1903-08-06; Clare Sentinel

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CLAKE,   MICHIGAN,   THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 6, 1903.
New Series: Val.ll,JNo. 3T
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Women's
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1.25,1. SO
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1.75
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Oxfords
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only
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$1.00
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At Prices Never
Before Quoted^
Ladies'
Vests
Regular
25c quality
fo close
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15 cts.
Clothing
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That Can Not be Duplicated.
Men's Suits 3.75, 5.00, 6.00( 6.50,
7..50, 8.50, 9.63, 12.50, 13.-5G,' 15.00,
18.50.
Every Suit a Bargain, We have
just received some new suits for fall.
Exceptional bargains at 7.50, 10.00,
13.50, 15.00.
We # are showing a swell line of
Young Men's Suits, extra well tailored
and perfect fitting.
3.00, 4.00, 5.0C, 6.00, 6.50, 7.50, 8.00,
9.00, 10.00. .      -
CHILDREN'S CLOTHING.
The most complete line in the city.
Well made, good patterns.
Big Discount on
Bed
Spreads
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Summer Lawns
5c Lawns      .     ..       .   '   .
7$c and 10c* Lawns  ..       , •
10c and 15c Lawns
>25c Lawns, embroider effects
50c Goods 35c, three yards for
Ho
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74c
15c
98c
New-   Wash»' Ginghams,   just
opened .    10c
Shirt Waists to close      39c and 49c
White Shirt Waists to close 75c,' 1.00
Our Shoe Dept.
Offers special enducements for your
trade. *
Girls Fine Vici Shoes, sizes 12
to 2 . 1.00
Girls Extra Heavy Shoes, sizes.
12 to 2 „ '1.10
Girls Extra Heavy Shoes, sizes #
8 to 114 1.00
Childrens Fine Vici Lace, all
solid, sizes 5 to 8 50c
Girls Security School Shoes
Sizes 5 to 74, 3.00     Sizes 8 to 104, 1.25
"   lto2,   1.75 " 11 to 134, 1.50
Sizes 24 to 3, 2.00
NO GOODS CHARGED.
Wm. H. Bicknell & Co.
Odd  Lace
Curtains
at iess
than Cost
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LARES $10,000 FIRE!
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The Buildings and Nearly All the Stock of
Six of Clare's Firms Went Up in
Smoke This Morning.
Tom Smith and Family, Ed. Daltorf and A. Wheeler Made
Speedy Exit "Without Completing Their Toilet.
The five frame structures, with
most of their contents, north of W. H.
Bicknell & Co's brick, were entirely
destroyed by fire this morning, thus
causing a partial or totai loss to six
of Clare's business men. A conservative estimate places the loss at $10,000.
The alarm was turned in at 2:45 but
the & flames had already made such
headway that in spite of the splendid
work of the fire department it was
impossible to do anything more than
prevent the spread of the fire beyond
the group of wooden structures. The
Calkins Block escaped with some glass
broken by the intense heat and not a
little damage to the cable leading to
the Bell 'phone exchange located
there. The Bicknell block received
only a slight damage to the roof. A"
number of other buildings received a
good scorching.
Only a small quantity of the contents of the buildings was saved.
Some equipment from Jackson's meat
market and quite an amount of supplies was saved from the Bicknell
grocery and Smith's restaurant.
Practically nothing was removed from
the other buildings. It was notable
that a fine lot of fellows aided
in removing ■ what goods could be
gotten at and few, if any, tried to
make away with plunder. ,
The loss falls heavily on George
McKerracher, Tom Smith and Enoch
Fish who lose practically everything.
Mr. Smith's family occupied rooms
Over Bicknell's grocery and when they
awoke ftftmd there was no time to
spare as the flames were already reaching the stairway and, so.talcing a
child under each arm, he with his
wife hastened out of the  burning
Special Sale of Pictures
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Saturday, August 8th. I
250 Beautiful colored Lithographs* copies of famous paintings, size 14 x 19 in. |A«
mounted on heayy g^ay mats 1V/C
* 300 Photogravures, in sets of three, tieci with ribbons, an endless assortment of |f|p   I
subjects.    Per set only . « **'*•'   I
Towel Specials.
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We recently purchased 2^doz. Huck
and Damask towels, the greatest of
values the season at
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19c and 25c each
at which price many
of them  are. fully 25 'per cent  under
values.
Ladies' Fine Shoes.
This week we received an extensive
shipment of new fall
styles of Ladies Fine
Shoes, light and heavy
soles at
2.00, 2.50,  3.00,  3,50
and 4.oo
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DAVY & COMPANY.
EVERYTHINGTOW/EflR LOWEST PRICES
Store Closes Every Evening at 6:00 p. m. Standard Time Except Monday and Saturday. M
building without having time to save
anything from their rooms.
The following figures show the
losses: John Jackson, meat market,
$1,500—insurance $750; E, H. DeVogt.
photograph studio, $800—insurance
$200; George McKerracher, harness
supplies and equipment, $1,500; Enoch
Fish, bicycles and supplies, $500; T.
