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CLABE,   jV[ICHIGAHrTHURS0A,Y MTERJSTOON, SEPf-EMBER 22* 19Q4.
■ $ewBeriei3: Vol* 1$-,Not 44
New Fall
Suitings
54-inch All Wool-Suitings,
all colors, only 59c
54-inch Heavy Suitings, all
colors, worth 90c, only    75c
Fancy Suitings in all new
fall effects 59c, 75, 1,00,1.39
and 1.50. All new bright
patterns.
We are showing a complete
line of Black Goods in all the
popular, weaves at 25"c, 49c,
59c, 75c, 1.00 and 1.50.
Brillantines 25c, 49c, 59c,
75c, 1.00 and 1.39.
New Waistings in new fall
patterns.
New Silks, new Velvets.
Blankets
and Skirts
Cotton Blankets 49c, 65c,
98c and 1.50.
All   Wool   Blankets   3.50,
3.95 and 5.00.
Women's Knit Skirts     25c
Women's    all   wool    Knit
Skirts 1.00.
Women's Skirt Patterns
1.00
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Women's
Walking Skirts
An endless showing in all
the popular styles at 1.89,
2.50, 2.95, 3.95, 4.95, 5.95
and 7.50.   Call and seethem.
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Money Refunded on All Unsatisfactory Purchases.
W. H. BICKNELL & CO.
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ITHACA'S LOSS GLARE'S GAIN       Wedding Chimes.
Our Sister Town Regrets the Removal of the Wells Families
to Clare.
Ithaca Herald.    *
Mr. and Mrs. George Wells have
gone to Clare, where Mr. Wells will
take charge of the business of the
Olare Furnace Co. of which he is secretary. Mr. H. B. Wells the president of the company, remains in Ithaca for two or three weeks to tin ish
up some business here. As soon as
the building at Olare is ready to occupy, he too will remove to that place.
The new company are building a
fine two story brick building, 60x80
feet. The second story is 50x60 feet.
The building stands on one and one-
fourth acres of ground, just north of
the Althouse plant and on both Ann
Arbor and Pere Marquette sidings.
Mr. Wells informs the Herald that
they intend to put in a stock of iron
sufficient to last two years and run
. full blast. The Wells' furnace seems
to give excellent satisfaction where-
ever used.    While rejoicing in   the
, excellent outlook for a largely increased business in their new location,
the Herald greatly regrets that Mr.
Wells and his son and their excellent
families should remove from our
midst Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Wells are
among the earliest settlers of .Ithaca
having come here in the early 60's.
He has been continuously engaged in
manufacturing and won high regard
for honorable business methods Mr.
George Wells, his son, after completing the course at' Ithaca high school
was a student at Alma college, Mt.
Pleasant Normal, the engineering department of the state Agricultural
college and one of the most practical
large concerns in the East. ■ His
wife is a graduate of the Mt Pleasant
normal school and has for the last
year had charge of the musical instruction in Ithaca schools, where she
has made a record for efficiency seldom equalled.
The Herald congratulates the
people of Clare on the construction of
this new enterprise and on t\ie accession of two excellent families to their
citizenship.
Better yourself 1   Study iu the Inter*
national schools.
A very pretty wedding occured Saturday, September 17th, at high noon
when MissKIara A., younger daughter
of Mrs. Bertha Bruske, was united in
marriage with Rev. Ernest A. Rayner
of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, Dr. A. F Bruske
of Alma college officiating. Miss
Louise Bruskeusister of the bride, attended as bridesmaid and Asa H.
Aldrich of Harrison as best man,
while Gertrude Hornung completed
the bridal party carrying the wedding
ring daintily hidden in the petals of a
rose.
Just preceding the entrance of the
bridal party Miss Louise Bruske sang
the beautiful and appropriate solo "O
Promise Me" which was followed by
the entrance of the bridal party to
the strains of Lohengrin's Wedding
March played by Mrs. James G. llox-
burg and the wedding service wliich
was most impressive. Immediately
following the ceremony Mendelssohn's
Wedding March was playedduring the
rendition of which congratulations
and best wishes were showered upon
the happy couple and the company
were served with a dainty luncheon.
The home was decorated prettily
with wild clematis, l'erus and palms.
A bower of clematis was formed beneath which the bridal party stood
during the ceremony.
The, bride was gowned beautifully
in white panne silk trimmed in fine
clury lace and made with full skirt
and shirred -waist, and carried a
shower bouquet of white sweet pea*-.
Her going-a way-gown was of navy blue
which was most becoming:. The
groom wore conventional black.
Mrs Rayner has spent the best part
of her life in Clare and is known as
one of the city's most respected young
ladies and successful teachers. She is
a graduate of the high school and besides having taught here she has also
taught in the Cheboygan schools.
Later she completed a, special course
at the Thomas "Normal Training
School in Detroit and the past two
years has been supervisor of jnusic and
drawing in the schools in Madison,
N. J., where she and Rev, Rayner,,became acquainted. "      ' '
Mr. Rayner has had many years of
schoolastic training being a,. graduate
of the Mt, Vernon school and Cornell
college of Iowa and last June  was
graduated from the Drew Theological
Seminary.
