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CLARE, MICH;, FRHBBVUGUST15, 1890.
NEW SERIES NO 55.
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And watcli for my grand opening of
Homing, of Mt. Pleasant, was
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ON OR ABOUT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th.
My quarters will be in  Dolaerty's * New  Opera House Block.    Twill
show yoy the neatest store and finest stoek of >goods in Northern
Michigan.
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Pencil and Shears.
E. H. Jenney, Sears, yesterday.,    / • ;3
Fine rain Wednesday afternooiu-"?'' *<" ■
Berry pickers are numerous ancl berries;
are plentiful. ;•    • "' ;;•'.'
A heavy frost was barely escaped .last-
Saturday night. '..';■•*
For a good shaye of hair cut 'go &m%
see George Calkins
.- Misses Edith DeVogt and Louie Cm,
are in Mt. Pleasant today.
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Clare the first of the week.
Miss Mabel Wate, of "Big Eapids,. is
guest of Mrs. J. H. Wilson.
James H. Darrow, of Glare, is pne
the latest to receive a pension.        ' /
Mrs. C. Bigley attended^the M> Evqa
meeting at Eeed City'oh Sunday,,.
Lewis Brown, foreman on the Farw
Eegister, was in Clare on Saturday.
How can you expect the poor to
contented when the rich Beyer are? •*•
About the poorest man in-the world
the man who is as poor-as his excuses"..-
Charley Lyons, an attorney from ¥&i
well, was in Clare yesterday on.busines
It is a phenomena to" us how gome, pe<
pie live doing nothing from yearto yeai
Seth Hall is building an addition on
the rear of his residence in Vernon Cit;
Mr. and Mrs. Gage, of Saginaw co^ntyg
are visiting relatives in town" this week!
* Mrs. A. Lackie went to   Coleman  yes
terday for a few days' Visit with friends
Miss Lou Kinney, of Grand Kapids,'
the guest of her cousin,Mrs. Jaihes.Boyd:
"Miss Nina Turner,  Of  Evart,  visit©
with Miss Carrie Eockafellow oyer Sua
Miss Allie Adams, of Harwell, visited
with her parents in Glare the first of the
week.
The Democrat-Press from now;.uiiti]
after the November elections for-,6hly.
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Be careful what you ,do today; it yyiU
become a yesterday arid cause yoii'11
regrets. '     a Ay
There is no town ia the state pie
of .Clare that has better "or mp^e'
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We carry a very Complete Stock of
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Family Groceries.   Also Provisions
of all kinds, Hay, Oats, Flour, Feed, etc.
We are doing practically a
Cash business, which enables us to
Give our customers   the   Best Goods   and
Greatest Quantity for the money.    Don't fail to call on
tJs as we .assure you Courteous treatment,  and Great Bargains.
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I A. S. Ehoad'es and children de-
yesterday morning for a couple of
'■Visit with friends at West Bay
reral people from Clare and Farwell
ittend a dah.eing party at Harrison
opening.   A special train will bring
home.        '   -
-abnormally smart exchange  sug-
that a "shady reputation" might be
Portable thing-- to have during dog
Tunnicliffe was at Bay City yes-
r,looking after soine machinery be*
[jng to the Clare Wooden Ware Com-
; Al Beebe, one of the publishers of
Cadillac Democrat, was in Clare'last
fa'day and made this Office a pleasant
ie people of Clare are unable to see
the   ^muzzle-your-dog-ordinance"
jjariy great' effect on the canines here-
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ceet Commissioner Austin has done
Silent .service this summer in the way
^pairing old andbuilding new side-
Iks. '    '• '    -'
Ers. J, W. Calkins was a't Calkinsville
br three, days this week caring for
jk B. E. palkins, who has been danger-
ly ill.
fvery mail in Clare who can handle a
0)f,>jackplane  and drive* a nail has
CjMpt extremely busy Silting, the past
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. E.^Wheeler and a party of gentleman
■Lansing; were in Clare Monday on
Ir way to Dodge, in the north part of
"county. •. ■, ■.
