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Established 1878.
v CLARE,   MICHIGAN? THURS6ArY^TERtfOON,-  FEBRUARY ,12, 19Q2S, '
;' New Series: Vol; 11 ,No. 12
We have increased
our sales every dny
since the sale started.
on Sale!
gale positively ends a
week from next Tuesday, .February 24th, no
gouds sold at present
prices after, tbat date.
A Household Word!
We mean to make the name Bicknell Bros, a household word in
this community. For The Best. Goods at the. lowest possible prices.
We are continually watching our business and ever'on the alert.to
make changes for the better. .The more business we do, the cheaper we
can do it, that is the secret of our success. Business is increasing in
every Department.
days more of our Great Sal
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Everything in Dress Goods, Silks, Satins etc. 20 percent off.
Ladies and Misses Jackets 25 per cent off.
Mens', Women's and Children's shoeB 20 per cent off.    .
Table linen, Napkins and Towels, all kinds 2fj per cent off.
lien's Boys' and Youths' suits 25 per cent off.
A few Men's and Boys' overcoats left to close out at a bargain.
Best Calico, light or dark only 4c per yard.
L. L. Cotton, unbleached 4_-c per yard.
We have just received a full line of Summer goods and Ginghams
of all discriptions. Fast colored Lawns for one week 5c per yard—good
assortment of styles.
II
Sale will pos-
tively end February 24th Last
day.
Not one cent's
worth ,of goods
at these prices
after February
24th.    '
♦90
LaDDtt stripe Swiss Tissues
Black and white and ocp   cnn „nfi nc0
ecru and white per yard *J"j "»« CIIUI Dub
GlaSSOOW TiSSlieS per yard
snarti Zeiijrs
per
yard
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Tlie best collection of Fine Cotton Dress Fabrics ever displayed in the city is here offered for your inspection. • All the newest weaves and most popular spring colorings are-, included in this extensive line. Never
before tfaye the styles in Wash Fabrics been near so attractive as thpse shown this year, and this is an opportune time .to-make your selections while the assortment is the largest; \    .
-Plaid Mep66Plz6cf VVaistinos    .-,.
The very best quality in   djO 4 O
Waist Jengths, per pattern    ^p-CL • IO
Fancy Stripe Mercerized Madras
Choice colors in waist
lengths per pattern
Silk Gjiioiiains
In Idrn^t endless variety,^
only one JBpern of a style,   «Ji  CA
"3 yard; patWfrVs ^|<OU
Black ind mm Waistings :     •
*    I ri phecl^ and st ripes? high-«   EZ f\ *
lymeijcerized, per yard ^_) v^ C
' Merceta liite Walstinos
I n Vhedk^.^'tri^e'%iarid figured designs,
not mf re than.tw|§patterns of a kind, of
most Istyles only 4 ^ C 4 J_T f\
one, p^r pattern J»^J|p«r  l*wv/
Mercerized Grenadines   p
Plain colors, finish almost Jk fSf^
equal io silk, per yard nrUC
FiGured/Siiss Muslin
Handsome patterns in all
colors} per yard
l
25c j
32 inches wide, very fine
per yard
Fine Dress Gingiianis
Per yard      10;C and 125C
HANOVER PEiMLES
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The finest Percales made,   i O ■ *%
36 inches wide, per yard I /___.2C
Every color,
per yard
Fine GUamDros
FINE MANCHESTER DIMITIES
every  shade,
10c
Plain colors,
per yard
15c I
ANNUAL MEETING FIXES
LENGTH OF TERM.
£s.
A Lesson from the School  Experiences   of the People of
Loomis.
Last Friday 0. Jones closed a successful five months term of school.
We are sorrow to learn that there is
to be no school till next September on
account of the trouble last spring. It
is too bad that the children have to
be deprived of school through the
folly of the people.
Prom the above item which appeared
among those furnished by the Loomis
correspondent last week, it is evident
that for the first time in a number of
years the experiment of a five-months'
school is to be tried at the hustling
little village in Wise. During the
term just closed there were fifty pupils on the roll. The district is a
large one and is bonded for $1,000, a
debt contracted for the erection of
the new brick school which was "entered for school purposes but a mon th
ago. Very many of the school patrons
are now anxious to have more months
for this year, butall in vain.
