Grand 1-4 off sale, commencing Saturday, on all Plush Goods and Albums at TRAVIS & BAKER'S Corner Drug Store. The Clinton Independent. VOL. XXV—NO. 14. ST. JOHNS, MICH., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1891. WHOLE NO. 1263.
The Sick. * V' '-ii ^ V ^ —We went to press last evening amid —An adopted son of Thomas Gillson The Obaervatice of Chrlatuiaa. We Keep With the|Market. Espeox a bountiful rain-fall, much needed. Opher Esler is down with the fever. ally on Sugar. died at his home in this village, Tuesday Christmas was observed throughout Miss Hattie Brainard is slowlv recovering. To Our Readers and all Others. —Barr Dexter, of Eureka, has been night lust, of fsver. the Christian world, on Thursday last, Sugars have been going down steadily Harold Chapin shows signs of improvement. for some time and yet some advertise granted an original pension. —i‘xse annual meeting of the St. with hut little cliauge in the manner of A. D. Lsnce is sick at his home In this village, and sell at the same old prices. Call with fever. When offered what la styled “Bargains," for —J. II. Gillett has disposed of hiscon- Johns fire department, for the election its observance from that which has pre and see our New Orleans Sugar. 2(I Home, State, National or Foreign Papers or vailed for the last century, with the Miss Edith Washburn, who has been very pounds for $1. fectionery stock and fixtures to Louis of officers, occurs Saturday evening, low with fever, Is recovering. Magazines, do not place your order uutll you St. John ’s Merchantilk Co . Vaucousant. January 3. possible exception that in the United Howard Fitzgerald, of the State Bank, is have first »e< n me. You will always be satis States there has been less excess in Re-openedr fied by heeding this request. —The Clinton county Congress will —Letters Advertised Dec. 31: George oonHded to his home with fever. drinking and more attention given to Wm. Pinkney, of this village, who has been I have re-onened the meat market Respectfully, convene next Monday for the regular Frank, James Leckenbys, Miss Carrie first south of Lelaud's grocery and shall GEO. S. CORBIT, church service, especially in the way of sick with typhoid malarial fever, two weeks or January session. Ixmgen, Chas. Obuly, John T. Porter, more, Is somewhat better. keep for sale a complete line of choice Independent office, over Wheat Bros. ’ Cloth a more elaborate service of song. From G. F. Smith, Bailey Taylor. David P. Wilcox, of this village, who has been fresli and salt meats and poultry, at ing Store. —The parties imprisoned here on sus many of the large cities and smaller prices which will please purchasers. I HTAnVxtra first-class pa|>er will be given picion of robbing the railroad ticket —The Republican State cenvention for dangerously ill with kidney trouble and pneu- solicit your patronage. teevery new yearly subscriber. towns come the report that the churches monia.ls a very little better. office, at tiiis station, were released for the nomination of Justice of the Su were richly and tastefully trimmed with J. II. McCloud . want of identity. Goon llye, and Good Morning. preme Court and Regents of the Uni evergreens and dowers ; that the music Gold and Silver heaif Canes HOME MATTERS. —Chas. Dutton has not sdid his “Can versity lias been calted for February 24, was of the highest order, and that the The journey of our lives is marked by At Allison ’s. dy Kitchen” business, as lias been ero- 1891. and will he held at Jackson. religious side of the church's greatest years, and having passed another mile Livery and Feed Barn. Brevities. neouslp reported. He still holds forth — Notwithstanding ttie fact that J. T. festival gave pleasure to many worship stone. marked A. D., 1890, we greet the I am in every way prepared to furnish —Now write it 1891. at the old stand. Cole & Co. had a large trade from their ers, while great prominence was given dawn of the New Year, 1891. From first-class livery, single and double, for its infancy, 1866, and from its boyhood, pleasure and business, and especial use —As the days lengthen the cold —Recollect that the ladies’ library as handsome stock and fine display, they to the day in almost every household of of commercial men, at reasonable rates. strengthens. sociation will give a dancing and card are always ready to meet and satisfy the land as the children's Christinas, 1876, The Clinton Independent has My public Feed Stables in Connection, —We wish you a happy and prosper party in the library room New Year’s any demands for goods in their line. and the little ones made happy, as little kept on passing these annual mile-stones are roomy, safe and pleasant, and always night. All are cordially invited. Ad and extending its New Year’s greetings supplied with clean and well cured feed. ous New Year. —The contract for building a brick one ’s should he, each recurring season. Charges low and regular to everybody. mission, 50 cents. The aged and infirm, who were unable to its friends and patrons, and renews —A new time table of the D. G. II. & school-house in district No. 3, Essex, them to-day honestly and heartily. May Give me a trial. J. II. Fitts. —Since the new marriage license law has to provide for themselves, were provided Corner of State and Brush streets M. R. K. appeal's in this issue. been awarded to the St. Johns you all live long, live happy and prosper. went into effect, in August, 1887. 750 Manufacturing Co., the hid being $1,040, for by thoughtful friends, and the —See grandpa's Lancers danced at prison houses, whose inmates have not M*rmitl»de Jar* permits have been issue in Clinton Co., according to the plans and specifica At Allison ’s. Newton hall, by the children, to-morrow only darkened their own doors, hut BUSINESS LOCALS evening. 505 of which have been issned by the re tions. tiring County Clerk, Wm. A. Able. —Merchants who have on hand 2*50 have thrown a shadow over the lives of The 3d Annual Inventory Sale by For the best hand-made Cream —Sealed proposals are invited for the innocent relatives and dependents, were The Mercantile Co. Candies for the Holidays, Graham's is erection and completion of a brick clad —We learn that James Anderson and pounds or more of tobacco in unbroken will take place during the month of the place. ’ 1260w4 family, of Ovid, will soon remove to stamped packages on January 1, 1891, not forgotten, nor were the graves of January. They must close out their school-house in district No. 1, Ovid. Marble Clocks Detroit for a permanent residence. Mr. will be entitled to a rebate of two cents loved ones wanting in emblems of joy, Winter goods to make room for Spring, At Allison ’s. —Little Buttercup, Baby Ruth, Poor Anderson was formerly connected with per pound. They will he required to memories of endearing affections of and wish to do so before their inventory, Shiney Eyes, Betty, the maid, and their February 1. Now is the time for bar the carriage works in that village. take an inventory January 1st, in the surviving friends. gains. They are in a position to save Farmers’ Mutual Annual Meeting. 42 cousins, visit grandpa and grandma Their removal will create a vacancy in presence of two disinterested witnesses, In St. Johns, the public offices were you some money. The regular annual meeting of the at Newton hall, January 2. closed the whole of the day, and some of Fanners' Mutual Fire Insurance Co., business and social circles, which will who must count each package, enter it Notice. of Clinton county, for the election of —When you hear of a woman out be hard to fill. upon tally sheets, sign the sheets and the business places a part of the day, Notice is hereby given that the annu officers, will he held at the Fireman’s and a goodly number of the private stripping another, you are naturally in —J. W. Ililliker has re-fitted and re leave them with the merchant. The al meeting of the shareholders of the St. hall in ijt. Johns, on Tuesday, January houses wreathed with evergreens and 13. 1262w2 Frank Conn , Sec’y. doubt as to whether it was a contest in a opened the old restaurant, formerly con witnesses cannot be clerks in the store Johns Building and Loan Association cigar factory or at the masquerade ball holly and blooming Christmas plants, will be held at the office of the Associ ducted by Mr. Griswold, in the base or claimants for tobacco tax rebate. ation, over Wilson & Son ’s store, on For ChrlHtina* Candle*, last night. ment under Sullivan's store, where lie Broken packages cannot he counted. and were opened for family dinners, re Monday evening, January 5.1891, at 7:30 Oranges, Dates, Figs, Grapes and Nuts —Clark & Hulse of this village, have There is no rebate for less than 250 unions and exchange of kindly remem o'clock, for the election of three direc of all kinds, go to Graham’s, where you is prepared to feed the hungry upon the tors for three years, and one director for will get the best and the freshest. purchased the clothing stock of John European plan, with palateable viands, pounds. Every merchant in the count brances. There were no accidents re ported, no noticeable drunkenness, and two years, and for such other business Bryson, in Ovid. “ Al.” Lambie, who at small expense. Look out for his ad. ies of Ingham. Clinton,Gratiot, Jackson as may come before the meeting. Go to E. T. Sumner & Son's for rur- has become a partner, will manage the in these columns, next week. or Calhoun who is entitled to the rebate, the day wore the aspect more of Sunday F. M Spaulding , Sec’y. niture, picture frames and mouldings. Ovid store. and fails to receive the proper blanks, than a Christmas holiday. Tiiis was Repairing a specialty. 1199 —Among the many desirable Christ the more intelligent and national ob Handkerchiefs and Mufflers. —The cantata, tine costuming, pretty mas presents made last week, were two should apply to Otis Fuller, deputy col- Latest styles, At John H icks '. Large line of Silverware tableaux and sweet singing by 46 chil lecter, of internal revenue, in St. Johns. servance of the day, and more condu- At Allison ’s. handsome instruments from S. A. Sturg sive to the happiness and weilfare of dren, at Newton hall, to-morrow eve is, agent, in this village. One a $300 Money to Loan on Farm Lands. Hanasome Goods Cheap. ning,conducted by Madame Theo. Price. PERSONAL. the people. Interest seven (7) per cent payable Book-cases. Willow Rockers, Side Henning piano to Jacob Bare of Ovid annually. No commissions charged. boards, Wall Pockets, and the largest Reserved seats at Tripp ’s for five cents. township, for his daughter. The other, Miss Pearl Joslen Is visiting In Suranac- Death ot a Well Known Citizen. Enquire of L. G rant , and handsomest line of Mouldings to be 1263-tf. St. Johns, Mich. —The Grand Ledge Independent of a $150 Storey & Clark organ to James Fred Kennedy, of Lansing, is visiting at O. The death-roll of last week numbered found in this market. II. W. Morris . last week, says that John Adams, a 14- Travis, of Bengal township, fora daugh L. Vreeland's. among its victims, Otis Smith, of St. Oil-cloths Farmers, years-old lad near St. Johns, had one of ter. Each proved to he a great and no Chas. Heth and family removed to Grand Johns. His illness was of short dura- Good goods, largest stock, lowest when you are in town and liungrv. go to prices, At John H icks ’. his index fingers nearly clipped off in less pleasant surprise. Rapids to-day. ation, and tiie end came on Christmas the “old reliable” Lunch Rooms of his uncle Edmund Russell's saw-mill. —For some time The Detroit News Leonard Akin, of the Elgin, (III,,) watch eve. He was in his 73d year. A wife The Annual Meeting Graham's. 1260w4 works, is here visiting his parents. of the Clinton County Agricultural So —Those who have received our premi has been hinting that it had a surprise and two children—sou and daughter — Fresh Home-made Candles. in store for its readers. Now the an Mart Hubbard who has Iteen sick at his home ciety, for the election of officers, will be The freshest and purest homemade um—the American Fanner, are well for some time past, has been released. survive. held, at the court house, St. Johns, on nouncement has been made that they The deceased was horn in Washing candies, put up in fancy pound boxes, pleased with it. All new subscribers Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brunson were in Detroit Saturday, January 10,1891. at reasonable prices at the Candy will publish a beautiful and useful Chas . H. Palmer , Sec’y. will receive it, and all old ones may re Christmas day and the balance of the week. ton county, N. Y., September 18, 1818, Kitchen. Charles D utton . magazine every three months, and pre ceive it by paying up arrearages and one E. P. Waldron has been up north this week and came to Michigan with his family 28 cents. year in advance. sent it free to every one of their regular looking after the Mercantile Co.'s wholesale in 1863, first settling in Kalamazoo The greatest bargain of the season in If you want Views, Stamp-photos, or subscribers. The magazine will be trade. county, where they remained until 1866, Red Flannels will he found at 28 cents a enlarging in Crayon. Water Colors or —Many years practice has given C. A. called “The Quarterly Register of Cur yard. Ask to see it India ink, go to the West Side Gallery, Snow & Co., Patent Solicitors, Washing Mrs. L. Bilb}' and daughter, of Fenton, spent when they removed to this (Clinton) St. Johns. Satisfaction guaranteed. rent History, ’’and will contain a history Christinas week with Secretary R. M. Winston At John H icks ’. ton, D. C., unsurpassed success in ob county, and settled on a farm in Bing of the whole world with beautiful illus and family. Percheron Colts for Sale. Farmers, Take Notice. taining patents. They have secured ham township, two miles south-west of trations. The first issue will appear J. E. Frlsbie and wife, of Davisburg, are vis Five Percheron colts, ranging from 4 Go to the St. Johns foundry and ma many this village, where they had a contin chine shop for agricultural implements. patents on inventions that have during the month of February. Full iting his brother. Postmaster J. M., and friends months to 3 years old. Inquire of lieen rejected in the hands of others. about St. JohiiB. uance residence until 1882, when they 1263tf Wm. Bird , Duplain, Mich. All kinds of machine repairing prompt particulars about this new enterprise removed to St. Johns, and settled on ly attended to. tf Cross & \V eli.ek . See their ad. in another column. James McPherson, of Atchison, Kansas, is Great Closing out Sale. can he found in The Evening News. visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. McPher the comer of Wight and Baldwin streets, —Reynolds & Gardner, proprietors of We will send this new and valuable To reduce our immense stock of I)rv Cloaks and Jackets for all, just re son, in this village. where he resided until death removed Goods &c. &c. before taking inventory, ceived at Kendrick’s. Our line this the new Terrapin lunch rooms and bak publication to every new subscriber and Capt. Adam Beattie and family will soon him to his eternal home. for the next 60 days, we shall offer all season attractive and sure to please you. ery, at the head of Clinton avenue, east every old one who pays arrearages and leave Ovla to spend the balance of the winter The funeral was held at the family goods in our line at such prices that cau We are handling the same quality of side, have secured the services of Guy one year in advance. in the “sunny South." residence, Friday afternoon. The ser not fail to he appreciated by the closest Plush Goods that we did last year, North, a complete master of the mixing- Geo. A. Steel leaves Saturday morning to buyers. which is a guarantee as to quality, as —As may he seen by reference to vices were conducted by Rev. C. G. ft is a well-known fact that we have not a complaint was made against it hoard and oven. A trial of his produc notice elsewhere in this issue, the law Join his father in Portland, Oregon. He will visit California on his return trip. Thomas, of the M. E. church, and Rev. by far the largest and most complete last year. Buy the Walker plushes and. tions will convince you of his ability to firm of Fedewa & Lyon has been dis G. S. Northrup, of the Baptist church, stock of I>ry Woods and Carpets in this be sure of a good garment. Ever)’ gar please. solved by limitation and mutual consent. Dr. J. F. McPherson, of the Emergency hos part of Michigan. Special attention is ment branded. pital. Detroit, made a Hying visit to friends and the iuterment was in St. Johns called to our Underwear, Flannels, Car Respectfully, —Willis McLouth, who resides one- Mr. Fedewa will associate with him in here and in Fowler, last Friday and Saturday. cemetery. pets, Blankets and other winter goods. If. L. Kendrick . half mile west and one-half mile north the practice of law, Charles M. Merrill, Miss Maggie Pctsch, a student in the Detroit Just 22 years previous to the death of Thanking you for the most liberal pat of the Simmons ’ school-house, in Riley, ex-prosecuting attorney, under the firm ronage we have been favored with, and The latest thing out in ladies’ Union Conservatory of Music, is spending the holiday Mr. Smith, and within two hours of the Under Suits, just received, at Ken will sell at auction, on Tuesday, Janu name and style of Fedewa & Merrill, vacation with her mother and friends, in this trusting by honest and upright dealings same time ot day, his mother died at his to I'etain your confidence for time to drick’s. Also a full line of Ladies. ary 6, 1891, commencing at 10 a. m., over Travis & Baker's comer dnig store. village. t house. come, we are Respectfully. Gent's and Children's Underwear. horses, colts, cows, swine, wagons, har Mr. Lyon will occupy the office alone George Stevens, of Mt. Pleasant, and R. H. John IIicks . ness. sleighs, platform scales, farming over Kendrick's dry goods store, and Hupp, of South Bend, Ind., spent a portion of Santa Claus In Ovid. Merit Wins. the holiday week at the home of Miss Deal 30 Acres of Land This fact is fairly illustrated by the implements, fodder, etc. formerly occupied by II. & II. E. Wal- Stephens, in this village. E. B. Voorhees, a representative citi in Bingham township, for sale or ex large business which O. G. Plunkett, the —The Independent extends to its hridge. The old firm will complete the Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Waldron gave a family zen and business man of our sister vil change for village property in St. Johns. new photographer in the West Side Gal business already been commenced by dinner in their new home, on Christmas day, lage, Ovid, is there engaged in the fur Inquire of L. K. Patterson, opposite the lery, St. Johns, is receiving. patrons, friends and honorable contem county jail, east. 1263w4* poraries the compliments of the season them, and will prosecute some other and the good Uttle housewife did herself niture, music and undertaking business. Water. cases in view. The new firm will enjoy proud in presiding over it. For several years it has been his prac 184-7 Rogers Bro.'s —wishes them health, wealth and hap Samuel Lamb, of Oakland county, has been To our customers who desire a first- piness at the close of the old and the a large and* well established business tice to thoroughly advertise the fact that Knives, Forks and Spoons class job of Plumbing can have the same through their long residence and their spending a few days with his brother, Charles on Christmas eve a real Santa Claus, At Allison ’s. done without any trouble, by applying present new year, together with the E., so pleasantly located on one of the prettiest to us. as we will do excavating, tap main, other comforts, conveniences and bless extensive acquaintance in the county little farms adjoining our bcautfu! village on clad in furs and bearing a hack-load of Farm to Rent. etc. We keep on hand a good supply of ings that are the rewards of a well-spent Both have served the people of the west. presents, would arrive on the atferncon Well improved and well located; 120 water woods. Fowler & Ball . acres. Inquire at The Independent life. this county as public prosecutors. Mr. Baby Ruth Pierce whs the happy lecipient of train and walk straight-way to his store, Lyon enjoys the distinction of being a brilliantly illuminated and well freighted otlice, St. Johns. 