1912-04-19; Clare Sentinel

              Established 1878
ULARE, MICHIGAN,-FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 19, 1912.
New Seriep-  Vol, 20, No. 23
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The Bravest Battle.
The bravest battle that   ever   was
fought,
Shall I tell j on where and when?
On the maps of the world yon will
find it not;
. T> was fought by the mothers of men.
Nay, not with a cannon or battle shot,
With sword or nobler pen;
Kay, not with the eloquent words or
thought,
From the montbs'of wonderful men.
But deep Sin' a.   walled-up woman's
heart—
Of woman that would not yield,
But bravely, silently bore" her part—
Lo, there was the battlefield.
No  marshaling troops,   no  bivouac
song,
No banner to gleam and wave;
Bun, oh I these battles, they  last  so
long,
From babyhood to the grave,
Yet faithful still as a bridge of stars,
She fights, in her walled-up town—
Fights on and on in the endless wars,
Then silent, unseen—goes "down.
O, ye with banners and battle shot,
And soldiers to shout and praise,
I   tell you  tbe   kingliest    viotories
fought,
Are fought in these silent ways.
O, spotless  woman   in  a world  of
shame!     •
With a splendid and silent scorn,
Go  back   to God  as white   as  you
came,
The kingliest warrior born I
Joaquin Miller.
FARWELL.
MT. PLEASANT,
Interesting News Items from Mt.
Pleasant and Vicinity.
Paragraphs Picked Up By Our
Farwell Correspondent.
Two deaths have resulted here
from scarlet fever. On Sunday
morning, Eva, the 13-year old daughter of Mr.  and  Mrs.  John   Shook,
• died after a very brief illness. On
Wednesday morning their 2-year old
infant died from the same dread disease. The mother and one other
child are very ill at thts writing.
Every precaution is being used by
the school board for the prevention
of the disease. Comparatively few
pupils are in attendance at school.
A benefit supper will be given by
the Ladies Aid Socities on Saturday
evening for Paul Walker whs is very
ill. Mrs. Walker is also ill. You are
cordially invited to come and help a
worthy cause.
The Farwell Woman's Club met on
Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Fannie Reed.
• Marcus Smith of tbe Upper Peninsula, one of Farwell's early residents, has been •> visiting here this
week.
Mrs. T. U. Fuller returned on Saturday from Dayison where she was
called by the death.of her grandfather. She was accompanied home
by her twin cousins, the Misses Hal-
lie and Hazel Taylor.
Wm. Martin of Conneaut, 0., a
former resident of this village, is
visiting Farwell friends,
Mrs. 0. E Richards of Middletonis
the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. T.
Palmer.
Mrs. Mary Harris who for** several
weeks has been visiting at the home
of her cousin, J. B. Harris, and
family, left on Tuesday for her home
at Ypsilanti.
W. 0. Fuller and daughter left oh
Monday for a few days' visit with
Saginaw relatives.
Elias Sias has traded his 80-acre
% mile sonthwest of Farwell for the
Farwell Hotel.
Last Week's Letter.
_ A goodly number of the Pedagogical Olub and Alumni of the University of Miehigan met at the M. E.
church for a banquet on Wednesday
evening. President Hutobins of the
U. of M. gave a fine address on, Respect for Law.„
The Taft delegates to Reed Oity
Convention and the Rosevelt delegates to Bay Oity attended Wednesday and Thursday respectively.
The board of Supervisors met this
week and elected Thos. Gray of
Isabella, president for the coming
year. They met this time to canvass
the local option vote. The detention
home proposition was lost by about
200.
Preparations are being made to
change very materially the lower
story of the County State Bank.
Autos were never so plentiful as at
the present time. The paved, districts get the full benefit. Some
speed beyond reasonable limits.
The automobile building of Wall-
ington & Myers is assuming definite
proportions. It will be a fine structure when completed.
The Easter services were held in
the several churches, and were attended by large congregations.
April 17, tbe past masters of Wabon
Lodge will confer tbe third degree.
Several important Masons from outside will be present.
The many friends of Prof. S. D.
Brooks "Supt. of Boston schools are
highly pleased at his promotion to
the presidency of Oklahoma University at a salary of 87,500 a year. He
was offered the same salary to stay
in Boston for a term of six years but
declined. He was graduated from
Mt. Pleasant High School in 1887.
Many real estate deals are being
pulled off lately. We have a lively
number of real estate dealers who
know how to manage the business.
B. A. Isbell has opened a cigar and
confectionery store in the building
recently occupied by S. Dondero on
S. Main St. He has it yery tastefully
arranged.
