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CLARE, MIOH.. SE&TEMBEB, .11,1885.
NO. .19.
PF23 FFC* tP<\  fr\   r\ n vivna of news.
Ej (fl! ^) vU/ (111      0. W. Perry is in Saginaw  today.
i
T, ±        ,    , t,   , i    Albert Smith was in Meredith  en
Prsposes to make business Red bu8lMflg Wednesday.
IHot   this   fall.     His   mammoth,    An*s May Tomnn of Harrison  wi)1
.-sstoro will be headquarters. Large attend school in Saginaw this winter.
sstock and low  prices.     He  sells \j John .hickxon hns commenced the
goods to one and all for spot cashM*'w'i"»<,''a<|we,,!»f? ''«,iwe °" 7th
,. I Hi. west.
..He can therefore discount  com-,
j    Tlie Chase club was beaten by Lud-
; petitors who do a credit and  bar-  -^ ^ R(i(d CUy y^tmhy slfternoonf
i ter business.      My   past year in  hy a score <£8 to 7.
t Clare has been a pleasant >onc i«-|    John I.ywh of Harrison' and Mi.ss
. deed, my traue  reaching far   up ■
. into tin- thousands of dollars, .and {
. I hope, by close attention to bus-
;.i.n«ss, Low  Prices,  Good  Gciods,
..and Square Dealing,   to ai .least,
■ doui'h-   my  s.des  lhe  second or
i cumin"" war. i
Mary  Robinson   <>/  .Midland,
been made wan and wife.
The stores of Wm WoKkv
have
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THIS  ASB*«UT.
2H33IU5   MEWTMM*,
W. A, Carpenter&to. of Farwell, i   See Wolsky'smw ad.
THE «'AIMf W>A,N.'
I  :"IIALL O.'-FJili
for the
.i: " liLV FALL TRAUE
:s-.mh SPECIAL  BARGAINS.
will occupy the Pofi ;11 ullding,      *d
Grand march QuadilUe on wheels
at Boot's rink Fafcurdiy evening."
Miss Gertie MurdQj^L of Clare attended lhe Midland t^ ialit'fc?' -institute. 4   -
The Farwell Begist**" "commences
the publication of theJblinquenttax
list this week, -v
Bev. Mr. Younglovevof Clare, conducted the 51. E. qiiawWy meeting
afc Harrison on Sundnjlljtffc,
Jay Siurgis   and  -Jflfe   of Frost
township celebrated 3|feir wooden
_ u'pddingaunfversiu^ tjjjftho 1st  in-
Sable wnveioseii od Thur-day, tW j stant. #.\
being the Jewish New Year's day,\
The infant  child of Wesley  Morii
{»an of Vernon died Wednesday after
a Jong illness and was buried   jc.stt'i--
dav, ;
Jlcnry Am mon. of JpRidley Posi
Jhti-rison, t<K>k part in t|c>.Jjam bnt
tic at tiie Heed City reunion yener*
day ami was badly hurt.. Tho cannon
jmssed over hi.s Jogs.
The Colennin Ad voeat,j- thinks that
the holding of two fairs"3?l t/iiseomj-
Albert Hall, sub of bie President
>f Harrison viliago, fell hito Budd
lake last Thursday and^uuTowiy es-
euj.ed lirowning. ^ti
Anyora wool, (iermantowH, H:!a-
ony. Z:*ph<M>, and Knitting yarns in
gr*'at variety j'jst lvi-eivi-d at <xih<«r-
son'-!.
