1910-12-09; Clare Sentinel

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CLARIS    MICHIGAN,   FRIDAY MORNIN^, DJBOEMBJ_R 9, 1910.
NewSe-fies: Vol. 19    No. 4
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Paragraphs Picked Up By Our
Farweil Correspondent.
D. R. Wait was at Olare Wednesday, ,   •
Jas. Shorfey is home from Cadillac.
'Dr. Grillet of Alanson, waB a Far-
well caller Wednesday,
Mrs. Henry Tryoh Jr,, of Lake
visited her sistersi Mesdames Spring
and Powell, over Sunday.
, Miss Ethel Raxtoti and brother,
Percy, returned to Mt. Pleasant
.Normal Monday, the former having
spent the wo.jk end at home and the
iatter after a few days illness at
home from vaccination.
Mrs, E. M. Black of Thedford,
Ontario, formerly of Harwell, came
Thursday of last "week and will sell
"ber household effects before returning.
.■ ■« Born Thursday December'1st, to
Mr. and Mrs. 0. Roe Huffman, a son.
'_ Thos. Hilson of Detroit qpent a
few days the past week with Harwell
friends.
*.; Miss Eva Middleton who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. H, Winter
and family, left Monday for Frankfort, where she will visit friends.
The Ladies of the M. E. Aid enjoyed a sleigbride party to the home
of their president, Mrs, * J. 0.
Bawkey, of Gilmore where- they
s^ent the day.
The F. W. O. meets with Mrs. E.
S. Hinds Wednesday.
Tbe Epworth League enjoyed a
sleigbride Monday evening to the
farm home of Miss Leona Rowe.
Needless to say all experienced a
fine time. '■
The M. E. L. A. S.^will .serve supper at the Ladies Library Friday
evening, also will cpnduct a sale in
the afternoon of the same day.
The Oougregational L. A. S. will
meet with Mrs. Christina Gregory
Friday.
Mr. Marsh of the Anti-Saloon
League gave a" very interesting lecture Sunday morning and evening
at the M. E. and Congregational
churches, also at Gilmore in tbe
afternoon. Among the subjects incidentally discussed were lobbying
clone by the saloon elements in our
state legislature and how the private citizens by petition can influence his representative.
Kirkpatrick-Rogers.
At the Congregational parsonage
in this city last Satureay evening,
Mrs. Sate "Kirkpatrick of this city
was united in marriage to Romango
S. Rogers of .'Rogersville, Mich.,
Rev. Shipway officatlng,. -.
Mr. Rogers was a resident of Olare
for many years and well known to
the older residents. We understand
that Mr. and Mrs. Rogers will make
their future home in this city.
They have the congratulations and
good wishes of. their many friends.
Dudley-Allen.
Roy Allen of Grant township was
united in marriage to Miss Augusta
Dudley Wednesday, Nov. 3Qth. , The
ceremony was performed at- the M.
E. parsonage at Harrison by Rev, F.
Dunbar,
Danley-Geeck.
Last week's St. Johns Republican
jjcontained the following:,
"The marriage of Glean Danley of
St., Johns and Edna Geeck of Owosbo
Was held at the home of the bride's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Geeck
in Owosso this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
After a short trip they will be at
home in St. Johns. The groom's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Danley,
ahd his brother, Gerald Danley, of
St. Johnsjattended.the wedding."
The wedding occurred Thursday,
Deoember 1. Mrs. Danley has many
friends in Clare, having visited here
several times at the homes of her
uncles, the Messrs. Geeck.
THE PIANO CONTEST
CLOSES TOMORROW.
Ballots to   be Counted   and
Award of Prizes Made
in the  Evening.
BALLOT BOXES TO CLOSE AT EIGHT O'flJOGK,
Count Will   Take-    Place   at   the   Sentinel
v Office and the  Result Will Be
Announced at Once.
Mrs. Eliza Rowe.
Mrs. Rowe, whose maiden name
was Vernor, was born at Wentworth,
Ont., about 1840. She was married
to Jas Rowe about 1.60 and to this
union one daughter, Pbebe, was
born. This daughter died about 23
years ago leaving one son, D. J.
McKinnon, -whom the grandmother
reared and with whom she bas lived.
