- The Clinton

54th Year—No. 20. ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1909. Whole No. 2773.

VARIOUS TOPICS. WILL WATERS ANOTHER PIONEER

MURDER III VICTOR. A committee of I-anaing ladles have SID DEATH OF CHILDNArrested at Owosso on Charge of Sim­ ELECTRICAL STORMSbMrs Hugh Merrihew of Olive Died IH^POMOIIA RALLY Issued an appeal, asking a thousand ple Larceny. M ------Thursday. friends to contribute one dollar each Held at Fair Grounds at St. John Haker, Aged 81, Killed toward the Lansing hospital. Bean Lodges in Throat of Destroyed Barns and Killed A week ago last Friday, a young man # Mrs. Hugh Merrihew. a resident of Johns Yesterday. Friday by Wife, Aged 44. . The marriage of Louis J. Voislnet NJ Leola Martin. by the name of Will Waters was em­ Live Stock. Olive township since 1856, died last of HaWlffDeWitt andon/I \flcoMiss IdaTHo M.\f FavlerParlor of - ployed by Elmer Stoweli of Ovid on Thursday. Olive is announced for August 17th, some concrete work ln Riley township. Mrs. Merrihew was born May 12. ABOUT 250 PRESENT. SHOT HIM IN BACK and will be solemnized at St. Joseph's TAKEN TO ANN ARBOR. On July "23d, at noon Mr. Stoweli dis­ IN COUNTY AND STATE 1830, ln Ulster county, New York, Catholic church in this city. charged the boy. . residing there until a few pears after ------NT Breathed Only By Tub* in Windpip< That night when Mr. Stoweli went to her marriage to Mr. Merrihew, March Hon. D. E. McClure of Muskegon Gave Couple Were Divorced a Few Week* js, his tent which was pitched near his Big Cloudburst at Ionia Yesterday— 27th, 1850. In October, 1855, they came Orville Wright last Friday attained Operated on by Dr*. Dodge, Address — Readings Were Ago—He Had Told Her to Leave work he found his pocketbook and $18 to Oakland county, where they lived a the aenith of hardearned success with gone and had every reason to believe Shiawassee Farmers Nearly year, then going to Olive township his flying machine at Washington, ' Gate and Scott Tuesday. Also Given. Monday, August Second. that the boy took it. Burn to Death. where she had since resided. The farm making 10 miles Id 14 minutes and 42 ! Mr. Stoweli notified Sheriff Schavey was mostly a wilderness and they seconds. He was accompanied by Leola, the three-year-old daughter of that evening and the lad was located at spent years of toil, fllnally making it a Lieutenant Foulols of the U. S. army. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Martin, who re­ The Cinton County Pomona Grange John Haker of Victor township was Fowler. The deputy at Fowler found During last week’s storms several fine cleaned farm of 80 acres. held their annual rally at the fair killed by his wife last Friday evening It was the most difficult and daring side on the Elmer Jury farm six miles him but the fellow told the deputy that barn3 were burned and some live stock Mrs. Merrihew was a member of the flight ever planned for a heavier-than- north of St. Johns, met with a fatal ac­ he had the wrong man and that he was ground at St. Johns yesterday after­ at the farm home near Merritt’s Cross­ killed and injured. M. E. church but on account of poor noon. A picnic dinner was enjoyed in ing. she having shot him in the back air flying machine. Wright Bros., the cident Tuesday afternoon. some one else, so he let him go. health has not been able to attend builders, will receive a reward of The granary at the farm had been C. H. Kennedy of Bath township had the dining hall beneath the grand with a 32-calibre revolver. Last week Wednesday Mr. Schavey a barn burned July 28th. The loss was regularly of late years. She was the stand by quite a number. $35,000 from the U. S. government. cleaned out and the children had found found that he had been in Owosso but mother of three children, one passing Were Divorced. V some large kidney beans and were they could not locate him. Monday he adjusted at $458.44 on both barn and The rally was called to order at 1:30 contents. . away ln early childhood. The other by Jerome Dills, Master of Pomona, af­ A few weeks ago Haker had secur^J The oldest piece of railroad in the playing checkers with them beneath came to Owosso again and the officers two are Allison, who lives at home, ed a divorce on the grounds that his United States west of Schenectady, the trees at the farm nome. The lit­ there questioned him and he tried to Frank Parr of Essex lost a hog and ter which the worthy lecturer, Mrs. C. and Mrs. John Trimble of Gratiot coun ­ L. Pearce of DeWitt had the meeting wife had conducted herself improper ­ N. Y., is the 39 imiles of the main tle girl came running into the house work the same game he had at Fowler, William C. Payne of Lebanon lost two ty. ly with other men. On May 17th he line of the Lake Shore between Le­ and told her mother that she had a saying his name was King and that he sheep. Funeral services were held Sunday in charge. ■‘America" was sung after had given her $850 and she was to nawee Junction, a few milest east of bean in her throat. Mr. Martin was lived in Detroit . On searching him August Frlcke of Olive had two at the home. Interment ln DeWitt which Mr. Dills gave the address of have left the place within ten days threshing but he left his work immed­ they found a letter of recommendation teams of horses shocked. They are welcome. Ihe meeting was held in Adrian, and Toledo, and it is the only cemetery. the grand stand and about 250 were after she had received the money, for part of the Lake Shore ’s main line iately and with his wife hastened the bearing his true name. On account of alive but somewhat injured. she had signed an agreement to do little one to St. Johns, taking her to the absence of Sheriff Schavey, Deputy present. that the company doesn ’t own and D. P. Smith near St. Louis had his Mrs. Dwight Morrison of Greenbush so But she still stayed thene and hasn ’t beeh able to buy. The company the office of Dr. J. B. Dodge. The Sheriff Dutton went to Owosso Monday house struck by lightning. It was In ­ \\ INCOME TAX. numerous quarrels ensued. Friday child kept choking and was just alive and brought Wa*ers to St. Johns. recited "The 4th of July Picnic, ” after holds it under a perpetual lease. The sured ln the Farmer’s Mutual and the which Mrs. G. F. Ottmar of Riley sang night they had another one and he little corporation is the Erie & Kala­ when they reached hone. He was taken before Justice Wood ­ loss was adjusted at $60. Michigan Will Vote on Changing told her she must leave the house by a solo. "Far Away.” The address of mazoo Railroad company. It is a Dr. Dodge, assisted by Drs. W. H. ruff Tuesday, plead guilty and sentenc ­ During the storm between six and Monday. August 2d. This she con ­ Gale and W. A. Scott at once perform ­ ed to the Detroit House of Correction Federal Constitution. the afternoon was given by Hon. D. E. Michigan corporation that probably seven o ’clock Saturday evening. Well­ McClure of Muskegon. Mr. McClure sented to do, telling him she hated to not one person in 10,000 now living ed a tracheotomy —the operation of for 90 days. Waters is 19 years of age. go as long as she had been there so ington Irwin of South Lebanon had his is an interesting speaker and inter ­ ever heard of. It is not on the tax making an opening into the windpipe barn struck by lightning. It was burn ­ long and had worked as hard as she and worked over the little one for four A communication has been received spersed his address with several short rolls because it is taxed as an asset ed to the ground Including a large by Governor Warner from Philander stories. His Subject was “The Power had. of the IJike Shore. But its stockhold ­ hours, trying to locate the bean. It The Shooting. quantity of hay. Mr. Irwin had only C. Knox, seoretary of state ln Presi­ and Weakness of Organization. ” ers draw annually in rental from the had lodged in a difficult place and the a few minutes before turned the horses child could not breath through either dent Taft’s cabinet, asking the gover ­ Mr. McClure brought out many good Early in the evening Mrs. Haker got Lake Shore the equivalent of 10 per EOT THE WORST OF IT in the field and was eating supper nor to submit at the next session of points for each. Ohe power toward I nose or mouth, only by means of tft\l a revolver that she had purchased cent on their holdings, and tnelr stock when the building was struck. He the legislature, the joint resolution to organization is for man to do the best i three weeks ago and hid it in her dress. is quoted at about 200. The stock of opening made, neither could she utter a rushed out and succeeded In removing sound. Some pieces of apple were re­ amend the constitution of the United he can, raise the good ideal3 and en ­ Later she and her husband had their the Erie & Kalamazoo has in some MATHIAS BELEN OF WESTPHALIA a drill and his harness. The barn and States in order that taxation of In ­ hance the influence of citizenship. We last quarrel. She was mad and said moved but that is all that was found families been treasured like heirlooms. HAD NARROW ESCAPE. contents were insured. comes may become legal. should be sociable and everyone should a great deal but he didn't. It soon Some of It is known to have been be ­ and after the child began to breath try to do something, be helpful, and good again she was removed to a room The rain storm also struck Wacousta The resolution which would amend died down and the family gathered queathed from father to son and from articles 16 is as follows: “That con ­ make the grange a success. Sociability, near the east porch; Haker sitting on over Baldwin ’s restaurant where she Rode In Front of Approaching Freight quite heavily Saturday evening. son to grandson. The chief surveyor Two men were knocked down as a re­ gress shall have the power to lay and especially in grangie work, means a the edge of the steps. About 7:30 of the line, George L. Crane, of Ad­ remained in a semi-conscious state all great deal. We should not encourage nlght ; Wednesday morning she was at Looking Glass Crossing at sult of the lightning, telephones put collect taxes on Incomes, whatever Haker got up and went into the house rian, took his pay in stock and the source derived without apportionment opposition as this is a weakness to and was followed by four or five of taken* to Ann Arbor, Dr. W. H. Gale Portland Friday. out of commission and other slight stock is still in the family. A grand ­ accompanying Mr. and Mrs. Martin, as damage done. among the seve-al states and without organization, but be friendly with all the children, one of these, Avolt, a son, Arthur P. Crane, of Toledo, owns regard to any census or enumeration." and fall in line with whatever course of young man about 19 years of age. Dr. Dodge was unable to go. During the storm of last week Wed­ and draws a comfortable Income from The operation was performed yester­ The Portland Review of August 3d nesday, Ben Franols of Bethany town ­ It is necessary that this resolution work is planned. Opposition comes While they were entering the house reported the miraculous escape of a be ratified by the legislatures of three- in many ways, one of these, the battle ­ Mrs. Haker drew the revolver from a bunch of it. day afternoon and the bean removed ship. Gratiot county, who was at work Westphalia citizen who made a trip on the David Smith farm, waa In com­ fourths of the states In the union and field, and the results of that have her dress, covering it with a ha but the child died this morning. The shown us what it is to learn the power remains will be brought back to St. to Portland on his new motor cycle pany with Mr. Smith, standing on the if this is done the amendment will chief. Then she followed them, BIG WHEAT YIELDS that day. It is as follows: stand. of organization. tered the house and shot Haker Johns tonight. north porch of the farm home, when “Mathias Belen, who conducts the he was struck by lightning and instantapt- G. F| Ottmar of Riley recited ‘‘A the back. Leola was a beautiful child with pret ­ Tribute to the Dog.” A reading was meat market at Westphalia, had a nar ­ ly killed. Mr. Francis ’ neck was braroW She Hastened to Neighbor ’s. Wilbur Church Takes the Cake With ty blue eyes and golden hair and the ALLEN IS FOUND. also given by Mrs. Balcom of Ovid case Is indeed a pitiful one. All great­ row escape from death at the Looking- en and his shoes ripped from his feet As soon as she shot she hastened 52 Bushels per Acre. Glass crossing near the soap factory while Mr. Smith who stood six feetfpAt ^ grange. Mr. McClure gave a few in ­ ly sympathize with the parents during teresting readings after which the from the house taking the revolver their hard trial. Friday morning. Incidentally a new away was not injured ln the least. Sheriff Schavey Located Him at with her. Avolt, the son. called after $225 motor-cycle, which he was riding, The lightning entered every room in meeting closed with another reading Wilbur Church had a yield of wheat Mr. and Mrs. Martin have five other Blairsburg, Iowa. by Mrs. Morrison. her and said something but she call­ children besides this little one. was so badly smashed that It was sent the house, tore the plaster loose and slightly in excess of 52 bushels per back to the factory ln Massachusetts ed back to him and told him to watch acre on the Crandall 40 Just north of slivered the woodwork and separated out or he would get the same as the for rebuilding. the wood house two or three Inches Charles H. Allen, the missing son- v the corporation. There was 12 acres “Mr. Belen, who was riding the ma­ in-law of John Drake of Maple Rapids, EUGENE KING father got. She then went to the in the field. New wheat Is pannln: ig, GRANDU RAPIDS RACES. from the building. Mr. Francis was house of Thomas Swaney, the first chine for the second time, came down 24 years of age. a member in good who had $170 taken from his home out big yields of first class quality. July 12th, has been located at Blairs­ house north, and told them that the Elevator men say the average will be the hill from the north just as a standing of Fox Grove Gleaners. Died From Effects of Paralysis Last Big Time Planned, Beginning August freight train was shunting cars down burg. Iowa. old man had shot himself and that 25 bushels per acne. In the south ­ On Saturday night a barn owned by Friday. they were after her with the gun. 10th. the switch to the Ramsey-AIton facto­ Allen is a painter by trade and last western part of the state 35 to 40 bush ­ ry. Asa Newman and the conductor William Mertz in North Shade town ­ week wrote to some parties in this She entered the house and sat in a els is reported as not uncommon, ship was struck by lightning. Insur ­ rocker with the revolver hid in herner f raln ln the spring did the of the freight were standing at the vicinity. Through this letter Allen Eugene King, one of the well known ance amounted to $600 on barn and was located by Sheriff Schavey. He waist, at the same time threatening ; . Grand Rapids is getting ready for a crossing and motioned to him to stop, $500 on contents. residents of this community, died at to shot the first man that came near booming big race meeting to go for but Mr. Belen evidently did not no- at once notified the sheriff at Webster his home on Steel street, Friday, July Mr. Church says he will take first Ionia city was yesterday visited by City, Iowa, to get Allen at Blairsburg, her. She was facing the outside door place in yield of beans, also. The ac­ four days, with August 10th, as the ; tice the signal, for he crossed the 30th, from the effects of paralysis. He and kept faithful watch of it. Some first day. There will be 14 races on ! main track. Between that and the sld- the worst storm in four years. A as he would probably be working at had enjoyed his usual good health un ­ reage of beans ln this county, and all cloudburst flooded the entire city. Both of the members of the Swaney family southern Michigan, for that matter, is the program, with two purses of $2,500 ing he noted the approach of a box his trade. til a week previous to his death telephoned to Dr. Austin of Lalngs- four of $1,000 and eight of $600. Some car down the siding. Probably becom ­ East and West creeks were out of their Mr. Schavey left Saturday evening when he was stricken while sitting in very large and the crop never looked courses and residential districts for for Iowa to bring Allen back, arriving burg and Dr. Warner of Bath. When better at this time of year. If the ofUL theiur fastestIttCtCOl horsesHWIOCO iuin trainingUUIH.MO have ing confused he------turned ------the ---- motor-cycle - his place of business. Lingering until they reached the Haker home the old already been entered and there will down the siding just ahead of the a\> blocks were swept and cellars filled. here Monday night. Friday from the effects of his malady crop can be harvested without dam­ Sidewalks were torn up and much Allen was taken before Justice man was alive but they saw that there age this fall, it will bring an Immense be at least 200 horses there to race, proachlng car. As it bumped over the he never regained consciousness, pass ­ was no hope so telephoned at once The first day the 2:08 pace for a purse : rough ties the cycle tipped over and damage was done. It will cost, the Woodruff Tuesday, waived examina ­ ing away in the 64th year of his life. amount of money. • ^ > a n • a « • . _ • i _ m o m a.