Several special meetings of the
school voters of the district were held
last spring and one of the things done
by those meetings was to change the
time of the annual school meeting
from September to July. The school
board, however, did hot wait for that
annual meeting, before hiring the
teacher and in thus doing followed
the universal custom. They hired a
teacher for eight months. But at
the annual meeting without perhaps realizing the full force
of wliat they were doing,
it was voted to have five months
of school. Later some hoped to have
more months of school voted by a special meeting of the district, but that
was impossible as the laws Of the state
prescribe five months as theminimuhi
length of term for a, district school
and then gives the absolute power of
voting the number Of months beyond
that, to the annual meeting. Special
meetings were powerless to
change the decision of the annual
meeting. -At the end of five months
the teacher, 0. A." Jones, resigned to
go into life insurance and how there
will, apparently, be no farther school
for the boys and girls till next^Sept-
embef.  *
Retention of Soil Moisture,
As rain falls, says the %nt/inel,
the moisture goes down, and w'Jifin an
excess of moisture exists (which' happens only after thefisoil ~is saturated
and all the spaces between the particles are filled) crops cannot thrive, because the solution of plant food would
be to dilute. As the water fills the
soil the air is driven out, and continued rains will cause the excess of water
to stand on the surface if it cannot
flow off. The soil will dry slowly Unless there is an outlet below, evaporation of the moisture creating cold and
destroying the plants. When-the soil
has been tilted or has some kind; of
drainage the excess of water goes
down, and the air follows, carrying
warmth, while the soil will retain
sufficient moisture for the crops,
though a large portion of the soil moisture will be lost if not conserved by
judicious cultivation. As the water
leaves the earth at the surface, that
lower down comes up through capillary attraction, but a large proportion
of the lower water is arrested by the
plant roots before it can pass up, and
is then utilized. Organic matter in
the soil increases its water-holding capacity, and widens the range between
drought and excessive • water supply,
either of which is injurious to plant
life. Water held by„the organic matter may be useful to the bacterial life
that forwards the decomposition of
organic substances in the soil, and as
the decompensation continues there
may be a gradual liberation of moisture
as the organic substances are more and
more reduced. The water may also be
useful to growing crops. But moisture alone will not forward crops;
warmth is essential, and as the excess
of water is removed from below, the
soil becomes warmer at the surface,
and the roots go down as the water recedes. When the soil is loosened on
the surface, evaporation is prevented
and the supply is continued over a
larger period Of time.
x\lail for Clarence and Leota.
Beginning July 1st next there will
be a daily uiail to add fro from Leota,
the postofflce department having just'
awarded the contract for carrying the
same, as well as the contract for the
Oiarence route, to Peter W. Hammtl-
ton, for four years from July 1st i903.
—Cleaver. »    •';•■»*
LETTER FROM CUBA.
Graphic    Description    of    the
Country and its People by a
Michigan Man.
Sanctispiritus, Cuba,
January 8, 1903
Editor Sentinel:—
From letters and papers received
from home I learn that you had several inches of snow and decidedly cold
weather in Michigan last month.
This beinir the case, it will seem like
a dream to learn-that for the last six
weeks I have been going about here
in Cuba, clothed in the lightest attire,
—light summer underwear, low tan
shoes, - a linen suit throughout and
Panama hat. 1 have seen men planting corn and potatoes with American
planters, and on a near-by farm I have
seen healthy looking corn about three
feet high, or as a good field of corn in
Michigan would look in July. In
other fields I have seen corn twelve
feet tall and maturing. I have seen
men planting; garden seeds in one place
and have seen vegetables large enough
to • use,—onions, lettuce, radishes
cabbages etc. in other places. I*have
ridden through green Guinea grass
from six feet to ten feet tall and so
thick on the ground that my horse
had to fight and work hard to make
his way through it. I have seen trees
laden with great yellow, juicy oranges,
besides seeing the lemon, the lime,
the. guava and many other native
fruits in various stages of maturity.
