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SENTINEL.
Established 1878.
Official Paper of the- City.
CLARK,   MICHIGAN,   FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1907.
New Series: Yol.l5,No» 35
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Foss Bakery   and Parmeter
Market Go Up in Smoke
with   Lange   Shoe
Store Scorched.
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Splendid Work by Fire Department Prevents a Far Worse
Conflagration.
At ten o'clock last evening the
whole rear of the Dwyer, Foss and
Mulder buildings on McEwan street
were found on fire. Spectators insisted "she'd go clear down to the
Mussel-Elden block" but today
everybody rejoices that only two
wooden buildings, the Dwyer
Foss structures, were wiped
The losses are:
J. E.  Foss, bakery, building
Stock S1800, insurance S900.
Thos. J. Dwyer, building S800,
Buranee S500.
Mrs. W. Parmeter meat market
S400, covered by insurance.
Dr, A. E. Mulder building damaged S300, covered by insurance.
Wm. Lange, shoe store stock damaged S350, covered by insurance. S.
Creeper, shoe repair outfit damaged,
loss $75.
Much of the stock and fixtures of
J. E. Foss and Mrs. W. Parmeter
were saved.
Only ten of the fire department
were on hand, the rest being out of
the city on vacation, but,, the gallant
ten gave a splendid exhibition of
fighting fire and won the gratitude of
the whole city.
The origin of the fire is a mystery.
Imported French Coach Stallion
Sold to Farwellites not Registered in France.
The judgment for 81048.44 obtained in Glare county circuit court last
week against the Farwell Horse
Breeders Association byRohrabacher
& Hunt, bankers of Laingsburg will
result in a suit alleged for fraud on
the part of John Crawford of Byron
in selling to the above company of
Glare and north Isabella farmers a
stallion, that, it is claimed, is neither
registered in Paris, France, nor Chicago, 111., as represented. If charges made are true then the long p edi-
gree under which the animal was
sold is all a swindle and in protection
of honest dealers in good breeding
stock the whole swindle should be
exposed. A letter is in the hands of
the company stating that no such
horse is enrolled in the annals of
registered stock in Paris and G. J.
Cummins, the company's attorney,
went to Chicago and took testimony
showing no such horse similarly registered there. These facts, however,
were not admitted as evidence as the
case was brought by bankers, who
had bought the notes of John ■ Crawford, and were in the eyes of the law
innocent parties to the transaction.
The Only recourse is to bring suit
against John Crawford.
The final ontcome of the case will
be watched with interest as several
other localities have had dealings
with Mr. Crawford more or less satisfactorily in horses for breeding purposes.
Tfirips on Oats.
From all parts of the state, complaints are coming in with respect to
the condition of the oat crop. The
last week has seen a notable change
in the outlook. The young
oats in a large part of the
state have sudenly become as if
stricken by blight, the outer leaves
turning yellow and afterwards reddish until, after a little time, the
fields appears as if badly rusted. A
closer examination shows that there
are few if any rust  pustles  and  the
Ciiaries Peek.
In the death of Charles Peek July
10th one of the old pioneers of the
county closed his career at the age
of eighty.six years. The funeral was
held from the home last Friday in
charge of Rev. C. F. Shaw and the
body taken to Harrison for burial.
Deceased was a native of Eden
county, N. V., coming to Michigan in
1872 he settled in Shiawassee county.
In IS81 he moved to Harrison and
subsequently resided at various
points in the county. In 1852 he was
united in marriage with Margaret
Boyd. One daughter, Mrs. Jos. W'or-
den, of this city survives along with
the wife and mother.
NGER Hi- HYDROPHOBIA.
Dogs Should 'not Be Permitted to
Run at Large.
(Hlmoro Oorresponaojit.
Lewis Rawson shot a mad  dog
last Sunday.
Farwoll Correspondent.
Walter Wilson residing  on  R,
F. D. 2 (Gilmore) lost  two   head
of cattle the past week from  hydrophobia.
The two items above taken from
this week's correspondence iSdicate
that local health authorities in our
various eommunitie's should be alive
to the danger of the situation. For
some weeks mad dogs have been reported in southern townships in
Isabella county. During the last
week in June some forty or fifty dogs
were shot in Lincoln and Rolland
townships in Isabella and H. H.
Hinds, president of the Michigan
Live Stock Sanitary Commission,
made a tour of inspection through
that part of the county. He urged
the authorities to shoot every dog
running at large so as not to jepor-
dise human life.
