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Established 1878.
OLARE,   MICHIGAN,   THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 30,';t903.
New Series; Yol.ll.No. 36
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LADIES' 1.00
WRAPPERS
ALL SIZES
ALL COLORS
TO CLOSE
89c
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Just a few stock reducers. *
Call early   -   -   Our stock is complete.
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Ladies Waists.
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We have decided to make two prices
on waists to close oat the entire line.
Waists worth 50c, 75c, 1.00 to close 39c.-^
Waists worth 75c, 1,00, 1.50 to close
50c
White waist's one-half actual value.
1.50 white waists        ' 75c
2.00     "        " 1.00
75c crash skirts 45c
1,50   " * 1.00.
25c fancy hose   19c 3 pairs for 25c'
50c girdles only *        39c
Girls fancy hose, black and red 10c
5c lawns _ 34c
10c lawns and dimities 5c
lCc, 12ic and 15c lawns 74c
18c mull 10c
All our 50c summer goods 35c
3 yards for 1.00
ONE WEEK
MORE
CHOICE OF OUR
2.00
UMBRELLAS
ONLY
1.50
People Wonder
how we sell shoes so cheap. Simply
because .we sell the ; quanity. We
carry the stock; always" have the sizes.
Special Ladies*
Oxfords.
35c, 50c, 89c, 1.00, 1.15, and 1.50
Men's"shoes 1.25, 1.50, 1.95, 2.50 3.00
3.50 and 4.00.
Men's 3.00 shoes to close 2.50
Women's shoes 1.39, 1.50,1.95, 2.50,
3.00 and 3.50.
Our lines are complete,
Our prices are right,
Our shoes fit and wear,
What more do you want?
WOMEN'S
OXFORDS
LOW HEEL,
SIZES, ALL 2 1-2,
To close
35c
NO GOODS CHARGED.
Wm. H. Bicknell & Co.
50 CENT CORSET
WAISTS  .,
To Close
25c
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NORTHERN ISABELLA FARMS.
Vernon Township a Continuous Expanse of
Rich Farm Lands.
The Platen Farm Three Miles South of Clare Compares
Favorably with the Best Farms of the State.
Thirty-five years ago "Vernon township, lying Immediately south of Olare,
•was a forest wilderness and so rapid1
has been the transformation from
that condition to its present productiveness with abundant crops that few
there are who realize that Yernon
township is today one of the banner
, townships in a county   taking. first
ous; money borrowers are few, lenders
increase until today not a few of Vernon's farmers have documents in their
possession showing them to be in
the creditor class.
With much of the land well drained,
with many good substantial homes,
some of the finest farm buildings in
the state, with roads that average up
miles west we reach the buildings of
the Platen farm, formerly known as
the Ourrie farm, and examine it at
close range as an example of what the
!lP>lip is* ??f
V^The farm comprises 520 acres, all
bufc$8© acres of which is under cultivation and this hundred-acre tract is
maple woods. The land is given up
to general farming purposes and much
of it is already in a high state of .productiveness. But ten years ago 'the
first work in making a faim was begun. At that time with no buildings,
no fence, the hand of industry began
its task of removing stumps and creating fertile fields in the midst of what
seemed a desolate waste and the general equipment of" the farm now
modern in the fullest sense of the
word, is indeed an everlasting monument to the agricultural resources of
Mid Summer Reductions.
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Men's Two Piece
Outing Suits.
25 per cent * Less than Regular.
Take advantage of this opportunity to , secure a light,
cool, and stylish summer suit
at a very low price before they
are all closed out.
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Shoes.
^50 pairs infants' fancy, soft,
sole shoes just received. 50c
values at per pair 39c
Hundreds'of pairs, Men's Women's and children's odds and
encts of lines we have discontinued handling to close at less than
cost.
Wash Dress Goods.
Printed Dotted Swiss, figured
Dimities and Batistes l'5c and
18cgoods to close at, per yd. 10c
Mercerized Ginghams, Tissues
Grenadines etc., originally selling at 25c and 50c now at one-
quarter off former prices.
