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GLARE
Established 1878.
CLARE,   MICHIGAN    FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1905.
New Series: VoL18.No. 34
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mSnUGT TO BE OlfT OF DEBT
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Annual   School  Meeting  Votes
$5,200 and Re-elects Perry
and Sutherland.
At the annual meeting of the Glare
school district Monday evening fifty-
four votes were cast as compared with
ninety-four Jast year. Everything was
harmonious and everybody happy over
the prospect of freeing the district of
debt next year.
Secretary J. 3F. Tatman's report
Shows that Itfcost the district $7,528.-
08, including a bond for two thousand
paid off, to maintain the city schools
for the school year 19034 as against
$8,645.06 for the preceding year. The
balance in the treasury at the commencement of the year is $2,465.19.
' The sum of $1,796.07 was received from
the state during the year as primary
money. Tuition from non-resident
pupils amounted to $116 46. ' In 1898
the tuition for the year amounted to
C. W, PERRY.
only $43.10 but by the close of the
school year 1901-2 had increased to
111.50. Since that time it dropped
back, being only $99.54 for 1904-5, till
now it has again begun to increase
and it is reasonable to expect a marked
increase from now on. There ought
to' be from thirty to fifty young people
from the surrounding country availing themselves of a high school education in the Clare high school.
The board recommended raising
$5,200, including $200 for library purposes, by taxation next year and it
was voted without a dissenting voice.
With this amount and what is now in
the treasury the single bond of $2,000,
now standing as debt against the district, will be paid off, and, if nothing
unforseen happens, at the next annual
meeting the district will have a fine
school property, valued at $26,000.
splendidly equipped and free of debt,
with which to  continue the evident
C. H. SUTHERLAND.
property. In less than a month thereafter the school building burned and
thus he saved the district the net sum
of $5,000.     ' •"'.,'
After the election Monday evening
Mr, Perry was asked for a speech and
in response he said that during his
twenty*four years on the board it had
been a great pleasure to him to see the
school grow from a small building
with two teachers to the present structure with eleven teachers'. In discussing the school heating plant he said
they expected to be able to heat the
building amply during the coming
winter with the present plant. He
expressed the opinion however that
when the time comes that the present
heating plant is worn out that the
best method of heating would be to
building a separate heating plant outside the school building and utilize
the present fan system to force heat
through the building.
Electric Light Deal Off!
AH negotiations looking to the city's
acquisition of the electric light plant
were dclared off Saturday and work
was resumed Monday morning to build
the water works power house and put
down wells at the city park.
Conditions had been so far agreed on
between the Electric Light Co. and
the city officials that the city council
had instructed the Mayor as acting
city attorney to draft a resolution to
be passed by the council for submission to the vote of the people a resolution authorizing the council to take
over the electric light plant on the
conditions previously stated of eighty
per cent of apprized value but the
company with whom a contract had
been entered into for pumps refused
to release the city short of the full
value of the pumps, $2,000. This
amount, as only steam pumps could be
utilized at the old plant, with $550
necessary to be released from the gasoline engine contract was deemed too
great a loss for the city and so the
deal with the Electric Light Company
was called off.
Some figures in this connection arc
interesting. The acquisition of the
electric light plant would have removed the necessity of gasoline engines $2000, stand pipe $4500, water
works building $1000 and considerable
ten inch mains, from McEwan street
up Fourth to the park. Besides some
hold that the old pumps as now repaired, putting them into good condition, could be run fast enough to
pump all the water the city would
need for another year at least so that
new steam pumps need not be bought
at present, thus releasing $2000 more.
In this way from $8000 to $10,000 could
have been saved, it is argued, and
this sum would have been close to the
amount necessary for the city to purchase the lighting plant.. But there
was the question of using money,
voted for water works only, for some
other purpose. . That was to be disposed of by assuming that the boilers
and engine of the electric light plant
would be bought for water purposes.
But now the problem of oity ownership of the electric lighting plant is
removed to the distant future. But
the city is putting $20,000 or more into
a water system now with the probability of spending $10,000 more to replace old wooden mains in a few years
and at least a good water system
should be assured
EARLY DAYS IN VERNON.