The fact that there are rabbies in
Gilmore township is certainly a
source of danger to our communities.
It takes some time for rabbies ±o
develop in an animal after infection.
It is usually not known how far a
mad dog wanders or what dogs he
has bitten and hence the constant
menace till the epedemic is entirely
wiped out.
To the rural improvements note
last week should be added Edwin
Russell, barn moved and basement
wall built thereunder, and Mrs. J.
Dixon, both south, a barn remodelled; Martin Eberhart new round
roof barn building 40x60 feet and J. J.
Jones, both east, new barn.
Frank Lay of Maple Grove was in
Clare Monday as president of the
Sunday school association making
arrangements for a county institute
on wheels organizing the townships
as a part of the county organization.
It is planned to hold day sessions in
Grant, Sheridan, Arthur, Hatton,
Greenwood, and other townships.
The week of August 11th is planned
for this. Pastors and other Sunday
school workers are to make up the
party.
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appearance on the surface is just
enough different from that produced
by rust to raise a doubt as to the real
cause of the difficulty.
Careful examination with the aid
of a powerful lens shows the culprit
to be a minute insect called a thrips,
very small, and very quick in movements jumping like a flea when dis -
• turbed and disappearing completely.
These little creatures have narrow
wings with fringes of long hairs instead of the ordinary form of wings,
they scrape the surfaces of the oat
leaves and cause them to become
withered and yellow and die.
It is very difficult to judge just
what will be the outcome of the infestation. If one might judge by the
behavior of its relatives one would
expect the condition to improve with
the good rains this week since thrips,
in general, thriveinhot, dryweather,
and do not do well when it is  moist.
Auction-
tomorrow,
furniture.
propr.
Clare'city limits southeast
Saturday, at one p. m.
Mrs.   W.   SI.   Graves,
FieUES TOO HIGH.
Grant Town Board Grapple
with the New Road Problem.
A number of bidders appeared
Monday for the proposed mile o f
road to be built under the state sup-
ervison north of Clare city limits.
The lowest bid Avas that of the township's highway commissioner, Sylvester Gilmore, at Sl,460. This along
with a certain amount of tiling, etc.,
would bring the total cost beyond
the amount the board is authorized
under law to raise. The authorization limit is one-half of one per cent,
which on Grant's valuation is about
81,000. From the state award
there would be S500. No special appropriation foj the road was made at
the annual township meeting last
April.
Hope is expressed that somebody
will be found to do the work at a
lower figure. In the interest of good
roads in the county it is to be hoped
that the road will be built forfchw ith.
OTHER BIG BUILDING.
ISABELLA COUNTY SEWS.
Caught on the Fly and Boiled
,   Down to Pith,
Mt,,Pleasant starts a fund for a
new school building.
Oircrit court mills of justice did
some grinding this week.
Ooe township lets contracts for
two new steel bridges for S1325.
•Yesterday was dedication   day for
the new catholic church at Beal City.
It cost Dav^e Finnerty of Nottawa
$50 and costs to pummel Arlie Samp-
sall on account of a dance girl difficulty.
The parochial school at Mt. Pleasant, it is announced, is to be com-
.pleted before snow flies. Rev. Fr.
O'Connor is in charge.
One of the echoes of the recent
County Seat carnival is that a similar performance to have been put on
at Clare this week was called off.
The difficulty at the Central Nor-
mal^owing to lack of funds through
mistakes in the appropriation bill in
the legislature it is hoped will be
bridged over by the board of auditors allowing running expenses for
the institution till the legislature
meets. But this cannot be determined before that board meets.
Even in this case all proposed new
building Avill be held up. Meanwhile
students begin to ask if it is true that
the institution will have to close for
next year. According to Principal
Grawn the solution is a special session of the legislature. This and the
primary law matter would be embodied in the same call.
Gratiot county has some husky
representatives at the Normal,- and
they were conceited enough to challenge any other county to a "rush"
on Fancher flats. The field outside
of Gratiot planned to humiliate the
boasters by capturing their popular
leader Commissioner Pike and making an example of him. Wednesday
morning the anti-Gratiots captured
the commissioner, shackled his
wrists with handcuffs, and carried
him bound to- the rostrum on their
shoulders. The sight of their chief
thus at the mercy of their opponents
inspired his followers with the spirit
of defence, and they made for the
platform pell mell. The contest was
not all fun for a few moments, until
Prin. GraAvn brought order out of the
melee, then all treated the matter as
a friendly joke, and a cordial feeling
soon drove away the bitterness that
was brewing. Mr. Pike remained on
the platform until after chapel exercises, then in response to a call from
the audience made a pleasing little
speech that just fitted the situation
exactly.—Mt. Pleasant Times.
