1909-05-21; Clare Sentinel

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OLARE,  lEtOHIGAtf,  FKIEAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1909.
New Series; VoM7, No. 27
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Before Justice Eldeia.
JUD8E DODDS TO 6IVESEBTEHGE
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE.
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Fining Program To Be Given at
Cherry Grove, Sunday,
.May 30.
TMr&y«-fo«r Pm the Stm Eighth
Grade Bxanrtn.'SMoB.
The state eighth grade examination
for\rnral students has come and g^>ne.
The school year closes.   The records, Addresses Will Be Given by C. A. Read
good orbad, have been mads.   Mmy
earnest," oonseiencious students fail-
The
ing and J. P. Bowler,
committee appointed  by the
JJe Had Furnished Liquor to Two Men
In Clare this Week.
, Late Wednesday evening on a warrant sworn ont by Rev. Quinton
Walker as president of* tbe Olare Law
and Order League John Rodabaugh
-was arrested by Marshal Dwyer and
brought be'fore Justice Blden, charging him with famishing liquor to two
men in Glare this week. President
Walker of the league, Mayor Mulder,
Oity Atty. Lacy and Atty. Reading
and the two men (they are not detectives but two Olare county citizens) were witnesses of the proceedings. The sworn statements were so
direct that Mr. Rodabaugh pleaded
guilty. Now the matter rests for sentence by Judge Dodds when circuit
court convenes at Harrison June 7.
Mr. Rodabaugh is out on S500 bail
"with James Lackie and James' S.
Bicknell as sureties.
There has been some talk on in
Glare this week indicating belief that
liquor was finding its way out illegally but to most people the arrest and
accompanying plea of guilty comes
as a surprise. The Law and Order
League says that Olare having voted
dry, and the county by a very large
majority having so voted, they propose to help the officers secure law
•enforcement and they desire any who
propose dallying with the liquor law
to beware.
One other fact is called attention to
by city officials and the League,
namely, that there is a rigid ordinance in force in Olare against drunkards" gamblers and offenders of a
like nature, naming all such as disorderly persons, who upon conviction
on such a charge are liable to line
and imprisonment np to 20 days, and
it is well for any, either city residents
or others coming to Olare and getting
drunk ,to show up the local option
law that they too come under this ordinance.
ed. If they never try the test again Mayor to arrange for the observance
they have indeed miserably failed. If of Memorial Day have arranged for
they take courage from the fact that exercises to be given at Cherry Grove
in some subjects they received, high'cemetery Sunday,' May 30 at two p.
jnarks, and go to their studies nex£\,m, standard time, the parade forln-
September with renewed vigor, next' ing at Water Works Park at 1:30 for
May will doubtless see them   pass the cemetery as follows:
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Legislature's Record on Its Face
Seems Productive of Good
Legislation-Time  Will
Prove the Worth.
Among important bills passed by
the legislature which closed its active sessions Wednesday are:
New primary election law.
-Anti-stock watering law.
Abolishment of fellow servant doctrine.
30 bills drafted by attorney general
to meet requirements of new constitution.
Ad valorem tax for for telephone
and telegraph companies.
Public Domain act permitting 200,
000 acre forest reserve.
Search and seizure bill.
General liquor bill.
Railway commission reorganized.
Unit school system for townships.
Home rule for cities.
Home rule for counties.
Judicial circuits reorganized.
Highway laws improved.
Only one of Gov. Warner's ideas,
Anti Lobbying law, failed to pass.
There have been no factions like
the "immortal 19," etc., in the present legislature. Time must tell of the
effectiveness of legislation enacted.
Tomple lodlans and Barries,
According to the present outlook
says the Shepherd Republican, there
will be some hungry Indians around
Temple this summer. Their^occupa-
tion and their source of income are
gone, since the forest fires of last fall
destroyed all the huckleberry bushes
in the big marsh, and the new growth
is too small to bear berries. As much
of the npper part of the lower penin-
anla suffered in a similar manner
from fire,s the huckleberry will be a
dear and scarce frriifc this summer.
