1910-12-02; Clare Sentinel

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CLARE    MICHIGAN,   FRIDAY MOR&ING, DISOEMBEK 2. 1910,
New Series: Vol,-19   No.3
MICHIGAN DART
THE LAND SHOW.
Stat-? Makes Great Showing
in Variety and  Quality
. pf Its Products.
NORTH MICH. W EVIDENCE
The Peninsular State More Than
Holding Its Own with Western  Rivals. *
He Raises Corn All Right.
The United States Land and Irrigation Exposition opened up on time
Saturday, November 19,1910, at tbe
Coliseum, Chicago, and bids fair to
1)6 tbe greatest event ever known in
the history of this country along the
lines relating to bringing to public
notice the products of the soil. No
pains or expense has been spared in
making the huge building a dream of
beauty.
'Pergolas cover the booths to the
height of ten feet. These are decorated with autumn leaveB, vines, flowers, etc. The great arch is covered
with blue, resembling a summer Bky,
While the electrical effects combine
with products of the lands to make
realistic the delusion that a person is
in a veritable garden of IJden.
Two great panoramas, one of the
Yellowstone Falls and the other the
TPosemite Valley, adorned either end
of the great building, each so real as
to lead to the belief that a person is
looking at the real thing.
Thavia's Band discourses music almost continuously, while the Hawaiian singers furnish vocal concerts of
rare quality.
The scene from the balcony beggars
description by any ordinary person.
' The great railway systems of the
west and south have spared neither
■money or pains to show tne advantages and' resources of the different
flections of tbecountry through which
their lines run.
The Great Northern, Southern
Pacific, St. Louis and Southwestern,
Kansas Oity and Southern, Santa Fe,
fiock Island and Frisco Lines'fOrm a
great group of exhibitors, who realize
that publicity means money and who
are not afraid" td spend money for
publicity.
Almost all the Middle Western,
Southern and Western States have
■exhibits at the Land Show and good-
natured, keen competition among the
■"Hboosters" is a feature.
Michigan* has probably the largest
number of square feet devoted to exhibiting her products of any state
represented.
The Original Michigan Fruit Growers' Association are showing their
pride in the counties cf Berrien, Van
Buren and Allegan by means of a
very fine exhibit. Corn and apples is
their motto. Their big hit is mammoth Hunches of grapes hung around
the booth, while from   an immense
'horn  of   plenty" pours
nature's
and pro-
choicest specimens of fruit
duce.
The Western Michigan Bureau,
representing twenty counties in the
west part of Miohigan, is sustaining
the reputation it established a year
ago at the Lapd Show.
This bureau so awakened the people
of that section of Michigan to the importance of proper Orcharding methods in growing apples that they are
enabled this year to.come to this
show with fruit of such size and color as to make the famous western irrigated fruit look well to its laurels.
A thousand dollars oil painting,
showing the counties of Western
Michigan surrounded with a border
of fruit growing scenes, covers one
- end of the booth Occupied by this
'^bureau and is certainly an artistic
work.
The Northeastern Michigan Development Bureau, representing seventeen counties in Northeastern. Michigan, has probably the most .varied
exhibit of the products of orchard,
.garden, field and farm in their natural state in the building.
Variety .has been made the keynote
of the exhibit and a person may linger
and study almost everything grown
in this district.
Grasses, wild and tame, clovers and
alfalfas, grains in straw tastily arranged in wall cases with red backgrounds, in tne center of the main
booth a Maltese cross extending from
the floor to the pergola, where terrace upon terrace rises, potatoes,
onions, sugar beets, chicory, carrots,
rutabagas, turnips, squash, citrons,
pumpkins, apples, seed grains in
sample glassed, straws, grasses and
grains.
Inclines holding one hundred box-
W. L. Lineberry who owns the
Pratt farm in Grant township called
at this office a few days ago, incidentally handing in hia check for the
Sentinel and casting 500 votes for one
of our contestants, but more especially to show samples of corn he raised
this year. Mr. L. came here last
winter from Portland,Ind. Now Indiana is a great corn state and naturally he was anxious to know how
the crop would . "pan out" here.
