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Do your shopping
in the forenoon if
possible and avoid
the crowds.
Ladies' Coats and Monte Carlos
The largest assortment to be seen in the
county. Two,specials in Ladies' Monte Carlos, in castor and black, best satin
lining", very handsomely trimmed, regular 12.50, price from now Q Q5
until Xmas. • , ■
Ladies' 12.50 Gibson Jackets, coat or storm collar, in castor or
black, Skinner's satin lining, all wool kersey, in all O QP\
sizes, from now until Xmas \J -**J v-J
Ladies Skirts
Ladies'underskirts in mercerized satin r\Q     x.     q EZf\
all'the newest and popular styles from U oC  LO O.OU
Ladies' walking skirts of any description
any style, any color, all sizes, from
1.98 to 8.50
Fine Leather Goods for Christmas
Many useful and attractive articles at
popular prices, Dainty novelties in Burnt Leather in Purses and O^O
Chatelaine Bags from now until Xmas -C^\J\_*
Combination Pocketbooks and Chatelaine Bags, regular
75c value in Morocco, Alligator and Walrus, a -^Of*
specially fine line from now until Xmas \J\JKs
Real Alligator Wrist Bags, heavy plated chain, inside
coin purse, outside handkerchief pocket, very ^Of*
fine, regular 75c value, from now until Xmas
Christmas Handkerchiefs embracing everything in
Ladies' and (-rents' from regular cotton quality up to the
real all linen article, at no other store are you offered such
an immense variety nor such attractive prices.
Eine all linen embroidered and lace trimmed,  OCp
regular 20c value, from now until Xmas 2 for
Extra fine embroidered handkerchief  now only
25c
Fine line of Ways knit Mufflers at 25c and 50C   ?est thing <ever
Men's and Boys' Overcoats
Men's fine gray and black Vicunas, lined with heavy satin body lining and
sleeves in the latest popular styles, regular 18.50, our' price from - 4 C QO
now until Xmas
Boys' Overcoats from 14 to 20 years, both lengths, latest
style, best lining and trimmings, black and gray friezes,
big, warm, comfortable coats, regular 7.50, from /} AQ
now until Christmas *
Full line of Men's Ulster Overcoats in Beaver, Astrakhan, Vicunas and Friezes, in extra lengths, big storm
collars, all price from 3,50 to 15.00
Little Gents' Russian Overcoats from 3 to 8 years in
full lengths, all prices from 2 00 tO   6 OO
en's and Boys' Suits
Boys' knee pant suits, two and three piece, from 3 to 16,
not a suit in our stock but what has been marked drown
from 50c to 1.50 for Christmas closing sale.    We have the
Vestees, Blouses, Morforlk, three piece two button double
breasted and common two piece suits ••yr ± g* AA
all ready for your inspection, price from /Ov IU Q.UU
Buy now and we will deliver to you any time between now
and Christmas.   You get advantage of assortment.
Men's and youths'suits. Never was such an immense
line of novelties and seasonable styles offered to the public
before. We have a line second to none this side of Detroit.
Prices cat from now until Christmas. Pick your suit now
and have it laid away until Christmas. We guarantee
delivery'at time specified.    Suits from   3 qc   +0   j c qa
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Full line of Ladies' Fur Boas in. all the popular furs
and lengths, prices frOm;now until Christmas
98c to 8.50
Do not delay your Christmas shopping until the last minute. Call and pick
your goods out andt we will take charge of them until Christmas. You know
from past experience that the early buyers get the attention and selections.
We are prepared to Clothe and Overcoat every man in Clare and Isabella counties.
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ciaps, Neckwear,
Gloves, Mittens,
Overshoes and
everything in the
line of wearing apparel for Xmas.
ros.
Stamps given
freely with every
purchase.
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Wrist BaOS,
Glrateilans
in the newest styles  at reasonable
prices. ■ •* ■
New Belts "
and Girdles
received this week.
25c and 1.50 Each
Ladles' Gloves
Two clasp Kid in all colors
l.OO and 1.50
AU wool Golf Gloves, all colors,
25c, 45c and 50c
VNewSeries; Vol. 11 ,No. 4
Practical Gifts
Cloak Values
Ladles' 45-in, Automobile Jackets mine, ah wool
Kerseys, browng and castors, all new this season,        r-y  g\g\
former selling price 10 00, now" -*• ■""
Misses' Automobile Jackets. Heavy, au wool Ker-
seys, handsomely trimmed, castors and reds, 10.00       r-y   «n
values at *«i>w
Ladies'Monte Carlo Jackets, castor and in ~n
Black, special values at IwiWU
Ladies'27-incli Jackets, satin uaen, «*-   - ««
ular8 50value 3«2f3
Children's 60atS.     Heavy Melton, blue or      -y  rtrfc
red, braid trimmed, ?-7 inches long Gi*UUP
Law; collars
Exquisite designs in white
and ecru Venise collars
75ctol.50Each
stylisn Furs
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New line of scarfs in Fox
Beaver and other popular
fQr*        1.39 to 15.00
Fine Linen Towels, Table
Damasks, NaDkins,.Etc. Reasonably priced.
