1890-08-01; Clare Democrat and Press

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NEW SERIES NO 53,
DRY GOODS,
LADIES
AND
CHILDREN'S
FINE SHOES.
ft
Claris County,
Will bo held
-A.T   OIiA.K,H,
Commencing at 10 O'clook A, M. Monday.
August 4, and closing at 4 p.m., Friday,
August 8,
A. J, DOHERTY, Clare, Local Committee.
Every pair of these SHOES are
select stock ancl Solid Leather
Soles, Counters and insoles. Buy
one pair and. you will have no
other.
KIRKBRIDE.
.,/'
The value of the instruction received at
these Institutes in boing very generally recognized by teachers and sohool officers. As a
rule, it Una boon tlie experience of eounty examiners and othor examining officers, that
the most .successful teachers aro those who
have availed theniM-lves of the normal instruction offered by these local institute*.
The daily sessions of the Institute for this
yonr will, as heretofore, bo devoted exclusively to topics uf special Interest to touchers,
presented by persons of extended, practical
experience as toacliors, and wlm liave mado
a special study of Institute work. The evening lectures will be of a popular character,
TUo institute law allows teachers, whose
seliools aro in session at the time appointed
for the County Institute, hold under tlie direction of the Slate Superintendent, to close
their schools during the continuance of sueh
\ iustitute without forfeiting their wages for as
many half day*, as they are in attendance at
the Institute. This provision of law, and tim
fact that there will be no enrollment or tuition
fee exacted, should insure tho attendance of
every teacher in the county who possesses
the true professional spirit.
I (FpllfrartioularKin regard to board, eto„lmay
be obtained upon application to tho local
committee.
Joseph Estabkook.
Hup't. Public Instruction.
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Buy Table Linen of M jtpB*$£tpe
KIRKBRIDE, DRY GOODS.
To the Teachers of Clare County.
You are hereby notified that thc institute for this eounty will be held in Clare,
commencing August 4th and will continue one week. All teachers intending
to teach in Clare county aro expected to
bo present. The board of school examiners have decided to allow, in addition
to thc per cent allowed by thc school
laws of 1880, five per cent to each teacher
of the weeks attendance.
Tho local -committee, A. J» Cojiftty,
iMil seer giaijfl^g^iMiitlf^B* ymt h»
yitilKL^^
institute.  Dated, July 1-1,1S90.
Geo. J. CYmmins.
A. J. Tjojikuty.
T, W. Avkuill.
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Fine Groceries.
Pencil and Shears.
Seo Giberson's new ad.
•School meeting tonight.
Threshing is commenced.
Pino rain Tuesday evening.
Win. Boswell ife home Ibis week.
Mrs. D. Korison continues Quito ill.
Mrs. Will Curtis is very sick with ton-
silits.
Mrs. I). A. MePliall is on tho "sick list
this week.
S, Rosenstock, of Harrison, was in
town Monday.
Mrs. 0. Boomer returned from Saginaw
Friday evening.
Many people arc suffering with summer complaints.
Geo. F. Duck, of Harrison, wns in town
Tuesday evening.
Miss May Levington is visiting with
friends at Harrison.
Gray Kutheford Sundnyed with his
parents at Milford.
Mrs. G. B. Alger visited with friends
at Coleman Monday.
Mrs. J. C. Rockafellow is convalescing
nfter a serious illness. tj       '
Miss Lorena Adams spent Sandfly with
her s'stcr Allie, at Farwell.
Mrs, C. Buell nnd Mrs. 0. Jex visited
friends in Farwell Thursday.
Mrs. Jolin Saxton, of Farwell, visited
with friends in Clare on Tuesday.
Miss Delhi Leonard,of Farwell, was the
guest of Mrs. K. Lamb, Wednesday.
Postmaster Goodman, of Loomis, Tinted with his parents in Clnre Sunday.
Mrs. 0. Mabio, of Farwell, was the
guest of Mrs. Chas. Welch yesterday.
Angus Branson and Colin McDonald
returned from Wisconsin last evening.
Miss Annie Laneen and Lonise Dwyer
visited relatives at Farwell, Saturday.
