1909-02-26; Clare Sentinel

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OLAEJS,   mOEmA"®,  FBIDAY MORNING, F^BKUARY 26,'1909.
New Series ^Yoia?, No. 15
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oad-oo I-will take the time to fulfil
tt© promise I made yon to -write yon
0 letter.
We left Olare December 2Q, stopped a few 4oys in Loosing and Adrian
ond South Obarterton, O., Oincinatti
ond Lexington, Ky, We all have
reed a great deal concerning southern
chivalry, etc. As a rule it is found
mostly in books. But tbere are exceptions. We met one between Cincinnati and Lexington. But be was
sn old gentleman. It is only among
tba older men of tbe south that you
will find any unusnal gallantry,
When -we boarded the train at Cincinnati the oar was filled, and this
man of 60 or more offered Mrs. W.
his seat.   She accepted with protest,
1 thanked him and he replied, "If a
ledy only knew how uncomfortable a
gentlemen is to keep his seat and let
a lady stand she would not object to
taking the seat." We visited with
him to Lexington. He had been
chief of police of Danville, Ky., for
31 years and seven years a private
4etective for the Queen & Crescent
R. R.
Lexington is an enterprising city,
in fact ia quite a northern city. We
visited one of the great tobacco warehouses where the farmers store their
tobacco until it is pooled and sold.
Bach man's crop is packed in a hogshead and a sample is saved out and
when it is sold the buyer bids on the
sample.
A few days in Chattanooga, then
two  weeks   in   Birmingham,    Ala.
Ymug Lady Res§mb?iig Missing
Port AustloGfif" Resided at
W.   J.  Holme*'   Five
Five weeks ago a young lady giving
her name as Carpenter tools rooms at
engineer W. J. Holmes' noma In the
city, saying she was is torn Big Bapids
and was to gee work at the Bicknell
stores. She wencoilt only evenings
to get food, had plenty of money, sat
in her room most of the time but did
not receive anyone or go to see anybody. A picture in a Detroit paper
of Emma Carpenter of Port Austin,
alleged to be missing, aroused the
Uolmes family's suspicions and
especially as she did not go to work,
and she was told to leave at the expiration of the rent period, Monday
last. The picture in the Detroit
paper disturbed the girl too and
Monday she left and was supposed to
go south on tbe Ann Arbor. Bat
later on she was seen walking south
from Clare, supposedly to take the
train, from Rosebush.
The strange part of the story is
that she seems to have an accomplice.
Hobody was known to bring her two
grips but at night they arrived on
the porch, the girl explaining that
her nnble from the country brought
them in.   Tljjey disappeared similarly.
The Holmes family are very positive that the young lady is the same
person whose picture has been in the
papers as the Port Austin»missing
girl. 	
CURE BITTIM HILLS MOW
ISABELLA HAFPEfJIN
Such
Clare
to Ad, published in Last Week's
jxford County Local Option.
«;
Bona  Fide Signed Statements  from Business
' Officers Showing Success with No Saloons in Cadillac.
It is putting it mildly to say that there was consternation in Ciare.iocal
option ranks last Thursday.   The cause was a circular containing statements with alleged signatures of seven prominent Cadiljac businessmen and'
city officials.   This same matter appeared in the Clare Courier Friday even-t
ing in the form of a paid ad. under authority of the "Michigan Publicity i
Items of Interest in the Hustling
Agricultural Gounty.
The Salvation Army has invaded
the County ,Seat,
H. O. Howl'and o$ Vernon having
been adjudged insane has been taken
io the asylum at Traverse City.
The state round up farmers' institute is in progress at Mt, Pleasant
Men and County this week with many distinguished
speakers present.
Representative Dusenbury has a
bill before the legislature making it a
orime to levy campaign contributions
from state employes.
"POLITICS MAKES
COWARDS OF Ii
If
BY".
