1910-09-30; Clare Sentinel

              Established 1878,
OLARE,   MIOHI-aAN,   FRIDAY MORNING, 8JSPTEMBJi-K 80. 1910.
New Series; Vol. 18, No. 46
FARWELL'S TURN
*    •        CAME NEXT
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Bold Attempt at Bank Robbery Last Monday night
TELEPHOHESAVEO CASH
Bre Alarm Frightened Robbers
Who Fled Rapidly
Northward
The Clare Furnace Co. has not
been doing business very actively of
late, but certainly some of their tools
have. In fact they seem to be in
first-class demand. The name, "H.
B. Wells" is becoming associated
With a line of business ■ that its
possessor doubtless never dreamed
of when he had the name stamped
on sundry tools used by the aforesaid furnace Company, When the
light-fingered gentry who regularly
undertake to relieve the glut of
wealth in post-offices concluded that
it was Mt. Pleasant's turn, they
they came to Olare and borrowed
some tools of the "Wells" pattern.
When they concluded it was Far-
well's inning last Monday night,
another draft was made from the
same source.
In a village like Farwell the people have the good sense to sleep at
night and not be constantly disturbing the quiet of the telephone office.
Hence at 1 o'clock a. m. Tuesday
morning Allen Teppler, the night
operator of the Michigan Telephone
• Co., was enjoying the sweet repose
common to a boy of 15 years. When
he was aroused and informed that
some one desired to communicate
with his friends and couldn't
possibly delay the mfatter, Allen
made haste to unbar the door and
accommodate his early guest. Not
content with disturbing the boy's
-slumbers and endeavoring to nearly
frighten bim to death with their
numerous revolvers, the three men
blindfolded the lad and tied him to
the cot. Then while one kept an
eye on him that no telephone alarm
might be given, the other two, with
an accomplice who was out side,
proceeded to attack the citadel of
Farwell's hoarded wealth, the Far-
well Banking Go's, building, in the
basement of which the boy was,,
much against his will, still playing
blindfold. Entrance to the building
was forced by the friendly aid of a
crowbar, borrowed for the occasion
from the P, M. railroad, and then
by the use of the celebrated "Wells"
outfit the outer door of the vault
was soon made to yield. With the
-skill gained by almost nightly experience in the business, the inner
door was assulted with that all-
powerful and indispensable instrument of the genteel **yegg"—dynamite. Of course the door yielded
but the explosion incident thereto
caused Jas. Stinchcombe who runs
a resturant near by, to sit up and
take notice. He called the Union
telephone office, thence the word
was passed fer the fire alarm and
the safe with its treasure was saved.
About S70 lying on top of the' safe
was the only booty. So fearful did
the theives seem to be that the fire
brigade" might turn tbe hose on
them that they neglected to take
§1000 worth of stamps deposited for
safekeeping by postmaster Saxton.
The four men comprising the band
took a tie pass up the track of the
Ann Arbor railroad.
As Aesop Was wont to say,- this
story teaches two things: That,
like "death and taxes," the visit of
these night marauders will soo&er
or later coine to all; and that another
reason has been added showing the
value of competition. Had there
been only one telephone system at
Farwell, the aroused citizen would
have rung central in vain and the
noisy fire alarm would have re
mained silent.
Business Ghanges,
Featherly & Co., one of our hustling grbcery firms, have move'd their
stock of goods to the Woolsey building, corner of McEwan and Fourth
street where they will be better prepared than ever to serve their many
customers.
A. 0. Fish, the bicycle man, "has
moved his repair shop to tbe McKeever ■building and associated with
bim in the work Gordon Ripenburg,
and will now be better prepared to
carry ott the work.
THE FIRST EXHIBIT.
An Arrival at the Fair Grounds
Not Down on the Program..
The fair was scheduled to begin
Wednesday, bnt as early as Saturday the show and concession people
who follow ".the fairs began to
arrive so that there was quite a little
colony on the grounds Sunday.
Among the others were "Montana
Jack" and wife, cowboy and cowgirl. At home in Montana they are
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ray, and the
real cattle people, and the stage
kind that do not know a riatta from
a bell rope. However, they were
somewhat down on their luck for the
time being. They had been showing with Mascotte, who was in Clare
last week with the McGreggor girls,
but because of some difficulty about
the pay they had quit here, and had
joined the fair colony to pick up an
honest dollar riding at the fair. Mrs.
