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CLARE, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY-AFTERNOON,   JANUARY 15, 1903.
New Series: Vol. 11,No. 8
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J    Ladies'    Wool   Ribbed
or Fleece Lined Hose
15c Pair
Men's Regular 50c
Fleece Lined Underwear only 35c. Three
garments.
For $1.00
Boys5
its, Overcoats and Reefers
Boys' Two Piece Knee Pant Suite, extra heavy,
in blue or gray mixed, pants made tape seams,
double seat and double knees, would be worth regular price 3.00, an excellent, serviceable suit, sizes
10 to 16 years, going at 2.00 per suit.
Boys' and Little Gents' Overcoats and Reefers,
full assortment of sizes at spring prices, if you intend buying an Overcoat do not wait until spring.
You can buy them as cheap now and get advantage
of a. good assortment.
See our Window Display of
Fine Wool Blankets
'   '.. AND	
High Grade'Comforters
Priced at 25^ per  cent less
than regular.
Per Cent Discount for Next 30 Days
Ladies' Plush Gape?, Jackets and Monte Carlos going at 20 per cent off
regular prices,    We want to close out all of these garments by February 1st,
Dress Goods and Waist Patterns, every yard and piece of goods in our store
going at 20 per cent off regular price. We want to reduce our stock in this line
just half. This same reduction on all Silks, Satins, Velvets, etc., for the next
80 days.
Our Christmas trade was the largest we have ever experienced, which snows
that our efforts to please the people are appreciated and we will continue selling
the best goods at lowest living prices.
Fine Flannel Shirt Waists
All new tbis season■• at 1-4
off former prices. (75c to 2.62)
Fancy Waistings
The balance of our nOn
50c Waisting at , JOtt
The balance of our cq-
line of 75c Waistings at 9«C
Suitings
Good resolution for
1903. Resolve to
buy all goods possible from Bicknell
Bros. It will pay
you.
WE WISH YOU A
HAPPY AND
PROSPEROUS
NEW YEAR
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As Soon as the Committees Are
Announced Solons Will Be
Ready for Work.
SOME    PKOPOSED   LEGISLATION
Bliss' Message  Well   Keceived—Important Offices Filled by the
Governor.
V,
Lansing, Mich., Jan. 13.—The forty-
second Michigan legislature got away
tn good shape last week, and it is expected that good progress will be
made" in the line of actual legislation.
After hearing the governor's message
and receiving, a grist of nominations
from the governor last Thursday, the
two houses adjourned until tomorrow
night to give the presiding officers an
opportunity to put the final touches on
the standing committees. It is expected that these committees will be announced as soon as the two houses
reconvene, and then every preliminary
Will have been attended to and matters made fully ready for business.
As a. matteg of fact the committees
Were practically arranged last week,
both of the presiding officers having
finown since the November election
that they would have this task to perform and having had extensive correspondence with nearly all the legislators as to their choice of places.
However, some swaps and shifts were
naturally made after the gtatemen got
together last week and some of the
modest ones who had not written the
presiding officers were consulted, so
that it was necessary to give -time for
rearranging the slate.
BoiBinQtionB by the Governor,
Governor Bliss, eased himself off
considerably by sending to the senate
nominations to most of the important
offices at his disposal, thus ending
strifes that had for weeks been waged
over two or three of them. The list of
nominations is as follows:
Railroad commissioner, Theron W.
Atwood, of Tuscola.
Banking commissioner, George W.
Moore, of St Clair.
Labor commissioner, Scott Griswold,
Of Kent.
Dairy and food commissioner, Alfred
ffl* S#lth, of tien&wee.
Insurance commissioner, James V.
Barry, of Ingham.
Salt inspector, John S. Porter, of
Saginaw.
Adjutant general, George H. Brown,
of St. Clair.
Quartermaster general, James H.
Kidd, of Ionia.
Inspector general, Fred W. Green,
of Washtenaw.
Fourteen of the present members of
the senate served in that body two
years ago with ex-Senators Atwood
and Moore, appointed railroad and
banking commissioner respectively,
and they saw to it that these two
nominees were paid a. handsome and
well-deserved compliment by having
their nominations confirmed by a unanimous vote in open session. The other
nominations took the usual course, he-
ing referred to the committee on executive business, which will report, it is
expected, during the present week.
There is no doubt that all of these
nominations will be confirmed.