Down the river 10 or 12 miles from
Temple is an Indian settlement. In
the winter the bucks trap and hunt
and in the summer they pick huckleberries. There are about 100 of, the
Bed people who brave rattlesnakes in
the big marsh which stretches from
Tenjpleto Houghton Lake and the
head waters of the Muskegon river.
They sell, each summer, to Joseph
Russel, the Ann Arbor railroad agent
at Temple, about 1600 bushels of the
delicious berries, which are worth a-
bout 32.50 per bushel, or 84,000 in the
fleasc-u.
with high averages, they will be
better fitted for life's duties, and if
they pursue their Btudies in high
schools they will be far more proficient that to enter having barely
squeezed through the eighth grade.
Just a word to teachers i Some
sent up to the examination pupils
who were, according to the course of
study, just fair seventh graders, and
others came who in some subjects
were not even good sixth graders.
This the commissioner has discouraged for two reason: it puts the
county to needless expense in looking over these papers, and the average student gets discouraged when
he fails at two successive examinations. Only 21 rural teachers reported as having given the winter term
examination test, questions for which
are furnished by the Oommissioner.
The difficulty arises in not closely
following your state course of study
and in failing to give the term tests.
True it is that the requirements of
the Department of Public Instruction
are getting higher each year, and
the 8th grade examinations now are
harder than was the average 3d
grade teachers' examination a few
years ago, but this year as the questions were arranged so as to give the
applicant in most subjects a choice
of 10 out of Id questions, the board
was much surprised that at least 50
per cent did not pass the examination. The following are the successful applicants, but to receive the
diploma graduating exercises must
be held. The expenses of these
exercises should be borne by the
districts, paid outsof the incidintal
fund. We give the graduates by
township and the teacher of each
group:
Arthur,~George A, Arndt,  Ina B
Balsley, Wilhelmina M.    "Fischer.—
Inez J. McCollum, teacher.
Frost,—Ralph English, Franklin
Weeks,—Agnes Foster, teacher.
Grant,—Hazel B. Foltz, Ethel
French, Mary Wentworth,—Bonnibel
Richardson, teacher. Mary Gilmore,—Josephine Armstrong, teach
er. Ivah-L. Johnson, Fern E. Stanley;—Lillian Halstead, teacher
Mena Keebler, Anna Heins, Fred J.
Krell.—Methvan Brown, teacher.
Greenwood.—Audrey Fookes,—
Sadie Shafer, teacher. Ina Van
Valkenburg.—Oarlis H. Foster,
teacher.
Hamilton,—Theresa Churchill,
Lewis W. Ohurchill, Roseanna Mc-
Kenna, Hasel McGuire, Frances
Sullivan, Agnes Sullivan.—Anna
Sullivan, teacher. Le.on Horton,—J.
W. Tolly, teacher.
Hatton,—Pauline Gerlitz, Solista
Root,—Camilla Hunt, teacher.
Sheridan,—Rex Carrier, Berniee
Roe, Glen E. Strouse,—R. V. Rule,
teacher. Ralph E. Teall,—Marie
Taggart, teacher.
Surrey,—Addie Moore,—Mrs. S.
M. Shepard, teacher.
Win.terfleld,—Eleanor Blackledge,
Grace Foster, Katie Gaskill,—Nina
Eberhart, teacher. Oarl Johnson,—
Lillian Gannon, teacher.
The five having the highest average in the county are as follows:
Ralph English, 83.2; Grace Foster,
82.7; Hazel E. Foltz, 82; Katie Gas-
kill, 80.9; Mary Wentworth, 80.6.
Edward Geroux, not 12 years of
age, earned an average of 64.2%.
He was the youngest applicant in the
county, and his work is most commendable.
E. G. Welch, Oommissioner.
Oity Band.