___hl in * *_ r» A1 ___ K n M ^ 1 «> L n <1 +4 m a f a o ato m _ to Sheriff Schavey. Haker died about of $2,500 :wlll be pulled off -with 12 Mr. Belen barely had time to scram city hundreds of dollars to clean up tion and was bound over to the Sep ­ Mr. King was a native of Monroe five minutes afterward. horses, most of which have records ble from the track, the car striking the debris and empty the gutters of tember term of court. He was requir­ county, New York, removing to Mich ­ his machine and transforming it into sand. The storm lasted 45 minutes. ed to furnish $1,000 bail, but as this She Was Captured. TURTLES from 2:07% to (2:09%. It will be hard igan when a mere boy. He acquired work to keep local lovers of the trotter a broken and twisted mass, though One of the strange happenings of was not furnished he Is in jail. the trade of a machinist and black ­ Sheriff Schavey and Prosecuting At­ and pacer away from Grand Rapids the gasoline engine did not seem to be yesterday ’s storm was the killing of smith In St. Johns, afterwards remov ­ torney E. J. Molnet were taken to the FJr#| 8hjpment sent t0 Pittsburg from the week of that race meeting. injured. , 27 sheep In a field on a farm near ing to St. Louis where he followed his Swaney home by Con Stephan In the K “The wrecked machine was brought Middlevllle by a single bolt of lightn ­ MAD DOGS. trade, afterwards becoming superin ­ auto and when they reached there, Grand Ledge, July 26th. to Jenkins ’ shop and later some of the ing. \ tendent of the waterworks. Following there were about 20 neighbors watch ­ M. A. C. EXCURSIONS parts were sent to the factory. Mr. Two farmers near Owosso were ln several years residence there he re­ ing the house so the woman could not Kill Sheep for Essex Farmers Last The Grand Ledge Times of July 30th t ______Belen himself was not Injured. a barn struck by lightning, both being moved to this city where he assumed get away. The woman was still watch ­ ‘The motor-cycle was one which Thursday Night. says: Week of August 23d, Devoted to Show ­ stunned and narrowly escaped being charge of the water works system. ing when they neared tine house and was introduced at Westphalia by Tom Resigning his position be became iden- theu» neighborsOTU,„ warnedn,ni,u Mr..... Schavey not •hlpment of Onairinr burned to death. to go near her and told him ot her ^le.Jtom ?r.nd L^dg^went ^ m ing Public. Hanlon, a mail carrier, and was the Lightning struck the Sturgis eleva­ I^ast Thursday night some mad dogs tified with the St. Johns Mfg. Lo., and press Monday evening, when several first one to be brought Into West- tor at Fowler, ripping off a few shing ­ entered a piece of pasture on the I of If* yearshe has engaged in various threat. 1 phalia. Mr, Belen completed nego ­ business ventures, his latest activity There was also another entrance to sacks were consigned to Pittsburg, There will be an excursion every les. farm of Fred Ellis, section 24, Essex, which seems to be the best market for tiations for It Friday morning and the being the conduct of a cigar and theTne room thatllliU theUIV womanvunuau cviucuujevidently —------, . day to Michigan Agricultural college and killed five sheep and bit two. This knew nothing about for It was by this | this kind of game . The shipment was first trip he had undertaken was the was the same piece of ground upon billiard parlor on North Clinton Ave. of the week beginning August 23d. one to Portland/ door that Sheriff Schavey and Mr. made in ordinary coarse sacks, in During this week the laboratories and TEETER RELEASED which some sheep belonging to Will He was possessed of a logical, clear Stephan entered and captured the wo­ which the turtles have no trouble in shops will be open for inspection, uni ­ Young were killed by dogs several mind and while without early educa­ man and the revolver.- They brought keeping alive for days without food formed guides will show visitors about SOCIAL EVENTSX^ Criminal Charge Will Probably Be weeks ago. tional advantages, he nevertheless was her to the county jail where she Is and in spite of rough handling. the grounds, and conveyances will be On the same night George Fetght- a student of events, keeping ln close Dismissed. touch with general affairs. In various now confined. * C. H. Hazen, the veteran turtle furnished free for those who wish to ling had two sheep killed and ihree catcher was the shipper. He makes capacities he served publlcally, always What the .voman Claims. visit the farm, orchards and experi ­ The N. Y. 3. S. club enjoyed a pic ­ wounded. Nothing has been seen of his home in Hastings during the win ­ mental plat*. Tables will be provided nic at Alward Lake last Thursday af­ B. E. Teeter paid the county $356.44 the dogs. with a conslentlous regard for the wel­ Mrs. Haker has confessed every ­ ter, but spends his summers on the where those who wish may enjoy a costs made in his case, including his fare of the community. thing, admitting that she went to ternoon, returning on the seven o ’clock rivers of central Michigan, where he basket picnic or meals may be secured car. board at Jail, reconciled his differen ­ A kind friend and neighbor, he gave Owosso three weeks ago from Beld- says he can average $100 a month in STATE FAIR TICKETS to his fullest ability and Indulged his on the grounds. The W. R. C. and G. A. R. held a ces with his wife and made satisfac­ ing and bought the revolver; that she the business, which he has followe^ tory settlement with her and she has family to the extent of his means. He would shoot him if he did not stop picnic at Alward Lake Tuesday. About now for something like 15 years." wlthdarwn suit for divorce. Prosecut­ Will Soon be on 8ale at Republican is survived by his wife and one son. calling her names, also she had made \ BASE BALL NOTES. 30 attended, and an enjoyable day was Guy, of East Jordan and one sister, spent. ing Attorney Molnet will ask the court r threats to shoot him before she left. to dismiss the criminal suit against Office. Mrs. Coleman Waldron. She claims also that he had a revolver GRATIOT DRUGGISTS The St> Johns base'Tfell team went - The N. Y. B. S. club met with Miss The funeral was held from the home and had It hid in his pocket when they Mr. Teeter, which will no doubt be Grace Losey Tuesday evening. A done. Sunday, conducted by Rev. J. T. Ewing were quarreling, but the children to Portland last Thursday, and played pleasant social time was enjoyed and Tickets for the State Fair will soon the Portland team. The day was one Weale’s suit for damages has not be on sale at The Republican office at and Interment was made under the showed the officers that revolver, af­ Changed Their Minds and Have Tak­ light refreshments served. auspices of the Masonic fraternity of ter their father was shot. They found of the hottest ones of the season, so been settled. 35 cents each. Orders may be sent in en Out License. the game was somewhat of a listless Mrs. Sarah A.Jleach entertained ten any time. 20-tf. which Mr. King was a pioneer member. it in another room in another part of ladies Monday afternoon at her home Those who atcended from out of the house under a trunk. one. ^THINKS IT UNJUST town were Mrs. L. Baker of. Ithaca, The score was as follows: on South Lansing street in honor of DIED. The Family Life. Two of Ithaca ’s drug stores are sell­ Innings ...... 1 23456789 her 86th birthday anniversary. \ Guy King of East Jordan and Harry Coleman of Pontiac. Haker was a tall and excee00 team played a game of base ball here last Riley Sunday. We carry a complete line of trunks and suit cases. Mr. and Mrs. Swlnton of Lansing visit­ Saturday with the Wacousta club In The date of the next dancing party at ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Any $18.00 suit | 3.50 which the game was interrupted very the Beach Is Friday evening, August 6th. Williams Sunday. • , near the close by the great electric storm Preparations will be made to entertain the Any $15.00 suit ||.00 which visited here. The score was In usual large crowd. Harness repairing neatly and promptly done at Mrs. Adolph Brya and son, Victor visit­ favor of Wacousta. ibelng 9 to 2. They ed her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Victor were conceded to be the winners. Mr. and Mrs. Will Moreley accompanied Clavey last week. Any $12.00 suit 8.75 by his sister, who has been spending a reasonable prices. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Plowman are spend ­ few weeks here, left Monday for a week's Mrs. A. Whitaker and Mrs. Gust ing two weeks at Orion, the guests of Mt*. A, Martzke and sons of Riley, called on Mrs. Any $10.00 suit 7.00 visit with the former's parents at Nlw and Mrs. F. E. Andrews of St. Louis Mo., Staunton. R. Brink last week. who have rented a cottage there. Mrs. M Mr. and Mrs. James Furguson of De­ Handsome boys ’ suits Andrews' mother and sister, Mrs. Mary During the past week Merle Beach and WItt are attending the Furgason reunion E. Benedict and Miss Pearl, of New York vicinity have been visited by about enough* City, have been there during July, the lat­ NlU to lay tlu- dust, while from Saint at Jackson this week. in double breasted knee Johns and other bearby places, heavy R. H. SHAW & CO., ter having now returned to New York to Mr. and Mrs. Varney Pearce visited fill an engagement. They all expect to show ery are reported. their daughter, Mrs. Fred Tucker In South and knickerbocker sty­ be at |he farm home here a short time The whistle of the traction engine Is St. Johns, Michigan. DeWItt part of last week. the last of this and the first of next again heard and the wheat crop reported Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Woodruff and chil ­ les. All new this season month. Mr. Andrews ’ mother of Cold- better than for some years. Considerable dren, and Mrs. A. A. Woodruff visited t water Is also an honored guest with the wheat has been threshed and some of our In Grand Ledge last Sunday. including blue serge, others at the resort. , farmers have started cutting oats. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Brown and Of those who attended the camp meet­ The Clinton County Pioneer society will daughters and Mrs. Hall of Lansing visit­ black cheviots and fancy ing at Eaton Rapids, not before reported, hold their annual picnic in Merle Beach ed at Fred Tucker's in South DeWItt are Miss Vida Bateman and Joel E. Parks, Park Wednesday, August 18th. A large Sunday. the latter going last Thursday. Mr .and number of the members and friends • of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cook of Riley and mixtures, sizes 6 to 16 Mrs. Justus Hastings and two children re­ the association will probably be present. Mr. and Mrs. George Pike and children years: All— turned last Wednesday. Several others Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boron and family, of Olive visited at the home of Mr. and Including Rev. and Mrs. D. A. Rood and Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Molnet and son Henry, Mrs. D. S. Pike Sunday. son, returned Saturday and the rest came Mr. and Mrs. John Baumgartner and fam­ Mrs. George Watson and son of Detroit c.prrizht igog br Htrt Schaffner A M«rr $2.50 SUitS nOW on Monday. All report an Interesting and ily, and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Baumgart­ irbon’t $1.75 profitable season. There was an unusual ­ the Table and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. H. Knapp of ner attended the social at the home of Riley were callers at the home of Mr. and BOYS' KNEE TROUSERS $3.00 suits now ly able corps of speakers and some very Mr. Yanderlee In East Bingham Monday Mrs. Varney Pearce last Friday. 2.00 Impressive services. evening. Mrs. K. VanFleet, Mrs. glon Lawrence, A great storm arose northwest of us There were two games of ball played on Mrs. James Truesdell or DeWItt; Miss 50c pants - 38C $3.50 suits now 2.50 Saturday afternoon and seemed sure to the Beach grounds Sunday. The first was that plan of refurnishing Regina VanFleet of Chicago visited at pass to the north and clear us, but between Merle Beach and Bengul Center your home. Take up the Round Lake last week Thursday. 75c pants - 56c $4.00 suits now when quite to the northeast, the wind and resulted In the home team winning 3.00 suddenly changed and brought It back and Mrs. C. L. Pearce entertained Elmer by a score of six to two. The second matter with U9 right now $1.00 pants - - 75C $5.00 suits now gave us a tremendous wetting and some game between Bengal Center and a picked Beckett of Rochester, Mrs. W. H. H. 3.75 of the sharpest lightning experienced here and reap the benefit of our Knapp of Riley. Mrs. Henry Tubbs of nine from St. Johns was won by Bengal this season, putting some telephones out Center, the score being four to two. special value offerings in Olive, Mrs. Samuel Tucker of DeWItt $1.50 pants - $1.13 $6.00 suits now 4.50 of commission and causing some distur­ and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tucker of South bance at the Central exchange. Two It Is understood that the South Riley furniture of attractive de­ DeWItt, Tuesday. men were knocked down In front of Mr. base ball club desire a game with some This is the harvest season for men who] know Douglas' store. The ball players and strong non-professional nine on the Beach sign and quality. Putting spectators made a lively scurry for shelter grounds August 18th. The South Riley off means 'paying more. good shirts. Complete line of plaits and negligees for themselves and teams but despite team Is composed of a husky bunch of RIVERSIDE. their best efforts were mostly well be ­ ball players and desire to meet foemen Taking advantage of our in all styles, patterns, colorings and sizes: sprinkled. DeWItt received but a sprinkle worthy of their steel. The date named Is special offer will enable you and Lansing and Grand Ledge none at all. the day of the pioneer picnic. There will Miss Marguerite Woodruff Is visiting at 50c, now 39c. $1, now 75c. $1.50, now $ 1.1 3 probably be a large attendance at the to refurnish splendidly and Mullett Lake. game. save money as well. Mrs. Fred Tucker spent Thursday ev­ REW. The Resort was visited by a good gath ­ ening at Henry Webb's. ering of pleasure seekers Sunday, among whom were Paul Jury, Vernon Padget, Frank Irish and family of Olive spent Ross Henderson, Fred Stolllcker, Clyde Sunday at Floyd Clark's. Ben Carpenter and Matthew Black are Lapham, George Kosh, Roy Peterson, Mr St. Johns, Eugene Peltier and family spent Sun ­ Wilson Bros., St. Johns. reported as gaining. and Mrs. Harry Irving, C. D. Clark and day at the home of Ernest Wolcott. son. Miss Pauline Halfman, Miss Anna Mrs. Emma King of Willlamston is vis­ Dunnebacher and the Misses Rose and . W. R. Osgood,Michigan. Mr. and Mrs) Bert Scott spent Sunday No goods charged*t these prices. No coupons given during this sale. iting at the home of E. M. Chadwick. with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Scott In Olive. Mary Herr of St. Johns; Albert Eldridge Mr. and Mrs. A. Harper of Bengal vis­ and wife, John Becker, wife and daugh ­ Mrs. Knight VanFleet and Miss Regina ited at the home of A. Boron last week. ter and John Ehrbrock, wife and son of - The FurnitureF Man and Undertaker. VanFleet spent Thursday at Round Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Francis and«son Essex; Fred Nuffer and family, Xavier Roscoe Carl and family of Bath Center spent Sunday at the home of Robert Bond. Barnhart, Miss Bernice Jacobs, John spent Sunday at the home of Wm. White. Vaughan and family and Roy Rathburn of Mr. J. Simmons of Hubbardston is vis­ Riley and L. C. Besley of Flint. B. S. Webb and daughter Bessie have ALWARD LAKE. EAGLE. iting relatives and friends in this vicin ­ returned home from their visit in Alma. ity. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bedell of Lansing Alonzo Schools and Stella Buehler vis­ managing editor and has with hte were guests at the home of O. B. Dills Mr. Wheat of St. Johns was the guest of E. C. McCrumb Is on the sick list. ited In Grand Ledge Saturday and Sun ­ BATH. Reed City—At the age of 23 year3 Friday. Ollbert Lapham and family Sunday. and one week, iand with the issue of family, become settled In his new Miss Fern Church and sister, Miss Irene day. home. The primary room in the urflon building Miss Emma Kuffman of DeWItt was the spent last week with relatives at Mulllkln. George Sloate Is reported as gaining July 28th, the Osceola County Demo- v------Is to be re-seated before the school year guest of Mrs. George Myers Monday. slowly; his many friends hope for his Miss Tilley Smith is visiting in Lansing. crat ceased to exist and was succeded \pavison —Richard Bush was hooked begins. Mrs. Bert Stoney left last week for Mr. and Mrs. Altqn Phelps attended the Clarence Huot of East DeWItt Is spend ­ Rochester, New York, where she will visit speedy recovery. by the Osceola County Herald. L. X In the eye by one of his cattle and the Miss Leila Van Fleet returned from ing the week with Mr. and Mrs. Fred relatives. The cemetery association will meet with Star Lodge at DeWItt last Friday night. Round Lake Sunday where she spent the Huot. Mrs. Rosa Town went to Detroit Sunday Goulet and son. Ernest V., have with ­ eye taken completely out of the sock, week camping. Mrs. Della Gould and tw*o children Mr. and Mrs. George Miller, August 12th. et. Fortunately It was a glass eye. Mr .and Mrs. Will Mahar of Victor were spent part of last week with Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Boron ’s committee will work. to spend a week with her son, Lawrence. drawn from active newspaper work i Mrs. J. Wolcott of Essex and Mrs. E. guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Rockwell Jerome Wheeler. Mrs. Valentine Neller of Lansing had Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Davis and children this city and the Herald will be own ,ut It was broken. Peltier were callers at the home of O. B. Sunday. went to Flint Saturday night to visit rela Dills Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Shepard and sis­ the misfortune to run a nail through her ed by E. J. and J. N. McCall and Geo. Holland —Fire caused by sparks Mrs. M. J. Tout of Lansing was the ter, Mrs. Horace Wilbur of Lansing spent toe while staying at the home of her tlves. E. Ganlard, the former two being pub ­ from a threshing machine destroyed Mrs. Bert Brlnkerhoff and son Don of guest of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Yanz Sunday here at their farms. daughter. Dr. Coulahan attended her. Mr. and Mrs. James Hall and little son Olive were callers at the home of Fred Sunday. of Ionia visited at Merrit Wherry's last lishers of the Gratiot County Herald, two barns, full of crops, owned ' by ilk Tucker Thursday. Mrs. Addle Brokaw and two children, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Edwards of Victor Mr. and Mrs. Frank Locher entertained spent part of last week at Grand Ledge spent Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Ger­ week. of Ithaca. Mr Gainard will be the Peter Dewerd, Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Ida Horning of Holland, Michigan, Mr. and Mrs. V. D. Pierce of South Olive with her sister, Mrs. John Patten. man Sypher, who left for northern Mich ­ Mrs. McGonlgal's Sunday school class and Miss Swartz of Denver, Colorado,'were Sunday. igan August 3d; their many friends hope took In $8.00 at their Ice cream social Sat­ In towrt Tuesday. H. H. Jenlson and nephew, Fred Jenl- Miss Waunlta Rockwell was the guest son, of Lansing went to 'Petoskey Wed­ their health will be Improved. urday night. Miss Regina VanFleet of Chicago vis­ of Mrs. Belle Farrier in Riley from Thurs ­ nesday of last w.eek on business. The many friends of Miss Mae Smith Ralph Walker of Burlington. Vermont, ited her brother, Knight and family from day until Sunday. were shocked to hear of her death last was In town Saturday. He left this place Thursday until Sunday. Mrs. Daisy Galaway of Ionia visited Under the supervision and work of Wm. Mrs. Maud Briggs Friday afternoon. Mrs. Sunday morning, although she had been five years ago. Carleton White of Man^on called on Lankton, the Alward cemetery presents Galaway was formerly Miss Daisy Dale of sick over two months. She was thought Mrs. Louie Whitney and children of Bay his aunt. Mrs. Eliza Webb, and Charles a very neat appearance. Eagle. to be on the road to recovery and ap ­ City spent last Tuesday with Mr. Whit ­ Webb and family Saturday. peared to gain strength and was able to ney ’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Whitney Mrs. Hannah Rockwell, who has been Floyd Kerr, who expects to go west, sit up an hour at a time. She will be A gang of men are grading around the attending the campmeeting at Eaton Rap- of this place. • new wheat elevator also building swlth has postponed the trip until later. His greatly missed in the home. Her moth ­ Ids, returned home Tuesday. farming Interests are keeping him at er passed away when she was about a Cards are out announcing the marriage tracks to the M. U. R. main track. of Mr. Robert Smith of Durand and Miss Ideal Mr. M. J. Tout and daughter, Mrs. present. year old and her grandmother, Mrs. Mc­ Isbell & Brown of Lansing are erect­ Frank Yanz and Pearl leave Tuesday to The ladles of the M. E. church will Carty, has had the care of her since. Jessie Hare of Bellevue. Mr. Smith Is ing a bean elevator south of the power visit relatives In Phelps, New Y’ork. a brother of Mrs. Lizzie LaNoble of this house on Mrs. Gardner's property. serve ice cream at their parlors Saturday , Obituary. pldce. Mr. Smith is well known here as Misses Myrtle and Mary Knapp and evening, August 7th. Everybody Is cor ­ Miss Helen Dills visited In Victor Sat­ Miss Mae Smith, who has been ill the he was born and raised In this place. Cement Ruth and Dorris Watson of Detroit were dially invited. past two months, died Sunday morning, urday night, and Sunday was the guest guests of Mrs. Mark Knapp last Thurs ­ The L. A. S. of the M. E. church will at the home of Mrs. Allie Beckwith. Miss Clara Bell Roe spent Sunday at July 25th, at the home of her grandmoth ­ meet with Mrs. Mary Richardson Saturday day. Grand Ledge with her mother, Mrs. Dora er, Mrs. McCarthy, aged 15 years, nine Mrs. J. Wolcott and son Harry of Es­ afternoon, August 14th. A good attend ­ TILE Mr. and Mrs. Will Newman and daugh ­ Thomas, returning to her work at A. R. months and 18 days. Deceased was born ance Is desired as It is election of officers. sex visited at the home of her son, Ern ­ ter, Nina and son, Russell of Lansing, Bennett's on Monday. November 6, 1894 In Clinton county. est Wolcott, from Friday until Monday. They will sell ice cream and cake after­ were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Loren Hill Mr. and Mrs. Dan Blaugh left Thurs ­ A sweet young life is ended and will be noon and evening. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tucker entertained Sunday. day for Weldman, where they will look greatly missed by her young friends and Floyd Brown and family of Lansing and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Whittaker of Riley for a place. Dan has sold out his home school mates. The funeral was held at Machine Mrs. Hall of Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday. and Miss Regina VanFleet of Chicago left to him by his father, Sam Blaugh. St. Isadore Roman Catholic church in were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mrs. John Partlow and daughter, Mrs. Lalngsburg, July 27th. at 10 o ’clock, con ­ SOUTHWEST BATH. Dr. J. C. Volmer of St. Charles, Mich ­ Martzke Sunday. ducted by the Rev. Father Lynch. In ­ igan, has moved into the Clair Dills build ­ John Dravenstatt entertained the Union terment was made In the Lalngsburg ing on Main street, where he will open an Mr. and Mrs. Mark Knapp entertained cemetery society on Wednesday of this Catholic cemetery. Makes abetterand office. Mrs. Watson and children of Detroit and week at their log cabin on the Grand Mrs. William Bauerle has a brother vis­ Mr. and Mrs. W. H. H. Knapp and Mrs. River. iting her from Iowa. Gerry Dills left Monday for Detroit to Sleeping mid the fragrant blossoms, more perfect tile visit friends and relatives. He will spend Ira Knapp last Tuesday, Mr. Dodge of Lansing organized a class Fairest flower of them all, Harry Hill is visiting his grandparents, the week camping at Pine Lake in Oak- Mrs. Flora Blxby and children, who In vocal music here on Friday afternoon Sleeping till that glad bright morning. Mr. and Mrs. George Peters. Sr. than the ordinary have been visiting her daughter, Mrs. of five pupils, namely, Lee Whltlock^^A. When she wakes to angels' call. Mrs. W. Smith and son Freddie were land county. I R. Bennett, Miss Rena McCrumb and Miss Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rouse, Mr. and Frank Locher. returned to her home near callers on her daughter Tuesday, Mrs. L. clay tile, and at less Pontiac last Wednesday. , Helen Brown and Muriel Tallman. Mr. Resting free from pain or sorrow. Seeley. Mrs. Carl VanFleet. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dodge comes well recommended and hopes Ne'er to know of earth's dark strife; VanFleet and Charles Webb and family Mr. and Mrs. Major Lewis entertained to do well with the class. Homer Peters spent Thursday with his than half the cost. spent Sunday at Alward iAke. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lankton and daugh ­ Resting till that happy morning. sister, Mrs. Arthur Kowalk and family ter Hazel of DeWItt and Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Julia A. Eddy died of cancer of When she wakes to endless life. of Watertown. Mrs. R. Brink entertained Misses Lelah Marvin Lankton Sunday. the stomach at the home of her stepson, Makes tile in four VanFleet, Pearl Baird and Lorna Wood ­ Jefferson Eddy, on Tuesday morning. The Cease your weeping saddened Grandma, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bauerle of Lan ­ l ruff at a 6 o'clock dinner Tuesday In hon ­ Mr. and Mrs. Chris Veed and family, funeral was held at the M. E. church Fri­ Pray to God In Heaven above: sing sepnt Tuesday with their son, Wm. sizes, 3, 4, 6 and 8 4 or of her guest. Miss Hull of Lansing. Mrs. Ellen Stampfly and daughter. Bessie Bauerle and family. of Gunnlsonvllle were guests of Mr. and' day afternoon of which she was a mem­ For your little daughter Is resting Mrs. C. J. Dills of Council Bluffs, Iowa, ber. The services were conducted by In God's tender arms of love. Quite a number of people from this inches. For hand M <4 Is visiting relatives and friends in De­ Mrs. Mark Knapp Sunday. the pastor, Rev Bouck, assisted by Rev. vicinity attended the Casselman Show at WItt, Olive and Riley. Mrs. Dills was Mrs. Will Phillips was pleasantly re­ W. E. Doty of Grand Ledge. Mrs. Eddy Aunt Nellie, you will meet your darling Bath Monday evening. or power. *% . * a guest at the home of O. B. Dills Fri­ minded of her forty-fourth birthday Sun ­ was born In the state^of New York, Feb. In the land of Joy and song; Mrs. Albert Debar and children of Bath day and Saturday. day by twenty of her relatives coming to I6th, 1834, making her about 75 years of All must have their time of waiting, spent Tuesday afternoon with her pa ­ help her celebrate the occasion. age. Her husband died about four years But your waiting won't be long. rents, Mr. and Mrs. Keorge Peters, Sr. Clint Whlteherse and daughter. Hazel, ago, since which she has boarded around of Owosso were callers at Mr. and Mrs. Eagle and Grand I>edge. She was a And as blossoms grow above her Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kowalk and family Manufactured by EAST DEWITT. Mark Hill’s Monday. Miss Minnie Red­ staunch church woman and a help to the Think of her and cease to weep: of Watertown were callers on Mr. and dick of St. Johns was their guest last church of which she has been a member Tho ’ you miss her you will meet her, Mrs. Wm. Bauerle and family Sunday ev­ Wednesday. many years. Interment was made In the For your darling's Just asleep. ening. M. W. Kyes and family spent Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wager and son, Simmons cemetery. —(Contributed. Richmond 6 Holmes at the nome of Edward Kyes at Rew. Willie, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas I.apham and Mrs. Will Ijiramle of Detroit Is spend ­ daughter. Myrl May and their guests. N.-E. WATERTOWN Patented May 1st, 1906 ing several days at the home of Theodore Mr. and Mrs. PIfer of Middleton spent WEST EAGLE. RILEY FARMERS’ CLUB Sober. Sunday at Round Lake. St. Johns, Mich. Other patents pending. Miss Nellie Chappel of Carson City spent Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Chant and family, Mr. Robert Morrison of Victor visited Tuesday as the guest of ^.lss Sadie Rich ­ Mrs. Chris Chant anl Miss Thornton of Wesley Brooks Is on the sick list. his parents Monday. ardson. West Olive, were callers at Mr. and Mrs. Gerald, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. The Riley Farmers' club met with Mr. Master Louis Redoty has been quite Oeorge Culp ’s Sunday, also Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Henry Puetz, July 28th, about sick wRh throat trouble. Little Beatrice Schneeburger .spent last Grant McCrumb, is 111. 40 being present. The club was called week at the home of Sumner Wright near Al. Whitaker of Riley and Miss Regina Miss Clara Zischke of Lunslng Is visit­ VanFleet of Chicago. Mrs. E. J. Shepard Is entertaining h«r to order by the president, Mr. Pratt, and Lansing. sister, Mrs. Daisy Galloway of Ionia, and the program opened by a song bv the ing her sister, Mrs. Frank Grass. Mrs. Julia Smith, Mrs. Frank Smith her mother, Mrs. Mary Dale of Green ­ young people, followed by the Lord's Farmers are busy harvesting their oats and Mrs. Nettle Laycock visited at the ville. prayer In concert. and barley and taking care of their clover Richardson home Monday. GUNNISONVILLE. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Wilbur and Mr. After roll call the president gave the seed. YOU ARE GOING TO BUY Miss Frances Frier of St. Louis, Mrs. and Mrs. Forest Shepard and children of associations! motto for the benefit of the Quite a number from this place attend ­ Clara MoGonlgal of I^nslng and Mrs. I>nnslng were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. club; “The skillful hand, with cultured ed the ball game at South Riley Sunday Harriet Ward of Bath were entertained Orace Livermore has the diphtheria. Milo Hayes Sunday. mind, Is the farmer's most valuable as­ afternoon. set." The club was then favored by a a portion of last week at the home of M. Mrs. Fred Angel has been quite 111 the Mrs. Charles Hudson Is suffering from Mr. A. J. Hath spent Saturday night Stockers and Feeding Cattle W. Kyes. last week. recitation by Miss Fern Hamer, which the bite of a dog on her ankle. Though was fine. The question. “How many and Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. THIS SEASON Charles 8chneeburger and family visited Donald Clark and Joe Leise sc pot Sat­ It was quite severe the wound Is doing kinds of smut In wheat, and how treat­ Orten Drake. at the home of Fred Oelsenhaver Sunday. urday night with Bernard Zeeh. well under the treatment of Dr. Hoover. ed?" brought forth a lively discussion, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hacker of Lansing You want to bay where you can get the best cattle for the least Mr. and Mrs. Burr Smith are entertain ­ Mrs. Arvllla Lott of North DeWItt visit­ and was followed by a recitation by Miss visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Orton ing their brother, Ralph Walker of Bur­ ed Mrs. B. F. Lott last Tuesday. Florence Pratt, which was enjoyed by Drake Sunday. money. Write or wire at once to lington, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Zeeb spent Sunday OLIVE. all. The next question, “What are the Mrs. Frank Favior and daughters, Albert Schllnker of I.an*lng spent a at the home of their aunt, Mrs. Mark most essential needs of women?" brought Reeva and Bernice visited Mrs. Louis portion of last week at the home of Hen ­ Knapp. out so many dlflotencles in woman's realm Favior last Tuesday. ry Baurley; his mother, Mrs. Carrie that time and space prevent mentioning Schllnker and children came Sunday and Mrs. Josle Stampfly and son, Leonard, Mrs. Charles Dills of Council Bluff; Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ingalls and JOHN J. LAWLER visited her sister, Mrs. John Cline In them. The farmers, also, would rather daughter. Esther, visited in Ionia county, all returned Sunday evening. and Mrs. W. S. Dills and Mr. and Mrs. not have them mentioned all at once. U3 EXCHANGE BUILDING Lansing Sunday. Jerome Dills of DeWItt visited at Mrs. Miss Bernice Jacob favored the club with from Saturday until Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George McLeod of ep- Ella BrlnkerMoffs Sunday. music, after which a bountiful supper Edna, Irene and Ellsworth Redoty of ardsvllle spent Saturday and Suni at Mrs. 8. W. Norris celebrated her birth ­ was served, and thoroughly enjoyed by East DeWItt visited at the home of Mr. UNION STOCK YARDS, CHICAGO S.-W. DEWITT. the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Zeeb* day last week, July 27th, by visiting her all. and Mrs. Oust Redoty last week. Mr. and Mrs. Oelsenhaver entertained daughter, Mrs. Orace Decke In Lansing. The next meeting will be with Mr. and Mr. Herman 8chray and Miss Helen Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schneeberger, Mr. Mrs. Norris was the recipient of several Mrs. Charles Bills, September 1st. at 2:00 Schray of West Dewitt visited at the Sound, safe, conservative, strict honesty and Miss I-a lira Leslie of Lansing spent and Mrs. Charles Kemp. Mr. and Mrs. beautiful presents. o'clock sharp. A chicken pie supper will home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Workman part of last week with Helen Moots. Bert Patterson and daughter. Vera, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tubbs entertained be served. All come and bring your Thursday evening. Moody. Miss Mabel Hall, and Will Horn ­ boxes. Special Invitation to visitors. a square deal guaranteed. Mr. and Mrs. Wright of West Lansing Mrs. George Watson and children of De­ Mr. Orten Drake narrowly escaped a ESTABLISHED OVER 25 YEARS ing Sunday. troit; Mrs. Ann Apthorp and Mr. and Mrs HATTIE KIMBALL. serious accident last week. While at work spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Wm. H. H. Knapp of Riley; Elmer BeckatBee' * Sec. Pro.-Tern. Oelsenhaver. he got mixed up with a nest of yellow- of Rochester; Mr. and Mrs. CharleiCharles jackets. No serious results except a bad REFERENCES: live Stock Exchange National Bank, Chicago Mrs. Rood of Lansing spent Wednes ­ Ferris of Watertown and Mrs I. M V acare. Any Mercantile Agency day afternoon with her sister, Mrs. Ed­ Knapp and daughter of Olive to dinner Marshall —Mrs. Ida MacMlIlcn, of Thousands of our satined customers ward Schray. and supper last week. this city, has Just instituted her thlr Mr. and Mrs. William Schray spent Sun ­ CASTOR I Al! suit for divorce from Silas MacMillen.N Detroit—Charles Hamilton, aged 37 We handle more stockers end feeders then any firm in the world. A bis day with her people, Mr. and Mrs. August for Infant* and Children. Corunna — William Sehsuch, 72 a painter, died Thursday night, a vic­ selection at ell times. Sales, 40 to 50 loads daily. * Ferle, South of Lansing. a prominent Battle Creek contractor, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hardtke. Mr. and years old. a well known farmer of In the circuit court. On two separi HP timtl of the heat. v Come to Chicago and we will sell direct to yon, or order at one* by mail Mrs. William Leslie spent Sunday with Tfca KM Y m Man Always Bought Venice township, who had resided occasions she has been granted a d«S Boyne Falle — Cloude Pour, 19 years or telegram and we will ship just what you want direct to you at lowest mar­ Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hardtke. there for about 27 pears, was fatally cree of divorce by the courts, but eachneb S ket prices. Write at once for our plan of filling orders. W« can sava Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schray enter ­ Bssirs tbs Injured Thursday afternoon when he time she changed her mind and was old, died here In great agony, the re­ you money. Write us for quotations of prices before you buy. tained Mr. and Mrs .Tomrell of Lansing, Blgnaturaof fell about 27 feet from the hay mow remarried to MacMillen within a few sult of eating poison, taken unknown, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rood of Lansing and Miss Iva Shaw of Dansvtlle Sunday. In hla barn. days after the case was heard. to him or merbera of his family. I

