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Election.
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CLARE, MICH,, FRIDAY, SEPT. II, 1896.
No. 12
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A Fail Suit until you have inspected our stock of fali woolens.
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YERINGTON'S COLLEGE, St. Louis, JHcli.,G0cnwec.;, will open tno last Monday
ih September. Go where yon can get tbe best education for the least money. Wo arc eafe
in saying thia.-for wo have everything the stndcntwants lu'rc-at convenient hours, and for
less mohey than it can be had nt any othor institution in the United StateB, and the instruction is professional. EIGHT COUKSBB: Commercial, Short-hand, Penjuksiup, Teaohem'
EnSlish, Mobio, Elocution and Physioai, Culture; all for Firry okntsbeb week. Only thinli,
one private lessor a week on either Piano, Organ, Cornet, Violin, Guitar, or h) Voico Culture,
Elocution and Physical Cultnro; with Reading, Spelling, Grammar, Arithmetic, Plain and Ornamental
Penmanship, Letter-writing, Typo-writing, Composition, Debating and freo class drills in Music,- Elocution and Physical Culture, for 50c uttcok. All the studies after the abovo semicolon, may bo omitted,
and any one of tho following substituted for tho Bamo price: Book-keeping with Actual Bnsinosa,
Short-hand witli Type-writing, Commercial L»w, Geography. U, 8. History, Civil Governmont, Physiology, School Law, Theory »nd Ait, Oithogjaphy or Slental Aiithmotie. All studies in. tho Ool.ogo
without j-siyAtb Icmpoiu in Music, Elocauon and Physical Culture, COc a week. Can yon b«at it)
"When yoo. hiwa flnishad o« K»gllsh CO-u»«, if you have proven that you. an lione»t and diligent, wo
cimfurnish yeu good gMttMl employment. Our Inatroctois havo t-wwht Penniimahjp since I860;
Bobkrksspisg Md Stxoti-kMxiL »inc« 1866; TeM&trs' Cowm, tinea 1S7B:H«_A], aHfuthaoT -Bi_»»»mdo«it
may educatettttsemklag,tnd-ptytotit»-rt*rw»rc_a. Weal-to oiler _]Vj»*a Trawoji. Ten can gee
noAED bom. 91.00 ta VLVijm wstfe. Tf • tore advsrtieing in 179 daily -».___, ww«kly pfcp-KB, and expect a
largo school nest year. S«n't laU to toad tor oar tMma.lf »1 Illustrated catftlogue, to O. W. Toilngton,
Our naw book ''JBosu, D&ik aad Hwry *»d th»hrBog L*o," will be out by DQceraboi 1st, 1890,
Price. £1.00.   Send for booit, or tor ageut»' »tes, to the Mitnor, C W. Torington.
Send to Qhjicago Music Co„Chic»go, XXt, Sor ••Laughing 'Wfttiir -Waltz,'' "Tompoat and SutiBhine
Mftrdi," 60c each.   Oomposcd ond airanffod for Piiuio by 0. W. Yoringtou.
From now until the November Election
FOB. 3® CEBITS.
More local on another page.
3U1!,; Dmy wehi. to Xle.kftit yeatertluy.
Jacob Mason was ia Sagina-w on Tuesday. -
Fifty pounds No. 1 flour for 90 cents at
Harris',
F. W. Davidson vent to Shepherd on
Tuesday.
Ten bars best laundry soap for 25 cents,
at Harris'.
Sheriff Brown -was in Clare Wednesday night.
Miss Minnie Presley is teaching tho
Hatton school.
• Get nine bars of soap at VanBrunt &
Sou's for 25 cents.
Key. W. D. Bowland, of Harrison, irns
in Olare yesterday.
The Misses Maud and Minnie Oarr
have returned to Glare.
Harris enn give you bargains in soap.
Both toilet and laundry,
Jos. Gardiner and Dr. Kelley, Farwell-
ites, were in Olare yesterday.
Mrs, M. D. Davis and son, Moulton,
leave next weok for Alabama.
Born:-—On Wednesday, Sept. &th tq,
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Pratt, a gir).
Yandercook has moved Ms photograph
gallery into the Boswell block.
Miss Edna Buck returned yesterday
from a visit with friends in Mt. Pleasant.