The fijit-.-r !ii:c offjjr rolu-s, /ianne^
dry jjooi!:;, miilint-ry, Ixnits, siKX'.and
sf7
cjotiiin,
store.
at    (.'iber.-on'.s   jiiauiinoth
James i'virkpatrick of Clare £s to do
-.G'"i«.'d .--.lardaru screw Jadief
V the mechani<'al work in the
Farwell
A,\ov
; llegister ofliee, young Holden feaviug
$.1 00 ;«»m» to Midland,
tu ladies' ser^'e shoe.
f
r 00:   Th!»"lHit
I 00 Harrison
ty is a good way to kill^botii. Xot
so. There's inn'ta pa rtple of competition between them. |
And now Tube llorhfr, of Clare,
has bought a trotter. 1I<! wi\s over
here last Saturday to se<4 -■ li\i\ hoys,
tie <r;(>.-uieis," i)  society of} (Hlt min (,r,.Voute,l the fK,.<, which
cJjil'h-W), raised U7 nt a J was, perbups, a guod tiikr f,,? thli
! 0u :>nciul inst week, the money to go  to  boys here.~3Ct. Pieaseni  hemtjetot
A ■.-;i>I'. :v.!id child's boot,
16 thr
.16 \ ;r ,.i standerd sheeting
4 yeds table linen,
8 becutjful towels,
IOya-<>: ht-avy ahirtMlfJ,
i6zy> yds print, best made, i-ooitolwd.   T^ie funmiI W(W hm onjcifcy tournament.and ifc'
lo yjls choice cotton flannel* ff .a© J Thursday
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swell the thureh bell fund.
Edward Hopkins of Gilmore, di
• ,UHif In his usual good health  on retiring { oi- the biin tettul fo m^
r        t  ....
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Arthur Iloekafellow \\A%li0i»tfn <'4&**t lSwrippn.
jcd I Hue visit with reiativ<WM^lte^^
A newspaper at Meredith is talked
of.
Born to Mrs.H. McLennan on the
2nd instant, a son,.      '_
School 00 r taeiwd Mpnd«y with a
ffth 1 tt   d tit •<. »
School  having   commenced,   the
gum market begins to boom.
is vipiting his daughter, IV.rs. Newth
The jail is alraos; completed   and
Sheriff Graham is anxious to gtsfc settled in his new quarters.
No election was held in the Hinkle
district, Grant towns-hip, Monday,
the Director failing to attend.
Seven or eight jnen were seriously
injured in the sham battle at Eeecl
City yesterday, one man fatally
The Pbess desires to have a de*
partment at the Fair this month de-*
voted exclusively to works of art and
to curiosities, souvenirs,  etc.    Almost everyone has some article jvhose
history is interesting—a knife picked
up on n battle field, a piece /roin
some note.I building, a collection of
old money, a fine picture, sample of
plants grown in other states, curious-
Isaac Day of Orleans county, N. Y.,' ^ carv(f wood or stone.   This muse-
-----      - --      -     urn or "art Joan" can be made one ot
the most interesting in Floral flail if t
1 if the people will co-operate with us,
1 The Press will become responsible
j for the safe flstorn of all articles loaned for the  exhibition.    Those  who
will assist us in this matter  are requested to notify us either verbally
or by letter    and   we   wiU publish
Or. Chase has handed us a chip of
metal from the tomb of G«n. Grant.
a son
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E. IT. DeVogt of Clare photograph-j It was sent to the doc''-- by
ed the soldier boys  at Heed City this j \\ h-> Jives in New York (. 'i cy.
week aud took orders for about a!, ^ 11 old iron key which one.
thousaud copies
Herbert Alien,  against whom  a
upon
a time did duty in Jet!' David's cellar
door, and which is now iwnrtl' by
Thu  pipe is a
§t.{)0 judgment was rendered afc fche Kiehard Welch, will be among the
last term of the Circuit Court, will | articles on exhibition atom- mL-fum.
carry the ftwe to tbo Supreme court. ! j0.,e,,i, Hudson ofJJDvcr .-( uds in
Gentlemen, if you want a daiu'y [a <iuainfc old pipe which he- himself
suit or fail oveicoat, just leave your
me;Wioe with Gil.crsou. La Les L
style of goods. &> to $1) saved in
pi <ee,
• . itev, Mr. Wright of Harrlso.n
pmurhed U>r Elder Younglove ln-J*«
and jit F^rweM last Suuclay^ The
i;flter eo^due'ed -qutirjerfy   eonfer-
<%
S( cured atGibraltel'.
hundred years oki.
Home old foreign coin, valuable Silver pieces, whicli A.J. Doherty has
collected, wiii add to our,"lmut."