Owing to the drouth this season, the
growth was retarded and at one
time the outlook was not flattering.
However, .lie crop ripened up nicely
and certainly these specimens are
creditable for any state or year.
Naturally Mr. Lineberry feels pleased
at the result and concludes that one
need not live in Indiana to raise
corn. By the way, Mri L. is a
breeder of Duroc Jersey swine and
thinks be can show some creditable
specimens of that breed.
es of apples and pears fancifully
packed show the orcharding possibilities of this section.
Corn from the Straits to the Saginaw valley is shown everywhere
throughout the exhibit and is causing
much comment as to tbe fact that the
corn belt is getting farther north
each year.
The whole exhibit has been further
tastily decorated by Mandel Bros,
with climbing vines and roses, which
cause jt to present an extraordinarily attractive appearance.
Two private booths connected with
the Western Michigan Bureau and
the Northeastern Michigan Bureau
are attracting a lot of attention. W.
R. Roach & Co., of Hart, Mich., occupy a booth of the former bureau
and are featuring their canning factories. Samples of canned fruits and
vegetables are given to the sightseers. The booth is artistically
draped in white and decorated in red
hearts of all size. Bed hearts1 are
given away and the fame of the company and district is being spread.
The St. Helen Development Company oocupies one of the booths of
Northeastern Michigan and has a
panoramic view of Roscommon county and its development at St- Helen,
Michigan. This is probably the finest piece of perspective in the
building.
A photographic advertiser operated by electricity' is constantly revolving card advertisments of "all parts
of the district. "'r
A. phonograph gives seventeen
county records, three railroad and
six devoted to the interests of the
company.
Saturday, November 28, was Michigan day and was attended by 20,000
people, being by several thousands
the largest day so far in the show.
"Michigan, My Michigan" was
played by the band, sungby t_ie singers and toasted at the banquet given
by the management to tbe Michigan
exhibitors. Michigan buttons,
badges, celery and apples were distributed by the thousand to the Mul1
titude.
It was a prOud day for Michigan
and thousands of eyes were turned
longingly on her products^ both agricultural and horticultural, and many
resolves audibly made to own a home
in Michigan. Johnson.
CONTEST CLOSES IN
NINE DAYS MORE.
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Saturday Evening, December
10th, at 8 oclock, Will
Be the End.
ONLY FEW MORE DAYS FOR GIRLS TO WORK.
Then Fine Malbar P_4no, Diamond Ring and
Handsome Silver Set Will Go to
Deserving Young Ladies.
Our big popular girl voting contest is rapidly drawing to a close.
The piano will be awarded to the girl
that has the largest number of votes
by 8 o'clock Saturday afternoon, Deo
ember 10, 1910, only a little over a
week remaining in which- the many
girls that are striving to win the
handsome prize can secure votes.
The most of them are working for all
tbey are worth and their friends are
helping them with the determination
to carry off the highest honors. Those
who are not putting forth every effort, should begin at once. Don't
wait until it is too late and then be
sorry afterwards. You have an
opportunity to put yourself alongside
of the other young ladies tbat are
foremost in the contest and you will
have no one to blame but yourself if
you do not win.
The secret voting has commenced
and is in full swing. We have placed j count as follows
ballot boxes at the Clare Oounty Sav- _ subscription entitles
ings Bank, the Citizen's State Bank
and .Sentinel Office, and orders for
subscriptions with tbe money to pay
for them can be deposited in either
place.   Special blanks and envelopes
for thiB purpose can be found at the votes; 120 on new subscriptions
banks or at .this office.   These boxes | titles you to 30,000 extra yotes.
mean to be fair to all, we take this
way of ending the contest. We will
know nothing ofthe work being done
by the girls, as we wonld if the votes
were turned in in the'usual way.
There is no opportunity for any one
to know for whom the votes are cast,
Don't ask ub for we know no more
about it than you do and we could not
tell if wl would.
