1908-02-28; Clare Sentinel

              n^^mr^- Official Paptrofthe City,   •     CI-AKB,  MIOHIfAN," FRIDAY MORNING, JTJfiBBUART 28, 1908,
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Editors Sentinel,—I was very' Piuob
Hotoriety Given the City by Re- pleased with  the article in the
cent Incident. | Sentinel last week on Clare  High
>- ■ '■'■■ ■■ r'   . .    .„ c, .School being retained on the U, of M,
Mr. Mayor, Why Not Banish All Slot ^proved lis\   But volumnes would
Machines? have to be written before the last
Tbe Mt. Pleasant Times of last week wpr(j wonia be said on that far reach-
points tbe finger of scorn at Glare in inf? gUDject;.   Before it can be called
these words:
The mayor of Olare has issued
an edict against allowing boys to
'play the niekle slot machines.
Men can enjoy the robber game
as long as they like.
a matter of wise economy to drop it
from the list, tbe cost should be counted of what an inferior school would
.mean to the whole country here and
what it would mean to every grad-
This is evidently based on an article aate, for .to them the cost will go on
appearing in the mayor's own party piling up higher and higher to the
organ of the week before in which iaBt'day of their lives. Think of every
lavish praise for taking such action graduate deficient in the course of
is coupled with "a threat to the saloons studies that is to be the foundation
on the boy gambling question. Here 0f a life's work, graduated as an ex-
is a paragraph from the Clare Courier pert and yet not an expert and stud
ies laid aside
Would the trainstop before its destination was reached? Would we
want growth to cease before the
physical man was developed ? Found-*
ation work at least should be com
pleted. It's only a little you^ say
that they lack. True, but it's that
last "little" that has so much to do
with clearing up the haze in the pupils' mind and enabling them to see
article in question:
Frequent complaints have come
to Mayor Benner of late to the effect that there existed on 4th
street a place where boys were
permitted to patronize slot machines and play at dice. After a
careful investigation the mayor
yesterday became convinced that
the reports were founded upon
facts and at once ordered the
machines out of commission and
the dice gambling discontinued. __
With the exception of the last part V— ™^b; "^It 07ce ~maiea
of Mayor Lacy's last year, just before wnoIepractical and lifts the judg-
election in 1906 when they were turn- foi'the      ,nt of vd       an<1
ed to the wall, slot machines m de-; ^   ^ rea(jhed ^ point o£
fiance of law have been continuously, ^^ knowledge tbey   are
in operation m Olare lol these many not aredto take up the higher
years. Is there.anygood reason why, £m*t & so elecfc, The con.
slot machines should longer be toler-,        enoe -8 they never %viU be able to
ated?      ' ,_  ,   _   . ...      I master their future work like'others
Let it be granted that any citizen -        had & ^ andtheir finan.
by making, complaints can put the     rf or profe*ional ability i8 Swarf-
slot machines out of business.    But    ,.,._%, ^__     * *.„„»„—„„„;
the Mayor is the chief executive of,
the city and sworn  to enforce the
laws.   By a simple order to the city
sure to turn their footsteps toward
her thresholds,
Tho unprofitableness and danger
of turning, then from the eighth
grade to the Central Normal "will
surely be seen by all parents in tbe
near future, and would it not be wise
toplan our school so that it shall
stand for the largest benefit to these
people and make it worth their
While to come this way?
T"3E BASEMENT PBOBLEM,    ^
And now just a word about that
basement. Why should it be considered a debatable question regarding
the economy or wisdom of utilizing
an unhealthy basement for a school
room, when as surely as it.is used it
will cost some of those pupils mor*e
than any one of the upstairs rooms
cost to nurse them through long
years of physical debility and constitutional weakness that cannot fail
to produce a mental atrophy that at
once makes it -a waste so patent that
every parent ought to rise'up in arms
against it,
As long as it's possible financially
to correct it the "expense should not
be considered, To do so is to put a
mere value in dollars and cents upon
those children. We should plan on
fifty years of service for every pupil
and the school is the only investment
that eighty per cent of them will
ever have, and as more will depend
upon the work done in the school
room, in measuring their financial
and professional achievements than
any other one thing, it stands to
reason that it ought to be the best.