?he water main was extended this
ikfrpm 5th.street across the, T. & A.
ImwH -into the Wooden W!ar& com-
tyf*yards. ■ [■''..; * ;•' "
ie upper peninsula has 692,250 acres
iah^yet  unclaimed  by settlers,   an
nej^ly as large as the, entire state of
>de island.
!C; Ecckafellow,ThQs|I)wyer, .Tames
barren and "Will'Gopdman drove over
Mt. Pleasant Monday evening to  at-
end Masonic lodaje.
*^he. western wheat crop is said to be
ejow the average, and there is a proba-
llity that value in the cereal will rise
fore the holidays.
|.Brahk<JaTpenter, of Wilson, Niagara
>c(nty,^."Y., is the guest of his unele,
■farris. Mr. Carpenter contemplates
2Jare his home, - .
We Iieqel ii\ Ixo-^ Prices.
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Mi\ and Mrs. John Bush, ofaiear Grlad-
win, are visiting, friends in this viciility
this week. . ... *
If you want to save mqney *buy your
coal now and wait until riext Winter to
buy your ice.
Mrs. Byron Boyd and Mrs. F, A. Jef-
feries visited with friends in Farwell
last Saturday.
J. W. Calkins will buy wheat this fall
and has an adv. relating thereto in another column.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Powell, of Meredith, have been yisiting friends in Saginaw, this week. •
Attorneys Cummins and Burritt and
Sheriff Doty, of Harrison, were visitors
at Clare Monday.
The number of tickets sold  by Agent,
Tasker to Barnum's  circus   at 'Saginaw.
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yesterday was 51.       t _
Mrs. W. H. Wilson, of Harrison, was
the guest of Mrs. Sam'l Leyington iii
Clare last Saturday.
Mrs. O. Beemer, who is visiting at Saginaw, came home Monday, returning the
following afternoon.
Franklin T*. Cope was married at Hersey, on Wednesday, August 6, to Miss
Cora Cobb, of Marion.
The mason have finished the first ancl
are now laying brick on the second story
of Dawson's new block. '
Mrs. W. H. Eichardson, Of-Harrison,
was the guest of Mrs."Sam'l Levington
on Tuesday of this week.
Miss Bessie Giberson will enter the
conservatory of music at Detroit the
first week in September.
Mrs. E. E." Foster will start Monday:',
morning for Fairhaven, Mass., fof an in-^
definate visit with friends. '      "
There is very little sickness in this vicinity at present. A healthier locality
does not exist in Michigan.
Mrs. C. F. Marshall and children de?
parted Wednesday to yisit. with her parents at Wayne for a few weeks.      .
Mrs. John Sexsmith and Herbert fe?
turned last Saturday from a two weeks'
yisit with friends near St. Johns.
Geo. Janes, who is clerking in A.- J.
Doherty's hardware store, is yisiting
with friends in Midland this week.*
Express messenger Frank Armstrong,
of the Branch run, has moved to Meredith and commenced housekeeping.
Miss Bertie McKinnon, of Saginaw, is
yisiting her parents Mr. and Mrs.-H.'K.
McKinnon north of Clare this week.
Almost a half hundred from Harrison
and nearly as many from Farwell took in
Barnum's circus at Saginaw yesterday.
Mrs. Freinont Bradley departed Wednesday for a couple bf weeks' visit with
friends at Petoskey and Harbor Springs,
will offer the paper-ior three '.months to
anyjafldress for 25 cents.
A large crowd was in. attendance at the
hoseboys' datace in the Wooden Ware
Company's building last Friday evening.
A splendid time was had.
. AL Bell, of Meredith, and D. Fields, of
Dover, this week became members in
good standing of the thousands who read
this great family weekly.
