1909-04-30; Clare Sentinel

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Established 1878.
GLARE,  MICHIGAN,   FRIDAY MORFINe, APRIL 30, 1909.
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HOOL BOARD AFTER -.
DEW HEM 6117 SCHOO
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Supt:. J. Q. Roode Goes to Con-
stantine' Next Year  at $1200
Salary.
Was Offered Clare Superintendency at
$100 Advance, $1100.   New Principal for High School Too.
The Olare board of education has
the problem of providing both a'new
superintendent and a new principal
of the high school next yoar. Neither Supt. Roode nor Miss Cameron,
principal of the high school, will return. Mr. Roode goes to Constantino.
Miss Cameron has not yet announced her plans.
This is the first time in a number
Of years that both superintendent and
high school principal have changed
the same year and so the problem to
the board of education is an, important one. With a high school of near*
ly 100, crowded quarters at that, and
a teaching force of 11 the right handling of the city schools is no sinecure.
The board of education is taking the
matter up and promise no backward
steps. In fact the community undoubtedly demands continued progress for school effeciency.
Supt. Roode was tendered the
superintendency for the fifth year at
S100 increase bringing the salary up
to SHOO but accepted at Constantine
where there are only eight teachers
in all, the salary, however, being
SI,200. Much advance has been made
during the Roode-Cameron administration in growth in the high school,
in effecient work in laboratory and
general balance of scholarship. The
senior class this year numbers 18,
considerably larger than any other
previous class.
Asked as to tho greatest needs of
the city schools today as he sees
them after four years' experience
Supt. Roode promptly replied substantially, Emphasis on good teaching and more room for high sehool
classes.
The school board is not yet ready
to announce its teaching corps for
next year except to say that most of
the present teachers are expected to
remain.
Proposal to Cut out FiveJudical
Circuits on this Account.
The special judical committee appointed to revise the judical circuits
of this state have prepared a bill
which will cut out five districts and
save the state qxiitS a sum annually
in salaries. This revision was made
[.on the showing of court work done
the state over last year and would
seem to indicate less crinjlnal tend-]
enoy as the state with several thousands increase in population since the
last revision finds that it can get
along with five less districts than it j
could a decade ago:
. The~proposed revision of the judical circuits of Michigan will cut down
the number of judges and it is claimed save 820,000. These are the circuits
as now proposed:
First circuit,  Lenawee   and  Hills-
|*dale;   second,   Monroe   and   Wash-
Woe Be to Them in Isabella County Says Pros. Atty. Matthews and Sheriff Landon.
THEIR STATUS IS HOT QUITE SO CLEAR IN CURE GOUTY.
Pros. Quinn Will Acton Complaint Made But Says State Law
Doesn't Cover Slot Machines.   Sheriff Sunday
Ready to do Full Duty.
SHTH GRADE EXAMINATION.
SCHOOLS AND COUNTRY LIFE
At eleven o'clock tonight,' April 30, the open saloon closes for two years
in Olare and Isabella counties. At 12 o'clock the local option law goes
into effect,
This week thus far.has shown less evidence  of  drunkeness than for
many weeks.    But much liquor has been "bought and taken to   homes.
No demonstration is expected,   All seem disposed to accept the new law
j in good part and it is not believed that   a   single   one   of  Clare's   six
saloon ¥ men  will , attempt  to   hang around  the  edges  with blind pigs.
.Two will probably leave town very soon.' The others expect to go in busi-
I ness in Clare.
j       With the idea of ascertaining the view point of important oflicers con-
, .   ,  __ .      ..   „        . ! nected with enforcing the  local option law and slot machines as well, the
tenaw; third, Wayne; fourth,■ Br-aoh SentfMl to,ked with Pros. Atty. John Qmnn and Sheriff L. W.  Sunday of
Clare county and Pros. Atty. R. D. Matthews and Sheriff Palmer Landon of
Isabella county. This talk was had over the 'phone and we give below the
substance of what each man had to say. This is, let it be distinctly understood, not the exact words of any of these four men, though put in the direct form, but yet is substantially what each defined his position as being on
both local option and slot machines. The difference between Pros. Atty.
Quinn -and Pros. Atty. Matthews is striking indeed:
ire end ViGinify 30 Years Ago
The railroad to Budd Lake is to be
completed at once.
The new bell for the Congregational church is ready to be hung.
"Tip" Calkins is making a fine
residence of his house on main street.
"Tip" Calkins is Clare's most
enterprising merchant having engaged a column ad. in the Clare paper
for all next year.
Mr. McEwan for whom our principal street is named has lowered his
price on lots but objects to donating
a lot for the town hall.
We are informed 'that the new
County Seat is to have a name of its
own and is not to be known as Budd
Lake.   Chandler is suggested.
