1910-01-28; Clare Sentinel

              'tNabliehed 1878.
0LAR1,   MICHIGAN,   FRIDAY MOBNINe, JANUARY 28,4910.
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Begun %i Oncle" Sam's
Clare Institution •
1? SUDDEN DEATH.
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terms of Lease and * Equipment
'of P.O. Building With A. J.
Doherty Agreed on -
-Saturday..'
• The long talked of improvement
for' the Olare post-office is at last
under way. at least the tearing up
process is on with the re-modeling to
be eompleted early.in March. The
terms of lease, etc., were practically
agreed on six -week ago as then narrated in the Sentinel, but the final
agreement was not reached till Saturday last when A. J. Doherty had a
conferance with the proper officers
in Chicago.
The plan adopted calls for an extension of the working part of the
office farther out leaving a narrower
hall way than at present, with the entrance next the south wall. Postmaster Kirkbride's private office will
be next the window but will be less
public than at present. Next to his
office will be the money order department. The general business will be
grouped more toward the centre,
leaving room for rural carriers moxe
than at present on the north side of
of the building. The entire post-
office furniture, including boxes, will
be modern in every respect and the
general effect will be a post office befitting the city. Inspector Hinman
while here last week arranging de-
tailg was at Mr. Kirkbride's request
taken by F. B. Doherty to several of
Clare's stores and seeingwhat Clare's
attainment is readily assented to the
Postmaster's request to recommend
something worth while. The plans
call for a fine, up-to-date equipment.
The Clare post-office these many
years has shown very steady growth
in business until it now nets over
local expenses approxinately S4,000
yearly to tbe government which is
surely more than its share to keep
the U. S. post-office department on a
paying basis, and therefore Postmaster Kirkbride and patrons of the
office have for years felt that they
are getting no more than their due in
the new facilities. And all of this is
an index of the steady substantial
development of the general community here.
C. H, Parish of Arthur Dropped,
Dead in.She JVfidst of Active
Life.
While engaged in scaling logs at
G. M. Clark's yards last Thursday
with some exclamation on his lips
Clark H. Parrish fell to earth and
with a gasp was gone. So sudden
waa the call that Leo Ooates whose
load of logs he was scaling, noting
what was happening and jumping to
his side, barely reached, him ere tbe
end came. Coroner F. R. Gray was
called but in face of facts decided an
inquest' unnecessary inasmuch as
heart failure was the unmistakable
cause of death, Funeral services
were conducted from the Hardwood
school on Monday, Rev. J. Mark
speaking words of comfort and hope.
Interment was made at Cherry Grove
cemetery.
Mr. Parrish was born at Kalida,
Ohio, January 11,1847. In the crisis
of the Civil War he entered the service of the Union as a member of Oo.
A 57th regimeDt O. V. V. I. and was
mustered out with that company
August 14,1865. The following children survive: Mrs. D. W. Leckty and
Mrs. RollandWesc of Lema, O., Mrs.
S. H. Speeth and Charles Parrish of
Shelby, Ind., Joseph Parrish of Sioux
Ci y, Iowa, and Mrs. E. Butter of
Olare, His mother, one brother and
three sisters also survive.
It was nine years ago that Mr.
Parrish came to Olare county. A
close student of present events and a
keen observer, his reminiscences
when in the right mood were a delight to his friends. Hospitable, genial, honest and out spoken almost to
a fault, only the kindest memories of
this unique character will be cherished.
THE   EARTH   IN   1911   AS'COMMANDER PEARY SEES !T
(Copyright, 1899.)
Jas. Nsviiis Injured'
by a Door Falling on Him.
In a wind storm Saturday James
Nevills of Vernon was quite badly injured by a stable door blown down, I
and when the family found him they
almost feared he was dead. The
injuries more especially affected tbe
head. Dr. F. R. Gray was called and
it is hoped no serious results will remain, He is now able to be out of
bed a part of the time but is still far
from full recovery from the accident.
ISABELLA HAPPENINGS.
rug Ȥ mm.
Beginning February 1 the
Stores of the undersigned will
Drug
close
evenings 8:00 o'clock standard time
except Saturdays. They will open
Suudays from 9:00 a. m. to 11:30 a.
m. and from 4:00 p. m. to 5tOQ p. m.
A. B. Mussell & Son,
E. A. Anderson.
P
Eight inches in diameter and upwards. Lengths 10%, 14, 17% ft.—
Beech, Birch, Hard and Soft Maple,
White Ash, White Oak, Tamarack,
Sycamore—S8.00 per M. for sound,
straight, live timber.
