1907-12-06; Clare Sentinel

              KofcaWiohed 18-?8. .       OWolal Pap©r pf the Oity, OLAR1,   MICHl&kH,   FRIDAY MORNING, IJifiUKMBJEK 6, 1907,
New Series? Vol.l6,No, 3
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II MOT POOR FAf
PP08EO If S8S3E.
Kelly &nd Rowe Farms near Far-
well Latest   Offerings  tor
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"fvlayor Benner Against Big Poor Farm
and Doesn't Want It near Clare.
Under a misapprehension some
people seem to imagine that the
supervisors' committee of five have
authority to purchase a new county
poor farm and gossip is already going the rounds that tbe Speer farm in
Uedding has been purchased. The
facts are, however, that the committee have no such authority. They
will report their findings to the
board of supervisors December 17th
&Qd all such purchasing authority is
vested in that body. Two additional
farms available have recently been
brought to the attention of the committee and undoubtedly Chairman
Doty of Greenwood will calf the committee together ta go over those
properties before its report is submitted December 17th. The two
farms in question are the fine properties owned respectively by Dr. L,
L, Kelley and D. W. Rowe near Far-
well. So far as can be gathered the
comittee individually to date favor
the Spoer farm near the railroad at
Clarence but what their final^ report
will be is yet to be determined. A
M$tHtli£y Seat authority expresses the
opinion that the Speer property
not be purchased.
The official proceedings of
Osceola board of supervisor shows
interesting facts beariagon the Olare
county poor farm proposition. During the past year forty-six inmates
were maintained at an average cost
of 81.89 each per week. Olare county's
contract with Keeper Coitof the poor
farm is that he receive S2.50 per week
for each inmate. Additional to that
•'extras" are frequently allowed
The figures given in the supplement
in this issue show what the poor
farm costs.. They do not, however,
show the average cost per inmate.
Mayor Benner of the board of
supervisors is opposed to a big poor
farm. He argues that little if any
work for actual farming can be done
by county poor farm inmates and
that to hire farming done, especially
for the county, will prove a losing
proposition. He favors a commodious county poor home with a few
acres of rich land available for gardening purposes whereon sufficient
garden truck can be raised to keep
inmates busy during the warm
months. He would like to see some
such site chosen some miles away
from a town so that there would be
no temptation to lounge around
streets and other places. He is also
opposed to locating it near Clare.
Says he, "I don't want to see the
Brewer farm purchased for a count}
poor farm. I would much rather see
it farmed by private individual as it
has been all along. I don't want to
see the poor farm located anywhere
near Olare."
Joseph Hudson of this city who has
through many years developed one
of the finest farms in the state looks
at the matter much as does Mayor
Benner. He argues that if he finds
it a poor proposition to rent his farm
or have some body else work it it
certainly is a poor proposition for
the county to go into farming on a
big scale.
Some opposition is heard from
Harrison trying to raise the sectional issue. But the chairman of the
board of supervisors is a north county man, the majority of the investigating committee are north county
men and there seems to be no good
reason for injecting this issue into
the discussion. The committee and
board of supervisors should strive to
give the county a reasonable county
poor farm policy.
WE.NEED HOWIE-GROWN DUKES AND COUNTS
POOR
IEST1E1T,
Mew Creamery at Mt. Pleasant Closed
by Sheriff After Yearand a Half.
The plant of the farmers' Oo-Opera-
tive Creamery Co., a new organiza-
apvt which started about eighteen
months ago in opposition to the Isabella Oounty Creamery Co., was
seized by the sheriff for a'debt aggregating over S<£,O0o, which is se-
eujred by chattel mortgages and
stockholders' Indorsements.
Many of the farmers in the
ttnmlty are losers by being holders of
unpaid cream cheeks and it looks as
though an assessment on the stock
■will be necessary to meet the outstanding obligations.
A Paris Paper  Figures That American Girls Who Have Married Foreign
Title? Have Taken Nine Hundred Mifiion Dollars Out of This Country*
iPLE DEPOT TILL
Robbed of $160 by Ernest Hunt
and Under Sheriff Lloyd
Lands Him in Jail.
On his return from sapper Monday
evening agent J. H. Russell of Temple
found the contents of his till, some
8160 missing. Notifying under Sheriff
Lloyd strenuous search for the culprit was begun with the result that
Tuesday morning Ernest Hunt, a
young man twenty-one years of age,
was arrested, the money secured, the
agent made happy and the young
man handcuffed taken to the county
jail at Harrison.