I have admired the tall cocoanqt trees,
with then- great green nuts in various stages of growth,, and the taller
and ever beautiful royal pa'ms with
their white, smooth trunks, their
green leaves ten to twelve feet in
length, waving in the balmy sunlight,
and with their great bunohes. of fruit
ready to drop, in some cases, to feed
any swine that may be near, or to decay upon the ground. I have beheld
thousands of flower's in bloom in patios and in the open fields, with the
honey bee industriously plying his vocation among them. ' I have seen the
small farmers gathering their tobacco
and taking their bananas and their
corn to market, while young chickens
turkeys,- hens, ducks, Guinea fowls,
pigs, goats and dogS enjoyed themselves about the farm houses in com-
Sweeping Reductions
On All Winter Goods
DAVY & COMPANY.
Everything to Wear.    .Lowest Prices,,
Store Closes at 6:00 O'clock, Standard Time Every Evening Except
Monday and Saturday.
Sweeping Reductions
On All Winter Goods
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pany of plump, healthy children from
one to five years of age as free from
clothing as the young pigs or chickens
and blissfully ignorant of the abundant crop of colds, catarrh, croup,
bronchitis, pneumoria and grippe,
which torture old and young alike in
more JsTorthem latitudes. X have ridden through dense forests and =looked
with delight upon trees which I knew
would yield the rich mahogany furniture wood, or the beautiful Cuban Cedar, the exquisitely beautiful Acans,
the Sabicu and many other varieties
of wood which would delight the eyes
of people accustomed only to the grain
of the oak, the maple, the ash or the
pine. I have seen cattle, as sleek,
plump and pretty in outline as any
that were ever represented upon an
artist's canvas, grazing contentedly in
the wealth of grass, with no ihsefits to
torture them,'and with neither excessive heat Or stormy weather to anhOy
them. As I have leveled my camera
at these splendid specimens of the bovine tribe—as I could catcli them
from time to time in grass short
enough to admit a fair view,—I have
understood ho h many gi'e it mansions
in this old city were built in the prosperous times before the wars, from the
cattle industry aloue, even though
the owners never took any thought; as
to selection,of animals or improvement of breeds, nor any thought about
gathering fodder or grain into barns
and never read the market in any
newspaper to learn of the best prices
to be secured for their stock.
John Western.
(To bo continued.)
Republican County Convention for Isabella.
The republicans of Isabella county
will meet in convention at the court
house, Mt. Pleasant, Saturday, Feb-
ni'iry 21st at eleven o'clock a. m. to
elect ten delegates tb the republican
state convention at Detroit March 0th
and to nomin-ite a candidate for Commissioner of schools and transact
other business. Out of a total 'SeTega-
tion of eighty-seven, Gilmore is entitled to two delegates; Vernon, four;
Wise, three.
Good young horses or poor old horses
>rsale.   Cash or time,   H.P; Qubel
for sale,
Clare.
12-4
Correspondents and Patrons.
We hear many words of praise for
our fine corps of correspondents, who
send in each week the news of Clare
and Northern Isabella counties. We
aim to give the news of all the communities and will be glad to furnish
stationery for correspondence and the
Sentinel free to a good correspondent
in any locality not yet represented.
Many of our patrons go to town Saturday to do their trading, but before
starting out they will do well to scan
the columns of this piper, where
weekly there are set forth special bargains in all lines of goo 1; offered by
many of the largest and but, firms in
Clare county. "We aim to have the
paper reach our patrons in time for
them to consult the special offers
given in- the advertising department
before starting out for their Saturday
shopping. For example this week
there are special displays of goods and
special reduction sales given ia these
columns, splendid chances to buy
goods at greatly reduced prices and
ample opportunity to examine a very
large stock of the finest goods, on exhibition for the benefit of the public.
. We are grateful for the many words
of praise from so many sources as to
the efforts of the Sentinel to serve
its patrons and we-shall continue to
put forth our best endeavor to be worthy Qf their confidence.
ASSAULT AND ROBBERY.
Death Claims Another Young
Man.
At the age of twenty-two when life
seeined most inviting, Frank A. Goodknecht, brother of William Goodknecht of "this city, was cut down by
that fatal disi-ase, consumption.
Cruel indeed does it seem that lie
should be taken away for he was the
only supporb of his aged parents.