RESOLUTIONS
Of Ladies Aid Of The Methodist
Church.
Goes To Ohio.
0. R. Huffman who recently sold
his farm near Farwell and pulled off
a very successful auction sale of farm
stock and tools, has purchased a
meat market at Rittman, Ohio, and
will move there in a few days. Mr.
H. has made a success in business
in the past and doubtless will in the
future. The best wishes of his many
friends will be with him in his new
venture,	
A Token Of Appreciation.
Whereas, our Heavenly Father in
his all wise providence has seen fit
to remove from ua one of our esteemed members, MrB. Quinton
Walker.   Be it
Resolved by the members of the
Ladies Aid society of the M. E.
church, that we extend our deepest
sympathy to the bereaved family,
and may the memory of her true
christian character inspire us to
greater activity in christian duty.
Be it also
Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and
printed in the local paper.
Mrs. W. M. Morden
Mrs, Simpson
Mrs. P. Hubel. ■
Real Estate Changes.
OCEAN LINER
SINKS: 1.334 LOST
ONLY 866 PERSONS OF 2,200 ON BOARD
ESCAPE FROM THE WORLD'S GREAT- .
EST OF MARINE DISASTERS.
Mightiest of Ocean Liners Strikes an Iceberg off
Grand Banks at 10:25 Sunday Night and
Founders at 2:20 Monday Morning.
Although 868 souls are reported to
be on the Carpathia It Ib apparent
that all of them are not passengers,
for it was necessary for members of
the Titanic's crew to man the lifeboats which set out from the sinking
liner. How many of the crew were
assigned to each boat is a matter of
conjecture. While the*' names of the
survivors are largely" of saloon passengers, the *rule "women first" should
apply! equally to the second cabin
and steerage, and may have cost the
lives of many prominent men above
decks. It is natural that the names
of the more obscure survivors would
be slower in reaching land.
False news and false hopes and an
international belief that the palatial
Titanic was unsinkable, followed the
slowly unfolding accounts of her loss
without precedent. Eager crowds in
a dozen cities in the United States
besieged bulletin boards when it be-
came known that the giant liner had
really sunk with terrific loss of life,
and in New York city hysterical men
and women crowded into the White
Star line offices seeking news of relatives.
On Her Maiden Trip.
In the melancholy roll of marine
tragedies that which overtook the Titanic is the first on record wherein a conspicuous vessel has met disaster ton her maiden voyage.
The nearest approach to such an
unfortunate fate was the cruise of
the Naronic, which, singularly enough,
belonged to the same line. She went
to the port of missing ships on her
second voyage. Carrying about 300,
al] told, she steamed out of thv port
on- her return trip, nearly 20 years
ago, and since then there has never
been a word as to how she met her
fate
HARRISON;
city,
the
last
This week W. B. Dennis sold his
residence on E.-,6th St. to O. B.
Thayer and,*purebased tbe residence
of Malcolm Feigbner on W, 7th St.
Mr. Thayer, former proprietor of the
Thayer feed barn, has Bold his farm
in Vernon to his sons and comes to
Cl-.re to make this his home. Mr.
Foi.^bner has purchased of Mrs. A. E.
Mussell the house on W. 7th St. now
occupied by Fred Stanley.
EMQCRATIG CONVENTION
Of Clare County Held Here On
Wednesday.
Words can only faintly express our
gratitude to our friends for their
kindness and sympathy during the
illness and death of our loved one.
The kind deeds and messages of sympathy from Clare, and all other parts*]
of the United States have shown us
more clearly the Christ side of life,,
Quinton Walker and Family.*
The democratic county convention
was held at the City Hall • on Wednesday with twenty delegates present. Every thing worked harmoniously and business was conducted with dispatch. Jacob Mason
retired as chairman of the county
committee and Geo. E. Benner wan
elected, John A. Jackson being
secretary and W. R. Hllborh treas*-
urer. The following were elected
delegates to the state convention at
Bay Oity, May 15th: A. R. Ganfleld,
John R, Brown, Geo. E. Benner and
W. W. Harper,
Sal Yet the animal  stock salt aj
Anderson's..
Interesting Items from   Correspondent at County Capital.
- Mra. Martha Green returned from
Midland last week where she has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs. H.
Heisman,
Mrs. O. D. Cleveland of East Jordan is visiting relatives in the city.
Elmer Hughes returned from Detroit Saturday evening.
Miss Sadie Wilson was at Cadillac
last week.
Ernest Merrill is home from Saginaw. .