THE CLINTON REPUBLICAN, ST. JOHNS, MICH, AUGUST 5,1909. —PAGE 8. .. . _.j—— A1ELSIE NEWS ) DUPLAIN. Park Avery of Grand Rapids was the • w. \ \\V V V .■ ■ >'" WW'O .\ ,\Vs\\k. guest of his parents Sunday. Ovid" News Clark & Hulee. 87. Johns clothlera, Nearly 300 people held a picnic In Geo. .ire selling broken lota of mena' and Heibeck's grove last Friday. # . boys' suits at ft off. 8ee add. Fruit * Alfalfa Farms Jessie Hainer, who spent several Clark & Hulse, St. Johns clothiers, months In the west, is visiting friends In are selling broken lota of mens ’ and L. C. Clark has gone* to Ellnt to work. Duplaln. boys ’ suits at H off. 8eie add. The W. C. T. U. will serve ice cream on J. G. Show haa been on tbe sick list Frank Alderman's lawn Friday evening, In the Grand Coulee, Washington the past week. August 6th. Death of Dr. Wm. L. Crone. * A. F. Doyle of Chicago was an Elsie Mrs. Oral Elliott and.daughter, Margery Dr. Wm. L. Crone, one of Ovid’s prom* CASTORVvVONvW IA visitor last week. Are offered by George Baldwin, with water left Saturday for a few davs visit near inent citizens, Quietly passed away at 8 Mr. George Briggs was in Grand Rapids Laingsburg. o'clock, Saturday morning, at his resi­ The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been the *flrst of the week. The Misses Edith Holbrook and Ethel rights, at attractive prices. (See World's Work dence. For many months Dr. Crone had Mrs. A. Bernear, who has been 1)1 the Ash were the guests of Mrs. William Bird been a patient sufferer from cancer and in use for over 30 yean, has borne the signature of past week Is slowly Improving. In St. Johns last week Wednesday. hie death, although expected, came as a for August for value of fruit lands in Wash ­ shock to his children who are left to and has been made under his per­ Cement sidewalks are being laid on N. Mrs. PhOebe Beebe Is caring for her mourn his death. The funeral services sonal supervision since its infancy. Ovid street to the village limits. sister-in-law, Mrs. Jackson Miller, who were held at his home at 2:30 o ’clock O. L. Brainard and L. L. Burdick are Is quite 11) at her home in St. Johns. ington and Oregon.) Monday afternoon, conducted by Rev. N. Allow no one to deceive you in this. spending the week at Fouch fishing. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks and daughter, D. Potter, assisted by Rev. R. J. 81ee. B. M. Wooley and family go this week Millie of South Bingham, were the guests The Woodmen Foresters of which de­ All Counterfeits, Imitations and ** Just-as-good” are but to Bay View for a two weeks' outing. of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ewer Sunday. ceased was a member, attended In a body Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Charles Preston and wife visited friends Mrs. Fred Rice exects to leave the last Grand Cpulee (until recently, entirely within Douglas and conducted the services at the ceme­ Infhnts and Children—Experience against Experiment. in Owosso from Monday until Wednesday. of the week for Newberry, where she will tery. visit her sister, Mrs. Hugh McCullough. county, Washington) extends from Coulee City northeast Wm. Lawson Crone was born In Mid­ Mrs. Kate Thurber of Lansing was dlesex county, Canada on September 6th, the guest of Mr*. J. B. Wooley last • Miss Ethel Ash and Andrew Messenger to the Columbia river. The western wall of the Coulee 1856 and died at the age of 53 years at his week. spent Monday with their cousins, Mr. and home in Ovid on July U, 1909. His early Aide Greenfield and family of Flint are Mrs. Alexander McArthur in South Bing ­ is now the boundary line between Douglas county and the What is CASTORIA ham. life was spent in his native town, where visiting friends in and around Elsie for new county of Grant. he became a member of the Episcopal Castorla is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare­ a few days. The union young people's service will church. He attended school at Ontario, M. B. Netaorg has a new automobile, be held at the M. E. church Sunday even ­ graduating from the Ontario Veterinary goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It the "E. M. F.,” and Claud has a “Max­ ing. Everybody is cordially invited to at­ Grand Coulee is a deep valley, some 25 miles in length, ed In marriage to Miss Ellen Mannig. well” runabout. tend. college. On October 10, 1878, he was unlt- contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic Z. T. Ash moved the old blacksmith varying in width from one to five miles. The walls on One son was born to them. Fred Crone of Mrs. Eelle Letts and children are spend ­ substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms ing the week with her parents, Mr .and shop to the rear of his dwelling this week. either side are perpendicular basaltic rock from 600 to 1,000 British Columbia. His second marriage Mrs. M. Swarthout. This old land mark has stood for over occurred in 1887, when Miss Caroline aad allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind fifty years near the road and north of the Craig of ..Canada became his wife. To Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation Mrs. Selina Clark and son Ed. were In residence. feet in height. At many points the formation and coloring this union two children were born, Portland last week, guests of Mr. and and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Mrs. Ernest Clark. The L. A. S. of the Church of Christ produce a grand scenic effect. The most remarkable ex­ Leonard and Elverna. The family moved which was held at the home of Mr. and to Ovid about ten years ago, where Dr. Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Dr. W. 8. Bell and wife were called Mrs. J. M. Ice last week Thursday, was ample of this is Steamboat Rock—a solid mass of unbrok ­ Crone worked up an excellent practice as to Medina. Ohio, last week by the serious largely attended. Mr. and Mrs. Louis a vetrlnary surgeon. Their home was The Children's Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. Illness of his mother. Holbrook were present from St. Johns . en rock with perpendicular walls, standing fully 1,400 feet darkened by the death of the mother Charles Meacher *and wife of Medina. about two years ago. He was a member of the Woodmen o Ohio, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. high in the middle of the valley (or coulee) at its widest Foresters, who attended his funeral in a GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAY 8. Clement last week. CHAPIN. body Monday afternoon and had charge The Clement reunion will be held on r point. The top of this rock is flat and fully a mile square. of the burial services at the cemetery. August 11th at the home of Mr. and Those who are left to mourn his death Sears the Signature of Mrs. Charles Meacher. It is a magnificent sight, not unlike a huge ship on a calm are two sons, Fred of Vancouver, Britsh Charles Maurer of Toledo visited his James Weatherby is qu..e sick. sea, and is in plain view for many miles as one approaches Columbia and Leonard of Ovid; one daugh ­ parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. Maurer from Mrs. C. M. Loynes was quite sick Sat­ ter, Elverna: one sister and a father and Saturday until Monday. urday night. from either direction. mother, whose homes are in Canada. J. H. Breeee and wife returned from Miss Hattie Holden of Owosso Is vis­ Fenwick Friday, where they have been iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. The bottom of the coulee is generally level, sloping gent ­ Ovid Brevities.. visiting their daughter. Holden. Frank Rice of Owosso spent Sunday in Mrs. William Sneillng and children of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Walt* of Ovid vis­ ly from the eastern to the western wall at the base of which _Ovld. Fowler were visitors at the home of M. ited their daughter, Mrs. George Somers Mrs. Earl Hyde was an Owosso caller R. Van Deusen last week. • last week. a chain pf small lakes (or ponds) receives the drainage of Friday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Breeee and two sons Mrs. Fred Huber of Elba and Mrs. Mag- the entire valley. These ponds contain more or less alkali Ethel Clarke spent Friday with Eureka of Pittsburg, Pa., are visiting his parents, lv of Lansing, visited Mrs. Ine* Van The Kind Ton Hare Always Bought Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Breeee. Haun Saturday. friends. which, through a long period, has been thoroughly leech­ Abram Becker of Lansing spent Sunday L. E. Dennis and family returned Fri­ Grace Somers fell from a tree Sunday in Ovid. In Use For Over 30 Years. day from their vacation, which was spent and hurt her arm quite badly, but did not ed out of the lands above them. break the bone. • George Beardslee was in St. Johns on TMI Cl NTAu R COMMNV, TT MUMAV ITNCtT NCW YORK CITY. with friends in Sarnia. Canada. Saturday. • Mrs. B. W. Doyle has been entertain ­ Little Edith Holden fell from the table, The soil in the bottom of the coulee is very fertile, being Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Amt* were in Owos­ ing her sister, Mrs. John L&hrlng of Wal- striking on a piece of broken crock, cut­ so Monday. ‘ senburg, Colorado, the past week. ting her face quite badly. a rich volcanic ash of unusual depth. The land for the E. B. Voorhees and family were in El­ Fred Couter and wife entertained his Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks of Pompeii vis­ most part is under cultivation, fenced and cross-fenced and sie Sunday. brother and wife of St. Johns, and moth ­ ited their daughter, Mrs. Clarence Van- er of Eureka Sunday and Monday. Haun the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. James Hardy went to Pon ­ her daughter, Mrs. F. H. Nix, returned dotted here and there with homes. Wheat is the principal tiac Friday. Dr. C. B. Porter was in Traverse City Revs. George Varion and M. S. Williams to her home in Clare Thursday. SHEPARDSVILLE. Sunday; his family, who have been camp ­ will hold baptismal services at Maple crop with here and there an orchard and garden patch. E. J. Molnet of St. Johns was an Ovid Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Barrett and Mrs. ing there, accompanied him home. river west of Elsie at 3 o ’clock Tuesday, caller Friday. Carr of Owosso were the guests of Mr. Miss Jessie McClain of Saginaw was August 10th. A fine level country road with numerous branches extends northward from Mr. Jesse Stone of St. Johns called in and Mrs. P. W. Holland over Sunday. Rev. Mr. Deltrich was in Lansing Tues­ the guest of Mrs. John Hess and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Maynard and son Ovid Thursday. day. Walter, who have been visiting relatives Coulee City the entire length of the coulee. The G. N. Ry. at Coulee City, or Mr. and Mrs. D. Waters of Green Bay, C. Rumbaugh during the past week. Hartline, gives quick transportation to Seattle or Spokane, and another branch L M. Mills of Grand Rapids was in Wisconsin, are visiting at the home of William Everest, Jr., spent Sunday in E. A. Fuller and wife and daughter, here and at Elsie returned home to Ovid Thursday. his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Waters. Pontiac. Norma of Ovid were visitors at the home Kingston last week. of the same road, now building through the Big Ben w^heat country, will reach Tom Steadman of Elsie was an Ovid Mrs. E. L. Emmons of Detroit and Mrs. Claude Goings spent part of the week of L. C. Vincent Sunday and Monday. Frank Carter and Mrs. Henry Carter, an easy approach to the coulee about 15 miles north of Coulee City. A line caller Thursday. M. Emmons of Elsie visited at the home in Flint. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Fields and daugh ­ who have been visiting their uncle. Geo. from Coulee City will, ere long, be constructed throughout the entire length Miss Minnie Simmons of Richmond is of Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Lewis last week. Oscar Longcor of Mt. Pleasant visited ter Viva spent Sunday In Laingsburg at French, the past two weeks, returned to their home In Detroit Saturday. of Grand Coulee to the Columbia river (at the only feasible point for crossing) visiting in Ovid. Miss Bessie Rumsey of Moline. Ill, who his father, James Longcor, last week. the home of their daughter, Mrs. Fred and thence north to Republic, at present a terminal point. This line (branch Harvey Buck of Owosso spent Sunday has been visiting Ovid friends, has gone J. C. LaPointe of Copemish, visited his Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Carter of Elsie, Mrs. visiting in Ovid. to Owosso to visit Miss Lulu Washburn. parents, Mr. and Mrs. LaPointe, Sunday. Miss Bernice Sherburn of Lansing and Ina Hllller and daughter, Lois, of Illi­ now building from Adrian south to Connell) will give a direct connection Mrs. J. J. Linton, who has been visit­ Mrs. M. Sherburn of Saginaw were visit­ nois, and Ford Curtis of Saginaw visit­ through to North Bank road. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Martin spent Sun ­ Miss Minnie Olson spent part of the ed at the home of G. A. Maynard Satur­ day in Bay City. ing at the home of her sister, Mrs. W. week in Bengal the guest of Miss Love. ors at the home of J. Devereaux last H. Robson, has returned to her home in week. day. The general cWmatlc condition of the Columbia Valley in Washington, be ­ Miss Mary Mahoney of Laingsburg was Detroit. Mrs. Knight of SI. Johns visited her Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Hayes and daugh ­ tween the Rockies and Cascades is one of long, warm and dry summer and in Ovid Saturday. grandson, Milo Knight and family, last L. C. Vincent, wife and son Wilfred, ter, Mrs. Mary Eddy of Nebraska are Miss Beth Hazel of Shepardsville was R. D. I.anslng, who has been attending week. visited friends in Essex and Ionia part visiting at the home of George French. mild winters. The Grand Coulee is the most notable example of its particular the National Photographer ’s convention of this week, making the trip by auto ­ topographical formation peculiar to the Columbia Valley wherein the high in Ovid Saturday. at Rochester, New York, returned home ElRoy Deltrich of Lansing spent over mobile. Mr. French and Mrs. Hayes are brother Glenn Henderson of St. Johns was an Sunday with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. and sister. walls of the coulee further modify the general weather conditions, protecting Saturday. , Deltrich. Mrs. John Witbeck returned to her Ovid caller Monday. Mrs. William Vaughan and Mrs. F. H. home in Detroit Friday, after spending the lands within from strong winds and killing frosts. The spring season In Miss Kate Jillson is visiting Miss Ella Walters and daughter of Maple Rapids Miss Ruby Winfield Is spending the several weeks with her aunt, Mrs. J. S. Grand Coulee is fully 30 days earlier than on the benches and prairies above. Hill in Battle Creek. week In Lansing with her sister, Mrs. J. visited Mrs. Jennie Vaughan the latter H. Aldrich. , Clement. ELBA CENTER. The summer warmth, when combined with suffeient water for irrigation, Misses Alice and Gertrude Meehan spent part of last week. Mr. and Mrs. H. Loop and Mrs. F. Wag­ Sunday in St. Johns. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Potter who have Miss Laura Walker of St. Johns was ner of Elsie and Miss Josephine Phelan of produces a crop-forcing condition nothing short of wonderful. Corn matures been 'visiting 1 their* daughter ^Mrs.**Samuei KViest of her grandmother, Mrs. Laura to perfection. The elevation of Grand Coulee is about 1,200 feet, well within William Griffith of Detroit was in Ovid Coleman Sunday. Chicago spent Tuesday at the home of E. Ruby Menter visited Mary Gregor on Thursday on business. Palmer of Big Run, Penn., returned N. Waite and wife. Sunday. the limits established as the most favorable in this latitude for producing ap ­ Floyd Yarriger was in Owosso the lat­ home Tuesday evening. Mrs. Clarence Smith and baby of Saint Mrs. B. W. Doyle and baby and sister, Hazel Welch visited in Elsie a few day* ples. It is well known among fruit buyers that the best products are found The Misses Gates, Birmingham and Johns visited at the home of Norton Smith Mrs. John Lahring of Walsenburg, Can ­ ter part of last week. the first of the week. last week. in just such a location as Grand Coulee. Samual Benjamin of Cleveland, Ohio, Baker and Messrs Olson, Smith and ada, left Elsie Thursday to visit their Kingston Wool! visited Clare Streeter Dietrich spent the latter part of last week Mr. and Mra. George LaPointe enter ­ parents in Lexington. Excellent water for domestic use can be obtained at any point in the Coulee was in Ovid last week. | at Oakdale Park. All reported a very en ­ tained a daughter-in-law and two child ­ Thursday. Glenn Finch and family returned to George and Cecil Lawrence visited Roy from copious springs or at a depth of from 15 to 25 feet. Fire wood is e^ily Fred Hiller spent a day the latter part joyable time. ren of Pewamo Tuesday. their home In Grand Rapids Monday, af­ of last week In Owosso. Misses Lena and FJorenee McLeod of ter spending a few weeks with his moth ­ Menter Sunday. obtainable close by in the many draws and pockets, with good facilities for Mrs. Fred Burke of Owosso visited her Ovid spent the last of last week with er, Mrs. Ardell Finch. Ruah Hayes visited Irene Decker last obtaining coal also. Devils Lake will for all time furnish an ample supply of Thursday evening. father, Ed. Post Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Norton Smith. Quite a large number from Elsie took ice for the entire valley. (The valley has rural free delivery.) Mr. and Mrs. Dav Richards of Owosso N. VICTOR. Notwithstanding the Inclemency, of the advantage of the Gratiot County Stmday Mrs. Elmer Cook entertained company visited Ovid friends Sunday. weather, the social at the home of W. H. School excursion and visited Lakeland, from Alma Saturday. To the north and west of Steamboat Rock, at the widest point in the Cou­ Miss Ruth Fishburn of St. Johns visit­ Winfield Saturday evening, was a success Ann Arbor and Detroit. Ruby Menter spent Friday evening L. H. Allen ’s rheumatism is giving him lee, lies a magnificent body of land —some Five Thousand acres. On the ed Miss Florence Abies Tuesday. —netting 514.40. Mrs. W. S. Hambleton and daughter, with Beatrice Helnxe in Elsie. northeast boundary of this tract is Devils Lake, a beautiful body of fresh Misses Florence Abies and Florence some trouble. . Messrs. Paul Smith, Ransom Deltrich, Maere returned to their home in Jack- Ira Hoover and family spent 8unday at Curtis were in St. Johns Friday. Mrs. F. B. Jones was quite sick Sun ­ Fred Olson and the Misses Amy Birming ­ son Thursday; they were accompanied by the home of Calvin Thomas. water more than a mile in length, fully half that in width, and or great depth. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hlcock were In day, but is on the gain. ham. Esther Baker, and Harriet Gates Mr. and Mrs. M. 8. Hambleton. Mrs. Linman of Elsie visited her son, Ths lake is bounded on three sides by picturesque rocks—on the fourth (the Owosso the latter part of the week. Miss Helen Dills of DeWitt sperft Sun ­

