig
to be conveyed to her home. A physician being called it was found that her
ailment is diphtheria.   -
The full rigged ship which is to take
,the place of tho Christmas • tree at the
sam£, ^Congregational church Friday evening,
""""'' was built by Messrs. A. C. Brodie, J. C.
Rorison and J. L. Welch" the last named doing the rigging. It is" a fine piece
of work.
"OAINTING, PAPERING, &c.
JAMES L WELCH,
Will  promptly   fill    all  orders  for
Painting,      Paper-Hanging,
Kalsomining, Etc.
iOECORATING A  SPECIALTY.
CJiarf.es __.ea_o_-a*--_e.
Iig_f"Leave orders  at Goodman &
Go's hardware and paint store.
tARPENTER WORK!
-D- «r_  _-E?Tic_>-_s:,
CARPENTER & BUILDER.
Plans & Specifications Fnmisliea & Pirst-class
-Work (Guaranteed.
C-_.AE-._e,     ~ —        aiicH
jp ON V'E Y ANC1TNg7 ETC-'
0 D. E. ALWARD,
Notary   & Justice of tlie Peace.
ifress Office. Clare.-nxic-i.
the Pj&ess at the time, the great mor-
,. ,     ......     ,.,   , ,. Rev. J. M. Hewitt will he senenty-four
ahst    instituted    libel   proceedings years old on next wk &.turday-New
against    the editor  of this  paper, Tears Day—and his friends will have a
claiming $10,000 damages.   We it^'/donation    party at his ."house  on the
er paid the amount, however, as od>^outh side thafc afternoon/ -In the  even-
/    ing an oyster supper will be served and
more or less esteemed contemporary the p.lblio are cordialJy invited to at_
wtnhdrevv tho suit before we could  tend.
bring it to trial. Since that time, ^ outsido gambler M^d out" a
while at Farwell where his business Clare saloonist last Friday night and
and influence rapidly dwindled to .then, a quarrel ensuing, tho stranger pro-
nothingness, and after his removal/1cefJded to l)unislt the ?",r8 ^ The
.,.-,.',. XT /Hotter was severely pounded and was un
to Midland, Holden has kept up hi| ai5le to dotormine whether tho building
vindictive and outrageous personal had fallen ou him or not. -A. physician's
warfare upon the editor of the Pi-usss  aid was reqiiired to meiirt'Turn  after  the
and has not  omitted   to  sound   his    s
Tho  necessity   for  doing  aoine   road
and the reader may expect to   see
supply of game and hear soma big stories
on their return.
"Without Warning.
Charles Miller an employo in Gornler's
camp four miles south of Farwell was
instantly killed Wednesday morning by
a falling limb. Deceased had worked in
the camp but a short time and was a
stranger to all. It is thought that the
name abovo given was not his right name
but it was the one by which he was
known! From what he had said to his
follow workmen it is behoved that his
parents lived in Germany.
'" %' w-^TOrftf v-e tai__ at"„.y:'»tot» j^'^lif/'
Opera House  biocfc every  day during.
December.    ' ■ C. EnBHiHDT,
 Treas. Grant Tp.
13U«rTM'KSS  BREVITIES.
Presents for old and young at Elden's
Bazaar.
__-F"8. J. Defoe will sell groceries at
tlio lowest prices.
Cutters, harnesses, belli?, robes, buggies,
for sale at Stearns House.
Go and see a bargain ira outtom at
Sterns Hotel.   30 and CO days time-.
Go to Sterns and see a lot of cutters
and buggies for sale at your- own pric? on
time.
_.'35*"Sngii,r«, Sutran. at bottom prires.
S. J. Defoe, next floor to Chase's meat
market.
A most appropriate gift for your wife
would be a Domestic or White sewing
machine.   Elden is agent.
The 0" and 10 cent counter at Elden's
Bazaar is loaded with articles suitable
for holiday presents.   Call and see them.
A lot of second hand cutters, harness,
bells and robes for sale. See them at
Staarns House... Buggies also of all descriptions.
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Godey First, as Usual.
own praises as a great and good man
iu sea3on and out of season. ,
Holden's family and friends, it id
said, claim that he is insane- and thai-
he went to the house whore Zada See
boarded, found his way into her
room, and afterwards stowed him-
work on tho hill leading "south out of
'.Clare, was made evidont 'jfche other day
»whon David McPhall wash thrown from
his wagon and run over. His team
slipped and could not' hold the load
which pressed upon tb&m—honco the
accident. Mcl^hall's iii.u-tacs, fortunately, were not severe.        * v
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Ef GR0C1BY.
NEW GOOD
s
Godey for January commences tho
publication of a story written by tho talented authoress, Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland (sister of the President), and
the story of Robin Adair will meet with
many admirers. Tho enterprise of this,
our oldest but brightest ladies' magazine,
in distancing its rivals in seonring tho
best literary talent is commendable-
Now is. tho time to send tho subscription
price of $2.00 for tho cheapest magazine
in America. W. E. Striker, Philadelphia,
Pa. ^_	
Notice.
AH p .rso-if' owing to the nudcrsignod
aro ldnlly i-e'.pi03ted'to call and settle
• their aicomita on or before the 20th of
this month.
Wm. Woi-Sky.
-^-"SOasgr
Having Opened iu the Building Fpi>
raerly occupied by Messrs. Dawson & Co., a complete stock of
GROCERIES ait PR01SMS,
I am   Prepared   to  sell   Firstr.Glajss
Groceries, as Cl)(->ap as  ,§■    *
the Cheapest.
BY     FAIR    AND    HONEST
DEALING   I    HOPE    TO
BUILD UP A TRADE
WHICH     WILL/
PROVE PROFITABLE.
Botii to iy Customers aiit to Mseylf.
jm°*l SOLICIT A SHARE OF
Y O IJ R PATKON AGE A. N »
SHALL TRY TO   PLEASE YOU.
S.'J. DEFOE,
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