There can be no blame laid on us
no matter which way the contest
turns. We feel that we are doing a
great deal for tbe girls, and would
not like to. have it said after the contest is ended that we have helped
one eirl more than another. We will
as cheerfully give the piano to one
girl as another. It will be left to
the judges to decide which l&dy shall
parry off the high honors.
As stated before, the secret voting
has begun in earnest', the votes will
One renewal
you to 400
votes; one new subscription
entitles you to 500 votes; S5 on subscriptions, old or new, gives you
4,000 extra votes; $10 on subscriptions
old or new gives you 10,000 extra
en-
To
James E. Alger.
James E. Alger died of heart
failure at hiB home in this oity last
Friday morning, aged 51 years, 10
months and 9 days. Though bis
health had not been good for some
time, still his death came as a surprise to his friends who had not supposed him dangerously sick.
Mr. Alger was born in\Northun_ber-
land Co,, Canada. When about five
years of age his parents came to
Michigan, locating first in St. Olai-j
Co., then four years afterward in
Vernon, Isabella Oo. In 1870 they
moved to Olare and here Mr. Alger's
life has been spent except for short
periods. By trade a painter and
paper hanger, he had also combined
with this bill-posting and many a
time the bill-boards showed his
skill in that direction.
The funeral, conducted by Rev.
Shipway, was held, at the home on
Sunday afternoon and burial in
Cherry Grove. Of immediate relatives Mr. Alger leaves a wife and
daughter, ffesBie, aged about 13;
three sisters, Mrs O. H, Sutherland,
Mrs. Letta Graves and Mrs. Geo,
Brown all of this city; three brothers,
Byron of this city, Frank of Saginaw
and Daniel of Denver.
will not be opened until the last day
of tbe contest, and then only by tbe
judges who are to connt the ballots.
All you have to do is to go to any of
the places and fill out the blank and
envelope, seal it and drop -it in the
ballot boxes. A supply of voting
blanks and envelopes may be had by
anyone so desiring by calling at this
office or at the banks.
We bave been asked, why we are
conducting this secret balloting therefore we feel it our duty to explain
the reason to our readers. We have
forseen that the end of the
contest will be hotly contested,
and to show to the public that we
Derrick Adams.
Last week we had a mere paragraph mention of the death of Derrick Adams of Reed Oity, father of
Will Adams of Clare. This week
through the courtesy of the   Reed
receive the extra votes you simply
inclose the amount in the special
envelope with the blank properly
filled out, and the judges will give
you the votes. Be sure that the
parties names to whom yen wish the
Sentinel sent are plainly written.
We are unable to give the standing
Of the contestants ■ this week as we
have no means of telling how they
stand, but we trust that each one is
making a grand fight. We will know
nothing of the work being done by
the young ladies untill the contest
closes, but we advise 'each (one not
lose a moment, as "Five moments in
a crisis is sometimes worth years."
IRABELU GO. POMONA
Will
Judges for the Contest.
We have selected the following
gentlemen as judges to count the
ballots and determine the prize winners of the.Sentinela great piano contest: Supt. A. B. Moden, J. R. Goodman of the Citizens State Bank and
O. C. Rockwell of the State Savings
Bank.
We had announced the closing of
the contest for 6 o,clock, Dec. 10,
but as two of these gentlemen are in
the banks, which do not elo_e until 8
o'clock, we concluded to set the close
ofthe contest at that hour also, and
thus give the girls and their friends
two hours longer to work.
Distressing Accident.
Last Sunday, a child about 17
months old, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Battles living one mile south of
town, came to its death in a sad and
shocking manner. It seems the
mother had gone out to attend to
some chores, leaving .this child with-
another older one. In some way
they obtained some matches and the
little one's clothing was fired and
all in flames when discovered. Nothing could be done to save its life and
death came to the little sufferer in a
few hours. We understand that the
mother watr considerably burned in
her heroic efforts to save the life of
her little one.
Meet    With   Mt.  Vernon
Grange Dec. 7.
The Grangers of Isabella county
will be the guests of Mt. Vernon
grange next Wednesday, Dec. 7, for
an all day and evening session. Following is the program:
i0:30. Reports of all subordinate
granges to be given by the secretary
of each grange.