Members of the G. A. R,
Speakers, etc. «
Citizens.
School children in charge of teachers and Supt, Roode.
•The officers of the day who will
have the program in charge are:
•Presiding officer—A, J. Lacy,.,
Marshal of.Day—Daniel Grouse.
PEOGEAM.
Ritualistic services—G. A. R.
Overture—Clare City Band.
Invocation—Rev. O. Waidelioh,
Music—Double Male Quartette.
Address—O. A. Reading.
Music—Double Male Quartette.
Address—Jas. F. Bowler.
Music—Band.
In the event of inclement weather
the services will be held at the opera
house.
This is the first Sunday Memorial
Day observance in Clare and it is expected that along with the people of
the city many from the country will
come to join in tribute to our dead
heroes at the same time paying fitting
respect to the few who remain of the
"Boys in Blue" who in halting step
will wend their way as they have so
many years to Cherry Grove to decorate the graves of their country's
dead.
IMPRESSIONS OF THE.WEST.
Extracts from a Letter Written
by Wiimore Walton of Southwest Vernon,
Mr. and Mrs, John WaIfcon,<—Will
tell you a little of the trip, but have
seen so many new things in eo short a
time I hardly know where to begin.
We waited in Duraud six hours.
J. W. Rowland's two little girls from
Vernon going -to Billings, Mont,    I
GLARE LECTURE COURS
Two Concerifs and Two Lectures
for 1900-10 Season-Backed
by SO Citizens.
Fifty citizens have organized themselves into a Glare Lecture and Entertainment Association and have secured from the Mutual' Lyceum Bureau of Phieago a course of high class
entertainments for the coming winter, far superior in quality to any
course ever presented before in the
met them there according J;o agree'
ment with him,. Through Minnesota! 01*y« Tbe offioers of the association
and the Dakotas, the ground ! are entirely from that class of hust-
was frozen.' To Bismark, the land is Hng young men who in numbers and
very level. I did pot see a bit of energy bespeak good things for
green vegetation from Madison, Wis
DISASTROUS FARWELL FIRE.
Littiefieid Block destroyed Completely Early Tuesday Morn-.''
ing,
THE TOTAL LOSS REACHES OVER $60GO
J. L.
R.
Clare's futrue—and whose leadership
Littlefleld, L. F,  Leonard,  D.
■   Wait and C. I. Maurer Are
Principal Loser.
FarysreU correspondent.
A fire was discoved in L. F. Leonard's general store, which was situated in the center of the   Littlefledi
block, Tuesday morriing about three'
(o'clock.    When  discovered  it  was>
is guarantee of a successful course
next winter. „Here are the officers:
President—Frank H. Baliinger.
Secretary—Arthur J. Lacy.
Treasurer—Dr> Jas. A.' Reeder.
Executive Committee—Dr. Hugh
E. Neelands, Carlos A. Reading,
Lawrence Jackson, David A, Wolsey,
John E, Doherty.
Tickets for the season's course, ad-
to Dickenson, N. D. Eight Saturday
morning found us in the Bad Lands
of North Dakota. They are rightly
named, just one hill after another
from 10 to 100 feet high. I did not
see afltjglace large enough to build a
house.
As we approach Billings, Mont.,
large hills come into view. Bronchos
now are  common   but no buggies.
All the wagons have brakes on ao- mirably distributed through four
count of the hills. At tb^is town the months are placed at the very low
buildings are mostly brick with brick figure of SI for the full four numbers
Jblns in evidence. of highest grade lectures and enter-
Sunday was tbe first nice day of tainments ever secured for the city,
the trip. The grass is green and the! Everyone should plan to invest at
valleys  look pretty.     The railroad, least   one   ticket  in  the  following
course:
Olympia Jubilee Singers of national
reputation.
Henry Clark, lecturer.
L. B- Wiokersham, lecturer.
Standard Male Quartette,
The committee will have announcements made at the proper time of
these numbers. .