GALA DAY AUGUST 14,'
FROM TWO TO TEN YEARS.
Such   Is   the   Sentence   Judge
Dodds Imposed on Joel
De Geer.
Joel De Geer of Sheridan convicted
on a ch^ge* of rape by a jury of
twelve of his peers last week was on
Friday sentenced to Jackson for a
minimum term of two years. Sheriff
Hutchinson took him to Jackson
Monday.
The case against Mr. De Geer has
excited not a little interest. A needy
family is left at home and' many
friends who know the family insist
that the man is innocent. The conviction came on a third trial. At the
first trial about two-thirds of the
jury was for conviction and one-
third for acquittal. At the second
trial all but two of the jury were for
conviction. Attorney Lacy who had
charge of the case seems greatly surprised at the conviction of his client.
youngster to desire to 'be out haying
a good time.'
The youth who is always looking
for a softer snap, instead of making
his present work soft by doing it well,
is the one who fails as a man. The
'sporty' boy and the cigaret smoker
are equally disliked by employers
and will share the fates of the sluggard, the dolt and the dishonest,*- no
matter how bright they seem. The
user of bad language is also deservedly on the employer's black list.
Every boy should know that good
things are never all gone, that opportunities are always open to the
bright, wide-awake, studious lad.
The history of 99 per cent of the successful men of today shows this.
But the boy, and the boy alone, is
the one who must determine his
future by his own work, whether he
will be in the class of the losers or
the winners.—Duluth Hearld,
"• For Sale—Four good building lots
in Clare—D. E. Alward. 81-tf
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TheBicknells  Will   Erect
Modern Store 58x100
Feet.
Fine
To the present unsurpassed building record in Clare this summer must
be added the Bicknell block to cover
the entire area between the Jackson-
Fox block and the W. H. Bicknell &
Co. dry goods store. The new building will be a brick structure 58X100
feet. Architect Bogart of Saginaw
was in the city Wednesday in consultation with the proprietors.
The new structure will be joined by
arch way to the present Bicknell
structure. In the old building the
present James S. Bicknell grocery
will be located while the W. H. Bicknell &co. dry goods, clothing, .etc.,
will be in the new building, virtually
a large department store.
It is eminently fitting that N. Bicknell, one of the veterans of Clare's
merchants, should X'ound out this
career with the completion of this new
enterprise,!
Union Wise Farmers' Club  Pic-
• nic and Firemen's Fieid Day
in Clare on That Day.
Wednesday August 14th is the day
set aside for a general harvest festival in this locality—farmers,  towns-
It is
cheer,
things
people and everybody • else,
designed to be a day of good
full of fun, oratory and good
to eat.
In the first place the far famed
Wise Farmers' club will hold their
sixth annual picnic on that day.
Lieutenant Governor, P. H. Kelley,
and Hon. I. R. Waterbury, editor of
the Michigan Farmer, will be orators
of the day on behalf of the club.
The Firemen with Chief Canfield
in command will also do things in
keeping with past achievements on
similar occasions. Glare business
men have responded liberally to
their call for financial support for
the day's celebration and there will
be no end of entertainment. Far-
Well and Dover bands are expected
to be on hand and arrangements
have been made for the conclusi6n
of the Coleman vs. Gladwin base,
ball contest over which there is so
much of Warm dispute. Sports and
other features will round out a
of jubilation.
Detailed    announcements   of
program  of  the  day's   events
appear in due time.   Plan now to
on hand.
day
the
will
be
lose .Artesian -Wells.
The Michigan state geologist issues
a warnisg that flowing wells will in
course of time drain dry reservoirs
of water In the earth now giving
such abundant supply of the finest
water. It is suggested that such
wells should not be permitted to flow
continually but kept tinder control
and permitted to flow only as needed.
BARN ON WM. HILBORN'S FARM.
The Hilborn 160 acre farm on section seventeen in Arthur township lies in the midst of a rapidly developing part of Clare county.
Not far away a fine house is being built on the Cornwell farm.
When developed to maximum state of productiveness Arthur will
be one of the most fertile townships of the county.
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The boy who imagines that study
ends when he leaves school and that
he will neither have to think nor
learn when he goes to work will soon
find out his mistake. If he does not
then mend his ways, and that most
radically, he will soon be out of a
place of the desirable kind and be
forced to the poorly paid class of
labor where^ mere muscle, and not
brains and skill, is the sole requisite.