Ad Interim Appointments.
There was also sent-to the senate
by the governor a-long list of ad interim appointments of "members of
state boards, etc. The statute requires
that all appointments of this charac-
ter that are made when the legislature
is not in session shall be reported to
the next session.
In their addresses upon taking the
chairs, Lieutenant Governor Maitland
and Speaker Carton urged a short and
economical session. IDaeh pledged
himself to make every effort to cut
out all needless business and bring
final adjournment at the earliest possible moment. That they will use their
best endeavors goes without saying, but
that they will accomplish a great deal
in the way of shortening the legislative
sitting is altogether another question.
Long experience in legislative matters
has persuaded the writer that there is
always about so muchtproposed legislation, good, bad and indifferent, to
consider, and it takes about so long
to consider it. I am, therefore, of the
opinion that whether many or few
measures are actually passed, it will
be quite a bit after corn planting time
before the present legislative session
ends.
Mesango Well Received,
Governor Bliss' message was more
than ordinarily well received by the
legislators, and the more it is considered the more it Is commended. While
devoid of frills and fireworks, It is
generally regarded as a plain, straightforward, businesslike document that
will compare very favorably with the
best state papers that the records of
the state of Michigan contain. It was
!iot.t.o_jie..exn.ectj5d that aJl of the gov
ernor's' re"conrinehaatitfns and views
would meet with universal approval,
but taken as a whole the document is
generally commended. There is much
force in the governor's observation
that it the legislature will veto as well
as pass bills the session can be made
notable and that many sins of legislation are committed in the name of
courtesy to members. The practice
has tended altogether too much 'toward
voting for each other's bills as a matter of courtesy or "mutual self-help,"
as it were, leaving the burden of either
vetoing the measures thus passed or
permitting them to become laws upon
the executive. In very many cases
this practice has led legislators into (
voting for bills which they well knew
ought never pass, thus shifting upon
the governor the responsibility they
should have shouldered themselves.
Treatment of Convicts.
In all probability a. marked change
in the method of treating convicts will
be inaugurated by the present legislature. The preliminary step in this
direction has already been taken by
the people, who last fall adopted an
amendment to the constitution whereby the legislature may enact an indeterminate sentence iaw. Some ten or
twelve years ago such a law was enacted, but the supreme court declared
It unconstitutional. The necessary
legislation to carry into effect the principle embodied in the constitutional
amendment was recognized by Governor Bliss in his message, and it will
be promptly enacted.
Other changes, in the prison laws
will probably be made. The necessity
for a prison for women is universally
conceded. Michigan bas never had
any proper provision for the care of
female convicts, and the result has
been that in every case -where a woman lias been sent to any of "the penal
Institutions of the state it has been
necessary for the governor to commute the sentence to imprisonment In
the Detroit house of correction,' an institution owned and. controlled by the
city of Detroit.
For tTirst Offenders Only.
, Another desired change, strongly recommended by the   governor,   prison
warden and boards and state board of-
corrections and charities, Is tho setting
; apart of the state reformatory at Ionia
! as a prison for first offenders only.
! Under the present   practice of - the
Courts all classes of convicts are sent
to this institution, although It was originally designed for a reformatory* only.
Here are to be found the first offender,
of tender years and the hardened old
criminal woridng side by side. 'The
effect of this condition Japan, the future
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A line of stylish novelty
suitings in patterns lengths,
regular price 1,50 per i 1Q
yard, now offering at     Ulv
Fancy Kerseys and- Worsteds in gray and new black'
and   white   mixtures,
former prices 1.00 and   QQn
) .25, now uDG
Corduroy Waistings
Bed, gray and castor,
1.00 quality at
January
Clearing Sale
Overcoats
. "JSyery Overcoat and
Ulster m' our line is offered
at from 16 to 30 ,per ,ceht
less than regular price.
Suit Special
Men's fancy Worsted and
all wool Cassimefe Suits,
the balance of lines that
formerly sold at 9.00 to
14.00 at per TT Q Q
Suit I *v70
DRESS GOODS
BARGAIN
Ladies'
Long
Coats and
Jackets
At 25 to 50 per cent
less than former priee.
Rough Oloth Capes,
regular price 3.50, to
to close at A |£J f%
each l*0^^
Plush Capes, former
price $6, A JT/S
now       ^1T*^J)\J
Infants' Eiderdown
Coats at half price.
