1909-12-31; Clare Sentinel

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IstuMished 1878.
CLARE,   MICHIGAN,   FRIDAY MORNING, BEOEMBMR 81, 1909.
New Series' Vol.18, 2?o, 7
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JACKSON MGK BUZE.jMBS. F. MAYERS DEAD.
re at Early Hour Wednesday Morning-Telephone
Girls Carried from
Building.
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Originated  in Photograph Gallery from Unknown Cause.
With the thermometer way down
-early Wednesday morning the Are
alarm sounded for a fire in the rear
of the Jackson block, gutting-that
portion of the building before it was
extinguished.
The night operator, Miss Jennie
Tibbies, at the Michigan Telephone
Co, offices in the Jackson block and
her Bister, Miss Emily, of Shepherd
who on a visit here was spending the
night with her, discovering smoke in
the rooms 'phoned the fact to Manager Broderick and to Mr. Jackson
and soon there were doings. But tbe
smoke increased so fast the girls
were glad to thrust their heads out
of a window and wait for help which
arrived in tbe persons of Mr. Broderick and Burt Greer. They utilized
a ladder without waiting for the girls
to complete their toilet, carried them
to Mussell & Son's drug store where
tbey were cared for not much the
worse for the exciting and cold experience.
The fire when discovered was just
burning through the Krantz ceiling
from above in the Nedry & Johnson
photograph gallery. The fire department turned three streams on the
blaze but it was difficult to get at tbe
fire between the ceiling and roof so
that much of the building was water
soaked and the rear badly gutted.
The losses are  „
J. A. Jackson, building and fixtures, S4,000, insured.
Nedry & Johnson, studio, S500, insurance S300.
Mrs. A. S. Eraintz, S300, no insurance. "5
Michigan   Telephone    Co.    slight
damage.   Service interrupted for al
few hours.
Mr. Jackson is already at work re
pairing the building.
ss Farmers' Club.
Estimable Wife of   Supervisor
Myers of Arthur Succumbs
to Tuberculosis.
At tbe farm home of supervisor
Frank M. Myers of Arthur township
December 23 occured the death of
his wife, Edith May, after a' long ill-
jo-ess from lung trouble. ■ Sad indeed
Was the funeral procession on Christmas day that W6nded its way to the
Arthur town hall where Rev. Quinton
Walker of Clare preached the sermon.   Interment in Arthur cemetery.
Edith May Spearing was born in
Ohio August 18, 187?. She came to
Michigan in 1003.
She was united in marriage to
Mr. Frank M.,Myers Nov, 18,1900.
To this union four children wefe
given. The four children with the
husband are left to mourn their loss;
she leaves besides these her "aged
mother, two brothers and one sister.
Mrs, Myers was a womon of exam-
plery ohaaacter. She was a loving
wife, ("an indulgent mother and
a true friend. There'are many who
will never cease to mourn and miss
her. Much sympathy is there for
the husband and tbe children ranging in age from two to eight years.
Win. D. Wallace.
Tonkin Corespondent.
After a long illness from Bright's
disease W. D, Wallace died December 23, at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Wm. Oradit, in Arthur, at the
age of 82. The funeral occurred
Monday from the Brand school,. Rev.
G. W. Weidman conducting, with
interment in Oherry Grove.
Deceased was born in New York in
1828. In 1856 Miss Eliza Bingham
became his wife, she dying 15 years
ago. Seven children came to that
union of which these survive: Mrs.
Wm. Oradit of Arthur, George of
Detroit, Henry and Ernest of Howland Lake; also 17 grandchildren and
four great grand children. In 1884
the family moved to Olare county
from Midland county where they resided for 25 years.
A faithful christian worker and
member of the Church of God for
over 20 years, he bas gone to join his
in their reward.
The following is the program for
the Wise Farmers' club to meet with
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Stoy in Ease Vernon January 4, 1910:
Call to order ten a, m. sharp.
Song—club
Prayer—J ameB Philipps
Welcome—A. O. Stoy
"Response—J. H. Hersey
Recitation—Mrs. O. Church
Dinner at 11:30.
One p. m.—Song
Discussion—Law enforcement and,
is local option a success?—M.    E.
Johnsou, Mrs.    S. McJames,   Mrs.
Wm. Badgley, J. Y. Johnston, J. F.
"Tatman.
Question box in charge of J. H.
Hersey.