Entrance to the part of the depot,
where the till is located was effected
byway of the ticket window, exit being made through the freight office.
But in leaving the building the footprint was left plainly in the 'snow
where none drifted to cover it up.
This proved the undoing of the culprit.
Under Sheriff Lloyd reached Temple on the late train and he with the
agent at once started on the trail that
took them hither and thither, some
distance in the country and finally back to the young man's home.
On arresting young Hunt a part of the
money was found on him and the
rest of it recovered from its hiding
place in a swamp. The young man's
hearing is set for December 9th.
Better Attandancallieflefi.'
A few words to the patrons of the
public schools have been in my, mind
for some time but possible good reasons for absence and tardiness have
caused the delay.
At this time, I can see no excuse
for absence and tardiness except late
breakfasts and sickness.
Sickness cannot be wholly avoided
but it can be lessened by more careful conformity to what we know to be
the proper care of our bodies.
The report cards are intended to
make the parents acquainted with
the student's progress and attendance. Parents should note that irregular attendance has about the
same effect in school as ill other business, and should strive to give the
children the habit of* promptness in
the pursuit of their work.
The standings could be improved
very much by more study
by the family lamp. While I
do not believe it adviseable tor Students to study late at night, I do believe that all high school students doing all of the work of a grade should
prepare at least one lesson at home.
Some of the best students of the
school study at home and it seems
only fair that others should make an
effort to do: the work of the class.
 J. Q. R.
Poultry i?Jotjc6."
All those holding A. T. Pierson poultry contracts bring poultry to Clare
December 13th and receive contract
price for same. On account of ear
over loaded we were unable to take
care ot all poultry brought itt at last
shipment but will do so December
13th and pay contract price even
though market is away off.
* A. T. PiersOfl.
AFTER FIFTY-SIX YEARS.
Government Survey Stake Thoroughly Preserved*   Trees Increase  on   Jack   Pine
Plains.
While surveying at the Olare-Miss-
aukeecounty line in Winterfleld township last week County Surveyor
Johnson dug up a piece of the govern-
•ment stake set fifty-six years ago as
sound as the first day it was driven.
It was a piece of tamarack audit was
driven just at the edge of Cranberry
lake. The preserved portion was
down two and half feet in mud and
water and hence was entirely preserved. Probably this particular stake
had not been located before since the
government survey was made.
Mr. Johnson also finds increase of
trees in certain localities of the so-
called barren plains. The government survey in some cases shows tbe
Surveyor in 1842 going one or two or
even three chains away for a witness
tree where now trees several inches
in diameter are growing close by the
survey stake. This would seem to
indicate increase of plant life On the
areas known as "jack pine plains"
during the lasthalf century.
iborab Hart-PMlllps.
Deborah Hart, daughter of Orlean
Hart, was born in 1835 on the 30th
day of November in the township of
Thurlow, Ont. She was married to
Lester Phillips in 1853 and remained
in Canada thirty-four years moving
to Michigan in 1887.
She was converted when sixteen
under the labor of Nathan Howard,
uniting with the M. E, church. When
she came to Michigan she united with
the Free Methodist church.
She passed away November 25th
1907.
She leaves a husband and was the
mother of eight children, seven of
whom survive her and they will
mourn her loss. *
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•Program of the meeting to be held
at the home of S. McJames December 10th:
Song by club »
Prayer by Eev. G. W. Maxwell •
Welcome by S. McJames
Eesponse J. fl. Seeley
Dinner
Song by club
"Recitation or reading by Mrs. L.
M. Converse
Subject for discussions* How Shall
the elub be made more beneficial and
entertaining, C> H. Sutherland, P. M.
Loomis, W. J. Maxwell and others
Song Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Badgiey
Ladies' subject, Which has the
greater influence on the world the
woman In publio Or the woman in the
home; Mrs. S. E. Macintosh, Mrs. J.
H. Wilson and others,
Eeceptioa by Mrs. Geo. Snear,
Mrs. James Hersey.
Table committee,Mrs. J. H. Seeley,
Mrs. C H. Lamphere, Mrs. G. W.
Maxwell.
NORTH MSI! USE.
Homesteaders and Purchasers of
State Land Settling up r-fonh
Winterfieid and Summer-
field.