1202tf Butter and Eggs —Through the assistance of Thomas where he would lie quartered near one Wanted in any quantity by, prominent among the best read young Christmas tree, by her auntie, Mrs. G. 8. Corblt. of the large show windows, and sur Carving Sets and Oyster Forks Bromley, agent at this station, Secretary The little appreciative soul danced and sang II. L. Kendrick . lawyers in Clinton county. He is a At Allison ’s. Winston has been presented with 130 merrily to her " Tistnas tee.” rounded by bewitching toys for the lit close student and hard worker, and tle folks, and handsome and valuable Kendrick’s Grocery List. new and handsome maps by the Union Will DeWitt, of Hammond, Ind., where he is Prompt Payments 15 lbs. Granulated Sugar, extra fine,...... If 00 seems determined to rank high in his presents for the older ones. Here sing Pacific and the Chicago and Quincy engaged In the Jewelry business, is spending Mr. (J. G. Kelso, Stalt Ayent Union Cen 16 lbs. A Sugar, ...... i 0© chosen profession. Gentlemen, we 17 lbs. White C Sircar,...... 1 00 Railroad Companies. These will be a vacation with his parents in this village. Oil ing and playing on musical instruments tral Life Insurance Co.', Detroit, Mich. wish you a happy New Year and a his arrival at his home, Saturday evening, a was freely indulged in, until the space 10 lb*. Light Yello v Sugar, ...... I 00 distributed among the schools in this D ear Sir : l have this day received prosperous and happy future. liberal number of his young friends gave him in front of his store was packed and through your special agent, Mr. F. E. 4 lb*. Best Klee...... 25 country, and will he the means of fur —Otis Fuller, of St. Johns, Mich, a hearty welcome. Bowen, and your local agent. Mr. L. 4 lbs. Best Soda ...... 25 nishing a great deal of new and valu crowded with people to the center of the 4 lbs. Best Starch,...... 25 deputy collector of internal revenue for street. Such a throng of people has not Grant, of St. Johns, $1,000. The same able information. This may be obtained SOCIETY ANNOUNCEMENTS. being paymefit in full of policy No. 4 lbs. Beet Crackers...... 25 this division, desires the name and ad been witnessed in Ovid since the demo 1 lb. Good Fine Cut Tobacco, a bargain,... 28 by calling upon Mr. Winston, at his 57,976, earned by my late husband. John dress of every person in the counties of cratic mass meeting. D. Craig, in the Union Central Life Co., 1 lb. Good Fine Cut Tobacco ...... 35 office, any Saturday. Charles E. Grisson Corps will have installa Gratiot, Clinton, Ingham, Jackson and tlon at O. A. R, hall, Saturday evening, Janu Mr. Voorhees, through the liberal use of Cincinnati, Ohio, which was thank This last we will guarantee to lie as —In the discussion of the decission of ary 3. fully received. I can hut speak in the good as any at 46’ or more in town. Calhoun, who will produce over 500 of printers' ink, pleasing manners, and highest terms of your company, and of All other in the grocery line in same the question whether natural gas im pounds of maple sugar the coming Bengal U. B. mite society will meet with Mrs. squareness in all business transactions, the kindness of your local agent, Mr proportion. ported into Buflalo from Canada is A. W. skinner, Wednesday, January 7. Bring has built up a trade in his various lines, L. Grant, and heartily recommend your II. L. Kendrick . season, and wiio will apply for the your thimbles. liable to duty under the tariff law, As bounty under the conditions imposed which would be pleasing to any dealer company to all wishing insurance. sistant Secretary of the Treasury Spauld Every member of the Epworth League, is Yours. Very Respectfully, The Largest Stock Under an act of congress of October 1st, requested to be present at the annual business in the larger cities. We rejoice with his Mrs. Sarah D. Craig. Of Floor Oil Cloths in St. Joh.is, is at ing, says: ’’Illuminating gas is a mer 1890. a bounty of H cents per pound is many friends over his prosperity, and we Dated, St. Johns, Mich., Dec. 19,1890. Kendrick’s. A good quality for only 30 chantable commodity, which can he meeting for the election of officers next Fri cents per yard. offered on sugar testing 80 to 90 degrees day evening, Jan. 2. at the M. E. church likewise rejoice with the business peo Notice to Shareholder*. measured as readily as liquids and other by the polariscope, and 2 cents upon ple of that village because they have a gases, and that it would he liable to —All members are requested to be present The regular annual meeting of the ^TATE BANK OF aT. JOHNS. sugar testing 90 degrees or over. Ordi at the Junior League meeting, at 3 o'clock next man of such value with them. shareholders of the St. Johns National COMMERCIAL AND SAVING8. duty on importation. The proper rate nary maple sugar will test under 90. Sunday afternoon. Jubject: “Praise.” Lead Bank of St. Johns, Mich., for the elec of duty would seem to be that prescribed Such bounty will be paid to producers er, Minnie Gardner; essayist, Minnie Balcom MARRIED. tion of Directors, will be held at the for unenumerated unmanufactured ar office of said bank, on Monday, January of 500 pounds or more of sugar made on All are invited to attend the niectins, of the 12,1891, at 2 o'clock p. m., standard time. CAPITAL. 50,000. ticles, viz: 10 per cent, ail valoreum. ” Epworth League of the M. E. church, next HYATT—THORNTON—At the residence of F or after April 1, 1891. The applicant P. E. Wai .sworth . Cashier. Sunday evening at 5 o ’clock. Subject : “Press A. Hyatt, in this villaire. Christmas eve, by —1The machinery in the St. Johns will be required to file a notice setting Rev. C. G. Thomas, Geonre B. Hyatt to Miss [IWwIl ing Forward. ’’ Leader, E. J. Bradner ; essay Elda Thornton, both of St. Johns. NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS, *900,000.00. Manufacturing Co. ’s works was quieted forth the place of manufacture, 1st, Yet a Ellis. last Saturday evening and will remain COLE-HAI.LENBECK-At the home of the Rosaline machinery and methods employed, esti The next meeting of the Clinton County bride's mother, In St. Johns, on Christmas Rings. Pins, Ear Rings and Scarf Pins, so until about the 15th of January, to night, by Rev. C. G. Thomas. Willie E. Cole PORTER K. PERRIN, President. mate of amount to be produced, num Central District Association, P. of I., will be to Miss Ida M “Hallenbcck, allU of this village. At Allison ’s. give time for their regular annual in with the 8tony Creek Association, Friday eve GEO. F. MARVIN, Vice-President. ber of trees to he tapped, and make LATH HOP-SMITH-At the M. K ventory and repairs. We believe that ning, January 10, at 7:30 o'clock, sharp. All 1TH—At ihe M. K. parsnmurr Handkerchiefs! D. H. POWER, Cashier, application for a license. He will also on ( liristmaa night, Wm. Lathrop to Mis# Handkerchiefs: but twice during the year have these adjoining associations are earnestly requested Lizzie M. Smith,h, both of St. Johns. H.H. FITZGERALD, Assistant. be required to file a bond not to violate to send delegates. E. E. Albertson, Sec’y. Handkerchiefs! ' works been closed, viz. 4th of July and the internal revenue regulations. No THROOP—TOUSE—At the Perrin House. Dec. and Mufflers. At the meeting of the Congregational church 3°. 181X1, by Rev. C. O. Thomas, Ooo. Tbroop, one day during the fair. A good share of Victor, to Miss Flora Touse. of Olive. More than a million of all styles, just re bounty will he paid for the production society, next Monday, supper will be served DIRECTORS: ceived at Kf.ndrh :k 's for the holiday of the time they have been running un of any amount less than 500 pounds, and from 5 to 7 p. m., and there will be a short mu McSHF.RRY— ELLICOTT—At the bride s par P. K. Perrin, O. W. Manger, Geo. F. Marrio. J. H. ent*. in Maple Rapids, December. 81, IHBd. by trade. More than was ever before shown til 11 o'clock at night in order to keep noliounty will be paid on syrup. Blhnks alcal entertainment commencing at 8 o'clock Rev. Mr. Taylor, Wm. McSherry to Miss in any one store in St. Johns. COrbit.J. H. Fedewa, Otis Fuller, Edward up with the stream of inflowing orders will he furnished free of charge. #Send All membera of the church aociety and C. E Minerva Ellicott, all of Maple Rapids. Brown, A. Retan, E. K. White, which are increasing steadily every your name and address on a postal card society are Invited. No charge will be made They are now visiting at Mr. MeSherry's for Try the M»-No-K#n C. 8. Allison, G. E. Corbin. month. for supper. There will be a farewell offering mer home in Canada. May Joy and happiness brand of Oysters and yon will lake no at once. taken up. attend them. other. Graham has them. 1260w4 4 FerCent, InterestJPald on Time Deposit*
<• ’ CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THJfiSDAY, JAN 1, 1890.
The “Thumb” was visited by a snow Chas. McDonnell, an electric light line THE FIRST YANKEE CAMP MEETINGS storm Saturday, the like of wh’ch the man at Denver, was Instantly killod Friday oldost inhabitant or liar remembers not. night by oornlng in contact with a live BIX or Seven Tli»ii«*ml Parsons Present, l.The celebration of the golden wedding of BASE TREACHERY. wire. CAPITAL Including a Vender of Grog. P. 8. Whipple and wife of Plymouth was Henry Eisman A Co. of Council Bluffs, The first camp mooting; held hj one of the features of that town s sociul la., who failed Thursday, estimate their tREPARATIONS FOR THE COMING season. BIG FOOT’S INDIANS VIOLATE A Methodists on which I can find any liabilities at $200,000, and thoir assets at A VERY DULL WEEK IN THE record was enjoyed at Bolton, Conn., G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT. Rev. Edward Warren of tho Episcopal FLAG OF TRUCE. $300,000. iu |?)e early days of Juue, 1H05. My church, Ontonagon, has accepted u call to The Washington* protective association HALLS OF CONGRESS. autnorities maintain that it was “tho Fenton, and will begin the new yeur in his has been organized by tho colorod men of A SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST now place. Very first,” but while not positively as TERRIBLE BATTLE ENSUES.— Tacoma, Wash., to improve the condition sured of this, it is safe. I think, to of their race. HOW A NUMBER OF PROMINENT THE WHEAT BUYERS. Ilov. T. B. Walker, financial agent of MANY KILLED. claim that it was the initial meeting of tho Adrian iollego d od of typhoid pneu Fruit growers in tho vicinity of Anna, SENATORS WERE FLEECED. the kind iu New England. monia Sunday inorn.ng, after au illuess of Ill., complain that tho trees wore badly fteniH of Interest from AH Parte of It was held by Lorenzo Dow. (If several weeks. The News of the Past Week Sum damaged by a freezing rain which fell the reader will permit me I will not Michigan. Charles Grim. 57 yeurs old, of West B ly marized for Busy Readers. Wednesday night. Personal anil Other Notes from the adopt the custom of usiug the phi use. tho City, dropped dead of heart disease Wed Just boforo midnight Wednesday thieves Seat of Government. •’eccentric Lorenzo Dow, ”a designation To Entertain the G. A. R. nesday moruing, while lighting the fire iu entered the drug store of William Bartlett, which is hut partly deserved.) It was the kitchen stove. Treacherous Indians. D btroit , Doc. 80. —Tho follow.ng are at Madison, 8. D., knocked the pro- In the course of one of his famoos the omoors of tho goueral committeo ap- Hon. Aaron Perry of Oakland county CniCAOO, Dec. 29. —A dispatch from i prictor senseless, and took $3,000 from tho WAsniNaroN, D. C., Dec. 30, 18C0. “peregrinations. ” Handling llolton Mouitod to prepare for the O. A. It. in- will ussist the proseout ng attorney in la Wounded Knee Creek, S. D., gives the i safe. Tho nature of tho proceedings In the on Friday, tho last day of May, his Cpuipmoat which is to bo hold in this city boring for tho conviction of Jennie Webb ictails of tho surrender of Big Foot's band T. F. Luramlo, of Bay City, is a shoo senate this weok will bo determined by the 1 “respectful desire to preach was not during the coming summer: President, for tho murder of Frank Cook. I is follows: Sunday morning dawned bright clork with original notions which netted attcndcnce. If no quorum is present there received with favor by Parson Cnltou ind warm as a summers day. Every one Cussoii A. Al;for; general secretary, Geo. Daniel Callahan, a Genesee county farm him some money, but have finally landed will probably bo adjournments from day to of the Presbyterian Church, who some >f tho sold.ers hud their overcoats off and IL Barbour; general treasurer, M. W. hand, fed his left hand and arm into a him in jail. When a customer made a pur day. If there is a quorum, counting the | wliat brusquely declared it to ho “an were talking weather. Tho 15 Indian O’Brien; vice presidents (by senatorialdis- steam feed cutter Wednesday, and as a chase Laramie would make the check for senators on both sides of the chamber, the encroachiueut on his own field." His oriots), First, Don M. Dickinson, Detroit; ; icouts hud been gone two days and no word debate on tho elections bill will be continued, { people in “the thickly settled ueigh- result has a very sore and lacerated arm. I from thorn. Littlo Battle started out at $1 or $2 leas than the purchase, and when Gocond, T. W. Pulmor, Detroit: Third, tho change came back would pocket the and ono of tbo features of the discussion | uorhood ” (?) shared his opiuion in The new glass factory whistle in Grand Dauiol Soottcn, Detroit; Fourth, J. B. An* laybreuk, and at 10:80 was seen dashing difference between tho price and the amount will bo a speech by Senator Hour, the this, as in almost every other matter, Haven guvo its first toot Saturday after oli, Ann Arbor; Fifth, Gen. Win. Hum- >ver tho ridge for camp, waving his hat. on tho check, tolling tho customer that tho sponsor of tho hill in the senate. Should and were much prejudiced against noon and started in on its rogular sleep- Shrey. Adrian; Sixth. Austin Blair, Jack- in a few minutes ho was at Major White- ofllco had made a mistake in change. there be a quorum of republican senators ; Mr. Dow and the Methodists iu gen- don; Seventh, E. C. Nichols, Buttle Creek; disturbing business Wednesday morning. j ildea' quarters with tho news that Big Foot dunng tho week-something hardly prob- , era|. So bjlter was lhoir Eighth, Col. Robert Burns, Kalamazoo; | was only eight miles away. Albion college, with its 410 students, tho To Protect Trees. tyinth, William Chainborlaiu, Three Oaks; largest in its history, needs a gymnasium, Boots und saddles were sounded, and if I sver a lot of men got out of camp in a Tenth, Col. Charles L. Eaton, Paw Puw; and tho authorities have decided that a Washington , Dec. 27.—Andrew Cald Elevent h, Jacob L. McPeok, Grand Lodge; $15,000 building will about fit their neods Hurry it was tho veterans of the Seventh, well, tho special agent of tha general land ed commands tliut the meeting should Twelfth, O. M. Barnes, Lansing; Thir and will build it. in a few moments they were hurrying office, appointed to make au investigation the intention to take up the new cloture teen th, William Ball, Hamburg; Fourteenth, >vcr tho ridgo eastward tow..id Porcu as to the location, condition, number, etc., rule introduced by Senator Aldrich as soon not be held in the place, • • * A. C. Baldwin, Pontiac; Fifteenth, Henry S. M. Farlin, an old resident and well- pine butto. Passing that, they turned of giant (sequoia sigantia) trees in the as a safe republican majority can be as prating about trespassing. ” Finding Howard, Ft. Huron; Sixtoenth.J.B.Moore, to-do farmer of Raisin, fell dead of heart north und east, descending the slopo to Stockton uud Visalia lund districts in Cali sured. It is not expected that any business that “housou of every kind” were for Lapeer; Seventeenth, J. S. Ayres, Port disease as ho pushed his chair back from Iho Porcupine valley, where they soon fornia, has made his roport to tho commis will bo transacted in the houso during tho bidden him, the intrepid itinerant Austin; Eighteenth, H. C. Potter, Sagi- the breakfast table Saturday moruing. He found Big Foot's band drawn up in line sioner of the general land offico. In the week. There is a possibility, however, “bethought to go out iu the fields to aw; Nineteenth, A. B. Morse, Ionia; was 85 years old. like soldiers, and apparently roady for Nisalia district, tho report says, there is though not a probability, of aquorum being preach.” This true Wesleyan idea 9wentioth, Geu. B. It. Pierce, Grand The 40th annual meeting of the Michi iattle. There were over 150 warlike one small and one large grove of giant in attendance after Friday or Saturday, ••sot hard” on tho hearts of Parson Rapids; Twenty-first, C. H. Hackley, gan teachers wus hold at Graud Rapids oucks, heavily annod, facing the cavalry trees. The latter is a virgin forest, and and should too unexpected happen, tho ap Colton's flock, and Doiv was given to Muskegon; Twenty-second, Horace But lost week, with Prof. J. G. Plowman, tho that they met last in IS76 on tho Littlo Big contains over 1,200 giant soequoias and propriations committee is prepared to take understand that if he preached in the ters, Ludington; Twenty-third, M. Brown, president, in the chair. A number of in ’Horn. One shot from any source uud a many moro small trees. advantage of tho circumstance and call up open air at any place in Bolton parish Big Rapid?; Twenty-fourth, A. W. Wright, teresting papers wore road. ir.igidy would go over tho wires, but Big Some live years ago a co-operativo one of the regular annual appropriation the taking of water from any brook or Alma; Twenty-fifth, S. O. Fisher, Bay Foot advanced from his side and Mai. colony located about 40 entries in tho bills. well would constitute just cause for Mrs. Harry Howly, about 70 years old, City; Twenty-sixth, Greeno Pack, Oscoda; Whitesides from tho boys in blue. Big neighborhood, and arc constructing u JEWISH STATISTICS. rosccution for trespass. ••However. ” ^twenty-seventh, Watts 8. Humphrey, of Saranac d ed Saturday morning, after Foot started in for a loug talk on how road to this timber belt. Tho colony, it Tho didsiou of vital statistics of tho cen Eow goes on to say, “a report having ioboygan; Twenty-eighth, J. Canfield, a brief illness. Sho was the mother of weary he was of running around, and said is asserted, numbers about 600 members, sus office ha3 prepared a bulletin, which is prevailed that tho Indians iu their anisteo; Twenty-ninth, H. H. Noble, Elk Hon. Willard Howly, representative of tho ne wanted to open a is heart to the chief of and has recentlv engrafted tho Bellamy S wostern district of Iouia county. now in press, containing a summary of the times had a spring on the hill, to which Rapids; Thirtieth, H. W. Seymour, Sault the soldiers. Whitosidos was there idea as its leading attraction. There is results of tho special inquiry concerning the they resorted, I caused a man to go in Ste. Mario; Thirty-first, J. M. Longyear, A Grand Rapids woman named Friend for business, however, not talk, danger, tho special agent believes, that Jews in this country. Tho inquiry resulted search of it. After sonic difficulty ho Marquette; Thirty-second, Jay A Hubbell, wants a divorce from her husband becauso ind said that he must surrender or fight. these people, if unmolested, will soon des in tho return of 16,618 completed family struck upon a fountain beneath a rock Houghton. The citizens chosen to serve ho will not go to ctiurch with her. Next Like magic up wont the flag of truco and troy this most wonderful and perfect body schedules, embracing 60,030 living persons which afforded a sufficient t _ y. ” QU tho various sub-cornmittocs number some Grand Rapids woman will want a Big Foot surrendered with his band of of ncquois gigantia in the world. on Dec. 81, 1889, und in these families This was a “spot in the wood, 15* * • about 1.000. divorce because her husband oats with his >ver 150 warriors and 250 women and In a tablo giving number and size of there had been 2,148 marriages, 6,038 solitary, and not auy man's owned knife. children. trees iu the groves visited, only those 45 ft. b.rths and 2,063 deaths during the five The prisoners were marched over to the land.” Just 21 years ago Wednesday Marletto in circumference and more, measured threo years endiug on that date. Tho social con Michigan Wheat. )ld camp on Wounded Knee. Tho battalion feet from tho ground uro classed as giants. To it led “a lead-off road, there had three building. It is now a nourish dition of the families is indicated, to some D etroit , D oc , 87. —Robert Gibbons, aave surrounded tho Indian camp and Will Of theso 2,675 wero found. Forty-four ending on the spot. ” The location, ing town of 1,200 inhabitants, and tho extent, by the number of servants kopt by editor of tho Michigan Farmer, claims that ceep vigil and guard until more troops are over 80 feet in circumference, und sev Dow is careful to state, with ill-con business men thought it behooved them them, and as about two-thirds are reported Michigan wheat stands lower in tho grain arrive. The prisoners include the Sitting eral are more than 100. One is 106 in cir cealed exultation, was “still in the to celebrato, und did so by a series of en as keeping one or more servants, the fami markets of the world today than ever be Bull gang that fled after thoir chiefs death. cumference, ora litHo more than thirty-five township of Bolton, on the Andover tertainments Thursday and Friday nights. lies reported may be said to be in easy cir fore, and has uddressed a communication Scouts just in report that Ehort Bull and feet in diameter. Secretary Noble has re cumstances. The average number of per parish line.” Doiv doubtless believed to the Board of Trade of this city on tho Gustaf Johnson and N. D. Nord quar sis braves aro ou thoir way to the agency quested the secretary of war to station a sons to each family on Doc. 31. 