New waist Materials
Oream Brilliantine and Mohairs, Plain and Fancy
Bedford Cords, White Mercerized Vestihgs, Fancy Stripe Worsteds, Etc.   Very desirhble for holiday gifts.
l.OO to 2«50 per paUeri)
Snokloo Jackets
Made of flne, all wool plaid
back, Scotch golf cloth,
silk    cord   edges,   fancy
pockets, 5.QOto7.50
Mufflers
Fancy silk, quilted, newest
shapes, 50c tO 1,00
Way's knit mufflers, plain
and fancy stripes,
25c and 50c
Sweaters
Holiday HandKercnieis
This collection merits your attenlion. No such assortment" has ever before been offered in this city. The prices
ranKe,rom f_   fo   UQQ   g^
Winter Millinery
All tbe leading colors,
50c to 3.00 Each
Gloves and Mittens   '
Golf    Glove   in    Black,
White and Fancies ^Q
Kid and Mocha, lined and
unlined 50c to 1.75
Fur Driving-Gloves
1.00 and 1.50
NODbu fteekweaT
The   latest   shapes    and
colors in seperate boxes if
you wish     25c and 50c
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Everything in this line at
1-4 off Regular Price
Suspenders
New webs with substantial
up-to-date trimmings
25c and 50c
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Everything
to Wear.
Davy & Company
Lowest
Prices.
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Giareites in the Great West.
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Washington and its Opportunities
for ordinary Men—Land squatting Lumbering and Practical
Life.
Whatcom, Wash., Dec. 7th, 19o2.
Dear friends:—Here we are well up
in the northern part of Washington
only a few miles from the Canadian
border. In almost every direction
snow-capped mountains are visible,
but in the street people with their
shirt sleeves rolled up are hurrying off
to work. But ever and anon it rains
more or less for a number of days and
then sunshine continues its delights
again uninter upteldy for a week.
This great state presents all the
phases of a rich new country with its
principal resources just beginning to
be developed. As is usually true in
pioneer life so here in the newer portions of the country everything is not
on the square. In fact some phases of
money making impress me as being
one great steal. If you are in with
the biggest, you win; but, if you are
in the small bunch, you must move on.
Thus far we have, found land sutible
for my purpose in three localities, but
it is unsurveyed. Now, to get this
land one must squat on it—build a
cabin and live on it till it is surveyed,
and the intervening time will apply on
the time limit establishing ownership.
But one must go into such squatting
with a party of about ten. If he locates independent of such a party, the
chances are he will have a law-suit on
his hands and perhaps lose his claim.
Perhaps a man takes up land, for timber. But presently someone comes
along ahd swears it is better for farming or. minerals and with a gang of fellows, his pals, proves his contention
and thus there is endless trouble.
But in spite of these conditions,- the
opportunities are most excellent. We
expect to settle next spring on an unsurveyed tract forty miles from Castle
Rock. Its lumber runs from seven to
twelve million feet per ICO acres while
not far from it, fine iron and copper
mines are being opened up. Just now
during the winter, however, it is all a
man's life is worth to go over those/
hills to get there. But machinery is
being* moved in and a railroad is. soon,
to tap that country.
There is -work and money; here even
for a poor man.   I arrived one morn
ing at eight and went to work at noon
at forty cents per hour. In many places the conditions for mill men are
much as they were in Saginaw from
1870 to 1873; for lumbering as Clare
and vicinity was in 1871 and '72. For
carpenters there is plenty of work in
the towns, from 100 to 300 houses under
construction while in the cities large
blocks are in course of erection. A
carpenter like Aaron Northy gets
from $4 to $4.50 per day. Men like Joe
Hudson and Tom Dwyer, practical
lumberers, with a little money could
do well here. There is also a good
chance for a man with a good miU who
buys a small tract of Ian .1'and works
it over after the first cutting is taken
off. Conditions are, so to speak, in the
raw and there is plenty of opportunity .for enterprise and money-making
for the man Who looks far enough
ahead. Board per week is $3.00 and
six bitts, as they term it here.   „
Pleasant indeed it is now and again
to greet the friends of former days.
Milton Lee, my mother and I visited
our former townspeople, Mr. and Mrs.
John Post, and caught some trout in
their lake only a few rods from the
door. Mr. Post drove us to Olympia,
the capital of the state, with all its
wealth of mountain scenery. There
we met in the hotel Carlton, Joe Me-
Gee, Big Joe as he used to be called,
of Harrison. We also visited Tenino
where George Parrish of Clare form-
ely owned some large stone quarries.
Likewise we spent several days with
Otis Halstead and my son, Ray, at Seattle where both young men have excellent positions. From there we
came by boat to Whatcom where we
are located for the present. y
"Very truly yours,
H. H. Holdbrook.
After being here aw|M| gets web-
footed. I feel the veeM'^starting on
my feet now.