Embroidery Ga oons.
Two Special Lots.
Former price 8o and 10c now
per yard 5 c
Former price 12£c to 18c .now
per yard 10c
Dress Skirt Reductions.
Sample Garments, fine Peau De Soie Silk, made and
trimmed in the latest styles.
Were 17.50   now      12.50
"     16.50       " 11.50
"    15.00       "        10.75
Sample skirt fine Black Boucle Etamine
Was 12.50    now       8.50
Fine Dress Skirts,  Broadcloths and Cheviots regular 7; 50 value to close at 5.95
6.00 and 6.50 Dress Skirts, Etamines, Cheviots and.
Mistral Cloths now 5.00
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. Walking Skirt Bargains,
Fine all wool material, medium weight,
light gray color, strictly tailor made,
was a bargain at 5.00, a few left to close
at . 3.95
Fancy tan mixtures, slot seams,former
price dvQQ.now        3.QQ
Hosiery Special
Ladies' drop stitch, lace stripe and
fancy embroidered hosiery at less than
wholesale value.
Were 124 now 9c or 3 pairs for 25c
" 25c " 19c or 8 " " 50c
"    50c     " 39c or 3    '"'      "   1.00
100 dozen Ladies' extra heavy, fast
black seamless hose, a special value, per
pair 10c
Infants Lace Stripe Hose, white, blue,
pink, and black, per pair 10c
Silk Waists,
Change/ibles, fancy pin stripes
and shepherd checks, made up
in the latest styles were 5,00
now.       3.98
White Shirt Waists,
The balance of onr lines at
.prices to close them quickly
1.00 and 1.25 waists for 89c
1.50 " " 1.19
2.00 u " 1.48
3.00 " " 2,25
Wrappers.
Our dollar wrappers were extra value at full price, but we
are selling them at ■ 85c
75c wrappers at 65c
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DAVY & COMPANY.
EUERYTHINGTOW/EAR LOWEST PRICES
Store Closes Every Evening at 6:00 p. m. Standard Time Except Monday and Saturday.
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RESIDENCE ON THE PLATEN FARM.
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rank among the agricultural counties
of the state. The soil is of the richest
clay.and clay-loam, but the township
as a whole Is' still far from its max-
' imum state of productiveness. Not
more- than three-fourths of it is yet
under cultivation, but at the present
rate of increase in a few years practically all of it -will abound with the
richest crops.   Farmers are prosper-
with the general-run of Michigan's
roads, with good schools, with granges
and farmer's clubs, with' a good market at Clare and with lands well nigh
unsurpassed in fertility, the people of
Vernon are happy and prosperous.
A trip ovcr> the township at this
season of the year is sufficient to convince the most skeptical. Going one
mile south and two and three-fourth
the township. Where apparently
barren land studded with stumps, ;a
dreary monotony, lay a forsaken
wilderness ten years ago, now rich
crops of grain invite the harvester or
are garnered in ample barns; where
but a few years ago it was supposed
the land was useful only to feed a little game for an occasional sportsman,
now flocks of sheep and herds of cattle
and swine thrive   "on   the   gifts
".mother earth."
The farm buildings lie at the south
'part of the farm adjoining the road
running east and west. The three
main barns are reproduced on this
page. The one at the left is„a sheep
barnj 40x60 with an annex 20x30, the
one in the middle is a cattle barn 56x
76 with 26-foot posts with a silo 18x32
at the front; the one at the right is a
horse barn 40x80. Many conveniences
find a place in the equipment among
which we noticed a feed mill and blizzard ensilage cutter with an engine
for running them and filling the silos,
—one, as noted above and the other at
the east end of the horse barn.
The cut with tfie Jarm residence in
thetforeground gives a goods idea of
the groupingiof a part of the outbuildings, but it was impossible to show
one of them which is located just east
of the L-shaped barn* and which is
one of the best arranged and most
modern hen houses and hog pens combined we have ever seen. It is a gam-
brel roofed building about 30x40 feet.