Frank Whitmoro,tho shingle mill man,
made a business trip to Saginaw Monday.
Attorney John Giberson has something to say in this issue relative to pen*
sions.
Those delicious long blackberries aro
ripe and the crop is said to be a 'bountiful one.
There's but little news these days except the coming and going of summerl
visitors. ;'
Mrs. W.II. Wilson, of Harrison, wai
the guest of Mrs, Samuel Lexington }a4j,
evening* ,
nVriek and li-icttdpJ
Mr**rij;tMra!DeU
iV Hews letter a little earlier in
fossMo M to lie fn time for the is-
t Is intended,    "
.good vafiinf. .dwelling   house is a
po article iiwjSave,   Something must
^ Jbne^'eIcing to supply tho demand
fi&Wiom- Hying room.
fOrt^GSv.y.Fjne expects to be able to
?.|iejKlto buatiup agaiu in a few  days,
*~"l'~ is pftnj^&covei'lng slowly  after
s&fljjfr
*
We carry a very Complete Stock of
.Everything in thc line of Choice
Family Groceries.    Also Provisions
of all kinds, Hay, Oats, Flour, Feed, etc.
We are doing practically a
Cash business, which enables us to
customers
Best Goods
•    Greatest Quantity for the money.    Don't fail to call on
as we assure you Courteous treatment and Great Bargains.
son Take.
Mrs. E. B. Wilmarth, of Saginaw, pub-
lishcr ot the Michigan Pythian, was In
town Monday.
Mrs. J. II. Vide,of Pinconiiing, visited
with her mother, Mrs. G, B. Alger, in
Claro over Sunday.
Mrs. Albert Smith departs next Monday for Angola, Ind., for an extended
visit with relatives.
R. II. Jenny returned Wednesday evening from a three days' business trip to
Detroit and Saginaw.
Mrs. Julius Shafcr has the thanks of
the DEMCKAT-PitKss force for a generous
supply of huckleberries.
The Misses Bessie and *'Dick" Giberson are rusticating for a few days at Hes-
lerlake. Lapeer county.
Mr. and Mi's. Frank Goodman, of Gad-
iliac, were guests of his parents and
brothers in Clare over Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Davis, of Dorer, are j
proud parents of a bright and bouncing
boy baby born on last Saturday.
Wc hopo to hear from all our correspondents again regular as soon as the
busy work of harvesting is over.
Simon Bogordtis is . clerking at Tatman & Schilling's grocery store. He
makes a good one.
Father Mahar, of Midland, was in
Clare on Monday and said mass at the
home of James Walsh, on 4th street.
Mr. and Mrs. James Warren are home
after a visit with friends in Sanilac
county.
The Clare connty political pot is beginning to simmer, ancl soon will assume
an interesting heat.
The Gladwin Leader gives its readers
each week as line a lot of news as any
local paper in Northern Michigan.
Miss Rosa Zoeller, of Saginaw, wbo is,
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Chas. Friedeborn,
has been very sick during the week.
John White, the railroad surveyor, is
yisiting with his wife at the home of
her parents, three miles north of Clare.
Some miserable cur devastated a garden on 5th street nnd carried away a fine
lot of vegetables one evening recently.
Quito a number of people from this
village are occupying the huckleberry
marsh north of Lake Station this week.
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Eaton returned
home Wednesday evening from a visit to
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. A. White at West Bay
City.
" A call for a democratic county Convention to elect delegates to the state convention, is published elsewhere in this
paper.
Edward TTnicumo has moved the build*
ing recently occupied by hfm as a dwelling, across the street onto a lot owned by
a Mrs. Smith.
Our South Wise correspondent ShotM
tefWrtt" WtW illness.
.■SfeSnW, Dunlop has recoived the ucc-
«*«? machinery and will establish a
ixjftlhig works'for soft drinks in this city
some time In the near future.
She state teachers' institute for Clare
co^ty cotnmenees inv this village next
J[*»lay (Uld continues during tho week.
A. J*rgo attendance is anticipated.
* 'frving.Mdntyro sends us the Duluth
Evening News,- beautifully Illustrated
Jiill giving ii-good account of the city's
isosfucss and manufacturing industries,
ClKtenea VniiBrunt returned Saturday
eyenhlg from Crystal Lako, where he
soctyjjjtrtyof Mt. Pleasant youths cn-
joy&i themselves for a couple of weeks.