The new location for the County
Seat at Budd Lake, land donated for
county buildings by the Pere Marquette, is to be the oflScial seat of
county business on and after November 1879.
The Olare county board of supervisors have appointed a committee
to have a block cleared at the new
County Seat for the erection of county buildings, but by resolution of
supervisor Geo. Cummins of Surrey,
the cost of buildings is not to exceed
S10.000.
A drunken Frenchman named
Butah is in jail atMt. Pleasant charged with murdering an Indian named
James Henry. The deed was committed north of Mt. Pleasant at nine
in the evening,"-with a knife inflicting
wounds on head face, arms and abdomen. The quarrel started from a
feud incident to the Indian's killing
the Frenchman's pony last summer.
The Indian leaves a widow, the
handsomest wife on the reservation.
and St. Joseph; fifth, Cassjand Van
Buren; Sixth, Berrien; seven,, Kalamazoo; eighth, Calhoun; ninth, Jackson; tentn, Oakland and Lapeer;
eleventh, Livingston and Shiawassee;:
twelfth, Ingham; thirteenth, Eaton
and Barry; fourteenth, Allegan and
Ottawa; fifteenth, Kent; sixteenth,
Ionia and Montcalm; seventeenth,
Clinton and Gratiot; eighteenth,
Genesee; nineteenth, St.'piair and
Macomb; twentieth, Tuscola, Huron,
Sanilac; twenty-first, Saginaw;
twenty-second, Bay; twenty-third,
Midland, Isabella, Clare and Gladwin; twenty-fourth, Mecosta, Ne-
wago, Lake and Oseola; twenty-fifth,
Muskegon and Oceana; twenty-sixth,
Mason, Manistee, Benzie and Leelanau; twenty-seventh, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Wexford and
Missaukee; twenty-eight, Arenac,
Crawford, Isoco, Ogemaw, Otsego
and Roscommon; twenty-ninth, Antrim, Charlevoix, Emmet and Cheboygan; thirtieth, Alpena, Presque
Isle, Montmorency, Oscoda and Alcona; thirt3'-first, Chippewa, Mackinac, Luce and Alger; thirty-second,
Marquette, Schoolcraft, Delta and
Menominee; thirty-third, Dickinson,
Iron, Gogebic and Ontonagon; thirty-
fourth, Baraga, Houghton and
Keweenaw.
It is very doubtful if the bill will
become a law in that form. To compel a judge to go by way of Bay Oity
to and from Gladwin county, regardless of where his home is, would be a
bad arrangement at least.
arweli.
Shepherd in town
N. T. Fenner of
Monday.
Miss Velva Sanborn visited Olare
friends over Sunday".
Wm. Riley of Marquette in town
the first of the week.
O. T. Sadler of Marion made a business call here on Wednesday.
Mr. R. V. Howard of Alma called
upon Farwell friends Wednesday.
W. Goultry has purchased the J.
Dewitt farm, across the Tobacco.
The Oong'l L, A. S. meet this Friday P. M. with Mrs. L. Wiesman.
County Commissioner Welch vis-
ted the Farwell schools on Monday.
The Farwell Woman's dub will
meet next week with Mrs. D. R.
Wait.
Harry Campbell of Bay Oity visited his mother here the first of the
week.
Mrs. W. Richmond and daughter,
Wilhelmina, of Olare, visited friends
here on Friday.
Mars. Geo. Love of Freeland is the
guest of her daughter, Mrs. A. A.
Powell, and family. |
Mrs.   Eugene Ford was called to!
Howard Oity Saturday by the death
of her father, E. Weaver. I
'Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Goultrie of Ot-|
PROS. ATTY. QUINN.
I am ready to enforce" the local
option law right from the start, prosecuting in every case whenever complaint is sworn out by any citizen
with evidence of probable conviction.
I shall be glad for any assistance
from the law and ordsr league.
There seems to be no state law covering slot machines as to gambling.
The statute was enacted before slot
machines came into use. The slot
machine can be regulated by ordinance in cities but outside of the
towns there seems to be no legal way
of putting them out.
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The next annual convention of the
Big Rapids District Epworth League
will be held in Cadillac, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 21,22 and 23.
There are over fifty villages and
towns in the district and the local
league is making preparations to entertain about 125 delegates, each
league being entitled to send two delegates besides their pastor.
If yon need a touch of sunshine
read the Crooked Lake correspondent
on the town barber. In fact 'tis
worth while to get the bright touches
from this source weekly.
PROS.   ATTY.   MATTHEWS.
I intend to give the people of Isabella county what they voted for
under the local option law. Every
man found disorderly drunk will be
arrested. Drunkeness in dry coun-
tie's should be prohibited. In my
opinion people will be mistaken
about meaning of supreme court decision concerning Cadillac case.