Only since Xmas has his condition
been noticed as serious but the death
messenger came to him in the home
at Hatton last-Monday. The funeral
took place today, Eev. N. D. Potter
preaching the sermon in the Baptist
church, and the interment occured at
Cherry Grove cemetey.
Frank Goodknecht was born in Germany but came fr> Clare county when
he was only two years of age and resided hero up to the time of his death.
The sympathy of many friends goes
out to Mr. and Mrs. Goodknecht in
the death of their son.
M. F. Robinson of Farwell Brutally Attacked  and  Robbed,
a Deliberate Plot.
On Monday of this week at his saw
mill west of Lake Station M. IT. Robinson of Farwell was attacked bj
two rufflns, beaten about the head
and face and kicked Until, to save his
life, he was compelled to yield up the
$45 they wished to get possession Of.
The two men were John and 3Soah
Benn with O. H. Keyes an accessory
to the deed. After the money
had been secured, Keyes held a
gun over the victim while the other
two men escaped, Keyes claiming.that
he had no part in the struggle. Sheriff Updegraff with Under-sheriff
Welch and Pros. Att'y Cummins investigated the matter Tuesday and
arrested O. H. Keyes who is now in
the county jail at Harrison.
O. H. Keyes was working Robinson's
place near Lake Station. The former
hired the Benn boys to cuji, wood on
the place and Mr. Robihsbn agreed to
pay them as K-yes should issue orders
on him in their favor. Last Monday
Mr..Robinson went to the mill with
sufficient currency to cash all orders
and cashed what amounted to $27 but
they demanded $54, the difference between the two amounts representing
what they demanded for the work
done by them for Keyes, independent
of cutting wood. Mr. Robinson bad
never hired the men and refused to
pay them. Thereupon they attacked
him and finally obtained the money.
It appears, however, that Keyes did
not strike Robinson but during tha
struggle was heard to tell the others
to give it to him. When the Benn
boys were leaving the three had a conference at the door and the former
handing something over to Keyes,
murmured some words about living up
to their-agreement.'-'The two men es-,
caped with about $80 in their possession and, having a long start of the
authorities, will probably not ' be
caught for some time.
There is evidence showing that the
robbery was previously planned and
some facts had evidently leaked out*
The Monday morning as Mr. Robinson went up on the train from Far-
well a man tried to intercept him and'
warn him of the danger but somehow
missed him. Keyes' son-in-law also
had heard of the plan but was not
present at the time of carrying it out.
Mr Robinson is badly marked but
will sustain no permanent injury.
The next term of Circuit court does
not come till June.
WISE FARMERS' CLUB.
A Splendid Meeting Held at the
Home-of W. R. Lansing.
Tuesday was an ideal day and more
than 125 people took advantage of it
and attended the farmers' club meeting at the home of Mr. - and Mrs. W.
R. Lansing, two miles east of. Clare.
The program as published in-a recent issue of the Sentinel was carried out with but a few change?, the
principal feature being the debate on
the subject, From which does the farmer, derive the greater benefit, the
agricultural department or the. agricultural press? 'On the ..affirmative
side were E. W. Allen, James Hersey,
B. Switzer and John JSorthon and trie
negative side was discussed by John
Lansing, Wm. Maxwell, A. C Stoy, J.
H. Seeley and W. J.. Jennings. This
.is a new feature in farmers' club programs and it was so highly interesting
that the afternoon rapidly sped away.
Wm. Bowen, F. Lamoreaux and E. G.
Welch acted as judges and they decided in favor of the affirmative, two
for and one against,'
AH in all it was one of the most interesting and best attended meetings
of the club and Mr. and Mrs. Lansing are to be congratulated because
of this. The next rneeeing of the club
will be held at the home of Wm.
Bowen, and-a program'will appear in
these columns in due time.
A Valentine Social.
Anv one looking for a few hints on
"How to Conduct a Valentine social"
can not do oetter than refer to a February number of Conkey's Home Journal (Chicago).        i   j^
• Notidfe'. . .<""
1 desire publlcallyXip egress.-.my
gratitude for the faithful "and; skilful
medical care of Dr. Gray duririjr'fche ill
ness.of'my wife and child' through
whose efforts they have been restored
to health. W. Eimmsbrand.
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