Fred Green went to Midland last
Tuesday,
Miss Bonnie Richardson of Hastings is visiting her parents, Mr. and
MrB. Chas. Richardson, of this
The Thimble Club meet at
home of Mrs. Onas. Weidner
Thursday. ,
Tbe neck-tie social given by the
Class of 1912 was a decided success.
William Crawford was at Clare last
week.
Mrs. John McWatty returned from
the south part of the state, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Williams.
Wm. Murphy is the possessor of a
Buick auto.
Miss Stowe, Asst. Principal of the
high school, was confined .to her
home last week with an attack of
grippe.
The Thimble Olub will meet with
Mrs. A. Artibee, Thursday Apr. 25th.
Harry Campbell, manager of the
opera house, informs us that "The
Wolf" will be played here May 9th.
The Harrison pity band have received an invitation to j)lay here
Decoration Day.        -
W. E. Green is making extensive
improvements on the interior of his
store.
The Ladies' Home Missionary society was entertained at tbe home of
Mrs. Emma Hoag last Friday.
Mrs. J. M. Vandusen was at Olare
last week.
The greatest marine disaster in the history of the world occurred Sunday
night when the Titanic of the White Star Line, the biggest and finest of
steamships, shattered herself against an'iceberg,and sank with 1,334 of her
passengers and crew in less than four" hours.
Ont of 2,200 people she carried only 866 were known to be saved.
Most of these were women and children. They were picked up from small
boats by the Cunarder Carpathia which found, when she ended her desperate
race against time, a sea strewn with the wreckage of the lost ship and the
bodies of drowned men and women.
Among the 1,310 passengers of the giant liner were: Col. John J. Astor
and his wife, Isidor Straus, Major Archibald W. Butt, George B. Widener and
Mrs. Widener of Philadelphia, Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. Harper, Wm. T. Stead,
the London journalist, and many more whose names are known on both sides
of the Atlantic. The news that few besides women and children were saved
has caused the greatest apprehension as to the fate of these.
When the Titanic plunged headlong against a wall of ice at 10:25 Sunday night, her fate established that no modern steamship is unsinkable, and
that all of a large passenger list cannot be saved in a liner's small boats.
The White Star line believed that the Titanic was practically invulnerable
and insisted, until there was no doubting the full extent of the catasrophe,
that she could not sink. The great ship was the last word in modern scientific construction, but she found the ocean floor almost as quickly as a
wooden ship.
On her maiden trip, the Titanic, built and equipp- 1 at a cost of $10,000,-
000, a floating palace, found her grave. Swinging from the westerly steamship lane at the south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to* take the direct
run to this port, she hurled her giant bulk against an iceberg that rose from
an immense field drifting unseasonably from the Arctic. Running a't high
speed into that grim and silent enemy of seafarers, the shock crushed her
bow. From a happy, comfortable vessel she was converted in-a few minutes
into a ship of misery and dreadful suffering.
Business' Changes.
As will be noticed by ads. elsewhere in this paper, the mill recently operated by the Milling, Light and
Power Oo. will be run in the future
by the Callam Milling Co. Mr. Ting-
ley will be retained as head miller, a
supply of good flour and feed will be
kept on hand and a square deal
promised to everyone.
The Consolidated Light and Power
Co. under the management of F. B.
Doherty, wbich company has 1 ad its
oflioes in the mill, has now removed
to the Dunwoodie building where
they will keep electrical supplies and
are ready to do your electric wiring.
Great Mississippi Power Danu
So quietly that even the newspapers nardly know abont it, even after
it is half finished, there ia being
built in the Mississippi, in the most
violent stretch of tbe great river, at>
the foot of its impassable rapids, the
greatest power dam in the world,
creating the largest water-power
plant in tbe world, to energize tbe-
largest single electrical installation;
in the world; and this is being done
in the yery center of the agricultural
area ofthe United States to change
with one move on the economic
chessboard the dominant production
of the first farming States in the
Union from corn and chickens to
manufactured products.
So large is this water-power devel^
op ment that when it is completed,
early in 1913, it will s'hjft tbe manufacturing center of tbe United States'
and greatly change the map of industrialism in this country.
