1893-12-15; Clare Sentinel (1892)

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Official Paper Fob
City Of Clare. 	
CLAKE, MICK, FKIDAY, DECEMBEK 15, 1893.
dumber 8
Largest   Circulated Paper
In Clare County,
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CLARE IN ITS EARLY DAYS.
An Interesting- Letter Describing:
Clare and Isabella, Counties in
their Early Bays.
BUSINESS CARDS,
"     . '      aO_31>I GIBERSON,
ATTOKN_S" at LAW.    .
\ Oefice in Dohebtt Block
CLARE,
MICHIGAN
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P-OTSTCIAN, STJKGEOIT AND ACCOTTC__""_.     '
Office first door south, of Doherty opera house
"block. Professional calls premptly answered
day or night.
C. W~ TAYLOR QOpDMAN, M. D.
}   Office and Residence,
•"*!Q8 So_t_ Michigan Ayenue.
SAGINAW, MICH.,
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GE-WmA-IteSTJEAKCB AGEJST.
_$D_©'b„t the best Companies repre-
: .sentd.   Office oyerSaperston's
-store.   ClabEj Michigan.
Efcr. O. H.  _Bd_-_r__rcts.
All Mads of dental work promptly
attended to and guaranteed first-class. *
Porcelain Crowns,
Bridge "Work,
GOLD and all otiier kinds of filling in-
_erted'to preserve tne natural tee_u GAS
administered for the painless extraction of
;. teeth,
I   Office over Dunlop's Drug Store-
OLAKE,      -   ' MIGHIOAN,
Gold Crowns,
Plate Work.
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NORTH MICHIGAN
RAILWAY.
j Time Table.
!i__ effect Ifovemfeer 5th, 1893.
I TRAINS _32AYB CLARE:.
]; NORTH.                                                   SOOTH.
I. /7:30 a.m.                           2:55 p.m.
| .1:00 p.m. »                       8:35 p.m.
• yv. H. Bennett, _-. P. A,
i Toledo, O.    '               H. Hunter, Agent.
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Time Table.
-Trains leave Clare as follows, standard time:
GOING EAST:
N0..6—10:05 a. m. "So. 8—3:50 p.m.
GOING WEST:
No. it—8:55 a.m. No. 5—6:28 p. m.
HABBISON TJlVJSltON.
A*"*ive at Clare from __rrisQ_ at 8:45 a. ar.
_teaye Clare fojr Harrison at 6j4G _•, h.
A. Patrjarcfee, "Ttegfiic Manager, Saginaw, te.
M~ A. Car-rutbejcg, ""ScJieJ; Agent,
C_j,re, &J"kGal_ver,F"*£ Agent.
Clare. Mici.
..... Bo  you  know
what you can "buy   at
. . . PIPER'S . . .
For 25 Cents? Jj
You ean buy:
, 7 lbs best rolled oats.
Gr 5 lbs good clean rice.
It lb newly packed tigs.
1 lb Java Coffee.
1 lb good Leaf Tea.
'31 lbs Crackers.
\&. lb can baking powder.
I lb Pa-Lo or 3-Crow Tobacco.
1 lb chips or _Tigger H'd   "
2 Boxes best fire kindlers known
,i lb whole spices.
l*lb good Rio fine cut Tobacco.
1 lb box of choice candy.
2 lbs extra good tea dust.
Besides many other things.
And. John, Tbe sure and "buy a barrel I
of the Star Flour, at $3.75, of
JAY PIPER
DERBY
You are looking
for a Christmas
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see what Derby,
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you,
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These  are too
close times for a
useless   present.
Get something   i
useful,  but   ele~   4
gant, of
O. S.DERBY
Opera House Block.
A BRIGHT "LIGHT  AHEAD.
For all those who have been wearing
out their lives from the effeets of dyspepsia, liver complaint, indigestion
etc. We guarantee Bacon's Celery
King for tbe Nerves to cure you, and
if you will call at our store we will
gladly give you a package free of charge
of this infallible herbal health restoree.
Bacon's Celery King for the Herves
cures eostiveness, nervousness, sleeplessness and all diseases arising from
derangement of the stomach, liver and
kidneys. Samples free. Large bottles
50c at John W. Dunlop^ druggist and
jeweler^ sole agent*
[The following interesting letter is "by Bev. A.