1889, was that it was really “no man’s pro|»erty. ” subject, which ho claims that the exist in reled at Ncgauiieo Sunday and Johnson and are in camp now at tho Catholic company of cavalry in the Sequoia National 5.71, and the average annual number for but 1 am confident that it was at the system of grading wheat in this state ing struck Nord over the head with a poker. mission, only six miles away. park and another in the Yosemite park to the five years covered by these statistics time a portion of Charles Hutchins’s works a great injustice to farmers and es Nord died in a few hours and Johnson VIOLATED TUEIR FLAG OF TRUCE. prevent depredations on the mammoth tree was 5.47, The uverage annual number of fnrm (possibly this name should be pecially to those who aim to produce the made for the Wisconsin line, but tho Wounded Knkr Ckekk, Nob., Doc. 80. — groves. It is states that tho so-called Bel marriages per 1,000 of total population was Chulch Hutchins iusteail of Charles). highest quality of wheat and put it on the officers have track of him aud will prob Bright and early were the troops up this lamy colonists, who have in part perfected much lower than the general rate, being Tho land is now owued by Messrs. markot in the best possible shape. Mr. Gib ably catch him. moruing. At 8 o'clock they were ordered title to lands on which theso trees stand, but 7.4, and the average age at marriage William B. and Charles Kingsbury. bous says that a wholesale adulteration of Watrousville, Tuscola county, is excited have expressed a purpose to hold their is greater than among the general popula The preacher opened his meeting wheat by urscrupulous dealers throughout Lo be iu readiness to move. At that hour over a serios of burglaries which happen claims In spite of all opposition. tion. The low marriage rate and the in tho state has brought about this deplorable the cavalry aud dismounted troops were and records iu his journal that he “had ed Friday uight. Tho burglars blew open massed about the Indian v.llage, tho Hotch creased average ago at marriage aro the of affairs, and recommends the au agreeable time.” “In the evening condition tho safe iu O. W. Leonard ’s store, but kiss guns overlooking tho camp, not 50 Tho Well Caveil In. principal reasons for tho low birth rate. e*teusion of tho system of inspection that the work of God be^an,” and from that could not open the strong box. Next they pards away. Col. Forsythe ordered all the The deaths reported for tho five years give is in vogue in Detroit to oil points in the Grand R apids , Dec. 30.—Chas. Krantz, time “the work and the congregation forced the door of A. Burdick's barn and indiuns to como forward away from their an average annual death rate of 7.11 per interior at which wheat is marketod. This a well diggor, had completed digging a increased.” “So many people came stole his horse and buggy. Lents. They came and sat in a half circle 1,000 of population, being about half the would put a stop to the mixing and adultera well 72 feet deep in tho suburbs Saturday from distant places to the ground that antil countel. The dismounted troops average rate for the general population. tion of crops and givo tho farmer the full There aro but a few days lof t for Gov. and was curbing it up when the side wall Satan hoisted his standard near by; for were then thrown uround them, Company The expectation of life at the age of 10 value of tho product, besides acting as an Luce to work the pardon machine, and it began to give way. He pulled himself up a grog-man brought his liquors for K, Capt. Wallace, and Company B, Capt. years bused upon the death rate for the incentive to growers to produce better may be a good thing os the merciful official with the rope as fast as be could, but not sale, but was coustraiued by threats, .year 1888 is 61.11 and 56.02 years for males wboat. is not losing any timo, Saturday ho par Varnum. Tae disarming order was then fust enough to clear himself from the fall- when reason would not do. to give it given to Indians to go and get their guns. and females respectively, us against 49. 9H Secretary Lane replied that tho letter doned Bartholomew Teabow, who was sen lug sand. He yelled lustily for help, but over, the law being against him.” On returning, it was seen that only two and 48.05 as calculated by life insurance would bo laid before tho directors at tho tenced by Judge Grant at Marquette in his friends were afraid to go near the edge it does not appear n9 to hoiv long guns were had. A detachment immedi companies for tho general population of nozt mooting. Ho said that the grade of 1885, to 10 years in prison for ussault. of the well for fear they would precipitate ately set out to search tho village, this country. Contrasting the birth and the meeting was held. The preacher extra white wheat is still recognized by the the mass on him. Tho sand was up to his Adam Wagner, the oldest business man resulting in 38 guns being found. death rates for those of native born and says: Sunday, June 2, some thousands board, but that no grain received at arm-pits, but he mauaged to fill a tin pail in EastmauviUe, who has conducted a gen As this task was about completed, tho foreign born parents indicates that the birth appeared ou the ground. Several Dotroit elevators is up to that standard, so his friends let down to him. Four hours eral store there for a quarter of u century, Indians surrounded by Compan.c3 K and B rate is decreasing and the death rate in found peaco and (miribitc nictu) preju that all mixing must be done before the he woritod, filling that pail and digging was forced to make an assignment Friday. began to move. All of a sad ien they threw creasing with more prolonged residence in dice seemed to wear off the minds of wheat passes through tho hands of the around himself while his friends above lift Tho assets figure up about $20,000 and this country, but the general results indi tbo people. ” Dr. Sumner of Bolton focal inspectors. thoir hands upon tho ground and begin fir ed it up and emptied it. Finally he dug liabilities about $9,00J. Stringency in tho ing rapidly at the troops, not tivouty feot cate that the Jews hero retain many of tho says there were six or seven thousand Grain inspection in Michigan is entirely around himself sufficiently to tie a rope money market and slow collections aro tho away. The troops were at a great disad peculiarities which have been noted among people on the ground on that me dp pendent upon tho board of trade os this about bis waist and was pulled out of cause. vantage, tearing the shooting of the r own them in Europe. morial Lord ’s Day, and udds “that body is authorized in its charter to pre danger. Within ten minutes the side of comrades. Tho Indian m m, women and was more than have ever been iu Bol scribe tho grados of all grains and to ap Con Ryan of Ironwooi would not lift the well caved in and tho place whore A NEW SILVER DOLLAR. children thou ran to the south, the battery point inspectors to determine them in this his hand to n woman, but would and did Krantz had been was buried 10 feet deep A now silver dollar will bo created by the ton since.”—Christian Advocate. tiring rapidly as they ran. Soon tho in sand and rock. city, which practically cover* the wheat tako tbo ax to his wife, causing her death Pan-American monetary conference, which Destruction of Forests. crop of tho abate, and all prices in Michigan two days later. Six childron arc thrown mounted troops were after them, shoot ng moots in Washington this weok. It will them down on overy s do. Tho engagement are dependent on Detroit quotations. In on the mercies of a world and Ryan lun- ( Burned to Death. be a dollar circulated not merely in the lasted fully an hour and a half. To tbo The wholesale extravagance of the Illinois, Minnesota and North Dakota tho guishos in Jail, while the people of the j United States, but throughout all the re south many took refuge in a ravine, from Rochester , Dec. 27.—A terrible confla people of the United States with the (nspoction of grain has bcon placed in tho place wish that hanging was not played j publics of the new world. What it will be which it was difficult to dislodge thorn. It gration occurred yostorday morning about timber which abounds in this country, hauila of state officials, who are under out in Michigan. like remains to bo determined by the con is estimated th it tho s >1J ers killed and 5 o ’clock, whereby a womon and threo and the merciless way in which the taoavy bonds for tho faithful performance A Sebewa man is dying of consumption, j children lost thoir lives. Tho victims were ference, but there is very little doubt on forests nre being destroyed, lias at Of thoir duties. wounded nu nber a .out fifty. It is im- this point. In all probability it will re but will conquer some of his contempo poss.blo to state tho exact number of dead Mrs. John Dietrich of No. 7 Orchard tracted the attention of the Geograph raries even in doath. Ho has selected tho street, uud her throe children, Libbie, aged semble somewhat the United States silver ical Society of Germany, writes a Indians. There are more th in fifty, hovv- dollar, with a portrait of Columbus to take l'ardoned by Luce. material for his coffin and is having it jver, k.lied outr.gilt. The sold.ers shot tho 0 years; Jacob, aged 3 years, and Louisa, Washington correspondent of the N. made under his own direction by tho aged II months. How the firo originated tho place of tho Goddess of Liberty on tho Lansing , Dec. 27.—Gov. Luco has par Indians doivu wherever found, no quarter Y. Evening Post. At a recent meeting village cabinet maker. His ouly excuse ono side, the obverse varying. doned Joseph Mosette, who was convicted bo.ng gi.en by anyone. Capt. Wallace, K is a mystery. Mrs. Dietrich had arisen at Chief Forest Master Kessler called at for this action is that he does not want his SENATORS FLEECED. -of criminal assault in Newaygo county in troop, w th cavalry, was k.lled und Lieut. 4 o'clock to start u fire in the kitchen tention to the subject, quoting from relatives swindled by the undertakers. 1683 and sentenced to prison for 25 3’ears. Carlington, of Arctic fame, shot through stove, and awakened her husband soon A man who signed himself Wm. Duvall the tenth census. He staled that in Tho Jury who convicted, the judge who William Fill.nger and wifo, the religious tho nrm at tho elbow. The troops aro after with au alarm of fire. Sho rushed in has written letters to nearly every member 1880 the 25.708 saw-mills in oneration sentenced and the prosecuting attorney, as cranks who murdered their o d mother, still firing from tho camp and pursuing tho to save her threo little children, and per of tho United States senate during the past in the United States converted |120,- well as many other influential citizens, have have been acquitted of murder and Mrs. j *nemy in every direction. ished in tho flames. Her husband and ono three weeks claiming ho has just named 000,000 worth of raw timber stock into all united in a request for lm pardon. Tho Fillinger discharged from custody, tho | To say that it was a most daring feat, son escaped. his first born son after tho senator addressed vnrious kinds of lumber, and lie as application is based upon tho bod reputa doctors thinking she will be all right when 120 Indians attacking 500 cavalry, ex When tho firemen succeeded in quench and enclosing five tickets to a benefit con serted that nt the same rate there tion of the house where tho offense was free from her husbund's insanity. Fill n- presses tho situation but faintly. It could ing tho flames they found in the bedroom, cert at one dollar per ticket. Each letter would be no good-sized timber left in said to have boon committed. He is par ger will bo sent to the insane asylum aud Hilly have been insanity which prompted the body of tho unfortunate woman lying contained a certificate of birth, and tho forty years. Ho spoke of the enormous doned under pledge that ho will for ever his wifo may follow him after another life tuch a deed. It is doubted that if before across the bed with the feet on the floor. transaction looked so clear that over 20 waste of wood through forest fires, abstain from the use of strong drink and has been sacrificed. night oithcr a buck or a squaw out of all Beside her lay tho three littlo children, senators, including the two from Michigan, Big Foot ’s band will be left to tell the tale their bodies burned to a crisp, os well as and Vice-President Morton yielded to the which nre the result, for the most part, from visiting pla< ;s where it is sold. One- A pair of horses owned by J. B. Dodd, of carelessness or a desire to clear land half of the totm for which he was sen jf this day's troacher.v. that of their mother. flattery of tho wily Duvall and sent him $5 of Bear Lake, and attached to a farm The members of tho Seventh cavalry or so and some nicely engraved solid silver for cultivation, and declared that tho tenced has expired. His deportment has wagon, in which wcio seated Mr. Dodd and planting of new forests, which has of been good in tho prison, and his education, iave once moro shown themselves to bo THE MARKETS. token to go with iL Senator Manderson his wife, became frightened while on tho of Nebraska detected tho fraud when ho late years received some atteution in morally and intellectually, improved. heroes in deeds of daring. Single handed Detroit. , road to Manistee Friday, by Mrs. Dodd conflicts were seen all over the field. Tho received his letter. the eastern states, ennnot begin to off opening an umbrella. They ran away, and Apples, per bbl ...... 5 3 09 o 3 50 ieath of Capt. Wallace causes much NOTES. set tho waste. Ho said that there is The Dairymen's Convention. Mr. Dodd was thrown out, receiving in- i Apples, evaporated ...... 13 44 14 regret. The poor fellow met his death by llutter, per #>...... 15 49 17 Senator Stockbridge has received a peti •very reason to tear that America will Lansing , Dee. 27.—The stato board of juries which deprived him of consciousness l blow on tho head from a war club. Creamery ...... 24 it 25 tion from W.S. Churchill and other Alpena soon be a country impoverished for agriculture resolved to invite Gov. Hoard and may result fatally. Keans, unpicked, per bu.. 1 50 44 1 55 tree property. Mr. Kessler mode the of Wisoonsin and CoL F. D. Curtiss of city band-picked. 1 00 44 1 05 vesselowners praying for increased com A Lansing woman had inndc up her ! • > pensation for captains and surfmon at life striking comparison that while the Charlton. N. Y., to attend the anuual mind to suicide and was standing on the | BRIEFLY TOLD. Cabbage, per 100 heads... 50 44 2 75 United States had but 11 per cent of F.ygs, per doz ...... 24 45 24 saving stations. mooting of tho Michigan Dairymen ’s asso edge of the river waiting to throw herself j its area covered by forests, the empire ciation, which moots hero in February. So Hides, green, per fl>...... 4 45 4 Tho Christmas club, of Washington, en iu when her husband caught hor and saved I Sevore snow storms are reported in tho “ country ...... 4 of Germany has 20 per cent of its en far as this feature is concerned, tho meet tertained 600 poor children at dinner, and her. Was she glad? Not much; but she District of Columbia and Virginia. •• cured...... 5 45 ft* tire area so covered. Mr. Kessler said ing will partake of tho uaturo of farmers' afterwards, distributed a present to each turned around and plunked ber lord Tho Ohio oil company has increased its Hay. No. 2 per ton ...... 0 50 44 10 50 that tho reckless destruction of forest institute work. Mess pork, per bbl...... to 50 44 10 75 one. Mrs. Dimmick represented the presi and master In the eye, scoring a capital lrom $8,500,000 to $8,000,000. dent's family, aud was an intorosted spec trees in America and the indifference square knock down, then she wont home. | l’ouliry, chickens...... 7 45 8 ducks...... 0 44 10 tator of tho protty sceno. manifested by Americans iu tho re Fell Dead at Chrlstmns. As he saved he ought to bo satisflod, but Mrs. Ellen Gibbons, aged 80, was burned to death at Saratoga, N. Y., Friday. goesa ...... 8 44 0 Tho war department has received ne In storation of forests is a menace, not Pontiac , Dec. 26.—At 6 o ’clock last probably Is not. turkeys ...... 10 44 11 formation in regard to tho reported inva alone to the wealth of the nation, but •evening Henry Becker, a carpenter, fell The Ere railroad dopot at Port Jervis, pigeons, per pair. 20 44 25 Tho baggageman of tho Michigan Cen sion of the Cherokee strip. The depart threatens serious deterioration both to •down dead at his residence ou Cottage N. Y., was burned Friday. Less, $30,000. Potatoes, per bu ...... 85 44 00 tral railroad at Battle Creek recoived a ment commander has standing instructions climatic conditions and the fertility of street Cause, paralysis of tho brain. Tho Straw, per ton ...... 6 00 4o 7 00 lesson Wednesday that will last him many Chas. Mead crushed Andrew Bruslctt's 20 the soil. In a recent report to tho dooeased hail temperately enjoyed the fes Wool, flue, per lt>...... 28 44 to keep the boomers out ut ail hazards, and moons, lie was firing the truck urouud ikull in a fight near Waupaca,W.s., Thurs co.irnu ...... 20 44 30 war department______officials have no doubt that State Department Consul Merritt of tivities of the scar.on with his family and tho place, as is the custom of baggagemen, day. Tallow, per ...... 4 45 4 the soldiers will carry out the instructions Chemnitz, calls attention to Mr. Kess- friends. Ho was 35 years old, and loaves Vegetables, celery per doz 20 44 25 when there came an explosion of thunder During a firo at Fremont, Wis., Friday U. tho letter. Rax. ler’s remarks as worthy of the atten a widow and one child. sound. The man climbed into a window cauliflower. ,. CO 40 65 tho stuff iu a salcon exploded, killing Orriu tion of the department. sill, but when the smoko h id cleared away onions, per bu 2 00 44 2 50 Ennis. 01 44 he investigated and found that the explo Wheat, red spot. No. 2.... FOREIGN NEWS NOTES. STATE NEWS CONDENSED. red spot. No. 3.... 44 Taking a Rogue's Picture. sion came frotn a bug that contained a r fie. | Firo in the Kcnnody House, at Chatta while spot. No. 1.. 04 44 04 nooga, TVnu., did $15,000 damage Friday. A general reduction of coal miners’ wages James Purtell has been reappointed mana A lot of cartridges were looso in tho bag, Corn, No. 2 spot ...... 