G. W. Maxwell.
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Honorable mention over the district of Dennis E, Alward's candidacy
for Congress is a striking present
day example to our boys of the possibilities that lie before them, no
matter from what walks of life they
may have come,
D, E. Alward was born in Berrien
county. He attended the Niles high
«chool and later the University of
Michigan, Then be embarked in
the newspaper business at Battle
Greek and with M. E. Brown founded a little paper, The Moon, which
is now an important journal published by Mr. Alward's former associate.   In 1881 he came to Olare  and
ISABELLA HAPPENINGS.
marshal he could at once wipe out
the nickel-in-the-slot machine gambling business in Clare.
Mr. Mayor, it is up to you!
SO
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mi Direei nominators,
Some ofthe Michigan congressmen
were interviewed on the question of
direct nominations. Here is what
they say:
I spent no money to secure the influence of newspapers in my district. The country papers which befriended me worked heroically without reward. In a few papers I ran
advertising for wbicn I paid at space
rates.—G. J. Diekema, Fifth district.
My belief is that the primary reform system affords tbe most opportunities for the legitimate expenditure of money of any method ever devised.—-Washington Gardner, third
district.
The system of direct or primary
nominations is not in operation
in the Fourth district. Therefore my opinions are theoretical. Of course I make a contribution
to the state central committee, to
each county committee in my district, and I pay my own expenses.
The newspapers levy no contributions upon candidates within my
knowledge.—E. L. Hamilton, Fourth
district.
In the Eighth districtthere has been
no opposition to mo of late, and the
primaries have never paid anything
to a newspaper.—J. W. Fordney,
Eighth district.
The cost of my congressional campaign runs about 82,500 each time; I
have paid nothing to newspapers,*
even for straight advertising. There
are certain legitimate expenses which
are unavoidable. For in-tance, one
must pay his regular assessments to
the county committees and then a
candidate naturally gives a good deal
to charitable, religious and social organizations. But I go through a cani-
paigh in the same way .that I go a-
bdut my work. I have never spent a
dollar in saloons.—Ohas. E. Town-
send, Second district.
ed for all time. Are not our sons and
daughters worthy of being placed
whore they can swing out equal
with the very best of any like community in the state?
Such a move instead of being wise
economy would be an extravagant
waste and a reflection upon tbe intelligence of our people.
I know it is urged that it wont make
any difference for we never had a
student go from our school to the
University any way. And suppose
that we never will, would that be any
reason why they should not be fitted
for it? It is not a reason why they
should even be fitted better if tnat is
all they can have?
But they argue it's not "necessary,
as pupils can enter Alma or Olivet or
Kalamazoo or Albion college from
our school without examination.
What if they can? That does not
lessen the fact that they are branded
as pupils from an inferior school, and
of course their qualifications are und-
strong suspicion, and a bias' is
Je.
Editor Sentinel,—You know Tom
Barlow? Everybody does in Lincoln.
He's a little short Canadian, and
anyone wouldn't think he weighs
more than 170 pounds. But he tipped
tbe beam yesterday noon at 375
pounds, How's that for high? It
wasn't a boy or girl either that had
come to board with them that was
the cause, but be did come strutting
in with a twenty-five pound pike on
his back that he had just taken out
of Norway Lake on the east side.
One who saw it.
Lake George, February 24th.
Card of TttankS.
We wish to express our heartfelt
-thanks to the matfy kind friends and
neighbors for sympathy and timely
assistance during the burial of our
beloved father.
Wm, Harmon and Sisters.
er
formed unconsciously against them
that will make the hill of their success steeper than justice would demand. This humiliates and discourages the pupil till the brightest edges
of success are forever dulled,
It's not economy to place our young
people at such a disadvantage; it's
economy and wisdom to advance
them as far as possible while they
are at home and under the care of
their parents.