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W44M4444444444l4t44WWHHW4HH444. v THE CHURCHES. Canary Brand Raisins ../...... 6c E. I. HULL, Licensed Embalmer, 18 Clin ­ the Frink auto. ; Six ^ ton avenue, St. Johns, Mich. Mrs. Lucy Gleason of Shepardsvllle ly and pour over the following Regular 10c Jap. Rice...... 6c visited friends here a few days this Miss Lillian W’illiams of Washing ­ tablespoons mustard, one tablespoon week. ton township visited friends in Saint turmeric, 1V6 cups sugar, 1 small cup Free Methodist. One pound Best Tea on Earth ...... 45c A. H. GRUBER,* Undertaker and Licensed Johns Saturday. Embalmer. Union Phone, No. 38, D. Glenn, Alfred Ward and Myron flour, and 2 quarts vinegar. Mix the Marshall Hoyt, who has been the Maple Rapids, Michigan. ltf. Ward enjoyed a fishing trip at Lyons Miss Bessie Bond of Grand Rapids dry ingredients and spices with a little pastor of this church for the past two MILK CROCK SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY Saturday. is visiting her sister, Miss Gertrude vinegar, add remained of vinegar and years will preach his farewell sermon PHYSICIANS. Bond this week. scald before adding to pickles. We have about 200 one-gallon milk crocks and to Mrs. Dell Scott of Ovid visited at next Sunday morning at 10:30. the home of Dr. and Mrs. C. E. Knapp Mrs. F. M. Piggott and daughter. The usual services will be held in close them out next Saturday have placed them at j. B. Dodge, M. D., Physician and Sur­ Miss Agnes Piggott of Lebanon were Denatured Alcohol makes the evening. geon. Office and residence over over Sunday. Farewell service at South Ovid Sun ­ FIVE CENTS each. Spaulding & Co's. Hardware store. Dr. and Mrs. Robert Buck and dau­ in St. Johns Monday. the most perfect summer fuel. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clark visited day at 3:00 o ’clock p.m. We hope these ghter of Flint visited friends in Saint services will be well attended. W. A. Scott, Physician and Surgeon. Johns Friday. their daughter, Mrs. S. J. Pond in CRANULATED SUCAR SPECIAL FOR SATURDAY Office and residence west of Court Lennon over Sunday. Methodist. House. Office hours 1 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Putnam attended Next Saturday we will sell 20 lbs. H. & E. Granulat ­ the funeral of Mrs. Charles Dean in Ralph Preston returned Monday A. O. HUNT Rev. William Colby of Owosso will M. A. BOWER, Vetrinary Surgeon. Offi­ Ovid Tuesday. from Fenton, where he has been visit­ MANUFACTURING DRUGGIST occupy the pulpit Sunday morning at ed Sugar for $1.00, when you purchase one pound of ce at Lancaster & Shaver ’s feed barn, Roy Parker, who has been visiting ing the past two weeks. 10:30 and at Bengal at 2:30 p.m. Kar-a-Yan Coffee (that rich creamy kind) at 20c to St. Johns. Phone: Office, 191, 2 rings; Deloise Rochon, who has been visit­ 10 Clinton Avenue, There will be no service at 7:30. Residence, 191, 3 rings. / his mother, Mrs. G. W. Parker, return ­ 40c per pound. ed to Detroit Friday. ing Mrs. Walter Burlingame, returned ST. JOHNS...... MICHIGAN Sunday school at 12 o ’clock. Allen Beach left Saturday for Chica ­ home to Fowler Saturday. Junior League at 3:30 p.m. Butter and eggs taken in exchange for groceries and SAINT JOHNS Miss Bess Carland is enjoying a “Quality and Fair Dealing.” Brotherhood of St. Paul devotional go, where he will visit Mr. and Mrs. services at 6:30 p.m. meats. Harry E. Walsworth. few weeks’ vacation and at present is NATIONAL at her home in Corunna. Ladies class for bible study at 6:30 Mrs. O. C. Clark spent Friday with p.m., in the parlors of the church. BANK. her niece, Mrs. Fred Jarvis, also Mrs. Miss Frances George visited her pa ­ William Beach in Ovid. rents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Volmer, Congregational. Established 1865. in Westphalia over Sunday. Byron Danley was in Flint over Sun ­ FLOYD CALKINS, ST. JOHNS. Will Gardner was here from Bay day. Subjects for Sunday: Morning, City a few days last week to visit his Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Smith visited in "Looking to the Mountains. ” Evening, Ann Arbor over Sunday. Mrs. Smith Mrs. J. B. Henderson Is visiting in CAPITAL ...... $50,000.00 sister, Mrs. A. G. Jones. Oakley. “Plenteous Redemption. ” Misses Elizabeth Goddard, Kathryn remained to spend two weeks. Bible school at 12 noon. SURPLUS AND UNDIVID­ F. A. Percy and daughter, Miss Olive Fred Miller was home from Lansing Junior C. E. at 3:30 p.m. ED EARNINGS...... $23,000.00 Fay and Kate Roche returned from Sunday. Bay View Friday evening. Percey, returned Sunday from an ex­ Y. P. S. C. E. at 6:45 p.m. tended trip through the east. Miss Aliene McCollum spent Sunday Henry Biedersteadt and daughter, Baptist. Mr. and Mrs. George Schoenhals and in Lansing. John C. Hicks, President. Miss Lena, of Fowler were in Saint Dee Waters was in St. Johns the Regular morning and evening ser­ Johns on business Tuesday. Robert and Roland Lee are visiting Big Redaction on Galusha Pennell, Vice-President. relatives and friends in Howell. last of the week. vice Sunday with preaching by the Mrs. Charles Cross and daughter, R. C. Dexter, Cashier. Lois and Hazle Georgia went to Mrs. E. Keister was in Fowler on pastor. Miss Winnlfred Cross, visited in business Monday. Sunday school at 11:45. Howell a few days this week. Fowler Tuesday to spend several days Preaching at Bengal-RIley at 2:30, with Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Georgia. Miss I.aura Walker visited in Shep- Glass Fruit Cans DIRECTORS. Mrs. Charles Rice and son, Charles, and Sunday school at 1:30 p.m. All Mrs. Mont Ilyers and two daughters ardsville over Sunday. John C. Hicks.—G. Pennell. and Mrs. E. Keister visited Mrs. Geo. are cordially invited. Miller in Pewamo over Sunday. l ave returned from a visit with rela­ Miss Josie Corcoran of Owosso was The Indies ’ Union will meet with R. C. Dexter.—C. E. Ball. tives and friends in Battle Creek. in St. Johns yesterday. For Short Time Only. O. P. DeWitt.—P. E. Walsworth. Miss Abigail Atkins ,who has been Mrs. D. E. Hopkins, 106 Emmons Coleman C. Vaughan. visiting her mother, Mrs. Augusta At­ . tr. and Mrs. W. H. Green and two Miss Caroline Kelly visited friends street, North. A missionary program kins, returned to Detroit Friday. daughters visited her mother, Mrs. D. in Ionia over Sunday. will be followed by a social hour with B. Ca.-roll at Burton over Sunday. refreshments on the lawn. Every Mrs. Victor Josenhans and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Theron Horton were SELLS DRAFTS AVAILABLE IN Mr. an? Mrs. V. S. Mattoon of Owos­ here from Lansing Sunday. lady Is invited. Tuesday afternoon, I will have plenty of blackberries the of Owosso came Friday to visit the August 10th. ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. former ’s mother; Mrs. Burney Rahl. so visited friends and relatives in St. Lynn Besley and Ross Henderson Johns the latter part of last week. dler, were in Lansing Friday. Miss spent Sunday at Merle Beach. first of thefweek for canning purposes. INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS. Richwine and Mrs. Fiddler left Sun ­ Editor and Mrs. Lew F. Cutcheon Miss Beatrice Griswold visited FUN AT A PICNIC. The crop will last but a few days. day for their home in Columbus, Ohio. spent from Saturday until Monday at friends at Eureka over Sunday. N Highland Park, near Grand Haven. Transacts any business consistent with Lloyd Preston has returned from Misses Opal Morris and Maybelle The Sunday School of the M. E. Mrs. Maggie Moore, who has been COME EARLY. conservative banking. Owosso where he has been visiting at Durkee spent Sunday in Lansing. . church gave a picnic Friday, and from the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Chase. visiting her daughter, Mrs. Orrin start to finish it was a hummer. Wheeler in Lansing, returned home Miss Lucile Walker visited friends Mrs. E. H. Webb went to Petoskey at Pine I^ake several days this week. About 200 members of the school Saturday. left from the church at 9 o ’clock with THE CLINTON COUNTY Monday to visit her daughter, Miss Eli Wilcox went to Lakeside, Ohio, Helen Webb, who has a position there. Mr. and Mrs. H. Glenn Henderson every kind of rig from a modern auto SAVINGS BANK left Tuesday for a few weeks’ trip Wednesday, where he has a position. to a “one-horse shay, ” for Halner ’s Mrs. E. F. Clark and son, Howard of to Kalamazoo, Niagara Falls and east­ Mrs. Will H. Brunson and Mrs. grove in Duplain. L. SAWADY ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN. Ionia came Tuesday to visit her pa ­ ern points. * Robert Kelly spent Monday in Lansing W. R. Osgood and his band of Ind ­ rents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Fleagle in Miss Ella Faffney came from Sagi­ ians led the procession with a banner, ST. JOHNS. Greenbush. Mrs. Jeanette Davies, who has been visiting her son, W. T. Davies and naw Saturday to visit Miss Anna Dool- “Onward Christian Soldiers. ” THREE PER CENT INTEREST on Mrs. J. Walters, Mrs. Ellen Churches family in Detroit, returned home on ing. There were the usual trimmings for deposits. Loans Money on Approved and Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Sherman Wednesday. Frank VauConsant has returned a picnic dinner and the ladles set to Bonds and Real Estate Security. went to Lake Orion Friday to spend Miss Jennie Henderson, accompani ­ from his trip to Fuffalo and Niagara work immediately they got there to several days. ed by her sister, Mrs. B. F. Johnson, Falls. “get dinner on, ” which was the main feature of the show, and called all Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hull and Mr. of Detroit, left today for a trip to J. F. Semeyn of Grand Rapids was OFFICERS. and Mrs. Victor Stephens went to De­ Niagara Falls. hands to the spread about 11:30. the guest of Miss Jeanette Wykoff Our genial clerk, Clark A. Putt was troit Wednesday in the Hull auto, re­ Mrs. M. B. Moss. Miss Nina Webster Sunday. Albert J. Baldwin, President. turning today. there in full force. His wife and Emma Harvey, who have been at Miss Nellie Bradley and Neva Save- G. Pennell .. Vice-President. R. C. Dexter and Frank L. Shiley, said that he had J>een starving for Mt Pleasant the past two weeks, re­ geot visited relatives in Lowell over three days preparatory to do justice R. C. Dexter Treasurer. who have been spending the past two turned Saturday. Supday. weeks in the upper peninsula, return ­ to that dinner, and he was certainly What are You Mrs. G. E. Sowle and Mrs. G. M. ed home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Wright of on the job for two solid hours. He DIRECTORS. Shiley of Detroit are visiting Mrs. Milan are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. P. actually ate so much that had to be Mrs. Marjorie St. Clair, who has Frank L. Shiley. Mr. Sowle visited Minard. propped up against a stump, and then A. J. Baldwin. P. E. Walsworth. been visiting at the home of Mr. and here over Sunday. he still called for more, and kept urg­ G. Pennell. C. E. Ball. Misf Leila Gannon of Grand Rapids Mrs. G. A. Lounsbury, returned home to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Pickering and ing his wife to eat because “she knew O. P. DeWitt. T. C. Hicks. Shepardsvllle Friday. spent last week with Mrs. W. E. son, Warren came Monday to 6pend Hamilton. how the larder was at home. ” Going to Do Frank Percy. C. C. Vaughan. Miss Marguerite Travis returned on They had a ball game in the even ­ Mrs. Eliza A. Hicks. some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Henderson visited her Monday evening from a visit in the Mrs. Elmer Drake. ing. Rev. Mr. Pinckard and George upper peninsula and Petoskey and son, Roy Henderson and wife in Lan ­ Hoerner “chose up ” and Will Holt um- Will GiffelB, who is attending sum­ sing Sunday. other northern points. mer school at the U. of M., was home j pired the game—and say, that game STATE BANK OF Mrs. Lyman Alward and two sons Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Sturgis of Grand was a hummer. One of the main fea­ over Sunday to visit his parents, Mr. Rapids visited friends here the first ST. JOHNS. have returned from Carson City, and Mrs. Charles ©. Giffqls. tures of the game was the “rag-chew ­ About it? where they were called on account of of the week. ing ” at the umprie and (the two home COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Crandall, who Mrs. Frank WT. Blair of Detroit is runs by Mr. Pinckard. He knocked the illness and death of her mother. have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. Mrs. A. L. Dryer and children, who visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil­ the ball so far that the boys agreed Everett Strong, north of St. Johns, re­ liam Ferrier. he could stay where he was and not Capital ______— ^ 50,000.00 have been spending several weeks with turned home to Durand Saturday. Net Assets of Stockholders $900,000.00 Mrs. Dryer ’s parents. Rev. and Mrs. D. Clarence Rottger and Fred Bauth- run the bases. You know there ’s quite a bit of Mrs. Charles Bradford and daughter, rott of Flint, visited friends in Saint After this there were races schedul ­ Arnold, left -Friday for their home Dorrice, who have been visting Mrs. “FIXING UP” to do about the in Marion. Johns Sunday. ed but most of the kids were in the F. A. Travis...... President. Frank Clavey and Mrs. Hattie Acre, river and too busy taking their “an ­ Miss Goldie Carter of Detroit, who Rev. and Mrs. James B. Pinckard place. You’ve known it for some Dr. Martin Weller .... Vice-President. returned home to Wheeler Monday. nual ” to want to race. has been visiting Miss Bernice Hodge, left today for a trip to Buffalo and Quite a few of the party found their J. W. Fitzgerald...... Cashier. Hal R. Chapin, draftsman for the Niagara Falls. time. And still you keep putting went to Eureka Sunday to spend a Canadian Bridge Company at Detroit, way to the dredge a mile or so above A. J. S. Jury ...... Assistant Cashier. week with relatives. Miss Hodge visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C, •Mrs. Will Chase and Mrs. Alice and this kept them busy for an hour it off. What are you going to do spent Sunday there. E. Chapin and friends here this week. Merrihew spent several days in Ten ­ or two. sing last week. DIRECTORS. Mrs. Louis Green and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Turner of There were one or two near-acci- about it now? Frances and Wilma, who have been Springfield. Illinois, who have been Mr. and Mrs. C. O. DuBois spent ^ents —Leon Plowman came near be ­ O. W. Munger. Otis Fuller. visiting at Mt. Pleastnt, Carland and Sunday at the home of Stephen Du­ ing drowned, but -“a miss's good's a Frank L. Shiley. Charles B. Giffels other points, for several weeks, re­ visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hurt the J. W. Fitzgerald. past two w^eks, left Tuesday for their Bois in South Ovid. mile.” Artie Lewis also had to be M. Weller. turned home Tuesday. yanked out of the water. Dwight If you take our advice,you'll buy Chas. T. Babcock H. B. Kneeland. home. Mrs. M. Gibbs. Miss Grace Losey Mrs. Fred Jackson and daughter, and Katherine Losey spent Sunday Steere fell out of a surrey on the way F. A. Travis. Mrs. E. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. G. home and the wheel passed over his what lumber you need at once. Laura, and son, Kenneth, spent the B. Treadwell, and the Misses Blanche with friends at Vernon. last of the week with friends in Pon ­ Miss Bertha Richardson of Owosso head, but only bruised him slightly. The price of lumber is as low now Three per cent Interest paid on Time and Ruth Mason, all of Detroit, are The ladles were preparing to have tiac, leaving there for Addison to visit guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. spent Wednesday at the home of Mr. Deposits. at the home of Mrs. Jackson ’s father, and Mrs. E. J. Mattoon. supper but Clark Putt beat them to as it is likely to be, and the longer Frank Branch. F. C. Mason. the baskets and "so the cubbard was J. M. Hicks of Bengal went to Alle- Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gage returned bare. ” you put off repairs, the more they Roland Beden of Rockford, Illinois, do. Illinois, Monday to meet his wife Thursday from Frankfort where they who is visiting here; Miss Carrie Peck All wended their way homeward at and daughter, who have been visiting have been spending two weeks. 5:30 except a rig or two of "spooneys ” will cost to make. and Miss Gertrude Bond spent Satur­ in the northwest and Canada, the past day at Muir with Paul Peck and Wil­ Edward and Miss Blanch Jacobs of who stayed to see the sun-set on the bur Bond, whQ enjoyed an outing there several weeks. Greenville visited at the home of Mr. gurgling Maple. on Grand River several days during Advertised letters — A. D. Adison, and Mrs. Charles Seibert last week. It was agreed that this be an annual We will make you a very close Stylish Suits | the week. J. D. Burtch. O. A. Cole (2), J. W. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Kniffln went to feature of the school. Clark (2), Al. Charters. Miss E. Ag­ P»jrrlnton Monday to spend a few dayA price*on anything you want in FOR WELL DRESSED MEN CAN Mrs. William M. Holt and little son nes Foster, W. H. Hulse (2). Mrs. Min ­ with Rev. and Mrs. Clare A. Whaley. * J Leroy, left Saturday night for Chica ­ BE RAD AT MY HACE FROM nie Johnson, L. G. Little, M. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Player of Owos- Flint —Belle Telephone Company building material just now. go, where they spent Sunday with will soon begin erection of $100,000 THE LATEST FABRICS. her brother, H. Play Merrick; they Miss Theda Fyler of Syracuse, and so are spending a few days with her exchange in center of the business then went to Princeton, Indiana, Mrs. Willis Ackmoody and son of Grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Havens. district. F. R. JACKSON |! Holt ’s old home, to visit her parenta, Rapids were guests at the home of Mr. iMr. and Mrs. William M. Leland, Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Merrick, for two and Mrs. H. !L. Kendrick, the first of who' have been spending a week at ------/ MERCHANT TAILOR. or three weeks. the week, leaving Monday for Elsie South Haven, returned home Saturday. Be sure and take a bottle of Cham ­ 796327 OVER SUNDAY'*. ST.JOHNS. Mr. and Mrs. AdelbeTt A. Chick and to visit friends. V berlain ’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea daughter, Marian, came Monday ev­ Dr. and Mrs. Joe Mountain and two If your liver is sluggish and out of Remedy with you when starting on ening to spend a few days with friends children of Connersville, Indiana, visit­ tone, and you feel dull, bilious, con ­ your trip this summer. It cannot be here and will also visit her mother in ed friends in St. Johns this week, and stipated. take a dose of Chamberlain's obtained on board the trains or steam­ ers. Changes of water and climate ______CO. According tx> the latent figures, the Maple Rapids. Mr. Chick will soon spent a few daya with DeWitt H. Hunt Stomach and Liver Tablets tonight be ­ water-power development of this coun open a shoe store at Alma. Miss Pau at ^is camp on Grand River. Dr. fore retiring and you will feel, ail often cause sudden attacks of diarrh ­ Phone 160. St. Johns, Mich. try is reported at 5,367,000 horae-pow line Cbtck, who has been attending Mountain was a former resident of this right in the morning. Sold by Van- oea. and It is best to be prepared. er, and the number of wheels which the normal at Ypsllantl, will teach at city and attended school here when a Sickle ft Glaspie, druggists, St. Johns, Sold by V&nSlckle A Glaspie, Saint it turn* at 52,827. • Boyne City this year. young man Michigan. Johns, Michigan. THE CLINTON REPUBLICAN, ST.JOHNS. MICH.. AUGUSTS, 1909. v —PAGE 6. MAPLE RAPIDS. Fowler Items.ts LEBANON. MMston Dept. ______*y ^ Sunday with Fred and Clark McDonald. Clark & Hulse, St. Johns clothiers, Mr. and Mrs. Will Hect of near Ionia Clark & Hulse, St. Johns clothiers, Mrs. Theodore Fugenschuh and lit­ are selling broken lots of mens ’ and spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives Hpme Camp Meeting. are selling broken lots of mens' and tle daughter of Chicago, were recent boys ’ guits at H off. See add. here. On Sunday, August 16th, Revs. 8. J. boys ’ suits at % off. See add. visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Ell Smith entertained a number of Baker and Vlner, began special services Harlan Payne of near Maple Rapids. the Lady Maccabees of Fowler Friday af­ here. Mrs. Brenneman visited Mrs. Ell Smith ternoon. Mr. Baker has an interesting story. He Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schultz of last Friday. was born in London, England, and at the L. S. Aldrich was in St. Johns last The Misses Seibert from near St. Johns age of 14 years, ran away from home and ■Matherton and Mies Bertha Stowe of Wm. Everts was in Ann Arbor a few spent Sunday at the home of their sister, served four years in an infantry regiment Thursday. Hartford, visited at the home of Wrm. days last week. Mrs. Mike Graff. band. While in the army he was convert ­ ' John Austin of Owosso was in Ma­ P. Ladd on Tuesday of the past week. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Orrison Parks, Rev. G. O. Mather and wife of Everett ed under somewhat dramatic circum­ These corsets we July 31st, a son. are visiting at the home of his Bister, Mrs. stances, purchased his discharge and Parisians Reducing Corset ple Rapids Saturday. » ■ ■a 1 1 —■■Sam - — Mrs. Mary Moss and the Misses Ni­ Born to Dr. MaaPherson' and wife on Calvin Benjamin. eventually became a student in the theo ­ Miss Nettie Pease visited friends in na Webster and Emma Harvey have August 3, a son. C. J. Mundell and family and Miss logical seminary of the late C. H. Spur ­ are selling for $1 and STYLE No. 555 geon. St. Johns the past week. returned from Mt. Pleasant where Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lance, on Mayme Coon went to Lansing Saturday in their automobile. for one week com­ Elmer McCracken of Belding is vis­ they have been attending the normal. July 29th, a daughter. rpHE best Corset made Miss Olga Whittaker was on the sick John Gregg of Lansing is here spending iting relatives in this vicinty. Miss Lena Smith, who has been vis­ list the first of the week. the summer with his wife's parents, Mr. mencing for stoat figures; Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wilkinson of Itha ­ iting her aunt, Mrs. Myron Eldred, Mr. and Mrs. C. and Lucene Sturgis and Mrs. Wellington Irwin. ca were dn Maple Rapid6 Friday. northwest of the village, returned to were in Crystal last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith and Mr. and adjustable side straps, Mrs. Jud Willlston visited at the^home of John Williams of near Portland is her home In Cambria on Wednes ­ Miss Regina Feneis went to St. Johns perfectly smooth buckle, the first of the week to work. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Smith Sunday. visiting friends in this vicinity. day last. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Smith have been Saturday Harold Wat6on of Visalia, Califor­ Mrs. I. J. Sage is visiting her daughter, camping for a few days at Wager's Dam no jxxsibiiity of tearing S. p. Dunstall and William Pickney Mrs. Scott Redfern and family in Hender ­ with a party of friends from Fowler. nia, who has been visiting relatives in son. the cloth. Will reduce were in Detroit the past week. Mrs. Pearl Slllman came home last (this vicinity, has gone to Chicago Mr. and Mrs. John Feneis were visiting Mr. and Mrs. David Crook visited Wednesday from I-ansing. She will spend August 7 a figure two to three where he will attend school. her sister in Newaygo the first of the a couple of months with her parents. relatives near Elsie the past week. week. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Will Sillmasi and baby inches across the ab ­ Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Rjedfem were infant daughter of South Essex were Mr. and Mrs. Levi Frisbie of Owosso spent Sunday in Saginaw with her pa ­ We will sell all $1 visited . his uncles, Gustus and H. H. rents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gaddy. in St. Johns the first of the past week. the guests of Mrs. Anderson ’s parents, Altvater. domen . Made of a good Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tait, Mr. and Mrs. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Jones Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Casterline on Sat­ Miss Martha Swart* returned from Io ­ Erford Nash and Mr. and Mrs. John Pat­ C re sco corsets, all quality Coutil, double near Maple Rapids .July 25th, a son. nia last week for a two or three week’s terson spent Sunday at Fred Benjamin's. urday last. vacation. Miss Helen Newton has returned Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cole and in ­ W. H. Warren and wife, who live east sizes for - - 75c side steels, 6 hose sup ­ Miss Ola Dunnebeck of Lansing is vis­ of St. Johns spent Friday and Saturday from a visit with relatives at Bay fant child, who have been visiting rel­ iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William at the home of their aon, Floyd Warren porters attached . Every City. atives in this vicinity, will return to Dunnebeck. and wife. their home in Temple, Texas, during Mr. and Mrs. Peter Edinger, Misses No­ Also all 50c corsets pair warranted to give Friends from Lyons were guests of ra and Bertha Martin were at the dam rne Sturgis entertained Mrs. Alexander, and children. Miss Louise Mr. Frank Howard and Mr. John Duffer I. C. Grill’s. By no means the least en ­ ter but now of Goldfield, Nevada, has a company of friends Sunday. of I>ebanon spent Sunday at the homes joyable part was the bountiful supper been visiting friends in this vicinity, and Paul, visited their daughter and sis­ Quebec, Que ., and return ...... $24.00 Charles Cole is visiting friends and rela­ ter, Mrs. H. B. Jones and family Sun ­ of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wedel and Mr. brought by the participants. recently. tives in Weshtenaw and Wayne counties day. Virgil Jones returned with his and Mrs. Frank Proseus. All tickets valid via Niagara Falls and allow stopover at Mrs. F. S. Alexander and family at present. grandparents, and aunt to Maple Rapids. Mrs. Mary Harris and daughters. Miss Erford Patterson is working for Mark Edna and Mrs. Nellie Morrison, and baby have removed to Ann Arbor, where Mrs. Thomas Phillips and son Thomas Margaret of Kligo, Missouri, were enter ­ PEWAMO. that point. Thirty days ’ return limit. Liberal stopovers. Leetch as one of his threshing crew. of St. Charles and Mrs. Thomas Mac- her son, Paul Alexander will enter the Lightning struck and completely de­ tained at the home of Mrs. Willard Harris Collum and daughters. Misses Mabel and Monday. university. stroyed the barn and contents belonging Grade of Portland, Oregon, are here vis­ Mrs. W. J. Hally was In Ionia Monday. Excursion fares to all Tourist Resorts in Canada, Mr. and Mrs. James B. Bird have to Wellington Irwin in Lebanon Saturday iting their uncles,. H. B. Thornton and Mr. and Mrs. Orvlse Messer and family, evening. and the Misses Emma and Martha Duffer Mrs. Jennie Briggs was in Ionia Satur­ family and H. Sutton and family; they day. New England, New York and New Jersey. For full returned from Harbor Springs, where Edwin Skinner from Olive was here a were formerly Misses Laura and Emallne spent Sunday at the homes of Mr. Wedel, they had been visiting relatives for part of last week drawing and threshing Sutton, daughters of Milo Sutton. Mr. Proseus and Mr. and Mrs. John Mrs. J. C. Fleming was In St. Johns last particulars apply to W. J. BLACK, Agent. some time. his wheat. Robertson. week. Floyd Patterson Is the possessor of a Mrs. Lena Townsend, Mrs. Edith Ben ­ Miss Bea Williams was in Ionia on Sat­ Mrs. Fred Lamphere and children fine gold watch presented to him by his nett and Miss Hattie Bolender of Hub ­ urday. visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Her­ parents, August 1st, that being his birth ­ RILEY. bardston spent Wednesday at Oak Mound Miss Geraldine Williams was in Lyons and were entertained by the hostess, Mrs. Monday. man W’ard, the latter part of the day. Nancy Stevens. past week. The ice cream social held at the home Mr. Ronald Green was in town for the of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Howard last Fri­ Mrs. Landers visited her daughter, Mrs. The sewing bee held at the home of Mrs. day Monday. Mrs. Walter Burke and daughter, A. G., Hildreth of Lansing Tuesday. John Loungsberry for the benefit of the day evening, was well attended and Wagoner twins, was well attended. A nice Mrs. H. P. Snyder and daughter, Marie Helen of St. Johns spent a portion of thoroughly enjoyed by- everyone present. What wheat has been threshed has lot of sewing was done. Refreshments are visiting in Mt. Clemens. the past week with Mrs. William Riker A short program was well rendered and turned out well and is of a good quality. were served and a pleasant afternoon was Mr. G. 8. Young and wile of Alma spent added much to the enjoyment of the oc­ Dr. Banta has moved to DeW'ltt. There CORN HARVEST and family. enjoyed. Sunday with their son and family, G. W. casion. is a good opening in Riley for a physician. Young. Miss Ethel Sholtz, who has been vis­ Mrs. Orpha Proseus and Mrs. Myrtte Mr. and Mrs. William Hecht and chil ­ Mi*, and Mrs. C. N. Cowles took an auto ­ Wedel wish to thank the people of Hub ­ Mrs. McConnell, daughter, Mrs. Camp ­ iting her mother, Mrs. John Halstead, dren from near Ionia sent Saturday night mobile trip to Howell Sunday to take bardston and community for the care and bell and daughter, Jean, are visiting in returned to her home in New York on with her uncle. William Tait and family, Mr. Bush, who will visit his daughter, assistance rendered them after their un ­ Belding. It won ’t be long till the corn harvest, and Decr- and Sunday visited Mrs. Hecht ’s sister, Mrs. Wilcox for a few weeks. Friday last. Mrs. Fred Benjamin and family. Mr. and fortunate accident. Mrs. Ida Freeman Clark & Hulse, St. Johns clothiers, ing Corn Harvesters will make it a complete success. Mrs. Benjamin also entertained Mr. and Robert Landers and wife of Riley, A. G. wishes also to thank them for the care John Bennett has returned from Hildreth and wife of Lansing, E. U. rendered to her daughters in her absence. are selling broken lots of mens ’ and Mrs. John W. Patterson and family, Mr. boys ’ suits at M off- See add. Come and see them at our store before you buy. Grand Rapids, where he had been vis­ and Mrs. Will Tait and Mrs. Lisxle Nash. Plngle and wife of Riley and Robert Mrs. Melvin Tyler and daughters, Mrs. Gamble of St. Johns were entertained Marv Harris, Mrs. Clara Kemp, Mrs. Ida Mrs. George Burhans and children pf iting his son, Clifford and family, for Sunday by G. W. Welton and wife of Jarvis and granddaughters, Mrs. Nellie Portland, who have been visiting at the ^ STACK CANVASS a short time. South Riley. Morrison,, Mrs. Mamie Brayton, Miss Allie home of C. P. Somers, returned home on ESSEX. ------1------Jarvis, Miss Edna Harris and great Sunday. A stack canvass is one of the best investments a Mrs. Otis Cowles visited her hus ­ granddaughters, baby Evangeline Brayton. Mrs. W. C. McGowan and mother, Mrs. band at Farmingtoil on Sunday last. ^ The Horuman and Margaret Morrison were entertained E. A. Rudd, who have been In Baldwin farmer can make. The use of one in just one storm Mr. Cole is employed as a mortorman Mr. and Mrs. Vear. Mills visited in at the home of Mrs. Mina Miller Tuesday. and Grand Rapids for a week, returned on the D. U. R. R. Oreenbush Sunday. Likes a fine animal. You get the Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Tyler and daughter home Thursday. ,______may save its price. We have them in different sizes Charles Martin, wife and children visit­ horse and Harvell’s Qondition Pow­ Mrs. Mary Harris, two granddaughters, George Archer accompanied by his ed relatives near Pompeii Sunday.. Edna Harris and Mrs. Nellie Morrison and and prices. j ders will do the rest. It is the best great granddaughter. Miss Margaret Mor­ —»EAST RILEY. grandmother, Mrs. P. Archer and aunt. Ed. Bowen and family visited his broth ­ rison, of Sligo, Missouri, spent Sunday er, Will and wife one day last week. condition powder on the market. Abso ­ Miss Hattie Wright, spent Sunday with lutely no waste and every Ingredient with the former’s daughter, Mrs. Clara DEER1NG BINDER TWINE friends in Lansing. Mr. Wesley 8herman and family of East Kemp and family. Four generations were Mrs. S. Jason is visiting In Lansing. Riley visited in this vicinity Saturday and is medicinal. Used by all the lead­ represented . Sunday. Fred Nuffer and family spent Sunday ft is guaranteed. It is uniform in size, free from knots Liberty Britten, who has been vis­ ing eastern racing stables. You should the Beach. iting relatives and friends in Bast Es­ Mrs. A. L. Frink, who went to Mt. try them and see for yourself. Price • and 500 feet to the pound, making it the cheapest Clemens recently for rheumatism, la Port Huron —Just two weeks before H. N. Carpenter of Lansing was in sex and vicinity has returned to his much Improved at present 25 cents per package. Riley part of last week. in the long run. home in South Bingham. J. A. Carr and Son, Lansing, Mich., her wedding day. Miss Alice Haywood, Byron Hamer and wife of Bengal spent writes:—“We have used Harveil’s Con ­ a popular young lady of this city, died. Sunday with Roy Rathbum. . Mr. and Mrs. George Wright of Mi­ ESSEX GRANGE. dition Powder* on our livery horses Miss Haywood would have been mar­ H. Cooley and Elton Kimball of Lan ­ lan and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Wright for about three years and have always ried to Fred Beeler on August 11. The sing spent Sunday in Riley. RIDENOUR BROS.. ST. JOHNS of Chicago are visiting their parents, funeral was held at Carsonville and Orlie Blizzard and wife of Lansing spent found them superior to all others. We Sunday with his mother. Mrs. Blssoll. Hardware De«.l«rs. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis bright. Essex Grange No. 438. will hold their have found that livery horses are sub ­ the Rev. Paul Deejardines, who had West Wslfctr St. annual picnic in the woods on William been engaged (o perform the wedding South Riley aha Olds Mobile ball teams Dr. T. H. Walters and daughter Car­ Stckel'a farm one mile and a half east of ject to great abuse and Harveil’s Con ­ played a good game Sunday. Score was »awc8ca»«woacKi^ ol are visiting friends at Durand and Maple Rapids on Thursday. August 19th. dition Powders always bring back fbe ceremony officiated. 2 3 in favor of the Lansing team. All members are urged to be present and laingsburg and from there they go to enjoy the day A picnic dinner will be appetite and puts them on their pins. Niagara Falls on a pleasure trip. served at noon. Sold by A. O. hunt, druggist, 8t. Johns. Want Ad.—lo a word; minimum 16c. Want Ad.—1c a word; minimum 15c. OLD PAPERS FOB 8ALE AT THE REPUBLICAN OFFICE—26c a 100. THE CLINTON REPUBLICAN, ST. JOHNS, MICH., AUGUST 5, 1909. —PAGE 7. B Statistics show that the hens of the Even In the dairy business misery GRAND TRUNK RAII^1 Teachers ’ Examinations. mwi country produce as much wealth In loves company, this truth probably ac WAY SYSTEM. FOR 1903 arid 1909 six months as all of the Iron mines In counting for ths fact that poor cows Until further notice Teachers' Examin ­ a year. and poor and Improvident dairymen ations will be held as follows: St Johns, in Court house, beginning are so often to be found on tbe same Trains East From 8L Johns. second Thursday of August . In the billing of the celery bed the premises. St. Johna. in Court houae, beginning ■talks should be held together firmly, We Can - Detroit Mall and Express .. 7:55 a m. third Thureday of October. ANb — so as to prevent dirt from getting into Steamboat fcxpreas, dally .. 8:47 a m. St. Johna in Court' houae. beginning Peas, beans or any other, legume third Thursday of June. the .crown of the plabt, where the plowed under not only contribute a Detroit Express r...... 10:52 a m. Detroit Mall flpd Express .. 4:20 p.m. Program. tenderest portions of the plant will considerable supply of yavajfcible nitro ­ GAM grow Durand Express ...... 