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THE PEOPLE'S PAPER,
JS-Habiished 1878.
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GLARE,' MIOHieAN, •THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 25, 1904.
New Series: Vol. 12,No. 40
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Ladies Egytianf
Ribbed Vests.
10q quality 8c each, 2 for 15c, 4 for 25o
15c quality 10c each, 3 for '   25c
25c quality 15c each, 2 for 25c
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Special.
One lot of Pink and Blue Vests, fine   '
Lisle finish, regular 25o quality, only
10c, 3 for 25c
SHOES
,  Ladies' Genuine Patent Colt Shoes,
regular 2.50 quality, only 1.95.
Picnic Shoes
Three Styles, light soles with high
heel, heavy sole with military heel
and light sole with regular heel.
Regular 2.50 quality, only 1,95.
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Lawns and Batise
All,7ic, 10c and 12c Lawns to close *
out St 4ic per yard;
olIKS
Special value in 36 inch Black Peau
de Soie only 98c.
Dress Goods
New Fall Goods arriving daily.
Bright new patterns at extremely low
prices.
American Lady
Genuine Patent Vici Shoes,,  high
heel, very nobby, only 2.95.
Oxfords
All Oxfords at reduced prioes.f 75c,
1.00 and 1.25.
Infants Shoes
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Infant's 50c Soft Sole Shoes,
few left to close at 25c.
Money Refunded on All Unsatisfactory Purchases.
W. H. BICKNELL & CO.
II. S. EXPERIMENT STATION.
.One of Five in Michigan to Be
Located near Clare on Senator Doherty's Farm. ■
Prof. F. M. Webster, head of the
entomology division of one the bureaus
of the U. S. agricultural department,
was in Olare Friday and Saturday and
completed arrangements for establishing a TJ. S. government agricultural
experiment station at Kilarney farm
in Vernon.
The particular thing to be studied
is the Hessian fly in its activities in
wheat. Experiments have been in
progress for some time * in Ohio with
encouraging results and it is proposed
gradually io make a study of conditions of all the different climate areas
of the country. Mve stations are to
be established in Michigan, one each
at Bellaire, Lansing, Hudson, Sauli
S; e. Marie and Clare.
Just now the Hessian fly is not
much complained of but, it is proposed
--to gain such informs-.* ion as shall enable the former always to avoid any
serious ravages from it. On Kilarney
farm an acre of wheat is to be plant ed
and in October experts are to come
here and make obsorvations therein
in particular and also glean fact s from
oi her sources such as may be deemed
essential. The facts thus gathered
from the various stations are to be
utilized with what is already known
and deduction's made therefrom.
Vernon Catholic Festival.
The gathering on the lawn of James
'McConnel in Vernon Tuesday afternoon and evening was a most successful affair. From Ave to six hundred
people were present, {including many
of Vernon's elite ands visitors from
Clare, Rosebush and Mt. Pleasant.
The lawn was decorated with Japanese lanterns and Maso'jne torches.
Clare city band discoursed music.
Tables .for over 200 were set and at
%Xie numerous booths goods, advertising different local merchants, were
disposed of. Miss Mary Horn waa
awarded the prize, a golden rosary,
donated by Rev. Fr Malone, for selling the largest' number of/ tickets,
about 200 in all* About 8400 net proceeds was realized which is i o be applied ?o furnish-ng the new parsonage.
RYAN--BRAY NUPTIALS,
Dr.   F.   R.   Gray  Weds   Miss
Bertha Ryan of Benton Harbor
—a College Romance.
From the Saginaw Evening News of
August 18th, we copy the following:
A quiet wedding took place this
afternoon at two o'clock when Miss
Bertha Ryan of Benton Harbor, became the bricfe of Dr. Frank Gray, of
Clare, the ceremony beinjr performed
atthe home of W. M. Young, 1137
South,Warren avenue, this city, by
Rev. J. S. Raum, pastor of the Genesee
avenue Church of Christ. Only the
immediate friends of the contracting
• *DAVY & COMPANY-
Everything to Wear.
Lowest Prices
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New Fall Styles in Street Hats.
AT SPECIAL PRICES.
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An early shipment of Ready to Wear HatB for Ladies and Misses'came in
this week. We have no place to display them and have marked them at especially low figures to close them out at once.
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Silk Shirt Waist Suiting.
SPECIAL VALUE.
Popular Blue and Brown Mixtures, handsome designs   regular 85c value, our special price per yard    v"
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Fancy Mohairs for
Shirt Waist Suits.
^      Every popular color combination in an extra quality,  38        pz f\ ^
inches wide, per yard QvC
New fall styles in Ladies' and Misses' Suits, Tourish Coats, Skirts Etc.
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married couple'received the hearty
congratulations of friends and partook
with the guests of light refreshments.