"Jack" was to ride the Dunlop horse.
All that is off now, for Tuesday
morning Mrs. Ray gave birth to ia
son which fortunately or unfortunate
ly accordingly as you look at it, did
not live.   "
"Jack" is a keen eyed, athletic
fellow of about thirtyjjiilsgj/ while his
beautiful wife is still dnly a girl in
her teens. One can easily imagine a
real frontier romance for them. Mrs.
Ray recuperated rapidly, and Wednesday was receiving callers. The
Sentinel man timidly presented his
card and had a pleasant chat with
the westerners. They are much disappointed in not being able to take
part in the riding at the fair, and
tears stood in Mrs. "Jacks" handsome eyes as she expressed her regret at not being able to carry out
her plan to ride.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray will leave for
Montana as soon at they get money
from home. P   j
Marriafge Licenses.
ISABELLA. COUNTY
"Etvln Coons, 22, Shepherd.
Inez B. Drew, 17, Mt. Pleasant.
Joseph Bills, 22, NottaW.
Atfrllia Straus, 21,-Tottawa.
Michael Mellet, Lincoln.
Xi__ie Lappin, Saginaw Co,
WMi. % Granger, 40, Chippewa.
Bertha Chamberlain, 27, Lincoln.
I. -T. JfoshGr, 28, Kalkaska.
Inez. JVIeCoUttm, 26, GHlihore,
Joseph Douglas, id; Holland.
Inaa Decker, id, Blanchard.
For Sale—Hot air furnace as good
scsnew.   Will sell at a bargain.
44-tf. Oiare Hardware Co
Lemuel Smedley.
Lemuel L. T. Smedley was bora
May 1st, 1828 at Oswego, N. Y.
Died, Sept. 19, 1910. Aged 82 years,
4 months and 18 days.
He was united in marriage in 1853
with Miss Hannah M. Parker, who
survives him. He distinguished himself in the civil war, in which he
served nearly three years. Mr. and
Mrs. Smedley came to Michigan, at
the close of the war, residing in
Genesee Co., moving to Farwell in
1903 where they have made many
friends.
Two sons are left to mourn, also
several grand children. Funeral was
held at the home, on Thursday Sept.
22. The G. A. R. of which deceased
was a member and chaplain holding
the service, assisted by Rev. Wymer.
Interment was made at Mt. Morris.
Five comrades of Chas. Griffin Poet
escorted the remains, reading the
burial service at the grave. The
family have the sympathy of all.
Many beautiful garlands of flowers
testified to the esteem in which the
grand old man was held.
FAIR OPENING
VERY SUCCESSFUL
First Bi-County Meet Began
Wednesday Witfi Excellent Displays
EXCEEOSlXPECMIONS
Full Program of  Events Scheduled for yesterday and today
The first fair of the Bi-Oounty
Society, whioh has been awaited
with much interest, opened very
favorably on Wednesday, when several days of discouraging weather
gave way to bright skies, and products ofthe farm and the home began coming in from all directions
and the hopes of the managers began to be fulfilled. By closing time
Wednesday a tired but smiling lot
of superintendents and others who
had been putting exhibits in place
closed up and went' home for a well
earned rest.
Every department is well represented. D. M. Mater's department
was early filled with horses, and all
the new stalls were filled. J. R.
Herrick's'division of cattle is well
represented, especially with breeding stock. Edw. Little has charge of
the sheep, and was kept busy building additional pens. D. W. Rowe
presides over a-choice lot of porkers.
These are all toward the east end of
the grounds,
Under the old grandstand Paul
Grieser is looking after a good display of poultry, while L. H. Thompson and E. W. Allen in the quarters
under the new stand have charge of
exhibits of grains, vegetables and
fruits that attract much favorable
comment. Just west of this is the
tent of the Women's Department the
ladies have fairly surpassed themselves in making household collections.
Lack of time prevents a more extended mention this week. Taken
as a whole old fair-goers say the
exhibits excel those of many old
county fair, and are better than
they have seen elsewhere this fall.
As we do hot print in time to make
it of any service we omit the program of events.
Daniel Rodabaugh.
Daniel Rodabaugh died of typhoid
fever at the home of his brother in
Sheridan township last Sunday afternoon. He was 31 years of age and
unmarried. The funeral was held
at the Eagle school house yesterday
[Wednesday] afternoon, the services
being conducted by Rev. Shipway of
the Clare Congregational church.
