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"THE- PEOPLE'S PAPER,
THE GLARE
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CLARE,  MICHIGAN,  THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 18, 1904.
NewSfyrieB: Vol.lSiJSo, 39.
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Ladies Egytian
Ribbed Vests.
10c quality 8c; each, 2 for 10c, 4for 25o
.15c quality 10c each, 3 for .. 25c
25c quality 15o each, 2 for 25c
. Special.
One lot of Pink and Blue Vests, fine
Liele finish, regular 25c quality, only
10c,* 3 for 25c
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Lawns and Batise
All 74c, 10c and 12c Lawns to close
out at 44c. per yard..
Silks
Special value in 36 inch Black Peau
de Soie only 98c.
Dress Goods
.New Fall Goods, arriving daily.
Bright new patterns at extremely low
prices.
SHOES
Ladies1 Genuine Patent Colt Shoes,
regular 2,60 quality* only 1.95.
Picnic Shoes
Three Styles, light soles with high
heel, heavy sole with military heel
and light sole with regular heel.
Regular 2.50 quality, only 1.95.
American Lady
Genuine Patent sVici Shoes,   high
heel, very nobby, only 2.95.
Oxfords
All Oxfords at reduced prices.   75c,
1.00 and 1.25.
Infant's Shoes
Infant's 50c Soft Sole Shoes,
few left to close at 25c.
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Money Refunded on All Unsatisfactory Purchases.
W. H. BICKNELL & CO.
COSTS $2,500 FOR TUITION
Fifty Students in Clare Pay
this Amount to a Correspondence School.
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Lessons to Young People to Study
in the High School While
They have a.Chance.
Np less than fifty people in Clare are
enrolled in the International Correspondence School. The tuition paid
varies from $10 up to $120, or at least
an average of $50 for each student,
which means that about $2,500 is being spent by Clare people for tuition.
If to this there be added postage for
sending lessons to the headquarters of
the institution at Scran ton, Pa.j cost
of paper, etc., it becomes evident that
over $3,000 is being spent in the effort
of these fifty to get an education.
The results seem to be satisfactory
to students as one man well along in
life has just taken out a second coarse.
Much of the work is for special courses
irf industry, business education and
the. professions as engineering and
architecture, but many a student is
now digging out with only the instruction that can be given by letter
to aid him, the very things that but a
few years ago he left school because he
' deemed them not practical enough for
him to study.
"Well, it has come true, just as you
said. Now I wish I had stuck to that
Algebra and I'm going to do the
next best thing, take a course in the
correspondence school"
Such were the words "of a Clare
young man only last Saturday to a
former teacher of his in the city high
v school. But in spite of these pointed
lessons, young people, against the will
of their parents, arfr dropping out of
the high school and even away down
to the sixth grade because they think
they have learned all it will ever be of
useforfchemto know. Report is to
the effect that a number of such' boys
a,re even now planning not to go back
to school this year but. to go to earn*
ing money. Only this week a Clare
school boy presented money to. the
representative of the correspondence
sehool for a course but was refused on
the ground that his place is in the
ptsbliQcchCQ],   Another boy wanted
to take a course for which his present education does not fit him to
enter and he was refused. Some of
those studying at home the very sub-
jects-they deserted but a few years
ago, now have tbe same difficulties
they had then but with added years
have more will power and realizing
the necessity, work evenings even
though it was formerly an unbearable
burden to work the few hours in
school under the most favorable circumstances.
During the last six years only nine
boys have graduated from the city
high school and of these only five
were from the city proper. At the
end of the school year in June less
than fifty, including several non-resident pupils, were in attendance at the
city high school. 'Tisasad reflection
that with three teachers in the high
school, good library, good aboratory
for physics, chemistry, botany and
zoology, free to our young people, the
Clare high school still enro Is a less
number than a correspondence* school
whose tuition amounvs i o nearly ha f
the sum raised by direct; taxa-ion in
the Clare district for the support, of
the entire public'schoOls.
It is well that, the correspondence
school is doing such a good work
amon.! those who no>v have to earn
their bread by daily labor. For t hem
to study evenings and odd times can
but be uplifting to i he life of the community and manifold would be the
blessing if many more could be induced to give up the street corner and
cigarette and spend their spare time
in study.
The facts are such as to raise a serious question for consideration. Here
is a community with $26,000 invested
in school property annually raising by
taxation $6,000 besides $1,500 in primary money, some of which comes indirectly from the community, for the
support of her pubiJc schools. But for
all that nearly $3,fci)0 is sent out of
the community by people, who stay
right at home, that they.may bui.d up
their education. Is the modern high
school impractical? If not, then is
the Clare high school lacking? If
neither of these, then is the Clare,
public, especially the young people,
radically wrong in their notion of education received at the high school?
One or more of these propositions
must hr part be true aqd it would
seem that something ought to be de
vised by which more of our   young
people should avail themselves of the
free blessing of high school educatlonl
"There is no royal road to learning.''