At four o'clock they left, for Clare and
will be at home to their friends in
that place after September 1st. They
were accompanied to the depot by the
wedding guests, and they carried away
with them a liberal consignment of
rice and similar tributes customary to
such occasions. Mrs. Gray is well
known in Saginaw and has a large
number of friends here, where she is
known as a lady of many accomplishments. She is an experienced nurse,
and while the Saginaw Valley Medical
college hospital was maintained, was
its efficient and trusted superintendent,- in which position she   was   a
parties wi messed the happy event, and
jus.t prior to the ceremony Miss Charlotte Young sang "O Promise Me,"
while at the conclusion W. S. Pearcy
played Mendelssohn's wedding march.
The bride wore a beautiful gown" of
wine colored silk, and carried a shower
bouquet of white sweet peas. She was
attended by Miss Edna Young, also of
Benton Harbor, her costume being of
white German organdie. Dr. J. F.
Grjiber, of Mesick, was best man. In
the parlor where the ceremony was
performed the decorations were flowers cut from the garden, preference being given to pink shades, and in the
dining room the color scheme was In
red and white.
Following tne ceremony, the newly
favorite with all who came in contact
with her. Dr. Gray is a successful
young practitioner, and is a prominent
citizen of Clare.
Dr. F. R. Gray is one of Clare's successful young men. Formerly a member of the city schools, he subsequently was a ' successful Clare' 'county
teacher for three years. Following in
the footsteps of his father he chose
the medical profession for his life's
work and entered the Saginaw Medical college. Tt was while he was a
student there and Mrs. Gray was
superintendent of nurses that the
friendship was formed which resulted
in the present' marriage. Upon the
completion of his'college course fifteen
months ago he ioca'ed in Clare and
has met with marked success, having
already built up a large practice.
And there is reason for congratulation
in that he has decided to remain here
and in that he has brought so estimable a bride to the life of our jlibtle
city.   .     	
Wise Farmers' Club.
The Wise farmers' club will meet at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. M.
Loomis Tuesday, September 6th, at
ten a. m.   Following is the program:
Song, Club.
Prayer, Rev. J. H. Lowe.
Address of welcome, Mrs* P* M.
Loomis.    -
Response, Mrs. Jjimes Phillips.
Question foi; general discussion—Can
farmers afford recreation litre business
men? Opened by J. H. Seeley, discussion general, every member to give
his or her opinion.
Dinner.
Business Meeting.
Song.
Recitation, LeO Jennings.
Question. Is ir, justice to, the community to patronize catalogue houses?
Opened by 0 H. Sutherland .foQowed-
by James Hersey. Question box in
charge of Mrs. McJames.
Recitation, Ramey Potter.
'Ladtes qui stiori after which the
gentlemen will be allowed remarks:
Resolved i hat the man in the home
can undergo poor cooking rather than
constant scolding. Ainrmati-*'e, Mrs.
Thurston. Negative, Rev. Lowe, each
tb chose their support
Recept.idn committee, Mrs. Walter
White. Mrs. Frank Lamphere, Mrs.
E. Potter.
Table committee, Miss Eva See'ey,
Edith Brewer, Mrs, Clyde White, Mrs.
Blanche Lansing.
While not especially named every
one present is expected to take part.
Everybody most cordially invited.
Auction Sale,
We sire determined to close out our
grocery stock regardless of cost and
on Saturday. August 27th, commencing at one o'clock at our store near P.
M. freitrbt'depot we will close out the
entire stock at auction sale, H, Orth
auctioneer.
FitMD FisntEY & son. props*
A fine 80-acre farm, good new bousi
and gambrel fcoof barn for sale at a
bargain.—WjBt.cn. &' BBNJS.ETT.
Successful Soldiers' Reunion.
Thea.nnual gathering of old comrades and their families at Harrison
this week is in every way a success.
The Harrison park with its ample
shade and ideal location on the banks
of a beautiful lake is pronounced one
of the best at which the reunion has
ever been held. Only words of praise
are heard for what the city of Harrison has done. Big crowds .are in attendance including a good representation of old veterans from the various
counties of the district. Judge Dodds
gave a fine address Tuesday and Congressman Darragh an- able one Wednesday and today other notables are
expected. Monday C are base ball
team beat the Harrison boys fourteen
to seven and Wednesday Mt. Peasant
won from Harrison six to five. , Likewise Temple won from Mann Siding
the Same day. Harrison city band"
and a martial band furnish music.
The reunion will be .held* at Harrison
again next year.
How Is this for Those Stumps?
The fo'lowin-/ method of getting rid
of siumps *U recommended by the
Scientific American: In the autumn
bore a hole xme or two inches in diameter, according to the girth of the
stump, vertically in the penter of the
latter, and about eighteen inches
deep. Put into it one or t wo ounces
ofs'ltpetcr; fill the hole with water
and plug it up close. In the ensuing:
spring take out the plug and pour in
about one-half gallon of kerosene oil,
and ignite it. The stump will smoulder away, without blazing, to the very
extremities of the roots, leaving nothing but ashes.
