1891-03-13; Clare Democrat and Press

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-Press* April* -nS-jS.
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will write one IM
Me il ill MS MenftS \ And Only for CASH I
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THIS IS BUSINESS
We will sell Clothing, Shawls, Shoes, Rubbers, Mitts, Shirts, Drawers, Caps and many other seasonable goods at prices that will
astonish and please you.
Now. to those who do not understand the prices of Sugars, Oils and
Tobaoco, I will say that
rocery oaie
And lasts until all is sold, with prices as follows:
ONLY
No books kept in .our store to charge goods to persons at these
drp prices. ..... , ;'
,A11 persons owing me on account, notes, mortgages, contracts or. otherwise, will please call and settle at once and
save costs.    My stoch must all be sold and my business settled up . _,        _  „ , , .
•-."•■•*-     -nt -    j"   ■_. -.-u-' i  Ju 4. c-    j    i     •'      ' ^'■-i.-u *./Teas, Coffees and everything at
at pnce.    Now, don t thmk that you are a friend ot mine and  thatf a    '■
this does-not mean you,    It means EVERY person.   I have wanted ^ •'           -.
to retire from'business, for many years, and now am determined to   j- .       ,          '"..•"        *
do so if I sacrifice half my stock in the attempt,    So goods must go   '0 OUT  CUStOWlBlfS, Oflllj*
at Some-price.    All seasonable goods must be sold at once, for cash.
To any persoi.    Spot cash will buy more goods than you
•ever bought t.; ire fore the, money.     Money I want and
Money I will have, even if 1 am obliged to sell a  $io
(ember my last sale* Yours Resp'y^
REDIT
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For the. week
,    From April 6 to M
Granulated Sugar,        ' . 50 lb
White C  -      " 4jc-ib
Dark   C "        "'» '   4c   ,lb;
Spear Head Tobacco,    30c   lb
Kerosene oil. No, 1, 8c gal
M.   BICKNELL.
, MARCH 13, 1891.
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iWS--AND NOTES.
-ft Items of Interest "From
Varioi-s Sources.
t, rainy day Sunday.
Goodman, Harrison, Wednesday,
'O'Donald, Coleman, Wednesday.
w infordSuhdayed with his family
fcleasanf.
ite.Judge Green, of Harrison, was
sity Monday.
f. Graves, of Mt. Pleasant, was in
tj&t Saturday.
rile Calkins is seriously ill this
scarlet f eyer.
i -Burnham, oirEussell, was at Eeed
: business Wednesday.
Perry went to  Ithaca Monday
free or four days' absence.
". Hickey and Beemer  made a
f.trip to. Sears Wednesday.
tm. Parish and Miss Emma Sex-
""isi'ted at Farwell Tuesday,
ished rooms to xent.v For, partic-
Ijaire of J. C. Eockaf eilow,
Irant, C.J. Pease and M. A.Bax-
iarrison, were in Clare yesterday.
'Miss May Alger is slowly reeoy-
ter\a seyefe illness of lung fever.
■rnator J. W. Giddings,  of  Cadil-
in the city a short time yester-
:Mcintosh was up from Coleman
|Ited with Clare friends over Sun-
r-Hurst, of the r Shepherd News,
lis office a very pleasant call to-
|*DwyerVcamp broke up Tuesday
men came down out of the
il Clareites attended the Catholic
1,at the church near  Calkinsville
I. Corning  Shaw . and little  son
t Calkinsville,, were  in  the  city
t. D. Eogers. of Shepherd, was in
tonday and favored this office
all;.    ."•
)e'rby yisited with his wife and
ittie home of'her parents in Evart
Jay.;   "■-..■'
lir was in Beed City yesterday
ifeWconnected with Nease & Go's
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Wilson of Ayondale^ Osceola
ras iu the city;  doing- .business
NEW FIRM.
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NEW GOODS.
NEW STYLES.
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And Prices that are Lower than Any.
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No Old Goods to Clear Out.   Everything New and Fresh.
In Wool, Half Wool and Cotton; in
plain, stripped and checked, and in
the latest colorings. Prints, Ginghams and Outing Flannels. Lace
Curtaing, Linen Tablecloth, Napkins and Toweling. - CORSETS ih different kinds
and quality, and intact everything to be found in a   FIRST-LASS DRY GOODS STORE-
Furnishing Goods.