She died last Tuesday, tbe funeral
conducted by Rev. Shipway being
held yesterday with burial at Oherry
Grove.
Mrs. Lucretia G. Parmeter.
PREPARING TO REBUILD.
j. w.
Dunlop Getting Materials
on the Ground.
HARRISON.
Interesting Items from  Correspondent at County Capital.
J, W. Dunlop has been in consultation for some time with E. B. Gorr,
architect, over plans for rebuilding
and remodeling the business block
burned in October. Tbe details have
been mostly settled upon and the
work of reconstruction will begin
soon.
Externally the block will be
changed in appearance, especially
on McEwan street, where a modern
douole front will be nut in. As now
planned   there will   be   one   large
Only one day more and the work-1 the contest.   The voting can be done
ers who have labored   so earnestly I at either place .secretly. By placing
The M. E. Ladies Aid Society is
holding its annual fair this week,
goods are going very rapidly.
Court was held here this week, but
it was soon over, as there were not
many cases.
A Very bad accident happened at
the saw mill here to Nelson Jargin.
fie was working around the saw.
and in some way not known caught
his sleeve on the saw, which drew
his arm on and cut it almost through
-_hebones about an inch and a half
below his right elbow. The boys
-took him to Dr. Tiffany's offlce,
where the wound was dressed in fine
. order, Mrs. Dr. Wood assisting.
OT_A__   BEOWNING.
John Hill and Claud Ritter bad a
narrow escape with their lives Monday night, while skating on Budd
Lake. Tbe boys were together and
Gordon Smith came up behind them.
The ice then began to crack and
Gordon turned his course in another
direction, but the two boys kept
together. All at once the ice gave
away and down they went in about
ten feet of water. John stuck out
Mb polo club and saved himself
from drowning. Claud after making
four Of five frantic efforts got onto
the ice. Then they went home feeling none the worse for their cold
ba^^-scept John regretted soiling
^wD-aewiour dollar pair of trousers,
and his patent leather shoes.
Bi-County "Directors Meet.
At a meeting of the new directors
of the Bi-County Agricultural Society
Monday afternoon John Asline of
Vernon and U. H. Patrick of Clare
were chosen directors to fill the
vacancies caused by the failure of
John Walton and Wm. McNeill to
accept. The officers of the society
now are D. Ward, Pres.; 0. Stirling,
Vice Pres.; E. D. Palmer; Secy.; J.
R. Goodman, Treas.; W. H. Cole,
JR. J. Lane, D. W, Rowe, John Phini-
aey, L. H, Thompson, U. H. Patrick,
D« McMaster, H. A. Fairman, John
^Asline, and Edwin Little, directors.
double entrance at the middle of the
front from which doors will lead to
right and left into the two stores.
The stairs, also to connect with thiB
entrance, will be widened and extend further back witb an easier
tread than formerly. Steel girders
will sustain the upper part of the
front, which will be little altered.
On the interior a row of steel columns will extend the length of the
building between the*-^two stores,
whicb will be so arranged that they
may be opened into one if desired
later. Above stairs there will be
modern office rooms at tbe front
with flats at the rear.
The materials have begun to Arrive and it is expected that work can
begin soon. Many looked for the
old walls to fall ere tbis, but examination proves them to be sound. In
fact, the material in them was first
class, and they are better even after
fire than many more • recently built
walls in town.
in our popular girl contest may rest.
By Saturday ^tomorrow) evening at
eight o'clock the die will have been
cast, and some young lady will own
the handsome piano which is now
on exhibition at; Gardner & Allen's
music rooms, and can take it home,
while other girls will carry off the
other beautiful second, third and
special prizes. We hope there will
be a dozen such extra prizes won.
_?he piano will be awarded to the
girl having the most votes. The
girl having the second highest number of votes will get a beautiful,
genuine diamond ring; and the girl
who stands third will receive a
handsome four-piece silver tea set
with mirror tray.