'Black Ash and Elm logs wanted 12
ins. dia.and up—10, 12, 14,16 ft. D.
Ward.
Items of Interest in the Hustling
Agricultural County.
The Isabella road institute was held
yesterday jointly with that of Gratiot at Alma.
James Calhoun of Mt. Pleasant has
been bound over to circuit conrt on a
charge of violating the local option
law.    •
Sherman township is to have its
first county ditch, three-fourths of a
mile long, just west of Weidman, to
empty into Coldwater Lake.
An Averill hunter is alleged to have
received S1000 this week in Isabella
county for a black fox pelt. Finding
tbe fox at the entrance to a hole, he
blocked it, went two miles, borrowed
a spade and after digging 27 feet
found the fox and killed it with a
blow on the head.
The Feb. 10 land sale at the court
house is exciting quite a little interest amang many. Some farmers are
spending a few odd hours looking up
location and value. 'Tis strikingly in
contrast to the old plan of making
such sales at Lansing.
County officers relish with rare
pleasure their praise at the hands of
the Wise Farmers' Olub. Olerk Row-
lader will, it is presumed, hint a little at their appreciation when he appears before thai; club at their meet-
ng in Clare next Tuesday.
John Joseph, the 15months old son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Doherty, died
Monday after a three week' illness
from mebranous croup. The funeral
occurred yesterday morning from
St. Cecelia's church in charge of
Rev. Fr. McAllister with interment
in the Catholic cemetery. Miss
Esther Coats, the/little fellow's aunt,
of Angelica, N. Y., came in
time to attend the funeral. In
early infancy the parents had
a hard struggle to save him. Then
just as he had gotten robust disease
came and took him away.
If so let us introduce 'you to our
member of the Central Real Estate
Dealers Association. There are 2000
of as in the U. S. A letter of introduction from us to our representative wherever you go,will be of great
assistanoeHto you.
tf    Welch & Bennett, Estate.
tarns Fsr
80 acres, 50 acres improved, clay
loom, black gravely sand. 20x30 barn,
■fair house.   A bargain if taken soon.
Welch & Benntt, Agts.
200 acres, 100 acres improved, all
hardwood land, close to town, Idea
stock or dairy farm. Cash buys it
cheap. Will trade for desirable real
estatein southern Michigan, Ohio or
Indiana.   Welch & Bennett, Agts. tf.
40 acre farm, 25 acres improved,
mixed soils, log barn, log house, living water, tubular well, young orchard, near town. SIGOO' buys it If sold
coon.   Welch & Bennett, Agts   tf.
full'
Bdces for batter fat are:
Oream delivered, 30f*".
Highest   market prices
CURE COL LIT96AT10N
Increased Relatively
land and Isabella
over Mid*
in  1909.
In the published official proceedings of the Isabella board of supervisors for January there appears
Judge Dodds' report of apportioning
the salary of the circuit court stenographer for 1910, based on number of
suits started and entered in each of
the three counties, Clare, Isabella
and Midland, of this judicial district,
the twenty-first, for the year 1909.
The apportionment with population
of each county is as follows:
Pop.
Suits .
Stenog.
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in 1909
Salary
Clare
S 9,189
63
S474.87
Isabella
24,106
86
648.25
Midland
14,636
60
376.88
for.
paid
Mich. Creamery Co., Olare,
With a population more $han 5,000
less than Midland county, Olare
county has to pay 897.99 more than
Midland county for court stenographer because she started 13 more suits
last year than did Midland and * only
.23 less than Isabella with 2% times
Olare county's population.
Clare, Isabella and, Midland, lying
contiguous, have similar environments. But why the difference in
court business? Are we 'of Clare
I county less law abiding or is there
some other cause?
AMOS    S.   MUSSBLMAN
of Grand Rapids, one of the four candidates for the republican nomination
for governor.
Franklin Brown canto up from Saginaw Wednesday.
Representative Cummins was down
from Harrison Monday.
Miss Sadia Estee of Shepherd is
the guest of Miss Hazel Tingley.
A baby boy came to make its home
with Mr. and Mrs. August Nass last
Thursday.
A card from Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
Doherty under date of January 25
from New Orleans, La., says they
were enjoying a ftne Michigan June
day.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Andrus of Hastings were guests of their son, Seymour, over Sunday, he coming up
from Saginaw to spend the week end
with them.
