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OMffl,   MIOHIGAM,   FH1IMY MORNING, NOVKM8BK 23. 1907,
Mew Series   Vol.ie,JSo, 1
With this issue entering upon the
twenty-ninth year the Sentinel appears in a new form, In the future
it will be eight pages of six columns
each and ali<printed at home. Until
now in common with most country
papers only four pages have been
printed at home. The other four
pages known as ready prints, were
prepared in Detroit and shipped to
other four page?1 pne'ed here.    Now
Qvmqt of $3,000 of Them Sends
Anwmy Here from, Male to •
,   Investigate,
Away back in 1886 when the Ann
Arbor railroad was to be built §15,000
isssprovement bonds each were voted
by Grant and Surrey townships as a
bonus for the railroad. At about the
s&mp time SSO00 bonds were similarly
loaned by Vernon township as previously noted in these columns. This
vrmb an attorney, F, O. Perington of
Mechanic, Maine, representing S2000
Grant bonds and 81000 Surrey bonds
has been in the county investigating
tbe matter and were the authorites
^disposed, he would settle at a liberal
discount, Ho was, however, given
no encouragement of collecting a cent
except as he might secure a decree
from the court of last resort.
The position of Michigan courts on
_ttet» lioness is stated as follows: "In
Slieliigsn the supreme court at an
early date denied as unconstitutional
all legislative authority for donations
by municipal corporations to railroad companies in their construction
of a railroad and the doctrine has been
continued and unhesitatinglingly
followed by later decisions." The
opinion setting forth this doctrine
waa written most emphatically by
Judge Gooley in 1870, The trouble is,
however, that in some cases the U. S.
courts have over-ruled the Michigan
doctrine. But it is significant that so
far as information is at hand, includ-
the researches of Attorney Dodds up
ta a recent date in the Vernon case
now pending in TJ. S.  district court,'
no U.S.  court has ruled adversely j devoted to the interests of Clare and
against the Michigan decision when,North Isabella.   Anangements have,
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  /      I   Sunday was a day of special fest-
_-,,•< «      r»        •       it       1.T        u .   ir '     .■      :'ivites at the Lutheran   St.   John's
Celebrates by Entering Its New Home and Inaugurating church. The occasion being the h>
"All Home  Print."- stallation of the  Rev. O. Waidelieh,
} who recently moved to Glare.   Hev,
Wealth, who is the greatest menace h. Lange of Ludington. was the offloi-
of the country today,    A love story ating   clergyman.   In   his   sermon
is interwoven.   It is the best story suitable to the occasion, he reminded
yet written dealing with the million- the new pastor, as well as the "con-
aire problem......_ gregation of the great pleasure  and
The local nftws matter will. be dis- greater responsibilities of his calling,
tributed through tho pages. It will,He referred the congregation to the
he. necessary to turn to f.lio inside special grace with which God has so
pages for both town   and   countryr abundantly showered his   blessings
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-■■-.-  .- ---_-..--  ..locals as well as oilnr county mat- upon St. John's church,  considering
Glare Thursday of each week and the j *we«. *'0J" ch« P1*' Kt"! **■>*_'* p yer will their recent growth and activity.   It
'be all iu tho somewhat inconvenient..B the ambition of St. John's church
i to complete their new church on Me-
^Ewan street at the earliest possible
I date.   Scarcity of material and help
'has handicapped them considerably
-, otherwise it would have been finished
I by Christmas.   It is the desire of St.
John's people to make their churoh
an edifice worthy  of the cause for
which it stands, 'as  also  a material
attraction of the city  of Glare.   Wo
wish the new pastor and his congregation God speed in their work.       *
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Who is This?"
EDGAR Q. WELdl. j
we absolutely control all matter pub-1
lished iu the Sentinel columns and
expect to roako it more tru'y a paper ]
bonds were issued later than the fam-' however, been made to continue  tbe j this b_
ons decision of 1870. j story  "The Princes _.lopp_." to .tfi|er.v
Glare is interested in that when the conclusion in a few weeU. Folio's - "With emai^-l l;if'*i* **h in
city was incorporated one-third of "ing it the story "The Lion sn-.d the \h»me we expect to k<tp on
Grant township's bonds were charged j Mouse" will be publish, d.    It deals! ing oar xiewsp;*p-i' service.
to her and two-thirds left to the township. City Attorney Lacy is emphatic against admitting the bonds. He
insists that the bo^ds were illegal,
that the statutes to which tbey refer
on their face do not confer power for
such issuance, that there waa no legal delivery ofthe bonds nor proper
execution of them in the name of the
township.
The bonds aro now undoubtedly in
the hands of third parties. The problem to be faced is what the U. S.
Courts will rule, if the matter is put
to the teat, on the question of bona
ilde ownership on the part of innocent parties.
The bonds bear six per cent, interest and mean iu each case over
830,000 could the interest also be collected. It is probable however, in
any ease that not over six years' interest could be collected. It is quite
possible that the 830,000 bonds are
scattered much as shown in the case
of one owner now holding 82000 of
Grant and S1000 of Surrey bonds.
"Reference to our files of 1880 shows
Harrison on the trail of bonusing the
railroad to go her way but so far as
can be gathered no bonds were issued.
with a typ-'ctl milliona'rp, tho man nf: printing c'ep-rln <-; is in keeping
concentrated wealth ami power' and J with hu» growth n«.-l di'vo-'-puient*""* of
in vivid picture portr,i> s Use oharac-; Va-.- c-<untr> beve w ho-e interests are
ter of the selfish, heartless man of'mutual wi:h oi:r ov..i.
That the telephone service  is one
of the most important services of the
' 20bh century social and business life
' ia undieputable.   Tbat many people
{.thoughtlessly or selfishly hamper the
> s_rv.ee is also a fact.   For example,
'Jones calls up Smith's residence and
asks for Mr. Smith.   A female voice
' s lys the first thingno taking down the
Thilii- A. nK-v>\3TT. 'receiver, "Who is this?" and finally
form of one largf sin- t and it will be thjtfc Mr< Srajtb ig not ln> inter0gat-
necesssry to turn it inside out 1o get ing a second and third time,  often,
to tho inside cummmi.    We hope in "Who is this?" Ninety-nine times out
of every hundred it doesn't malje any
difference.who is talking, and meantime someone really having a message
' to transmit is kept from the service
by the gentle operator's "Line's
,^|r0oV; busy."
1     i    -ij,0 ^-iter  was -waiting only the
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THE SENTINFL'3 NEW HOME, FOURTH STR3ET.
ed work in tbe csuse of Right. j
The spirit of the occasion touched j
with the desire to do, to achieve,  as (
the present parsonage has been made j Prirtiarv
a fact, bespeaks a future of useful-'
ness for pastor and people.
$4 FOB EAGII OHiLO.
Dr* and Mrs. C. F. Shaw   Receive Their Parishioners and
-    friends    in   Their
New Home.
One of the most pleasant social
events of the season was the reception at the Congregational parsonage
■Friday evening when over a hundred his Bn2™ beet cropland in connect-
friends of Dr. and Mrs.  O. F,
gathered in their new home  and filled it to overflowing.    The spirit of
for
Converse and Sugar Beefs,
L. M; Converse recently marketed
good fellowship, which has  a large
part m the genial pastor's securing
co-operation to accomplish actual
resnlta aa witnessed in the change
wrOEght ia the parsonage itself, was
th© characteristic feature of the evening. A short program was well *tago£fthe__87.00 foe seed
rendered:
Instrumental Solo—Laila Wilson.
Vocal solo—Miss Harriet McGrea-
ban..
Shaw'ion we g*'ve some interesting figures.
Twenty-two tons were taken from
one and one-half acres. They
brought him $5.00 per ton, or S110.
Charging at the rate of 81.50 per day
for labor in planting, caring for, and
marketing the crop, and S3.00 per
day for team work, the labor amounts
to 843.   This leaves 867.   But knock-
, and other
little incidentals the crop brought
him net 860, or 840 per acre for the
use of the ground.    But  L. M.  is a
hustler, and no one knows this better
Whistling and vocal solo-Seymour than the writeri *^ao worked up his
Artdros. j muscles three summers on the Con-
Vocal Duet—Mrs. G. B. Wells and'verse farm wMIe a etudenfc »fc YPsil"
Uoa*i*) Elden.
IjiBteumental solo—Miss Thorburn.
Whistling solo—Mr. Andrus.
•Vceal solo—''Tomorrow"—Mrs. G.
B. Wells.
In well chosen words P. B. Alward
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| Two Pere Marquette freight trains
came together head on at Crooked
ott behalf of congregation and-JriendB Lake the first of the week demolish-
psr.DQnted Mr. and Mrs. Shaw with a ing several cars loaded with farm
got ol dishes and Mrs. Shaw with a'produce. There was a general scat-
dosen fancy pieces, In his own teringofgood products. The train
rfjf-raeteriotie way that wins, the Doc- orews escaped unhurt.
lasttonked the company for their! -—_—_ __.
manliestationa ot good will and then'   For sale cheap—One horse wagon.
BiiHtoan eloquent plea for more unit- R. B. Williams, Sural carrier.two.
other day for a party to get* off the
line, when some connection ajlowed
him to hear faintly part of the conversation. It was evidently between
two people who had nothing to do
but kill time. After much waiting
,ihe line was available one party telling the other as a sort of wind-up,
"I must stop talking now for my arm
is so tired holding this old receiver."
Might just as well steal a man's
money as to steal his time, for time
is money. It may be well to state
here that this suggestion is paid for
by neither Managers* Dunwoodie or
Bowers of the local telephone exchanges, that it is an editorial suggestion and is offered gratis.
Clare Poijlic SeFools,
He was recently charged it was the
usual thing for our football boys to be
beaten was away off. To date the
team has won twice from Midland,
once from Alma, tied the Harrison
city team and has been beaten once
each by Mt. Pleasant, Ithaca and
Alma.
Supt. Boode is hustling high school
lecture course tickets.
The records show thirty non-resident pupils in the high school with a
total of thirty-seven in the school.
The reading table this year has on
it Saturday Evening Post, Ladies'
Home Journal, Youth's Companion,
Cosmopolitan, McOlure's, World Today, World's Work, Success, Scientific American, Moderator Topics.
These all comes from contributions
by students and teachers • without
assistance of the school board.
The chimneys are receiving some
long needed attention—reletting of
the coping on top that threatened to
topple over on some of our heads.
Miss Lydia Ort" taught the ftr'st of
the week in place of Miss Kale Miller
in the second grade.
Elsie Hlokey and Grace Allen h ave
been out of the high school on account of illness.
Margaret Hunt has been called
home to Winterfleld on account of
the illness of her mother.
Mr. and Mrs. N. Bicknell visited in
Shepherd over Sunday.
Mrs. Frank Thompson was up from
Coleman Monday.
J. B. Brown and ex-treasurer John
t Kirkpatrick contiaue in a   serious
The Little Busy Bees meet with' condition of,health but both were
Mrs. Philo Smith this week. Saturday j out of doors during the fine days the
at 2:30. j first of the week.   The former shows
Opening number of lecture course, considerable gain. —'
Schubert Ladies'Quartette, at opera!    Great reduotion   of   all   trimmed
house next Monday evening.       •      {hats.   ThVy must be closed out in
Harry Gormond is singing at the m*by davs regardless of cost. La-
opera house this week—"When you dies, come early while assortment is
know your not forgotten by the girl good* Sale commences Satedayt
you can't forget." November 23d.   Mrs.G. W.l'drward,
Money  of $13,096
Clare and $29,380 for Isabella County.
The November apportionment of
primary money at 84 per person of
school age .with Si in May gives Glare
county 816,370 and Isabella -37,725
primary money for the year 1907.
Clare county's state tax is 87324.14
and Isabella's 828,732 leaving a net
balance received by each county in
excess of state taxes paid over to the
state. The November primary money is 813,096 for Clare county * and
829,380 for Isabella. The former has
83,274 children in the primary money
list and Isabella 87,345, being based
of course on the 1906 school  census.
To determine the November apportionment for any given school
district multiply the number of pupils^n the primary list into 84. For
example district number one Arthur
township has thirty-six in the 1906
primary list, giving the district 8144
primary money in this apportionment.
Fancy grapes, large banana*?, sweet
orange**-, Italian cbestufat***, New Eog-
land walnuts, New England nigger
toes, Cape God cranberries, new cabbage, sweet potatoes, purple top bagas,
Bnrmada onions, new comb honey,
strained honey, maple syrup, Ka.ro corn
■nyrup, mustard salad, fine olivep, little
Qoaker peaf, little Quaker corn, Owos--
eo tomatoes, Duffy's sweet cider, Law-
ton grape juice, .Elijah's manna, Chase
<fe Sanborn's Seal band coffee H5g pound",
510 tea m pound and half pound packages* tbe betst ou earth only 50a pound.
When in need of anything in. the
grocery line give us your order.
Your Grocermao
BOTH 'PHONES.
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Rev, E. Frazer EJelJ, Lately of
Farwell, Migrates from Bancroft to Woodville, N. Y.