Smith, furniture and clothes, $400; D.
J. Fox, building, $150; J. S. Bicknell
stock and Bicknell property $4,000—
insurance $2,000; Ed. Gilmore, restu-
rant 'building, $150; Friedr Lange—
small building. Several of those who
lose so heavily were at the point of
increasing their insurance or had
neglected it. D. J. Fox's insurance
had just run Out. J. S. Bicknell expected to add $1,000 additional insurance at once. E. H. DeVogt had- just
let $500 insurance run out.
As far as we can learn all will start
up in business, again in the near
future at some other iocation and in
'the course *.of a short time we expect
to see fine brick buildings rise out, of
the ruins of the present smoking
embers.
Many conjectures have been made
as to how the fire originated; Some
assert that itstarted.in the back part
of Jackson's meat market. Others
think it v?as in the restaurant while
others'hint at incendiarism, claiming
that it started at two or three places'
in the rear of the buildings at the
same time. But there seems to be no
motive for incendnrism and no
evidence of just where there was a fire
from which the conflagation originated
and its orgin will probably remain
liiore or less of a mystery.    „
County Sunday School Rally.
In spite of heavy rain yesterday
morning a considerable number of
children and Sunday school workers
gathered at the city park at Harrison
and had an enjoyable .day. Greenwood in particular made a good show-
ing both in Sunday school representation and in furnishing some excellent;
music. Too much credit cannot be
given the people of Harrison for the
right royal way in which they provided for the wants of their guests.
The park is very pleasantly located
on the -bank of Harrison's beautiful
lake and here the latter part of the]
morning and the afternoon were
pleasantly spent, a part in good time
for the children and a part in interesting discussions. Rev. JR. A. Shaw
of Big Rapids, a man of twenty years'
experience in Sunday school missionary work, give many helpful lessons.
In the evening a platform meeting
was held at the Congregational church
participated in by a number of pastors
and others. Sunday School Missionary D. J. McTavish with Revs. Cole-
groye and Frost of Harrison had the
arrangements in charge iind are
deserving great credit for their part
in making the day such a pleasant
one.
The Sentinel iathe county's leading paper.
dents,representing from ten to twenty
different localities. We notice that
now during the hot months, when
many a paper's country news has
greatly fallen off, our correspondents
keep up almost to the usual standard.
We are, therefore, glad to acknowledge
their part in making the Sentinel
tbe people's paper. But there are
some Important points from which we
do not have a correspondent and vfe
desire to have every part ot Glare and
northern Isabella counties # represented. Especially do we now desire
correspondents at Harrison, Leota,'
Grandon, Lake George, Dodge,' A1-"
ward, East Sheridan, Gilmore and
North Arthur and shall bje^giad to
hear from any persons at -these localities with reference to such a matter.
Our Staff of Correspondents.
. TJhe Sentinel is justly proud of Its
staff of correspondents who from week
to week give a continued story of the
doings of tne people iu Glare and
.northern Isabella counties. Some
scoff, at the idea of narrating the
events of a* farming community but
why not tell of the doings of good,
honest citizens, our farmers and our
aroizens, the real ^producers, as well
as print everything about, some political trickster or some Wall Street
gambler? We believe the men and
wdmen who are tilling the soil, creating actual wealth are' just as
worthy of having their doings chronicled as those who live in the cities.
At least we consider the new3 as sent
in by our correspondents one of our
most important departments ana we
shall continue to put forth every effort
to keep Up this part of the paper.   t
From week to week anywhere from
two to five columns of interesting
matter is furnished by our correspbo-
Restricting Consumption.
Though not yet appreciated. by the
public, it is coming to be. understood
among sanitarians, says" Dr. Baker,
that, for the present at least, the best
method of restricting tuberculosis is
not the restriction of the movements
of the infected person, but the education of all consumptives especially
and the. people generally so .fast as
possible, concerning the ways in which
tubercolosis is spread, and the simple
method of lessening its spread, by the
destruction or disinfection of the sputa
of coughing consumptives. Ibis now
over twenty years since the Michigan
State board of health commenced to
teach the people of this State how to
restrict tuberculosis, and some progress has been made, which ^ apparently is shown by the lessened death
rate from th?yt cause. At the lpast
rate of decline, the disease will disappear in about fifty years. If everjE1
coughing consumptive were instructed,
and would obef the "Instructions to
consumptives and their friends" distributed so freely by the State board
of health, the disease would soon be
very greatly lessened. The consumptives .cannot be reached with this instruction'except they are reported to
the health officials; and the declaration by the State board of health, that
consumption is a "disease dangerous
to the public health" and as( such
should be reported, is not generally
accepted by householders and physicians.     ' ., ",'
BIG BEAN CROP PROMISED.
Who frames Pictures?   Willoughby.
Estimated Michigan's Production
Will Be 4,500,000 Bushels.