H. Norris, "who for over 7 years was the Congregational minister at Clare.]
Early in 1872,  when in the  senior
class of Yale Theological Seminary, my \
attention was turned to Michigan as a
home missionary field.    I had never
been west of New York City.   Though
a farmer's son  and  well  acquainted
with New England,  I had seen ho
primeval forests.    I   knew    second-
growth timber and trees better than
first growths.   Thus inexperienced, I
started from Connecticut for Michigan, August 21,1872, reached Detroit
on the evening of the next day, and on-j
the 23d went from Detroit to Earwell
m Clare county.   All the forenoon  I
looked for the new country to which I
was bound.   At Elint I began to see
the immense lumber piles whieh told
of a forest country not far away,  yet
out of sight.   At East Saginaw there
was a wait of several hours at mid-day.
I looked over the city—an  overgrown
village with plank sidewalks—but it
was not-very bad, and this was only
fifty-five miles from my destination.
By four o'clock I was  again on the
train,' and soon the scene  began to
change.   No village of any size for 25
or 30 miles, and the first one was a
marked contrast from' those  seen in
the morning.   A few miles more and
then forest.. Good-by to green grass
and fresh sod!   Here and there a little
clearing and a smoke, with blackened
stumps, tell of the farm that is to be;
but this is rare.   The train stops at
stations here and there, where there
is a mill, with a few unpainted board
houses; through the forest a line of
chopping one hundred feet wide,  and
in the middle of it two lines of iron.
Cross-roads there are none.    We have
not seen paint for some twenty miies,*
but now there are some painted buildings and a larger place ahead.   This is
only five miles from, our destination,
and as the brakeman calls out, "Clare';
get out here for Mount Pleasant  and
Indian Mills," I go on to the platform.
Stages are waiting for Mount Pleas^
ant and Isabella—two of them,  and
such stages!   The air is full of oaths;
just blue with prof anity;   and  with
the feeling of relief that I am not to
stop here, I go into the car.    Little
did I think then that I was to be reckoned as a  minister  there for seven
years and a half,   where no voice of
Congregational preacher had yet been
lifted.   Eive miles more and the train
stops for supper.    Here I leave  the
cars, and make my way through sand
half-shoe   deep,    amid    pine-stumps
turned up, the roots sticking up high
in air.   This is Eriday evening.   Wednesday morning I was at my birthplace in that parish of the town of
Sayforook, Conn., which was settled in
1680. Now I am in a village not a year
and a half old.   Erom our Connecticut
hills I had been accustomed to iook for
miles over Long Island Sound; now I
see a clearing less than one-third of a
mile square, entered and left by a
clearing one hundred feet wide.   Eyes
will ache and a sense akin to suffocation will come sometimes in such conditions.
The next day we went to meeting in
the court house, and heard the farewell sermon of a Chicago student who
had been there during his vacation.
In the afternoon we started for a mill
set&ement. 0n the way, just in the
outskirts of the village, we" first saw
the genuine logging camp, a community within a community, with its own
rules and traditions. In the evening
we first addressed a Michigan congregation. How the memories of those
congregations come through the years!
The State road was being extended
north, and some of the men used to
come in with flannel shirts, (and, very
likely, a dog,) chewing tobacco and
spitting on the floor. [The contractors who were making the State road
at this time were T. E. Jeffries, father
of the junior publisher of the Sentinel, Giles Boss, father of .Wm. Boss
of Clare and G. W. Jeffries.—Ed.] It
was pretty rough to look at, and sometimes before services began there was
a question as to what would be; but
none need ask for a more respectful
hearing than I used to get. If they
think a man understands his business,
they will listen.
A few days, and a call came to attend my first funeral, that of a little
boy. I was shown the way to the outskirts of the village, climbing over fallen logs the last of the way, and there,
h an unpainted, unplastered house, 1
held the service. The coffin was car-
lied a little way until it could be put
into a wagon. As a minister I was
honored with a seat by the driver. We
crossed the village and the railway
track, and then, as the road was growing rougher, I put back my hand to-
steady the coffin, and could feel the
little form shaken from one side to the
other and knocking against the sides
of the coffin. We came at last to the
place where the grave had been dug,
right in the forest, a temporary burial
until a cemetery site could be secured.