V-Bodm
Miss Ollie Bailey and .Albert L.
Bonnell were united in marriage at
the pleasant home of the bride's aunt,
Mrs. E. L, Baker, two miles north of
the city.
Mr. Bonnell is ip the barber business in Mt. Pleasant, highly respected
because of his real worth. Miss
Bailey is a charming young lady of
EIGHTH GRAOEJRADUATION.
A Number of Districts Hold Exercises with Good Speakers
Present.
A number of Clare county district
schools are holding exercises graduating those who receive state eighth
grade diplomas. The following torn-
prise those thus far known to have
such exercises and others expect to
do likewise:
Winterfield May 20 with Prof. C. S.
Larzelere of Central Normal giving
the address.
Balsley school May 21, Rev. Quinton Walker of Clare gives the address.
Maple Grove May 21 with program
by pupils and an address by Oomr.
E. G. Welch.
Pratt, Oolonville and Eagle schools
unite .in exercises at Oolonville
church May 26. Prin. O. T. Grawn
of the Central Normal gives the address.    ,
Mann Siding May 28 with Rev. Mr.
Applegate and Supt. A. H. Aldrich of
Harrison giving addresses.
ARE CO. CIRCUIT COURT.
Some Matters Taken up Monday
and Adjourned to June 7.
Judge Dodds held session of court
at Harrison Monday. Among other
things these Were taken up:
Colin McDonald, charged with liquor law violation, plead not guilty,
J. F. Bowler, attorney. Oase will'be
tried at the June session. Arthur
Farrington plead guilty to charge of
larceny of person and will be sentenced at the June session.
Jas. Snider on same charge as Mr.
Farrington stood mute and the Judge
ordered a plea of not guilty. His attorney, A. J. Lacy, moved to quash
on constitutional grounds, namely,
the twilight zone on the county border line where both counties have
jurisdiction raises this question. The
matter will be submitted on briefs.
llBrlHafll
Mr. John H. Martin and Eleanor
Burnham were united in marriage by
the Rev= Quinton Walker at the home
of Mr. Joseph Presley, at high noon
Wednesday. Mr. Martin is one of
Clare's well known and highly respected citizens. Mrs. Martin has
spent much of her life in Olare and
has many friends in the <3ity. About
25 guefets were present. They were
conveyed in carriages from Mr. Presley's to Mr. Martin's home where a
sumptuous dinner was served by hie
the Normal city with a host of friends.
<i Rev. Qainton Walker of Olare per-! daughters,
formed the ceremony that tied the I The happy couple left* on an ex-
knot that can be broken only by tended wedding toar through "Michi-
death. j gan and Indiana.
Mr,'and Mrs. Bonnell will reside'   Mr. aad Mrs. Martin have the" best
in Mt.-PIeasant. "X   < wishes of the entire city. X
seems to run through the best country. Some places the railroad is cut
through the solid rock 100 feet deep"
it would seem,
'Helena, Mont., makes the third
state capital passed through. The
government buildings here remind
one of the Indian * school at Mt.
Pleasant. Lighted by electricty from
Great Falls, 20 miles away, we got a
good view. A large herd of buffalo
owned by the government is one of
the attractions. From here the road
is through a rougher country. Just
imagine going through a tunnel and
then suddenly dash onto a trestle
200 to 300 feet long and from 50 to 100
feet high.
We arrived at Spokane Monday
morning. The falls here are grand
but not like Niagara. They., furnish
power for everything in the city.
From a high hill we obtain a good
view of the city. This is where the
business men have their residences.
It seems funny to see the way
they build their houses. We people
from the east would look at lots
(piles of rock) selling at from Sl,500
to S2,000 each and think them worth
about S15. They blast out a cellar
and then smooth the rocks and with
what little substance there iB in it
they have the firifestlawns imaginable.
It is certainly a remarkable climate.