So also the boy who is unable to
think a second thought until he forgets the first one, who cannot' act
quickly and correctly on what he is
set to do, who needs constant guidance and incessant reminders will
never amount to a hill of beans on a
rocky hillside, and he, too, will drop
back to the most undesirable kind of
day labor.
On the other side, the boy who
goes to work determined to study
out all there is in Mb job and as
much more as he can find time for
and the boy whose brain moves quickly and alertly and carries his body
with it, who does not need to be told
about a thing more than once—they
are the lads who will not stay in
their first jobs for any great time because they will rise and rise and rise
so long as they show capacity in
each new place.
One of the hardest things to find
today, all employers agree, is a boy
who will start in to do his best, kee"p
on doing that best ar\d strive always
to be careful and alert, willing and
prompt. Yet each effort prepares a
lad for a new one and makes the doing easier. There is really no telling
what a boy can accomplish, if he
will" only try to do his best every
time.   Nor is tihere any limit to  the
advance of the youngster who begins
right and keeps it up after he has
grown older.
The boy who lies or steals is also
one who can never progress except
on the downward way—unless, as,
however, seldpm, he realizes his
errors in time and brings himself up
with a short halt. So also the lad
slights his work in order to get off
sooner and play is, while not as bad
as the other, not one who will be
trusted long, though there is this ex-
cuse for him that is: inbred in the
nature o£ a good, healthy* growing
^GENERAL INFORMATION COLUMN,
la this column are found miscellaneous items of iraportauee such
as iirticles lost, animals estrayed,
business announcements, stock for i
l sole, farms for Tent, etc., etc. Fi-ye S
cents per Hue per week. ^
Cottage for sale at Stevenson lake
—E. G. Welch. tf
Bids wanted for the construction
of a store building. Plans and
specifications can be seen at W. H.
Bicknell & Co. dry goods store after
July 20th.   N. Bicknell.
For Sale—65000 feet of good lumber
and build stuff. One mile east and
one mile south of Oolonville. Edward
Gils en.
For Sale—One span of Burros and
harness. One mare six years old.
Will sell cheap, six months time, approved note.   James S. Bicknell.
Lost—In Glare or between Glare
and Dover pair of rimless eye glasses
with gold chain attached. Reward
for return to J. W. Glass' store, Dover, or at this office.
For sale—sentinel office  buildin
and lot 20X100 feet. Welch'& Bennett
, Wins out in the Injunction suit, Instituted
by the American Farm
Product, Co., at the
United States Court
in Detroit,
, Signed:
H H. Wojiiriaie,
VICE PRESIDENT
Warm
Weather
Specialties.
Canned Roast Beef
Canned Beef
Corned. Beef
Potted Ham
" Vienna Sausage
8   "   Lunch Tongue
I   t( Veal Loaf
"    Chipped Dried
Beef in Giass.
L;Heinz Baked
Beans
Peanut Butter
Lemons
Grape Juice
Cocoa
Chase    and    Sanborn Coffee
Your
Grocerman
Jas. Bicknell
Both Phones.
Money loaned on farms. Farms
and lands for sale. S. W. Hopkins,
Mt. Pleasant, Mich.        * 62-26.
Engraved visitjng cards, script or
old English, at this office. tf
Clare Wholesale Market.     '
Corrected every Thursday afternoon
GRAIN
No 2 Bed Wheat  85
No 1 White Wheat.  85
Rye  60
Beans, hand picked  1 40
Sed Kidney Beans....  2 00
Oats  42
Glover Seed	
FEED
Hay, baled !" 12 00 14 00
Straw ,....   4 00 5 00
PBODUOE
Butter  1?
Eggs.  13
Potatoes  25
deessed Meats
Chickens,-dressed, per lb. 11
Ohickens, live, per lb  .8
Hogs, per cwt  7 25
Beef, per cwt.............. 6 00 7 50
Mutton  .7 00 7 60
Veal 86 00 7 00
HIDES
Green, per lb..       6
Wool...,  27
Your taxes are a certain definite per cent of your valuation.
What is youi\rate of fire insurance?
Get our rates on Are, tornado and
windstorm insurance. . xWeloh &
Bennett. , '     tf
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Farmers, if your buildings are insured against ffre and ^ghtning in
the tri-county Mutual yoti have adequate -protection.    See   Welcli   &
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