Catherine, wife of Patrick Leonard, of
Clare, receives a pension; while Charles
Wright, of Harrison, secures an increase
—says Tuesday's dispatches,
A little son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dean,
otfeast 5th street, lias been very ill during the week, but is improving slowly
under Dr. Maynard's treatment.
rMisses Bessie and Florence Giberson
who have been been yisiting friends in
Genesee county   the past   two weeks,
^turned home Tuesday evening.       ^
Business of all kinds is rather quiet
hereabouts at present, but in a few days
things will be humming again. Indica-
ions point to a lively trade this fall.
We want a corps of live correspondents
for the Democrat-Press in every town
ancVschool district in Clare and northern
Isabella county.   Who will volunteer.
^Commercial men are as thick as flies
around a molasses jug". The Alger and
Sterns hotels are taxed to their utmost
capacity to accommodate  the  traveling
public.
jA new three story brick hotel, a new
brick union school building and besides
other improvements in Clare for next
summer indicates that the season! will be
a lively ori§.
^The Clare people who attended M. E.
camp meeting at Eeed City oyer Sunday,
returned home .Wednesday afternoon.
All report a large crowd and a pleasant
time.
Ed. Miller left Saturday morning last
for Lake Eidge* where he will visit for a
tike. Mrs. Miller, who has been yisiting
relatives at that place, will return with
her husband.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Chappee and
children, of Saginaw, visited in Clare a
couple of days this week, returning home
this morning. Mr. Chappee is a nephew
of P. M. Shearer.
Clare and northern Isabella county farmers haye raised a large and superior
quantity of wheat this year. This wheat
ought to be manufactured into flour before it leaves this vicinity.
fMrs. M. Murtha and children, of Mt.
PJeasant,v returned liome last evening
after a couple of days' visit in Clare, the
guests of Mr, and Mrs. C. W. Perry and
her neice, Miss Winnie Merrill,
A young man- in this town was inf Of fined that his best girl was seen swinging iu
a hammock the other day with a gentleman. ' He was quite worked about it, and
on inquifrif6nncJ.it was'-fcV  '   H    *  :.'*
little i^nkie0Hardy, o'f4■■&&*****ho
has been tie guest of her i--»i ^ #wW ■•^*
H. Holbrook for the past ' y*', I; ^^ed
to her home Tuesday. Si l,^r'l't^iMJ0^9r
panied by her nephew, Ea^ ^q$.ii| v*.
. C. H. O'Donald is kept &''•'*% ff -iese
days looking after his shi^%reav*« ness
hereabouts. He handles tu •• j-p. *L,g ts of
three mills—one at Coleman, Z,I   .. Far-
well and another"in Arthur tci'e^tip.
' The idea that any thing; can^n|| e manufactured as good and cheatf sfHt home
as elsewhere has been expe^^r>y those
who have seen the pair of fB^s-ron pillars made at Lamb's founc?    AAjr Daw-
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son's new-brick block;      .^f
W. E. Aldrich, the genial register of
deeds for this county, accompanied by-
his wife, was in Glare Tuesday afternoon
on his way home at Harrison, having
been up at Eeed City oyer Sunday- attending camp meeting.
Mesdames Dunwoodie anil Perry had a
somewhat exciting "experience Monday
evening while out driving. The horse'
became unruly and in turning too short
broke the thills. Ko material injury
created otherwise, however..
The editor of the Clare Dejiocrat-
Press intimates that Shepherd girls are
not noted for their. beauty. Wrong,
brother Eaton. Come down and we'll
show you the handsomest girls in this or
any other state.—Shepherd News.
The. big dam mi the Tobacco rivers
two miles northeast of Clare, was carried
away Sunday by a large "head" of water
that had been raised for^rivihg purposes.
It will probably be rebuilt, as it was one
of the most necessary dams on the rfver.'
The new engine for the Wooden Ware
Factory arrived the first of the week and
will soon be placed in position. The buildings are about completed and 'tis -ex1'
pected that everything will be in readiness to commence operations iu about
two weeks. * .