The County Pomona progam, ad-
Co., Detroit.*' It is only fair to Editor Canfleld, however, to assuro^that journed February 10 on account of
he will set the public right this week by naming the authority concealed be- bad weather, will be given at the Mt.
hind that name and giving the facts as they are now known to be. j Vernon Grange Hall next Wednes-
On Sunday Representative ISewkirk of Washtenaw in an address iu the day, March 3.
city read letters from«three of the mencwhose names appeared in the ad, in] Robert Reakes, the former Isabella
question denouncing their alleged statement as absolutely false and unau-, ex-wrestler, is in -trouble at Detroit
thorized. On Monday Rev. Quinton Walker and B. G. Welch went to Cad-' on a charge of being a party to de-
illac to investigate the facts at first hand and this article with the aceom-frauding a man out of money in a
panying statements is the outcome, j fake    wrestling #iatch,
Monday was a legal holiday but Cadillac was busy. There was activity j ThQ Joe^ ti 0&m^ign in i8a,
on every hand. A carefaliook through the main business street where bel]a county start9 in following the
nearly all the business is done showed only three stores vacant even though
nineteen saloons went ont of commission May 1, 1908, Rent, however, has
gone back to the normal for some of the saloons occupied stands costing as
high as 890 per month. Everything seemed pleasing,—nq liquor odors, no
drunks, an atmospnere of cleanliness. ' «
Business and professional men and city and county officers were very
free to talk of Wexford's experiences as a "dry" county. Cadillac city
went ','wet" at the election last spring by 300, the rest of the county offsetting that vote by 600 votes. But Cadillac people very generally now frankly confess their satisfaction, with local option. Many of the tormer "wet"
advocates, however., object to publicity so soon after their conversion.   A
From Birmingham we visited the
famous mining and mill cities of
Snsley and Bessemer. We were in,
Meridian, Miss., the largest city in
that state, next week. Meridian has
been dry for 23 jears. Everything
is closed there on Sunday, even the
fruit and newspaper stands. Here
we first noticed the ox teams that are
used bo much in Mississippi and
Louisiana. I awoke Mrs, W. one
morning to look at four oxen hitched
to one wagon load of cotton. A little
• later we saw six drawing a load of
lumber and just as we came from
lunch a team of eight passed, drawing a load of square timbers. They
use wagons with eight wheels about
two feet in diameter with six inch
tires, for lumbering.        «
Our short stay of two days in Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, was
greatly enjoyed. Jackson is a very
pretty city with good stores and factories, clean streets and clean people.
The old capital, a reJic of the days of
the rebellion, stands at the head of
Capital avenue and is an impressive
old mass of stone with great fluted
columns. It is now used as a city
stoje house and is not kept in repair.
The people of Jackson are vary
cordial. Many though perfect, stang-
ers would speak or nod to us. I came
back to tbe hotel one morning and
told Mrs. W. of a very distinguished
looking gentlemen who had said
"good morning" to me. He was one
that you would notice among a thousand. That' evening there was a mass
meeting in the house of representatives and we went and had the pleasure of meeting the gentlemen and his
Wife. H© was Ex-Gov. Varda^nane.
He invited us to call but we left at 10
the next morning so of course we
missed that great pleasure. Gov.
Noel was there and also spoke.
Mississippi haa a beautiful capital
building built in 10G£. It is the finest
capital that I have seen excepting
the Net? York capital at Albany.
•After a few'hours in Vicksburg,
famono for the seige in the civil war,
and nov? about covered with monuments, we crossed the Mississippi
river on a car ferry just below the
junction of the Mississippi and Yaaoo
rivers where th® river is about one
mils wide.      *
We spent a week with oar sister,
Miso Ethel, at Olarks, La. It is a
mill town entirely owned by the
Louisiana Central Lumber Co. It
hao its Italian quarter and negro
quarter about a quarter of a mile
ttom the white section. The pine
mill cuts about 140 thousand a day,
ttfxile the hardwood mill cuts about
SO thousand. We visited their ox
camp, go called because they use
osea entirely in the timber.* Olarks
■io the beot email place that we have
eeaa in the* eotsth and oa? viaifc there
(OontaouQd oa Filth Pago)
Will Employ 35 Knitters-Brightest Outlook for Business in
Years.
The Clare Knitting Mills resume
business about March 1 for the year
and will employ 35 knitters as against
30 last year.    Five  new   machines'
last year
have been installed and men's fine
cashmere hose will be added to the
product heretofore turned out.
From orders coming in, there seems
to be rapid expansion of business in
this line, especially in the west, so
much so that while last year the mill
ran only five days a week part of the
Beason it looks now as if overtime
will have to be put in to meet the demand.