The following schedule shows the
votes given for tbe various amounts
deposited in the secret voting envelopes in the boxes at tbe banks or
at tbis offlce. If you have forgotten
the conditions read the envelopes
Land blanks: Si on renewal subscription gives 400 voteB; $1 on new subscription, 600 votes; 85 in one envelope, old or new subscriptions,
4,0tK) extra votes besides votes for
each' dollar's worth at the above
rate; S10 in i ne envelope, old or new,
10,000 extra votes; S20 in one envelope, all new, 30,000 extra votes, besides the'500 for each dollar's worth
per tbe usual schedule.
Many of the girls are working" for
the big gift of free votes. Blanks
and envelopes for secret voting can
be had at either bank, at the Sentinel offlce or of either of the girls in
the money in the envelope together
with a blank indicating the candidate for whom the votes are intended, with a list of the   persons   to
whom the paper is to be sent, one
can secretly cast a vote for his
favorite candidate.
The ballot boxes will remain in
the banks until 8 o'clock, standard
time, Saturday evening (tomorrow),
when they will be taken to the Sentinel offlce and the votes counted.
As announced last week, Supt. A.
E. Moden, J. R. Goodman of the
Citizen's Bank, and O. O. Rockwell
of the Clare Co. Savings Bank, will
be the judges. These gentlemen
will count the money in the .secret
envelopes, determine what votes are
due under the published rules, and
count the votes and foot them up.
This counting will begin at 8:15,
Saturday evening, the 10th, and the
result will be announced by the
judges immediately after the canvass la completed. We ' estimate
that the count will take about an
hour.
Next Saturday is the final test of
tbe popularity of the candidates.
It will call for all the assistance ea.h
girl is able to enlist in her cause.
Three young ladies will surely win
prizes -Saturday night, and it is plait,
to see how tbe one who was lowest
when the standing of the contestants was published two weeks ago
can easily head the list by a little
hard work and the cooperation of
her friends.
Death, which is steadily' reaping
its harvest this winter, took Mrs.
Lucretia Parmeter last Friday.
Mrs. Parmeter, whose maiden
name was Lucretia Gamble, was
bona in Livingston county, New
York, April 2, 1845, and was therefore past 6ft years of age. While a
girl she came to Michigan with her
mother and resided at Mt. Morris,
Genesse county. There she was
married October 3, 1869/ to Walter
Parmeter, AbouttWenty years ago
Mr. and Mrs. Parmeter moved to
Clare, where she bas since resided.
To this union were born four
children, of whom only one survives, Mrs. Miles Smalley of this
city, with whom for the past four
years she had made her home. She
left also a sister living in the state
of Washington. " \
Funeral service was conducted at
Miles Smalley's'Sunday by Rev. Mr.
Shipway. Monday the body was
taken to Mt. Morris for burial.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT,
Henry Russell Has Leg Drawn
Into Hay Press.
Redecorating Temple Theatre.
The Temple Theatre is undergoing
a complete change. Mr. Hamilton
has secured the service of Lee G_
Garrison, the Indianapolis scene
painter, to decorate the interior
throughout, including "the scenery-
Mr. Garrison has done several theaters in this part of the .state, and is
at present located in Oheboygan.
When he gets the Temple completed
it will be one of the neatest vaudeville theatres in northern Michigan,
not excepting tbe larger cities.
Tbe picture show will continue
while the' artist is completing tbe
decorationa___with an entire change
of program each day. Every time
you come while the work is in progress you see a gradual transformation in the appearance of the interior.
The Carters.
The Carter Vaudeville Co. went to
Coleman Monday after a week at the
Doherty Opera House. Friday evening they put on an entirely new play,
"Hickory Farm," which took very
well. The musical features of the
whole week'were strong.   "Big Bill"
j the Mexican   was   certainty   some
! class with the tuba horn, while Wm.
. Carter is a versatile musical genius,
and little "Neoma" delighted everybody,    Mr. Whitney is giving  the
1 public somo good plays,
The old fashioned hay press which
literally requires some one to "get
there with both feet" is about as
dangerous as the corn busker which
annually maim, its scores of careless
victims. Last Saturday Henry Russell of Wise township, while feeding
a hay press, had one foot caught, the
leg drawn in and both bones below
the knee were broken. Drs. Reeder
and Sanford were called and reduced the fracture making the unfortunate young man as comfortable
as possible.
Wise Farmer's Club.