It was so sad, so gloomy, that I went
back wearied almost beyond endurance. Many a similar experience came,
for death does not wait for houses to
be furnished, and the percentage of
children's dea,ths in such settlements
is sometimes great.    *  *  *
■My boarding place was a hotel. Erom
my window I looked out on the court
house,  houses   and   woods   beyond.
Trained in New England,  what was
my surprise on Sunday morning to see
teams loading at the store for the lumber camp.   There was no  grass.     It
was sand everywhere.   Men from the
woods, with fancy-colored shirts and
trousers, and with red scarfs around
their waists, came in.    Sunday afternoon came, September 15th, and I was
to preach where no Congregationalist
had ever essayed to preach before. The
place of meeting was in a building that
had been put up for a  store.     About
twenty-five attended, but a visitor who
saw the congregation and knew them,
having been there a few months, looked upon it as well-nigh  hopeless.     I
left an appointment for the next Sunday morning and closed  the  service.
Then I found there had been a re-enforcement during the week.    A man
belonging to the Congregational part
of a church organized on the plan  of
union, but going to  Presbyterian ism,
had bought some property  and  had
come to stay.   In the morning he had
asked if there was any preaching in,
town.   His  informant thought  not. j
Was there any Sunday school?   There
might be.     Where was  it?    Didn't'
know, but thought it was held in that i
building.     An investigation  proved1
that that was not the place;  but the]
third trial was successful, and  there
he had learned that there was  to be
preaching in the evening.     He was
immediately elected superintendent of
the Sunday school, as there had been
great difficulty in finding any one who
could and would take charge of it.
The next Sunday morning disclosed a
Congregationalist who had a membership.   He lived on a homestead two
and a half miles away.   He became a
deacon, and remained so until the time
of his death.   Eor the first five years
his was the only letter from a Congregational church except that of the
pastor and his  wife.    About sixty
names from other churches and from
no church were added to the* roll before very long
TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.
1H0L!
Saiita Glaus is here with headquarters at
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He has left presents of the following kind for
great and small:
Photo Albums , Autograph Albums
Scrap Albums Toilet Oases
Embossed Leather Toilet Oases Odor Oases
Manic-ore Sets Nut Pick Sets
Combin'ri Toilet & Manicure Sets Music "Bolls
Collar and Out! Boxes Whisk Broom Holders
-Eancy Ink Stands " Writing. Desks
Work Boxes Magic Lanterns
Novelties in Fhoto Frame's.
Vases in an Endless Variety.
Smoker's Sets
Match Safe Novelties
Folding Blackboards
Doll Oradles
Imported Glass Baskets,
Drawing Slates
Doll Carriages
Sleighs and-Skates
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A Report of their Successful Meeting: Held at Farwell, December
8th and 9th.
The Teachers' Association held at
Farwell December 8 and 9 proved a
great success. About 35 teachers wexe
present and many went away feeling
that the few* pointers they had received would at least help them in
teaching the young idea the Way to
knowledge.
Prof. Ely's address on Eriday evening was excellent, and is highly commended. He is a fine speaker and was
listened to with marked attention.
SATUBDAY, _»_©. 9.
Meeting opened with singings after
which prayer was offered by Eev. C. C.
Coors, followed by singing.
Mrs. Durfee being absent, Primary
Geography was discussed by Mrs. C. E.
Martin. Miss Holmes then read a paper on language. It being necessary
for Mr. Hoys to be excused from the
meeting, Mr. Jamison was called, to
take the chair and the discussion of
Geography was again taken up.
Then the discussion of Language
was opened by Miss Loomis, followed
by others.
At the close of the discussion on
language the business meeting was
called to order and officers elected for
the ensuing year as follows: President, Prof. Hutchison; Yice-Pres.,
Miss Martin; Sec'y, Miss Hall; Treas.,
Miss Holmes. On motion it was decided that the officers of the Association, together with the commissioner,
constitute the executive committee,
Miss Dubois, Mr. Euller and Mr. Jamison were elected as a committee to
report on constitution and by-laws.
1:30 p„ m. Association called to order by the President. Roll call by
quotations.
Prof. Ely gave a short talk on the
And the finest line of lamps, dishes and fine
glassware in the city. Everybody invited to call
and see Santa Clans. Call early and avoid the rush.
We are, Yours Resp'y,
SANTA CLAUS' AGENTS.
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"Reading Circle." Miss Day's pupils
then gave a class exercise in number
work.
Through the suggestion of Prof.
Hutchison the Association tendered
Prof. Ely a vote of thanks for his
courtesy in giving the lecture, and for
his help in the Association.
Miiss Bruske then read a paper on
"The difficulties of our First School."
As this touched all the points, it was
quite thoroughly discussed.
After a recess of ten minutes we
heard the report of the committe on
resolutions and by-laws, and adopted
the report as read.
It was decided to hold the institute
during the earlier part; of April and
the next Association meeting on February 12.
Mir. Fuller being absent, Mr. Jamison discussed the program placed oh
the board.
Association then adjourned.
School Notes.
Fig—Hog!
Hurrah for the pig social! Do not
misfit at the G. A. R. hall Saturday
evening. December 16. Plenty "bf..fan.
and a* fine literary progJ_nn. Mr. Al-
ward will address the audience after
which the pig will be carved and sold
by the pound. Do hot fail to attend
and secure a fine roast for Sunday dinner. Refreshments will be served by
a white apron committee.
The spelling contest between the
grammar room and high school will
take place Eriday afternoon, December
15, Miss Hall is to pronounce the words
and the pupils are to have but one
trial. The grammar room are preparing for it by spelling down each day.
The school has purchased an air
pump and a very unique dynamo. By
the latter the pupils can see an incandescent and arclamp, action- of electro
motor, decomposition of water into
two gases, principles of electroplatings,, electrotyping and many other
electrical phenomena.
A high school lyceum has been or-
griiized with Raleigh Giberson as president and a full corps bf officers meet
eviery Monday nighf at each pupil's
holne.
pall at J. Piper's store and find out
atijout his prizes. It means something
folryou.
FOR   SWEET CHARITY.' ''
The people of Clare and vicinity will
soon have an excellent' opportunity to
do a charitable thing in such a >vay
that it will count for all that might
be wished.. The Ladies' Working' Society, has planned a musical and elbbu-
tionary entertainment, for Friday
evening, December 29, at Doherty
opera house, the admission" to which
will be 25 cents. The; entertainment
itself will be very excellent, assistance
from out of town having been obtained
for the musical part of the program,
besides an excellent elocutionist. The
object of the entertainment is to raise
funds for "assisting those in destitute
circumstances who ms,y be found; deserving. It has been suggested, that
everybody save twenty-five cents'oat
of the sum usually spent, for Christmas gifts for friends and buy a ticket
to this entertainment. The Working
Society is well organized and will surely expend the .money where it wiilldo
most good.   Keep the date in mind.
"Pig" social tomorrow night.at the
G. A. R. hall. .
K.ofP. Officers..
Wednesday eveninglthe Knights- of
Pythias elected the following, ofSesets
for the ensuing year: i ■'      }
it of W.—D. Rorisbn. ,
C.C—D. E. AlwardL i
Y. O—D. -McPhalh!
P.—C. H. Clark. •        :
K. of R. and S.—J. S.. Boyd.
M. af A—M. D. Eaton.
M. of E.—L. Grathwohl,    '
M. of F.—Ed. A. White.
Representative to Grand Lodge,—C
H. Clark. j
Alternate,-—D. E. Alward.
Trustees,—C. H. Sutherland, ,Wm!
VahConant and J. F. Tatman.   - .
Advertised Letters.
Letters remaining in the- ..Clare pos
office uncalled for, for the weekending
Saturday, December 2.    Persons cal
ling for same please say, - -advertised
Wilson Allen, Chas. Joseph, CvO. Os-
born, A. B. Phelps (_), Dan Reed, En>
elineHall, Mrs. V. F. Hinkle-, Mr$
Linda Schultz.    •   ,    .
Sweet   potatoes, i Spanish   onioni
oranges,  lemons, apples,, dates, fign
raisins, curraiats, maple sugar, [ map! e
syrup, popcorn and; vegetables in sen-
son by   Welch. -Home made mincpe
mea,t at 10 cents.
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