This day at Spokane is like a June
day. The trees are in "blossom and
strawberries are in the market and
people are setting out flowers of
every description. The Chamber of
Commerce shows the best exhibit of
fruit I ever saw and also ores from
the mines from all over the northwest. But it never rains here except
a few showers in the winter and it
never thunders.
Stayed one day in Spokane and
then left for north Yakima. This is
certainly a garden spot. I went out
into the orchards in the valley. No
one would believe' water would do
so much for an arid land. Before it
is used on the land it is covered.with
sage bush and is .worthless. As soon
as the water is turned on it is worth
S100 to S300 per acre. It is certainly
a garden spot, nothing but orchards
in the valley. I walked half a day in
them. Out at Knob Hill a mile from
town one can look for miles and see
nothing but orchards. There are,
streams running past each one and
laterals run between each row of
trees. Much interested in the way
they irrigate. Trees set out six years
ago are as tall as trees planted 12 or
15 years in Michigan. But one can
not get this land for love nor money
it is owned by business men.
Arrived in Seattle Thursday, just a
week after leaving, It was raining.
That is nothing, It rains, a little
every day. The sun will be shining
bright and in a few minutes it rains.
Half the people don't carry umbrellas and don't mind it at all. This
is a different climate from the east
and a different people in a way too.
They told me back east that the people do not know when Sunday comes
here. That is where they are mistaken, for all business is closed and
not so much going on as in Saginaw
or Detroit. I am staying at the Y.
M. O. A. Every year all the churches
have what they call "Mother's Sunday." Eyeryoneofthe young men
wore a white carnation to church
this morning in memory of his mother. The preacher's subject was
uThe Coronation of mother" and
was the inoBt beautiful sermon I ever
listened to. Wilmer Walton.
Seattle, May 9.
CEMENT PLANT FOR $11,600
Cir. Court Comr. Browne Accepts Bid of Joliet Bridge and
Iron Works for Farwell
Portland Cement Plant
Six Months to Redeem.*
At the session of the circuit court
Monday-   0 i r c u i t     Oommissioner
Browne  sold  the Farwell Portland
Cement Co. plant for 811,600 on foreclosure of lien for materials furnished.
Jas. Davitt of Saginaw appearing for
the plaintiff.,,
The Portland Cement Company
now have six months to redeem the
plant by paying the amountinvolved.
In case payment is not made, it is alleged, the dismantling of the plant
will proceed.
Glare and Vioinity 30 Years Ago
Mosquitoes abound.
W. H. Elden is at Ann Arbor getting treatment for his eyes.
W. A. Carpenter of Farwell is
studying develtry, otherwise law,
with 0. W, Perry; Esq., of Clare.
The Olare paper, The Glare County Press, starts on its second year
with A. F. Goodenough as editor.
The woods north of the M. E.
church were set on fire Monday and
there was doings to put out the fire.
A visit to Mt. Pleasant last Sunday
found many stores open but not for
trade—the whole town" presenting a
cheerful aspect.
. A Baptist council met at the Congregational church Tuesday to give
official recognition to the Baptist
society in Clare.
The firm of Mason & Dunning has
been dissolved and Mrs. Mason will
hereafter conduct the millinery and
fancy goods establishment.
Grant township board votes to buy
lot 14 block 10 of Mr. McEwan as a
site for town hall at a cost of S200,
which is the present location of Haley
hall in. Olare.
Of 1909 Olare residents the following were the aggressive business
men as shown by their advertising.
W. H. Elden, jewler and toy store.
W. S. Oooley-harness, J. W. Oalkins
hardware, Wm. Wolsey clothing,
Mrs. 0. Bigley restaurant, A. A.
Shaver- undertaking and cabinet
work.    •
[Copies of the issues of May 9 and
16,1879, are-lacking from the Sentinel files of the Olare County Press.
Some time ago Mrs. 0. W. Perry
favored us with a Copy of the first
paper published in Olare for Our files.