Recitation—Clyde Stoy
Seleot reading—Mrs. J. H.  Wilson
Reception—Mesdames Fred Philips
-and Frank Wahl. Tables—Mesdames
J. D. Allen, Geo. Snear, J. Hersey,
E. L. Potter, L. E. Mcintosh.
Everybody welcome. Bring baskets,
$300.00 Prizes During 1910.
During 1910 we will give away $300
worth of prizes free of charge.
Watch our advertisement next week.
Gardner & Allen, Clare. 7p.
Wanted—Elm, Black Ash, Bass-
wood, Birch and Hard Maple, 12 to 16
foot lengths. For particulars see
D. Ward. 7tf.
Sears Roebuck & Go. Hi!.
Sears, Roebuck & Co., the mail
order house, has been ordered by
tbe courts to say S13,750 to Obarles
Stickney &Co., of St. Paul for fraudulently listing gasoline engines. Tbe
first trail gave 810,000 damages but on
appeal it was raised to S13.750. A 2%
horse power engine was listed as a
3-horse power engine, etc., giving
them S15 to S20 gain on each engine
by the fraud. They wanted Stickney
& Oo. to make the same frandelent
claims in their catalogue. r This was
refused. Hence the suit and damages for fraud.
Old Poor Farm Hot
Poor For Spuds.
Engineer W. J. Holmes brought
to the Sentinel office samples of the
potato crop grown by Thos. Ooit on
the old Clare county poor farm. The
variety is known as the "Farmer's
Friend," and the six potatoes average one and one-half pounds eacb.
They are firm and smooth. Mr. Coit
raised 300 bushels the past season.
These specimens are on exhibition in
the front window at this office.
tern mi Poultry Wanted.
Prices for butter fat are:
Cream delivered 37s*.
Highest   market prices paid   for
poultry.
Mich. Creamery Oo., Olare.
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Winterfield Town Hall January 4th
FORENOON
Building Up Soil Fertility
Discussion ■   \
Dinner.
AETERNOON
Tha Farm Dairy
Discussion - -
EVENING
What it Means to be a Farmer
E. O. Ladd
J. B. Hamer, John Fleming
E. O. Ladd
Miles Davis, Grant Howard
E. 0. Ladd
Arthur Town Hall January 5th
FORENOON
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S. A. Leitner, Jacob Myers
Building Up Soil Fertility
Discussian   -
Dinner.
AFTERNOON
E, O. Ladd
Win. Rhode-*-, Wm. JEtilborfi, John Balsley
EVENING
What it Means to b& a Farmer    .   * -. ■       -     E. Q# Ladd
The Farm Dairy
Discussion
SAYS  1909  TO  191
The Old Person—t wish you all
kinds of prosperity during your term
of office, bub, but I want to warn you
this year's job is a fast life. In just
12 months or In about 8,760 houro, you
will be wearing a tong gray beard,
spectacles on your nose, a -seven-dollar black suit badly wrinkled, weigh
The Old Year
and the New
"Seven—eight—nine! Do you hear
that?" asked-the old clock in the corner. "Here it is a full hour after your
bedtime, and yet you sit there staring
into the fire!"
In front of the fire sat an old woman—gray haired, wrinkled, feeble. The
voice of the clock did not disturb her.
but as she^watched the fitful flames,
one could have read her thoughts.
"But it's excusable on this night,"
continued the clock, in soft tones.
"Heigho! but it's the last night of the
old year! Three hours more and we
are done with 1909. You and I are
jioing to watch the old year out together. Let's see? How many years
have I seen come and go? Forty—exactly forty with this one. That's a long
time, long time."
The woman rocked gently to and
fro, and by and by the clock suddenly
called out:
"What, tears in your eyes!" Come",
now, but that's no way to end the
year. We are thinking of the same
thing. Yes, he was a good and loving
husband, and I'll say this for both of
you, that I never heard an unpleasant
word between you. It is 12 years
since he died. I could only look Into
his face as he lay on his dying bed,
and if ever heaven sent its light to
lead a soul across the dark valley it
was given to him. I remember your
tears and moans and sobs, and you
prayed that death might come to you
as well."
The woman wiped her tears, an"d
there was a feeling of suffocation ao
she let memory bring up the events.
'"Eight—nine—ten!" called the clock
after a while. "How time does fly! I
distinctly remember striking the last
hour of 1903. Let me see! Some onej
then wept with you at that bedside.
There was a son and a daughter. Ah!
now I recall their faces—their gentle
ways—their loving words. Two years
latter there was another death-bed,
more wails and sobs, and I saw the
pall-bearers as they carried the daughter's body out of the house. It seems
as If the last blow must crush you,
and I well remember saying to myself
that it wouldn't be long before you
were called to go." '
The woman choked back her sobs.
about sixty-five pouhds, and carry
around one of those glass thingumbobs they have In the kitchen to time
the egg boiling.