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purpose of all our people, to develop
the best possible system of public
school education for our children and
young people. This is a splendid
achievement for a community but
recently supposed to be in a barren
wilderness but now recognized as one
of the most progressive in central
Michigan.
Chairman of the meeting, C. W.
Perry, appointed J. A. Jackson and J.
.2*. 3Sforthon tellers. But two ballots
were necessary to choose two trustees.
On the first ballot O. W. Perry received thirty-two out of fifty-two votes,
the rest going to C H. Sutherland and
D. E. Alward, with a few scattering.
On the second ballot Mr. Sutherland
received thirty-seven out of fifty-four,
ten going to Mr. Alward with the rest
scattering. This re-election is indeed
a compliment to these gentlemen who
have served the district so well and so
long;.
Mr. Sutherland has been a member
of the board of education fourteen
years. At an earlier period he served
nine years • and five years ago On again
beeoming a member of the board his
first act was to secure the adding of
9S,$)0 to th$ imxumnce an the school
Former Giareile's invention.
Lansing Republican.
The Springtight, a terminal connector for automobile batteries, is a
new invention which has just been
perfected by Eloyd E. Doherty, the
electrician at the capitoi, and will be
put on the market inside of ten days.
A patent for the new connection has
been asked for.
The inventor believes that he has
done away with the troubles of auto-
mobilists as far as the connection of
their batteries is concerned. The
new connection has a spring on either
end, which fits over the post on the
battery and is fastened to its place.
If the nut which holds it should work
loose the spring will keep the contact
tight and the automobilist will have
his spark at all times/
'The new "invention will be manufactured in Lansing. E. "V. Chilson
is interested with Mr. Doherty in the
manufacture Of the new invention.
Arthur C. Farrihapi of New York
' Recalls Conditions in 1836.
A. O. ffamham of Syracuse, "-IT. Y.»
who spent four years in Vernon township in the late sixties, has returned
here for a visit with his daughter,
Mrs. Myron Loomis, of Vernon and
his son, Q. O, Earnham, of Harrison.
He finds many changes but expresses
greater surprise at the fine winter
wheat he sees in the fields than at
anything else. He asserts that the
heads of wheat here are larger and the
whole wheat crop better than that of
the best wheat district of Kansas from
whence he has just returned from a
visit.
Away back in 1866 when Mr. Earn-
ham came to Vernon there was only
the forest wilderness, no state road,
no Glare, no Eosebush, and only an
Indian school at Nipising, two miles
south and east of Rosebush to remind
one of the advance of civilization
while at Mt. Pleasant there were only
three stores and a hotel. In the early
spring of 1867 these are most of those
in the township: Cornelius Bogan,
George-Stine, John Herring, Duncan
Carmichaei, Robert Malcolm, Wm.
Turbush; John Baker, Tom and James
Render, Wm. Phinisey, Dr. T. H.
Maynard, James Wall, Ered Eishley,
Lanson Wing, Henry Atherton, Ros-
well and Howland Bartlett, Wm.
Phinisey and A. C. Earnham, many of
whom have ended their earthly career.
During the summer settlers came in
fast and later in the year at a meeting
at George Stine's an effort was made
to organize the township. A second
meeting was necessary but ere the
close of the year "Vernon" township
was duly organized with Cornelius
Bogan supervisor. The name Vernon
had previously been used and was the
choice of soldier settlers who remembered Washington's Mt. Vernon and
at the organization became the official
name of the township.
Mr. Farnham recalls cutting some
hay in those early days along a marsh
tributary to the little creek that now
runs through Clare.
Some Crop Reports,
"Oats are breast high and still
climbing '"
"Corn is growing like blazes."
"Smut in the wheat."
"Rust has struck the wheat—the
leaves show it."
"Tbat isn't rust—it's only the leaves
blasted."
"My hay spoiled!"
"Lots of sap in my hay and it'll be
alright for another ten days yet. I'm
not going to cut It till the weather
clears up."
"Great growing weather. This
must be like the English weather."
'•Crops are the best ever If—the
weather ever clears up,"
"The weather Is something awfuj.