After a sojourn of about a year at
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Vernon-Clare Parishoners make
Substantial Gift to Rey.  Fr,
O'ConnelL
Rev. Fr. *Mc Allister of Bay City Comes
to Take Charge of rhe Work
Farwell as pastor of the Congregate j Eev. *Fr. O'Connell who for the
ional church Rev. E. Frazer Bell bik-; past two years has been in charge of
ed out suddenly leaving numerous the Vernon St. Henry's and Clare Sif
debtors including a shady horse deal, Cecelia's churches is succeeded bv
Soon thereafter in a flam-1 Rev. Fr. Mc Allister of Bay City who
at Dto'er,
boyant write up his picture, the same i
one that appeared in the Sentinel
before we got to know him so well,"
appeared in the Detroit Free Press
that he was to be ordained a full
fledged minister of the gospel as Congregational minister at Bancroft.
In the meantime, however, a statement of his debts had been filed witb
the proper Congregational authorities. On seeing the announcement of
ordination we speculated a little on
'phone bill and stated the case to the
right reverend gentleman who was to
have charge of the ordination. He
wanted to give Rev, E. Frazer another chance, and trpth to tell he had
been paying some debts, and so the
ordination took place.
Now the sequel.   After barely six
months the following clipping from
The Congregational Michigan is self-
explanatory
Bancroft.—This church is again
without  a  pastor,  the Rev. E.
Frazer Bell, recently ordained,
having  retired  from  the   field.
.His early departure places an interrogation mark upon the  wisdom of the act of the recent council.
Information received is _ that Rev.
E. Frazer has located at Woodville,
N. Y. Between the lines of the brief
statement given by the church paper
one can read but let the reader do
his own interpreting.
Of course 'tis the province of the
church to be kind and forgiving as
the Master .was, but there is no escaping the conviction that our badly
divided protestant churches do need
above all things sterling broad minded, honest clergymen. Too many E.
Frazer Bells get into the ministry.
The Sentinel even in the last decade
can name at least two of this kind in
Olare county.
AGton-Goarss Starts Bov, 21
The opening number of the lecture
course next Monday evening promises a musical treat, the Schubert Ladies' Quartette. An exchange says of
them: "One of the best things on
the program. They are fine artists
and their singing delighted everybody. The audience insisted on
their appearing again and again and
they were generous in their responses. Their selections were especially
good." Tickets for course 81; for
the concert alone50 and 3S cents.
Bolts wanted, hardwood and bass-
woo*d, all to be thirty-eight inches
long. For the next thirty days we
will pay a fancy price. Call on
ttboade's & Shafer at once for partus-
Clara and prices,..
conducted the first service on Sunday. ^^ _____
Last ThnrsdafeveSng'parishoners
of the departing pastor to tbe number of 100 gathered at the parsonage
m Vernon to bid God speed to
Rev. O'Connell as he goes to a larger
field, not yet assigned. A gold watch
was presented to the Reverend Father and a gold bracelet to his sister,
Miss Margaret, who has been withs
him, tokens of kindly regard.
Both churches have grown substantially in recent years and there
is a good field for the young divine
who now comes to take charge.
Why Late lis Wilt
Owing to a large amount of work
in changing to "All home print" the
Sentinel is late this week. "We
hope, however, with the readjustments completed to print in time,
barring accidents, to mail the paper
each Friday morning so as to reach
the rural routes out of Glare on the
day of publication.   ■
Supervisor Jackson and Secretary
Harper of the poor commission visited Shiawassee and Genesee county
poor farms last week and find that
inmates are kept at about SI,40 per
week as compared with $2.50 and"
"extras" per week under the Clare
county boarding house, plan. Individual members were supposed to
favor purchasing the Speer 320 acre*"
farm in Reading for S8000, Mr. Jackson, however, states that other propositions are coming in and any
statement of the committee's finalya-
port is altogether premature till the
board of supervisors meet December
17th.
Disfcriots Nos. 6 aud 9 Arthur are
"avolved in litigation. No. Q was
carved out of No. 6 by action of the
board of school inspectors, giving the
new district $240 of the funds in the
district's possession. It was- furthur
Claimed that a share of the big fat;
Slice of primary money sh ould go to
the new district. The township boar<i
on being appealed to, ruled that Ste®
of that money should also be turned*
over to the new district, "Jhe schoo.
board of the old district on investigating the matter found it, as it appeared to them, not their duty to
turn over the aioney. A mandamus
is now asked for to compel the turning over of the amount to the new-
district. O. "W". perryf-s attornoy for
the new district and'A, jr. Lacy foe
the old one.
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