50 44 50 Tho camera that does the work for Insured. and a big strike aro in prospect in Belgium. ger of the Bay county poor farm. and if the explosion had reached these the No. 8 yellow ...... 49);44 40* the rogues' gallery is concealed. The baggageman would have been filled so full Oscar Connul was killod at Mifflcntown, Oats. No 2 white, spot. ... 43 44 43* The government of Uruguay proposes to prisoner hangs his head, and refuses The state board of pharmacy will meet in of holes that he would havo boon useful Clover seed...... 4 05 44 4 10 Pa., Thursday by the accidental discharge 1 38 increase the customs duties on various ar to look up when asked to do so or Saginaw for examination Jan. 12. only ns a siovo. Hurley ...... 1 35 44 of a ritlo. ltye ...... 00 44 CO ticles. shuts his eyes and distorts his face. Rev. F. L. Thompson Is tho new presi Two Boys Brownell at Muskegon. W. H. Winters of Mattoon, Ill., was Germany will tako over its East African The photographer makes a feint with dent of the Manistee evangelical alliance. Wm. H. Landlfor, jeweler at Now York, Muskegon , D oc . 26.—Claude McCarthy found dead in bed at Grand Junction, CoL, territory from tho sultan of Zanzibar the camera in sight, takes out the plute assigned last week. Flint had 48 fires tho past year, but the and John Weyher, 12 and 18 years of age Thursday. this week. and exclaims “Oh, pshaw! thnt is News has been received at London of total loss was not over $6,500 above all respectively, broke through tho thin ice on Two workmen wero killed by an explosion t The first monument to Hernando Cortez, spoiled/" or words lo that effect, and the death at Cairo of Gustave Revllllod, insurance. Muskegon lako while skutiug this after In a cartridge houso at Lako Ho pace ng, tho conqueror of Moxico, was unveiled In walks hurriedly out of the room. The the archaeologist. Ho has bequeathed his Tho Morton manufacturing company of noon, and both were drowuod. Thoir bodies N. J., Friday. his native city of Medellin, in Extrema >r!soner raises his head at once and private museum and his fortune, amount I to moo will move their business to Muske have been recovered. Tho Maverick Bank. San Antanio, Tex., dura. Spain, Dec. 21, 1890. It is tho work j {ooks pleasant Ho has outwitted the ing to over £160,000, to the town of closod its doors Friday morning after a run of a young Spanish sculptor, Eugenio Bar- , photographer. Then the concealed gon when tho robins nest again. Geneva, Switzerland, where M. Revllllod It transpires that tho last meeting of the that lasted throo weeks. ran* camera gets in its fine work, and the The board of directors of St. Mark's Michigan passenger agents was important was born, April 8, 1817. rogue is still more surprised aud hospital. Grand Rapids, have decided that in that tho members voted to discontinue Hon. W. D. Simpson, chief justice of tho Berlin newspapers report that J10.000 It.ls reported that work ha* begun on pleased at being told that he cau go. homeopaths cannot practice there. special rates for parties on the certificate South Carolina supremo court, died at Russian Jews aro expected to arrive at tho most formidable plcoe of excavation on Columbia Friday morning of heart disease. tho Nicaragua canal. It is a solid rock cut Mrs. Catherine A. Anderson, a member plan of 1891. All conventions, reunion; Hamburg soon and that arrangements are about 18 miles from the Atlantic end of the •of tho famous Whist W family, died at tho and mootings will thus bo barred from re i In a free fight in a saloon at Farmera- being inude to send them to Brazil. It is The sultan's wives are divided into canal. A great deal of dredging hus already .. JMatdenoe of ber daughter, Mrs. Thomas ducod faro, and the Michigan millers, burg, Ind., Thursday, Bud Moore was stated that a committee Is now boing three classes. There ure five of the been done in the low land from tho (there ».Abbott at Pontiac, Friday. She was which moot in Lansing, Jan. 8, will bo the shot in tho cor and several others badly formed in Hamburg to tako charge of the first twenty-four of the second, gad Inward. *' about 76 year* old. first to suffer. k hurt. army of emigrants on their arrival. of the third. ------CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JAN. 1, 1890
Thankfulness. himself,‘ns he moved off, leaving the rascally officers of your execution, ” We drifted into it, 1 suppose, because w> adorable imde—“No —Indeed, auntie?" 1 two desperadoes lying aide by side, still •aid the leader of the bund. “THE DUCHESS.” were cousins; good friends, if you will, bu “Bhe is a witch—a si real” cries madanz Uiiink Go1 for life) Life Is not »weet always senseless. ‘•Nay, that is not all. I hare more —nothing more. ” greatly p'.cassl, appealing to Tenia fop llunds may be hcavi leaden, li' iiri* erretul than a mere statement of my death to “Do you think she would like you to dis sympathy. Poor Denis 1 f Unwelcome uiirMs follow unweloumo days; Then he returned to the town and “And what And drvams divine end In awakening (lull. made the vigilantes (police officers) make.” CHAPTER XL—Continukd . cuss hor wit i—with a stranger. ” rays tin little thing she is! * Come np stairs Fill! It la life, and file la cause for prulao: acquainted with what had taken place. “You will let ns read tho note after Duche s gently; but oh I what is the inattai darling, and let mi take off your things al This arlie, tills iestUshut-ss, the quickeulnf you write itP” with tho fresh, glad young voice? “If—i| once. My maid sliall I e yours after to-dnyi sting. Before nightfall a party of these men I were engaged to any* ne I don ’t think j J*rore mono torpid find Inanimate thltri “Yes, on condition that yon will not "Flense yourself, of course, ” says Dela but just now I should l
tion of the Presidential electiou of 1888 GUNNISON VILLE. RICHARD 0. DAVIES. ROBERT T. DAVIES. was, with its “blocks of five” fresh in ’s Co tton . The Independent, the minds of the American people, was COMPOUND as vigorous hit of rhetoric as the “Tall One of the most brilliant affairs of the posed of Cotton Root, Tansy ai season occurred at the residence of Mr. Pennyroyal —a recent discoveryvery by i GEORGE S.COKBIT, Editor and Proprietor. >\i .unoreof the Wabash'’ ever uttered. old physician. U nuxttnfuUu uiett His denunciation of the attempt to and Mrs A. S. West, December 25th, in Safe, Effectual. PrioeffL 67 malt. colonize southern negroes in West Vir Ladles, ask your druggist for Cbok'a ST. JOHNS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 1.1991. the marriage of their only daughter, Cotton Root Compound and take no substitute, ginia and Indiana, which was fortu DAVIES & DAVIES, or lnoloae 2 stamps for sealed particulars. Ad nately exposed before it was consumat- Edith, to Benjamin A. Keyes, both of dress POND LILY COMPANY, No. 3 Fisher Fkke silver coinage is the b::g-a-boo ed. was very bitter, but not more so than DeWitt township. Nearly 100 guests -Dealers in- lilock, 131 Woodward aye., Detroit. Mic&, of the present administration. it deserved. Senator Gray also did some were present. The wedding march, vigorous talking in defenseof the people played of Delaware, whom Mr. Higgins, the by Miss Minnie Moots, of De Save $36.50 tTcAr,; California. Mu. 11en j amin H arrison was great accidental republican Senator iron that Witt, began precisely at the appointed Carriages, Road Carts, J- C. JUDBON A OO.’fi personally conducted Cali fornia Excursions in broad gauge Pullman Tourist ly disappointed not to tlnd the Force state, had grossly slandered in an effort time, 6 p. m. Then appeared in beauti Blssping Can, ?ls Denver a Bio Grande R. R., (the bill in his stocking Christinas morning. to justify the passing of the Force bill. ful attire of the most delieate tints, the scenic line of the world) leave Chicago via Chicago If Mr. Harrison wished to select a Platform and Lumber Wagons, « Alton it. R. 12:60noon Saturday of every week, six maids of honor. First, Miss Alma each| excursion In charge of an efficient and gently gentleman entirely without a national manly excursion manager. Pullman tourist sleeping Europe is slowly catching on to Chapman, of Bath, dressed in light blue care through from Boston and Chicago to San Fran reputation to succeed the late Justice Cutters and Sleighs. cisco and Los Angeles. For rates, reservation of American ideas. Vienna has just ex Miller on the bench of the United States cashmere, ami Miss Mary Kettle, of lE'rth*- stc- call on or address, J. C. J UDSON A OO.. tended its limits, a la Chicago, in order Supreme Court he certainly succeeded Lansing, pale green cashmere. Second, 19& Clark Street, Chicago. when he nominated Henry B. Brown, of "iss Mina Htampfly, of DeWitt, pink to take in all of the populous suburbs, Michigan, to the vacancy. Said a re cashmere, ami Kate Kraus, of DeWitt, and now she has a population of 1,315,- publican Senator : “It was really amus sea green cashmere. Third, Hallie A full line of ing when the nomination was an Gunnison, of DeWitt, heliotrope cash- OMMISSION nounced to see the prominent Senators mere, and Kittie K yes,of DeWitt, cream The public sentiment of the country going from one to the other in order to cashmere. Then the officiating clergy -SALESMEN man, Elder Ward, of DeWitt. Lastly, Harnesses, Robes, Blankets, Whips, etc. is overwhelmingly with the democratic find out who this Mr. Brown is. The C Michigan Senators speak well of him, the bride and groom. She was dressed DOTY & WATKINS, Senators in their efforts to defeat the but I doubt if there are a dozen other in white silk with white kid shppers, Force bill, and will continue so, no mat Senators who ever heard of him before. ’’ halted under an arch of evergreens and N. Y. C. Stock Yards, ter what tactics they adopt to accom Representative Blanchard, of Louisi holly branches, and in the rear was smil- These Goods were bought of the Manufacturer for Spot Cash, EAST BUFFALO, NEW YORK. ana, has offered a resolution in the ax, festooned in bell shape. The room, plish the desired end.______and will be sold correspondingly low. M B Doty, House providing for a general Indian overhead and on the sides, was beauti | Salesmen, CATTLE. investigation. The same gentleman fully festooned with evergreens, and in W. H. Williams, Ik the bill reducing the pension attor has offered a resolution instructing the the center was a hanging lamp, which Ja8 . Pixley, Salesman, ney's fee, for obtaining an increase of House committee on Banking and threw a delicate tint of pink over the HOGS. pension, to $2, be defeated in Congress, Currency to report a bill to increase the whole scene. This, together with the Three doors north of The Steel, Clinton Avenue, St. Johns. amount of money in circulation to $50 position each so gracefully assumed, R. W. Watkins, Salesman, SHEEP. the old soldier will know how much per capita. lie sets forth in'a preamble and the elegant tints displayed in the honesty there is in the love for him ex ihe fact of its being impossible in many dress of eaeh, was indeed one of the most imposing spectacles ever witnessed SALES GUARANTEED pressed by republican stump speakers. parts of the South to get an advance of At Full Market Price on all Stock consigned even S10 a bale on cotton, owing to the by many. Its beauty will long remain to us. BID all shipments In your own name scarcity of money. fresh in our memory. After the im DAVIES & DAVIES to our care. Between the gold men, the silver The republicans of the Senate are get pressive marriage ceremony and the market Reports ^ n fT“ P* men and the bondmen,the United States And 8tock Drover* ’ he mmr b fa. ting their party into a nice snarl on ihe congratulations of their many friends, Account Books I I 1 Lm Lm Senate chamber is almost as lively a financial question. The recent republi the scene was changed to a large dining Communication* by mall or telegraph will place as Kilkenny. Ireland, and the re can caucus approved a bill, in the hopes room with small tables in every avail receive prompt attention. Addreas, of conciliating the free coinage republi able spot. Then appeared four' gentle publican leaders, if that demoralized can Senators, that provided for the men and as many ladies in their snow- DOTY A WATKINS, party can be said to have any leaders at issuing of treasury notes, based on pur white aprons, armed with baskets of 1031 William St.. East Buffalo. N. Y. this time, are in a state bordering on chases of silver bullion to make up the towels, napkins, knives and forks ana distraction. In the meantime the deficiency whenever the amount of spoons. .Soon each one was set to work national bank circulation fell below enjoying one of the grandest feasts ever country suffers for legislation to relieve $180,000,000, but the Finance Committee spread. The eight waiters soon return the financial distress. to which the bill was referred when ed with salvers of scalloped oysters, sal- introduced, has cut out that section of ids and cold meats. Then, with coffee Erenj Republicans in Congress fear a dis the bill entirely and put in place of it and warm rolls, with such dexterity that cussion of the tariff more than anything one authorizing the Secretary of the all were enjoying the repast at about the Treasury to issue $200,000,000 of 2 per same time. This was followed with a else that can be brought up, and for cent, bonds, and the amended bill has course of elegant cakes and pickles, and that reason Mr. McKinley has with been reported back to the Senate by lastly, ice cream, not to be excelled, and Eut &.W0B8 &1® work drawn his resolution providing that the that strong and vigilant foe of silver. which made us all realize that cold tariff law shall not abrogate the Ha Senator Sherman. The silver men are weather is upon us. At 8:30 p. m. the ijcvcir mad as hornets and Senator Stewart has bride and groom appeared in their trav- waiian treaty. Hawaii is like all the already offered a free coinage amend ling suit, and took their departure amid rest of the world —shut out ; and from ment to the bill, and overtures are being a shower of of rice and hearty well-wish MCan Ta (uus present indications it will remain in made to democrats to support it. What es, to take the train at Lansing for Jack- that condition until the democrats get a the democrats will
CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1891.
BOAKI) t»F TRUSTEES. m MAPLE KAPIDS. LEGAL NOTICES. LEGAL NOTICES. LEGAL NOTICES. The Independent. Special . Meeting . Dev. 29,1890. Maplk Rapids , Dec. 80, 1890. Meeting culled to order by the president. KOBATEOKlfEK.-State of Michigan ORTGAGE NALK.—Default having been Present, Trustees Hsinllton, Kniffin, White Miss Cora Price, accompanied by her Schedule of Teachere ’ Examinations county ofCIlnton.ss. At a session of tbePro- made in the conditions of a mortgage STEAM PRINTING HOCSE. batefourtP for the county of Clinton,holdeu at the M and Waldrou. mother, is visiting friends in Cleveland, made by Edgar D. Moss ami Lydfa M. Moss to Ohio. For Clinton County, 1890-91. Probate Office, in the village of St. Johns, on John Hicks, dated October I3th, 1884, and The minutes of last special meeting read Monday, the 8th day of December, in the year one recorded October 13, 1884, In the office of the and approved. At the late meeting of the State thousand eight hundred and ninety Register of Deeds for Cliutou county. Id tue Published every Thursday morn Present, Joel H. Crimson, Judge of Probate. ing from the Independent Office, The following accounts were presented and Grange, F. \V. Hedfern was re-elected DeWitt, Friday, Sept. 26, 1890. State of Michigan, in Liber 61 of mortgages on over Wheat Bros. ’ Clothing a member of the executive committee. Ovid, Friday, Oct. 31, 1890. In the inatterof theestate ol JAMES SOWLE page 497, on which mortgage there is claimed Store. No. 17 Clinton Mve. referred to the committee on claims. Regular Examination, St. Johns, Thursday deceased. to be due at the date of tills notice the sum of Fowler & ball...... 11,420 12 J. W. Ferguson, Principal of the aud Friday, March 5 and 6,1891. On reading aud filiDg the petition duly verified, twenty-five hundred and thiny-seven amt school in this place, together with his DeWitt, Friday, March 27, 1891. of Charles J. Sowle, pray lug that partition of the nineteen one-hundredth dollars, and nosuitor GEO S. COR BIT. Proprietor. Vacurn OH Co ...... 13 70 Elsie, Friday. April 24,1891. real estate ol said deceased may be made among his proceeding at law or in equity having been J D Henderson & Bro ...... 7 80 family, are spending their vacation in Regular Examination, St. Johns, Thursday heirs, aod that commissioners be appointed for instituted to recover any part of the debt K> rms.—One year$l 60; Six montne 78 Cent*; Ohio. and Friday, August 6 and 7,1891 that purpose. ______secured bysuld_____ mmortgage; therefore by virtue Three months 40 Cent#. Advertising rates made Total ...... 1,450 71 St. Johns, Friday, August 28, 1891. Thereupon It is ordered, that Saturday, the 3d I of The power' of>f“ sale infn said mortgage ton- known onappllcelion. Marriage and Death no The committee on claims report back the Mr. aud Mrs. A. D. Noble and child First and second grades granted only at reg a*I January, A. D. 1891, at one tallied and of the statute in such cases mado tice* free. ren, of Detroit, are spending the holi ular examinations. ® clock in the aiuruoou be assigned for the and provided, notice is hereby given that on above accounts and recommend they be al days at the home of Mrs. Noble ’!s par- At the regular appointments examinations bearingg ofor said petitionti at the Piobate office in March 2 I at, 1891, ut one o'clock In the after FACILITIK8 FOB DOIXS lowed at the footings and ordon drawn on the for Third Grade Certificates will begiu at one the village of 8t. Johns noon at the west front door of the court house appropriate funds. cuts. o'clock u. m.. on the first day, aud close at And It is further ordered, that notice be for Clinton county, In the State of Michigan, JOB PRINTING J. W. Hewitt and wife, and F. D. four o ’clock p. m., on the second day. given to tbe persons interested in said estate of the In the village of fet. Johns, In said county) 1 On motion the report of the committee on Examinations begin at 8 o ’clock a. in. time and place of said hearing by causing a copy of there will' be sold ut public vendue to the Unsurpassed for style end cheapness . claims was accepted. Smith and wife, of Vermontville, are By order of the Board of School Examiners. this order to be published in the Clinton Inde blghtst bidder the premises In said mortgage The president reports receiving the resigna visiting relatives and friends in this vil R. M. WINSTON, Secretary. pendent, a newspaper printed and circulated in described, viz: The north-west quarter or the lage aud vicinity. St. Johns. Sept. 27th 1889. 1202 said county of Clinton, for three successive weeks south-east quarter of the north-west quarter tion of E. E. Urle as village clerk, to take effect previous to saiddav of bearing. of section eight in township eight, north of TIME TABLE The pulpit of the Christian church JOEL H.CHANSON, range three west in the Suite of Michigan, less December 29,1890. T7EPOBT OF THE CONUITION A truecopv. Judge of Probate. On motion the report was accepted. will be occupied, on Sunday morning one piece ten rods square, otr the north-east IN EFFECT corner, and one piece four rods north and Trustee White moved that the resignation of next, by ltev. Baker,of Union Christian —of — College, Merom, Ind. ORTGAGE KALE'—Default having been south by eight rods earn und west off the south E. E. Urle as village clerk, to take effect Dee. made iu the conditions of a certain east corner. —Dated, December 3d, 1890. January 1, 1891. 29,1890, be accepted by the Board. The little daughter of Thomas Taylor, 5 Mmortgage, dated September 18th, 1889, made by JOHN HICKS, Perkins A Baldwin , Mortgagee. The motion was supported and adopted. who broke one of the bones of her fore The State" ‘ ' St. Johns, Charles Eckert and Catherine E. Eckert, his arm a few days since, is doing finely wife, to The State Bank of St. Johns, and re Attys for Mortgagee. 1259-12w WESTWARD. Yeas—l. Nays —0. under the treatment of Dr. Knapp, who AT ST. JOHNS. MICH. corded in the office of the Register of Deeds