Why we wont be able to save a thing.
This is the worst 1 ever saw."
"We'll have a bigger lot of stuff this
fall than we ever had."
"Tbe farmers will have lots of
money this fall and they need it too."
"Darn the weather man. When we
get started see what it will cost for
belp to take care of the hay and wheat
almost at the same time."
adly Soaided,
Harry, the two and a half year old
son of Mx. and Mrs. Alvis Denton of
Stevenson Lake, last Saturday fell into
a»pan of hot water scalding half of the
skin off the body. Dr. Reeder was
called, but the little fellow's temperature is high and he is in a very set*
ious condition. She boy was going
backward and did not* see the pan.
Isabella Geographical Hash!
Dispatches from Shepherd to both
Grand Rapids and Detroit daily papers
this week create the following Isabella
hodge-podge: The Pere Marquette
railroad runs just west of Shepherd,
the Little Salt and the Salt are the
same streams, Loomis is in the south
part of the county as also is Wise
township and the two dredges, the
one on the Loomis ditch in Wise and
the one on the Salt River in Coe, are
identical. '
All of this nonsense is found in a
re-hash of a mdbth old story of how
the dredge man on the Loomis ditch
told the P. M. conductor of a passenger train at Loomis to take his train
off the track and go round just as he
was told to take his dredge and go
round when he sought permission to
cut through the railroad embrakment
over Sunday. It took the dredge ten
days to go round while the train
waited an hour and didn't go round.
When the story was applied to the
Salt river dredge in Coe, things didn't
quite jibe
Mrs. E. F, Burdick was attacked by
a ferocious dog and badly bitten at a
farm house near Clare a few days ago.
She with another lady stopped at a
friend's house and were attacked by
the animal on entering the yard. The
wounds have been cauterized and Mrs.
Burdick is recovering from the shock
and pain ot the encounter. The dog
ia still allvev-Mt. Pleasant Tribune.
Here and There in Isabella,
The Central Normal enrolls over 450,
the largest number in its history*thus
far.
The June examination granted
twenty certificates to teachers in the
county, twelve second grade and sixteen third grade.
Isabella's clerk Issued fourteen marriage licenses in less than ten day^,
ranging from sweet seventeen on up
beyond the alloted age ot three score
and ten.
It is to the credit ot the Isabella
township board tbat they have put in
during the past spring twenty rods of
side walk at Rosebush, tbe village not1,
being, incorporated.
Down near the Coe-Lincoln town
line on G. L. Witherbee's place a
strawberry six inches in circumference
was picked a few days ago while three
others were almost as large.
The association meeting of Eastern
Stars from Shepherd, Earwell, Mt.
Pleasant and Clare, adjourned because
of small pox some weeks ago, will be
held at Mt. Pleasant July 20th.
John Kelley succeeds G. W. Loomis,
to take effect in September, as superintendent of the Central Normal training school. Mr. Loomis goes to Pueblo, Col., as superintendent of schools.
A blow snake," twenty inches long,
was found last week in 1. G. Woten's
potato patch in west Wise. When
made angry It would flatten from its
head back.a distance of six inches and
blow fiercely. *
□ The circuit court divorce mill has
ground out five bills of separation at
the adjourned sessions ot the May
term. The latest are Lillian from her
husband Oharles J. Lee and Henry
W. Lemphe from his wife Edna B.
Even Rosebush, situated on so ricb
and fertile soil, has not yet fully
learned that, while the poplars grow
fast, they become an usiance in a few
years, their roots invading cellars, lifting cement walks and doing general
mischief.
The Masonic lodge of Shepherd now
own the building occupied by them,
the remaining $1,800 having been
raised this week. This amount is in
cash, and the members are proud of
the fact thatitheiiibuildlng is at last
free from debt,  f"
Mt. Pleasant children have the opportunity of going to school during the
summer. The Central Normal training school is running for the benefit of
teachers taking the summer' session
and a hundred of them spend some
time daily observing methods of teaching therein.