8:47 p.m. First day—morning. Orthography, Spell ­ gen to the soil, but add a supply of ing. Arithmetic, oral and written; Theory humus in tbe shape of decayed veg­ and Art. Afternoon, Orography, Govern ­ During the beat of the midsummer ment and U. 8. History. etable matter. Convince You Trains West From 8t. Johns. Second dav—morning. Grammar. Phy ­ F.ETRIGG It Is especially necessary that flocks of siology. Reading. Afternoon, School Law, hens which are confined should have a Tbe poorer stick of a tenant a fellow Grand Rapids Express ...... 8:18 a.m. State Manual and Course of Study. Alge­ REGISTER. supply of green food In some form, is the oftener be has to move, and tbe Grand Rapids Mall and Ex- bra, Botany and Physics (second grade). pr ss ------10:52 a.m. General History, (second grade). with a plentiful supply of clean, fresh poorer stick tbe landlord is tbe oftener Third day—(for first grade applicants (ROCKfQRD.IA. Grand Rapids Mall______3:47 p.m. only) General History, Physics and water. be will waut to move. These two That it will pay you to consider the prices Grand Rapids Mail and Ex­ Geometry. sticks are often found near together we can make you on Lumber, Lime and press ...... 7:55 p.m. Certificates of all grades will be grant ­ CORRESPONDENCE However favorable irrigation may be and are responsible for a heap of Steamboat Express ...... 7:27 p.m. ed at the examinations at St. Johns In SOLICITED August and March. Certificates of the as a means of using otherwise waste mighty slovenly farming. Cement, as well as all kinds of Building second and third grades will be granted water, it Is an interesting fact that of W. J. BLACK, Agt., St. Johns, Mich. at all other examinations. IThts matter muat not be reprinted with ­ the water diverted Into Irrigation ca­ Materials. You can be better pleased by The Steamboat Express will not All examinations will begin at 8 a.m. out special permission.] Any man who is able to walk for a THEO. H. TOWNSEND nals but one-third Is finally utilized in stop at Lowell, Ovid. Owoeso Junction, Commissioner of Schools. living, as the Weary Willies do, can having our estimates and our materials for Fenton and Holly. the actual production of crops. usually muster enough energy to do a A B038 BERRY GROWER. little work for the meal be calls for the new home, building or anything that Horticultural papers of recent date MORTGAGE SALE—Default having been A good table relish may be bad dur­ at the back door. If be Isn ’t willing made in the conditions of a certain cite the case of a strawberry grower * takes Lumber. We manufacture Interior mortgage dated the 25th day of June, A. ing the early fall days If some string to do this. Introduce him to the dog MICHIGAN UNITED at Creston, B. C.. who last year raised D.. 1908. executed by John N. Swartz and beans are planted early In August and show him tbe highway. Finish, Sash, Doors, Veneered Doors & Stair Work. Elizabeth Swartz, his wife, to James H. 2,200 crates of strawberries —52.94-4 after some other garden crop has been RAILWAY COMPANY Ruel. banker, Pewamo, Michigan, and re­ quarts—from . four and one-eighth removed. They will be appreciated be ­ corded June 27th, 1908, in Liber 111 of acres. In explaining the remarkable It Is estimated that it would take Mortgages on page 424 in the office of the cause the time of green things has 200 or more of the poor dairy cows to LANSING AND ST. JOHNS DIVISION. Register of Deeds in and for the county yield obtained the grower attributes gone by. of Clinton and state of Michigan, on It to careful preparation of and en ­ be found In most any state to give tbe It Is Safe to Get Our Prices IN Effect June 23, 1908. which mortgage there is due at the date riching the land before setting the annual profit from their milk and but ­ ot this notice the sum of one hundred A Texas farmer living twenty miles ter yield that Is realized from tbe one (Subject to change without notice) slxty-two and eighty hundredths dollars plants; thorough cultivation, snipping from El Paso last year raised water ($162.80) for past due Interest, the furth ­ blossoms, layering the runners and cow Jacobu Irene. Besides this, there Because we carrry a grade of supplies for building Electric Cars will leave the Downey er sum. of Twenty-five hundred dollars melons under dry farm conditions is the job of milking tbe 200. House for St. Johns dally at 6, 8, and 10 principal, and the further sum of Fifty- spraying two or three times the rows with a rainfall of but 9.84 Inches dur­ that convinces all who deal with us that grades are a.m., 12m., 2, 4, 6. 9, and 11 p. m. one dollars and twenty-three cents for un ­ and scattering nitrates and covering ing the year. It would sort of puzzle Electric Cars will leave DeWltt 6:27, paid taxes assaMeil against said property with mulch pulled from berry rows The average farm Implement man 8:27 and 10:27a.m.. 12:27, 2:27, 4:27, 6:27, for the year 191)8. besides an attorn^ fee a fellow to tell Just where the Juice up to the standard. 9:27 and 11:27 p.m. of Twenty-five dollars provided in said can hardly view with aught but a feel mortgage and by statute, it being ex­ the second season. In explanation of In these melons came from. Arrive in St. Johns 6:55, , 8:55 and 10:55 the prices received for berries, never Ing of satisfaction tbe carelessness a.m., 12:55, 2:55, 4:55, 6:55, 9:55 and 11:55 pressly provided by the terms of said which so m&uy farm owners exhibit In p.m. mortgage that should any default be less than $2.20 per crate, he lays espe- Unlike some other products, partic ­ made in the payment of said interest, or ciul stress on making preparations for tbe matter of putting their machinery Returning, leave |8t. John* at 7, 9. and any part thereof, or the taxes, or any ularly those kept for long periods of 11a.m., 1, 3. 5. 7. 10 p. m., and midnight. the picking and packing of the fruit under cover, as It means an increased Before You Build a Home part thereof, on any day whereon the time In cold storage, comb honey keeps trade in repairs and new machines. Electric cars will leave DeWltt at 7:28, same is made payable as expressed in and shipping to but one dealer In a best If stored where It Is warm uud 9:28 and 11:28 a. m., 1:28. 3:28, 6:28, 7:28, said mortgage, with the further proviso town. From the standpoint of pro ­ and 10:28 p. m. and 12:28 a.m. that should the same remain unpaid and dry. in temperatures ranging from 70 in arrears for the space pf thirty days, ductiveness and shipping quality he The Kansus fruit grower Is In trou ­ Arrive at Lansing 7:55, 9:55 and 11:55 to 00 degrees. Exposed to frost and We will be glad to make you our estimates on Lum­ a.m.. 1:55, 3:55, 5:55, 7:55, 10:55 p.m. and then and from thenceforth that is to say, ranks the varieties of berries he has ble from the operation of the pure food 12:55 a.m. after the lapse of said thirty days, the dampness It deteriorates very rapidly. laws of the state, which require, ber and other material you need. . aforesaid principal sum of Twenty-five grown In the following order of ex­ First car on Sunday for Lansing at 9 hundred dollars, with all arrearages of in ­ cellence: Dunlup, Warfield. Parsons among other things, that a quart berry a.m. From I^ansing at 8 a.m. The Weyerhauser lumber Interests terest and taxes, shall at the option of Beauty, Glen Mary, Clyde, Tennessee box shall contain a quart of berries Express and Baggage Service Dally Ex­ the mortgagee, or his assigns, become cept Sundays Prolific and Lady Thompson. ThD have given 2,200 acres of land near the and not seven-eighths of a quart. Un ­ and be due and payable Immediately there ­ headwaters of the Mississippi in Min ­ P. W. BROWN. G. F. & P. A., after, and more than thirty days having getting a gross return of close to der the new regulations the growers Jackson, Michigan. elapsed since the interest become due and $1,200 from each acre of land may be nesota to the state agricultural college will be compelled to stamp seven- the aforesaid taxes still remaining unpaid, the said mortgagee elects to treat said in part due to favorable climatic con ­ to be used for experiments In scientific eighths of a quart on the short meas­ ------A------—------7~ forestry. Here an attempt will be Rikerd PROBATE ORDER—STATE OF MICHI- principal as due and payable by reason ditions, but more than all else to the ure boxes. gan, County of Clnton, ss. of said default in the payment of the in ­ made to work out some of the more At a session of the Probate Court for terest and taxes, as aforesaid, making the man and the fact that he has made a total of principal and interest due on said very thorough business of growing important general forestry problems, There are thousands of farms the the County of Clinton, holden at the Pro ­ and particularly those pertaining to bate Office, In the City of St. Johns, on mortgage, the sum of Twenty-six hundred strawberries. country over which would be trans ­ Monday, the 2d day of August, in the slxty-two and eighty hundredths dollars Minnesota and adjacent states. formed and the life thereon made Im­ Lumber Co. year one thousand, nine hundred and ($2,662.80), and the aforesaid taxes, nine. amounting to fifty-one dollars and twen ­ BURNT SUGAR A DISINFECTANT. mensely brighter If eight or ten dairy Lansing, Michigan. Present. CHARLES M. MERRILL, ty-three cents ($51.23), besides an attor- Natives of Germany are qftcu beard cows were purchased, a silo Installed Judge of Probate. ny fee of twenty-five dollars provided in The burning of sugar as a disin ­ In the matter of the estate of John said mortgage and by statute, and no to speak of the large numbers of fruit and clover or alfalfa grown. This proceedings In law or equity having been fectant In sickrooms Is a practice fol­ trees which grow along the roadsides Haker, deceased. lowed in muny parts of Europe and trilogy might well be called the faith, On reading and filing the petition, duly instituted to recover any part of the debt and furnish large quantities of fruit hope and charity of the agricultural verified, of Lucy Haker, praying that the secured by said mortgage. has usually been viewed by physicians for nearby residents, the boys and girls last wlU and testament of said deceased Now. therefore, by virtue of the power as an innocent superstition, neither world and will do more to save 13 70-100, sw along line of Jackson. Lan ­ may be proved and admitted to probate of sale in said mortgage contained and by especially appreciating the advantage. statute in such case made and provided, beneficial nor harmful. Professor sinners from the wrath to come thanban VI REAL 'ESTATE. sing and Saginaw railway to beginning and that William H. Hunt, or some other It seems a pity that this Idea couldn ’t of section 17. Bath, $1. suitable person, may be appointed execu­ notice is hereby given that on Saturday, Trllbert of the Pasteur Institute at any other virtues In the category. tor of said estate. the 23rd day of October, 1909, at one be adopted In America and some of the Rosa Read to Rosco J. 'Carl and Ray­ Thereupon it Is ordered. That Thursday, o ’clock in the afternoon of said day at Paris has recently demonstrated In soli fertility that is being exhausted Allie O. Washburn to George Brooks, mond J. Read, com. sw corner of eVi of the 9th day of September, A. D., 1909, at the west front door of the court house in Pure Food Commissioner Wright of n 52 acres of e*4 of se(4 of section 29, experiments which he has been mak­ to produce roadside weeds devoted to nw%, running n 9 63-100 chains, e 13 7-100 one o ’clock In the afternoon be assigned the city of St. Johns. Clinton county, ing that the burning of sugar develops Iowa has had an Interesting problem Lebanon, $1,000. chains, thence sw along the line of Jack- for the hearing of said petition and that Michigan, that being the place where the growing fruit instead. shoved at him for solution —whether Elisha Mudge to Clifford C. Mudge, lot son. Lansing and Saginaw railway of the heirs at law and legatees of said de­ Circuit Court for said County is held, a remarkably powerful antiseptic gas. I. block 27, Maple Rapids, $200. section 17, Bath, $1. ceased and all other persons interested there will be sold at public vendue to the tbe sticking of a pin point through the in said will, are required to appear at a highest bidder the land in said mortgage Five grams of sugar were burned un ­ There is something in human nature Celestia R. McLeod to Alderman Bro der a glass bell holding ten quarts, shells of eggs, a practice followed by lot 4 and a strip four feet wide off of n session of said court then to be holden at described, viz: The east one hundred feet that seems to make it impossible for poultry fanciers to prevent the eggs side of lot No. 5, Shepardsville, $500. Port Huron —After 60 years of ser­ the Probate office in the city of St. Johns in width of lots one (1) and two (2), block and after the vapor had cooled germs some folks who get started on the vice the St. Clair Marine City road, and show cause, if any there be, why the sixty-seven (67) of the village (now city) of typhus, tuberculosis, cholera and they sell on tbe common market from Benjamin B. Tucker to William E. will should not be approved. of St. Johns. Michigan, for the purpose of downward road to really come to being used for hatching purposes, is a Moore and wife, lota 105 and 106, except a running between Putty-got road to And It is further ordered, that notice satisfying the amount due on said smallpox were placed In open glass themselves until they have struck the piece of land in ae corner 40 feet n and Lyman Recor ’s farm near Marine City, be given to the persons interested in said mortgage. tnbes under the bell, and within half violation of tbe state pure food law. » by 60 ft e and w, owned by Gleanor will be abandoned and closed to the estate of the pendency of the hearing JAMES H. RUEL, Mortgagee. last ditch —so low down that they take This would seem to be getting the lodge, also lot 107 except e 5 rods In thereof by causing a copy of this order WALBRIDGE & KELLEY. an hour all the microbes were found width, same being a part of w% of se% public. The reason is, that It is slow­ to be published in The Clinton Republi ­ their provender from the bog trough pure food law down tt a pretty fine Attorneys for Mortgagee. 19-13 dead. The efficacy of burnt sugar as as did the prodigal, or even worse. of section 29, Dupialn, $300. ly wasting away because of the wash ­ can. a newspaper printed and circulating a purifier of air containing offensive point. Mina A. Frudy to David King and wife? ing of the Qt. Clair river. in said county of Clinton for three suc­ This makes mighty rough sledding, a 32 acres of the n 60 acres of w frl. of cessive weeks previous to said day of CHANCERY SALE—In pursuance and by odors Is well known and is probably but It Is about the only thing that will sw frl. *4 of section 31, DeWltt, $1. Traverse City — Walter Beaton was hearing. virtue of an order and decree of the due to the antiseptic principle referred New and old potatoes have been on a kicked in the head by a horse Thurs ­ CHARLES M. MERRILL. Circuit Court for the County of Clinton bring a body to bis senses. good deal of a soar the past couple of David King and wife to George P. (A true copy.) 20-4 Judge of Probate. in Chancery, in the State of Michigan, to. This seems to be one Instance In Frudy and wife, s 32 acres of the n 60 day. Fragments of bone penetrated made and dated on the 8th day of July, months. Spuds tbnt were priced at GO acres of w frl. Vi of sw frl. V4 of section his brain two Inches. His chance of which a popular superstition seems un ­ The foxtail or wild barley Is coming 31. DeWltt, $1. . PROBATE ORDER—STATE OF MICHI- A. D., 1907, in a certain cause therein wittingly to have had a very good sci­ cents a hundred last fall brought $1.75 recovery Is slight. County of Clinton —ss. pending, wherein Mary Wltham is com­ to be one of the worst weed pests in by spring, while this year ’s crop whole ­ Permedia Richardson to Samuel Cush ­ At a session of the Probate Court for plainant and James F. Walsh, Anna entific foundation. many sections, requiring a good deal man, a strip of land 16V4 ft wide on South w Port Huron —While putting some tar the County of Clinton, holden at the Pro ­ Walsh and Laura L. Shepard are defend ­ saled in May for $1.55 per bushel, tbe side of lot 9, block 15, Bath, $25. paper on a drug store, Charles Ford, bate Office, in the City of St. Johns, on ants. of work to eradicate. Botanists seem local grocer charged about 5 cents a Roscoe IJ. (Carl land wife and Raymond Thursday the 29th day of July. In the Notice Is Hereby Given, That I shall lost his balance, falling 25 feet. His year one thousand, nine hundred and SEED IMPORTATIONS. undecided whether to classify It as n pound, or close to $3 per bushel. This J. Reed and wife to S. Cushman & Son face and hands were badly bruised sell at public auction to the highest bid ­ winter annual or as a seml-perennlal. Company, com. at sw corner of e?4 of nlm Present, CHARLES M. MERRILL, der at the west front door of the court Professor N. E. Hansen of the South year ’s high prices are the result of a ne*4. running n 9 63-100 chains, east and he received internal injuries. house in the City of St. Johns, County of Dakota experiment station, sent It Is hardy, ripens Its seed early, and 40 per cent shortage in the Texas crop Judge of Probate. Clinton, State of Michigan, said court abroad by Secretary Wilson to gather the fuzzy character of Its seed head In the matter of the estate of George E. house being the place for holding the Cir­ and a belated spring which delayed King, deceased. cuit Court for said county, on Saturday, seeds of plants suitable to northern enables the wind to scatter it widely. three weeks the marketing of the new On reading and filing the petition, duly the 18th day of September, A. D„ 1909. latitudes, has lately returned home. Thorough and clean cultivation is the verified, of Frank S. King, praying that at one o'clock In the afternoon of said grown crop. he or some other suitable person may be Included In some 250 kinds of seeds best method of getting rid of It. day, all the following described lands and appointed admlnistr^or of said estate. premises with the appurtenances, that is which be brought back with him are Kansas dairies seem to be suffering Thereupon it is ordered. That Thursday, to say: Village lot. numbered seventeen ths 9th day of Septamber, A. D., 1909. at (17), in block numbered thirteen (13), in those of a clover and a variety of al­ Many a farm could easily produce from transportation rates which are so one o ’clock in the afternoon, be assigned the bulk of the sweets produced on Its the Village of Ovid, Clinton County, Mich ­ falfa growing wild In northern Asia adjusted as to give decided advantage FOR MONUMENTAL WORK for the hearing of said petition, at igan, according to the recorded plat there ­ north of Lake Baikal, where the tem­ own table If two or three hives of bees to the big centralizer plants through the Probate Office in the City of Saint of. Said sale will be made in conform ­ perature sometimes goes to 75 degrees were kept Literature on the matter / Johns. ____ ity with the terms of the above mention ­ less rates for long hauls. Twelve And It is further ordered, That notice ed decree. below zero, adapted to the northwest ­ la easily available in the shape of years ago there were 300 creameries be given to the persons interested In said estate, of the time and place of said hear ­ Dated, St. Johns. Mich., August 4, 1909. ern states; a supply of Persian clover pamphlets or a bee Journal, while the In the state, while there are at pres ­ ing by causing a copv of this order to be J. CHARLES FLYNN. seed suitable for western Texas, New degree of attention required for their ent but 59. In contrast to this state published in The Clinton Republican, a Circuit Court Commissioner in newspaper printed and circulating in said and for Clinton County, Michigan. Mexico and Arizona; varieties of al­ proper care Is light. Pure, fresh honey of affairs, low rates on short hauls In county of Clinton for three successive WILLIAM M. SMITH. falfa from north Africa, the original from the home hives Is both cheaper tbe state of Minnesota have been In weeks previous to said day of hearing. Solicitor for Complainant. Business ad­ home of this legume, whence it was than and far superior in quality to the CHARLES M. MERRILL. dress, St. Johns, Michigan. 