Dinner.
1:00. Address of welcome by the
lecturer of Mt. Vernon grange, with
response by the lecturer of Crawford
grange.
1:30. Discussion, "What reforms
do we most need at State Grange,"
by representative of Denver grange,
2:30.   Question box.
3:00.   Election of Pomona, officers.
4:00. Election of Pomona delegates to the state grange.
Supper, followed by an evening
program open to the public.
.. 7:00, "Things we ought to know,"
by Rey. W. A. A. Shipway of Clare,
"The Dolliver^Davis bill: the proposed vocational educational measure," by Prof. W. A. Cobb of 'Mt.
Pleasant.
Dinner and supper will be at 'the
Vernon grange hall. Bring well
filled baskets.
John Northon, lecturer.
Slocum- White.
A quiet wedding took place at the
M. E. parsonage in Leaton, Nov. 9th,
Howard Slocum of Wise and Miss
Bertha White_of New York were the
principals, accompanied by Lewis
Slocum and Miss Lillie Slocum,
brother and siBter. of the groom.
They will reside in Wise.—Isabella
' Oo. Courier.
BOUGHT PUBLIC UTILITIES.
Oity Clarion we present an excellent
half-tone of Mr. Adams, and also
quote as follows from the Clarion:
"Derrick" as he was more familiar
ly known, was a jolly, good-natured,
whole-souled brother man, having a
cheerful smile and a hearty handshake for all whom he met. He
never entered much in politics, hence
he had hardly, an enemy in the world
He lived as near to the teachings of
the "Golden Rule" as it is possible
for man to live, by attending strictly
to his own business and expected
the other fellow to do the same.
The beautifull floral offerings from
relatives and friends in Detroit,
Olare, Reed Oity and elsewhere
attested the noble and high esteem
in which the deceased was held by
all who knew him.
CLARE A GOOD
GRAIN MARKET
Interesting Facts and Figures
Relative to Another Important Clare Industry,   j
LARGE SUM*TPAm FARMERS.
All of Which   Goes   to  Boost
Clare's  Reputation  as  a!
Market City. •:
What made Milwaukee famous
everyone in Olare is supposed to
have forgotten, but no one forgets
what makes Clare famous—a good!
market and pretty girls. As we are
not qualified to discuss the latter subject we have undertaken to present
some evidence bearing on the former.
Two weeks ago the Sentinel contained a sketch of the Michigan Produce -Co,, and gave some idea of the'
big business it is doing. Today we
discuss the grain business of Clare aa
a whole, including besides the true
grains the allied products of clover
"seed, peas, beans', hay and straw, all
handled by the elevators.
What kind, quantity and value ot
produots each Olare business house
buys will appear from what follows.
In this presentation we have not distinguished between products shipped
out, stored or ground, as tbey ail
make a market, The figures are for
an average year. They are chiefly
based on /this year, but modified by
the fact that this* has been an unusually good year for wheat and poor
for peas and beans. The figures
were furnished by the several dealers
and are reliable. In most cases they
were taken directly from the B.ock
books of the shippers. In what follows hay and straw are expressed in
tons, the other commodities in
bushels. "
The Clare Elevator Co's yearly
shipments are: Wheat, 30,000; rye,
10,000; oats, 10,060; clover seed, 2,000;
peas, 2,000; beans, 17,500; hay, 1,000;
straw, 200.
-The J. D. McLaren Co.: wheat-,
15,000; rye, 9,000; oats, 5,500; clover
seed, 500; peas, 1,500; beans,. 16,000;
hay, 50; straw, 50.
Milling, Light & Power Co.: wheat,
15,000; oats, 7,000. Has shipped ia
about 18 cars of corn.
J. Wyman: beans, 10,000; hay,
7,000; straw, 250
Rodgers Bros.: peas, 6,500; beans,
3,500.
W. H. Grehell: peas, 12,000; beans,
5,000,
As will be seen, corn does not
figure. While this section raises a
fine quality, it [does not supply the
local demand.
Here is a summary of the quantity
and value of each of the products
marketed here:
A. J. Doherty and * Others Buy
Mackinaw Island Properties.