Prisoner Made His Escape.
(Farwell Correspondent.)
Our "Village Marshal arrested Henry
Ferris on Friday last who was wanted
at Grand Ledge on the charge of disposing of some furniture that was not
paid for. The Deputy Sheriff came
after his man on Saturday and took
him over to the A. A. depot to take
the 2:30 .train south. He left Ferris
sitting out in front with the marshal
and a boy and went i'n-0to buy .their
tickets, when all at once Ferris disappeared and has not been caught as
yer, although he was seen by some
boys hiking it for the swamp south of
the P. M. depot. Ed. Canfield, our
Marshal, claimed that the prisoner
was not left in his charge and was not
watching him. Ferris s< ayed all night
at his brother-in-law's in'Gilmore and
told him he was going to Grand Ledge
but not in charge of an officer.
Soldiers' Reunion at Harrison,
For the soldiers' reunion at the
county seat next week from Monday
to Thursday, August 22-25, ample provision has been made to provide e n-
tertainment for the numerous visitors.
With Harrison's salubrious air, beautiful lake, and Sne park special ad vantages, are offered. Ball games, racing
and other sports are on the program.
Hon. Fred M. Warner, republican candidate for governor, and othpr distinguished gentlemen are announced
to be present/ Special rates on railroads.
Stevenson Lake Grange Rally.
The annual grange rally for Clare
and Isabella counties will be held at
Duncan's landing next Wednesday,
August 24th. Mrs. F. C. Sanders,
lecturer of the state grange, and J. D.
Studley of Midland will give addresses
and local talent will also contribute to
the success of the occasion. A large
gathering of Grangers and their
friends is expected to be present.
See our large list of real estate bargains if you contemplate  buying
Welch & Bennstt'f %t.
'•DAVY & COMPANY-
Everything to, Wear.
Lowest Prices,
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Hew Fall Styles in Street Hats.
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An early shipment of Eeady to Wear Hats for Ladies and Misses came in
this weeki, We have no place to display them and have marked them at especially low figures to close them out at once.
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Shirt Waist Suiting.
SPECIAL VALUE.
I Popular Blue and Brown Mixtures, handsome designs  regu-
I lar 85c value, our special price per yard
Fancy Mohairs for
Shirt Waist Suits.
Every popular color combination in an extra quality,  38       JST/^#%"
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New fall styles in Ladies' and Misses' Suits, Tourish Coats, Skirts Etc.
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POPULATION OF GLARE
AND ISABELLA COUNTIES,
Clare's Increase 829, Isabella's   1,222 Since   1900
Census.
Michigan's Total Number 2,530,-
016, an Increase of 109,034.
The following figurers compjled
from the June census relative to Clare
and| Isabella counties and the state
of Michigan will be of interest to our
readers.
CLARE.
Township Population
Arthur..., /  708
Franklin  75
Frost  255
Garfield .!.. .......   .... 420
Grant ... 891
Greenwood  —  501
Hamilton...*..  .... 397
Hatton  363
Hayes ?,k.  180
Lincoln.;......".'.  351
Redding  . 639
Sheridan .  928
SummerQeld "'.  207
Surrey, including 542 in Farwell 960
Winterfield  348
OlareCity:  1,413
Harrison City :  '   547
Total..!    9,189
ISABELLA.
Township Population ■
11)00 M04
Vernon  1,363 1,336
Wise    1,166 1,069
Coldwater      '907 966
Gilmore         787 747
Isabella '    1,673 1,618
Mt. Pleasant City. . .   3,662 4,484
Total for county 22,784 24,006
Increase... ..... 1,222
In 1900 the population of Michigan
was 2,420,982; in 1904 it is 2,530,016, an
increase of 109,034.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Courier, is herewith permitted to use
any of the above information, even if
its editor does growl, as on the publication of the figures for Clare a few
weeks ago, because he had to copy
them from the Sentinel.
Forty acres of land near Glare to be
sold at a bargain If bought soon.—
Wblch & Bestkext.
Fanny Henderson-Montney.
After an illness of several months
from stomabh complications Mrs. Levi
Montney died ab her home in east
Grant Sunday at the age of fifty-three.
The funeral took place from the home
Wednesday. Rev. A. L. Woodlock
preaching the sermon and interment
was made at Cherry Grove.
Fanny Henderson-Mont ney.was born
in St. Clair county in 1851. There her
early life was spent and there too she
was joined in marriage to Levi Montney. Twenty-five years ago they
moved to Clare county and these
many years have resided on the old
homestead northeast of Clare. Two
daughters and three sons came to bless
the home, Lizzie, Carrie, Clayton,
Floyd and Ray, all of whom still make
the old homstead their home and now
with the husband and father mourn
the death o£ one true to the best of
home! Three brothers in St. Clair
county also survive. For many years
deceased was troub'ed with digestive
difficulty and since last March was in
a critical condition, but was patient
through all.