75c per yard
DAVY & COMPANY.
Everything to Wear.     Lowest Prices.
52rinch all wool Dress Man
nels in all popular colors
per yard
flan-   •
49c I
FLAHNELLET WRAPPERS
...... REDUCED
1.00 Wrappers 89j
1-25 WrapperB   ^
TWO KOSERY BARGAINS
Misses heavy wool Hose,
the remnants of several lines
that sold at 25c, at |Q0
per pair I %/C
One case extra heavy Bibbed Cotton Hose, 15c f r*0
value, at per pair lv/V
A COTTON BARGAIN
Mill Remnants of the
heaviest weight, -unbleached
factory, worth 8c, at per c-
yard wu
SHOES ■ ■ > ■ i
Odds and ends of lines,
sample pairs, etc., at less
than wholesale cost.
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or tne former may be "readily imagined. Attention has also been called
to the need for providing a place for
the care of juveniles whose crime is of
such a character as to make them ineligible to admission to the industrial
school for boys. Such a case was recently instanced in this city, where the
court found it necesssary to send two
lads, one less than 18 years old and
the other, just passed that age, who
had been convicted.of placing obstructions on a railroad track, to the" Detroit house of correction, where they
will associate for ten years with old
criminals and, tn all probability, leave
the institution at the conclusion of
their terms thoroughly schooled in
crime, instead of being reformed as
they .should be if placed in proper environment.
Only Two Bills Introduced.
Thus far only two.bills have been
Introduced in tbe legislature and the
house has credit for both of them. The
floodgates Will probably be opened
when the statesmen return next week.
Bill No. 1 is probably the most important in a certain sense that will be
introduced this session. It is a proposed primary election law applying to
the entire state. It was introduced by
Representative Colby of Detroit. Two
years ago precisely the same measure
was introduced by the same gentleman, and although it was passed by
the house, It met Its death in the senate. Since that time, however, this
question has been extensively discussed in Michigan, and there has been
a growing sentiment in favor of It.
It provides for the nomination of all
candidates by popular vote, thus doing
away with caucuses as they are now
known altogether. In all'^probabillty
the fiercest fight of the session will be
over this measure, and whether it -will
be passed in its present form or amended 60 as to' apply to. the large cities
of the state cannot.be safely predicted
at this time, / *
Teachers want Changes.
The teachers of/the state believe that
some important/ changes should be
made in the educational laws. In the
first plaee they want to have the superintendent pf public instruction ahd
members of ,£he state board of education elected In the-spring instead of in'
tho fall, as jnow,- their idea being that
this change"?would remove these offices
as far from politics as possible. Supremo and/circuit court judges and regents of tlie university are elected in
April ana the teachers want to have
the educational oiflcitts Included in this
class. /tThey think, too, that a term' of.
. two y.ears is too short for the fiUjjerlu-
tenant of public Instruction, declaring'that tUe/ inqtsnjbeht of that office.
Tial-dfy becomes familiar witn us duties before he Is plunged Into a campaign for renominatlon. and re-election.
Compensation Too Meagre.
Under the present constitution the
superintendent ot public instruction is
paid only $1,000 a year, and the teachers very naturally and properly argue
that such compensation is far too meagre and that it should be increased to
an amount fairly commensurate with
the duties' and responsibilities of the
position. They do not state what the
salary should be, expressing then? entire willingness to leave ihat to the
wisdom of the legislateri\ Another
matter which the teachers propose to
bring to the attention of the legislature Is the greatly increased duties Incumbent upon the state board of education. That board Is now composed
Of three members, and it Is proposed
to increase Jt to six, with tbe superintendent of public instruction a member ex officio.
There will be united action on tha
part of the educators to secure the
betterment of the rural schools of the
state, and they are practically united
In the belief that the centralization of
rural schools would be a long step In
Ihis direction.
JAMES V. BARRY.
Michigan Crop  Report.
The averrge condition of live stock
in the State is reported as follows,
comparison being with stock in good,
healthy and thrifty condition: Horses,
cattle, sheep and swine, each 98 per
cent.
The average prices January 1st of
some of the principal farm products in
the markets where farmers usually
market such products were as follows:
The average price of wheat was ,69
cents per bushel, of corn 52 cents, and
of oats 33 cents, and the average price
of hay was $8.03.