20-7 part responsible for an increase In tbe (A true copy.) 20-4 Judge of Probate taken to Spain, to South America and “honeydew ” maple sirups for which number of creameries from 300 to 020 then north and east through the south ­ one has to pay a dollar a gallon. in the same period. PROBATE ORDER—STATE OF MICHI- NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE—Notice ern states. It Is Professor Hansen's gan, County of Clftiton —ss. is hereby given, that by virtue of a At a session of the Probate Court for writ of fieri facias issued out of the Cir­ belief that the Ideal alfalfa of the fu- A resident of Reading, Pa., depart ­ Those orchardlst 8 who are receiving the County of Clinton, holden at the Pro­ cuit Court for the County of Clinton, tire will be a hybrid of all the best ing from the usual practice of having bate Office, in the City of St. Johns, on State of Michigan, in favor of John H. tbe largest returns quite generally fol­ Tuesday, the 3rd day of August, in the Pennington and Harry P. Snyder, against alfalfas known. The development of his apiary in his back yard or orchard, low the practice of*hand thinning the year one thousand, nine hundred and the goods and chattels and real estate of these plant Importations will be fol­ has fitted up his garret for this pur ­ fruit on overloaded trees. This not Edward Ludwlck, in said County, to me lowed with keen Interest by all who pose and there has some forty hives Present. CHARLES M. MERRILL, directed and delivered, I did on the 28th only relieves the heavy pull on trees Judge of Probate. day of June, 1909, levy upon and take all a^e watching the remarkable develop ­ The bees have access to the room which set too heavily, but Insures a In the matter of the estate of William of the right, title and interest of said Ed­ ment of the country agriculturally. through holes bored Just beneath the L. Crone, deceased. ward Ludwlck in and to the following larger and more uniform size and bet ­ On reading and filing the petition, duly described real estate, to-wit: The north ­ window sills. They seem contented In ter quality of fruit This thinning, verified, of James McGlUicuddy. praying west fractional one-quarter of section their odd quarters and store their which Is done when the apples are that the last will and testament of said No. 81; the northwest one-quarter ef the BLEACHED FLOUR. deceased may be proved and admitted to southwest one-quarter and the 'south 8 *cretary James Wilson has won out sweets there Just as generously as out about an Inch through, makes possi ­ probate, and that he or some other suit­ eight and ohe-half acres of the south ­ In a contention which be bad with the among the grass and flowers, some col­ ble the elimination of dwarfed and able person may be appointed executor of west one-quarter of the northwest one- onies producing as much as 300 pounds said estate. quarter of section No. 32: and the south • mlllws of the country about bleached defective fruit and reduces the work -aU on Walter & Hodge, Hlgham St. W., St. Johns. Thereupon it is ordered. That Thursday, quarter of the west one-half of the north ­ flour.lt being his view that subjecting during a season. of picking by Just so much at harvest ths 9th day of September, A. D„ 1909, at east one-quarter of section No. 33; all time. In tbe thinning process no care one o ’clock in the afternoon be assigned in township No. 8, North of Range No. flour vo the bleaching process was a for the hearing of said petition and that 4 West in Michigan, all of which I shall violatbn of the pure food laws. This Instances of death from descending Is required in the handling of the ap ­ the heirs at law and legatees of said de­ expose for sale at public auction or ven ­ questloi takes Its origin from the in ­ Into wells long unused ore of too fre­ ples, and the work can be done rapidly. ceased and all other persons interekted in due to the highest bidder at the west quent occurrence. In such Instances said will, are required to appear at a ses­ front door of the Court House, In the creased production of durum or maca­ sion of said court then to be holden at City of St. Johns, in said County, that roni wteat, which, owing to an ex­ death is due to the presence In the One of the chief reasons for the In ­ the Probate office in tne City of St. Johns being the place for holding the Circuit well of carbon dioxide, which, being and show cause, if any there be, why the Court for the said County, on Saturday, cess alXne demands for export pur ­ creased wealth of the Danes Is the 5 will should not be approved. August 28th, 1909, at one o'clock in the poses, tl* millers have been bleaching heavy, settles to the bottom and In fact that they have Increased tbe av­ And it is further ordered, that notice be afternoon of that dav. and ml^tg with other flour. Flour which it Is impossible for a human erage yearly production of butter fat GRAND RAILWAY SYSTEM given to the persons interested in said Dated July 12. 1909. being to breathe. It Is always well estate of the pendency of the hearing WILLIAM SUHAVEY, from (luaim wheat contains a large In their dairy herds from 112 to 224 thereof bv causing a copy of this order Sheriff of Clinton County, Michigan. per cent ^1 gluten, Is quite yellow In before going Into such a well to lower pounds per cow in the comparatively to be published in The Clinton Republican, LYON & MOINET. a lantern by means of a rope. If It a newspaper printed and circulating In Attorneys for Plaintiffs. 17-7 color, and.it Is because of the desire short period of twenty-three years. In said county of Clinton for three successive of the mllWs, who pay less for the continues to burn at the bottom It this period the people have advanced week previous to said day of hearing. means that the life giving oxygen Is CHARLES M. MERRILL. PROBATE NOTICE;—PROBATE COURT. wheat, to e1! It undfer another name from virtual bankruptcy to affluence. Proposed Sunday (A true copy.) 20-4 Judge of Probate. Clinton County —ss. that the trouble has arisen. Secretary there and that it Is safe to descend. What is needed In the United States Notice is hereby given that all claims Wilson hol(i that this flour should If the light goes out the presence of more than anything else Is n cam­ PROBATE NOTICE—PROBATE COURT and demands against the estate of cartoon dioxide Is shown, and this Clinton county —ss. Martha E. Plastrldge, deceased, will be tail under Itl own colors and sell for paign which will pat the average but ­ Excursions Notice is hereby given that all claims heard by the Judge of Probate of said Just what It k. means that death lurks at the bottom ter yield of the dairy cows from 150 and demands against the estate of Fred County, at the Probate Office In the to 300 pounds Could such a thing be Foster deceased, will be heard by the City of St. Johns, on the 10th day of Judge of Probate of said county, at the January, A. D.. 1910, and that the cred­ FRUIT JUICES VERSU8 DOPE. Ties which are being scattered along brought about agricultural and eco­ From St. Johns to Detroit, $1.50; Saginaw and Bay City, $U0. Probate Office in the City of St. Johns, itors of said deceased are allowed six most railways for repair work are nomic conditions would be revolution ­ on the 31st day of January, A. O., 1910, months from the date of this notice In Humanity sould be strohger and* black ns your hat, showing evidence of August 1. and that the creditors of said deceased which to present their claims for ad­ have a much Imaller annual doctor's ized. are allowed six months from the date of justment. treatment with creosote, one of the August 22. October 3. this notice in which to present their Dated July 8th, A. D„ 1909. bill If It wouldlswlll down less dope — most effective wood preservatives claims for adjustment. CHARLES M MERRILL. quinine, brom * seltzer and booze con ­ September 12. Dated, July 29th, A. D.. 1909. 17-5 Judge of Probate. known. Years ago the abundance and CHARfcES M. MERRILL coctions di»gull>d under pious, sooth ­ cheapness of ties were such that the 20-5 Judge of Probate. ing and high Minding names —and eat question was one of minor considera ­ To Grand Rapids, $1.00, [By special train from Detroit! PROBATE NOTICE—PROBATE COURT, ■ > Clinton Coqnty —os. more natire distilled fruit juices, tion. bat today even poor ties cost PROBATE NOTICE—PROBATE COURT Notice is hereby given that all claims grapefruit far malaria, prunes and figs August 8. Clinton county —ss. sixty cents apiece. It Is estimated that Notice Is hereby given that all claims atid demands against the estate of Frank for costlveies, cranberries for slow FekJpauech, deceased, will be heard by the creosote bath costs from thirty to August 29. • September 19. and demands against the estate of Edgar the Judge of Probate of said County, at liver, lemoujulce In hot water for nau ­ fifty cents per tie and Increases its life PROBATE NOTICE—PROBATE COURT P. Croat deceased, will be heard by the the Probate Office in the City of Sslnt sea and bllotuincss. with apples, or­ three or four times. During 1906 Clinton county —sit. Judge of Probate of said county, at the Johns on the 10th day of January, A. O., Notice is hereby given that all claims Probate Office in the City of St. Johns, 1910, and that the creditors of said de­ anges. ponn peaches and the rest as B0.fi00.0fl0 gallons of creosote were and demands sgalnst the estate of Sarah on the 31st day of January, A. D., 1910, ceased are allowed alz months from the aids to dlgkion. blood purifiers and Excursion Fare of $1.00 to Grand Rapids and re­ •nd that the creditors of said deceased used In preserving timber, as well as J. Coss deceased, will he heard by the are allowed six months from -ths data of date of this notice In which to present 10.000.000 pounds of zinc chloride. Judge of Probate of said county, at the their claims for adjustment. for the genial health. Probate Office in the City of St. Johns, turn EVERY SUNDAY on REGULAR TRAIN to this notice 1n which to present their Dated July ,8th. A, D., 1909. on ths 31st day of January, A. D.t 1910, claims for adjustment. CHARQsS M. MERRILL, stroit —Lillie May Redmond, aged and that the creditors of said deceased and including September 26. Dated, July 2»th. A. D.. 1909. 17-5 Judge of Probate. Manistse* The will of the late E. N.A are allowed six months from the date of CHARLES M. MERRILL Sailing has «p» filed by the Michigan 4, died July 28th, from eating poisoned this notice in which to present their 20-5 Judge of Probate. peanuts given her. tbe mother declare* claims for adjustment. To intermediate points fare and half (with suffi- Kalamazoo —Jas. E. Doyle, 82 years Trust Comgny, disposing of estate Dated, July 29th. A. D . 1909 valued at I&00.000, personal propei by a couple of girl enemies. CHARLES M. MERRILL. cent added to make fare end in 0 or 5) every Sunday Vassar—Prof. Irak L. Forbes (fled old. a prominent Kalamazoo capitalist and $25,000 n realestate. His widow ottervllle — During Thursday ’s 20-5 Judge of Probate. suddenly at his home here last week. and banker, was drowned in Klinger was given |e homestead and an In ­ electrical storm Mrs. A. E. Ijake had on all trains to and including October 31. He was 111 but a few hours. He was lake. 8 & Joseph county, at 4 o'clock come of $48,000. the rest going to a chain of beads torn from her neck Notice, Nursos—Nurse charts for superintendent here for 11 years. Thursday afternoon. * churches, h^pltals and relatives. and she was badly burned. sale at THE REPUBLICAN Office. * RRHMj —

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NolIiThg Vvas"ln sight. T3ut the call ++*+...... ?* * $ ...... came again, this time with more dis­ tinct uesa. Then be sa w her. Over in the next field very' near the NEW PALL GOODS are NOW ARRIVING cent**? - stood a solitary elm, the lowest branch at least tea feet above bis head. at the HICKS STORE On that she was pen bed. her pink dress clinging to her figure In long, Carpets, Rugs. Jackets, Coats, Suits, Dress Goods, Wash Goods dripping folds. tva>There wasn't a bit of dlgulty or ------SPECIAL PRICES ON ALL SUMNER GOODS ' ------his hand; “I have tohT you -that this f* cloud effect about m.v quarrel. I don ’t want you young her. A great glad­ When the folks to mix In. Mr. Holcolm and I ness surged up can settle It without help. ” and through “That doesn ’t make any difference, ” him at the sight, she [assisted. "I’ll never marry Ben and he leaped the We can save you money now on all Staple Goods and give you Cyclone Struck or meet him except as a,stranger until fence, hastening Look!no up at her. he says that those trees are on our toward the tree. what you want. By A. P. RANSOM land. He’s got to say so before the What are you up that tree for?” he lawsuit comes off. or I never will.” called out cheerily. She did not wait for an answer, but C«pjrri|kt, 1909. by American Press Asso­ ‘What a terrible storm It was!” she ciation with bead high In air and a poor at­ answered. “1 was walking In our In our Dress Goods Department we offer for SATURDAY, AUG. 7th, tempt at a dignity which had no exist­ IJIZ^lHE keen gray eyes of the elder pasture, und all of a sudden It grew ence she turned and left them. They T I '| man searched the blue ones on dark. I beard that rushing and rolling, one lot of Suitings in Mixtures, Checks, Stripes worth 35, 39, 45 and 50c I I I the opposite side of the gate. watched until the shrubbery hid her and I was caught up and carried LiJ In them was a certain honesty from sight, and then Reame turned to through the air just like a piece of Ben, with a smile. strongly tinctured with a look of re­ paper. Then I felt myself coming at your choice for 29C. “I didn ’t think she ’d take it quite so down and down and down. Then the lief. much to heart. ” be said, “but she ’s "I can't tell you how much obliged branches caught me. and the rain be ­ pretty hard hit. Those trees have gan to pour. When It grew light I was I am, Mr. Reame,” the young man been her playmates for a good many said. * ‘I couldn ’t help but feel that In the very tip top of the, tree, and 1 years now. ” • managed to climb down this far my­ now this trouble has come you wouldn't “If we had only known. ” said Ben, want me around. ” self, but I can ’t get any farther. Help “perhaps It might have been avoided, me, please, Ben. ” •Tve lived right here on this farm but father Is set In bis way and thinks for flfty-sLx years,” replied Reame. He folded his arms, looking up at St. Johns John Hicks Michigan be has a right to do as he pleases ’with her sitting there on the branch. “and there ’s no one above ground who his own. It’s making It pretty hard “It looks as though you were quite can say that I ever asked man, woman for me, though. I didn ’t think Vlnnle or child to take part in any of my comfortable there, ” he said. “Of would turn me down as she has. ” lllltlHIHHtlHt HHWmHfH *♦♦1111111111 WHWft ttlHMHHIttll »»»+♦ MttHtH 1MHHHHIHIH »♦+ quarrels.” “And she ’ll persist You’re between course you ’re pretty wet. but It’s The young man nodded. “There isn ’t two fires now. ” Reame paused, glanc ­ warm, and wetting won ’t hurt this many men who can say that. ” weather. Let’s talk things over ed around and continued: gre !enbush . “It isn ’t that I’ve anything against “The air is hotter than boiling oil. What ’ll you give me for release?" WEST OLIVE. WESTPHALIA. your father In this affair,” continued and unless I’m mistaken we’ll get a Don ’t bother. Ben. Help me down LOCAL MARKETS regular northwester before dark. Mrs. Maria Bush weaves some very fine Mrs. N. N. Tidd Is numbered among the Clark & Hulse, St. Johns clothiers, rugs. sick list. are selling broken lots of mens ’ and There ’s some tools down at the ex­ Tom Hoxie lost a cow the first of the Prices Paid by 8t. Johns Buyers Co Mrs. Clift Plowman was a caller of Mrs. boys ’ 9uits at % off. See add. press office I must get up before It week. rected Every Thursday. Lettle Huguelet last Tuesday . reaches here, so I’ll go along to your C. C. and Harry Smiley were in Lansing Mr. and Mrs. Bert Taylor returned home Mr. Frank Loeher visited in Detroit re­ Friday. Monday from their northern trip. cently . place with you. Ben. ” GRAIN. