1891-03-06; Clare Democrat and Press

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The DROP refers to prices at Bicknell's store on all Winter
goods.. Overcoats from 11.50, up; Boys'Overcoats given away with
a purchase of 11 o. Rubbers, Socks, Mitts and Shawls must be
closed out at once.
The KICK refers to our competitors who kick hard when we
drop prices,' and from now till May 1st, 1891, they will not have
much time between kicks.    We are bound to sell.
Now, I will warn you in reference to the kicking. When we
drop Sugar to 5 cts per pound for Extra C  White,  the  kickers will
-. tell you that is one of our dodges; others will tell you we mix meal
,in the sugar, just as if you were  a big  tool  and  could not not tell
• > meal from sugar. ,-'• "•
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v' *     Then, when we drop Spear Head tobacco to 30 cents per pound
they will tell you  that we  can't sell it for that price but that we
have a brand manufactured for us only and it is mixed with cabbage
leaves so we can sell it cheap.    Now, it  is  plain he takes you for a
'chump, so pay the 50 cts for a pound and never look at mine.
The same old kick will be made when we drop oil to 8 cts a
gallon. . They will tell you that I have ah old man in the back room
pumping water in the tank.
Now, we have commenced dropping prices on different kinds of
- goods.   For next week we will drop
irom- -Loomis
-WE are  a
toii-
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The week -arter
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The next week
The next week
And the,following week we will flood the market with Hay,
Oats; Flour, Groceries, Pork, etc., etc. Now, come :4irectty to the
.Old Boy- and get the value ol your irioney.
..'        ./.     ,■     '        Yours.Respectfully, * : ^
TX
Great  -^lotning
ause it is a'success generally.
Clotrmig- Sale will: continue next week be-
THE NEW STORE
Has come to stay and carries a Fine Line of
Dry Goods.
My stock is new and goods are arriving daily. We
are adding new novelties in Dry Goods, Hats and Caps,
Boots and Shoes, Wall Paper and Ladies' and Gents'
Furnishing Goods.   No trouble to show goods.
SHOES,    SHOES,    SHOES!
The Great Question is where can I get the Finest
and Best Wearing pairvof Shoes for the Least Money?
You can get your Answer by calling at the NEW
STORE in the Dunlop Block.
Remember that half of my stock is not here yet
but will be in the course of a few days.
J. IMERMAN,
DUNLOP BLOCK.
NEWS AND NOTES.  .-
Vkrloias Stems of interest [3?r©iata
"Various Sources.
Considerable sickness.
C. H. O'Donald, Coleman, Monday.
W. H. Goodman, Harrison, Monday.
Mrs. John Giberson is ill this week.
J. L. Welch, Lake George, Thursday". \
About two inches of snow fell Tuesday
night. .
H. Eazek was down from Harrison
Monday.
Eev. Goodman was up
Tuesday. %
No election next Monday
CITY now.
Thos.Dwyer was down .from, camp
oyer Sunday,
Mrs. Henry Eazek, of Harrison, was in
Clare Tuesday.
Oranges 15c per dozen atJW. B. Curtis
& Co's market. ,•    * ■
Al. Smith is having a tussle with
silitis this week. ...
The best butter on the market  at
B. Curtis & Co's.
In the language of Will Goodman,
"The.bill has passed."
Master Clayton Becker is entertaining
the grippe this week. •    -    .
J. S. Boss, assistant postmaster, is 011
the sick list this week.   .
W. A. Eyan Sunday ed witli his. wifer
and friends in Midland. -.;.
Tou can get anything you want to eat.
at W. B. Curtis & Co's. ' :
Wm. Feighner bas been ill this  week
but is on the street today.      -
E, H. Jenney went to Detroit Wednes-.
day afternoon on business,
Dan'l Crouse has been somewhat
"under the weather" this week.
The unsettled weather does much tb
hinder the progress of business.
Dr. Witherspoon, of Harrison, was
among Clare's visitors on Tuesday.
Before house cleaning call at the New
Store, Dunlop block, for wall paper.
Prosecuting Attorney Burritt was,
down from the county seat-Tuesday.' '
N. Bieknell was confined to the house
a few days this week on account  of . illness.
Arthur Stevens, assistant  baggagem
at the union depptjis ill with fever\ thli
week* '     • *
Mvs. C, W. Satteriee, of St. Louis, vi*
ited'her parents.and friends in Clare this
. It has such a strong grippe oil
Palmer that he was unable to  teach this
week.
H. O. Squire has engaged John Eogers
to assist him at the water works engine
house.
Mrs. Ed. Unicume yisited with her
cousin, Dr. Spinney, in Saginaw over
Sunday.
Arthur Nichols, of Loomis, made the
Democrat-Press a business call on
Tuesday.
Miss Orfera Smith, employe of John
Imerman, has been on the siek list this
this week.
A. Blevins was down from Marion and
yisited with friends in Clare and Yernon
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over Sunday.
Miss Laura Holbrook has been quite ill
for a few days past but is on the gain at
this writing.
J. F. Winkler, of Saginaw, is endeavor-
ing to contract with Harrison parties for
4,000 tons of ice.
Owing to a defect in the boiler*of the
electric light plant Monday evening, the
glim was not lit.
All goods purchased of W. B, Curtis &
Co. will be,delivered to any part of the
city free of charge.
Fr. O'Connor, of Midland, will say
mass at the church in Vernon at 10 a, m.
Sunday, March 8th.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Cooley were at
Midland over Sunday, called by the death
of Mrs. Floyd Post.
Ladies' and gents' French calf shoes,
latest styles, at the New Store, situated
in ihe Dunlop block.
Wm. Giberson has a house and lot for
sale very cheap in thia yillage. Enquire
at Star clothing house.
S. J. DeFoe was at Chase Wednesday
and Thursday on business connected
with his grocery store.
The chimney on Theo. Boge's residence burned out Tuesday, but was the
cause of nothing serious.
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Calkins, of Calkins-
Yille, were in the city Tuesday visiting
their son, J. W. Calkins.
R. W. Moultbn and wife left Monday,
for Howard City, near which place they
will reside in the future.
Tessie Louch, who is attending commercial college at Detroit, spent Sunday
with his parents in Clare.
Little Misses Bernie Chamberlain and
Hazel Goodman went to Mt. Morris last
Saturday for a week's visit.
Mrs. Sam'l Leyington and son Sam
were at Harrison yesterday, visiting her
daughter, Mrs. S. Ave Wilson.
If you want the best river shoes in the
market, buy the Parks & Hazzard shoe
for sale only by Wm. Giberson.
Michigan stands third from the top in
the list of states breeding trotting horses.
It will be first before many years,
CLARE, MICH., V&Vm MARCH6,-1891.
Official Paper for
Clare County and Village. 5
NEW SERIES NO. 84.
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jOlsky   wants  twenty-live  ton
»*? stone immediately.   Deliver
business on Mainstreet,
Co's shingle mill in the north-
>of town shut down the first  of
gor an i'ndefinate time,
[iekham, of Mt. Pleasant, stop-
be a few hours Wednesday on
the county seat on legal busi-
srowne,  of Harrison,  was  in
hours Monday.   He took the
iin for Hersey on legal  busi-
pg,so, and it may
is that a certain
it is going to ''hook
not be*, but
young gent
up"   next
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^anfield,"editor of the Harri-
was a visitor at the metrop-
iy and made this office a pleas-
is" in -every department at
Millinery,-dry  goods   and
jffehoes, all warranted, at low-
id rooms to rent are a mighty
sle-in'tMs town, and if there is
-■the sign, Clare is to  prosper
tol.Dp is putting up a- quantity
ice this week,  which  he  is
the basement of the* Medical
iout. prize   baking    powder!
res, a  set of   hand  painted
Jates with one pound of bak-
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j), of Meredith, Was in Clare
s yesterday.   He wss going to
ling a warrant for the arrest of
gurtis &Co«have added to their
teat market a fine line of fresh
n'd solicit a- share of the peonage.
van has commenced collecting
lr.a fine residence,  which he
L bis lots on  7th  street  the
imer.
lon't the.F. &P. M. company
abandoned  coal   sheds
I depot to  be  torn   down
i arrived from -High-
for a  two. dr. three
is sdways; a.- welcome
ii'. '•      a        .r,,
ar. several^ young lads
dergig"
%tfow?rtr
spoiled the skating.
•3: W, Perry sold to JoluTKirkpatiick
thisiweek the liouse and lot on east 6th
street formerly owned by Henry Ort.
Consideration, $700.
Mrs. Wm. Giberson returned home
Monday evening from a visit of several
weeks1 duration with relatives in difl'er-
ent parts of the state.
Percy Louch, who for the past two
months has been attending the Saginaw
business college, returned home Saturday
and will remain here.
A good 40-acre'f arm near Clare for
sale cheap, on easy terms. Twenty acres
under cultiyation. Write or call on Wm.
Giberson, Clare, Hich.
David Dunlop and family, who for the
past year haye resided in this yillage, returned-to Sanilac county Tuesday, to
move onto his farm there.
Eev. C. W. Smith, of Harrison, was in
Clare a few hours Wednesday. He was
returning home from Gladwin, wither
he had gone the day before.
Mrs, A. A. Shaver, who for the past
five or six months has been visiting relatives and friends in Gratiot county, returned yesterday afternoon.
. The 6x4 pedro club had a most enjoyable time last Friday evening at the
pleasant borne of Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Garland, on west 6th street.
Mrs. I. Alger and daughter, Mrs. Geo.
H. Brown, returned borne yesterday afternoon from a three days' visit with
Mrs. Geo. A. Graves at St. Louis.
Mrs. L. Libby, of Mt. Upton, N. Y., arrived in Clare Monday evening, having
been called here on account of the illness of her mother, Mrs. S. Palmer.
Dr. L.L.Kelley, of Farwell, was in
Clare yesterday on business connected
with the state teachers' institute which
will be held at that place next week.
H, A. Holmes, our genial baggageman
at the union depot, went to Milford last
Friday afternoon for a visit with his parents there, returning Monday eyening..
A.J. Kane purchased this week of
Samuel Gray the house and two lots on
westTtb street, now occupied by the
former's family.   Consideration, $1000.
You can get Bermuda onions, pine
apples, oranges, leinons and, in fact, anything that can be found in a. first class
grocery store at W. B. Curtis & Co's.
The King's daughters will meet next
Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs
O. B. Davis, West 7th street. All are invited.       . Mrs. A. Fox, Sec'y.
Do youVear tailor-made clothes? If
not you should. When you see any of
our townsmen wearing a neafcfitting suit
of clothes you conclude that he pur-
thasedthem of L. Grathwohl, for he
won't let a poorly made suit of clothes
leave his shop.
The Ladies'-Aid Society will meet at
the home of Mrs. C. Friedeborn next
Tuesday at 2 p. m. A 10-cent supper
will be seryed from 5 to 7. Everybody
invited.
The annual meeting of tbe Ladies'
Union will be held at the home of Mrs
DeVogt on March 11. A 10-ceut supper
will be served from 5 to S o'clock. All
are invited.
Misses Myra Louch, Nora Hanchett,
Lydia Ort and Clara Chase took advantage of the holiday in the high school
Monday and visited the school at
Loomis.
'About twenty-five men went from
Clare Monday, to work on the ice * field
at Harrison for the Cincinnati ice company. This will make the county seat-
boom for a time.
Henry Holbrook went to Baldwin last
Saturday4evening for a few days' visit
with his wife, who has been visiting for
several weeks past at the home of her
parents at that place.
The friends in this village of George
Brownell, who is now an inmate of the
soldiers' home at Grand Eapids, will be
pleased to learn that that gentleman has
been granted a pension.
Mrs. H. W. Wager, of Manistee, yisited
with Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Feighner from
Friday until Mon day after no on when she
took tbe train for Saginaw where she
will visit friends for some time.
Miss Bas* Hessey, who for a -year past
has been-em ployed in Mrs. Wm. Giber-
son's millinery department, went Wednesday to her home in Petrolea, Ont,
for a visit of a month's duration.
Eodney Palmer forwards us .papers
from Ellensburgh, Wash.; Mrs. - Geo. P.
Eayen, from Kamloops, B. C, and Mrs.
Julia Wheeler, from San Francisco, Cal.
They will each please accept our thanks.
Those who assisted in raising money
for a carpet for the First Baptist church
are: Mesdames Wm. Morrison, M. Buckley, David .Johnson, Wm. Langin, M.
Clute, Geo. Ackley, Eob"t Scott and Jas.
Herrick.
Senator F. L. Prindle has in-
troduced a bill to detach certain territory
from the township of Billings in the
G.ounij|r<of Gladwin, state of ^Michigan,,
and to organize the township-of Bentley.
in.said county. ' , -
I Miss Edna Elden ^very pleasantly en-
tertaiijed .8number. -Qf Jtiejr jssun^. jfrie
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The Bill to incorporate Clare as a-
City Passed Both Branches of
. the Legislature Today-.
A Young, Thriving and Progressive
Little Place that is K a pi diy Assuming  S^etropoiitan  Aisrs—
ft&any Benefits to be derived Under this Act by
Our People.
Some three or four weeks ago the idea
first originated'in tbe futile brain  of  a.
progressive Clareite to haye this  village '
incorporated under a CITY charter. The
ball was set a rolling, a   special   charier-
prepared and  one day  last  week  was
taken to Lansing by C. W. Perry, placed
in the  bands of Eepresentative Marsh
and Senator Prindle for presentation to
tbe proper law making   powers.    These
gentlemen placed the bill in the hands'of
the committee and a hearing before- the   -
house was set for Thursday of this week.'
On Wednesday, Messrs. C. H. Sutherland, S. C-Kirkbride, D.E- Alward, J.W-
Calkins, Will A. Goodman, J. F. Tatman
and M. D. Eaton departed for Lansing in
order to be present when the bill came,
up before the committee, house and senate. A rush of business delayed the ac- .'
tion of tbe house until this Friday morni
ing, but upon its passage by that august
body it was immediately taken to the
senate, where the action of the lower
house was ratified almost unanimously-
The charter divides the'city into three -
wards.   The first ward i&all that portion
of the city lying south -of * Third- street
to the county line; the second ward, all
that section north of Third street and
east of Main street, extending: east 24^/
rods, taking.in'about one-half of James -.
Pick's and Wrn,, 4iberson's  farms,  and- ■
Iti
evening.
The usual routine. of" games"
were ih order and an excellent time was
had by all present. :
The infant child of Emma Tillitson,
which died Tuesday, was buried Wednesday afternoon,' The mother is dangerously ill at this writing and it is
thought that 'ere many days pass that
she will be no more.
Capt. Henry Woodruff, of Farwell,
was one.of the visitors at Clare on Monday. The captain is becoming well advanced in years, and his age is rapidly
bearing him down. To this is. added the
misfortune of fast failing eyesight.
Now that the time has come when you
want a fine, neat fitting suit of spring
clothes, don't fail to see L. Grathwohl's
new spring samples. He is the best
tailor in this section of the country, gives
perfect satisfaction and warrants all his
work: -
An oyster supper will be served at the
residence of Mrs. Wm. Lansing, of Lan-
singyille, next Thursday evening, March
13th, for the benefit of Eev. L. L. Tower.
Let every one turn out and raise a large
sum of money that the elder may be
paid for his valuable services. s
P. J. Sheehan, proprietor of the American house at Meredith, has been in Clare
three or four days this week on business.
Mr. Sheehan is yery fayorably impressed
with the "get thar" eyinced by this town
and says that he calculates to engage in
business here 'ere many weeks.
Cyrus Babcock, who for the past six
months has been cooking in M. Scallan's
camp near Coleman, returned home Monday, as the job was finished and camp
broke. Mr. Scallan has had a successful
winter's operation in that locality, having put in 5,800,000 feet of timber.
Auditor General Stone has appointed
Elias E. Austin, formerly of Harrison, to
a position in his department at Lansing. I
Mr. Austin has the care of the paper
room. The appointment is a good one,
and cannot help but give satisfaction to
the people of Clare county, from which
Mr. Austin is credited.
The remains of Mrs. Fanny Hunt, nee
Fanny Wager, a former resident of Clare,
were brought up from her home in
Thomastown, Saginaw county, Monday,
and were interred in the Vernon cemetery. She died last Saturday of heart
disease, her age being. 19 years. She
leaves on child, a boy of eleven months,
"Auditor General Stone is universally
credited with conducting the affairs of
his office more economically and business like than ever before in its history.
He has already saved the state several
hundred dollars during his two months'
reign and will continue in the good
work. And we proudly proclaim that
Mr, Stone is from Clare county.
north of Fourth streelraWwes
street, extending west "240 rods.
The charter takes; immediate • effieet,
and necessarily will do away with the
village election next Monday, notice -of
which has been given, as it provides thafc
the village officers shall hold their respective position until such time' as the
officers of the new city shali be elected
and qnarified. The first city election
will be held the first Monday in April
and annually thereafter.        /
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Death of Mrs. Floyd L. Post,
After a long sickness Mrs. Isabella Y.
Post, wife of Pros. Att'yF. L. Post,  to
whom   she  was  married  about  seyeiv
years ago, died  at her home : Saturday,
morning about 5 o'clock.     The remains ,
were taken Monday to Belfast, N. Y»,
where her parents liye.    Mr; Post  was
accompanied on the sad journey by his
little  boy, Paul,  and  by  Mrs..Post's,
brother, A., J. Doherty, of Clare, expecting to be met at Cleveland bj two brothers and a sister of the deceased.   No f un>
eral services were held here, but friends,
gathered at the house at the hour of departure, among them Maccabees,  Odd
Fellows and members of the bar. -  A
beautiful floral offering was given by 4iie
Maccabees.   Mr. Post is left with  three
little children, and deeply feels his loss.
—Midland Eepublican.
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Tenders.
Tenders will be received up to Saturday, MarGh 21, for completing the>car-
penter work on the M. E. church in
Lansingyille. Plans and specifications
can be seen at
W. J. Maxwell's, Chairman Com.,
Lansing Crossing-
No tender necessarily accepted.
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Following are the amounts that "have
been paid on subscription to the Democrat-Press since our'last issue:
F.B. McLellan, Clare J$ So
B.M. Mussell,
T. Allison,
M, J. Maxwell,
R. Chapman,
H.Ort,^
Wm. Ross,
A. Beebe,
Hon, Giles Ross, Highland,.....
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N. Lennan, McClure, £$6
E. E. Austin, Lansing. „ 150
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What is truth? Not a cold moonbeam
ot reflected light that has lost its ii&>
warmeth on the way from heaven to
earth, but a ray of the sun, genial .and
life giving, such ascalls the frozen -earth
back to fruitfullness, awakens the slumbering flowers, starts the life currents ia
their veins and bids them blossom ia
\ fragrant glory,—Ex.