X*fc all who subscribed for the boncyo-
!<!r>ce. of hie Claro M. E. church last
Easter Sunday he getting money in readi-
udW, «s the day of gathering is close at
bind,
JvAU members of the Clare Lodge No. 07.
K* of P.,are requested to be present at
the regular meeting on next Wednesday
sv«)lng,as business of importance is to
be'transacted.
Sfrs.Wm. Purrish and Willie and Mrs.
Jacob MasCn returned home last eyening after a week's visit with friends nt
Bfiy View and Petoskey. Thoy report
»tt:.cnjoyahle time.
i'he amount that Samuel F. Fine will
receive from thc pension claim recently
»l}owcd him Is said to be something over
41100. A snug little sum, and his friends
congratulate him on the fact.
Clare Is ono of tlie best points in
Northern Michigan for manufacturing.
?lcaty of timber of all kinds, fuel cheap
*nd unsurpassed railroad facilities. Tho
tiouatry surrounding is rapidly develop-
B.H. Moulton returned last evening to
bis home ntJloward City after a couple
.ys'vlsiiiniClarc with, his sister,
b,S, Chase.  Miss Kittie Chase ae-
psniwlhlm to Howard City for a
JTWtSr _
this y^rfi land quidnuncs" say it augurs
sickness to como. If that bo so sec that
the sanitary condition of premises is all
right and prove the fly prophet false
once.—Cadillac Democrat.
Do not be backward in calling at an
earlj date nnd paying thc small amount
you are owing us on subscription. We
do not like to dun you through the paper,
bnt wc need the lucre and a prompt settlement would be vory acceptable.
J, 0. Rockafellow, of Clare, collector
of mortgage statistics for the 10th district of Michigan, is in receipt of some
very flattering comments from the officials at Washington, D. C, on the correctness and legibility of his work.
R. H. Jcnuey has purchased of E. L
Pratt tho houso and lot on the corner of
Beech and 7th street, in this village; consideration, §700 cash. Mr. Jenney is now
renovating the building and will move
his family therein a few days hence.
Counterfeit silyer dollars of the date
of 18S5 have heen in circulation of late.
The spurious is dark in color, and under
thc magnifying glass the lettering looks
rough. It has n good ring, but is light in
weight. A counterfeit half dollar has
also been in circulation.
Stevenson lake is becoming quite a
resort for parties from Clare and neighboring towns. If some enterprising fellow would get things in condition to giye
substantial accommodations to visitors
and place some good row boats on the
lake he could reap a bonanza.
If rain commences before daylight it
will hold up before 8 p. m. If it begins
about noon it will continue through the
afternoon. If not till 5 p. m. it will rain
through the night. If it commences after 0 p. m, it will rain the next day. H it
clears off iu the night it will ra
next day.—Ex.
Thero is a Arm belief tn the minds of
many that the day is not far distant when
the Flint & Pere Marquette company
will extend the Harrison Branch leading
north from Clare on'through to the
straits of Mackinaw. They want a bigger slice of the freight shipments from
the great northwest.
The fourth quarterly-meeting of the
Clare M. E. church will he held in Clare,
August 2nd and 3rd. First seryice Saturday evening, August 2nd. Also Sunday 10:30 a. m. The presiding elder will
be present and hold tho quarterly conference on Saturday at 4 p. m. Lefc all
tho official hoard be present.
There will be a meeting of the legal
Voters of Grant and Vernon fractional
school district held at the high school
room, this (Friday) evening, to voto ■upon the proposition of borrowing the sum
Of §1500 and issuing the bonds of said
district for the purpose of purchasing the
| base ball park for a school site,
Here Is a conundrum. It it takes
money to run atery other kind of business how enn a newspaper run without
It? We don't know the answer. If anyone wjll Inform ns we'll make it an object to them. Meanwhile until we Jind
out how to do it Will our good frioncb
wlio are behind in tlieir subscription
kindly help us bypaying up.