The young people of the neighbor
hood furnished excellent music and
the attendance was large.
Childrens' Eyes.
As-many schoolchildren bave defective vision which not only interferes with their work in school, but
so affects their nervous system that
their studies are more of a punishment than •_ pleasure, consult J.
Leahy the expert .optometrist as he
fully understands the care of children's eyes, at the Hotel Calkins,
Friday, Oct. U; Will remain two
days, 46-2.
Good Roads A 4
State Highway - Commissioner
Townsend A. Eiy of Alma was' in
town a, short time last Monday on
his way to Reed City. . He had just
inspected and accepted IX miles of
road -dear Rosebush, constructed
under tbe supervision of Higbway
Commissioner Dunn of Isabella town
ship. In 49 counties of the state reward roads are being built this season, l*_j of the 15 counties pf Upper
Michigan have adopted the county
road system and are -pushing the
construction of roads. Mr. 'Ely
thinks the longest stretch of good
road in the state is between Escanaba
and Menominee. Menominee county
is now building 52 miles of stone
roads. It looks as though Lower
Michigan might need to get a move
on to keep up,, with the pace set
by the territory beyond the strait.
CUPPED OR CRIBBED
Gfeaned from our Exchanges and
Sifted for our Readers.
Special Township Prizes.
We want to get girls interested in
the Sentinel's big piano contest in
every town and township in Clare
and Isabella counties. We have sev
aral in nearby towns, but thus far
not in all townships. The contest
haB hardly got sarted yet, so those
coming in now or ' later will have a
good chance to win. '** The winners
will be those who stick to the work
until the end.
Now we offer special prizes as follows: The girl securing the most
money on subscriptions in any township other than Grant and Vernon by
Oct 15, will get a nice solid gold ring
with jewel set. All getting $5.00 or
over will get a gold fountain pen.
Money secured for these prizes will
get piano votes. Or any girl anywhere can enter the contest for the
prizes to be given away Oct. 15. Get
receipt book and get started at once.
, Remember the Sentinel is a county
paper, and subscriptions .can easily
be secured in any section of the
county. We want one or more girls
in- the following townships: Sheridan, Arthur, Hatton, Lincoln, Freeman, Garfield, Redding,, Winterfield,
Wise, Gilmore, etc.
We ask Sentinel readers in the several localities to help us get some
girl interested, -then help her with
your votes.
M. E. Appointments.
At the conference held in Jackson
last week the pastors in whom our
readers will feel an 'especial interest
received appointments as follows:
Rev. Quinton Walker was returned
to Clare as everyone expected. Rev.
Dunbar comes to Harrison again
wbile Rev. Jerrett of Farwell goes
to Orleans, Ionia Co., his place being
taken by Rev. O. L. Keene.
Michigan Produce Go.
South McEwan St. pays the following
cash price for produce, to-day, for
Cream delivered 27c, called for
25c. "Poultry wanted.
From the Marion Dispatch we
learn that Wm, J. Johnson, pf Rosebush, purchased last, week the
Wangen property in Marion consisting of four store buildings, four
houses and five vacant lots.
Our neighboring county of Osceola
may well feel proud of her success
at the State Fair last week. The
county received the first premium
on vegetables and the second on
fruit. When one of the new counties
can turn the trick on all tbe old ones,
she may be justified  in crowing.
The delegates from Isabella Co.,
to the democratic state convention
at Kalamazoo are: M. E. Kane,
chairman; Walter Htilgenbauer,
Ooe; Earl Beatty, Yernon; Walter
Keen, Rolland; H. Sanford, Mt.
Pleasant; Barney Giesten, Ooe; Dan
McLaughlin, Union; Joseph Bradley,
Isabella; Charles Curtiss, Fremont.
Mr. Johnson is the father of Mrs.
F. M. White and Melvin Johnson of
this village and is* well known to
many of our citizens. He was for
many vears in business and owns
considerable property in tbat village,
as well as a farm a little way in the
country. Mr. Johnson has always
done business on the "square deal"
policy and is a man that has perfect
confidence in the future growth of
Marion and as such, we welcome
him to our business circles.
The State Tax Commission seems
to have gone after the city of .Midland in heroic style, raising tbe
assessment on the average over
85%. Many assessments ware more
than doubled. One bank had its
stock raised from $10000 to S25Q00.