A. jjJ. Sfaftk will shew a WOll preserved deer's head, with antler.* in
the velvet,—one of the best specimens we have everstjem
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■$J00*:
Meri.*
M
Olid
Men's ,\-e3vet embroidered
slippers,
Men's align tor slijpers,
Meai's :PU*t8s>er boots„
j Ladies' rubbers,
J Tens Rivtr boots,
L adies' caif fcutton sioes,
El'egent "kid ladies slis-cs,
"W Wednesday night.   It was undoubt- J-wfcW-A4veeste:
I 00 J erlly set ou iire.    The building was
2 50
AND SOME MISJRE.
Good men's suits,
Good boys'■suits,
Ladies' all wool shawls,
Ladies felt skirts.
Ladies' balmorel skirts,
Ladies' cloaks and dolmans
Ladies' paisley shawls, new styles
3 50
1 50
3 00
So
50
2 50
In coming- to Clare to make
your purchases, ifc stands you in
hand to visit our store and get
the correct styles and prices, before spending a dollar of your
cash, as we can certainly save you
fully 25 per cent.
RESPECTFULLY,
WM. g-ibersoh.
jggg^N, B.—Mrs. Giberson will
start for the east soon, to purchase the most elegant stock of
millinery goods ever seen in northern Michigan. Her customers
In Mt. Pleasant, Coleman, Loomis, Farwell, Hatton, Harrison and
Meredith, please take notice.
j o0 j almost new and the district had only
made the last paymeufc on the house.
2 5° Insurance, $50t).
•" The Clare county jail at Harrison
4 5° ii nearly completed. When com-
I 5^'pleted there will be quite a difference
in the number of inmates in the Midland jail, more than one half of whom
forthe past year foave come from
Clare county.
John Culien of Isabella county,
aged 70 years, drowned himself in a
spring one day last week because he
was afraid he might become addicted
to the use of whisky, which he had
been drin/cmg constantly for half a
century.
Detective Turner who has been
working up the treasury robbery
case went home Saturday, faking all
his "evidence" with him. Tie says
that he couldn't get half pay from
the syndicate and that he proposed
to deliver his accumulated theories
and testimony onJy when his late
employers paid him in full,
Jackson Alexander of Coldwater
planted last spring, one bushel of
Barley on one fourth of an acre of
ground, which yielded him 21 bushels. We think this will be hard to
beat. He thinks it is more profitable
than raising either wheat or oats, as
ifc will bring from GO to 80 cents per
bushel.—Farwell Kegister.
In the base ball tournament at
Eeel City, Farwell was matched
against a club from White Cloud tbat
couldn't play ball a little but they
managed to do the Farwell team up
to the tune of 19 to 5. Culien of the
Second Nine and Diggins of Hersey
helped the Farwells oufc, bufc for
which fact they would scarcely have
made a single run. The crowd cheered our neighbors vociferously whenever they happened to catch or stop
. a balk
The other nighta patent medicine,
vender hornswoggled a good many
of our citizens who had moro rnon'ey
than they knew what tb do with.
The fellow attempted to' sing and
ought to have been arrested for false*,
pretences.
Henry Garner, a Methodist preacher in Isabella county, hai jusfc been
held in $500 bonds to a\y«it trial a(
the circuit court for West; his
daughter and wife havj) furnished
the evidence against hini The girl
also implicated a brother? •; The details of the case are too disgusting for
publication, f
Clare played KalkasEa afc Beed
City Wednesday foren.offn and lost
after a hotly contested gyle, 8 to 7.