The esteem in which Rev. and Mrs.
Rayner are held was attested by the
beautiful gifts which they received
from far and near, these consisting of
cut glass, silverware, linen, china and
many other useful and ornamental
articles.
The newly wedded couple left on the
four o'clock train for Detroit and
from there they go to Dunbury, Penn.,
where he is engaged as assistant
pastor in a large and growing Methodist pastorate.
The out of town guests were Miss
Marian Eord of Ludington and Mrs.
Thomas Paton Powers of Saginaw,
cousin of the bride. These with numerous, other friends of the bride accompanied them to the train and
there Helped to make their goingaway
a long remembered event with a profusion of rice and old shoes.
New Methodist Pastor.
Rev. G. W. Maxwell who succeeds
Rev. W. J. Hathaway as pastor of'the
M. E. church v/ill
be on hand next
Sunday for the
re.ular services.
He has for the
last five years
been pastor at
Ear we 11. The
Sbntinei.'s correspondent there pays him a high
tribute in this issue.
Republican Ward Caucuses.
Clare republican ward caucuses to
elect delegates to the county convention at Harrison Tuesday, October
4th, will be held Erlday evening, ,.Sep-
tember30th, at 7:30 as follows:
First ward—Meade & Pickel's drug
store.
Second ward—Sentinel Office.
Third ward—Oity Hall.
Erank Eoub.es,
A. E. Mulder,
L E. DAvy,
City Committee.
Dated September 20th, 1904.
Leahy the optician has an i*d. in
this issue, read it as it may mean
much to you. 43*2
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Lowest Prices.
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New Fall Goods are being received every
to display them as it will be in a few weeks,
day.    Our store is not in as "good shape
but the prices are attractively low.
6
10c
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Dress Goods
Fleeced Flannellette, new handsome patterns, 12|c values, per yard only-
Tricot Flannel Waisting,all wool, superior finish, and extra value at per yard ,
Fancy Flee Tricot Wasting in handsome
colorings, per yard *
Shirt Waist Suiting. Fifteen new patterns, embracing every popular color, ,36 inches wide, " gLT ^\gi
received this week, per yard ^mJ T*mJ w
DliiGK   lVMQnair*S*
Never have we shown such a complete line as we
now offer at every price the value is the very best
obtainable.    The prices range from «.
39c to 1.50 Per Yard
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Ready to Wear Skirts §
Two lines that are extraordinary values. Fine
Broad .Cloth, blue or brown, 11 gores, tailored in a
superior manner, regular 7.50 value only       dfejK
G-ood quality Black Melton, handsomely finished.
Elaborately trimmed with taffeta bauds **j%  ^| g~   9
and buttons.   A 5.00'value only v5»^7*vZJ   I
Cotton Blankets.
Several hundred pairs of cotton blankets were
placed on sale, this week. We secured these way
below the market price and can-give you exceptional
values,   Prices range from
60b to t. 75 Per Pair
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S        Stylish Clothing for Men.
DUNLOP BLOCK.
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The line we are now showing far eclipses anything ever shown in the city,
comprising the newest productions of such well known tailors as
Hart Shaffner & Marx
and Woodhull Coodale & Bull
That have national repretations as leaders of fashions for men.
Davy & Company
DEMOCRATIC RULE, 1891-2.
Were a Pack of Political Wolves,
Said the Detroit Free Press.
Clare ,and Isabella in Three Years  Receive from the State $34,000 More
Than They Pay State Taxes.
Our esteemed contemporary in its
issue of September 16th takes exception to the Sehtinel's statement that
tbe democratic administration ot
1891-2 (misquoted a9 1901-2) was disastrous to the state, and by juggling
Qgures demonstrates^evidently to its
satisfaction, that the people were
fools to kick the democrats out of
power the very first chance they nob,
at the end of two years. But no less a
democratic authority than the Detroit Free Press has in its issue of
May 20th, 1902, this editorial comment
on that administration.
The democratic oarty'sent to Lan-
siutr the most extraordinary aggrega-
tlbn of political accidents tbat ever
assembled uuder the dome ot a State
capitol. Nothing that Populism ever
achieved In Kansas or Nebraska surpassed in picturesque variety and bewildering imbecility this horde, of
famished democrats that went up to
the cauital to make laws for Michigan.
The dem'cratic administration that
ohe people of Michigan iWugh-j down
un themselves knesv a9 little about
honesty as it did about government.
The chief executive was a man above
reproach, butwholly unfitted temperamentally to deal with the pack of pnli-
"CIcijI wolves that accompanied him to
Ihe e'eat of government. Asa result,
the State of Michigan was given an
administration that resembled nothing else so much as it' resembled a
nightmare complicated with delirium
tremens. Even until this day disgusted republicans strongly tempted
to vote the democratic State ticket
have recalled that Legislature, and
swallowing their wrath, haye voted
their ticket straight."
Does not such an arraignment justify the Sentinel's very mild 'statement tbat the democratic administration of 1891-2 was "disastrous" to
the statp?