The Democrat-Press has double the
number of bona fide subscribers of any
paper published in Clare coiinty, and, is
therefore the best advertising medium.
It contains twice the amount of local
and county news o£ any other paper.
Now is the time to subscribe.
The wheat and oat.crop in this-vicinity
!il^be^n.e^:ceedip)jly large this year and
' .was secured in'1 good condition. '"Corn
and potatoes and other products promise
equally well if not troubled by the frost.
Clare and Isabella county farmers • are
feeling in good spirits this season.
The oat crop of the state will not be
mpre than three-fourths of the average
yield, and potatoes have dropped off 14
per cent during the last month. The.
rain fall is now nearly three incnes shy
for the last four weeks, showing only
imperfectly the severity of the drouth.
Prof. E. D. Palmer and wife returned
Wednesday noon from a bridal tour of
four or five weeks' .duration, during
which time they visited with friends in
western *N"ew York and Pennsylvania.
They have rented Mrs. Shaver's residence
in the south part of town and will commence housekeeping at once.
• Bill Nye writes to the bald-headed
man who asks for his adyice on hair re-
storativesi as follows: "Take your hair
restorative money and buy a town lot in
a growing town that supports its home
paper and advertises, and go ahead, and
you will be fixed, and the inan who is
fixed don't care whether he has any hair
or not."   ' «
Tom P., the celebrated young stallion
owned by C. W. Sterns that was so seriously injured six or eight weeks ago by
a snag, was taken suddenly worse last
week and Sunday morning was put to
death to end bis sufferings. This is a
heavy loss for Mr, Sterns. The horse
was a fine one, being valued at $1000 by
his owner. \
We understand that Wm, Wolsky is
thinking seriously of erecting a fine brick
double store building on his lots at the
corner of Main and 4th streets during the
coming summer in which to dp business.
And we wouldn't be much surprised if
he moved his family back from Chicago
'erelong; 'Tis earnestly hoped that he
will do both.
George Calkins' new place on west 4th
street will be about as slick as any in"
these parts when completed. He expects
to be ready to do business about next
Monday .or Tuesday. George has the
Teputatiou in this vicinity of being a
first class tonsorial artist, haying did
business here before. He will be pleased
to greet his old customers.
J. W. Calkins was in Saginaw Monday
on business. He brought back with him
the plans and specifications for the new
hotel that he is about to erect on the corner of Main and 5th streets. Fred Hol-
lister is the architect of the new buildings
which promises to be a grand oiie and
will give Clare about the best liotel
in any town of its size in Michigan'.
The time of year is' approaching whejn
the wily politician will, 011 the slightest
provocation, grasp the hand of every
man he meets, in such a b< ai'Jy .manner
as to cause the unsuspecting victim to
wonder what has produced this sudden
rush of friendship, which wonder wlll-.b'e
removed when he sees this identical mau
in the hands of his friends and humbly
allowing his nam^to go before the people *
for some honorable or lucrative office.
E, E. Murtha visited gWith friends in
this vicinity a couple of days this week*
The Mt. Pleasant Enterprise last week
says'that he "has been-offerec! a position
in the Sandwich Islands as a teacher at a
good salary. He is inclined to nccept
the same if he nan get a - release from * a
California contract. This is the position
for ten years held by Prof.El^P. Church
of Cadillac. Mr. Murtha-is 8c*fine teacher
and because he is sueh is never at a. loss
for a position." . ,.,'-'.'..*
C. W. .Hyne, of   Foivlerville, under-' ■
sheriff of Livingston county, assisted by
Under Sheriff Parrish of Clare, went to
Hatton last Friday night arid arrested a
man by the name of Wright", aZias; John
Williams,'who was working onthe section at that point.   Sometime last June,
Wright forged an order for $100, took it
to the bank and   drew "the inioney.- He
Came to Saginaw   where* he- spent the   .