The average price of fat cattle was
$4.03 per cwt., of fat hogs $5.09 per
cwt.," and of dressed pork $7.15 per
cwt., -
The average price of each class of
horses was as follows; Under one year
old $30.72; between one and two years'
old, $48.00; between two and three
years old, $73.03; three years old and
over, S10L06. '
Milch cows were worth $35.41 per
head. Cattle other than milch cows,
under one year old; were worth, per
head $11.22; between one and two
years old, 819.32;   between two and
three years old $29.29, and three years
old and over, $37.90.
The average price of sheep under
one year old was $2.69, and one year
old and over, $3.39, and hogs not fatted were worth $4.98 per cw£.
The prices given are for the State.
The price of farm crops are lower than
one year ago, the decline being as follows: Wheat 12 cents; corn,, 8 cents;
oats, 12 cents per bushel and hay 29
cents per ton. The prices of all
kinds of live stock are higher than one
year ago. Fat cattle and fat hogs are
worth 20 cents per cwb. while dressed
pork is worth 39 cents more than one
year ago.
Congregational Ghufcli.
The annual meeting of the Congregational church was held in the chapel
Thursday, January 8th. Reports from
the various departments of the church
work were read and each showed the
past year to be favorable to a fair
degree.
The number ot accessions in membership have been greater than the
losses, hence from numerical standpoint there lias been some advancement.
Financially the church was found to
be in a very satisfactory condition, all
expenses having been met and some
improvements made to the church
property. The Ladies' Union alone
clearing $300. The Guild also contributing $145. Officers were elected
as follows:
Asa Aldrich confirmed as Sunday
school superintendent.
A. A„ Shaver, "Wm. Dennis, trustees.
James Roxburg, treasurer.
Mrs. Frank Falk, clerk.
Mi's. S. A. Gleason, Mrs. Mv Sex-
smith, visiting committee.
L. M. Converse, Mrs."A. A. Shaver,
Mrs. L. E. Davy, music committee.
Great credit is due Eev. and Mrs. A.
L. "WOpdlock for the year of successful
work and the second year finds the
church in a most prosperous condition,
Electric   Lights   in   the   Country
Home
A large per cent of our great men
are products Of the Country home. On
that account "many there are who hold
up their hands in holy horror lest the
rural home be invaded by modern improvements. But in Lenawee county
a" number of fawners have installed
gasoline engines with which, to oper
ate various machines such as they
find it convenient to utilize on their
farms. Some have installed dynamos
and are lighting their honjes with
electricty and as the dynamos have
capacity for a twelve-mile circuit there
isprobability that moie than one home
will be lighted from the same electrical source.
The country home is entitled to all
the best possible advantages and our
farmers will appropriate to themselves
such improvements from the rush-of
modern lire as will continue to keep
the farm the best place to lay the
foundations of sturdy manhood and
womanhood.
Coleman's $2500 Church. •
Last Sunday Coleman dedicated a
church of which she may well be
proud. It is cobble stone veneer, with
tower, lecture room and other features in accordance with modern ideas.
Work was begun last summer and at
the opening of the dedication service's
1 a,-fc Sunday all the necessary 82500,
except.$775, had been raised. At the
close of the day $50 above tbe required
amount was pledged and thus Coleman's new Methodist church enters
upon its life free of debt.
Rev. Mr. Jensen is the pastor. Dr.
Master, presiding elder of the Big
Rapids district, preached morning
ahd aftenoon last Sunday and Rev.
W. J. Hathaway of the M. 3fl. church
of this city, occupied the pulpit in the
evening at which service there were
four converts at the alter.
The Methodist membership in Coleman is not large, but the business*
miru and residents in general came forward with generous help. Gov. Bliss
gave $100. Many have been the loyal
workers.
Coleman is to be congratulated on
this evidence of public spiritedness.
Loomis* New Brick School.
Tbe people at Loomis may justly
feel proud of tbe new brick-school
house just completed. It Is a one
story brick, 28 by 40, costing about
$1300. :New double seats have been
provided and it is a most' excellent
building, acood type of what many
more districts would~31ke tj do. Alderman Fox of Clare was the contractor and gave good satisfaction in
doing the work. The officers' of tho
district are: S. Zeiter, treasurer; Mr.
Smith, moderator; Mr* Tucker, director. Mr. Jones is teacher of the
school.
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