The Wise Farmer's Olub will meet
at the M. E. parsonage with Rev. and
Mrs. Quinton Walker, Wednesday
Dec. 14th, 1910.
PROGRAM.
11:00 a. m. Song by the Club,
Prayer by Rev. 1_. C. Edinger.
Roll call. Quotations from Wilt
Oarleton.
Business.   Election of officers.
DINNER.
HIS.   Song by the Olub.
Words of Welcome, Mary Walker.
Response, John H. Wilson.
Reading, Mabel Glover.
SYMPOSIUM.
W atchman, What of the.Night.
Politics, P. A. Bennett.
Reform, C. W. Perry.
Business, Ray Canfield.
Religion, Mrs. Samuel McJames.
The Place and Power of the institution for the Blind, Joseph Hudson.
Reception Committee, Mesdames
Mulder and White.
Table Oommitte, Mesdames- Geeck
and Venner.
A Card.
We wish to  express our heartfelt
appreciation for the kindness   and
sympathy extended during the  sickness and death of Mrs. Parmeter,
Miles Smalley and Relatives.
INTERESTING ADDRESS.
STEALS FROM CLARE.
Saginaw Claims one of Clare's
Bright Young Women.
Methodist Church Filled to Hear
Dr. Richards.
It was a bouse filled completly full
that greeted Dr. Richards last Sunday evening to hear him tell of
Africa in which country he has spent
30 years as a missionary. To one
who has given no special attention
to exploration and development of
the "dark continent," some of Mr
Richard's statements would seem
almoBt marvelous. Rivers beside
which our Mississippi would look
like a creek, falls that would furnish sufficient power to^x-un the
.machinery of the world, wealth of
field forest and mine almost past
belief. Viewed simply from a material standpoint, Dr. Richards be-
leives that the nations of the earth
may well aid in the development
and civilization 'of ibis marvelous
country. In answer to the question,
•'Why is the black man black," he
totally disbelieves the theory tbat
environment has caused the negro
to be black. The white race under
the equator would never cease to be
white, nor Would the black man become white were he transported to
another part of the earth. His
natural home is in the tropics as his
peculiar physical characteristics indicate, and there the white race
should leave him, seeking only to
lead him from the centuries of
darkness, ignorance and superstition
under which he is buried.
The City Council.
At Monday evening's session of
the Common Council every member
was present. Aside from the allowing of bills the purchasing commitee
was directed to get a regulator clock
for the water power  house.     The
Saginaw is evidently convalescent
from her recent small-pox epidemic,
for there is no surer indication of
physical improvement than recovery
of nerve, and Saginaw always haB
hers with her, unless she is sick.
Monday the Courier-Herald contained a complimentary mention of
one of Clare's bright girls, now supervisor of music in tbe east. The
Herald's information is all straight
except.as to the location of the home
of the young, lady. Here is what
the Herald says:
"Miss Louise Bruske of this city,
who is supervisor of music at West
Chester, Pa., is meeting with great
success there and in addition to her
regular work is taking part in many
prominent musical events. Of a recent service at tbe M. E. church, the
choir of which is led by Miss Bruske,
a West Chester paper says:
" 'The music and singing at this
service was exceptionally fine. The
choir which was augmented by the
Addition of Linval B. Barrett, a celebrated bass from Philadelphia, and
which is under the leadership of
Miss Bruske, was excellent and
would compare favorably with the
most talented choir of any of our
large cities.'
"In the program Miss Bruske rendered a solo and sang in a duet and
a quartet."
The'"Devil" Did  It.
MT. PLEASANT. .
Interesting News Items from Mt..
Pleasant and Vicinity,
About 30',' business men of Mt.-
Pleasant Jiava banded together «tb<-
proteet themselves from dead beats-
Each merchant reports his dead beater-
and then all are placed on the black
lie};. He, can get credit nowhere -
No merchant knows where the dead
beats come from outside of bier
own list: New ratings will be made-
eacn year.
Cashier "VanLeuven of tbe Stat*--?
Bank has, after 25 years of faithful .
service, .been granted > vacation of
three months. Be, is one of the*
most efficient cashiers in the state-
He will< visit California and Texas
oh his trip. Other banks might follow the example.
Several deer have been - seen i_»
this county. .One hundred seventeen deer licence have been taken
out.