Say, girls, if you wish to have a
smooth, rosy, handsome face, don't chew
gum. You can chew it if you chews,
hut if you do the masseter muscles which
moye the jaw will be abnormally developed, and tho fatty substance which produces plump, fair cheeks will be gone.
You will grow to be thinfaced, hollow-
cheeked and unattractive.    Don't chaw.
STc editor accepted an invitation from
John W. Dunlop, the druggist, on Wednesday evening and took a pleasant, ride
of a couple of miles out iuto the country
behind bis Hying little steed. That
horse, or rather mustang, Is the bo*-t animal of the breed ever in this country.
Ho is very spirited, though John has got
him broken almost perfectly, He is
quite a ligoer" too, having frequently
troted a mile in three minutes.
Somo business men measure the yalue
of an advertisment by the direct returns
they get from It, nnd, after a short trial,
withdraw on tho ground that it does not
pay. Thc indirect benefits derived from
keeping the name before tho trade nre
out of all proportion to the direct returns
received, and tho moro successful advertisers nre those who keep themselves constantly before the people that their names
become as familiar as household words.
A. J. Doherty and Chas. I. Bigley were
in Grand Rapids on Monday and Tuesday of this week for the purpose of examining the merits and prices of opera
chairs for Mr. Doherty's new opera house.
Mr. Bigley is agent forthe Grand Rapids
Hrm and received a telegram for both to
come over at their expense and examine
their products, which they accepted.
An agent for a Chicago factory has been
in town for tho past week endeavoring
to supply tho new opera house, but Mr.
Doherty has not yet placed his order.
The secret of success in life is to keep
busy, to bo perserving, patient and untiring in the pursuit or calling you aro following. The busy ones may now and
then make mistakes^ hut it is hotter to
risk theso Oism to he idlei and inactive.
seeking recreation. Motion is'lffej an
the busiest are the happiest. Cheerful,
active labor is a blessing. An old philosopher says: "The firefly only shines
when on the wing; so it is with the mind
when once wo rest, we darken."
Anew counterfeit ten cent piece is in
circulation which so closely resembles
the genuine that, it can be easily passed.
It differs from the usual counterfeit iu
that genuine silyer plating covers the
German silver which forms the body of
the coin. This gives it a ring very nearly like that of good money, and also
does away with that greasy feeling by
whicli counterfeits are detected. The
coin bears the date of 18S7. The milling
is not so deep on the counterfeit and the
edges are much sharper than those of
the genuine dime—Ex.
Wednesday forenoon, Lena, the little
six year-old daughter of James W. Dun-
woodie, met with a painful accident. A
hammock had been swung in the vacant
building next to Herrlck & Harris' store
for the uso of thc little ones, one end of
which was attached to the wall and the
other to a counter. While at play in the
building, she jumped into thc hammock,
which overbalanced the counter and it
fell upon her, breaking her limb just below the knee. Dr. Todd was called and
reduced the fracture and the little one is
resting as comfortable as can be expected
under the circumstances.
Whoever wrote this got thc whole
truth in a nutshell: "If you haye a little
farm or busiucss, and are out, of debtf
don't fret or work yourself and your good
wife into the grave for the sake of making money. You have hut the one life
to livo and that is very brief at best.
Take a little comfort and pleasure as you
go nlong day by day,aud try tojdo a little
good to others. A morbid, insatiate desire to posess the earth, to grab everything in sight is tho foundation of more
misery than almost any one thing,
Wealth alone will neyer keep your memory green after you are gone."
The main building and dry kilns of the
Clare Wooden Ware company are nearly completed, and tho framo work of the
engine house is raised. The latter build- \
ing will he covered with sheetiron on
the outsido and bricked inside ancl between the 8tuddings, The engine and
boiler are expected this week and will at
once he placed in position. The tub and
pail machinery are expected in a few
days and will he placed as soon as practicable. Bolts are coming in steady and
others arc continually being Contracted
for. Everything is expected to be in
running order three weeks from next
Monday, at which time the factory will
Commence operations.
VOICE PROM THE SOUTH.
A ailcnijraii Man's tetter to Clare
*        '        County frieju&H.