A. J. Doherty goes to Mackinaw
Island today to look over some property there that he with D. p. Aitkin
of Flint recently purchased.' It consists of the electric lighting, water
and Bewerage systems of the Island.
These utilities were a part of the
Frank Andrews investments, and
were built in 1901. They are in good
condition. The original cost was
8140,000, but the property was bought
in this deal for about half that amount.
With the prices that prevail on the
Island it looks like a pretty good investment.
Saxton-Runyan.
At the p leasant home of Mr. and
Mrs. F. O. Falk oh 6th Street, Thursday, Dec. 1st, in the presence of a
few intimate friends Occurred the
marriage of Mrs. Anna Saxton and
Edwin A. Runyan, Rev. Quinton
Walker pastor of tbe Methodist
Episcopal church officating.
The house was tastily trimmed for
the occasion.
Mrs. Saxton has lived in Olare for
many years, having a large acquaintance and a wide circle of friends.
Mr. Runyan is one of Sheridan's
prosperious farmers.
They have the best wishes of the
community for a long, happy and
prosperous life. ;X
Vera Irene   Snider.
Vera Irene Snider was born June
28, 1909, in Vernon, Isabella Co., and
died in the city in which she was
born on Nov. 20,1910, age 16 months,
22 days.
Irene was taken sick on Sunday
evening, Nov 12, with bloody flux
and seemed to grow worse continually until death released her from her
suffering. Irene was a very bright
and promising girl. Her smiling
angel fade was always an encourag-
mentto the parents. Her last act of
love was to put her tiny arms
around her grandma's neck in loving
embrace and soon passed away.
The writer discoursed to a large
congregation at the home, from
Matt. 14: 12, and the remains were
laid to rest in the cemetery at Rosebush, there to await the time when
the angel will stand with his right
foot upon the sea and his left on the
land and swear by him that liveth
forever and ever that there should be
time no longer, and when death and
the grave and the sea give up the
dead whioh are in them, little Irene,
with "the Wise," shall shine as the
stars forever and ever.   Amen.
O. E. Edinger.
Colby-Graham
Mr. John Colby of Mt. Pleasant ahd
Miss Mabel Graham of Vernon were
united in marriage by Rev. Quinton
Walker at the M. E. parsonage Nov.
Ohas. Whitlock" and crew have 16.
set up his saw mill near the Hoover Mr. Oolby represents the highest
store in Greenwood, six miles north- type of citizenship. Miss Graham
west of Harrison, and this week be-j has a large circle of warm friends in
gan sawing. There is enough timber Vernon. The happy couple will live
in that vicinity to keep the mill busy' in Mt. Pleasant. They will be at
this winter. home to their friends after Dec. 1.
Wheat
Rye
Oats
Clover seed
Peas
Beans
Hay
Straw
Bushels
60,000
19,000
22,500
2.500
22,000
52,000
8,050
500
Valne
S 54,000
11,400
B7!.r
20.00C
24,200
96.20C
104,650
2,000
8319,200
From the above it is easy tp see
what products bring the most-coin to
the farmers in this vicinity. We,
doubt if many had an idea that the
grains and grass products handled
through the Clare market totaled
over one-quarter of a million dollars
a year. What the returns are from
live stock, dressed meats, and eggs
we hope to present next week,' when
another surprise is due. P,
George Marble.
George Marble, a farmer, living
west of Coleman, died Friday aged
67 years. Monday the body was-
taken via Olare to West Olive for-
bnrial beside his wife who died some
years since. He was accompanied
by hie son, George, and wife with
whom he bad made his' home. The
party had to start at two or three
o'clock in the morning to make the
early Ann Arbor train south through
the snow storm.
Teachers' Institute Postponed.
Under advisement from Supt. L. L.
Wright of the Department of Public
Instruction the date of Clare County
Teachers' Institute will not be fixed
until the small-pox; situation* is cleared up.
Programs will be sent out to alt
teachers, and due time will be given
to make arrangements to attend.
E, G. Welch, Oomr.
Olare, Nov. 26th, 1910.
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