As a matter of fact every graduate
ought to be thoroughly qualified to
enter the University whether he
ever expects to go or not. Many a
graduate who never* dreamed of going away to school has suddenly been
confronted by an opportunity that
made attendance at the University
almost mandatory, and if our school
is on the list their credits are accepted and they enter at once. If not, it
means they must either pass examination which of course they cannot.
They are not qualified if they were
the school would be permitted on the
list or they must enter preparatory
school for two years at an additional
expense of from SS00 to S600 a year
as the editor informed us in last
week's issue and that means that
ninety per cent would never tackle it
and the prize would go to the one no
more capable, but who has had the
advantage of a school that kept pace
with the world. I say a more sacred
duty never devolved upon a school
board than that of Seeing their school
the very best and always measuring
up at least to University requirement.
How many of us are conscious of the
fact that if the school board had done
that in our day we would now be
filling a place much larger than we
are or ever can? Attention has been
called to tbe score's of young people
in and adjacent to Olare, for mileB
around, who for brightness, business
ability, culture and refiriement cannot be surpassed by any like community in the state, a type of young
people whose morals are snob that
they are bound to succeed, and they
are within easy reach of Glare High
school, and more and more they are
Wise Farmers' Gfui)
The program for the meeting to be
held with Mr, and Mrs. D. O. Wilson
in Vernon, commencing at ten a. m.
Tuesday, March 3d, is as follows:
Song—Olub
Prayer—Bev. G. W. Maxwell
Welcome—D. 0. Wilson
Basponse—E. G. Welch
Becitations—Bolland Morgan, Jessie Dell, Estella Wilson,
. Discussion—Shall the people of
Michigan abopt tbe revised constitution.—A, J. Lacy, 0. H. Sutherland,
John Sifton and others.
Beadings—Mrs. John Wilson, Mrs.
A. J. Lacy, Miss Etta Brown.
A talk on rural schools—John Duncan.
Music—phonograph
Becitations—Floyd Wilson, Jewel
Babcock.
Beception—Misses Florence Van
Sioklen, Katie Morgan, Mae Dell*
Table—Mesdames JohnDucan, Van
Sicklen, Oassady, Koska.
Everybody invited to bring* well
filled baskets.
as publisher of the Olare County
Press came to know in full what it
was to be a country editor. The
strugles of Mr. and Mrs. Alward
when in his little print shop with
hand press they began at tbe bottom
of the ladder is still a favorite theme
of residents of Olare. But even then
Denny showed some of that cleverness with the pen that has csince
made him a brilliant writer, and
people soon began to take notice that
there were, several things be could
do equally as well as manipulate the
quad  stick.     He   proved  a    good
"'speobyfler*'  and the   republicans
soon utilized hiq ability.   He  served
as secretary for the county board of
examiners but  ever kept plugging
away with Mb paper.    Subsequently
he was  secretary  of  the Michigan-
senate and later was selected for bis
present position as reading clerk of
the house    of    representatives    at
Washington,   FOr a number of years
he has been secretary of the republican st-ate central committee and  has
had no small part in the important
Campaigns.
A man of boundless energy, ability
for persistant work is his striking
oharacterestic. Events have not
failed to leave their impress, but his
personality is as distinct as his hand
writing. Once knowing the man or
seeing his writing, no one ever need
be afraid of confusing the identity in
either case. Deep student of history,
orator, debater,parleamentarian and
strong writer, he is above all a
man of common sense. At home ho
is as much the friend of all as in the
days of struggle. To his old friends
he is unchanged only as passing
years mellow .and enrich the true
life. No one in Glare and North
Isabella counties is more generally
known than he and no one with
more friends. It is his natural
charm and inborn gentility that impresses the merest chance" acquaintance.
Mr. Alward wielded the birch in
Olare for a time and has served as
the city's mayor. Tbe Sunday school
class he teaches when at home is' the
most animated in. the school. He
has afarin near the city and invariably spends a part of the summer
there picking potato bugs. He has
gone on with the development which
is very largely typical over the
Eleventh congressional district and
is indeed a splendid type "of the district's manhood.