The inany who followed (he remains
to the" last resting place attested the
respect in which deceased was held in
the'community.
Better Than Watered Oil Stock
The Clare Furnace Company has
been organized at Clare, with a capital
stock of $15,000. The.purpose of the
institution is to manufacture the
Wells furnace, and carry on a general
machine and foundry business. Mt.
Pleasant could just as well have had
this new industry as to have let it go
to Clare The CotrBiEit'made known
through its columns more than a year
ago, that Messrs. Weils & Son of
Ithaca, were seeking a new location, a
point which would give them better
shipping facilities, and consequently
broadening of their business. Mt.
P.easant has been a trifle s'eepy for
the past few years, putting too much
confidence in oil and mining stocks.
Clare didn't invest in either, and has
put her., money into an enterprise
which will help build up the city and
will pay dividends on the money invested to the individuals who sub
scribed. It's time someone tickled
Mt. Pleasant's ear with a straw.—Mt.
Pleasant Courier*
Echoes of that Qi! Graze.
Clare and Northern Isabella people
may well congratulate themselves
that they didn't buy any Kentucky
oil stock in the proposed "Clarebella"
company last fall. One company was
organized with Mt. Pleasant people as
the principal investors while other
people not far away invested in the
company that was, if Clare took it up,
intended to be called the "Otarebeila,"
and both companies spent more or less
money in Xentu'cky exploring for rich
oil fields that were never found. Visions of wealth have vanished. The
following from the Mt. Pleasant Courier explains Itself:
B. A. I-Iight of the firm of Reigle &
Hight is the only oil investor in the
city to receive a dividend on his stock.
He owns stock in the National Oil
Company of Lima, Ohio, and last week
received a check for his July dividend
which amounted nine cents. As it
would cost ten cents to have the
check cashed, he has decided to keep
and fiame it.
The firs' company organized in Mr.
Pleasant was named the Star .Oil
Company. Various disputes have
arisen as to promises made to those
who purchased stock therein. Those
who bought c'aim that special promises were made while those who sold
the stock contend they distinctly stated that it was a speculation pure and
simple—if everything proved fovorable
it would be a rich haul, if unfavorable,
the money put in would be lost. At
least a law' suit has resulted. The
Star Oil Company brought suit against
some of its stockholders to compel
them i o pay money alleged to be due.
A demur was en; ereel by the defen-
dents and the question was argued before Judge Weist at the court house
at Mt P.easant last week. The case
involves quite a number of Isabella's
county seat's most prominent people.
'Tis the same old lesson repeated
again. Those get-rich quick schemes
are usually mighty poor investments.
A Card.
For the kindly sympathy of friends
and neighbors in tbe hour of bereavement we desire to express our heartfelt thanks, also for floral offerings t>y
tueL. O. T. M., DaVy & Co. clerks
and favors from tire Congregational
choir.      Levi Motney and family.
Several hundred old papers for sale
at tlita office, 25c per hundred.      fcf
Farwell Justice Court Gases.
Sheriff Updegraff arrested James
Taegat north of Cadillac last week
and he was arraigned before Justice
Wait at Farwell. Monday, charged
with non-support of his family. His
hearing was set for September 5th aud
he was released on his own recognisance.
Under Sheriff Welch arrested Willis
Dunlopof Farwell in Clare Monday
and took him to Farwell where he was
arraigned before Justice Wait,
charged with non-suppbrfi. He was
released on $100 bail and his hearing
set for September 5th.
A warrant served on Samuel Leonard at Farwell Monday charges him
with violation of the liquor, laws.
Justice Wait set his hearing for September 5th and he was released on
two securities of $300 each.
'Phones of Use to Farmers.
Armstrong Allen's home, northeast
of Dover, caught fire yesterday .from a
defective stove pipe, As soon ,as discovered the telephone was called into
use and a number of neighbors," making ready response, were quickly on
the scene. • A bucket brigade was organized and the fire extinguished with
only $15 worth of damage done to a
bedroom and its contents.
The "Knigbt Commander" which
was sent to the bottom of the sea by
Russian guns contained a large quah'-
tlty of bromide from'the Dow plaDt
which was sold to a Philadelphia firm
and by them sold to tUe purchasing
agent of a Japanfse drug house, so
that Russia will probably, have. Dow
bromide as one of the items in its bill
for tbe fun of sinking the ship. This
product, is probably not "contraband
of war." There should be satisfaction
in paying for the best'of the kind that
is'made, for that 1s what the Dow
company now has the reputation ot
making.—Northwestern Tribune.
The drain commissioner lathe most
important personage in the. county
this year..
Thoroughbred Hampshire down
registered ram far sale—IS. F. Wilson, Harrison, Mich. 39.4.
Span 5-year old (hiving-horses tor
sale—James Q'CoNtfoti, Lewss Hourte,
Harrison, Micb. 39-tf.
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