Michigan promises to make a new
record for bean raising. this year. A
conservative estimate places the production of beans in this state this season at 4,500,000 bushels conditional, of
course, on fairly favorable weather for
the remainder of the "growing .season
and for the harvest next month. The
werther thus far has been especially
favorable for the crop with just enough
rain to give the plants a rapid and
healthy growth. If the usually long
wet period of last. August is not repeated this year the farmers of Michigan will harvest the biggest bean crop
the state has ever known—St. Louis
Independent.
Harrison's Teachers; '03-'04.
A special effort has been put forth
"by the board of education tQ secure an
able corps of teachers for" the ensuing
year, and in order to do this it has
been found necessary to pay good
wages. A most successful year is expected for the various departments
under charge of the following teachers:
A. B. Aldrich, Sup't.—high school.
Miss Edna Martin, Albion—grammer
dep't.
Miss iNellie. Campbell, Mt. Pleasant—Intermediate dep't.
Miss Mabel Humphrey, Marshall-
Primary dep't.
Plans for Handling Hay Output.
■During last year the output of hay
from the surrounding country, skipped
from Clare, amounted to over 2,000
tons, bringing from $10 to $12 per ton.
This year the crop is abundant in both
Clare and Isabella counties and of excellent quality and lias been stacked
in excellent condition. The acerage
is large as the- prices of last year induced a number of farmers to get as1
large an acerage of hay as possible,
and, because of drought in some of the
eastern states and floods in some of
the hay districts in other,parts of the
country there is every reason to believe that prices will not bo low this
year. The Clare local shippers of hay.
are locating warehouses adjoining the
trades of both, railroads and expect to
begin Shipment ot new hay next week..
Changes in R. F. D. Routes.
In Tesponce to several inquiries as
to just where R. F. D. routes Ho. 1
and ISo. 2, announcement of which
was made in these columns last week,
will go, we learn from Postmaster
Kirkbride that some minor changes
are being made in the directions they
are to take and next week we expect
to publish the official course • for each
route.
Frpd Hudson and J. L. Welch
have sent in their bonds for approval
and they will undoubtedly be the
carriers.
A Serious Mishap.
Last Sunday afternoon Rudolph
Holtz, living in Grant township, drove
to Olare and was accompanied home
by his sister, Mrs. Bertha Bruske. All
went well until they arrived at'the
gate. Rudolph opened the gate and
in driving through the buggy struck
the gatepost and was upset. Mrs.
Brushe was thrown from >the. buggy
and in some way her limb was broken
just above the ankle. Dr. Reeder reduced the fracture.
Taking Up Land Rapidly.
Arthur township is undergoing very
rapid development. For the quarter
ending December 31st ho less than
$1,056 was paid over to that township
in the form of delinquent taxes and
for the quarter ending March 31st
$•735 was paid over in the same way.
This means that either, those whose
taxes had run behind because they
supposed the land poor have paid up
or that the state has taken over certain lands,-and then sold them. In
either case the land is now in„ the
posession of those who believe in
working it and to such an extent has
this gone on that now there is but
little land on w?iich taxes are hot paid
and thus the township rapidly develops.
Likewise in the western half Of
Lincoln township the same thing is "in
part going on. For the last three
quarters'from SJOO to $500 has been
paid for the same purpose' in this
township.
Willoughby is still making up-to-
date photos.
CYCLONE NORTH OF FARWELL.
McKeller's     and     Carpenter's
Homes Demolished.
Farwell Correspondent.
The storm that raged with more or
less violence in this section last Monday afternoon took the form of a
cyclone about a mile north of Farwell.
Mr. McKeller's residence at the crossing was blown over and, taking fire
from the stove, was entirely burned.
The cyclone took a zig zag course in a
path about four rods wide, picking up
John A. Carpenter's house, carrying it
across the drive way and completely
demolishing it. A water barrel from
the place was found one-half mile
away and furniture was- scattered
hither and thither many rods away,
some of it. Except for a slight injury
to the little boy, Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter and two children escaped practically unhurt. Alfred Richmond's hay
stack was also laid waste and a man
working in rye taken up several feet?
and let down again without serious
injury. Many birds were found dead
having been drawn into the whirl of
the cyclone and killed.
The people's sympathy and friendship was shown toward Mr. Carpenter
in the bee Tuesday and Wednesday
so that now his new house is well
under way.
Reed City Camp Meeting.
The ten days'camp meeting of the
Big Rapids district begins today.
Among the. special attractions, as
noted in a pamphlet which the committee of .arrangements has issued,
we notice: - .
Rev. W. A. Quayle of Kansas City,
Rev. W. A. Burch of Evanston, 111.,
Dr. A. B. Storms of Des Moines* Iowa,
Prof. Goodrich of Albion, Presiding
Elder Carrel of the Grand Traverse
district and Rev. E. P. Bennett of
South Bend, Ind.
During the next two Sundays
preaching services in the Methodist
churches in this vicinity will be
largely omitted as a number of the
laity and the pastors repair, to the
camp grounds at Reed City.      ' ;   ,    &
Strayed—Dark iroD-jjray five-year-
old mare, weight about 1^200 pounds.
The^.finder will please shut her; up
and notify Fkank Lowek, Dover*
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