The president presented the name of DeWitt for the County of Clinton and State of Michi RDER OF PUBLICATION.—State Of d* reduced the fracture. At the close of business, December 19,1890 : gan, on the 19th day of September, 1889, at 9)4 13, H. Hunt as village clerk to All out the unex- Michigan, Twenty-nineth Judicial Cir M o'clock a m.. In Liber 74 of Mortgages, on page Ocuit, in Chancery. Suit pending In the Circuit W ZS a splred term to March 1,1891. Wm. Moss, Isaac Hewitt, Jr., Ray RESOURCES. 54; on which mortgage there is claimed to be STATIONS. No. Court for the County of Clinton in Chancery, a 6$ On motion the nomination of Mr. Hunt was Hewitt, Wm. ltowly, Fred Knapp, Loans and Discounts ...... 3155,772 63 due at the date of this notice the sum of one at the Village of St. Johns, on the 24th day of Except J*H Sunday. received. Jennie Bement, Lizzie Newton aud Overdrafts...... 1,749 49 hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty- November, A. D. 1890. Philip Morgan, com 35 U Mail Maida Newton, students from this vi Due from banks in reset ve cities ...... 19,063 15 seven cents, (3163.47) besides an attorney fee plainant, vs. Maggie Morgan, defendant. In Trustee White moved that the nomination of cinity. who are attending colleges Furniture and Fixtures...... 1,550 00 of fifteen dollars stipulated for In said mort this case it appearing from affidavit on file, a. to. a. m. p. in. p. m p. m. D. H. Hunt as village clerk be aud the same is Other real estate...... 3.764 95 gage and provided by statute to be paid should 8 00 10 30 that the defendant, Maggie Morgan is not a DETROIT...... Lv 6 50 11 00 4 30 hereby confirmed by this Board. abroad, are at home spending the holi Current expenses and taxes paid...... 1,440 14 any proceedings be taken to foreclose the resident of this state, but is a resident of the Milwaakce Jet.... 7 10 11 18 4 60 8 15 10 50 day vacation. lute.est paid...... 1,869 59 same, and no proceedings at law or in equity City of Denver,in the Stateof Colorado; there p. in. The motion was supported and carried. Checks and cash items...... 1,248 64 having been Instituted to recover any part of fore, on motion of Jason E. Nichols, solicitor Pontiac ...... 7 58 12 05 5 32 8 56 12 00 Yeas—l. Nays —0. The reunion of Cos. A. and G. of the Nickels aud pennies...... 126 70 the debt secured by said mortgage. Now a. in. for complainant. It is ordered that defendant The clerk presented a report of moneiee re Mich. 23d Inft., held in this village, on Gold ...... 4,010 00 therefore, by virtue of the power of sale con enter her appeurance in said cause on or be Holly ...... 8 43 12 47 9 40 1 05 the 23d, was a grand success in every Silver...... t...... 343 00 tained in said mortgage, and of the statute in fore four months from the date of this order, I)u rand...... 9 30 1 30 10 25 2 07 ceived for licenses aud so forth, which was respect. There were present 22 of Co. U. S. and National Bank Notes ...... 3,211 00such ease made and provided, notice is hereby and that within twenty days the complainant Owossc Jet...... 10 10 2 20 2 .50 turned over to the treasurer and his receipt given that the said mortgage will be foreclosed cause this order to be bubiished in the Clinton St. Johns ...... 10 56 3 06 3 58 A. and 9 of Co. G. They were warmly Total ...... 3194,145 29 by sale of the premises therein described, at 11 49 3 56 5 10 taken for the same from March 1, 1890, to Independent, said publication to be continued Ionia ...... welcomed by the members of Billy Be- LIABILITIES. public auction, to the highest bidder, at the once In each week for six weeks in succession. p. in. January 1,1891. gole Post and Corps, who did all in their west front door of the Court House, in the vil VARIAN C. BOTSFORD, Lowed ...... 12 17 4 24 9 60 5 50 On motion the report was receive!. Capital stock paid in...... 350,000.00 lage of St Johns. In said county of Clinton, 6 40 power to make it pleasant for the visit Surplus fund...... 801 78 Circuit Court Commissioner In and for the Grand Rapid...... 12 .50 5 00 10 25 Trustee White moved that the report sub on the 14th day of March, 1891 atone o ’clock County of Clinton and State of Michigan. O R. A I. Jet...... 1 05 5 15 10 86 7 10 ing comrades, some of whom came over Undivided profits ...... 7,643 07 in the afternoon of that day, which said prem Jason E. N ichols , Ferrysburg- ...... 2 10 6 10 8 40 mitted by the clerk be spread upon the record. 150 miles to attend the reunion. The Commercial deposits ...... 131,923 09 ises are described in said mortgage, as follows, Solicitor for Complainant Grand Haven...... 2 15 6 15 g 50 Savings deposits ...... 8,777 35 The motion was supported and carried. exercises were very interesting, and a to-wit: The East one-half (Vif of the North [Attest.—A true copy.] A. Thomas , Milwaukee by Sir...... east one-quarter
Ex. M . paper is the wish of your correspondent. 18»u. gage, made by Charles J. Harris aud Estelle
a a D. H POWER, Cashier. 14. THE STATE BANK OF ST. JOHNS, M. Harris to Fidelia E. Bradley, dated May 25, Their Forty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary. Ere these lines greet your eyes the old STATIONS. &-= ‘Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th Fedewa & Lyon , Mortgagee. 1882, and recorded May 25. 1882, In the office of
Sunday. “ede year with its pleasures and sorrows, its day of Dec,, 1890. ALBERT J. BALDWIN, No. Attorneys for Mortgagee. 1261 wl3 the Register of Deeds for Clinton county. In •O Last Saturday evening, children, rela kind deeds and errors, its failures and Michigan, in Liber 59 of mortgages, on page
Detroit Notary Public Clinton County, Michigan. V Ex. w £ tives and good friends and neighbors of successes will have passed into eternity, ROBATE ORDER.—Stateof Michigan 26. which mortgage was duly assigned June p m p. m. Oobheot —Attest: 3d, 1887, by Fidelia E. Maglll. formerly Fidelia Grand Haven...Lv 9 00 2 25 8 00 and the New Year with its new resolu PORTER K. PERRIN, county of Clinton, bs. At asession of the Pro Mr. and Mrs. William Waldrou, assem OTIS FULLER. Pbate court for the County of Clinton holden at theE. Bradley, to Spencer W. Gibbs by a written Ferryaburg ...... 9 05 2 30 8 10 tions for good, its hopes and anticipa Probate office, in the Village of St. Johns, on assignment, whieb was recorded October 19th, wp a. id . bled at their always joyous home on JOHN H. CORBiT. tions of better things to come, will be Director*. Tueslay, the 9th day of December, in the year 1887, in tbe office of the Register of Deeds G. R. A I. Jet...... 6 40 10 05 10 40 Wight street, to join in the celebration upon us, and so I repeat, may joy and one thousand eight hundred and ninety. aforesaid, in Liber 68 of mortgages, on page Grand Rapids..... 6 50 10 20 10 65 prosperity be your portion during the Present, Joel H. Cranson Judge of Probate 829, on which mortgage there is claimed to be Lowell ...... m 7 20 10 55 11 50 of their forty-fifth wedding anniversary. OF THE CONDITION In the matter of the estate of VIOLETTA due at the date of this notice one thousand a. in. The evening was spent in pleasant coming year. R‘ C. WEATHERBEE, deceased. and ninety-seven dollars and twenty-two Ionia ...... I?1 7 45 4 52 12 27 The Christmas tree entertainments -OF THE---- On reading and filing the petition duly verified, cents, besides an attorney fee of thirty dol St.Johns ...... • 8 28 5 40 1 55 converse, singing and feasting. Five of of F'red F. Murdock, praying tha' ne may lie ap lars, stipulated in said mortgage to be paid, passed off pleasantly; many beautiful pointed administrator of said estate. should any proceedings be taken to foreclose Owosso Jet...... 9 10 6 35 3 10 the seven living children were present, presents, both useful and ornamental, Thereupon It is ordered, that Saturday, said mortgage; and no suit or proceeding at a. m. and a large and well executed group were distributed among the audience. Clinton County Savings Baal, the 3d day ol January. A. D. 1891, at 10 law or in equity having been instituted to re Durand...... 5 20 9 40 1 47 7 20 3 50 The morning services at the Christian o ’clock in tbeforenooo, be assigned for tbe hear cover any part of the debt secured by said Holly ...... 6 05 10 18 2 26 8 05 4 60 picture of them was presented to their AT ST. JOHNS, MICH, ing of said petition at the probate office in the mortgage; therefore, by virtue of the power Pontiac ...... 6 45 10 57 3 05 8 65 5 50 fond parents, which they appreciate church on Sunday last were very im Village of St. Johns. of sale in said mortgage contained, and of the Milwaukee Jet.... 7 30 11 35 3 45 9 35 6 50 pressive. It was the farewell sermon of At the close of business, December 19, 1890. Aud it is further ordered that notice be giver statute in sucli cases made and provided, n<>' DETROIT..... At. 7 45 11 55 4 05 9 .50 7 20 more than anything else that could have ltev. C. Watson, the much esteemed to the persons interested in said estate of the time tice is hereby given that on January 17, 1891. 49^Chair Car, Buffet Car and Sleeping Car Service. been bestowed, and popular pastor of the Christian RESOURCES. and place of said bearing by causing a copy of at one o ’clock In the afternoon, at the west Loans and discounts ...... $ 41,909 82 thisorder to be published in the Clinton Indepen front door of the court house for Clinton Eastward, No. 12 bas Pullman Sleeper,Chicago to Mr. and Mrs. William Waldron have church of this village. Mr. Watson, Stocks, bonds, mortgages, etc...... 61,340 82 dent a newspaper printed and circulated in said county, in Michigan, in the village of 8t. Detroit. No. 14-bas Wagner Chair and Buffet Car, who is a young man of great talent and Due from banks In reserve cities...... 14,074 86 county of Clinton for three successive weeks previous Johns, In said county, there will be gold at Grand Rapids to Detroit. No. 18 has Chair Car, been residents of our village for a good ability, during his three years of resi Current expenses and taxes paid.... 49 22 to said day of bearing. JOEL H.CRANSON, public vendue to the highest bidder the prem Grand Rapids to Detroit. No. 82 has Wagner ly number of years, and have won the dence among us, has, by bis upright life, Interest paid...... 1,067 05 A true copy. Judge of Probate ises in said mortgage described, viz: Tne Sleeper, Grand Rapids to Detroit. Nickles and pennies...... 1.26 south half of the northeast quarter of section respect and esteem of all with whom leasant and genial ways, become en- Gold ...... 705 00 OKTGA'-K SAUF..—Default having five in township five north, of range three M west, in Michigan. Dated October 15,1890. Westward, No. II bas Cbair Car, Detroit to Grand they have come in coutact. May they Seared to the people of tnis community, Silver...... 77 25 been made in the conditions of a certain Rapids. No. 15 bas Wagoner Parlor Buffet Car, and much sadness is expressed at hisde- U. 8. and Nationul Bank Notes ...... 2,406 00 mortgage, dated January 24th, 1887, made by SPENCER W. GIBBS. Detroit to Grand Kapids. No. 17 bas Pullman live long to enjoy the society of their Jeremiah Messer and Rosanna Messer, his Peurinr & Baldwin , Assignee. Sleeper, Detroit to Chicago. No. 81 has Wagner arture. He left for his new field of la- Total ...... 124,619 78 wife, to Lorenzo W. Chubb, and recorded in Attys for Assignee. 1252-I2w children and a large circle of earnest oratSt. Johnsville, N. Y., on Monday, the office of the Register of Deeds for the Sleeper, Detroit to.Qraud Rapids. E LIABILITIES. JNO. W. LOUD, BEN FLETCHER, friends and well-wishers. Dec. 29. At the close of the service, F. county of Clinton and state of Michigan, on ROBATE ORDER—State of Michigan Traffic Manager. Trav. Pass. Agent. W. Redfern. in a few well chosen and Capital Stock paid In...... $ 35,000.00 the 16th day of February, 1887, at 6 o ’clock County of Clintou, eg. At a session of the Undivided profits ...... 1,914 83 p. m.. In Liber 69 of Mortgage *, on page 80; PProbate Court for the county of Cllnteii, holden at Thos . Bromley , Local Agent. A Beautiful and Valuable Book. appropriate words, presented Mr. Wat Savings deposits ...... 87,704 95 and the said mortgage having been duly the Probate office in the village of St. Johns on That ambitious paper, the Detroit son. in behalf of the church, a handsome assigned by W. H. Woodworth, administrator Saturday, the 13th day of December, in the year solid goid watch chain. The response Total ...... 3124,619 78 of the estate of said Lorenzo W. Chubb, to one thousand eight hundred and nicety. Loan Agents. Journal,la unwilling to play second fid State of Michigan, County of Clinton, ss: I, EfTallne Chubb, by written assignment bearing Present, Joel 11. CraDson, Judge of Probate. dle to any, and its new Year Book for of Mr. W. was very affecting, and left a P. E. Walsworth, Treasurer of the above date February 28th, 188s. and recorded in the In the matter of the estate of MARY LONG, HE niCIIIOAN 7IOKTGAUE CO., 1891 completely bears out its claim of deep impression upon the large audi named bank, do solemnly swear that the office of the Register of Deeds for Clinton deceased. T Limited. Capital, 1*5.000, successors to Walker being finer than any previous work of ence assembled. At the same time and above statement is true to the bet* of my county, Michigan, on the 24th day of January, On reading and filing the petition duly verified A White, dealersin Mortgage Securities, School and place Mr. Watson, in behalf of the knowledge and belief. 1889, at 4 o ’clock p. m., in Liber 73 of Mortgages of Bridget Long, praying that the last* will and Municipal Bonds. A few pieces of choice lands for the Kind ever issued. This book con P. E. WALSWORTH, on page 48, on which mortgage then1 is testament ol said deceased may be proved and ad sale. Office cor. Walker and Spring-sts,, St. Johns. tains in its 148 pages a remarkable Christians.S..presented their Superin Treasurer. claimed to be due at the date of this notice mitted to probate. amount of valuable information — tendent, Mrs. Libbie Anderson, with a Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 29th the sum of three hundred and thirty-six Thereupon it is ordered that Thursday, the Attorneys. alphabetically arranged —and among beautiful bible. Rex . day of Dec,, 1890. G. H. MARSHALL, dollars and eighty-nine cents (33364(9), besides 8ih day of January, A. I>. 1891, at ten other things, the complete 1890 Notary Public, Clinton County, Mich. an attorney fee of fifteen dollars stipulated o ’clock in the forenoon be assigned lor the bearing DWIN H. LVO.H, Attorney at Law, St. Correct —Attest: for in said mortgage and provided by statute of said petition and that I be heirs at law and Johns, Mich. Office over H. L. Kendrick's census figures, election statistics in ALBERT J. BALDWIN, to be paid should any proceedings be tuken to legatees of said deceased and all other persons in Store.E 1263 full, etc. It is also profusely and beau GEOKGE A. STEEL, foreclose the same, and no proceedings at law terested in said will are requind to appear at a tifully illustrated with over one hundred Bengal , Dec. 29,1890. JOS1AH UPTON, or iu equity having been instituted to recover session of said court then to be bolden at the Pro Directort. any part of the debt secured by the said mort bate office in the village of St. Johns, aud show QP.4CLDI5IG A W AI.HIt I DGE, Attor- “half-tone ” engravings (from photo Will Moore has purchased a farm in gage. Now therefore by virtue of the power cause, if any there be, why »he will should not be neys at Law, St. Johns, Mich. [12121 graphs), all made expressly for the book, Riley. of sale contained in said mortgage, and of the approved. and is printed on fine paper and bound ^EPOKT^F THE CON DTI ION statute in such case made and provided, notice And it is further ordered, that notice be given A. W. Norton. Will H. Brunson. Milo Sutton and family are visiting in is hereby given that the said mortgage will be to the persous interested in said estate, ol the ORTON A K RUN SON, successors to in a beautiful cover. It is an immense Gratiot county. —or ---- foreclosed by sale of the premises therein dis- pendency of the hearing thereof by causing a copy N Daboll A Brunson and Auteu & Moss, At improvement on its two predecessors cribcdto the highest bidder, at the west front of this order to be published in the Clinton torneys at Law. In the old office of AiHenand & should be found in every home. It Miss Lucella Rice is visiting her door of the court house, in the village of St. Independent, a newspaper printed and circulated Moss over McCabe’s shoe store 8t. Johns Mich. is given free to all subscribers of the J)e- cousin, Gusta Barks, in Dallas. Johns, in said county of Clinton, on the 21st in said county of Clinton, for three successive Farmers begin to think of harvesting The St. Johns National Bank, day of March. 1891, at oneo ’clock In the after- weeks previous to said day of hearing, H. M. PERRIN. P. K. PERRIN. A. J. BALDWIN trmt Journal), but others can have a copy noon of said day, which said premises arc do- JOEL H.CRANSON, ERKINS A BALDWIN, Attorneys at mailed them by remitting 30 cents, in ice, which is nve or six inches thick. AT ST. JOHNS, MICH. scribed in said mortgage as follows, to-wit: (A truecopy.') Judgeof Probate. The west one-third (\i) of the south one-half Law and Solicitors in Chancery. Bounty, stamps to the Detroit Journal. Miss Cora Halsey returned last week At the close of business, Dec. 19, 1890. Ppension, real estate agents, conveyancers and from Dakota, where she has been teach (V4) of section No. twenty-seven (27* in town IUARDIAN’S 8ALE. —Notice is hereby money loaners. Also examine titles, pay taxes, A Correction. RESOURCES. ship No. eigbt(8)north of range No. four<4)wesi W given that by virtue und in pursuance and make collections. Business entrusted to their ing. in Michigan, excepting six (6) acres out of the Cof license and authority granted to me, the care will be promptly and faithfully attended to. In answer to the scandal concerning Elmer Fred VanGeison, of St. Johns, is Loans and discounts ...... $225,948 34 south-west corner thereof. Said sale will be undersigned, by the Judge of Probate of Office over IVickes’ grocery, Clinton Avenue, St. Overdrafts, secured and unsecured .. 4,222 83 made subject to the remainder yet to become Clinton county, Michigan, on the 13th day of Johns, Mich. 1133 Dutton, I would say it is all untrue. Mrs. Min spending the holidays with his cousin, U. 8. bonds to secure circulation . 25,000 00 due on said mortgage. —Dated, December 20th, November, 1890, to sell real estate belonging to nie Dutton, mv sister, and her husband, Ulmer Leroy Rope. Stocks, securities, claims, etc...... 667 42 1890 F’red E, Smith, a minor. I will sell at public Due from approved reserve agents.. . 20,197 27 .71. II. CASTEE, Attorney at Law. Dutton, arrived safely and honorably, and in EFFALINE CHUBB, auction, to the highest bidder, on the loth day The Christmas eve entertainment, at Banking-house, furniture, St fixtures. 8.500 00 Fedewa & Lyon , Assignee. of January, 1891, at one o'clock p.m., at the Office over Kendrick’s store, St.Johns. due time, at Pendleton, Oregon, their objec Current expenses and taxes paid . 2,506 11 W 1133 the Bengal U. B. church, was well at Attorneys for Assignee. I262wl3 Probate office In St. Johns, in said county, all tive point. I know Mr. Elmer Dutton has over tended and much enjoyed. Premiums on U. S. bonds ...... 3,790 53 the right, title and interest of said minor in EDEWA Ac MERRILL, Attorneys at been a good husband, and I believe him to be Checks and other cash items...... 339 44 H OK ATE COURT, Clinton county, se- and to the following described pieces of land: Law, at the old stand, over the “corner drug Mr. and Mis. Stephen Alexander, of Bills of other banks...... 1,200 00 Notiee is hereby given that claims 1st, land bounded by a line beginning at the Pstore, ” St. Johns, Mich. 1263moved by far more nobler and purer motives Olive, spent Christmas with their daugh Fractional paper currency, nickles, Pagainst JOHN J. SCHAFER, deceased, will sotMhbe east corner of the west half of lot seven than was manifested by the author of ters in Bengal. and cents ...... 