Last w_ek the young ladies' S. S-
class of the M. E. church gave ■ _*.
banquet to the young men's class-
There are over one hundred in the
ladies' class and sixty in the gentlemen's class, They had a big time-
Tbisweek Ool. O. W. Campbell of
the same S, S. gave a banquet to .all
the workers of the school. There
were seventy present. The banquet
was fine, The toasts were along the
lines of reports from the Grand*.
Rapids S. S. convention.
Prof. Cobb of the State Normal
offers to test for tuberculosis at
mere cost of testing material.
There will be about 16 graduates
at the close of the winter term at.
the Normal.
Miss Lillian K. Sabine instrnctor
in English in tbe Normal bas resigned to attend Columbia University.
Rev. Dr. Richard of India missionary fame spoke at the M. £..
church last Sunday. A large- crowdt
heard him speak.
Nearly everybody has been vaccinated and some have-suffered as muck
as if they bad bad light small pox-
Not a case has been reported here-
or vicinity. *,,
Oity post office patrons Jhave 'to»
provide receptacles for the mail in
order to facilitate distribution of"
mail.
Several cases of appendicitis have
appeared lately, but none resulted,
seriously as yet.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Offers Various  Short
To Students.
Courses
committee--.)-- sirs-ts was authorized
to buy a road machine.
Lost $5 Bill-rSomewhere between
Holbrook's store and Geeck's mill
Tuesday. Finder rewarded if bill' ie
left at this offlce. - 4-2 -
The last great duty of printers before closing the newspaper forms
is to see that the date of the paper
is duly changed. Last week, as an
especial reward for having behaved
reasonably well, we allowed the
"devil" to make the alteration.
But like his ancient namesake, be
promptly took the opportunity to
mix: things up.
As everyone knows, last Friday was
December 2, but tbe imp made it
December 4, which was Sunday.
That looked mighty bad for us, to
be getting out the paper on that day,
and only "bisblackness" would have
thougbt of putting us In wrong that
Way. Fortunately the error waB
discovered and corrected before the
papers Were all printed, and the
."devil" sent below to shovel coal
into the furnace.
We mention this matter, not because what happens in a print shop
is of any interest outside, or because
anyone cares what the "devil" is
about, but in so many families the
Sentinel is used as a kind of calendar
to keep track of the days of the
month, that we make this explanation so that no one may be misled by
"his.majesty's" machinations.    P.
Commencing January 3d next our
Agricultural College at Lansing;
offers short courses in agriculture,,
creamery management, cheese making, poultry and fruit raising. These
courses will continue from 4 to &
weeks and will be conducted by the-
regular teaching force of the college
and made as practical as possible-
The tuition to residents of Michigan
will be only S5.00. Any reader of the-
Sentinel who may be interested in
any of the courses can obtain a bulletin describing them and any further
information by addressing Pres. J,
L. Snyder at East Lansing.
Card* of Thanks.
I wish to thank all the friends and
^neighbors for. their kindness and
assistance in the sickness ami death
of my grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Rowe,
especially for the beautiful flowers
furnished,   D. J, McKinnon.
Transfer' Day.
The Great.Executive Committee of
the L. O. T. M. M. closed its week's
session at Lansing with a monster*'
afternoon    and   evening "Transfer'
Day."   It was decided to celebrate'
the    Silver     Jubilee    Anniversary
March-24,1911, in  Muskegon, where
the first hive was instituted.   It was-
also decided to  hold a general in--
stallation of all officers of the forty--
eight Detroit Hives early in January. -
This ceremony will   be under   the
personal   direction   all Great Hive
officers.   Financial reports are most
gratifying.   Reports from  all parts;
of the state show fully 85 per centi
of members   transferred, and that,
the office of the Great Record Keeper- .
in Port Huron is so overcrowded that'
many new clerks  have  been added
to the force.
School of Instruction.
A school of instruction in Masonry
is to be held at the masonic lodge
rooms in this city, Thursday, Dec
22, at which the state grand lecturer
will be present. Masonic lodges'
from Harrison, Farwell and Mt..
Pleasant will be present and assist,
in exemplifying"_the work. There-,
will be both afternqon and evening:
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