The Clares had the ga«te well in
hand until the sixth Linings, the
score standing 0 to 1 in their favor at
the close of the fifth. ^Kalkaska
scored three in each oftllfe two succeeding innings, and oiie;!gainin the
eighth. I
A little daughter pf Hulh Galiagh*
er of Calkinsville met w|th quite a
serious accident last Tuesday. She
was feeding some horses f&uu out of
her hand, when one of th£nl stepped
on her, breaking her thitjk in" two
places. Dr. Fasquelle ivas called,
and with the assistance o^JIr. Wood-
that it Y^iU.'Cast a^hadi:!•Jp)V'fe'Sme.JIa^•
riso ri crijttijnals-aboufc a§ soon xisifc is
ready to receive boarders'.--  *'
The work- of improving 'tho fair
grounds will be eontiuued* ou Tuesday next When farmers and others
interested will put; in a day in plowing, digging, shoveling, pounding,
"fete, "■ It is hoped thafc this bee will be
i0well attended and as productive
of good results as was the former one.
A. J. Doherty and E. D. Wheaton
were elected sehool trustees at the
annual meeting in this district; Monday-evening. The board estimated
the total expense of running the
schools for the ensuing year to be
$2500 and they asked for a tax of
$1,900 which was voted, $1050 was
raised last year.
Ofthe amount stolen from me at
the time ofthe robbery in May 1884,
there remained charged against me
When I settled with the Board of
Supervisors in January last about
$1815, which I was unable to turn
over to my successor in the office of
county treasurer. I desire to pay
that amount to the county before the
meefcing of the Supervisors in October, and I therefore urge upon
those indebted to me to call and settle their accounts either by cash or
note, within 30 days from date.
A. A. SHAVEB.
It was advertised that the CMre
worth, reduced the fracjtire.    The j an(j Loomis boys would play a gatne
child is as comfortable as fould be ex- J 0f base ball, the sport to wind up in
pected.
»
The following named Olare people
attended the soldiers' reftnion and
base ball tournament atiReed City
this week: E. D. Wheai^b- Manager j F. B. Osbprn, B. it Musseli,
W. A. Goodman, M. D. Jiiton, Fred
Lee, James Brown. Borneo &og"
ers, A. H. Boekafellow #ad J« ^c"
Gfaffigan, ofthe base ba)l$ub; A. J>
Doherty, H. W. Pierce, Alf, A. Shaver, Henry Orfc, Joseph Xl&on, Mrs.
W. A. Goodman, D. E. AlVard.
the evening with a slugging match
between a thumper from Port Huron
and a Clare rough, but they all failed
toputinan appearance until evening, by which timo they were
too drunk to know where they were.
On their way home they slopped at
the cemetery and desecrated a number of graves. The Almighty will
have to work a miracle, and Gabriel
toot loud and long On his trumpet before such wretches can be iesurreefc-
ed.—Coleman Advocate.
■*M
is a   wooden ■ fi-arne conjai m>;gs 13. ■
pieces, an infant's dressmade-in Bpti-'
don, ErtglahdJ;overt'a"bu'ndredyear'sr
old, a piece of silken linen of the, ,
same age, curious stones, etc. .
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School commenced Monday with
an attendance of 38. According to
fche school census there are oS persons
of school age in this district.
Bev. J. Levington who preached
here, Saturday, and Sunday, organized a Sabbath school. The success
ofjthe school is partly due to the
work of "Mother" and Mrs. Jones.
Officers are as follows ; W. A. Levington, Superintendent; Mrs. Jones,
assistant; George Bullock, Secre-
tarj'; Miss Jones, Librarian ; Mrs,
Crawford, Treasurer.
School meeting Monday adjourned
Until Saturday evening.
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HARRISON MAJPOPJSWTWGS.
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School meefcing Monday night.
Henry L. Williams was elected to
succeed John Quinn as school trustee,
and W- A. Burritt to succeed John
Canfield.
School opened Monday with a
large attendance.
Miss Ola Gardner our pleasant post
Office clerk returned Monday from &
four weeks visit with relatives and
'friends at Stanton.
TheG. A. B, under Commanded
Tracy, left Tuesday for Beed City td
take part in the reunion.
A. M, Tinker goes to Saginaw on.
business this week.
A. B, Toman proprietor ofthe Toyman House says that he runs a-strict*
ly temperance house [and will keep
no one that is intoxiealad.     '      J~*
B. F. Johnson formerly of the
Johason House,. E. T. Holcomb ol*
Bay City* and C. W. Percy'or Clare,
were in town today.