(Continued Next Week.)
MILLINERY   OPENING
Friday, Sept. 30th, and Saturday, Oct. 1st.
We are displaying a full line of ladies' pattern hatB, and everything in ready-to-wear and
children's hats. Ladies of Clare and surrounding villages and country are cordially
invited to attend this opening.    We save you money on this line of goods.
MRS. J. E. LADD.
Sundaiy Excursion to Toledo.
The next Sunday excursion to Toledo over the Ann Arbor R. R. will be
given on September 25th. Special
train will leave Glare at 5:20 a. w.
Fare for round trip $150, children
over five and under twelve year/"* of
age half the adult rate. v
Letter From Inland China.
Han-chong, Theusi, China.
July 11th, 1904.
Dear friends:
Heathenism has no redeeming features. However much some may enlarge Upon the Divine Spark in the
unregenerate heart, they seem to prefer to live away from the cruelty and
ignorance that exist in a heathen land.
Eecently I found an excited crowd
upon our streets in this city of the far
interior of China. I approached to
learn the cause of their excitement, to
And a helpless woman of perhaps
eighty years, blind and severely
wounded by a tierce dog and lying on
thegiound. Driven by famine from
her country home to seek food in tho
oity, she had been attacked and
wounded by the animal and being
separated from her friends, no Chinese
would lift a finger to help her. That
would mean incurring the possibility
of the expense of a funeral.. So she
faced death as every dangerously sick
person in China, friendless or suspected of having an evil spirit, does,
on the hard ground. For no sooner
does a*Chinese become ill than he is
usually thrust from the house • to die
outside. The woman's life v/as saved
through my taking several stitches in-
the leg and supplying her with proper
food.
She is but one of thousands who in
this great plain with its cities and
tens of thousands of inhabitants ate,
owing to the present scaroity of food,
famine stricken. But a fraction of a
cent is required per meal for them,
but this hundreds lack and one sees
them starving on the streets of the
city, too weal* to walk or speak.
The five C. I. M. missionaries of
Hon-Cho'ng are opening a* famine relief
works from their own means, hoping
to continue it as the Lord may incline
others to help. The plan is to buy
rice selling it at a reduction, thus giving relief to as large a'humber as possible.
Owing to the injury to crops including the almost complete destruction
of rice, the present distress will continue doubtless for six months or more.
Irrigation is practiced but the river
has failed in its supply of water. Two
crops a year are taken off the ground.
Nowhere will one find a more industrious and cconom inal people, practising the most intense methods of agri-'
culture and shrewdly bargaining for
the .last cash in a business transaction,
(a cash being a copper coin extensively
used here and worth one-half a mill)
Chinese money is of, three kinds: the
Spanish dollar, the Mexican dollar and
the Tael. The latter only used here
consists of lumps of silver termed
"shoes of silver," being .stamped
officially and of different weights; and
of cash—the coin having a square hole
in its center. A tael note is also used
at Hon-chong. *
Thus a traveler is compelled to betake himself to the nearest blacksmith shop when he wants, to get
change from his shoe of silver. A
hammer and chisel soon accomplish'
the deed... I remain as ever,
Yours most truly, . .
0. Eugene Parsons,.
5 Hon-chOngj •
China,Inland Miss. • Hanlcon,
China..
Reward for return of gent's New
Limit bicycle, 22 inch frame, all black,
Keller*- bars, New Departure coaster
brake, spring saddle. F-iuber special
hanger. o(T**ob on right crank. Rented -Sept.- 14},fr and not returned—-E.
Fisn, bicycle taiui. 44*2
M. E. APPOINTMENTS.
Location of Methodist Ministers
KnoWn to Many of our
Readers.
Clare-Herrick,
G. W. Maxwell
Scott.ville,
W. J. Hathaway.
•Farwell,
B. H. Fleming
Harrison,
P. S. Haney.
Uosebush,
George Varlon
Mt. Pleasant,
Joseph Dutton
St. Louis,
S C. Robinson.
Leaton,
Howard Jerett
Marion,
James Caterall
Gladwin,
0. F. Bullman
Coleman,
A. H. Viner
Isaac B. Hayner.
At his farm home at Lake September 10th after an illness of three weeks
occured the death of Isaac B. Hayner
from complications from Bright's dis-
'ease. The funeral took place, from the
home September 12th in charge of the4'
Oddfellows and interment was made
at Brihton.
Deceased was born at Troy. N. Y ,
in 1850. Coming to Michigan in 1869
he located in Midland county. .Later
he was one of the early settlers near
Lopmis where" he lived for twenty
years. Four years ago he moved to
Lake where he resided up to the time
of his death. In Midland county he
was joined in marriage to Josephine
S. Bourman. To that union were
born sixchildren of*" whom these sui'-
.vlve: Clarence E., Josephine, Celia
M.-, Ralph E.- and Irene, all of whom
vyith the wife now mourn the departure of one' so dear to them.
i'.*- Would you not like to be more proficient in your work? The I. 0, S.- hadf
>he course of study that will quality*
you. Spare time only needed, it
will help you up. -
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