1893-08-04; Clare Sentinel (1892)

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Volume 1.
Official Paper For
City Of Clare.
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CLABE,  MICH., FEIDAY, AUGUST 4,   1893.
Numfe B'6
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BREVITIES*
"If there's a hole in. yer coat
X Tvarai ye, tent it,
ITor there's a mon among ye taken note
An' faith., lie'11 prent it."—Burns*
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More local on LFifth Page.
Pork dropped to §10, Tuesday. .
LM. LB. Conklin of Loomis is in Clare,
today.
Floyd Doherty visited in Coleman,
this week.
Mrs. LF. A. LKelly visited in Saginaw
this week.
Duncan Smith was down from Lake
Station this week.      •**-
The Clare Juniors play ball at Calk-
- Insville this afternoon.
Mrs. Wm. Ross is visiting her son,
J. S. Rossj at Harrison.
John Imerman has been in Detroit
two or three days this week on business.
"E. O. Pettibone is spending* a few
- weeks, at South Allen in Hillsdale
county.
J. LM. Honeywell has been appointed
postmaster at Farwell, vice. H. M.
Roys, resigned..-
Dr. Carpenter reports a' twelve
pound boy, .born July 30th, to Mr. and
Mrs: Geo; Carr.
Rev. A. W. Johnstone of Harrison is
in the. city today..' He Js enjoying' a'
much needed vacation.
E. L. Pratt recently showed ciLts a
three-inch branch broken from, an apple tree of .the Wagner variety and
bearing ten well formed apples nearly
matured. '
Miss Edna.LElden was up from the
normal at Mt. Pleasant to attend the
teachers' examination at Harrison,
yesterday. She has been granted a
second grade certificate.
Rev. L. LEL. Long of Otsego is expected in Clare next week to visit, his
brother* Rev. S. A. Long* of the. Congregational church. While here he
iv ill probably deliver.an address on the
labor question.
Bert Spafford, formerly the affable
clerk at the Calkins, but now of the
McELinnpn, Cadillac, "didn't know It
Tvas loaded" but he. lost a portion, of
Ms fore-finger by the discharge of a
revolver, just the same, Wednesday.
• The "Cyclone" ball nine, composed
of boys of about 14 years, will have - a
" 10c supper at G-. A. R, hall tomorrow
evening to raise money to pay expenses
incurred by a recent game with the
Evart Juniors. Turn out and help
the boys..      • '  \
Mr. "and Mrs. Geo. Dawson and
children departed this week for Mason,
where they will ■ visit-.torLajtMeL^ith
Mr. Daw.SQn'k sister.-. ;J_>her;_t^ltKper-
ihitSi'Mrs. Dawson will visit relatives
in the south part of the state before
returning. - '
"Yic" Derby, who has been clerking
for Tatman & Schilling for some time
past, departed, for Portland, Ionia
county, Tuesday. He covered the entire distance, nearly 80- miles, on his
wheel, leaving Clare at 5:30 a. m. and
arriving in Portland at 6:30 p. in.,, having stopped for but an hour's rest during, that time.
• There is talk of converting the grove
just this side of the Clare grist mill
into a park, and taking the dead logs*
rubbish, etc., out of the mill pond and
using it for boating, purposes. The
water there is quite deep, covers considerable ground and would make excellent ■ boating. . Every town ought
to have a- park and we know of no
town or city that has a prettier place
for a park, than Clare.
A few weeks ago .some of our good
citizens nearly went into spasms be-
. cause two or three law abiding people
prayed so loud they disturbed, their
neighbors. Saturday night a mob of
fifty boys and young men (?) for nearly
two mortal hours, with horns and
pans, paraded abQut town, making a
racket equalled only by the natives of
Central Africa, regardless of the comfort, of the sick, the aged or infants,
without let or hindrance. . It was a
different thing, you know.
We went berrying Monday for the
first time since those halcyone days
whence used to spend our time at the
swimmin' hole and then go home and
say we "couldn't find none." But
times, have changed. Do you see that
fiery halo at the extremity of our
classic nose? That i& sun burn. LSote
those excoriations upon our. damask
cheek? Briers did it. Observe that
dilapitated gait? That was caused by
a fall from aer\al heights while attempting to do a high balancing act
on a hemlock log. Our form got "off
its feet" and we "pied" our pail of ber-.
riessanserust at the bottom of a. brush
heap.  Ho, tapoies have changed.
Choice groceries of all kinds at Buell
& Son's.
Arthur Gager of Saginaw is visiting
his daughter, Mrs. W. D. Perrin.
C. H. Clark of the Clare bank, is visiting his father,. A. H.> Clark, at Kalkaska.
John Corbett, brother of Mrs. S.
Sheldon, visited his father in this city
this week.
C. W. Sterns, whose death we mentioned last week, was insured „for $2000
in the A. O. U. W.
The several Sunday schools of the
city will join in a picnic at Whitney's
grove next Wednesday.
Subject of morning sermon at the
Congregational church next Sabbath
will be, "Is there any waste in it?"
Song service in the evening. -
Mrs. S. Aye Wilson and two chil_
dren of Harrison, visited at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Levington, in Clare, last Saturday.
At the residence of the bride's
-mother in the city of Clare, on July 29,
George A. Melvin and Hattie E. Clark
were united in'marriage by Elder M.
D. Rogers.
The FL* &• P. M. R'y will seli excursion tickets to junction points for
Grand Rapids, August 8th to 12th inclusive, limited for return to Augtist
13th, at rate of two cents a mile each
way.
Emerson Orth, who is clerking j in a
drug store at Evart, came home Tuesday for a few days' visit with his parents in. Clare. He and Chas. O'Don-
ald and'Jas. Bicknell are camping out
at Stevenson Lake .this week.   '
' At the citizens base ball game, Clare.
D. LE. Alward went down with a dislocated hip, as his victorious nine shouted their triumph. Like LNelson at
Trafalgar, he had the sad. satisfaction
of, having done his duty.—Hersey Outline. •    •  •
LRev. S. A. Long is busying himself
with the. construction of a novel book
cabinet. It is made otspools entirely,
with the exception*of the shelves. The
spools will be painted with ■ gilt and
the shelves*an ivory finish, when com--
pleted.
James Phillips and wife are" again,
in town shaking hands with neighbors
and friends. They have come from
Charlevoix county where they have
been engaged in evangelistic work for
the past three months. . They report
good success. .       ''';..
Mr. H. _>T. Goodenow of 5th street
was-just three score and ten last Monday. The old gentleman is enjoying'
pretty good health. Among remem:
brances was a ."nice gift from his son,
I. J..Goodenow, who is »editor of the
White Pigeon Journal.
This.morning's daily papers discloses
the startling news that the cold, storage fire at Chicago was incendiary,
and that the structure was fired to
cover up the fact' that the building
had been pillaged of thousands of dollars' worth of property stored there.
Some one has confessed.
Miss USTina Turner returned-, Thursday last, to her home in Evart, after
several months spent with her sister,
Mrs.,A. H. Bockafellow, at Roswell,
~8ew Mexico. Miss Turner visited in
Clare this week, the guest of Miss
Carrie Bockafellow. She left A. H.
Bockafellow and family at Boswell in
excellent health, the climate having
proven all that could be desired.
The city schools are organized as follows for the ensuing year, both as to
board and teachers: W. H. Goodman,
moderator; C. H. Sutherland, treasurer; A. J. Doherty, director; Prof.
W. J. Hutchison, principal; Lucy E.
Smith; assistant in high school;  Dora
E. Loomis, grammar room; Ella Dubois, fourth . grade; Mary Stimson,
third grade;. Mrs. W. J. Hutchison,
second grade; Maone Y. Mason, first
grade.   S. A. Gleason is janitor.
Oh, the joys of ye editor's lifel The
week is on its last legs; the midnight
hour draweth nigh; ye editor sits with
pen dipped in ink trying to write an
editorial on the silver question, gazing
upward during the long pauses between ideas at the pale-faced moon,
wondering whether' the natives up
there use silver worth more than fifty-
nine cents on the dollar, when, "Rat-
tle-ty-bang-bang!" What's that? Only
a charivari, that relic of bjarbarism,
given gratuitously for the benefit of
the newly wedded couple who have
moved in next door to ye editor.
Write! Why, a fellow might as well
try to fly. Ply? By. the way, that's
just what we'll do, so good bye, we'll
finish that editorial after we read
Grover's message. *    *
Wanted:   A good shower.