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The writer stood one evening on
Ob! return, poor sinner and escape
eternal fire
For you'll see the world all burning
On that great day.
But now they've got it all so sugar
coated over that you can't tell what
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London's Westminster bride, one of they are getting at. '
the most historic spots in the world,'    "Yes, the world do move," agreed
taking a last looK at the Houses of the other, and then silence fell be
Belle Sutton
George Husted
The second year German class have
begun studying William Tell.
Ethel Oudney has returned to
school after a three weeks' illness.
Sickness has broken into our
Bchool work a great deal this winter.
The American history class have
finished their book and are now taking up civil government.
, The third grade had a Washington's
birthday program Friday afternoon.
They also are making booklets of
the flags of the nation.
Helen La Pierre of the second
grade has been neither absent nor
tardy this year, and Dorothy Davy
has not been absent for four months.
Professor Oatton of Benzonia
Academy gave an interesting talk on
the value of education before the
high school Monday morning which
was enjoyM by all.
Jimmie Olute and Hazel La Pierre
of the fifth grade have been neither
absent nor tardy this month. The
fifth grade have been writing and
studying about Sir Edwin -Landseer.
Strong Interest in the   Weekly
Racing Program—$80 Match
Race next Thursday.
The races in Olare yesterday resulted as follows:
In the free for all Lloyd's Little
Jube was first, Van Vliet's Isabella
second and McNeil Bros,' Bidpath
third.
In the three minute event J.
Wenig's Gypsy Girl won first, Lloyd's
Jack L. second and W. Glass' Prince
Michael third.
A similar program will be repeated
next Thursday afternoon. At that
time there will be a match race for
S40 a side between Wenig's Gypsy
Girl and Larkins' Little Don, both of
Mt. Pleasant.
Parliament, Westminster Abbey and
the other things   of interest visible
from the famous bride of the famous
Thames   river.     Presently   a   well
dressed man, who was very evidently
an American, approached, and after
friendly greetings common to persons of the same country meeting in
a foreign land, he broke forth with
the question, "Say, can you tell me
what so many people go gauping a-
round here from one place to the
other for?   Why I've been   around
here all the afternoon and it does
beat all how many people have been
going in and out that building," said
he pointing at the Abbey, "and then
looking it over • from this side and
then from that."   In his simple way
the writer tried to explain how representative government all over the
world was copied largely from England's parliament and how right there
before them was the scene of wonderful struggle and   achievement, for
human liberty.   But just then one of
those very fine teams, common in the
English metropolis, was passing and
forgetting all about historic associations and all of that, the man exclaimed, "Isn't that a beaut?   Wouldn't I
like to have that dandy team on my
farm home in Illinois."
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"Things change, all things change,
nothing in this world can last" were
the words of an old song one of our
oldest residents was drumming from
out of the depths of boyhood memories the other day.
' "Yes," was the half musing rejoinder of his companion who in his'
way is a bit of a philosopher* "does
beat all how things change. Only the
other day I was over to one of our
Sunday schools and they bad note
books and pencils and paste and lot
of other stuff just like as if they were
doing kind of laboratory work like as
I've heard 'em tell about having a
college. Then when I went the next
Sunday to. another church they were
talking about how fine it would be
when the Sunday school had class
rooms in the new' church. Land
sakes, "he went on," when I was a
boy we used to read the Bible around
the class chapter after chapter, four
or five chapters of a Sunday, Then
too we used to sibg right out plain:
The fire, the fire
You'll see the world all burning
Oh that.great day,
tween the two and in silence each
made his way homeward.
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A few weeks ago one of Clare's veteran chewers of the weed decided to
abstain from so vulgar a habit, and
acting upon that mental volition
threw his half chewed plug into the
snowbank back of the house on Fifth
street. Last week his wife found him
with a shovel at that selfsame snowbank digging for precisely tbe same
plug he threw into it, Yep, men do
things by will, women by instinct.
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The following conversation
leged to have occured a few
ings ago between one of Olare
ty's men of the cloth and one
parishoners:
"Good morning, Parson."