This is tbe eighth year for the Clare
Knitting Mills, worked ont entirely
through the efforts of the Messrs.
Wolsey. This is a practical way of
providing labor employing industries
for Clare.
proprietor of a big store said, "I'll tell anybody you send me from Clare
county jusfwhat I'm tolling you in favor of local option, because we merchants now get most of the money for legitimate business that previously
went for booze. But I don't care to be quoted." A shoeman declared that
he's always taken his drinks and that he was against the county's going
"dry." "I haven't anything to say," he said, "but I'll say this much. My
business is better now than it was a year ago." The general sentiment is
that the wiping out of the 19 saloons has kept Cadillac from experiencing
the depression now felt at "wet" Traverse O'ty. (
After a careful canvass of nearly a day in the business section of Cad-,rescue"
iliac only one man, H. E. Aldrich, police commissioner was found opposing
local option.   He opposed it unqualifiedly, but Cadillac people say he has!
always been affiliated with the "wet" element.
farmers' institute to run in full swing
till April 6. "We are all for it,
republicans and democrats, preachers and politicians" said a'prominent
Mt. Pleasant citizen the other day.
The most significant feature of the
campaign is that prominent politi-,
cians of both sides are in tho movement.
Roscoe Bahlke, a former Mt.
Pleasant boy who is third officer in
the wireless telegraph office on
board the steamer Celtic, which is
headed for Messina with supplies for
the U. S. government,, had an audience a few days ago with Pope Pius
in company with 14 other ofljeers of
the ship. He spoke feelingly to them
I of the part they had taken in the
of the passengers of tbe
steamer Republic.
Andrew Smith, a resident of Isabella, about one mile north of Mt.
Pleasant, was brought from Marion
a few days ago with what is pronounced by physicians to be a broken
back. Smith was working on top of
a deck of logs, when they started to
roll, carrying him to the ground and
pinning him under the logs. He was
brought to Mt. Pleasant and placed
care of Dr. Pullen, who
Wise Farmers'
The March meeting will be held at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. 3. H.
Seeley south of Olare Tuesday March
2.   The program is,as follows:
Club called to order by Pres.
Song—Club.
Address of welcome—Host.
Response—J. H. "Wilson.
Prayer—Rev. J. E. McDonald.
Reeitation^-Mrs. L. E. Mcintosh.
Dinner
Recitation—Mary Wilson.
Question—What has been tbe
effects upon dry states where prohibition has been tried? A. L. Haring-
ton, Rev. Quinton Walker and
others.
Duet—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Badgley.
Address—Matthew Johnson,
Recitation—Mrs. Vance Warren.
Reception committee—Mrs. Jas.
PhillipB, Mrs. Frank Dalton. ,
Table committee—Mesdames R.
Venner, J. D. Allen, Jas. Hersey and
Fred Phillips.
The strong feeling of protest in Cadillac against all this "fraud and
forgery for the saloon" is voiced in the following secured by Perry F.
Powers whose sworn statement appears below:
"About the first of February of the present year a man who gave his
name as Brown and who pretended to represent a syndicate- of Ohio newspapers, visited Cadillac and made some inquiries touching, the results of
local option in this city.   Soon after the departure of this fellow from Cad- • under the
iliac a circular was distributed throughout the counties which will vote on says the prospect for his recovery is
local option in April next containing statements in opposition to local op- very poor.    He has a large family
tion over the signatures of several well known Cadillac men.   These sig- and owns a farm northwest of tbat
natures were not genuine.   The statements were not true.   Below* will be city.—Shepherd Republican,
found vigorous and effective denials by the Cadillac men who were so base-j iMn-rrFii jnf irwal nn&ten-rn
ly misrepresented by .the saloon defending organization of the state. f AQ g|^§ J TE««PLE SALOONiSTS
"It is not true, as stated in the Saloon League circular, that anyim-j ^
provements planned for Cadillac have been abandoned. The outlook for
Cadillac in a business way and the actual condition in this city are better,
far better, than before the adoption of local option.'       -S"*
"The tax rate in Wexford county is but 9o oh S100 valuation greater
than the average rate for the past ten years. And this slight increase is
due to the fact that our county is utilizing the county road system and providing all funds for road improvements through a county tax instead of a
district tax as heretofore. .