SHOES!
We call your attention to our Fine Line of Gents' Hats, in Derbys and Soft Felt,
embracing tho very latest shapes and shades.    MISSES HATS and GAPS, and also a
large assortment of CHILDEN'S Hats and Caps, which are being offered at prices
Slower than ever before heard of in this county.   A fine stock of LADIES' UNDER-
fWEAR.   Gentlemen's Dress Shirts, Working Shirts, Underwear in cotton,  merino
and wool.   Suspenders, Collars, Cuffs, Neckwear, Socks, etc., etc.
I We are carrying a large assortment!
of! the celebrated A. C. McGraw
make of Ladies' and Genst' Shoes,
I which never tail to giv& satisfaction.  _   	
Children's School Shoes, Heavy Working Shoes, Baby's Shoes, Fine Slippers, etc.
Wall Paper and Window Shades.
Before hause cleaning in the spring call at IMERMAN'S NEW STORE and ex*
amine his line of Wall Paper and Window Shades, where you will be sure
to find just what will please you, at prices that are right.
Yours for Honest Goods^-Hamst- Prieea.
J.  I MERMAN,
New Store.     Dunlop Block,     Clare, Mich.
attended the lecture at Farwell
TbAirsday evening.  ,
• Misses May and Jennie Levington visited their sister, Mrs. S. Ave. Wilson,  in
Harrison Wednesday.
Tesse Louch returned to his studies at
Detroit last Monday after a * week's yisit
with his parents and friends here.
Jas. H. Seeley planted 6,000 . speckled
trout this week in the Baker * Creek, in
Vernon, two miles south of Clare.
Wm.Wolsky wants twenty-live cords
of building stone immediately. Deliver
at place of business oh Main street.
The ladies of the W. B, C. will give a
10 cent supper at the G. A. E. hall on
Wednesday, the ISth,    All are invited.
Mrs. .Chris. Ehrhardt and children
went to Shepherd yesterday, for a few
days| visit with relatives and friends
there.
A postal card from Ed. Squire says:
"Please forward my paper to Au Gres, as
I will be there until July 1st,, rafting
cedar.-'. '•*- -< *--\
The Umatilla Indian Medicine Company which has been making a siege on
the Harisonitesj passed through the city
yesterday. . \
The 6x4 pedro club had a very pleasant time Tuesday evening at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Calkins, on. west
6th street.
The King's Daughters will me.et next
Thursday afternooa at the home of Mrs.
J. Eogers, on "west 4th street. Eyery-
body invited..
The hotel at Farwell changed proprietors last week. Albert W. Carlyle, of
Saginaw, is now running the house .instead of Mr. Clark.
E. J.Livingston, employe at the pail
and tub factory, moved his family into
one of.Wm. Dean's tenant houses on east
5th street this week.
Mrs. Dolph's* restaurant at Harrison
burned Monday night. The building
was owned by Wilson Bros, and was
covered by insurance.
Win. Dwyer has moved his saloon into
his own building one door south of the
Exchange Hotel, A lunch counter is a
new feature just added.
About 150 carloads of ice go south
daily over the T. A. A. & __T. M. railroad,
which, is cut at Lake George^ The ice
season is now in its bloom. ■ •■
At the beginning of the present year
the number of Sons of Veterans camps
in Michigan in good standing was 101,
with a total membership of 2,196.
The news of Clare becoming a city
was joyously receiyed by eyery one .last
Friday. In the evening a big ibonfire
was made at the corner of Main and 5th
street, the fire whistle was blown, the
band rendered several fine airs and the
crowd congregated was yery hilarious.
Official Paper for
Glare County and Village.
A Cleveland ice firm is cutting: and
shipping ice this week, which is gotten
on the mill pond at Farwell. About
fifty men are employed on that field.'
Converse .and Fetters have been in
Coldwater and Gillmore townships this
week selling  organs,  sewing  machines
and farming tools for Wm.H. Elden.
John Ort and daughter, Miss Maryan,
who for several weeks have been visiting
with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ort, returned to
their home in Bright, Ont., yesterday.
Mr. B. McKinnon. and Miss E. A.
Harris, both of Clare, were married at
Mt, Pleasant on February 25th. The
Demograt-Pkess extends congratulations.