123 50 heard by tbe undersigned at the Probate in block seven in tbe village of Maple Rapids, this scandalous report. Common sense ought Specie ...... 14,744 35 office fn said county on the 36th day of February Clinton county, Michigan, running thence Justice of the Peace. perry, ol Legal tender notes ...... 2,100 00 and the 29th day of June, 1891; and that the north twenty-two feet, thence west thirty- to teach that had the untrue story been true, Redemption fund with U. S. Treasu creditors of deceased are allowed six months from three feet, thence south twenty-two feet, Christmas with her parents,pan Mr. and rer (5 per cent of circulation) . 1,125 00 N. DUNCAN, Justice of the Peace. Mrs. Dutton would have written first to her Mrs. Jesse Everts. tbe date of this notice iu which to present their thence east to the place of beginning. only brother and sister for aid, in preference claims lor adjustment. 2nd, land bounded bv a line beginning at the • Collections made and Rinds promptly Total ...... 3310,464 79 Dated December 29,1890. remitted.M Office over Wilson A Sons ’ Clothing to those who are comparative strangers. Pilfering of chickens, also of canned north east corner of lot eight in block seven Store, St. Johns, Mich. 1133 fruits, are reported. It is something LIABILITIES. JOEL H. CHANSON. in said village, running thence north twenty- LUCY PLUMMER. new for so much petty theiving in this Capital stock paid in...... $100,000 00 1263w4 Judge of Probate. four feet, thence west to land owned by St. Johns, December 31,1890. locality, but people who do very little Surplus fund...... 11,000 00 Hannah Hewitt on lot seven In block seven, Dentistry. Unolvid< ‘d profits ...... 10,996 52 OMMISSIONERS’ NOTICE. — The thence south to the north line of said lot eight Ke port of Pomona. labor make sure of a living some how. National bank notes outstanding . 22,500 00 J undersigned having been appointed by the thence east on said line to the place of begin Individual deposits subject to check. 76,386 6fi ProbateC Judge of Clinton county, Michigan, com ning. H. KEN VON, Dentist East Walker Notwithstanding the extreme cold weather, Bengal Grange held the annual elect Demand certificates of deposit ... 75,507 25 missioners to receive,examine and adjust all claims The interest of said ward in said land is the Street. 1133 ion of ollicers Saturday evening. The Due to state banks and bankers ...... 14,074 36 and demands against ALICE M. LYON, undivided one-half thereof, and will be sold a full attendance was at the Clinton County following named persons were chosen : deceased, hereby give notice that we will meet for subject to all incumbrances, and to the dower Pomona Grange, at Oliye, Dec. 23. The morn M.-E. H. Lyon. Total ...... 3110,464 79 that purpose at the office of William H.Caste), in Interest of the undersigned us widow of Edgar Physicians. ing session was taken up in discussing the O. —Calvin Rice. State of Michigan, county of Clinton, ss. the village of St. Johns, in said county, od the 26ih M. Smith, deceased. day of February, and the 15th day of June! 1891 NANCY SMITH, Guardian of resolutions presented at the State Grange by L.—Emma Rice. I, P. E, Walsworth, cashier of the above named S. —Ansel Chapman. bank, do solemnly swear that the above state and that the creditors of said deceased are allowed FRED E. SMITH, a minor. HtRT, ITI. !»., Physician and Sur- Dated, November 27. 1890. 1258-7 • geon. Eureka, Mich. J. H. Forster, of Williamston, in regard to the A. 8. —Warren Sackett. ment Is true to the best of my knowledge and six menths from tbe date of this notice iu which H advisability of Congress appropriating money C.—Mrs. Einma Clark. belief. P. E. WALSWORTH, to present, their claims for adjustment.—Dated . 1217 December 15, 1890. for government surveys of the arid plains of T. —Charles Clark. Cashier. W. POLLARD. Physician and Surgeon. Sec.—Bertha Lyon. SubscVibed and sworn to, before me this WILLIAM H. CASTEL, JL•— county ot.... Clintou, ss. At a session of the is*rro- • Specialities, Diseases of Women and Child the west for Irrigating purposes. It Is a G. K.—A. N. Steward. 27th day of Dec., 1890. G. H. MARSHALL. ROBERT YOUNG, oate Court for thecounty of Clinton, holden at the Jren. the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Surgery. scheme originated by railroad mon to find a P. —Cora Brown. Notary Public. 1262-4t Commissioners. probate office, in tbe village ot 8t. Johns, on Superfluous hair and other facial blemishes removed better market for their lands, inducing many F.—Kittle Harper. Correct —Attest: Wednesday, the 10th day of December, in the year by Electrolysis All professional calls promptly atten- C.— Lillie Chapman. GEO. A. STF.F.L. one thousand eight hundred and ninety. to come and settle upon them, and losing all ROBATE OK DEII—State of Michigan ded to, night or day. Office over Wilson A Son ’s L. A. 8. —Etta Harper. GALUSHA PENNELL, PCounty of Clinton, ss. At a session of the Present, Joel H. Cranson, Judge of Probate. clothing store,St. Johns, Mich. Night calls ans they had, returning with nothing, when there E. N. Steward . JOSIAH UPTON, Probate Court for the county of Clinton holden atIn the matter ofthe estate of JOHN KLINKER, wered from the office. 1169tf. is 8 till good lands to pre-empt for almost noth Director*. the Probate Office, in the village of St. Johns, on deceased. On reading and filing the petition duly verified of ing. The afternoon session was taken up DEWITT. Monday, the 29th day of December in the year R. C. C. HAVENS, Physician and Sur otice of dissolution .—N otice is one thousand eight hundred and ninety. Albert F. Morehouse, administrator, with the will geon. Office and residence at the late resi wholy in reports from subordinates Granges annexed, praying that, he may be licensed to sell D D eWitt, Dee. 30, 1890. hereby given that the Co-partnership Present, Joel H. Cransoo, Judge of Probate. dence of Dr. Bliss, Fowler Mich. 1187yl. and election of officers, (the result of which Nheretofore existing between us for the practiceIn the matter of the estate of MERRITT TEM real estate belonging to aaid deceased, for the pur The relatives of Chas. Dills met at his home of law under the firm name of Fedewa A Lyon, PLE, deceased. pose of distribution and the payment of legacies. will be given by your Olive correspondent.) lias this day expired by mutual consent. All On reading and filing the petition duly verified, Thereupon it is ordered, that Thursday, the EO. M’PIIEKSON, Physician and Sur The reports of the old officers was an interest in South Riley, Dec. 25, to celebrate their 4th 8th day of January, A. D. 1891, at ten geon. Office Main street, Fowler. Special business now in our charge will be disposed of of Emily VunGieson, praying that. John Van- G ing feature of the afternoon session. Some annual Christmas feathering. Thirty-five were by us together, and either of us may be con Gieaon may be appointed administrator of said o'clock in the forenoon, be assigned tor the hear ties, diseases of women and Children. 1133 sulted in reference to the same. Mr. Fedewa estate. ing of said petition, aud that the heirs at law excellent thoughts were advanced, and plans present to partake in the sumptuous feast of sabl deceased aud all other persons in prepared for them, besides the relatives. A. will continue to practice law at the office oc Thereupon It is ordered, that Thursday, the IR. POST, in. D., Physician, Surgeon and suggestions made. The year of 1890 has cupied by us, ana Mr. Lyon will have his office 32d day of January, A D. 1891, at ten terested In said estate, are require*! to appear at a • and Druggist, east side of Main street, Eubeen, in every respect, a successful year, new Whitaker and family, and Regina VanFleet, of over H. L. Kendrick's store. —Dated, December o ’clock in the forenoon be assigned for the hearing session of said court then to be holden at the Pro Sreka, Mich. Office at drug store. All calls prompt Chicago, were present. The day was spent in 31st, 1890. oi aaid petition at the Probale office in the Village bate office In the village of St.Johns, and show ones added to our list, and many reinstated. JOHN H. FEDEWA. of St. Johns. cause, if any there be, why tbe will should not be ly attended. Prescriptions carefully compounded. music and social Intercourse. One of the granted. ______1138 None but those who attend can estimate the EDWIN H. LYON. And itlsfurtberordered.thatnoticebeglven to good resulting from these monthly gatherings. pleasant feature of the day was a Christmas the perrons interested in said estate, of the And it is further ordered that a copv of this WELLER, III. D., Physician and tree laden with many useful presents. Among time and place o, said hearing by causing a copy order to be published in ibe Clinton Inde a Surgeon . Office at Residence west of Con It Is seed sown on good soil, and hears rich OMMISSIONERS’ NOTICE. —The of this order to be published in the Clinton pendent, a newspaper printed and circulat Mgregational church, St. Johns. 1138 fruitage, Inspiring the farmer and his family them, Mrs. Chas. Dills secured ogoods for a C undersigned having been appointed by the Independent, a newspaper printed and ed in said County of Clinton for three successive to grander aspirations, and a nobler and bet dress, May Dills a gold bracelet, and Mrs. Piobate Judge of Clinton county, Michigan, circulated in said county or Clinton for three weeks previous to said day of hearing. commissioners to receive, examine and adjust all succeiaive weeks previous to said day of hearing. JOEL II. CRANSON, n. HAVENS, m. D., Homoeopathic ter life; thus, making more intelligent citi Orman Dills a cannopy top surrey, presented claims and demands against JOSEPH A. A true conv Judge oj[ Probate. Physician and 8urgeon. Office over R. J. by her husband. After enjoying the genial JOEL H.CRANSON. zens and voters. Could all appreciate Its noble ORDING, deceased, hereby give notice that we A truecopy Judge of Probate. oodruff ’s shoe store. 1188 hospitality of the host and hostess, the mem will meet for that purpose at the store of Geller influence, none would absent themselves from Brothers, in the village of Fowler, in said ROBATE OK DEK—Slate of Michigan, R. A. J. WIGGINS, Physician and Sur- our gatherings. An excellent dinner and sup bers of the families departed for their homes county.on the 36th day of February and the 11th ROBATE OKI1EK • —Stateof Michigan County ofCIlnton.ss. At a session of the Pro county of Clinton, ss. At a session of the Pro P __D geon. Office over Sullivan's clothing per was served by the ladles of Olive grange, while the young people stayed to enjoy a day of J une, 1891. and that the creditors of said P bate Court for theCounty of Clintou, holden at store, St. Johns, Mich. 124-ltf social dance in the evening, of which all re‘ deceased are allowed six months from the date of bate Court for the county of Clinton,holden at thethe Probate office in the village of 8t. Johns, on who are skilled in this art. After an hour of this notice In which to present their claims for Probate Office in the village of St. Johns, on Monday, the 22d day of December, in the year E. GILL AM, M. D., Physician and social enjoyment a public meeting in the port a good time. K. R. A. Monday the 29 day of Deeebinerin the year one one thousand eight hundred and ninety. adjustment. thousand eight hundred and ninety. • Surgeon. Office at Residence, opposite courtevening was held (according to custom for the Dated December 11, 1890. Present Joel If. Cranson, Judge of Probate. Shouse, west. Specialties: Die-ases of Women DIED. FERDINAND GKLLF.R, Present, Joel H. Cranson, Judge of Probate. In the matter of the estate of JOSEPH M. and Children. Office hoars 10 to. 2 a m.andStoS. last three years), given by the young people, NICHOLAS VAFDERLEE, In the matter of the estate of ROBERT H. PHILLIPS, deceased. 1138 and was a grand success in every respect, and 1262-4 Commissioners. BROWN, deceased. On reading and filing the petition duly verified, reflected much credit on the members of Olive BLIZZARD—At the residence of Mr. Allward, Stephen M. Howard, executor of the will of said of Grant Phillips, praying that. Mary S. Phillips, NI.nnONS, m. D., Homoeopathic Grange. in St. Johns. December 26, 1890, of typhoid diseased, having made appllcaolon for the allowance or some other suitanle person, may be appointed • Physician,Surgeon and Accoucheur. Office fever, James, son of Richard Blizzard, of of hla final account and tor his discharge. administrator of said estate. Ron Main street. DeWitt. 1183 Hncklen’s Arnica naive. Olive township, aged 28 years. Funeral at Thereupon It la ordered, that Thursday, ths Thereupon it is ordered, that Thursday, tlie Olive church last Sunday, and the interment CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON 22 THE OLDEST CHURCH TOWER. flrst-£!ass, reliable article, which woufcl SPIRIT FINGERS AT THE KEY. turn his medinmsfifp to account, that CONDENSED INFORMATION. Clinton Independent. have cost several times as much. it had a money value, and would be U la ilk* Trank of m titans Fir Tree on Here, then, is w hy the cheaper shoes Aa Operator Bothered by PtnUlnot Coa- considered a novelty. He shook his l’uf.l Nauud. muuloatluDi from tho Ollier World. Mrs. Charles Greon of Kentucky, Obo . S. Cokbit , Editor and Proprietor. Are not worth evou the fractional price head despondently. "You don ’t un which they cost. With care they may derstand me. 1 don ’t want to make who was twice a widow before she was The Puget sound steamer was near wear for five or six weeks; but they Eight or nine year* ago a well-known mouey with them, 1 want to make uiv 18 year* old, Is now 23, and ha* been 8T. JOHNS, MICHIGAN ing Tacoma, the new city leaping into cannot bo kept “looking uresentnble” telegraph operator, considered one of living without them. I am ready at six times married. life on Commencement bay, says the the Liest iu the profession, left till* city Louis Guyban, a blind man, Identi for half that timo. The dearer shoes any moment to turn over these spirits fied a thief who had robbed him by rec It is good to havo the courage to Youth'a Companion. The long twilight will wear us many months, aud with a for a belter position at Omaha, says to anybody who want* them and cua ?f the north was fadiug; the Puget ognizing tho prisoner ’s voice. welcome a new order of things; to dis little care they will look well till they the Indianapolis Journal. He was a lake them off my bauds.” sea was quivering with light; and over p.re woru out. — Good Housekeeping. round-faced good-natured young fel Over 3.000,000,0’)0,000 envelopes are cern the gladness and the glory of now it hung Mount Tacoma or Raoier. low, und n great favorite with all who CHINESE PHYSICIANS. manufactured in England annually. possibilities; to welcome the angels jioro than 14.000 feet high, like a lent THE LAST OF THE AMAZONS. knew him. very neat in hi* personal The expression, "He Is a brick,” Is ot cloth of gold, its glaciers mingled appearance, being always dressed in They Are Paid by Contract to Keep Tlielr over 2,000 years old. Agesilaus, King that stand about the throne of life — Patient* Well. honor, generosity and sympathy. ritli sunset fire. Fraaoa About to Wipe Out the Kingdom the lutest and best that fashion dictat of $purla, 880 Ii. C., in showing hi* ••Youder. in Ola Tacoma,” said a of Dahomey. ed. He was without bad habits, and army of JO,000 men, pointing to them There are about one dozen Chinese said: "There are the walls of Sparta, There is to young man on the deck of the steamer, correct und business-like in all his a project construct a France has finally decided upon the doctor* iu this city, says u New York and every man Is a brick.” ••is tho oldest church towor in the conquest of Dahomey. The cable des dealings. ■hip canal across New Jersey from United Stales. It is tho trunk of au paper. There are 30,000 Americans who con patches report that she will soon Bend The other day a Journal reporter the Delaware river to the Atlantic. ancient pine.” They do not hang out their signs, stantly reside in London. an expedition north to Abomey, the was stopped by the exteuded hand of but are kept busy going about caliiug The scheme was first suggested by Following the direction pointed out a famous town that has been the scene dilapidated specimen of humanity, ou their patients, or customers, as they All birds of great and sustained merchants of Philadelphia, who desire by the youug man's hand, I discerned of so many terrible cruelties. , who.with a strange quaver in his voice, powers of (light have one woll-niarked across, a bell, aud a dark, leaning are usually healthy people. characteristic—they have long wiugs, a shorter water route to New York In the battle betweeu the French 1 asked if tho reporter did not recognize These doctors are employed on ex and an abbreviation of the journey of tower, to which a curious ladder led and Dahomeruns la?t spring it is said | him. Without waiting for the reply in with sharply pointed ends. from tho roof of u small church. | the negative which he saw in the un actly the same plan as they were when Official returns of tho Canadian seal hundreds of miles down the b iy and that 2,000 of the natives were killed. practicing in the Flowery Kingdom, The boat slowed in the clear, green The Amazons and male soldiers of the responsive glance of the reporter he fishery show thut 39,547 seal* were around Cape May to strike the ocean waters amid the cool shadows of tho introduced himself as the dapper little and Chinamen generally denounce the taken the past season, an Increase ot paths to Europe. new King Bodazin were driven north American plan of engaging a physi long points of fir and pine. Tite sound ward into their forests. Budnzin hoped telegrapher of other days.