A glance at a Clare county map in- (
diCateB-considerable area of U*. S.j
government land in the northwestern:
part of Summerfield township and j
not a little state, land in the adjoin-i
ing northeastern part of Winterfleld,'
During the past season, however,
homesteaders* and purchasers have
been active and a number of settlers j
have already locatedthere while others have made arrangements to go!
on in the spring. These people have j
some means to enable" them to start j
out on new land and they give evidence of being able to carry out their
undertaking successfully,
The land whereon these settlers are
locating is much of it, more or less
sandy with a good clay sub-soil. A
good deep furrow tarns up some clay.
Many good workable farms will develop. People are learning thata seeming barren wilderness of former pins
sand land with day sub-soil becomes
a splendid farm country when cleared, ploughed and planted. This is
recognized on the Johnson ranch in
Hatton and these north county settlements show recognition of the same
fact. The next few years will doubtless witness the development of large
tracts of this kind of land in various
parts of the county whereon little in
the way of farming has yet been attempted.
In the northwest part of Winter-
field there is the finest kind of
heavy land whereon there is or has
been almost entirely hardwood.
Development here is going on rapidly, A new school district has been
organized during the paBt year and
school is now being held in there.
There is splendid opportunity for immediate future growth
in this part of the township. Now
there is a sense of newness about
things but the locality bids soon to
be a good substantial farm community
like the up-to-date communities centring around Grandon, Winterfieid
and Austa schools.
Eat lore Candy.
"Give children plenty of pure sugar, taffy and butterscotch and they'll
have little need of cod-Hveroil,"says
Dr. Woods Hutinson in the Christmas
Woman's Home Companion.
"In short, sugar is, after meat,
bread and butter, easily our next
most important and necessary food.
You can put the matter to a test Very
easily. Justleaveoff the pie, pudding
or other deserts at your lunch or midday dinner. You'll be astonished to
find how quickly you'll feel 'empty'
again, and how 'unfinished the meal
will seem. You can't get any working man to accept a dinner pail without pie in, it. Aud he's absolutely
right. 'The only thing that can take
the place of sugar here is beer or
wine. It is a significanfe.fact thatthe
free-lunch counters runin connection
with bars furnish every imaginable
thing except sweets. Even the res-
turants and lunch grills attached to
saloons or bars 6ften refuse to serve
desserts of any sort. They know
their business! The more sugar and
sweets a man takes at a meal the less
alchol he wants. Conversely, nearly
every drinking man will tell you that
he has lost his taste for sweets. The
more candy a nation Consumes, the
less alchol, "The United States
government buys pure candy by the
ton and ships it to the Philippines to
be sold at cost to the soldiers in the
canteens. AU men crave it in the
tropics, and the more they get of it,
the less 'vino' and whiskey they
Want.
"In fine, the prejudice against sugar is born of puritanism and stinginess, equal parts. Whatever children cry for must be bad for them, according to the pure doctrine of original sin; besides, it costs money. I
know families in the rural districts
yet where the head of the family
groans over every dollar's worth of
sugar that comes into the house as a
sinful and 'unwholesome' luxury."
me Course Tiekets $.78.
Nat. M. Brigham in illustrated lec^
ture on some phase of the west is the
next number of the lecture course at
the opera house December 13th.
"Nothing more artistic and eloquent
ever given from our platform," says
G. H. Turner, Supt. of Old Salem
chautauqua. Tickets for three remaining numberer of course 73c, single admissions 35c.
Fancy grapes, large bananas', sweet
oranges, Italian chestnuts, New Bog-
land walnuts, New England nigger
toes, Cape Cod cranberries, new cabbage, sweet potatoes', purple top bagas,
Burmuda onions, new comb honey,
strained honey, maple syrup, Kayo corn
syrup, mustard palad, fine olive?, little
Qaaker peas, little Quaker corn, Owosso tomatoes, Puffy's sweet cider, Law-
ton grape juice, Elijah's manna, Chase
& Sanborn's Seal band coffee B$c pound,
500 tea m pound and half pound packages the best oa earth only 50o pound.
When in need" of anything in the
grocery line give us your order.
Your Grocerman
axnes
BOTH 'PHONES.
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DOINGS OF GIBGUIT COURT.
Mills of Justice in Operation with
with   Judges   Dodds    and
Searle in Charge.
Two trials were on at the same
time an courthouse at Harrison Tuesday, Judge Dodds presiding in the
court room and Judge Searle of
Gratiot in the county cleric's office,
Wednesday Judge Dodds went to try
certain cases at Ithaca leaving Judge
Searle at the helm. Disposition of
cases up to yesterday afternoon is as
follows:
Frank Gilman found guilty of
assault with intent to commit rape.