Clarence, the ten-year old son ot
William Vanderbeek near Shepherd
got hold of some dynamite caps his
father had for blowing stumps and in
his curiosity to see if they would go
off, placed one on a bench and struck
it with a hammer with the result that
he will lose one eye while the other
also is injured.
A heavy wind and rain storm last
Saturday caused many washouts and
windfalls in the vicinity of Shepherd
in Coe township. In many places
fruit trees were blown down, in some
instances ruining good orchards. The
roads leading east and west suffered
particularly, many culverts being
washed out and ditches Hooded to
overflowing.
Last weelc, says the Times, Isabella
county was visited by high winds
which took on. very much the nature
of full fledged hurricanes. One of the
storms, and the worst one, occured
Tuesday, and spent its force in Deer-
field, In a path at least 80 rods wide
and four or five miles long. Trees,
fences and buildings that came in its
was were upturned and twisted and
left in a badly demolished condition.
Wm. HolliwelPs "house was damaged
and the roof torn off his barn; roofs
were also blown off DeLong's, Crollss
and Weinsburg's barns; Youngs suffered damage to his house; J. M. Campbell's barn was damaged; and all the
buildings except the house were overturned and damaged on Norris Perry's
place.
D. P. Mecum of Sherman township
was in the city Wednesday. After
transacting business he fell to musing
over the past. Said he had lived on
his present farm in Sherman township
twenty-five years Looking across to
the now almost beautiful court yard(
he said he carried the chain for i. E.
Arnold when he surveyed that plot of
ground and was present and heard
David Ward say: ul give this laud to
the county of Isabella. I name this
town Mt> Pleasant." Why Mr. Ward
"wished the town named Mount Pleasant was not said. Who can explain it?
Mr. Mecum said when Mr. Ward made
the plat he offered each of the- helpers
his choice of the lots for $25. He ad
ded to this offer a gift of a lot in ad
dltinn to a purchase. There were hO
takers.—Mt. Pleasant Tribune.
USED A HOE.
Robert   Dickinson  of Garfield
Resisted Arrest-Whole Family
in County Jail.
Last Thursday Sheriff Hutchinson
and Deputy Sheriff Green went to
Garfield township to serve a warrant
on Robert Dickinson on a charge of
rape but there was a pretty lively
scrimmage before the arrest-was made
in which two officers, Dickinson, his.
wife and dog, two revolvers, a hoe and
a crutch all had a part.
Robert Dickinson living three miles
northeast of Lake with his wife and
adopted young daughter, who recently
became the mother of a child, has for
a long time avoided meeting any one
and from his strange actions the officers thought there might be trouble.
They, each coming from a different
direction, came upon him unawares
some distance from the house. When
the Deputy, crossing his path first,
notified him of the warrant, he at
once made at Green with the hoe. A
revolver shot made him change his
course and he dashed for the brush
but was headed off. Coming to close
quarters with the Sheriff, he again
used the hoe striking Hutchinson
but in turn got knocked down
by Green. The wife appeared with a
crutch, pummelling the officers with
it. The dog also came to the rescue
and sank his teeth into Green's hand
while the man himself bib fiercely at
his arm. But the officers conquered
and took their man, his wife, adopted
daughter and her baby all to .th*
county jail.
Killed Dy a Circular Saw,
Lory Brazee, an old soldier farmer
of Greenwood, was killed almost instantly last week Wednesday at the
F. G. Adams' saw mill northeast oj
Harrison. He had started work thai
day wheeling saw dust, etc., to work
out the cutting of some logs and had
been particularly warned not to go too
near the saw. It is thought that he
got in under it for some purpose and
supposing himself out from under
,rais«d up only to strjke his head
against the teeth of the rapidly moving circular saw, almost severing his
.head from his body. So far as can be
gathered no blame is attached to any
one.
Deceased was sixty-nine years of age
and leaves a wife, 'three sons and two
daughters. He was buried in the
SummerfleM cemetery.
Goes to St. Johns Schools.