When liquor is served to guests in
home it must be in good faith. To
invite guests in for purpose of serving
liquor would be a violation of the law.
The only legal way to dispose of liquor left in saloons in Isabella county after April 30 is for owner himself
to drink it.
We drove slot machines out of
Shepherd under state law, 5923 compiled laws of 1897, without any special
ordinance. They are out of Isabella
county and will stay out. State law
covers the matter definitely enough,
but it has not been passed on by the
supreme court.
Held at Clare, Farwell, Harrison
and     Winterfield     School
Hotise,   Thursday   and
Friday, May 6 and 7.
The State Eighth Grade Examination will be held this year Thursday
and Friday, May 6 and 7, and the examination will be held at the school
house Glare, school house Farwell,
court house Harrison, and school
house (district No. 1) Winterfield.
Supt. J. T. Northon of the county
board of examiners will conduct the
class at Farwell,4 Leo J. .Treanor of
the county board will conduct at
HarriBon, Otto J. Heber of Hatton
township will conduct at Winterfield
and the Oommissioner will conduct
the Clare class.
Certification blanks have been sent
out and every applicant must have
one signed by his teacher to the
effect that he has had at least six
months' regular work in the eighth
grade in the Michigan schools if he
expects to have his papers looked
over by the board of examiners.
Teachers are asked not to accompany
their pupils to tbe examination, and
the conductors will make it as pleasant as possible for the boys and girls,
giving them every possible encouragement.     ,
Examination paper will be furnished free for this examination. But
every applicant should have pen,
ink, lead pencil and eraser, a rule,
scratch paper and a well sharpened
knife. These are essential. Don't
fail to have them. Conductors will
see to it that there be no communicating during the test. Applicants
will be permitted to leave the room
only between subjects.
Diplomas will be granted successful
applicants conditional on eighth
grade graduating exercises being
held.
Examinations will begin promptly
at eight o'clock sun time, and it will
be well for the conductors to take
their dinners so that they may allow
slow applicants to finish up during
the noon hour if need be. Above all
things it is desired that tills test be a
fair one; and it is far better to fail
fairly than to obtain a diploma by unfair means.
Heretofore the examination has
commenced   the first day at   nine
o'clock, but by previous experience
it has been shown that this gives too
short a time for the morning session,
so remember that this year the test
will begin promptly at eight o'clock,
sun time. If any applicant lives far
from any of these points, I would
suggest that they get within a reasonable distance of the place the night
before.
Boards of education can spend a
few dollars to no better advantage
than in making the eighth grade
graduating exercises the school event
of the year.
Very truly yours,
E. G. Welch, Oommissioner."
Is the Present District   School
Inadequate to the Growing
Needs   of   Agricultural
Communities?
Growing out of the report of th e>
Commission on Country Life there I*
a discussion that goes deep to the
very root of rural life. State superintendent of education, F. A. Cotton
of Indiana urging upon the superintendents of four adjacent states to-
have rural schools discuss ways and
means for furthering love of country
life, states these fundamental facts
about our country schools:
"1. The one-room isolated school,
unless a very large one, can no longer meet the needs of the people.
"2. The community life with its
dominant interest—agriculture—muse
determine the nature of the work in
the school and the^ mode of procedure.
"3. Teachers must be well prepared men and women, capable of deal-
' ing with the problems of life, willing
to make the community their per-
j manent home, and to take the solution of its economic, and educational problems as their life-work."
To "carry out the changes suggested
in these fundementals as Mr. Cotton
states them would be a revolution in
our country schools. They mean a
country school big enough to require
several teachers, men among them,
who should live right in the country
community near the school and
should regard its work as their life
work. Not mere book facts but nature as well, with as mucb teaching
outdoors as indoors,—such is the
teacher demanded for the larger
rural school. Not a town school
carried out into the country to prepare for college but a school conducted solely to develop the young life of
that particular country community,,
is the new idea now under way.
There is need to face the problem*
of glorifying country life. The big.
city in the end is destructive of progress. In the last seven years London's birth rate has dropped eight,
per cent and her school children'
fallen away two per cent. But hef-
paupers have increased 15 per cent
and her debt 110 per cent. Whispers
from the large Olare colony now in
Detroit is admission of influences
even there that finally degrade-
New York and Chicago tend to the-
same fate as London. The hope of
the future is country life; the hop&
of country life the school and what it
may be to each community.
tumwa,  la., are guests of their son, J tion -without waiting for some citizen
Walter Goultrie and son.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Oustice of Oole-
I will do my very best to enforce
the local option law, giving the people of Isabella county what they voted for by nearly 1300 majority.
Drunks at at all disorderly will be
arrested at sight. We will go ahead
on direct knowledge of direct viola-
man Rundayed with their daughter,
Mrs. Geo. Heath, and family.