amount.in  revelry   and  after  "going.,
broke" came up to Clare county and went
to Work. Sheriff' Hyne departed with his
prisoner for Liyingston county Saturday
-morning. ■
We are indebted to Mrs. Henry ;Alger
for a couple of copies of a recent'date ofthe Western  Democrat, published at "Be-
loit, K*an., near which, place they* owned
and resided „ upon a farm   for' several
lyiears.   Judging from the  tone-' of 'that'
paper the farmefs and nearly  everybody
in Kansas are about discouraged because
of the crops this year which  have  been
nearly ruined by hot winds and ' drouth.
TherBeloit .Democrat is about the Tjfigbt-
est and .newsiest local paper we have had
the plea'sure to peruse in some time, and'
we trust they will, cohsent to  exchange.
Samuel F. Fine is creating quite a revo-^.
lution in the appearance of things in the
east part of the village where he owns
property.   He recently purchased of Geo..
Feighner the house and lot at the corner-
of Hemlock and west 7th streets; eonsid--   -:
eratioh |300.;. The lot has  been-neatly ~.
graded, a new   fence  built  aroundu the
ptemises and a sidewalk is abbut to be .
.laid. " OiltO.hiS ho'as^': jjirli^cb adj°l^ ***V.'-v
aboye property on the south, he is having
a large addition built, which, when completed, -will make  him a cozy and;.at- "y,
tractive little home.   Tbe' Judge:is put-r
ting to  good  use  the .pension  money
which he recently received.
Marshall . Expounder: Every goofl
business man and every citizen knows
that a good local newspaper adds a great
deal to the wealth and prosperity of a -
town and gives the place a reputation,
abroad. It benefits all who do . business
and increases the value of property, for
the reason that it brings business," and -,"
consequently wealth to the place... The
newspaper and the town prosper only as
the space in the former is rented by
home merchants. Don't consider it an
act of charity to support it, but as a
means of increasing your own wealth
and the wealth of the place in which you
live. Incidentally we will mention that
we have several columns t? to rent."
Henry Eazek, the gents' clothier   and
furnisher who  wiil  occupy, the  south
store front in Doherty's new opera house
block, was in  Clare  Monday  morning.
In another column of today's.Democrat-
Press he advertises his.open day on Sat--:
Urday, September 6th.   He promises  to*. .
show th« people of this yicinity  one ■ of-"'   .
the slickest stores in Northern Michigan,.
as. well as the best and largest  stock  of- ■*
gents' clothing,  furnishing  goods, hats ..
and caps, whieh are:already beginning to
arriye.   Those who are best  acquainted,
with Mr. Eazek speak of him  as being 7
a genial, enterprising and liberal  business man, and say that Clare has  gained   -
a worthy citizen.   We predict a liberal   m.
patronage for Mr. Eazek from the peo- -f
pie of this vicinity and welcome him to..-
our midst.
Nathan Bicknell is proving hitiise]f.ar
.thriving agriculturist as well a§ a sU6ce§3*-
f ul business man.   Beside his other property here and there he owns one of the
best farms in   Sheridan township,  situated one-half mile south of Wm. Eeid's.
McFarland, Miser & Hartman bave bad
their threshing machine stationed there,
during a part of the week doing work for
"Farmer" Bicknell.   They haye threshed
already  about  450   bushels  of spring
wheat. 550 bushels of oats and 50 bushels
of peas. J A string of teams were kept
busy a couple of days this week hauling-"
the grain to town, where it is now stored
in his warehouse on the F. & P. M. track.
,Mr. Bicknell has  about  300. bushels of
wheat, 200 bushels of oats and 50 busnels,
of peas yet to thresh.   He  expects "to."
gather about 800 orlOOp bushels of potatoes and 450 bushels of, corn, anjcl feels
quite hilarious over his experience this   "
year as a.tiller of the soil.
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