And some will be sorry, others glad,
that you are then ready to be succeeded by another fat little infant labeled
'"1911."
and her lips moved as if she were
speaking the names of her dead ones.
For many minutes her reverie was
unbroken, and she heard not the tick-
tack! . tick-tack! of the steady old
clock.
"Nine — ten — eleven!" suddenly
called the clock. "The son? Ah! how
absentminded I have become! Well
do I remember the day a woman with
a pale face and frightened eyes opened
the door and handed you a letter,
which bore the insignia of death.-You
opened it with trembling fingers, and
next moment you were like one dead.
There were days and days when you
hovered between life and death, and I,
for my part gave up all hopes. Died
in a„ foreign land; buried among
strangers over the sea. It was a blow
aimed at a heart twice broken."
The woman covered her face and
moaned In anguish, and the clock continued:
"Don't grieve so, the dead are at
.rest forevermore. Life's mistakes may
need to be washed away with tears,
but the dead reaped their reward. You
are old and poor and broken, but who
can tell what new friends the new
year may raise up for you? I cannot
tell you to forget the past, for a mother's heart ever goes out for her dead,
but the new year may have more
sunshine. Come, now I am about to
strike the old year out and the new
year in. Let us greet the new with a
smile of welcome as I count—ten—
eleven—twelve—a happy New Year!"
The woman did not move.
"Heigho!" called the clock: "We
have left the old behind!"
Her hands had dropped beside her,
and her head had fallen.
"Dead!" clicked the clock, as tha
last faint echoes of his bell died away.
Being and  Doing,
It is said, "To be good is the way
to be happy," but to be good and to
do good is the way to be happy. What
a happy world this would be if an
would  do  the  best thing for themselves, If all realized that the only
way to get out of life Is to put into
It, that the way to receive is to give,
and the only way to bo helped is to
fee helpful, and the way to gain life is
to lose it for others, and the way to
go up in to go down, for "The meek
shall inherit the earth."    "He  that
humhleth himself shall be exalted." It
MS petty to live for self, it is grand to.
.live for friends, but 'tis glorious to
jllve for mankind, and, as  one has,
I Bald, "The only way to work for God
Is to Work for man."
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there is a choice of fine assortment of calendars, no two alike—as long as
they last.   First come first served.
This offer, of course, also applies to new Subscribers. In recent months
the Sentinel's'home subscription list in oity ahd rural routes he,s inoreaoed
but there are still those in the territory who take ao home paper and we
would like to send them the only Ai-irJffOMB-PBiirt" paper in Olfcre county.
OFFICERS ELECT 1910.
Various    Organizations    Select
Their Leaders For the New
Year.
GILMORE GRANGE.
Atthe election Saturday evening
with refreshments served the following officers were selected:.
Master—J. E. Gamble'
Overseer—G. A. Pitts
Lecturer—-W. L, McNeil,
Steward—Wm. Gamble
Asst. Steward—Jessie' Brasington
Chaplain—Hattie Gamble
Treasurer—Frank Rawson
Gate Keeper—Geo* Mclntire
Graces—Mesdames Pitts, Grimm,
Randolph <*
L. A, S.—Mrs. Suylandt.
OLARE M, fi. SUNDAY SOHOOL.
The annual meeting Tuesday evening showed a large increase in   attendance, all bills paid and money in
the treasury.   The current expenses
amounted to ,S120, missionary offering $40 and a good amount added to
the building fun d,   Officers elect are:
Supt.—O. A. Reading
Asst. Supt.—A. E. Moden
Secretary—J. A. Seeley.
Treasurer—Mrs. L. Shafer
Librarian—W. H. Hitcncock
Primary Supt.—Miss Mamie Howes
JJLBst. primary—Supt. Mrs. W.  H.
Hitchcock
Organist—Mrs. E.A. White
Missy.   Dept.    Supt.—Mrs. A.   11.
Mulder
Sec. Mis. Dept.—Ethelyn Hitchcock.