One mercantile firm had real estate
raised from $8000 to $30000 and personal from 88500 to $30000. Really,
to an outsider, it would seem as
though some of their people must
have hypnotised tbe supervisors.
We learn from the Coleman Independent that Elmer Nolan, of
Edehville township, Midland Co.,
has a farm near Curtice on which he
carries a colony of busy bees—nearly
200 hives. For the past few weeks
a large black bear and two cubs have
been raising havoc with that bunch
of bees and have certainly been
getting more than' their , share of
Nolan's honey. For severai nights
of late old hunters have spent the
entire night, with trusty guns by
their Bides, waiting for the return of
the bears, but it was of no use—they
evidently knew when to come and
when to stay away. It was John
Fox and.F. S. McMillian who finally
set a trap and caught the mother
bear. She weighed 250 pounds and
was in splendid condition. Bear
meat is now being enjoyed around
Curtice.
WHO WILL GET
THE GO WATCH?
A Very Earnest Contest is on
For Saturday Night's
Prizes. J
WHICH GIRL WILL WIN?
Notice—To Close estate of B. F.
Loomifi, we will sell road tile at % off
regular price.   L. Montney.   45tf,
Circuit Court.
On the call of the calendar on
Monday nearly all the cases were
announced as in readiness for trial.
The case of the people against Floyd
Kirkpatricfc for alleged violation of
the local option law was the first
tried and resulted in an acquittal.
We hear high praise of Prosecutor
Quinn's plea in the case and judge
that no one can complain that the
case was not? tried for all there was
in it. The evidence was too weak to
secure a conviction.
In the case of David V. Hamilton
vs. Dresden Bryan, the jury awarded the plaintiff S300, S200 on the score
of reputation and S100 for his wound-
feelings.
As we go to press the case of Gus
E. Wolanskey vs. Chas. W. Calkins
' is on trial.
The General Gontest   for, the
Piano Grows in Interest and
New Names Appear*
About half a dozen girls, who appreciated from the first our great
contest for a piano that will not
cost them a cent of actual money,
have advanced far enough to participate in our first distribution of prizes next Saturday evening. Other
girls are just awaking to what a rich
offer we are making, and some of
their names swell pur list for this
week, and more are promised,  *
If you have not beard about our
fine offers, read our ad. on pags 3
and also this brief explanation; In
the first, place, we are carrying on
two kinds of contests at the same
time. The first of these is a contest
for a piano valued at $400, which will
soon be on exhibition at Gardner and
Allen's music ware rooms. This contest will be a long one, and will not
close until just before Christmas, so
it has but just begun. The winner
will get the piano and the next to
the winner in this race will receive
a $25 gold watch. In this contest but
one piano and one watch is offered,
except that the person who was* wise
enough to nominate tbe winner of
the piano will recieve a gold watch
also for his.
Besides this, at tbe same time we
are offering term prizes.   That is to
say, every so often we will distribute
gold    watches    ($25),   jewel   cases
($10),   .and   fountainpen   ($5),     to
all-    who     have   turned     in     a
certain amount of mpney on the contest.   For  instance,  next Saturday
evening at six oclock closes our first
distribution    period.    The   person
(whether a contestant or not) who
has paid in the most cash on subscription and had it credited to one
of the contestants will recieve a $25
gold watch.   This makes three gold
watches   we   have told you about.
See ?     Also, every person who has
turned     in    $10    in     cash      will
receive     a      jewel    box     or    a
ruby-set gold ring.    There may be
several who get tbis.   Also tbe winner of the gold   watch   gets   one.
Then,   every  one,  no matter how
many,  who  turns  in $5 in cash receives  a handsome   fountain   pen.
We would like a chance to give away
20 such   fountain   pens.   All these
articles are on exhibition in onr office
window, and we shall be pleased to
have you come in and look them over critically.    Just as soon as   we
have these prizes disposed of we intend to set another date and let everyone start in for another contest.
See how it goes?
Now, on these special contests
only cash counts, and one dollar is
as good as another. However, on the big contest
for the piano, votes connt,
and there are three ways to get
votes  for  yourself or  your friend.
(1) Out the coupons out of your big
ad. on page three. These are good
fpr 100 votes apiece for the perrjpn
Whose name shall be written thereon.
(2) One dollar paid for a new subscriber buys 500 votes. (3) One dollar paid for an old subscription renewed will bny ,400 votes. The final
day is a good ways off and a contestant starting now stands, an excellent
chance.