Rev. O. N. Beldin of the Oong'l
church will deliver his farewell sermon next Sunday evening, May 2.
Mrs. Mary Best and son, Fred, of
Beaverton, are guests of the former's
sister, Mrs. T. M. Hilson, and family.
Miss Edith Bingham has secured a
position as teacher in the East Jor-!
dan public schools for the coming
year. |
Postmaster Saxton is redecorating,
and renovating the interior  of the
post office, making quite an improvement.
Mrs. M. G. Stevens and children
were guestB of relatives here over
to swear out a warrant.
Two years ago I said if elected
sheriff I would put out the gambling
slot machine. On assuming office I
went to places where slot machines
were in operation and said I would
smash them to pieces if I found • them
again. That ended it. We haven't
. been troubled with slot machines in
j Isabella connty since. 1 did this under state law, not relying on any city
or village Ordinance, but it was with
the advice and consent of the Prosecuting Attorney.
SHEBIPF SUNDAY.
I will do my full duty to enforce the
local option law and will myself make
complaint on definite knowledge of
violation.
I am ready to put the common
gambling slot machine out of the
county the moment competent legal
authority will advise me of my right
under the law to do so and will show
me how I can accomplish it effectively under state law.
Austin Trumble, who recently
built a new store building and put in
a stock of groceries near the Brand
, farm in Arthur, believes he has start-
Sunday and were accompanied borne ed a new town, and anyone wishing
by the former's sister, Mrs. H. G. the honor of naming it may leave
MoGinnis. suggestion at his store.
The best auctioneers in the state
urge newspaper advertising. It is
cheaper, better, and it brings the
crowd. Any auction sale is a failure
unless it is well attended. Remember
the Sentinel has the circulation, and
in advertising it's the circulation that
count.    - tf.
fop at Summit.
C. L. Glasgow, commissioner,
writes us to announce that beginning
on the 25th inst. train No. 4, on the
Ann Arbor Railroad, will stop at
Summit on flag. This bit of news
will be gladly received to Freeman
and Lincoln township residents.
The early morning train south was
more in need to them than any train
they could have. Now it makes it
possible for the residents there to
come to town on business and return before noon or on the late train
at night, also this arrangement in the
train service will make it possible for
any who might want to resort on the
lakes there to get an early train out
for supplies. At any rate this bit of
news will be gladly received by
many.—Farwell San.
Geo. Ripenburg is at the ifhiversity
hospital at Ann Arbor where he was
successfully operated on for appendicitis and is rapidly recovering. Some
months ago he was attacked by this
malady and recovered but finally had
to submit to an operation. Mrs!
Ripenburg iB visiting with relatives
in Ithaca.
Wise Farmers' Giufi.
The following is the program for
the meeting to be held at at the home
of S. McJames May 4, two miles south
and two and one-half east of Olare:
Song—Club.
Prayer—Rev. Quinton   Walker.
Welcome—S. McJames.
Response—J. H. Seeley.
Music—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Badg-
ley.
Dinner.
Discussion—The new home andf
what it may become—J. F. Tatman,
Rev. Quinton Walker and others.
Volunteer music and recitations.
Reception—Mesdames Jas. Phillips
and Geo. Snear.
Table—Mesdames Jas. Seeley, Fred
Phillips, Jas. Hersey.        /
ongressmen Dodds Pleased.
o
Hon. F. H. Dodds returned home
last Thursday from Washington to
remain at home while the Payne-
Aldrich tariff bill is being acted upon,
in the senate. The bill will probably/
become a law about June 1, and them
he expects to see business over the-
county take on a new stimulus. Mr*.
Dodds is highly pleased with the reception that has been accorded him
in the national capitol.—Mt. Pleasant
Times.
0. O. Halliday, a nephew of E.
Switzer, from Indiana came Saturday and will reside in Grant township, having bought the Julias W.
Shaeffer forty, one <and one-half
miles north of the city.
State Law for Keeping Slot Meehines Out
Slot machines have been out of Isabella county for two years. • Sheriff
Landon put them out. Here is the state law, Sec. 5923 of compiled laws off
1897, by which Pros. Atty. Matthews says they are kept out;
"The people of the state of Michigan enact, That * * * all drunkards,
tipplers, gamsters; * * * all persons who keep in any highway, or in other
public place, any gaming table, wheel of fortune, box, machine, instrument
or device for the purpose of gaming * * * shall be deemed disorderly
persons."
A disorderly person convicted may be fined and imprisoned for firsfc
offence IS50 and 30 days, second conviction S100 and 90 days, and on third?
' and subsequent convictions up to two years in state prison and S100 fine anot
costs as provided in section 5924 compiled laws of 1897.
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