. Harris wants your eggs for whieh  ho
will pay the highest price in cash or trade.!
Miss Marion Orowl, music teacher,
is visiting a few days this week in Alma,
Mrs. Sarah Oherryman, of, Harrison,
has been visiting friends in the city this
week.
The Othor Aid society will meet next
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. D.
Rorison.
Henry O. Hall, of Hudson, deputy
grand chancellor, K. of P., spent Sunday
in Olare.
Fred Graves, of Pontine, is spending
a few days in the city visiting his father,
G. A. Graves.
Mrs. Bichard Norfcby went to Saginaw,
Tuesday, to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Frank Boulton.
Mrs. G. A. Graves went to Grand
Bapids Tuesday to attend the millinery
openings in that city.
Ii. A. Hallet, of Hayes, and W. O.
Shollington, of Prestel, wero callers on
The Oo outfit. Monday.
* VanBrunt & Son, bakers and grocers,
are giving nine bars of the best soap on
the matkot for 23 cents.
Mrs. J. O. Bockafellow has returned
from Grand Blanc. Her daughter, Mrs.
Stroupe, accompanied her.
Miss Lulu Thurston begins a three
months term of school in the Morrison
district, Sheridan, nest Monday.
Mesdames W. O. Peterson and Jacob
Denzer left on Tuesday for an extended
visit with their parents in Detroit.
Miss Nellie Holdridge left' Saturday
for her home at Highland after spending
a few days with Wm. Boss and family.
-Frank and Floyd Doherty and Will
Bicknell left for Olivet college on Monday.   Mrs. Doherty accompanied them.
Don't forget that Rhoades is buying
all the wheat, oats and rye ho can get
and paying the highest cash price for
them,
, .Mrs._ArAhio l.MpKinlev. had the misfortune to fall, while in the woods on
Tuesday, and sustiaued quite severe injuries to her leg.
A poemi from Dover is respectfully
pigeonholed because the editor has not
been supplied with the facts concerning_
the subject of the poem.
Mrs. J. J. DoVoy, of Detroit, and Miss
Bosa Beed, of Mt. Ploasant, were the
guests of Mr. and Mrs- Dan Beed this
week. Mrs. DeVoy is Mr. Beed's sister.
. Next week VanBrunt & Son will have
another loaf of bread in thoir window
and the person guessing the nearest to
its weight will receive 15 bread tiokets
and tho next best will receive 10 tickets.
S. Lake the new proprietor of tho
Stevens House informs The Cottriek
that he is enjoying a good * trade. Mr,
Lake is putting up a first-class table and
the traveling public will find it the best
dollar-a-clay house in this part of tho
state.
The Northeastern District, Soldiers'
and Sailors' Association will hold their
third annual reunion at Shepherd, Mich.,
September 15,16,17 and 18, 1896. The
districts embraces the counties of Isabella,
Glare, Gratiot, Gladwin, Osceola, Midland, Saginaw, Bay and Tuscola, and it
is proposed to make tbis the most successful reunion ever hold by tho association. Shepherd is making every effort. to
entertain the Grand Army, and nothing
in tho way of entertainment and amus-
menfi will benegleotedi - A cordial invitation is extended to everybody.
Monday was labor day.
Bhoades wants whec.t, oats and rye.
J. F. Tatman went to Ludington Tuesday.
Three bars of toilet soap for 5 cents at
Harris'.
D. B. "Wait, of Farwell, was in town
Wednesday.
Hflrris oan give you bargaino in brooms,
Tw> for !2Bc,
Clayton Honeywell, of Farwell, visited
Olare on Wednesday.
' W. W, Harper, of Harrison, was in
th'ociiy Morjday nightl
Miss Laura Stuler, of Ooleman, is
visiting in the city this week,
M'fe. Ed. Unicume Sr. who has been
sick for some time is improving.
Farmers, cfon't keep your wheat
Bhoades wants it.   Highest cash price.
Edgar Peterson left for Lansing where
ho is attend wig the school for the blind.
'The Ladies Union, will meet next Friday jiftemoon with Mr3. John Sexsmith.
Wanted—Oats and rye at Rhoades'.
He will pay the highest cash price for
them.
A good quality of peaches have been
sold on tho market this week for 35 conts
per bushel.
Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Perry returned
from St. Paul, on Wednesday, delighted
with their trip.
Mr."and Mr3. E. B. Horning returned
this morning from a visit to difforent
points in Canada.
JChfi L. O.'T. M; social to have bean
hold next Weenesday evening has been
indefinitely postponed.
Mr. and Mrs. Ohas. Raymond, of
Gladwin, visited with Mr. and Mrs. H.
Schilling over Sunday.
TSTow is the appointed time. Tou can
sell your oats, wheat and rye to Rhoades,
he will pay you the highest cashprico for
them.
Rev. S. A. Long left Monday for
Toronto, Canada, where, he will remain a
few weeks with a view to improving his
health.
When you como to town with your
wheat, oats or rye take it to Rhoades. He
will pay you the highest cash price for
them.
' Being somewhat indisposed, conductor Boyd, of tho branch train, took a
short vacation this week. John Merrill
had charge of tho train.
Local sports have given Stevenson
lako their undivided, attention this iveek.
Largo numbers of duck have been
located thero for some days.
Mrs. Bedson has purchased the milli-
neiy stock of Parrish & Wilson and will
continue the business. Read what she
has to say in another column.
Hundreds of peoplo are guessing on
the weight of that loaf o_ bread in VanBrunt & Son's window. Another noxt
week with two prizes.   Give 'er a guess-
L. Blackburn left yesterday on an extended trip through the southern part of
the stats on his "bike." He will visit
Detroit ?.nd his home at Ottawa, Canada,
before returning.
Miss Maggie Gardiner, of this city,
daughter of Oap't J. T. Gardiner, has accepted the position of general agent for
the California Perfume Co., of New York,
at an annual salary of $600, and is now
at worlj: in the ppor upeniiasula and Wisconsin.
The COt-RIbb is under obligations to
W. P. Lewis, Clare's popular cigar manufacturer, for handst? tot* souvenirs of -the
National Encampment, Q. A. B. at St.
Paul, also copies of Milwarikee papers
containing thefulltext c-fBryajti'S speech,
in that city on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis had the pleasure of listening to
Mr. Bryan at Schlitz park and reports
the meeting as being a monster and
enthusiastic demonstration.
The Coueieb hastens to extend its
congratulations to the ladies who superintended the last issue of the Sentinel,
Tho edition of ten pages, all home print,
was a credit to the editors and tho office
which produced it. The selections which
filled its columns were exceedingly
meritorious, and tasty make-up of each
page evidenced superior ability in tho
projectors. Tho Other Aid has added
one more to its long list of successes.
The Coubieb, with feelings of sorrow,
is this week called upon to record tho
death of Postmaster Lyman D. Gleason,
of Edson Corners, Missaukee Co., which
occured very suddenly and without
warning on Monday night. The deceased, was a Clare Co. pioneer, having
locatod at what is known as "Jonesville"
somo 25 years ago. For the past 12
years he has resided in Missaukee, whore
he died. Mr. Gleason was about 60
years of age, a member of Harrison lodge
J. O, O. F. and highly respected. A
widow and largo family of grown children mourn his demise. The funeral was
held in the Frost township hall, thia
, county, and the remains were interred in
the township cemetery adjoining.
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MORTGAGE sale.
WHEBEAS, default has been made in
the payment of the money secured by a
mortgage dated the 24th day of March,
A. D. 1S98, executed by Minnie Wilder of
Farwell, Michigan, to James Pickering of
the same place. Which said mortgage
was recorded in the office of the register
of deeds of the county of Clare in liber
six, of mortgages, on page 165 on tho 28th
day of May, in the year 1894, at 10 o'clock
a. m. And, whereas, the amount claimed
to be due on said mortgage at the date of
this notice is the sum of one hundred and
thirty-five dollars and sixty-two cents,
($135.62) of principal and interest and the
tucther sum of Ion dollars (*§10) as an attorney fee, stipulated for in said mortgage, and which is the whole amount
claimed to bo due on said mortgage^ and
no suit or proceedings having been instituted at law or equity to recover the
debt now remaining secured by said
mortgage, or any part thereof, whereby
the power of sale contained in said mortgage has become operative. Now, therefore, notice is'hereby given, that by virtue oi 3aid power of sale, and in x3Ursu"
ance to the statutes in such cases made
and nrovided, the said mortgage will be
foreclosed by sale bi said premises therein described, at public auction to the
highest bidder, at the front door of the
court house in ths city of Harrison, in
said county of Glare (that being tha place
luhoi-o the circuit court for said county is
held) on the
26th day of October, A. D. 1896,
at 11 o'clock in the forenoon of said day;
which premises are described as follows,
towit: Lot fourteen (14) of block twelve
(12) of the villago of Farwoll, Olaro
county, Michigan.