* Suspect 6,0 •() over last year. Of this number of a church bell broke upon the still ing this ns a preface to a demand for a cian. 2,3*1 were taken off the coast of British The problem of electric lighting is to capture a large number of the Instead of sending for the doctor Columbia and 18,1*35 in Behring Sea. air. The great dome of Mount Ta French forces for the sacrifices cele cash contribution, the uuwspaper man now so near a satisfactory solution coma was changing from gold into when a Chinaman becomes sick The sun’s perpendici.lar rays do uot brating his accession to the throne and was putting his hand into hi* pocket, nnd paying him for hi* visits, he thut the other imd greater problem of pink and violet; the shadows in the I when the seedy man interposed a ges Illumine the depths of the sea at ail, or in memory of the death of ills father. makes a contract when lie’s in good anything like it. Ou the contrary, they electrical propulsion is engaging the water were deepening, and the new He was driven back, however, dis ture of dissent. "I atn not askiug for city of Tacoma was close at hand. a cent; the boys have staked me. and I health with the medical man to be only penetrate, at the very outside, earnest efforts of experimenters and graced in the eyes of his people, and kept in good health for u ccrtaiu pe some two hundred fathoms down into "The oldest church tower in tho be considers it necessary to mako a have a railroad ticket that takes me to inventors, nnd the task is so fascinat United States.” The story haunted the old homo in western New York. I riod at a stated figure. the world of waters, beyond which last desperate effort to defeat the in As soon as the doctor makes a con distance all is utter darkue-s. ing, in the new achievements it con me even amid tho confusion of laud vader* and retrieve his fortunes. | just stopped over a few hours to see stantly brings forth, and tbe promises ing, and as soon as I had taken supper two or three of the people who knew tract he begins work. Tucson I* one of the oldest ns well as He has, therefore, marshaled his Every day ho makes a hasty call on largest and best known towns in Ari it holds out. that they do not hesitate 1 made inquiries about the rneuus of forces of about 5,000 women and mo in 1881 and 1882. I leave tonight. ” conveyance to Old Tacoma. The reporter could not reslraiu an bis patient and examines him briefly. zona. in fact, it is so old that there i* to declare, not only that it will be suc 6.000 male warriors at a distunce of If it should be be discovered that the no record showing when it was first cessful, but that it will yield a meas Tne* way. was simple and easy —a forty miles from tiie coa*t, where, at impulse to ask what had brought about settled. When tho first (Spanish ex ten-minutes’ ride on a street-car. I so great a change in the appearance of patient had been "seeing the elephant” ure of success far surpassing general last accounts, be was collecting pro on Mott street tiie previous night the plorers visited this country, about Ir>30, was soon there, and it was yet light, his whilom acquaintance. "Well,” he they found an old Mexican village there, expectations. for the twilight fades very slowly in visions and preparing bis troops for doctor would deliver a lecture on his another assault upon the French forces. replied,with some hesitation, "it wasn’t charge for being so foolish and leave and It was then said to havo boeu in these northern regions. I havo soon Even after he hail begun tbe prepara spirits, at least uot ardent spirits, tor 1 habited for centuries. Medical students in London are the Salvation army at Seattle singing never iuduiged to any extent iu liquor. him some medicine to reduce the size compelled to go through a course of tions he still sent peaceful messages to of his head. An Increase of 296 national banks In from their hymn-books on the opeu their commander and presents to Pres It was spirits of a very different kind. the United States is shown by the an four years ’ study, hospital attendance plateau at 8 o ’clock in the evening by I don't know that they ever meant me Should there be nothing at all the ident Carnot; but bis subterfuges have matter the doctor hurries away to his nual report of the comptroller of tho and lectures before being qualified to daylight, and there is still light in the not deceived the French, and they any harm, but they hare about ruined currency during the twelve months summer evenings at Tacoma until nte as a telegrapher. There's one now. next patient, for lie lias a great many' appear for final examination. By an have resolved to make an end of his to see in a day. which ended Sept. 30. This is the order of the general medical council much later. power and savagery. They are, there Don ’t you hear the sounder? *P. G.’— largest number In a single ycursinco It was easy to find the little church j *P. G.’—P. G..’ that’s my call. I’ll just The average contract price is about 1905. The aggregate capitalization of •f England the term of preparation has fore, fitting out an expedition on the $35 a year, which the doctor receives, with the pine-tree tower, and I was coast, aud intend, as soon as the dry answer them—'2o'—that mean* ‘busy. ’ these new institutions is mostly in tho been extended to live years. American soon admiriug its beautiful ivies. Perhaps they ’ll let me alone until i tell providing tlie patient keep* well dur growing regions of tbe Northwest aud season sets in, to strike straight for ing the entire timo. Southwest. doctors, however, can run up a monu It is a simple Episcopal chapel, with Abomey. I my story. the trunk of a giant fir tree or "pine” "I never know anything about spir- If tho patient should hnnpen to bo It is claimed that the first silver mental bill against a patient with The route which explorers have fol laid ii]) from any cause, 10 cents would equal facility, aud many of them got for a bell-tower. Tho sexton was just lowed through the dense forests of tualism, never cared anything about it, mines worked In the United States by closing the little door. aud all at once, six years ago. without be deducted from the $35 for every day Europeans are situated In tho moun diploma- without ever seeing a hospital that country to the capital i* hardly lie was not able to go out of the house. tains near Tucson, and although they "How old do you suppose the tower practicable for a military force. The any askiug or desire on my part, I or hearing a dozen lectures. to be?” I asked, appealing upon tho found myself to ho possessed of the This method has been ia use in are represented to havo been so secure expedition will probably be compelled China for hundred* of years aud ha* ly hidueii by the Jesuits ere tlievjwero rude step. to ascend the YVlieme river, cast of the strangest aud most distressing medium- Wi! could say something pleasant to j ‘•Old?'’ Some say 500 years; some istic powers. 1 had a friend of about been found to work very well. driven from tho country that their every one if wo did not set ourselves land route, in barges drawn by small There i* less sickness, and even if location Is now unknown, tradition say more. It was probably a great steamers. By this means they will ! tuy own age; we had learned telegraphy states that some of them were marvel up for 6ucb critics and keep our eyes tree before America was discovered. | together iu Cleveland and had ala ays the sufferer i* rich it is to the doctor ’s get within a short distance of the cap advantage to cure him as soon as pos ously rich, blinded to the best in human nature Ask Mr. A-----, the lumber dealer; he ital, and will lie able to strike the | beeu verv iutimate. About the time* I and the bishop built the church. The j went to Omaha he went to Cheyenne. sible nnd not linger ns some doctors Baron Nathaniel Rothschild of Vienna and look only for the worst. The I country at its very heart. This is the in this city have been known to do. cau he seen walking about tne vil.age church was built in a week. Would plan of attack suggested by Capt. Sep- I We kept no a correspondence by* letter most lovable woman in the world is ' you like to see the ivies inside?” and wire, Lut after a while lie got in A Chinaman will not employ an of VVaereshofen, near Munich, b.re the one who always finds something to ! tans, who was sent north nearly a year American doctor if he can possibly footed. undergoing the nerve euro of "The ivies inside?” My curiosity ago to ascertain the best route for an j the habit of taking an occasional spree. the Roman catholic priest, Father admire in her associates aud never was again excited. • I accepted his in ■ Ho was a delicate, sensitive fellow, aud help it. because it is believed that the expedition against the cnpital of Da sickness will last twice as long under Kneip. This doctor makes his patients hesitates to speak of it to others, and vitation. We entered the little church, homey. on sobering up >vould be the most go barefooted most of the timo, take whose lamps he quickly lighted. j melancholy chap imaginable. His bis treatment. in a quiet way suggests her admira There is no doubt, says tho N. Y. Tho Chinese doctor does not have a plunge every morning into Icy cold tion to the recipient, even if it verge The chapel was rude, but I never Sun, that this means the complete sprees become more and more frequent, water and eschew all meat and ialoxi* saw a more beautiful altar, except at I his fits of depression deeper. One day, to visit every patient every dav. but eating drink. oq flattery. Wholesale flattery is 1 absorption of Dahomey by France. be generally does if hecau possibly get Christmas. The chancel was filled The country is rich, but the kings of | following a prolonged debauch, he dis Now that Bismarck is a brewer tha more refined than brutal honesty. with living ivy, which had grown into appeared from Cheyenne. One of the around. Dahomey have for years beeu so con The usual way is to make a contract papers are digging at him right and it through the seams of the rough stantly engaged in war. and have | boys knowiugour iutiiuacy,telegraphed left. The Freisinnige Zeitnng quoins There is some eccentricity in the boards. The church was always me to know if he had come to Omaha, wilh all the occupants of a house or from a speech of the ex-charn el lor de make-up of some people that prompts butchered in cold blood so many of laundry for say $150 a year. In China trimmed with ivy. llow simple aud their subjects, compelling also a large j It was exactly 12:20 at night as I was livered iu tho Reichstag ou the 2Stli of them, even from their early years, to ! beautiful it was! j taking the message off the wires when the doctor contracts to take care of an March, is»l, in which ho said: "Beer number of their women to lead celi entire family, but there are very few prefer unwholesome food and habits I met friends in Tacoma and ex bate lives as soldiers of the king, that I heard the sounder on an old nnd dis stupefies the drinker Instead of excit pressed my delight at the poetic beauty connected instrument, one that the Chinese families here. ing his nerves, and it ought, therefore, to those thut ure healthy. At meals, tho population has been diminishing to he considered from an economical they will risk, not of malice prepense, ! of tiie old Tacoma church. I was in with remarkable rapidity. When tho boys about the office had played with, Ilow They Keep Warm In Montreal. troduced to Mr. A-----. a wealthy lum and national point of view as a bad but instinctively nnd unconsciously, 1 people of this laud are free from the thumping away, 'P. G.’—*P. G.’—‘P. ber dealer, who may bo 6itid to have G.’ 1 answered ‘IS’ -mechanically on In Moutreal one may bny clothing drink ” But BUmarck has learned a those dishes that they would better tyranny that has ground them down thing or two since then. built the church. that picturesque and, in spite of her my own instrument—-What’s the mat not to be had in the United States; leave untouched; and they will show a "I caused the great pine to be ter?”—and tho sounder thumped out woollens thick as boards, hosiery that In the photograph of the heavens, in sawed off, ’” ho said, "and the bell unquestionable existence in the pres course of preparation at tho Farts ob perverse talent for sleeping when ent day, almost mythical figure, tiie the information that he (my friend) wards off tho cold as armor resists servatory, It is calculated that 04,'KH),- they should wake, waking when they aud cross were placed upon it. It was nniazou, will disappear, and begin to had passed over ouly a minute or two missiles, gloves as heavy as shoes, yet 000 of stars will bo represented. In the the year when the surveys of tho North hufore, aud that I would liud out all soft as kid, fur caps and coats at prices should sleep, exerting themselves ern Pacific railroad were completed. fade into the realm of legend. nebulae of the Lyre M. Raidund took a when they should repose, and remain about it three or four days later iq the and in a variety that interest poor and photograph 4 by 5X Inches which re As soou as it was known that Tacoma As Quick as Lightning. San Francisco papers. It was all rich alike, blanket suits that nre more vealed to the naked eye 4,800 stars. ing indolent when they should be was to be the terminus Deople came strange to me, incomprehensible. At picturesque than any other masculine active. hurrying here, and pitched their tents, According to the San Francisco first 1 thought that Billy was playing garment worn north of the city of In Ireland, before St. I’atrick Intro- ami built their cabins among the great Examiner, the quickest thing next to some sort of a trick on me, but there Mexico, tuques, and moccasins, and, dmed Christianity, there was a temple The idea of a permanent census electricity is a snake. Well-behaved at Tara where fire burned ever, aud trees on the hills. With them came the was tho old discouuectcd instrument, indeed, so many sorts of clothing we was on no account suffered to go out. bureau is proposed, und it has been bishop and we agreed that these peo serpents are always interesting. But and no chance of any howis-poeus of Yankees know very littlo of (though indorsed by such able statisticians as ple should at once have a place in for the unfortunate information that A new electric lantern has been de that kind. On the fifth day thereafter many of us need them) that at a glance signed In Vienna (or the use of lectur Francis A. Walker and Carroll D. which to worship. We began the one gave to Miss Eve lieforc she eloped I got hold of a ’Frisco paper, in which we say the Moulrealers are foreigners.^ with Adam when lie was head gardener ers and medical clusses. By a combi, Wright The country has litely been church on Tuesday and held service in was the notice of the death of an un Montreal is the gayest city ou this con nation of leuses the magnified image of convinced that a census system which j it on the next Sunday. ” of the Eden ranch, there would be known mail, supposed to be about 24 tinent, nnd I have often thought that snakes in more respectable families an object is projected on a white will preclude the possibility of such The region about the city of Tacoma years old. at the third-rate hotel, and the clothing there is largely responsible screen in its natural colors. is full of giaut pines, some of them than there are to-day. A Cleveland blunders and frauds as have charac the coroner ’s verdict, ‘death from ex for that condition. 200 feet high. This tree was evidently snake professor says that "hissing cessive use of aJcoliolio drinks and ex A New - Yorker disembarking in NEVER A FAILURE. terized the recent oensus is an imperi- the monarch of the primeval forest. It pythons and cobras will eat at uuy posure. ’ As I was reading this tho Montreal in midwinter finds the placo The Red River Valley of tive necessity. But whether a perma rose over the inland sea and was fanned time except when they are blind and sounder started up again. ‘You got the inhospitably cold, and wonders how, as Minnesota und shedding their skin. They wou't touch nent census bureau is the best remedy bv the soft winds of the Kuro Siwo, or paper*. ’ it rattled away. ‘The coroner well a* why. any one lives there. I North Dakota Japanese current, before Columbus anything then. Another queer thing of such evils may be doubted. Such a was right. Great round-up for a young well remember standing year* ago be has proposition might be only tbe means sailed into the west. about tuetn is that they wou ’t eat any man. wasn’t it?” side a toboggan slide, with my teeth Thousands of Americans wiU wish thing but white animal*. Wait; l’li "I didn’t like the carelessness of thi* chattering and my vory marrow slow never of perpetuating the ills of the present show you, ” and taking a young rabbit had a failure bureu u. In say to the bishop of the state of remark,” continued the operator, "and ly concealiug. when my attention was Washington* "Sparc forever that out of it* cage lie placed it in the box said as much, when the old soundet called to the fact that a dozen ruddy- of crops. pine-tr o tower. ’’ This tree stands with tlie snakes. took it up and continued with even cheeked, bright-eyed, laughing girls It produced 30.000,030 When there is a sweeping change in They did not move for about a min congress the lobbyists invest Washing for national sentiment, for primitive greater recklessness. Billy had al were grouped in snow that reached bushels of wheat religious principle. It is a sacred tree. ute. Tneu one of tbe pythons raised ways been, even at his worst, consider their knee*. I asked a Canadian lady ton in full force. Tne now men, who Long may its slender cross be lighted it* head and fastened its eyes upon ate of the feelings of others. He had how that could be possible, and she besides other cereals in 1832. know liitle or nothing of the matters Farms can bo hud by the sunset reflection of Mount Ta bunny. Toe rabbit's ear* dropped, its the instincts of a gentleman, but ap answered with a list of tho principal i that are to come before them, are fine coma, and its bell be heard in the eyes closed and it began to tremble. parently after he passed over he be garments those girls were wearing on the material for the lobbyist, who is well resplendent twilight of that placid All at once Hie snake shot forward,and. came lost to all decency and all regard Tney had two pair* of stockings tinder crop plan, or long time Mediterranean of the western world. seizing it by the hack of tiie neck,coiled for the feelings and welfare of him their shoes, and a pair of stockings cash payments. posted on tbe interests he is there to itself around it aud began crushing out further, a fine entertainer, a pleasant who had been his best friend while over their shoe*, with moccasins over It is not an uncommon thing Economy In Buying; Shoe*. its life, then turning it over began to here in the flesh. Hu kept up such a them. They had so many woollen companion, und L is not to bo won swallow it. Tne pillion's head under to pay for a farm It is in the purchase that judgment racket in the Omaha office that he in skirt* that an American girl would not dered at that the inexperienced mem ordiuur.v circumstances was not larger terfered with mv business, and there believe me if I gave the number. They from the proceeds of Wild he displayed, as well as at later than u thumb joint on a man's hand, one crop. ber gets biased In bis opinions, though Stages of the life of the shoe. A sensi was no shutting him off. After a time wore heavy dresses aud buckskin jack be imagines himself proof against out yet when it seized the rabbit its jaws lie began to bring ui other operator* ets and blanket suits over all this. It has all the advantages ble person naturally wants a sensible became dislocated in such a way that side influences. No way of abolishing shoe; but on entering a shoe store lie who had passed over and then you'd They had mittens over their gloves, of an old country in it was able to start toe rabbit's bead better believe I had a time of it. Some nnd fur caps over their knittod hoods, tho lobby has yet been discovered, and finds himself confronted bv slams run into its mouth. Tnnn by a peculiar tho shape of school, church, ning all the way from say $1 or less to of these were disreputable fellows, it no longer seemed wonderful that market, postal and railway facilities, it is doubtful if U ever will be sup motion it began slowly to swallow its and most of them were of a class that they should not heed the cold; indeed pressed. Those who have private in $12 or $15. Tho purchaser, whether prey. As the suake worked backward and all the chances of man or woman (for the interests of no self-respecting operator on earth it occurred to me that their bravery terests at st ike will continue to use and forward its head stretched to many would care to associate with. I tried amid tho terrors of tobogganing was no a new country in ti*e sexos are identical), will lie wise time* the natural size, until finally all means within their power to for not to buy front either end of the list. to keep straight, quit drink entirely, bravery at all. since a girl buried the way of ward them.______bunny ’s hind leg* disappeared down but they brought a Imd atmosphere deep in the heart of such a mass of cheap lands, rich soil, and It 19 very often a temptation, espe the python'* nioiiiIt. cially for u poor woman desiring to about me and my acquaintances began woollens could scarcely expect dam increase in values. Ove of the ways of stimulating In obtain shoes for her child, for instance, to cut me. My work at tne office be age if site fell front a steeple. When It is one of the most ** vention which is well worthy of trial The Longfellow Faintly. came mixed in spile of all that 1 could next I appeared out-of-door* I too was or needing something "just to wear fertile and promising is offering standing rowards for those around the house ” at her work, to feel The most interesting *|>ot in Cam do. fur the spirit* soon got tired of the swathed in tlanuol. like a jewel in a who at any time make discoveries of that some of the cheapest which are bridge i* the old Longfellow house, old sounder and came over to the live box of plush, and from that time out regions in America great advantage to human progress. offered will “do just as well” for that where Mi*s Longfellow, the oldest ! liue. Montreal seemed, what it really is. the not yet fully occupied. service. They look almost as well hs daughter, and liev. Samuel Longfel i "The consequence was that I was merriest of American capital*.