Last week we said watch for our
new ad., But we have had such a
rush of work and have been so busy
we could not write a new one. Wait
until after the fair.
Names.
Mena K.eblor,   Grant Twp.
Margaret LaPierre,  Clare
Jennie Beed, Farwell
Josephine Allen, Grant Twp,
Katie McLeod, Farwell,
Stella Wilson, Vernon Twp.
Blanch Lansing, Horrlck.
Kattierine Stevens. Olare.
Lulu Flak, Olare. <
•Popular Voting Contest
I hereby nominate or suggest the
following name as a candidate in
your voting contest.
Miss	
I present this name with the distinct understanding and agreement
that my name shall not ba divulged,
and that this does not in any way
obligate me. ■      ^ *
Signed * ...,....?.....'	
** ,   _..-
Auctions.
As the season is at hand when
many are making changes and contemplate having an auction, we wish
to call attention to the Sentinel as
the cheapest and most effective medium for letting the public know about
it. There was a time when the auction bill was. depended upon. That
plan alone is out of date now. No
one can afford to rely upon it exclusively any longer, Bills are -posted
only over a limited territory while
oftentimes a man may go a long distance to a sale because there may
be a horse or something that is just
what he wants. Enough more may
be made on that one article to three
or four times pay all it costs to advertise the sale in this better way.
Bills may be torn down or date of
sale forgotten, while people have
the paper ready for reference. The
Sentinel has a large circulation in
in every direction around Olare, and
the cheapest and best method of
reaching the public • is through its
columns. We are certain that anyone will be satisfied with the plan
and furthermore that he cannot
afford to do otherwise.
NEAR-BY NEI6H60RS.
Paragraphs Picked Up By Our
Farwell Correspondent.
Dr. L. L. Kelley went Lansing the
first of the week. '
Mrs. E. J. Eager is visiting her
daughter at Saginaw.
-Miss Ethel Saxton left on Tuesday
for Mt. Pleasant Normal.
Miss Katherine Koltz of Grand.
Rapids is the guest of her aunt, Mrs.
F. Babcock, and family.
-The R. A. M. held school of instruction on Thursday evening, after
which all enjoyed a banquet,
Mrs. M. Campau of Chicago arrived on Saturday for a visit with her
brother, D. W. Rowe and family.
Mrs. J. T. Palmer left on Wednesday for a two weeks' visit at, Mid-
dleton, Milford, Royal Oak and Armada. ■,,
Miss Susie Brown, student at Alma
College, spent the week end with
her parents here, Mr. and Mrs. E,
W. Brown.
A. H. Wilkins of .Dallas, Texas,
came last week for a visit with his
brother, G. H,, and sisters, the Misses Wilkins.
G. H. Wilkins who was severely
injured a few weeks ago by a wagon
passing over his lower limbB is able
to be about again.
Somebody, needing oats badly
took ten bushels, already sacked,
from the granary of Steven Sham-
way on Monday night.
Isabella Pomona Grange.
The Isabella Pomona and Connty
Convention will meet with JEldorado
Grange, at Rosebnsh, Tuesday Oct.
4,1910.
PROGRAM.
10:30—Report of Subordinate Granges.
11:00—Question Box. '   • "
DINNER.
[Served at the Hotel at 25 cents._
1:00—Subject, "Do the needs and desires of the farmers receive due consideration at the hands of tne legislature?   If not. why not?
Discussed by Eldorado and Denver
Granges.
2:30—Subject, --Wonlditbe advisable
at present to establish  rural   high
schools in our townships?*'
Discussion by Mt. Vernon and Crawford Grangse.
4:00—Election of delegates to State
•   Grange.
SUPPER.
7:00—Open meeting. Everybody, invited. Hon. F. H. Dodds will discuss
our R. F. D. system and proposed
changes.
Songs, recitations, etc.
John Northon, Lecturer.
Orvis—Gerow
Wednesday, Sept. 28th, at' the
Methodist Episcopal Parsonage
occurred'the marriage of Wesley Gerow aud Miss Mary E. Orvis. Rev.
Quinton Walker performing the
ceremony.
Mr. Gerow is a highly respected
young man of Sheridan Twp. where
he has spent his entire life.
Mrs. Gerow lives in Sheridan Twp.
also. She fills a large place in the
social, life of the community.
The happy couple will live on the
farm and will be at home to their
friends after Oct. 1.