Mrs. N, Bieknell and son, Master
Willie, who for the past four or five
weeks.have been visiting relatiyes and
friends at JSapinee, Ont., returned home
Wednesday evening.
i)r; H. L. Ash, of St. Louis, visited relatives and old acquaintances in Clare
Monday and Tuesday. The doctor has
accepted a position as traveling salesman
for an extensive medical firm.
Misfj, Euceba Hall closed a three
months' term of school in the Carrow
district last Friday. She was re-engaged
to teach another term of three months,
wh|ch began, the following Monday. •
The annual meeting of the Ladies'
TJnfon has been postponed until next
Wednesday, at Mrs., Goodman's. All
me|nbers and those interested are requested to be present at this meeting.'
J.unius Ebss is making a tour of southern! Michigan this week for rest and recreation. This is his first vacation in
over a year and a half. His duties as assistant postmaster have been very confin-
ingj     ; .     •  .
Quarterly meeting services will - be
held at the Free Methodist church, com-
meiacing Friday night of next week.
Meeting Saturday, afternoon and Sunday
tori-moon and evening. Eev. S. M. Kidder will conduct the services.
. The Genesee Democrat says that sey-
erai young men from Clio returned a few
days ago from a ten days' fishing-trip1 in
Clare county with S5 pickerel weighing
from 13^.to 6 pounds each. The lakp.,of
Clare county are the fisherman?^ p-ifa*
disc.    .  . ..      .   '■" '    v*;  -
Arthur Bendetson, .who for. the -.past
three Or four years has had the manage-
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is in the town setSHng up so*
business this week:    We  are  informed
that .Mr, Bendetson will attend college in
the near future.
Flint Democrat: E. B. Horning &
Co.., late of Clare, will open a grocery
store in the new building opposite Al-
yord's store on Saginaw street, in a few
days. The new firm purchased their
first bill of goods Tuesday of Symons
& Co., of Saginaw.   v
A. J.Doherty returned from .Belfast,
_ST. Y., Tuesday evening, whither he went
with the remains of his sister, Mrs. F. L.
Post, of Midland. He was accompanied
by Mrs. Doherty's brother, S. A. Gleasbn,
NEW SERIES NO. 85.
WE ARE JHE PEOPLE.
Governor Winans Says the Citj
Charter is Just the Thing,
He Approved the QUI   Yesterday
Afternoon—Come Neighborly
Interest Shown*
Otir city charter is a fact.
The Democrat-Press last week re-  '
marked that Clare village had been /pro*
moted to city-hood, the bill proyidujg
therefor haying been passed tu jfeotb,
houses of the legislature.    The  Govei*-
nor's signature was all that remained t»\
make it a law and before he could attack
his signature the whole charter had jto'he
written out (engrossed in the term. they
use do vvn in Lansing)   and this  was   a .
work requiring the uninterrupted  attention of two or three men for several days.
As th*3 Governor had been fully informed .
of the nature of the charter and had signified his willingness to approve it ,,as
soon as it came to him there was no -"uneasiness on the part of any of our-iolks
and eyerybody indulged in a little .exa-r.
berance over the good news from the
seat of government.   Monclay J, S. Boss *
went down to-Lansing to spend his vacation and take in the sights of the capital .
city and incidentally to see. that thei"*
was no  delay in securing, the engrossment of our charter.    The work .progressed satisfactorily, and, attached hy  .
the unusual scenes that have taken., .place
in the senate of late, Messrs C. H. Sutherland and J. C. Eockafellow »went dow-ii
on Thursday to see the fun. . Friday afternoon the following telegram to • Postmaster Kirkbride was received:      .   "
"Lansin4 March 137? "_ • "
Governor Winans has   approved .'the -
bill and it is. now deposited with the Secretary of state."     ...       *6Jims." *, .
A few moments.later and A.'.JV Doher- .
ty receiyed the following dispatch v from.
Senator Prindle:. :   •;;'..-.      ^
,   "plare. charter has been signed by thes
Governor;". -'.•'-_   .'    -•'   *-     "/.   " .
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.'i.r'Befpre. presenting the .bill to" the. Goy--
erh0r it, was recalled-and .subjected to a..
hearing before the iegislatlye committee
but it was soon returfted. to the, execat-  .
tiye for his approval..
delegation of our friends from the press
ent. county seat paid'us the compliment
togo clear to Lansing to h$: on hand
when the Clare charter became a law.