J. W. Schermerhorn is. outing at Arnold lake.
S. C. LKLirkbride and wife returned,
Tuesday, from Philadelphia, L3ST. Y.
A. W. Mclntyre is expected to return from Traverse City, tomorrow.
Still they come—those 50-cent subscription's to the Sentinel to January
1, 1894.
Joseph Meyers of Stronach, formerly
in the Clare western union ofQce, was
in the city over Sunday.
Geo. Richardson of the F. & P. L_L.
freight offlce at Clare, visited friends
in Harrison over Sunday.
Dr. Maynard is getting material on
the ground, preparatory to building
an addition to his house, on 5th street.
The King's Daughters will meet
with Mrs. E. Burnham, (at Mrs. J: A.
Converse's) next Thursday afternoon,
August 10th. All members and friends
are cordially invited to attend.
The Free Methodists met at their
church last Monday night and elected
their officers for the ensuing year.
There were twenty voters present.
The Free Methodist church as a circuit in and around Clare is coming up
under the labors of Rev. and Mrs. Cay-
wood.
The Ladies' Union will hold its
meeting Friday, August 11th, at the
home of Mrs. John Sexsmith. A cordial invitation to all members and
friends. The meeting last week at
Mrs. C. H. O'Donald's, on account of
the rain, was small, but those present
enjoyed the time spent there.
We recently had the-pleasure of visiting J. J. Wilcox's .mill, four miles
south of this city, in Yernon township. Mr. Wilcox last fall bought 160
acres of land "and built a mill to cut
up the timber thereon. About twenty
hands are here busily employed, quite
a little settlement having been begun
by them. 15^000 feet of hardwood Js
the usual daily cub, besides^ the,.large
shipments of bark that are being-
made. Mr. Adams, foreman in-tiie
mill, seems to be the right man for the
place,, and, keeps things humming,
There is also a grocery and general
store conducted in connection with
the-mill, where we found the bookkeeper, J. D. Brown, a very agreeable
gentleman, .busily engaged posting the
books, which indicated quite a prosperous business. The cut of the mill
is mostly hardwood and hemlock. The
store is not only needed by the mill
men,- but is quite a convenience to the
farmers of the vicinity, who, by* the
way,, are a thrifty and prosperous class,
judged by the fine farms and buildings. LNo section of the state can show
better crops this year than northern
Isabella county. **
Clare ball players evidently are in
hard luck—if you believe in luck.' At
last week's ball game D. E. Alward
was so severely injured that it will
take him a long time to fully recover.
Yesterday the first nine went to Far-
well and two more men were hurt, so
that the game was terminated before
it fairly begun. In the opening of the
game v_ ith Clare first to bat, Pratt hit
the first ball pitched for a, home run.
Mussell hit safe for a base. C. P.
Louch popped up a fly and ran to first.
The fly was caught and Mussell started back for first. Louch, Mussell and
Honeywell, first baseman for Farwell,
came in collision, just how, it would
be hard to say. Louch received a blow
on the head from Mussell's knee which,
knocked him completely out for some
minutes. Honeywell had a finger put
out of joint, "while Mussell had a
bruised; knee and one or more ribs
fractured, though the latter fact .was
not known until today. After half an
hour the boys.resumed play but were
so badly broken up 'by the accident
that they played.a poor game. In the
third innings, with Farwell at bat, a
batted ball struck Mussell, pitcher, in
the throat on the right jugular vein.
Though he pibked up the ball, and
walked over to the back stop, it, was
seen, at once that he was badly hurt,
being unable to breathe or swallow,,
and Dr. Evans was summoned. Mussell was in great distress for some time,
but was able to drive home with
Louch in the evening. Although passing a hard night he is resting today
and if no bad symptoms from internal
throat swelling set in, will come
around all right. Had there been no
accidents, doubtless the game would
have been a good one, as the 'Farwell
nine was strengthened by the Harrison battery and two Saginaw men.
Local produce market; Eggs, 14 to.
15 cents; bitter, 14 to 15, and potatoes
80.,
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Is today tne
widest read paper in Clare connty. In order to still further increase our circulation, for botli our own profit and
that of our advertisers, we offer The Sentinel to January 1,
1894 for 50 Cents.   This offer is for new subscribers/ only,
for we are sure they will stay with us if they once begin.   .
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Respectfully YoUrs,
_E*p« Paljjier*
JJeiji G* Jeffries*
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