Miss Hazel Worden, formerly of
Clare, died at Detroit last week from
scarlet fever. The younger sister,
Eva, also afflicted with the disease
is reported out of danger.
The comet seen this week is a new
one, not yet named nor honor for its
discovery assigned, and not Hally's
Comet due in a few months. Several Sentinel readers saw it in the
sky and sought information about it.
The winter though comparatively
void of very cold spells, is an old
fashioned one in abundance of snow
and large number of cloudy days.
The most tantalizing thing is that
tbe weather prophets failed to forecast.
J. R. Goodman received a message
Sunday telling of the death of J. H,
Galliver the day before at East Chicago from typhoid fever. Till two
years ago for twenty years the Galliver family resided in Clare. He was
general agent for the Pere Marquette
railroad and was one of our prominent citizens. Four children • survive—Joseph of Saginaw and Ella,
Fred and Luella at home.
Chas. Ackerman's birthday was
Tuesday and Paul Grieser's Wednesday and in celebration of tbe event
the two famalies and a number of
friends gathered at the Aefcerman
home in Vernon Tuesday night and a
royal good time it was till at least
well on into the early hours of Mr.
Grieser's birthday. Games were the
feature. At midnight supper was
served. It was an enjoyable celebration.
LIFE IN CALIFORNIA.
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Interesting Letter From a Former Qrant Resident to Miss
Nora .McNeil*
Hynes, Cai. Jan, 16, 1910.
My Dear Cousin;—I persume you
folks have been hugging th<3 ;stove
all day while we haven't been at alj
uncomfortable with no fire and the
doors open.- We have now been In
our new Borne over a year and we'all
like it splendid here so far.
The farmers have been plowing and
putting in crops all winter, that is,
barley, oats and the like. They are
now plowing for sugar-beets as.that
and alfalfa are the principal crops
here where we are. Then there is
lots of dairying done also. We are j
on a dairy ranch. They milk thirty
cows here and average six hundred
and forty pounds of milk a day,
which brings a little better than $10.
Our cows are two thirds young heifers
so'vou can see what there is to be
made in cattle here.
Things are some higher here than
they are there. The best flour is SI
for twenty-five lbs., butter is 40f» a
lb., eggs 36^adozen; lard 15f* a lb.,
and pork is way up. I don't see
much diiferanee in the other groceries. Wages are lots better here than
there, so we can afford to pay more
for things.
Mr. Jackson gets $50 a month, our
house rent, milk, fruit, a garden
spot, our kindling wood and a day
off from each month for pleasure, besides a horse to drive when we want
it. So you see we are doing better
than we ever did back there.
• Our friends here Mr, Lent's, Mr.;
Hunt's and Mr. Russell's are all doing well.
How did you spend your Xmas?
We went over to mama's. She lives
two miles from us. We had a big
dinner but got along without turkey
as they are only twenty-nine cents a
pound here. We had oranges and
pasovis for our fruit. Pasovis is just
like a musk melon only much larger.
We were to the coast a few weeks
ago, a party of fifteen of us all went
to Long Beach, we .had a fine time.
We visited the bathing house and the
moving picture show and went out on
the pier and watched the large waves
dash on shore. What a pretty sight
they were. The nearest thing I can
compare them to, is shredded cocoa-
nut piled eight or ten feet high. We
took an eighteen mile ride on the
ocean over to a place, called San Pedro and back.
I suppose you have heard all about
the great air-ships that race here in
California this week? There will be
air-ships and people from every
nation they say. We live about three
miles from Aviation Oamp where
they are racing bo we can see them
plain from here. It looks like a little
village there are so many tents. We
went over Thursday. That was one
of the great days, and I couldn't begin to explain on paper so you would
understand what ' they were . like.
But if I were there I could make it
clear to you, lots of things, as it is I
will have to be satisfied and tell you
our day's experience. We got to the
car line about 1 p. m. caught the
next car out and I guess it was about
half past one when we arrived at the
grounds. Then our troubles began
for we had to work our way through
the crowd to the grand stand which
was about one half mile walk. We
were lucky enough to get seats and
we were all ready for them too.
There were two aeroplanes and three
flying machines that went up while
we were there. They were both a
fine sight. We couldn't decidewhicb
we liked the better. One of the flying machines was owned by a French
man. He made three rounds and
hiB wife accompanied him and they
gave her one thousand dollars. It
took them about ten minutes. They
go around in a mile circle like a race
track only up In the air of course.