The Sentinel will not vouch for
the truth of the above but if any of
our readers experiment with a few
stumps in this way and find it successful we would like to be informed, of
the facts so as to publish them.
Duncan Drain Lef Tuesday.
The work of cleaning Out the Duncan
drain and branches one and two and
the diguing of the Flood drain and
building a road adjacent thereto, was
let by Drain Com'r Eldred. Tuesday,
the^ total cost for which Will be over
$1,800. The main drain is 1200 rods and
extends from John Duncan's farm on
section eight to the county'line, where
it passes into Clare's land and on into
the Little Tobacco. It was let to
Charles Matthews for $9-48.* ^Branch
one starts at the prairie in section
nine and runs between sections fifteen
and sixteen and on to the Duncan
drain. Branch two runs down the
center of section six and into ^the
main drain. J. A. Simpson and Geo.
Turbush have contracts for these
ditches. The flood drain is to be
eighty-eight rods long and was. let to
Geo. Turbush,_ A new road is to be
built along its course and dirt from
the di,tch is to be spread so as to make
a good road sixteen feet wide. It particularly affects the land of James
Duncan, O. Flood and W. Morden.
Stevenson Lake Grange Picnic
Over*2,000 people were in attendance at the Isabella Grange picnic at
Stevenson lake yes'erday, consisting
of the grangers, their families and
friends. Excellent addresses were
made by, tlie lcturer of the state
grange, Mis. F D. Saunders, J. D.
Studley of Midland, W. F* Taylor of
Oceanica, and Com'r H. A. Graham of
Mt. Pleasant The addres** of welcome was given «by John Northon,
master of the Isabe la Cottnty.Pomona,
and response thereto was made by
Dr. L. L. kelley, maS'er of the Olare
County Pomona. Excellent music
was furnished by Rosebush and Mt.
Ternon Granges. The occasion was a
most auspicious .one.
Mt. V*ernon Grange will open its
fine new hall Saturday evening at
which time an address will be delivered by W. F. Taylor. Tlie evening promises to be an interesting one
and a large attendance is expected.
Beware of Those Range Fakirs.
Range fakirs are reported at work
in a neighboring county and as showing, thei? smooth methods we
quote the following from- the Alma
Journal:
One instance of the methods used by
these fakirs has come to light in North
Star township, where they worked a
smooth game on the lady of the house,
the husband being away at the time".
The result is that he now hafe a stoVe
which he does not want while the
range "men have his note for $73. The
transaction occured at the home of E.
Hutchins and the following story is
to.d by Mrs. Hutchins:
.The peddlers drove alon? by their
farm in North Star township and stopped in front of the house. One of
them came in and began talking stove
and insisted on talking stove after Mr.
Huchins^had told him as plain as he-
could that he did not want to buy one.
He claimed that he wanted to leave
the stove on trial for sixty days and if
at the end of that time it did not
prove satisfactory they would come
and get it Mr. Hutchins, after again
telling him that, they did not want a
stove, left him and went to his work
in the field. The fellow went out and
told his companion to drive in and
they proceeded to unload and set up
the stove. Mrs. Hutchins kept telling them that they .did not, want to
buy a stove and they insisted that
they only wanted to leave it on trial
and produced a paper, which they said
was a receipt to show that they had
left the siove for trial, and succeeded
in.obtaining Mrs. Hutchins'signature,
which now comes .up as a'$73 note in
payment for the stove.
Successful Applicants.
Following is a list .of the successful
app icants at rhe recent, teachers' examination at Harrison, twelve out of
eighteen being successful:
Thie.d.G"ra*db. •
Methvan Brown, Maud Williams,
Nellie M. Campbell, Agnes Maloney,
Laura Di lingham, Peter Oman, Flora
Babcock, Anna Smith, Marie Tatman,
Ethel Gra*ham.
' Second Gkadb.
Edna Clark,.Elizabeth Rilett.
BsTRAYBD-r-from my farm on sec.
19, Wise, July 31, two roan heifers and
two red-steers, ail spring calves. Tlie
■Jndersigned will gladly receive Information as to same and pay charge*?.
Gottlob Zinzeu, Clare R. A. 7
To let—twentv-two ewes to double
|n three years—A. J. Cltjte.
Those contemplating buying flat
irons will do well to see Mrs. N. A Egbert's selMieating sad iron, a gteat
fuel and labor saver.
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.See our larue list of.real estate bargains if you contemplate   buying
Welch & Bennett.   '    * i tf.
Egbert frays high est cash price r*)r
butter and eggs. '
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