Sentence stayed till December 16th
to prepare motion for new trial.
District No. 9 vs No, 6, Arthur submitted on briefs.
Two Sheridan township road cases,
supplementary return order issued
and submitted on briefs.
L. D. Clark vs. Mabel Clark,
divorce, taken under advisement.
E. W. Fairbanks vs. Maude P.
Fairbanks, divorce, the request of
neither party granted,
Buie B. Bahcock granted divorce
from R. W. Babcock.
Frank Barton and Maud Jones Vs.
Magulre Beaulieu, continued.
Motion for new trial in Allen vs.
Kube case involving clover huller
burned in Mr. Kube's barn, taken
under advisement.
VERNON FARMERS
For Graveling Road South From
Clare-20 Teams Yesterday.
Under direction of Oomr. Asline
farmers from various parts of Vernon have been hauling gravel this
week from the Clare city gravel pit
to gravel the state road south from
Clare. Yesterday twenty teams were
hauling and the work had progressed
south of the Perry farm, one mile
south of Vernon hill. It is said that
it is expected this fall to continue
this three miles south. The road has
been from time well graded and
gravel on the heavy clay is all that is
needed to give a fine road.
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The supplement in this issue contains the proceedings of the board of
supervisors for the session of the
week commencing October 9th,
These supplements are furnished us
by County Printer Aldrichandweare
j>aid by the county for for folding
them in with the Sentinel. That ia
all we have to do with their publication. But they contain valuable information, even though reaching the
taxpayers rather late, and every citizen should seek the fullest information concerning the county government.
December 13th and 14th, Friday and
Saturday, there will be a sale of fancy
goods, also home made baked goods
and candies, at Derby's furniture
store, under the auspices of the
Ladies' Auxiliary.
IMBaUJtfPEBWS.
Items of Interest in the Hustling
Agricultural County.
John E.  Doughty, the Nestor of
Isabella newspaper men, died at Mt.
Pleasant last week.
Central Normal students turn joyfully from football to basketball.
Their team is swifter at the latter.
An old faBhioned revival is in progress among Gilmore Methodists with
a dozen converts Sunday evening.
Herrickites are busy handing out
bouquets to their young people for
successfully boasting to secure a new
church organ.   'Tis a dandy,
Mt, Pleasant Presbyterians had services for the first time in their fine
new church last Sunday. The fine,
new brick structure represents one of
the strongest church organizations
at the County Seat.
"Friendship is the vine of life,"*
eays Mr. and Mrs. B. Eady of Vernon,
Thirty men with fifteen teams gave
them a bee last week with the result
that 200 loads of manure were hauled
out and ten acres ploughed. In sin-
cerest gratitude the host and his
wife served the supper that followed*
Gleaners, Society of Equity, Grangers, Beanery Organization—these four
with incidental rivalry hither and
thither in the county between couplets of them makes it evident that the
average Isabella farmer's most admirable strength is also his weakness
They are so independent they can't
get together and stay together very
long for any one purpose.
Miner Demondhas-finished the putting in of six steel and concrete bridges across the north branch of the
TittabawasBee Salt and a portion of
this stream called the Loomis Creek
all in Wise township. All are put in
substantially and permanently on
concrete foundations and with ample
fiowage for storm floods. Two are
eighteen, onetwenty, one twenty-one,
one twenty-six'and one thirty foot
span. The work moved along smoothly the entire Bix weeks and no hitch
or kick was registered, with full acceptance of the jobs,—Tribune.
Hest6r Bsitia,
Carl Yek who has been working in
Detroit for some time has returned
home-   V-
Jesse Bessie and A, Keaome to
Clare last Monday.
Quite a few in this -neighborhood-
have been on the siek list for th&
past week.
Alfred Clark was a caller1 in .North
Arthur last Thursday.
The social at the Bessie schoo
house Wednesday November 27th
was well Attended and every body
had a good time. A fine program
was rendered. "The Sweet Family"
was a principal feature of tbe evening.   Proceeds were S8.05.
The members of Nester Arbor, A*
O. O- G., will elect officers at their
next regular meeting December 14th,
Charlie Kleinhardt and Miss Nina
Spigelmire of the Brown attended
the social at the Bessie last Thursday evening.