They start up in the air and light to
the ground again, as easy as a bird
will. About 4 p. m. we thought
we would start for Home so
wouldn't be so crowded but had it
I" worse getting out than we did going
in. There wasone hundred thousand
people there so you can imagine
what We had to crowd through.
There was about three'or four acres
of solid automobiles say nothing of
the other rigs.   Your oouBin.
Mrs. Dan Jackson.
A sttpper-BOcial  at the" Colonville
church Friday evening,. February 4.
DBESDBJRYAN
Of Lake Arrested on LocaE
Option Violation Charge  •
QUINN ■WHEW MRANi
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Sheriff Sunday Made the Arrest
Wednesday—Bound Over
to Circuit Court.
On the authority of a warrant, Issued under signature of Pros. Atty:
Quinn Dresden Bryan of Lake wa»
arrested Wednesday by Sheriff Sun-'
day, taken to Harrison, arraigned'
before Justice Young yesterday and
waving examination was bound over
to the circuit court giving $300 bail.
The arrest has long been .expected.
Affidavits have been in existence for
months alleging such violation. But-
this action is initiated by Mr. Quinn'.
At Lake in connection with a school
matter, he got direct information of
What was going on, and basing the
action on events of recent occurence?
he issued the warrant without regard
to the alleged offence of some months
ago. Statements from many sources;
indicate ^the presence of something
in the nature of a "Blind Pig"
somewhere in tbe vicinity of Lake in
recent months and the officers say
they are going to spoil the fun.
The Bryan arrest following so-
quickly on the arrest of John Roda-
baugh in Clare on a similar charge-
is regarded as official notice that tbe
officers are going to enforce the local.
option law.
Farweil.
M„
Plorpont Morgan Hap Become One of 4ho Grcatogt World Powers.
G. A. Pitts held services at the
E. church Sunday.
Born Wednesday, January 26, io
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Powell, a daughter.
Mrs. 0. H. Sanborn of Lake is the?
guest of her daughter, Mrs. R. J>
Powell.
Miss Susie Brown of Saginaw highi
school spent Sunday here with her
parents.
Miss Eya Middleton of  Belding is-
;the guest of her sister, Mrs. H. Win- •
ter, and family.
O. J. Milliken of Mayville is relief
at the P. M. station, Agent G. L.
Heath being ill.
Post Office Inspector Crookson
made a pleasant visit at the village
Post Office Thursday.  .
The reported cases of scarlet fever
have transpired to be bad attacks of
scarlatina and tonsilitis.
Dr. and Mrs. O. L. Soper of Sher-r
man Oity visited the latter's parents,,
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. McGinnis, Tuesday.
An alumni association has been>
formed here. A meeting was held
Friday evening for the purpose of
organizing.
Mrs. C.  I.   Maurer   and   sons of
Ithaca arrived the first of   the week
and are now at their new home— the-!
former Hunter residence.
Miss Adele Taggart is very  ill of
tonsilitis at the home of J. H. Stinch-
comb.    Her   sister     of   Winnipeg,.
Man., Nnrqe Mabel Taggart, is eating for her. .
For sale,-
Weloh.
-15 bu.
earrofc8,*-E.
tf.
G.
Good furniture for sale—Mrs. Floyd
Reid, Corner pf Ma,ple aud First,
Clare County Tax Sales.   •
The tax sales for Olare county, delinquent for the year 1907 to be sold
at the court house at Harrison May 3,;
appear in this'issue. 11-5
For sale—Small stone building,,
with plate glass front, basement, and
sewer connections. Will exchange
for small farm or unimproved land.
Inquire at this office. 11-4
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thompson and
two children Were up from Ooleman.
over the week end.
The friends of the Congregational
church have arranged a   shower for.
the purpose of adding some needed!
articles in the parlors, to  be held in
the church basement next Wednes- .
day evening.   All interested  are  lit- ,
vited to attend.   Silver collection,
James J. Savage of Midland pleading guilty to the charge of local option violation has been put on six-.
months probation by Judge Dodds
with the payment into the county
treasury of S145, The remarkable
thing about the case is that Savage,
was an ardent local optibjilst*
Mr.  and Mrs. H. 0. Oudney  ire*'-.
turned from Detroit the first o£ tW
week where he had been for medical,
examination.   His many friends here-
will be glad to,know that his. seyious
ease   of stomaoh trouble haa   P0elft
pronounced curable.   TheyalsO ,^187^,
ited her parents in Windsori      *