Any of our readers having. copies of
these two missing weeks will confer
a- great favor by adding them to our
files.-^Editors.]
-Notice to Water Takers.
Under rules of the board of works
water rents must be paid at the office
of city clerk before June 1. After
that time 10 per centpehaity will wo
added. J. E. Doherty,
Oity clerk.
beyond control and rapidly spread to
the'adjacent stores occupied by D.
R. Wait, grocer, and Miss Myrtle
Sifton, milliner. The latter saved
the major part of her stock, but Mr.
Wait, who carried no insurance, lost
his whole stock. Fire next consumed the store building of O. I. Maurer
but the most of the groceries were
saved and moved into the building;
of Silloway & Boucher where he will
continue business. Wiesman's store;,
the bank' and J. W, McMichael's
store was badly blistered from the intense heat and the large windows
were shattered. The K. O. T. M¥
hall above Wait's store together with
the furniture and park seats, also a.
-quantity of furniture belonging to
Mrs. D. I, Elder, which was stored
in the Littlefleld hall was destroyed,
no insurance. The Bell Telephone
Company also sustained considerable
of damage.   The losses follow:
Ohas. I. Maurer, building 5600,
stock S500—no insurance.
J. L. Littlefleld, three store buildings S3000—no insurance,
L. F. Leonard, general stock, S5500.
Insured for S4400.
D. R. Wait, grocery Stock 8120a.
No insurance.
K. O. T. M. M. and Ll O. T. M. M.
?40"0.   Insured $200.
Michigan State Telephone Co. S150.
L. Wiesman 825.
Masonic Temple building damaged
$150—insured.
Farwell Banking Co. 3250 damage. «
—insured.
Miss Myrtle Sifton, millinery Btocfc
250.
Much sympathy is felt by the community for those who sustained losses by the conflagration. The fire
voluntary department are to be congratulated for the efficient service
rendered. Farwell seems to have
flood and fire dealt out with lavish'
hand this spring.
Concerning the future it is too
early to make definite announcement.
But Mr. Leonard will probably go into the lumber business. Mr. Wait ia
well along in years and the loss falls
heavily on him. He has several progressive sons and will probably not
determine his future till advising with
them, J. L. Littlefleld intimates the
probability of a brick block replacing
the buildings of burnt area.
Bert J. Carpenter.
The body of Bert J, Carpenter was-
brought here from Toledo, Ohio, Sun--
day for burial the fUDeral oceuring.:
the Baptist   church  Monday,-.
D. Kaufman preaching the
sermon.   Interment at Cherry Grove.
The death of the deceased was a -
sad, one. In ,the midst of taking a •
bath at his home in Toledo he was -
stricken down and in six hours he .lay?"
a corpse.
Mr. Carpenter was' a native of
Grand Haven but spent his boyhood
in Clare being 39 years of age at the
time of his death. Thirteen years"
ago he moved from Olare to Saginaw,
then to Detroit and finally to Toledo
eight years ago since which time he
has been employed as a motor mam
on the Lake Shore electric road.
Three years ago he joined the Toledo
Baptist church and it was fitting that
to his boyhood home and from his
church ofthat home his body should!
be laid away where also is his father.
Life was not without experiences
to him. In Saginaw Mr. and Mrs.
Carpenter's only son four years old
died from suffocation when theis
home burned. Besides a wife, Maud,
he leaves to mourn his demise one
brother, Alva, of Chicago,, and two
sisters, Mrs. J. E.- Kcontz of Clare
and Miss Cora Oarpeftter of Cadillac.
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Rev. G.
Affenfion 6c
At the M. E. church Memorial
service will be held Sunday, May 23,
at 10:30 o'clock. All veterans and
sons are requested to meet at Oi^
Hall at 9 :80 sun time. Some arraag®-
ments must be made them forDecara-
tioa day. Each comrade provifi©
himself with badge and Oan@.
W. S. Oooley.