"Good morning, Deacon,
was coming along just now I saw a
fight between a brindle bulldog and a
mastiff. And upon my word, Deacon,
more than fifty men were standing
around. How can fifty people take
an interest in such things?"
"I dunno, Parson.    Which dawg
won?"
Items of Interest in the Hustling
Agricultural County.
Alma basketballers succeeded   in
defeating Central Normal's quintet"
at Alma Tuesday evening.
Getting stuck in a snow drift and
then shovelling the train out has
been fashionable evening experience
from Ooleman to Mt. Pleasant.
Mt. Vernon Grangers will study the
old state constitution during March
as preparatiou for discussion of the"
revised constitution during April;
Glare's Standard Oil man is authority for the statement, that some
North Isabellites got bit the other
day dappling in Pennsylvania oil.
There has been a shaking among
the dry bones at Bosebush. At least
the Baptists report an old fashioned
revival with nearly fifty converts.
Horse racing on. Mt, Pleasant's.
Main street Saturday resulted in
W&ing's Gipsy Girl losing to W.
Anderson's Only Me.   The stake was;
At the state institute round up this
week Mt. Pleasant was selected for
the round up next year. A delegation was on hand from th.e County.
Seat to boost,   ' .
G. 0. Brimmen, in the portrait
business, was brought back to the
county jail this week from Alpena on
a forgery charge. Sheriff Landon
accompanied him.
The Isabella County Pomona will
meet March 18th with Lake View
Grange in Southwest Vernon. The
new constitution is booked for an old
fashioned threshing out at that time.
A big Teal estate deal has been
completed this week by wbich the
John Platten 519 acre farm in Vernon
becomes the property of Grant Ter-
willeger of Vestabnrg, to give possession March 15feb.
Judge Dodds is reported recovering from a very serious illness but
will not be able to transact official
business for some time. Judge Searl&
of Ithaca attended to court matters*
in Clare and Midland for him this-
week.
("entral Normalites are happy. The*
basket ball girls gave the Ypsi girls
tbe game of their life Friday evening,
losing only by a score of 11 to 12 and
the boys won decisively the same
evening over tbe strong Kalamazoo
college team.
The county delinquent tax list for
1905 is just being published. This
year it is larger than that for Olare-
county owing to the fact that the latter has had a lot of her tax lands
deeded over to the state and most of
these have been sold.
Snowbanks postponed the wedding*
of Kittle Kelley and Charles Reen of
Mt. Pleasant till midnight of the 18th
inst. Bev. Hugh Kennedy of Traverse Oity who was booked to tie the
knot was delayed enroute and another minister was procured for tbe midr
night hour.
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The following is dedicated to the
O. K. club by one of our local poets;
Father time, with scythe in hand has
once more leap-year brought,
When maidens gay, may have, their
day, and seek and not be sought.
Last Wednesday eve,, at Duncan's
Hall, the O. K. damsels shy and coy,
Did entertain some love-lorn swain,
and filled their hearts with joy.
With hearty laugh and song and
dance, a cure for indigestion,
The time did pass until each  lass
mayhaps did "pop the question,"
So bashful man never hesitate if you
should be so invited,
For who can say, at break of day, two
hearts may not be united
No Results Obtainable
Gonoerning Petitions;
list
„ POUND.
The best place in Northern Michigan to bny Furniture, carpets, linoleum, shades, etc, at Easlers East
;*th St,. Olare.
LOST.
A good sum of money by not having "Easier the Auctioneer to sell my
goods.
It seems very probable, practically
certain, that despite snow banks republicans of Clare" county will have
the 265 enrolled petitioners
necessary to secure submission.
Olare will give well on to 100 and
Grant, Sheridan, Arthur and .Redding each have a good quota.
Contrary to expectation of many
republicans Secretary Oanfield of the
democrat committee and other leaders have taken up the question for
their party in good faith and submission of question to the democrats
of Olare county seems assured.
In Isabella county there is . still
doubt as to securing the' number of
republican petitioners. In:Vernon
Ed. Beakes secured over eighty.
Isabella democrats are doing nothing in the matter.
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