—Julian In the rush to the far Our patent laws do this indirectly by low. the brother of the poet, now lire. discharged. 1 didn't feel very sorry ltalph, in Harper's Magazine. giving to the inventor exclusive con those which cost twice as much; the west, however, difference in price is a matter of im The house looks exactly as it did in the about it at first. I had saved up a Jewel* of a Woman's Life. this rich valley has trol of his discoveries for a term of old days when the great poet received hundred dollars or so and made tip my portance to her. Just hero she shnstld been over-looked. years. But these laws do not always pause to consider that the cost of any* hi* friends with sweet ami gentle cour Uiind to keep away from the click of There are so many jewels that may protect those who .most need protec article is measured, not by the abstract tesy. His spirit seems to haunt the the instrument entirely for a month or bo worn day and night; so many gems It has room for a sum. but by what it represents of valuo rooms and balls ami will be ever pres so and give the spirits a chance to that are always ami only your own. million more people. tion. and are o'ten used for the term ent to tnose who had the privilege of fasten ou some other poor operator. I of the patent in the most oppressive or service. Here is a pair of shoes, for that you noed r.ot grieve for those that Write to instance, which cost Imt $1.50, nnd his friendship. Tho two younger dodged them fur about a week, and show their brightness only by day. F. I. WHITNEY, SL Paul, Minn., manner. It is n common trick of they look pretty well. There is a pair daughters, Mr*. Richard 11. Dana nnd was beginning to feel like my old self There 13 the jewel of Consideration, patentees to mako no complaints when Mrs. Joseph G. Thorpe, Jr., hare built again, when one night I was wakened for particulars. which costs $^.25. and they do not look that you may wear just over your Publieat ous sent free. their inventions are made and sold by tnncn better at a casual glanee. She house* adjoining the old estate, so that from a sweet sleep by signals on my heart; there '* the moonstone of Hope, outsiders, but to prosecute vigorously stands at a little distance and looks the Longfellow sisters live side by side, head-hnsrd. *P. G.’—P. G.’ I answer that uiay glitter over your brow tilling those in whoso hands their inventions at them. That 117 per cent, difference in the order of primogeniture. Across ed '25’ (that is •busy ’) nnd turning yout* eyes with brightness; there i* that are afterwards found. In tills way in price affeet9 her vision. "I don ’t Battle street is the littlo park named OTer tried to go to sleep again. No brilliant stone of Sympathy, the sup|>o-te these will lust quite se long. ” in honor of the dead poet. It was an use; Billy and the other spirit* found emerald, that makes you put out your thousands of dollars were extorted she half admits; "but I don't think appropriate idea that the vacant land nte. nml they kept up their deviltry un right hand of help; and there is the from farmers for driven-well patents, any one would notice the difference.” over which Longfellow ’s eyes ro often til now daylight. From that time nn- beautiful one of loving Kindness, that until the highest courts decided that Perhaps not at tho mometih; but if the wandered ns he looked from his win tii this I've never been aide to got makes the left-hand help the right. dows should remain free to the inhab away from them a half hour. They this patent wat invalid. Laws should good woman will look more closed But, above all, overshadowing all. Caveats. and Trade-Marks ohtalned. and all Pat be made protecting those who inno herself, guided by tho skill of an ex itants of Cambridge a* a memorial of have put a spirit watch on mo and they pinning down Tour tresses is the ent business conducted for Moderate fees. pert. she will see that the finish of the him. seem to take turns following me diamond of trnoLne —lore which en- Our Office is OoDosit* U. S. Patent Office, cently use patented ideas, ns articles about so that lean not give them tho and we can secure patent in lees time than those cheaper shoes is artificial; that tho Electrical Precaution. durclh all. sufferuth all, hojwth all. remote from Washington. containing these are sold to them. It texture of the leather is coarse; that it slip. Tney interfere with mr work so Are not these hotter than jewels dug Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip would also probably be well to at that I no longer feel safe in any kind tion. We advise. If patentable or not. free of is roughly put together by indifferent A doctor of Jersey City suggesta out of tiie earth? For. indeed, tliedn charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. least try to purchase some of the more machinery; that the leather, instead of that all telegraph |*oios on which live of telegraphy, nnd Ptii going home to jewels come from the Heaven above. — A Pamehlet. “How to Ohtaln Patents.” with the old folks to work ou the farm and Ladies' Home Journal. names of actnal clients in your Stale, county, or valuable patents from their inventors being thin, linn of grain, yet soft, electric wire* are strung be paiuted red, town, sent free. Address, for a round sum, for the purpose of promising long wear and an easy tit. that the public tuuy be able to distin to get rid of the ppirils if it is possible Is really a heavy lent her, split, dressed guish them. to uo so. ” The population of the world doubles making a present of them to th« The reporter suggested that he could C. A. SNOW & CO. publio for the public good. jtud polished, to take the place of • itself in 260 your*. Opposite Patent Office. Washington. D. C- 1 CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, JAN. 1, 1890 Winged Mi59iLE3. Still fchrad!—Mm Bello Onl*. the slngor PEACE AND GOODWILL. Jonathan Edwards, the Christian. Who has umde » lavoraLls lmi russlon as a con was tho greatest astronomer of tbe world? | Over 8,000,003,0)0,0)) envelops* art tort aliiKCr In London. The celebrated Dr. Herschel tho Christian. Who was the EMORY Bull a Cough 8 rup made a favorable lxa- manufactured In England annually. Mind «r*nderin* mred. Bo«ki Irani** greatest poet over produced? Milton, tho In um ratoioii. Tratlmonluls from all prcsalau In London aeveral yetis* ago. D1L TALMAGE'S SERMON ON THE Christian. Who was the wisest writer on In tho puritan days a cord of oak wood parts •/ tho globe. Pmepecto* rosy was worth tho saiuo os a bushel of turnips yBXJC, neut to »t*pli*i»tl.n to Pint. The tramp full of bourbon la an excellent NATIVITY OF THE SAVIOUR. law? Blackstone, tho Christian. Why is A, Ljusl.t, XkI bbtii Am. New Yurfc. plotuie of still (wliLky still) life. it that every college and university in tho —87 cent*. land has a chapel? They must have a Good mentions the case of a gentleman ^ ADMC For IU days from date of tins ps psr,A be* VVrllisO «f Mkxica .s Luna Salvis c>r aiiiokly “Thus am I doubly armed, my death and Thoughts 6uggeNtcd by tho Sur place for the wise men to worship. So who, in his sleep, composed an ode of six toy life, my bane and antidote are Loth be I r| CT PI ram© NORTH OLIVE. The Independent N ohth Olive, Dec a», 1890. 1890-1891. Misses Nettie Pratt and Blanch Free SX. JOHNS,THURSDAY.JANTTARY 1.1*91. man are sick with tonsilitis. CORBIT & VALENTINE. SOCIETY MEETINGS. Miss Georgia Palmer has returned to ...... —------—— T. JOHNS 1.0DUK NO. 81.1. O. O. F. MEETS her home in Northville, this state, after Friday evening of each we* k. New lodge a month's visit with Mrs. R. Freeman, THE OLD AND NEW Sroom corner Clinton Avenue and Rallroad-st A. B. HAL.COM, N. O. in this township. FRBI) BOWLK8. Secretary. Mrs. R. V. Fenner, Mrs. Frank Vena HARDWARE, OT. JOHNS ENCAMPMENT NO. 83. I. O. O. F O meet* 2d and 4th Wednesday evenings of and brother, and Walter Smith, are each month. A. B. BALCOM.C1P spending the holiday week with friends Cooking and Heating J. L. TRANCHELL. Secretary. at Waterloo, Ind. THE LOCAL MARKETS. Orric* or The Independent . LEBANON. We are on the 8t. Johns, Mich. January 1 1891. The following are the prices paid In cash for Lebanon , Dec. 29,1390. produce in this market: Mrs. C. Benjamin has gone to Albion, Wheat, red...... • dawn of another Wheat, white...... - .86©.91 this state, to visit her parents. Oats...... -40 Clover Seed...... [email protected] Mrs. Frank Abbott is now with Mrs. Buckwheat,...... -jjO J. R. Abbott, in St. Johns, who is very Barley ...... CARRIAGES. Butter—as to quality, ...... •.•••• .18®. 1« sick. NEW YEAR K|(|{S ...... Beans...... - l.OOQl.flo Clinton Smith, who went North last ROAD WAGONS, Tallow ...... _ >94 August to pick black berries, has never Hay, per ton, ...... [email protected] Potatoes returned, lie may now f be burying the Onions. .. .rum.M Corn ...... 2X3)85 blacks. and CARTS. Lard...... 07 with new resolutions Chickens ■07 James DeLotig is building a small Turkeys. .10 house on a part of Mr. Hale's farm, Wood ...... 1.0001.80 Hides .04 which he has leased for flve years. He and a continuance of Pork, dressed...... [email protected] is going into the business of raising We also sell the Auburn all Steel Axle Farm Wagon, the Correspondence should reach this office on Tues chickens. easiest running wagon in the market. day of each week, and not later than Wednesday morn About IQ o ’clock on Tuesday morning tng. A nonymous communications will receive no atten of last w'eek, fire destroyed the dwelling tion. The writer’s name must be given, not for pub FRESH STOCKS lication. if so desired, but as eviaence of good faith. house of Newton Antis, in this town- ship, together with the principal part of ST., TTTTESTT. OLIVE. the contents. They saved some cloth Olive , D oc .29. 1890. ing and bedding. The fire originated of seasonable goods Mrs. Durham is no better. through a stove-pipe running through Tom Blizzard is gaining slowly. the roof. There was no insurance upon at the accustomed Charles Smith’s child is recovering. the house or contents, and as Mr. Antis STOP! REFLECT! Charles Ferris, of Watertown, is very is a poor man the loss will fall heavily sick with intlamation of the lungs. updn him. The good neighbors are cheap prices to pur Mr. Lankton ’s brothers return to kindly caring for the destitute family. Then act Promptly and Wisely ! their home in New York, this week. The’flying sparks burned a straw'-stack Aunt Lovina Simmons is still at W. belonging to Martin Haynes, across the chasers. S. Dill's. Her foot is quite bad as yet. way ; also, several rods of fence. Mr. Claire and daughter Nellie, have Our aim in the fu gone to Kalamazoo to spend the holi Claud Abbott Is 111 with tonsilitis. Laura Rogers, of Ionia, is spending the holi Chapin & Company , days. days with her parents. ture, as in the past, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Lankton, of Lan M. J. Palmer and wife spent a week visiting Are offering the following rare bargains in LADIES’ NEW sing, visited at W. C. Lankton ’s, last relatives In southern Ionia county. Sunday. Round house scholars had an enjoyable time MARKETS and CHILDREN’S GARMENTS: at their Chriatmas tree at M. M. Messer's. will be to dispose of Clark Smith, of Grand Ledge, visited Lee Winans is happy. He drew a magic Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Dills Saturday and lantern at the young folks' free drawing, at the greatest amount $20.00 garments to go at...... $14.75. Sunday. Powaino. 15.00 garments to go at...... 11.00. A little rain would be quite accept Mrs. H. Winans gave a Christmas dinner to a 10.00 garments to go at...... 7.75. able, as we hear several complaining number of invited guests. The young folks enjoyed the Christmas tree. of goods for the least 8.00 garments to go at...... 5.00. about dry cisterns. Rev. Wm. Stewart, wife and son, of Palo 6.00 garments to go at...... 4.00. Miss Regina Vanfleet, from Chicago, spent Christmas at H. Winans’. He returned money, hence, the is visiting friends in Riley and Olive to his work and she remained to visit relatives during the holiday season. for a week. The boys in the vicinity of Benjamin's The hurricane did bad work around ------Recollect that------here last Tuesday. Hay and straw - church have organized a band known as the “Lebanon Cornet Band.” T hey have repaired SMALLEST stacks were scattered in every direction. the old Latimer building in which to discourse Christmas passed very quietly here sweet music. E. E. Vance, instructor. abouts. Quite a number attended the The renowned Burch road suit compiences MARGINS. CHAPIN & COMPANY’S party at the Masonic hall, DeWitt, and before Justice Hall, of Matherton, to-day, Lemuel Clute. of Ionia, lawyer for com report a very pleasant time. missioner, A. Terwilliger. He is a very able Is the only place in Clinton County at which such G. W. Anderson Post, No. 58, and lawyer and we hope, whatever may be the de * Garments can be obtained at the price W. R. C., No. 44, will meet at the Post cision, this will settle the long contested and in DeWitt, January 10, 1891, for the expensive road question. Jew Peter. You will be doubly above offered. purpose of installing officers. Henry Krogle went to Ohio last week, DALLAS. compensated by vis- lie stopped at Monroe to attend the D allas , Dec. 28,1890. wedding of his cousin, Mr. Golir, of Mrs. M. Townsend is feeling rather iting our Stores be FOWLER at BALL, Lansing. He will return to Olive this indisposed. week. Charles Miller made a flying trip to Relatives, numbering about thirty-* Belding one day last week. fore placing a single live, met at the pleasant home of Mr. and Airs. Charles Dills, in Riley, Chiist- S. D. Grove is enjoying a vacation mas day and had a very pleasant time. from school, between the holidays. They prepared a Christmas tree for the Miss Lillie Silvemail, of Matherton, DRY GOODS, little folks is assisting Mrs. A. Townsend with her Richard Blizzard and family, of this work. town, are called often tosurrenderloved “Uncle” Morgan Gillson has rallied BOOTSgSHOES ones to the tomb. Not many years ago in strength again, and rode out a few diphtheria took one of their boys, the days ago. or GROCERIES, youngest, I think. Last March the Mrs. Sarah Clark and Mrs. Jennie grippe took a daughter from their home. Dehavergne are the happy possessors of In April, their son, George, was taken from them, and last weeK death again abran new Singer sewing machine. entered their home and claimed a son. Hugh Coffman, of Grand Rapids, is which comprise the The young lady members of DeWitt spending his vacation with his grand Grange arranged a surprise party for Mrs. Furguson, Dec. 22, and invited the parents and friends in this vicinity. Largest and Freshest Grange and several outside, and went to Miss Anna Barnes, who has been It is not our custom to puff articles of merchan her home and took full possession for assisting in the family of W. M. Osbum, several hours. Miss Lulu Goss, in be Stocks to be found in dise, but in duty to our subscribers we cannot help half of the many friends, presented Mrs. will return to her home at Carson soon. Furguson with a beautiful parlor lamp Airs. Lucy Cadwell and Miss Helen mentioning the excellent brand of stoves sold and a purse, to which Mrs. F. responded Patrick came home to spend Christmas in a very feeling manner. Mrs. Furgu Central Michigan. under the trade marh of “Garland Stoves and son has held the Lecturer's position in with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. our Grange, two years, and is elected to Patrick. For the exeedingly Ranges” till this place another year, and well A number of the young people at does she attend to the duties devolving Beckwith’s Round Oak, Magee Furnaces, Bol upon her. She is an earnest worker tended the Christmas ball at Taft’s hall, and always tries to keep up the interest Pewamo, last Thursday evening. A generous patronage ton Hot Water Heaters, Plumbingand Gas Fit of the order. joyous time is reported. tings, Gas Fixtures and Gas Stoves, Grand Oil Pomona Grange met at the Olive Grange hall last Tuesday, despite the Air. and Airs. Friend Patch have re received from our Heaters, Shelf and Heavy Hardware. wind aud cold, and an unusually large moved their household goods from number were in attendance. The meet- Belding, and henceforth will live with ting was very interesting. William her father, W. Al. Osburn. army of Patrons dur Ennest, Master of Olive Grange, gave STEPHENSON’S Pomona a hearty w elcome. The re A Christmas party was given to the sponse from Mrs’. A. Gunnison needs no young people on Wednesday evening by ing the past year, we comments, as all who have heard her JACKSON Mr. and Airs. Fred Miller, at their home. read or speak, know' that we always -THE- hear something interesting in her re A number of married people partici make our best how * 0RIGIN1L B1ZUH. marks. Olive neing the home of Po pated in the play. mona, the afternoon was nearly all taken up with election of officers, of which the The way James Frazer and his com in acknowledgement, following is a list: pany of men are slaughtering trees in Now For Christmas! Merchant Tailor, Worthy Master—Jerome Dills. DeForest Bissell's woods, is, to use a Overseer—J. O. Brunson. ST. JOHNS, MICH. Lecturer—J. F. Clemons. popular expression, “a caution. ” The and trust, by continu Steward—James Jewett. Assistant Steward—8cott Pike. sounds made by tneir axes are heard Chaplain —Mrs. James Jewett. * early and late, which fall on the ear like If you want a perfect fit go to Treasurer—1. D. Richmond. ing to sell goods at Plush Albums, Secretary —Mrs. Amanda Uunnison. a striking medley that gives one a faint Handkerchiefs, Oate-keepor — W'm. L. VanDyke. conception of traditional pioneer days. Dolls, Flora —Viola Pike. Pomona - Mrs. 1. D. Hlchmond.. Next week they will steer the threshing small margins, to Portmonies, Jackson ’s. Ceres—Mrs. Emeline VanDyke. Hand-sleighs, L. A. S.—Allie Beckwith. engine into the woods and buzz up the Hobby Horses, The officers will be installed at the fallen trees into stove-wood. merit a continuance Mirrors, If you want goods which will next meeting, of which due noi ice will Arthur Reynolds, lately of Detroit, Writing Desks, be given. Sewing Tables, not fade or spot, go to Mrs. Nancy Simmons received a letter where he has been attending a business of the same. Pillow Shams, from S. S. Kilbourn. of Lansing, last college, paid the school of his boyhood Hosiery, week, stating that the Supreme Court a visit, last Wednesday. Happening in Mitts, Jackson ’s. had decided the Lucas, Simmons, as the 7th grade was about to write Wishing you one Glassware, Kempf and Langenbaclier suit in favor Tinware, Scc. of Mrs. Simmons, Mr.Kempf and Mrs. specimens of a promisory note, he took Langenbaclier. Mr. Kilbourn expressed his place in the class, and wrote a note, and all a happy and If you want tailor-made cloth himself as greatly delighted with the displaying fine penmanship, handed ing at reasonable prices, go to decree of the court. Mr. Kilbourn it to the teacher, seemingly ignoring Curtain Poles and Curtains in all only expresses the sentiments of the en the fact that any time had elapsed since prosperous New tire community around here, with the sizes a speeinlty. exception of Mr. J. W. Lucas and his he sat before her in class. The period Jackson ’s friends, but his friends around here, of six years has transformed the boy — especially, are so very, very scarce “Artie,” into a gentleman. The ex Year, we remain, that one can scarcely find them at all. ample he set before our school was an After being beaten in the circuit court Machine Needles, all Sizes. If you want a handsome and he was not satislied. Now that he has admirable one. Lena . Yours, perfect fitting Overcoat, see lieen lieat in the Supreme Court, it cer tainly seems as if J. W. would learn, in —John Tuger, formerly a resident of time, that “honesty is always the liest this village, is still a resident and en- policy, ” and not be trying to get what ga;xed in the mercantile business in St. other people have earned. I STEPHENSON'S : BAZAAR. N EMESIS. Louis, Gratiot county. ST.JOHNS MERCANTILE CO JACKSON