1885-02-13; Clare County Press

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BY Do Eo ALWABB,
EBRUARY 13,1885.
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Will be Ively, wide-awake and
progressive. In the matter of
local news it "will be more interesting, readable and attractive
•than-ever before. Every resident
of Clare and northern' Isabell
conn ties, wants to keep posted ii^
regard to the passing o events?1 of
Ms Neighborhood. These "will be
faithfully chronicled in The Press
weekly.   "Subscribe and be happy.
Valentines at Elden's.
Trains have arrived from one to
24 hours late all the week.
The calendars for the Clare county
circuit court were printed at this
office.
A man named Opdykefrom Birmingham has bought the >Hinkle stock
at Farwell.
The mercury has been below  zero
most of the time this
the lowest recorded.
week.   84°  is
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^TORNEY at 'LAW,
-        Office in thk Shaver Block,
Ira Cox is accused of stealing $450
from tlie pockets of a Cadillac man.
Wonder if this is Texas Jack.   -
f ATTORNEY at LAWS
,-:   -p.'FFiqE O ster Giberson' s Store
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•lAtf.ES,
HARRISON*
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j7%&YI> h. POST,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
ancj REAL ESTATE AGENT
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COLEMAN,
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(HEO, J. CUMMINS,
Atty-at-Law and Solicitor,
The revival meetings announced
to commence last Tuesday evening
were postponed until next week, -
Clare county is now entitled to three
delegates in the Republican state convention instead of two as heretofore.
The Farwell M. E. church was
dedicated-with appropriate ceremou-
-~\ ies last Sunday, the presiding elder,
Athe pastor and two other ministers
participating in the exercises. The
building is a fine one and is mostly
paid for.-;
Certain Harrison folks coming
homefrum Saginaw get off the train
at Lobmis and cut * across, lots 'afoot
rathei: than ride through Clare. Clare
does sit'clown rather, hard on that
gang when it gets a chance; wednn't
wonder they want to keep dot'of the
way. .-     . ''.'■■■■'A' '•' .'■■•-
. ■• A special public-, .examination of
applicants for teachers' ceriifiaetos ■
wfH h'> h^'l r.rt!i«"» school hou^» »>•
r '.G-- z:t"^:iZ-Aitli\iy3 ma'Abth in-
stent. Work will commence
promptly at 9 o'clock a. m. and applicants are required to be on hand
at the commencment, supplied witii!
pencil and legal cap paper.
A musical and literary entertainment will be given at the Town Hall
on Friday evening Feb. 20th. Tickets 25cts each including a number for
■ws.
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Now you know \r£at a blizzard is.
Dance at the.' Kijcliange  hotel to
night.
PEXSfflKA!,    FOOTS.
ms.
■  York    staters   #**Iare that  this
weather reminds them of horn e.
Insurance busine* has lieen unusu*
ally brisk ih Clare since the Maynard
fire.
The Press office otm do better job
printing that you cal? get elsewhere
this side of .Saginaw:., mid- our charges
arQ, lower.      ' *      1 .
Four criminal easel* not mentioned
last week were placard on, the Circuit
Court calendar after'the Piiess was
printed. Three were rape cases and
one was for theft.        - . *.
The young folks of tlieM!. 13. society are preparing a imwleai and literary entertainment f-'»r public presentation soom Those who kno\y say
that it is a good oiuv
A society was oEpinixed the other
evening. 'Its purp hcs »ire shrouded
in mystery which U iulghtened by a
•bright shining half mu-n which bedecks the manly hr a-t of each meu\
ber,.        -•.
Lulu Younglove is recovering.
T. P.   Horning  was' in Saginaw
Monday.
J. C. Rockafellow went to Allegan
-Monday,
Rev. 3. G. Blanchard was in town
yogterclay.   .
A. R. Mernerwas in Reed City one
day this week.
S. A. Sutherland of Coleman was
in Clare this week.
J. L. Welch lias been suffering from
rheumatism this week.