Tlie basement is used exclusively for
hogs and has a cement floor A heating apparatus is used for boiling feed
and. heating water for butchering.
To the south is attached a large root
cellar. On the second floor is the hennery, partitioned off by chicken wire,
and warmed from the pipe of the boiler below. The third floor is Used for
straw which can be let down a shute,
and by means of trap doors, weights
and ropes, can be let down to either,
the hog pen or hen house. Back of
this building is a run for both hogs
and hens.J#,
The farm produces excellent crops
of wheat, corn', hay and beans. This
year barley has been tried with apparently good results. In wandering
over the rolling acres we noticed about
300 Ramboullet grade sheep, 50 thoroughbred hogs of tho York breed and
a line thoroughbred Durham bull and
a herd of cattle. A peach and plum
orchard and another of apples was
also noted* (\Thc farm is now owned
by John Flatten of Ypsilanti but is
worked under charge of C. Koska whq^
is owner of much of the equipment^
But ten years ago the clearing up or
the land was begun by W. E. Currie
who did much to lay out the farm
buildings d they-now are, he selling
to the present owner.
\)ncW the unique characters on the
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farm is.Wabanaugh the Indian. He
has lived there for the last eight years,
now occupying with his family a cot-
tagVsome distance back, and had
part in much of the cutting wood in
the winter and caring for tne crops'in
summer, removing the last vestige of
the forest primeaval.^
As the visitor leaves this farm in
the northwestern part of the township and wanders over other portions
of it and notices here and there other
fine farm outbuildings and enters the
barns and sees how rapidly they are
GALA DAY IN GLARE.
Fireman's Fourth Annual Field
Day and Harvest Jubilee
Wednesday August 19th.
Wednesday August 19th will be a
red letter day in Clare. 'Tis the occasion of a grand Harvest Jubilee and
Field Day given under the auspices of
tn^ Clare Fire. Department. Right
royally will the many visitors be en
tertained.   Among the series of-free
to plan to have a good time, in Clare
on that date.
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Lightning Kills Four Horses.
Only this week Nelson Carrow of
Sheridan signed a receipt for the completion of repairs on his barn which
was struck by lightning last May.
But during the electric storm Tuesday evening four of his horses, three
valuable colts and their mother, were
struck down by a thunder bolt. They
were valued at $400, not insured.
SOME OF THE BARNS ON THE PLATEN FARM.
being filled, with tho abundant crops,
he cannot escape the conviction that
in spite of all his prejudices and all
the stories he has heard of the country
in the vicinity of Clare, he is in midst
of one of the richest agricultural
townships.
;.i       Sealed Bids Wanted.
For painting 1st ward hose house,
bids to be opened on Monday,' August
3rd. For specifications see committee.
Right reserved to reject any or all
bids.
•      i!Saan^Sel,iC0mmittee"
attractions offered are the following:
The-celebrated Shepherds, in thrilling
double trapese acts; Witney in midair performance upon flying rings}
Miss Shepherd In single trapese act;
Prof. Whitlock in his contortion
speciality; also a big program of athletic sports and a water battle. A
base ball game will be. played Nat the
ball park and the day's program will
conclude with a Eireman's Ball at
Duncan's hall, all of which,!except
the last two numbers, will be absolutely free to everybody. The date is
Wednesday, August 19th, and a very
general invitation is expended1 to all
Charged with Stealing a Cow.
Justice a; S. Young has bound over
to the September term of circuit court
J. H. Hatfield and Charles Dart on
the charge of stealing and killing a
cow and' offering the carcas for sale
during the latter part of* May. The
cow was the property of N. Gephart
employed at the poor farm. Dart
furnished the necessary bonds' for his
reappearance with I. J. Thompson,
and George Cole as sureties but
Hatfield, lacking bail plaped at §400',
is still In custody of the sheriff.
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