Dai,ms, Texas, July 27,18001
DUMOCIUT-riiESS, '   '•• '
FjtinxD Eaton;—This Sal/bath afternoon, I am sitting away up in tlie fourth
story of theSalnd George Ilotel.^in the
City of Dallas and thinking of the Hi any
friend? in Clare county, Michigan, now
so far away, I wish, Oh! so much, that
for to-day at least I could once more
clasp hands with some one whose face
was a familiar one. But ifc cannot be
and I must wait with what patience 1
can,, until time and business)!changes;
will permit my return to places that hy
association have became dear to me.
By glancing at the map of Texas yoit
will see that Dallas is iu the uorthenstem • ,-
pavt of the great state of Texas. Ifc is a
city of about fifty thousand inhabitants.
It is situated on tbe Trinity river which
here is not as large as the Tobacco near
your village. Thc city is situated on
what might well be termed a rolling
prairie, for although there aro plenty of
trees they are of very small growth.
From the top of the hotel one can see
a long way, in fact may measure the
limit of human eye sight. In eyery direction you may see little southern
homes, nestled in groyes of fruit or shade
trees, showing just enough to tell you
they are there, while each is surrounded
by broad fields of cultivated lands; luxuriant with growing crops of corn and
cotton.
The dry weather aud the intensejicat is
injuring the corn in a measure, hut the
cotton only laughs at the sun, and grows
stronger and better under the hoUst rays
sho can send. "Cotton is king'' in this
Vicinity, being tho most important crop.
Fruit locks poorly and will be a small
crop, as a late frost last spring injured it
badly.
Dallas i- a great railroad center, as
some ten or twelvo roads lead to and
from ifc in almost every direction. Dallas ha* I think, some six National hanks
whose combined capital reaches away up
in the millions. Aside from these are a
number of private banking houses doing
a large amount of business.
There aro seveial flrst-classhpte^herej;
all well patronized—-the three most pro-
miflent being .the, St, George, McLeod
Ashing don't forget to stop^at the Sit.
George.
Politics arc boiling here, as state of-
llcets are to be chosen this fall. In common with every right thinking man tho
people here dislike the tariff and curse
tlie flrce hill.   More anon.      Yours,
B. Ambler.
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WANTED:—5000cords of beech and
maple bolts at Muscott's Handle Factory
Clare. 51-tf
LOST:—A gold breastpin—shape of
banjo, on Main street, Monday afternoon.
Finder will please leave at this office.
For Sale:—A good buggy and a single
harness in good condition. Inquire of
Frank Whitmore, at the Exchange Hotel,
Clare.
I would ns soon think of doing business
without clerks as without advertising.—
John Wanamaker.
To tho Teachers of Clare County.
The next regular examination of
teachers for Clare county will be held afc
Harrison, August 7, next, beginning at 9
a. m. Geo. J. Cummins,
July 14, '00. Secretary.
A Model Railway.
The Burlington Boule, C. B. & Q. R.
R., operates 7,000 miles of road, with terminal in Chicago, St, Louis, St. Paul,
Omaha, Kansas City and Denver. For
speed, safety, comfort, equipment, track,
and efficient servico it has no equal. The
Burlington gains new patrons, but loses
none. 51-4t
There appeal's to be something radically deficient with the spark arrester on
the smoke stack belonging to Lester &
Archamholt's saw mill. Two fires have
originated from sparks therelrom during
the week. Monday afternoon a pile of
fence posts was ignited and Wednesday
afternoon Mooney's ice house, some roc\c'
distant, was discovered On flre;in £;<■&
instances causing an" alarm of flr^ and
calling out the hose companA It '*
liable to cause a serious conflagration
these dry times, and shouldie remedied
without further delay. B^ldc, it costs
the taxpayers of the ytfago about §S 65?
§10 every time the hoie company is called out, and a little ''.precaution will savo
this expense and probably many dollars'
worth of property.
* ■ .
During tbo coming year theTJnitetl
States will spend §167,000,000 for pension purposes. This exceeds the total araonnt that Great Britain annually pays out for tho support of
herjiraiy and navy, and is by far tho.
largest sum that any government
hfts ever granted for the relief of Us
disabled soldiers,—Sx.