CLARE'S MODERN WOODMEN
C—A. R. Oanfield
B.—A. L. Rogers
A.—T. J. J. Walker
Olerk—J. S. Bicknell
E.—T, B. Hirb
W-—W. J. Dwyer
S.—Thomas Smith
Physician—F. O. Sanford
Manager—J, E. Doherty
GARFIELD GRANGE
Master—W. J. AHey
Overseer—W. M. Clark
Lecturer—Mrs. Flora Alley
Steward—Oscar Schemerhorn
Asst. steward—George Scott
Chaplain—Mrs. Belle Sanborn
Secretary—Fred Martin
Gate keeper—L. Martin
L. A. S.—Mrs. Effle Martin.
Graces—Mesdames   Anna   Oman,
Eliza J. Robinson and Oalisfca Scott.
MT. VERNON GRANGE.
At the annual election a committee
of five was chosen to finish the lower
part of the hall in time for installation, at which an oyster supper for
all will help "put in" the ofHcers as
follows:
Master—Wm. O. MoEay
Overseer—Geo. Herring
Chaplain—Ohas. Northon
Secy.—Mrs. John Asline
A$ Steward—D. Malcolm
Treas.—Lewis Hales
D. K.—H. Ackerman
The Graces—Mrs. W. White, Mrs.
E. Northon, Maud Denton
L. A. S.—Charlotte Northon
Chorister—Walter White
Organist—Mrs. J. Northon
Librarian—Lewis Hales.
Com. or janitor—Jarvis Northon
and J. Asline
Insurance director—John Northon
Fence agent—M. E. Brewer.
Bolts Wanted.
We will buy all kinds of basswood
and hardwood bolts delivered at onr
mill, Clare, or on cars on the .P. M.
or its branches. For prices and
specifications oall at A. 8.. Rhoades'
store.   Rhoades ■& Shafer. 3-4
DR, L !.. KELLEY MARRIED.
Stole a March on His Friends-
Announcing     He    Would
Spend the Holidays with  '^_,
His Daughter*
Farwell correspondent,
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bradbeer
announce the marriage of their
daugbter, Ida May, to Dr, L. L. Xei*-
ley December 22, 1909, at Akron,
Ohio. The bridegroom who is none-
other than Dr. Kelley, our physician,
statesman and supervisor, stole quite
a march on his old friends,*going, as-
they supposed td visit relatives, and
is now with his bride touring the-
sunny south. His friends whose
nanie are legion, wish them every
success and happiness and a safe
and speedy home, coming.
Farwell
E. S Hinds spent Christmas with*
his mother at Alma.
Mrs. Chas. Stinchcomb spent Friday with relatives at Chippewa.
Mrs, Earl Hatfield of Gilmore is-
the guest of ber mother, Mrs. Estes.
Mrs, H. Estes .left on Friday for
Flat Rock where she is visiting relatives.
Ohas E. Beldin of Alma College-
visited Farwell friends the past-
week.
A. A. Powell spent a few days the
last of the week with Freeland relatives.
Farwell men who are working at
Pennock spent Sunday with their respective families.
Mrs. Wm. Richmond left WedneB-
djy for a few days' visit with Alma
friends.
,Miss Mannie Wallace of Bad Axe i&
the guest of her sister, Mrs, J. B-
Harris, and family.
Miss Ethel Saxton spent the 25th.
with Loomis relatives, returning
Monday accompanied by her cousin„
Miss Persus Palmatier.
Miss Bessie Richaf ds who has spent-
several months visiting her cousins,
Mrs. F. Babeock and W. O. Fuller
and their respective famlles, returned to her home at Milan.
The Farwell Woman's Olnb metr
Wednesday with Mrs. F. Shepherd.—
Life and works of Hawthorn and
Poe were ably discussed and narrated by Mesdames Wait and Shepherd
respectively.—Refreshments were
served.
The F. & A. M. and R. A. M. held
their annual installation of officers-
Monday night, December 27. The
auspicious event was witn esssd by a-
large audience who, after the cere-
many gave themselves over to a good
sociable time. Refreshments were
served by the O. E. S.
To Our Customers.
Instructions received from Harrison Heading Oo. to discontinue buying bolts. But we will buy your 38
inch bolts including nice elm 7 inches,
and up, and 42 inch bolts 8inches as.
usual and basswood 40 inches long:
down to 5 inches. For furteer information call at the store,
B. E. Delong, Loomis-
At Olivet December 26 occurred the
death of Mrs. Chas, Waggoner*
formerly of Dover, at the age of 54*
death resulting from dropsy of the
heart. A husband, one daughter and
three sonB survive: Mrs. Ohas. Whit-
lock of Olare, Claude Waggoner of
Tacoma, Wash., Chas. of Stonewall,.
Miss, ahd Paul of Olivet. The funeral occurred on Tuesday.
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