It is a long step forward in the-
evolution of power for manufacturing in America, This evolution has
been somewhat of a return to the
type in tbis nation of great natural
resources: First, there were water
wheels in New England and other
streams with mills on tbe banks;
then came tbe era of coal, whioh
built up .Pennsylvania; now the
movement is toward turbine water
wheels turning dynamos which make
power in a form that may be transmitted easily to machines hundreds
of miles away from the river. A.
similiar change haB occurred industrially i In tbe first era, the raw
materials were taken to tbe power,
because the power could not bo
moved from the overshot wheels; in
the era of coal, there came a time
when tbe transportation of the fuel
was cheaper than the carriage of the
raw materials, and some industries
moved to the source of supply of the
latter; now, power makes sucb a
large part of factory cost that the
movement is of factories to the
power, as in the beginnings of manufacturing in this country,
These economic principles have
much to do with tbe evolution of all
parts ofthe United States which have
water power capable of being
changed into electric power, which
is also the cheapest power the world
has ever known, due partly to the
economy practicable in its use at tbe
machines.—From . "-Harnessing the
Mississippi to Electric Generators, "
by G. Walter Barr in the American-
Review of Reviews for April.
Adopted By   Ladies   Auxiliary
of M. E. Church.
Easier carries the most complete
line of furniture in the county, see
him before you buy. 23-2
Farewell Party.
As Mrs. Jos. Presley contemplates
leaving soon for an extended trip in
tbe east, her friends of the Ladies
Aid Society met at her home last
Monday evening to extend their best
wishes, The evening was pleasantly
spent with .games, recitations and
music and a very fine lunch was
served, Mrs. Presley will be missed
by her many' friends in Clare.
Another Change.
On Monday Alec. Fick returned to
his old love and how calls "next" to
the customers of the Oalkins House
barber shop. Frank 0. Falk who
has ably served the public in that
capacity during tbe winter 'will next
week become a horny-handed farmer,
taking up his residence < on the Rod-
Well farm in Sheridan, now owned by
Jno. A. Jackson, Jr.
Whereas, our beloved sister, Mary
E.Walker, bas,completed ber earthly life and has gone to meet her
God, in whose service she has so
faithfully and devoutly labored,
therefore, be it resolved: That our
Society, The Ladies Auxiliary of the
M. E. c.hurcb, has thereby lost the
benefit 'and companionship of an
unselfish, loving and Obrlst-Iike life.
Be it further resolved that we extend our sincere sympathy to our
pastor, Rev. Q. Walker, and his
family in their bereavement; Also,
tbat a copy of these resolutions be
sent to Rev, Q. Walker and family,
and that it be published in the Olare
papers.
Mrs. A. E, Mulder,
Mrs, O. A. Reading,
Committee.
Bryant-Beatty.
On Wednesday, April 17th, 1912, at
the M. E. parsonage at Mt. Pleasant,
Miss Flossie M. Bryant, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Bryant of this
city became tbe wife of Mr. Earl
Beatty of Vernon, Rev. Cox of the M.
E. church officiating, The bride was
charmingly attired in white mess-
aline, while the groom wore .a suit of
the conventional black.
Mr. and Mrs. Beatty will goto house
keeping at once on his farm in Vernon. . Both young people have a host
of friends who will wish -for them a
happy and prosperous journey
through life. X.
National Biscuit Co., will display
their entire product at Allen & CO"s.
Saturday the 20th.   Everybody come.
SURPRISE FOR TEACHER.
Miss  Bruske, Hostess at a Delightful Evening Program.
A genuine surprise was tendered
Miss B. Louise Bruske, Saturday
evening at the borne of Mrs William
R. Smith, in Washington street. It
was so nicely pre-arranged that she
was taken completely off her guard,
and was soon proving herself equal
to the occasion, entertaining her
callers in a royal manner. Mrs,
Christopher Gregory and Mrs. Ab-
ner Badger were tbe two ladies responsible for tbe affair, They assisted Miss Bruske in making the even*
ing a memorable  one.
At tbe conclusion of the eyenin*g_
diversions, the callers were invited
into the dining room, "where a tempting collation was served. In the center of the table was a large cake
which was surmounted by "uncounted" candles.
The guests departed, at a reasonable hour, declaring Miss Brus*ke a
very charming hostess.
The above from tbe Long Branch,
N. J., Herald will be of interest to
Miss BruBke's many friends here.
Didenhover Snodgrass.
Wednesday evening occurred the-
death of Didenhover Snodgrass. He
Was one of the faithful number who?
labored diligently with their captain
for tbe past'few months in the contest for membership, held-by : Mt.
Vernon Grange.
He was taken sick Tuesday evening, dying Wednesday evening .at
10:30. On examination of the:
stomach, the doctors found that be
had died from the effects of eating:
too much, saw dust, seasoned with,
with cayenne pepper.   •      "
Didenhoyer Snodgrass arrived in
this country August 12, 1812, being;
shot from a cannon's mouth during
our second War With Great Britain.
He leaves a grass widow to mourn
his loss,   -.   v .
Sad indeed is tne fate of those who?
work too. hard and eat too much.