E. D. Palmer, formerly of this city
and for the past three years superintendent of West Bay Oity schools, will
have charge of the St. Johns city
schools for next year at a salary
of $1,300. The consolidation of
West Bay Oity with Bay City
made the services of a separate superintendent for the former unnecessary. Mr. Palmer was formerly
superintendent of Clare schools, and
later county school commissioner for
Clare county and was 'for some time
editor of the SKtfTiNEr,. He U secretary of the Michigan State Teachers'
Association and in the last eight years,
five years at Mason and three years at
West Bay City, has been eminently
successful in educational work.
ISABELLA'S DEVELOPMENT.
More Drainage in Wise.
The ditch questi >n on section seventeen has ended in an order issued by
the highway commissioner to tap the
pond along the highway aducent to
I, G. Woten's and M. Burch's land and
the pond.is rapidly runniug dry. A
four inch tile ditch runs north along
the road over thirty rods. This runs
the water Onto Some low land which
it Is expected will some day be drained
by the Loomis ditch branch now in
course of-digging. This tile ditch is
only tempopary, however, as the
natural drainage for the pond in question is" Into a Swamp to the southwest
which is to drain some time directly
into the Loomis'ditch branch.
Big Amount of Capital Put into
Dredging down in Coe
Township,
This week will witness the completion of a dredging contract which will
reclaim large areas of swamp land in
this county and at the same time
straighten the old Salt river. This
stream wends a very crooked course
and its bends are so frequent that
much ground is covered and cut off
from cultivation. The. land between
the bends cannot be worked to advantage, and in some instances they are
so numerous as to render what would
ordinarily mean good ground almost
worthless. In the spring time water
lies on these low lands for weeks at a
time, and to reclaim these the farmers
contracted for the straightening and
induring of the river.
The channel has been made straight
and the depth is now ten feet the entire fourteen miles. This will enable
the wa^er to be carried off in the annual spring freshets and will also
drain,;many hundred acres of low,
swampy land adjacent to the river.
The water was never more than four
feet deep in the stream at any time
and a heavy rainfall would cause it
to overflow onto the farms lying adjacent.
The dredge people have had all sorts
of misfortune with fioodsr etc., twice
sending the mammouth structure to
the bottom or the "canal" while many
a farmer has taken a hand to fight the
big thing that eats up so much good
money. But the ditch is a go, and Isabella's development will hasten forward. Meanwhile many farmers, who
can ill afford it at this time, will pay
the fiddler,
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Wind's Antics,
'Half a mile south of the Randall
school in Grant township Wednesday
afternoon a minature wind storm did
some strange things. Its path was a
little north of east and in, crossing
Martin Heins'and Carl Selling's farms
cut a path two or threer rods wide
picking up earth, hay cooks and anything else and carrying it up several
rods and scattering. Several cocks of
hay completely disappeared from Mr.
Betting's field*
GENERAL INFORMATION COLUMN,
In this column are tfoiradtmlscel-
lancous items of Importance such t
as articles lost, atiltnals testrayed,
business announcements, stock for ,
I sale, far.msfor rent, etc., etc    I?Iye
cents per lino per week,
' Fob sale  ckbai'—Lady's   wheel,
nearly new.—Mas, A. L. Bi>aokb"[teii.
Fotxnd—Package of drugs on state
road; Owner can have same by paying for advertisements. Call at post
office.
Fob kent—.The Riiey Parrish house
on McEwan st.   Apply to J. Mason.
Fob sale—Bicycle wheel, rubber
tired band cart.—Welch & Bennett.
■ Fob Sat/hs—Some   Improved large
rbriomlre Dig*, eligible for registry
at B. W. Ai/mjn'S, '  28 tf.
Niagara Fltlls Excursion
Thursday, August 17th.
The Ann Arbor R. R, will run its'
Annual Excursion to Niagara Falls,
Toronto, Montreal and Alexandria
Bay Thursday, August 17th. Special •
train will leave Glare at 4:35 p. m.
Fare for the round trip to Niagara
Falls 5.25, to Toronto tbe fare will be
$1.50 higher, to Alexander Bay 87.00
higher, and to Montreal SI0.65 higher.
than to Niagara Ealls, Special train
will run through to uhe falls without
change. 33-6
SCHOOL HOUSE CONDEMNED.
In-
New Building at Shepherd
jured by Wind and Rain.