"Cadillac's city debt has been increased only for part of the amount
needed for the construction of anew schoolhouse, $25,000; and the total
debt of the city is §109,000 and not 8146,000 as stated in the Saloon League circular.
"The savings deposits in our banks are greater now than before the
adoption of local option, and all business conditions are more satisfactory
and more promising. '
Such Was Striking Confession of
Representative   Newkirk in
> Clare Address.^
, Representative H, Wirt Newkiyk
of Ann Arbor was the, speaker at the
M. E. church Sunday morning under
local option auspices. Many present
have been, heard to say that altogether it was the most frank, logical
and effective address of the kind
they have ever heard. At its close,
the audience broke into spontaneous
hand clapping, and otherwise gave
evidence of being strongly moved.
In part be said: /
This is my first, public address in
this caase'for thirty years outside of
my own town. For 30 years in poli-r
tics I was on the fence trying to ifeep;
With both sides, temperance peopla ^
and saloon interests, TCwo years ago
I took my position"fearlessly on the
side I have always known to be right.
I have a boy 15 years old. I want to
save him, he's ail I have; I want to
save my property. The liquor interests have a bill in the legislature
to compel counties to pay saloons for
fixtures, etc., when saloons are voted
out. They claim this right. But ask
them if you haven't, the right to save
your property, your boys. WW they
pay you for your boys ruined by their
business?
Politicians have been afraid of the
saloon vote. But, isn't it strange,
that they haven't some fear of your
votes, you men here today?- Politics
makes cowards of us all. 'The powers of our national government were
called in the other day* because of
foot and mouth disease in Wayne ,
county. But nobody cares if our boys
are afflicted with tbe liquor disease,
far worse than any disease in cattle
or hogs. The old chestnut, that prohibition doesn't prohibit,"smells to
heaven. The Ormsbee bill drawn by
Atty. Baker of Detroit, the shrewdst
constitutional lawyer in Michigan,
aims to defeat the temperance* cause
Michigan.    Any man who sees
""•"a
what I see in Ann Arbor   with- 40,
saloons and the influence   exerted
among students there would vote, for
local option.
Clara PeMe Siisn
Florence Ort,        \ p/ii,.---
Edythe La Pierre, j Editors.
Noel Cudney of the sixth grade is
absent on account of sickness.
Rev., Quinton Walker gave the high
school a very interesting talk Tuesday morning.
The seventh [grade entertained the
sixth grade with a Washington birthday program Monday afternoon.
The high school orchestra furnished
a number and there were many instrumental pieces and recitations.
Those who were not absent or
tardy of the fifth grade last month
are as follows; Erancis DaviSj Earl
Gardner, Mildfed Hickey, Sol
Hoover, Lillian LaPierre, Muraey
Lowry, Harold . McDonald, Frank
Sheehans and George Whitside,
(let your home and your barn in-
ciured for those electric atormil.
Welch & Bennett, Fire aod Tornado
Insurance agents. *29t£.
The statements credited "to me in the circular sent out by some whiskey
people and written up by their representatives in this city some time ago
were not made by me. They are riot in accordance with the facts. The
assertion that the freight houses are loaded down with shipments Of whiskey is of course ridiculous. The shipments of whiskey and beer into this
city are not more than 20 per cent—probably not more than 10 per cent—
what they amounted to when this was a saloon town. Some business has
been hurt—the saloon, cigar, hotel, probably, are* not doing so well as
though we had the open saloon, but along the lines of groceries, shoes, dry
goods, clothing, the absolutely necessary lines, I guess it is a fact that business has been helped. I will freely admit that where one person has been
injtired in a material way by local option, one hundred have been helped.
E. L. Metheany,
Mayor of Cadillac, Agent for G. R, & I. Railroad
I did not make or authorize the statement to be made over my signature that there w,as more drinking among the young men in Cadillac now
than ever before. I did not say that the city was overrun with whiskey as
a result of the anti-saloon crusade, I did not say that Cadillac simply can't
stand tho county prohibition lat?,nor did I say that prohibition induces rights
young men to drink whiskey, t signed no statement and the fcse of. my
name, as I am told it is being used on a circular throughout, the state, is
Without my knowledge and without my permission.
M. E. Luecke,
Pastor Emmanuel Lutheran Church.