Yesterday was. a cold day-^-a very ooldi
blizzardy sort of a day, in fact, biit-the
pleasant, and withal, just, outcome of the
charter legislation was doubeless^ sulfie-
ient to make all forget the frigidity of
the weather. Some of them may" even
have got hot, under > the circumstances
and the collar.
. Clare is a city.. Election April 6.
wife and son Leoiia, who will probably
remain here permanently.
It is good funeral form in Lansing no w^
not to coffin the remains until after the
ceremonies are concluded. Eecently the
sermon was preached over a young lady
as she lay dead upon the sofa, and Friday
the corpse of a young man reclined in an
invalid chair durina; the services.
. The Democrat-Press was in error
last week when it stated that Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ferris S.
Fitch, would be in attendance to the
teachers'institute at Farwell. Prof. H.
E. Pattengill, of Lansing, one of Michigan's ablest educators, conducted the institute.
' The announcement is made at' last.
Doherty's new "opera house, is to be
opened soon. The dates are Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, April 6,7 and
8th. The. Sackett-Kinzie company [are
considered one of the best on the road
and the people who attend are- assured a
treat.
Prof. E. D. Palmer, E. W. Daggett,
Misses Loomis, DeCoo, Bremer, McKinley, Mrs. Eaton and E. G. Welch, of
Clare; Prof. Hovey, Mrs. Kaub, Misses
Canfield, Myra and Jennie "Smith, Ber-.
ner and Secretary W. W. Green were
among the teachers who attended the institute at Farwell this week.
Dr, Maynard reports ' the following
births since our last issue: On Tuesday,
the 11th, a girl baby to Eev. and Mrs-
Floyd C. Field, of the 5th street Congregational church; same date, to Mr. and
Mrs. Seymour Wilson, of east 5th . street,
ahoy; on Monday, to Mr, and Mrs,
David Jennings, of Lansingville, a  boy.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Tasker returned to
Clare last Friday evening from a bridal
tour of nearly three weeks' duration, during which time they visited Detroit, Toledo, Cincinnati, Chattanooga, St. Louis
and Chicago, making a very pleasant
trip. All will.be pleased to learn that
Mr. and Mrs, Tasker will continue to
make Clare their home. Will has resumed his duties as train dispatcher and
ticket agent at the union depot.
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Wm. Dwyer, the Lennon hotel- keeper,
at whose place it is aUegedMieh'aelTray-
nor procured the liquor that led to his
death on December 31, 1S90, has been
bound oyer for trial at. the Shiawassee
circuit on a charge of violating the liquor'
law.—Genesee Democrat. . -This . is the
Dwyer who ran a saloon about two years
ago-at Lake Station. .'
Two Clare ladies yisited Farwell on
Tuesday and failing by a few minutes- to
catch the 3:30 train, concluded to .work
up an appetite for supper hy-walking
home. They thought it would, be fun.
and that they could have something to
boast over, but it made both nearly" sick
and its safe to say that they will never,
repeat the experience. >
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The state fish commission ear; .passe"!
through the city Wednesday., 'Several
thousand young troiit were planted ,ia
the small streams in Vernon : township.-
It may be well to say that according to
the state law these fish are allowed to go
unmolested for three years from .the
time they were planted.. He who catches
them before that time shall have expired
is subject to the penalty of the law. \
« The supreme court has decided that he
city or town has a right to give ,a jnafis.
license or permit to sell any ware or merchandise on sidewalk in front of the property of another person. The streetiu.
front of a man's place of "business/is heM
to be an appurtenance to the lot on^whlck'
his store is erected and situated anil ber
longs to him and his business' as against
all others, except only the right to travel
thereon.
An exchange remarks that these are ti_e
days when people who are careful to-shut
the door behind them earn the reward of
the good opinion of the people whomthejr
call upon in a business way. Those w&©
neglect to close the door arerememhe»ftd
as careless fellows whose respect for
other people's comfort is iipt sufficient^
developed to make them agreeable
friends. Eyen so slight a thing as shutting a door has turned the scale of many
a man's fortune before now, so be ©n the
^ safe side and be sure and close the dooc.
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