Dated this 24-th day of July, 1896.
J AMES PlOKEBING,
- Mortgagee.
J. H. Can-field,
Attorney for Mortgagee.
conmissioNER's notice.
STATE 03? MICHIGAN, Connty of Glare, ss.
Probato court for said coijiity: Estato of William Purrioh, closc'iaed, Tho undersigned having heen appointed hy tho judgo of pJrohato for
said county, cominiGsioners on claims in the
matter of said estato, and six. months from tho
sixteenth day of July, A. D. 1896, having been
allowed by said judgo of probato to all persons
holding claims.against said eslato iu which to
present their claims to us for examination and
adjustment.
Notico is hereby givon that wo will meet on
tho eighteenth day of August, A. D. 1890, and
on the fifteenth day of January, A. D. 1S97,
at 10 o'clock a. m, of each day at tho offico of
E. M. Mussell, in tho city of Glare, in said
county to receive and examino such claims.
Dated, Olaro, Miehigaii, County of Claro,
July 10, 1896.
ROBERT M. MUSSELL,
JACOB MASON,
4t4 Commissioners on Claims.
MORTGAGE SALE.
DEFAULT having been made in the
conditions of a certain mortgage made by
Charles W. Dustin and wife to'William
E. Lyons dated July 1, A. D. 1894, and
recorded in the office of the register of
deeds, for the county of Olare and statp
of Michigan en tho 22d day of April, A.
D. 1895, in liber 14 of mortgages, on
page 300 which mortgage contains a condition that in case of default in tho payment of tho interest due thereon for
ninety days the whole of such mortgage
at the option of the mortgagee, should
become due, and the said mortgagee having taken advantage of such option and
declared tho whole of such mortgage due
therefore on which mortgage there is "
claimed to be due at the date of this
notice tho sum of three hundred and
ninety-nine dollars and forty four cents,
and an attorney fee of twenty five dollars
provided for in said mortgage, and no
suit or proceedings at law having been
instituted to recover the moneys secured
by said mortgage or any part thereof:
Sow, therefor'-, by virtue of the power of
sale contained in said mortgage, and the
statute in such case made and provided,
notice is hereby given that on
fionnayihe soih Daj-rui"NuveBsfecFs A» D. 5S9S,
at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, I shall
sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the, front door of the court house
in the city of Harrison ^that beihg the
place where the circuit court for Olare
county iB holden), the premises described
in said mortgage, or so much thereof as
may be necessary to pay the amount due
on said mortgage, with eight per cent interest, and all legal costs, together with
an attorney's fee of twenty five dollars,
covenanted for therein, the promises being described in said mortgage as all that
certain piece or parcel of land situate and
being in the township of Grant, in the
county of Olaro and state of Michigan,
and described as follows, to-wit: The
northeast quarter (J^) of the northwest
quarter (}£) of section twenty-three (23),
township seventeen (17) north, rango
four (4) west containing forty (40) acres
more or less.
Dated, Olare, Mich., August 7,1896.
WmiiiAii B. Lyons
O. W. Peeby, Mortgagee.
7tl3 Attorney for Mortgagee.
I will buy all wheat offered.
6tf Q. W. Lee, Olare.
I will buy all wheat offered.
6tf Gh W. Lee, Clare.
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Ann Arbor Road Excursion Rates.
A. E.  Encampment  at  iEjt.   Paul,
Minn,, Sept. 2 to 4, one cent per mile,
Knights of Pythias Uniform Bank;
Cleveland, Ohio. One fare for round
tiip, Aug. 22 to 24, good for return Aug.
31.
Eleventh Annual Ohio Excursion.
Look out for the llth annual Ohio excursion via Ann Arbor road, first week in
October. Time of trains, round trip
rates, limit of tiokets and points to which
tliey will be sold will be announced soon.
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