Mrs.   Mary   Miller Wins  Out,
Court Ruling that She is Entitled to Fair Trial of Her
Claim for Damages.
On Tuesday last, Attorney F. H.
j Dusenbury of Mt. Pleasant,' acting
! for Mrs. Miller in her suit against the
Temple saloon keepers, arising from
j the death of her son from injuries
received while intoxicated, succeeed-
ed in obtaining an order setting aside
the default entered against his client.
This means that Mrs. Miller will be
given a fair trial by jury in Clare
county, notwithstanding 'the.fact that
she was induced. to settle two large
suits for damages aggregating eight
thousand dollars for less than two
hundred dollars. Attorney Dusenbury ie sanguine of large damages in
both cases and assnres not only his
client but the'public that these cases
will be rigidly prosecuted and that
the liquor element of Clare county
will be taught a lesson that it will not
soon forget.
Mr. Dusenbury is making an excellent fight for his client and if Mrs.
Miller is awarded as large damages
as' she deserves the" saloon keepers
of Clare county will riot be quite so
hasty in procuring inadequate settlements with defenseless women who
are not acquainted with their legal
Hiding Legislation;
The proposed Ormsbee law'is causing considerable comment. It proposes to repeal the present local
option law substituting a provision
for township, city and village local
option. This would raise the whole
question again in "dry" counties giving each town and city right to vote
regardless of the rest of the conntyf.
Another provision is to give authority to councils to extend hours of
closing barrooms and even extending
authority it is said to open on Sundays and legal holidays.
Representative Cummins in Clare
Saturday said this' question is causing much discussion in legislative
circles but he did not declare himself
either way on the subject.
Representative   Newkirk in Clare-
Sunday denounced it in strong terms.
Representative Dusenbury in the city
Tuesday did likewise.'   •
Ex-Senator.Doherty was in Lansing Monday and he asserts that Gov.
Warner openly declares that he will
veto the Ormsbee bill, if it comes to
him, in its present form repealing:
county local option.
The opinion is heard from some
quarters that liquor interests are
holding up other important legislation pending the settlement of such
questions as are before the legislature
relative to the liquor question.
In regard to a circular that has been circulated with statements claimed
to be signed by several of onr most prominent citizens in regard to effect of
loeial option in this county, I wish to say that the statement over my_signa-,
ture is a gross fabrication and was never authorized by me over my signature or in any other way.
George Chapman,
Cashier of the Peoples Sayings Bank.
BRIDGE COMPLETED.
Tobacco River. Road   West of
Baptist Church in Sheridan
Open  to Travel-Bads    *
Controversy.
After a lively eontroverseyof many
months* duration a new bridge has
been built across the Tobacco river
in th& road west of the Baptist church
and the Herriok farm  in Sheridan
•t . ———■■—-*—-—• 'and the old road will remain as One
"For over nine months the looa^ option law has been thoroughly tried of ^hetownships'tbroughfares. This
out here in Cadillac Its success has been phenomenal. Men who were is supposed to end the controversy
afraidof the experiment because it introduced anoh a radical change} mm over changing the road,
who opposed it for fear of an abridgement of personaUiberty; wen who Highway: Commissioner McOlpng
were bitterly against it because of the force of the drink habit fastened upon was in charge of building the nw
them through years of indulgence; men of all shades of opinion now unite sti?uotu*e which was thrown open to
^Continued pn Second Page.) , the public last Friday.
NOTICE.
Having purchased the business ^in-
terests of Mr. John High in your city,
I hereby wish to extend to the public
in general an invitation of welcome;
to call on us at any time. Every
article is a bargain, and on -parlor
lamps especially we will cut prices.
I hope to show you in the near future
the finest line of imported and do-
„4nestio chinaware ever shown in
Clare. Yours,
J. W. Smith.
The Farwell Portland Cement company of Farwell is dickering'with the-
Board of Trade of Petoskey with a-
view to moving its plant to the latter
city. The company waa organized to
work a deposit of marl at Liitlefleld
lake, near Farwell. Some of its
btiiidings were erected, but tbe plant
never went into operation. There io
an abundance of limestone rook at
Petoskey, The company has 8100,00fi>
invested and ask that Petoskey citizens take an equal amount in stock
or bonds.—Michigan Investor.