The new school house at Shepherd,
which has only been in use since January last, has been condemned on account of damage sustained during
recent heavy wind, and raXn_sj,orrns.# ,„_
The building is a six-room one and
cost in tbe neighborhood of $16,000.
During a recent heavy wind storm
the wall under the south gable was
blown inward about sixteen inches.
At a meeting of the school electors
held this week it was decided to declare the building condemned. It
«vas also decided that steps would be
taken to repair the damage and fit
the building for occupancy by tbe
opening of the next term of school.
SAD FATALITY,
Three-Year-Old Wineferd Spra-
gue Thrown from a Wagon
and Killed.
Last Friday while Mr. and Mrs Earl
Sprague and little daughter of Greenwood were returning from attending
the funeral of Lory Brazee the wagon
suddenly struck an unnoticed bad hole
in the road, lurching so badly as to
throw the father and little child out
of the wagon The little one was so
badly injured that, though Dr. Lang-
ley of Harrison was called, she died.
Sunday they laid little Wineferd,
not yet three years old, away to rest.
Rev. Erost of Harrison spoke words of
consolation and it was one of the largest funerals ever seen in Greenwood.
cine School Meetings,
At tbe Annual school meeting Monday evening Mt. Vernon showed its
desire to help the school by voting
about everything tbe board through
the report of its secretary, John Nor-
tbon, asked for, Some of the Items
are: New bell, new iiig pole, repaper
interior of school. Harry Hales was
re-elected moderator. It was voted to
raise $100 by taxation-. The director's
report showed a balance of $225 in the
treasury. No teacher hired for next
year yet.
At the Maple Grove school meeting
in Surrey eight mouthy of school was
Voted and $1£0 is the amount to be
raised by taxation. O. Clark was reelected moderator. Stuart McAnifich
was given the contract to furnish
Wood for the school. It was voted, to
allow the use of the School building
for religious purposes, the district not
to furnish light and heat for same.
The district shows a progressive Spirit.
Myriads of swallows, this season as
last, make their home at the school
house chimneys.* The ringing of the
bell for the school meeting Monday
evening disturbed them so that when
almost dark they circled around the
building.
Sunday Excursion to Crystal
Lake and Frankfort,
On Sunday, July 16th, the Ann Arbor R, R. will give an excursion to the
above resorts. Special train will leave
Clare at 7:22 a. m. Fare for round
trip 81 25. Delightful places to spend
the Sunday.
EXCURSIONS
VIA THE
PiBE Marquette
SAGINAW, SUNDAY, JTJX.Y 23d.
Train will leave Clare at 8:40 a. m.
Fare for round trip $.75.    See posters*
or ask agents for particulars.      34-2
:fviATHE  D&B LINE.
dust Two Boats"
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ROUTE TO POINTS   EAST
DAILY SERVICE,  MAY lOth
Improved Express Service (14 boors) Between
DETROIT and BUFFALO
Leave DETROIT Dally  -    5.00 P. Nl,
Arrive BUFFALO   "        -     9.00 A. M,
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Through Tickets nold to All Points, and Baggage
Checked to Destination.
Leave BUFFALO Dally -    5.30 P. M.
Arrive DETROIT      "      -    7.30 A.M.
Connecting with Early Morning Trains for Pointa
.North and Weak
Rata between Detroit and Buffalo $3.50 ono way,
$(!.5() round trip.   Bertha $1.00, $1.60; Staterooms
$3.£0 each direction.
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Newspaper "sins" of omission or
commission in connection with this
paper recently, lead to comment on a
remark passed not long since by a person who had had just a bit of experience in getting out a local newspaper.
The point is; plainly put, that many
people believe they could get out a
newspaper better than many publisb-
ers who have had years of experience
in the business, but when occasionally
one of this class of believers really
eets into the editorial sanctum and
tries to dig up a grist of news that is
worth the printing, they are usually
not at all satisfied with their own
efforts. The person above referred to
complimented the SffiKmnrSt on its
excellent appearance and newsy qualities, aud remarked that now, more
than ever, he appreciated the eflorft it
took to got out« paper like our'a*      „
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