A. E. Mack,   Under  Sheriff,
looking 'round Clare Monday.
was
TPSae WeatUaer ft©€e MtmsBa iF<n>jr ©asimslfc
Both Mr. and Mrs. Jas. L Kirkpatrick have been sick of late.
Henry Stevens did a good job with
the snow plow Tuesday-morning.
Post Master Rounds of Farwell was
a caller at  this  office last  Saturday.
Miss Ella Sawtell has commence
teaching again, this time in one ol
the Vernon districts.
\/ J* D.  Newth    was   in  charge of
' Petoskey the Jmtiaii  boy *kateriTrevdick,B lial'dwart! st°or« t-his week
who wasat'the Opmv 1 (ouse'rlrilt^iid,irlll« Jolin Webb'* absenee-
Monday  evening   pt-rformed many: ■ Alj>vl Halstead of Lansingville and
difficult evolution? on   rollers, to the' S. Bogardus of Clare are new  sub-
delightojr'those pyt>oni.   The stormV  scribers to The Piiess this week*
night'prevented a largo attendance^    G'eo.'L-. HItghcock is the new Sup-
Harrison Justice ofthe Peace n&ryisor. of Surry ,-G, W-. Graham li*av-
, H-iLBBisoisr, Feb, 12.—Circuit court
convened Mohday?'; #tidge Hart on ,
the bench. A calf'of the calendar
'showed that only one.civil case was
ready—Pat. Norton vs. B. Deidrick.
This was a replevin suit and resulted
In ^judgment for 68 cents m favor
ofthe defendant,
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Tuesday   several   motions    were
maile    and .the   chancery business"*
cleared up.   Decrees of divorce were'
tak'en in the case of Arthur B. Pot-'
term's. Flora Potter,  Mary iSjhk'vs*
Joseph  Mott,   and .Bella Alger vs
James B. Alger,
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The snow blockade on the railroads
prevented the attendance of witnesses
and so court adjourned  Tuesday to i
Msirch 3,
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Sixes a newspaper,      . ■
Cajsia© .Wansts ^2s9ci©^. fff'r^sim ttfla©
Detboit,. Feb i2,~*iEx-Prosecutiffii£
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FARWELIj,
MICH,
SSESCEEi&ABff'EOUS
I* M. TOOLEY, Physician and
V Surgeon. All calls piomptly attended to, day
or night. Office m Tooley & Keeler's Drug btore,
Clare/Mich,
LENTY OF OLD PAPERS ON
hand now at The -Pxess "oiace.    10 cents a
dozen.
BR. T. MAYNARD, has  opened
his offiqe at liis residence on 5th street.
'   IPHS.CDIPEg©lC>B5Airv   &A.JL.K.B
promptly attended to day or night.
CLARE,  '*   -      -      .-      -      - MICH.
ARNESS SHOP.
am aooBEJSTow& co*
Making and Repairing   Light  and
-   Heavy Harness by
•SfeiSfied Wirtuisii
WMpSjblanketSyand imact every thiug to be found
in a first class harness shop will be
kept in s>tock.
g^The patronage of the public is
■^p.eetlully solicited.
jStore in O.   W. Stems's building* on
Mam street. Clare,
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wilt-probably be r^iit)vet i from ®iM
before long,   Qlihrfe&g^f a >«.*rious nature taje been l'i**'fc*Sl against him
ci*fI How Al^vr \\ytifjjj* jiuubi order
h*- rx;£h**\-M ?ff*-r"^^j^ti1-ra?*' '» tin*
laces are ibuna to b j u-rue. v^
. .The big safe for tiie , Clare county'
bank is in its place and will soon be
ready to receive your surplus wealth.
If we get hold of another dollar this
year we intend to deposit it at once
just to experience the pleasing sensation oi having money in bank.
By reference to the circuit court i€-
pord published elsewhere it will be
mg resigned to become 'Sheriff.   *
Be Witt -Servoss, formerly landlord of tho Exchange hotel, Clare, is
i<mv i-Mioniy vU»rk of Gladwin county.  4*«mntv he wa?
his iore*
tforney James 'UapiiSi
noon 'eotnineneed action in tbe
Wayne Circuit Court against; the Be°
trait .Free Pern4 Company '.for an al"
leged libel, claiming'$25,000 damages.
In his bill of eoraplaint Mr.' Capias
irslsets forth 'tlm% ' while enjojiBg
the honors and profits of the-oiSe© of
I^it^eratiDg .Attorney'  of   "Wayne
.lugs
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the autograph quilt belonging to the seen that two divorce suits between
M. E. association, which will be
drawn at the close of the entertainment. Proceeds to apply on Pastor's
salary. Quilt on exhibition at Giber-
son's store.
Mrs. M. A. Snaw, Sec'y.
"It was fourteen years ago," remarked Conductor James Walsh to
a group of listeners in Trevidick's
drug store the other evening. "Yes,
fourteen years ago. At that time
the railroad only came to Clare.
There was a turn table here, a tank
and a wood pile and evening trains
stayed over night. One Saturday
night the passenger train pulled into
the station late, or rather the engine
did. It was a fearful night and the
snow was falling thick and fast, a
fierce wind blowing all the time—just
such weather as we're having now,
only worse. Three miles below here
the train had got fast in the .drifts
and after vainly trying to get out the
few passengers were transferred \to
Clare parties have terminated fovor-
ably to the complainants. Connubial
bliss to these parties had not proven
as blissful as they thought it   would..
Complaint is   made  that the side-
|,bought a fine beef raised by John R.
'McLellan of Vernoti. It weighed
74G pounds. - '     .
C. W. Sterns and A. M. Ervey represented Clare village on the circuit
court jury. John Cunningham of
Grant township was also a juror.
Frank Bowman of Grant township,
A. Kane of Clare and A. M. Tinker of Harrison are new nafries added
to the Piiess subscription list this
week,
H. M. Roys, editor ofthe lier/ister
was a caller at this office Wednesday,
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started outin a storm at 5 o'clock
Mr. Roys contemplates bringing his ] the morning  with   the  mercury
the defendant did wlekeaty
the plaintiff and cause it.
pected and believed that said plaia*
tifi  was  utterly unworthy  of.  the*
trust and confidence reposed in him.w*
Frozen to Death.'      •; /
Tine ©as! SJrigfforiaatn© ©f a
laa.ll HD<o>tffli<es£S<Eo
WMife-*
Whitehall, Feb. 12.—Lorena,
Swenson, a domestic at W. B. Nicholson's,   while   partially   deranged,
at
paper out in a new dress, spring style, i zero
walk along Fourth   street' is block-1 soon   mKl   jie  jias   ~..i    .•-.-.   1
aded almost constantly with  sleighs, i ments in view
wagon boxes, barn   doors,   etc., and i
the people who   live  up   that street
and  have  barked  their  noses and
shins going home  on  dark   nights
don't like it pretty much.
other
And now Coleman is. trying to
equal the record of Harrisbn in the
matter of "starving out" its ministers. The Advocate says that Rev.
Bacon, of the M. E. church, notified
his congregation that he cannot live
by faith alone, and unless they pay
him enough to purchase the necessaries of life he will quit preaching
for them. May the good Lord have
mercy on their poor stingy souls!
Work on the county jail has come
to a stand still.   The worse than use-
Wallace Lyons and his wife and
boy of Dover had an unpleasant experience Monday. They started for
Harrison and when about five miles
noi'th of their home the cutter struck
A search • party   of 50
improve- j were iooking.for her during the
without   getting   any    trace,
doubt she has frozen to death,
 Gs—0--O——— ——
men*
day
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HAS. A. LYON.
NSURANCE AGENf
FAB WELL,
MICH.
TpAX^TING.
AND
$aeriage mmm
the engine and brought  in.    Ther
the baggage and passenger cars were)
in the snow halfway to Loomis and
they had to be   got out.   I   got .my
men together ancl we went to  work
about eight o'clock that night, built
a  jrough  looking   but  strong snow
plow and the work  of  clearing  the
track     commenced.     The    engine
would push the old  plow  about 50
feet and then come  to a  stand  still.