When I first came it was four bitts
for a bed and two bitts a meal but I
reduced it to $1.00 and noyifto 45 cents
per day by sleeping Oh strip, and boarding at a Jap soup house. Here's our
bill of fare: beef or pork steak, ham
and eggs, oysters, fish soup, mutton,
coffee, paper napkins, to.otb.pick, and
a match.
This is the pioneer salmon 'town.
There is the dog salmon, the Silas-side,-
steel-head and how many other kinds
I don't know. I caught some of a
special kind, protected here, but they
tasted like rich dog fish.
When I get located on my "claim I
wiU write you again. Meanwhile I
drift to some other place. Nearly all
the people are floating population anyway.
I would write a lot about the country but I do not wish to depopulate
Michigan.
' R. Lamb.
Astoria, Oregon, December 5, 19o2.
Friends Welch and Bennett:—I had
an understanding with Mr. Holdbrook
that he was toowrite you and I, the
other paper, but I have lost track of
him and so I thought you might be
glad to hear from this far off part of
the world.
What a lovely climate here! Talk
about weather, you Michigau. snow
diggers don't know anything about
mud and water. Here one ndeds a
pair of hip rubber boots, sailor hat
and umbrella but even then he would
get wet. But everything moves right
along just the same except the boat.
Did Not Violate Game Laws:
The trial of W. M. Cross of Clarence,
charged with shipping partridges in
butter pails to New York city, was
conducted before Justice Maynard in
this city Tuesday. In the absence of
Pro's. Att'y Cummins,. A. J. Lacy appeared for the people and John Quinn
of Harrison for the defendant. Deputy Game Warden Br.ewster and J. W*
Russell of Temple were the principal
witnesses for the prosecution and Henry Alger of this* city and W. A. Frye
of Clarence with- the defendant were
called by the defense. Mr. Cross is
the postmaster at Clarence and without acting as an agent for the express
company is in the habit of putting
articles on the train just to accomodate people. On the eighteenth of
October he put two pails of butter on
the train billed for New York city.
Those pails contained partridges.
The prosecution contended that Mr.
Cross knowingly had some part in this
transaction while the defense insisted
that Mr. Cross ha d no knowledge of
the contents of tho tubbs and that the
man who brought them there was* an
entire stranger to him, one whom he
had not, as far as he knows, seen neither before'nor since, the transaction.
In summing up the case for the "people Mr.* Lacy stated that he did not
think.thefacts warrantechthe jury in
finding the respondent guilty of himself shipping game beyond the limits
of the state but if they thought the
facts, as presented, warranted it, they
could convict'him of aiding and abbet-
ing others in shipping game beyond
the limits of the state.
After a very short deliberation the
jury returned a verdict of "not guilty.''
Farmers' Institute.
The following is the program Of the
Farmers' Round-Up Institute for
Clare and Northern Isabella to be held
at the Doherty opera house in this
city January 5th and 6th, 1903:
MONDAY FORENOON.
Conductor, Peter Voorheis, Pontiac.
10:00 Apple growing for profit*
Peter Voorheis
10:30 Discussion led by     B. W. Allen
10:45 Gravel vs. Stone Roads ahd their
care. F. F. Rogers, Port
Huron, Consulting Engineer of
Michigan Good Roads Commission.
11:30 Discussion led by J. L. Littlefield
AFTERNOON.
1:00 Question Box in charge of
F. F. Rogers
1:30 Breeds of Poultry, their uses and
care, H. B. Cannon, Rochester
2:00 Discussion led by Mrs. A. J. Clute
2:30 Soil Fertility and how to maintain it. Peter Voorheis
3:00 Discussion led by
L. H. Thompson
3:30 The Bag With Holes.
Mrs. Emma GampbeU, Ypsilanti
4:00 Discussion led by   P. M. Loomis
EVENING.
7:00 Music and local program.    - ~
7:30 The Early Training of Children
Com'r A. H. Aldrich
8:00 Our Country Schools
Mrs. Emma A. Campbell
8:30 What the Agricultural College
Does for the Farmer.
H. *B. Cannon
TUESDAY FORENOON.
10:00 Sheep Breeding and Wool Growing. Peter Voorheis
10:30 Discussion led by C. W. Perry .
and R. B. Campbell.
10:45 Every Day Dairying for Every
Day Farmers;     H. B. Cannon
11:30 Business meeting of County Institute Society.    Election of
officers for the ensuing year,
. etc.
AFTERNOON.
1:00 Question Box, in charge of
Peter Voorheis
1:15 Points for Potato Planters.
H. B. Cannon
2:00 Discussion led by James Hersey
2:30 Breeding    and  .Feeding   Beef
Animals. Peter Voorheis.
3:00 Discussion led by
C. H. Sutherland
3:30 Local paper, The Horse for Out
..Present Needs.    W. S. Cooley
4:00 Discussion led by
James McGinnis
Closing remarks and adjournment.
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