She couldn't budge either  way and
we had to get outand'shovel her out.
This was repeated  again  and again, i make this paper equal to any of them.
The Last Act.
a log and all its occupants were throw7
out in the snow.   Mr. Lyons retained ;
OevelaanclL    aaasl    IHIeflBcfflinJcDlks
claredl IStialy Elec&ecS,,
Wxso
his hold on the reins and was dragged quite a distance before he could
stop the frightened horse. When he
did do so and came back to the scene
Washington, Feb. 11.—The Senate and House of Representatives to°
day went through with the form of
counting  the  electoral  vote.     The
ofthe first accident he found the cut- galleries were crowded and scores of
ter broken so badly that it was of no j ladies intermingled with members on
use. Jtfrs. Lyons and   the five-year   the floor of the house.
old boy had crawled out ofthe snow,
frightened and cold   but   uninjured.
At the conclusion of the reading of
the votes Senator Hoar,  as chairman
There was no alternative and all had   ofthe tellers,  announced   that the
to walk back home,  five   miles,  in
less cells first ordered ■ were objected   that  blinding    snow   storm.   Mrs.
o by the officers and the order was
countermanded, but the committee
for some reason has not yet decided
upon what kind of cells ought to be
purchased and so the matter rests.
We invite a comparison of The
Piiess with other weekly newspapers
which find circulation in Clare coiin-
Lyons and her soon were  nearly exhausted when they  reached home.
Saginaw Herald: The Rev. Jas.
Robinson, who has just left Harrison,
Clare county, has had a specially
hard time of it. He received for his
preaching less than $150,- which was
inadequate to support his family; so
ALSOMINING.
Estimates of paint furnished for parties desiring works
warranto
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worJ
'"firs
It was a slow job, you may be cer-
j tain, but we kept at it until eight
o'clock Monday morning when we
got to the cars and brought them in.
Snow? Well I. guess it did snow, I
measured it right over the rails in
several places and it was three feet
de3]« on a level. This is a big storm
we're having but that one fourteen
years ago was a bigger one.   I shiver
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ty. There are many excellent week-: part ofthe time he grubbed stumps
lies published in northern Michigan Jin the streets for a livings While
and it is the aim ofthe publisher to  absent at conference last fall,  some
ungenerate son of Satin robbed his
chicken coop. Not long after he was
further impoverished by a descent
upon his garden  and  potato   patch.
How near we come to the fulfilment
of our aim is for  the  people to say.
Rev. W. N.  Younglove  of Clare
whole number of  electors   was   401
and that Grover Cleveland
Thomas A. Hendricks had received.
219 for President and Vice President
and that James G. Blaine and John
A. Logan had 182 votes for the same
Offices. Presiden t Ed m unds then declared that Cleveland and Hendricks
would be President and Vice President for the four years beginning
March 4, 1885. With tins announces
ment came a perfect tempest of ap«
plause. Edmunds quickly suppressed it, and the convention was
dissolved.
Car @©XdL for TTasoiS.
FiiCsrT, Feb., 12:—A-box car belongs
has given up   his  Vernon  appoint-  Then he went into the country and I fog to the Flint &  Pere   Marquette
ment and a correspondent is of the j chopped wood as a means of snsten-
opinion that his doing so was "cer-{ ance. After he had accumulated
tainly not because m-ssionary work. I enough in this way to.keep his fami-
is not needed, if one may judge from ! hT awhile, he returned and resumed
the sounds of saws and axes and oth-! preaching, But it was ""no go" and
er implements  of  week, day labor | then after thecupboard was absolute-
; now to think ofthat Sunday's work," ] which often break our Sabbath quiet,  ly empty fo®Mfc:
railroad was sold here to-day on aa
attachment issued by the city fer unpaid taxes amounting to $185*  -The.
car realized $185.05 and  was -bid-in
by a representative of the company**
Trouble with the'corporation % an*
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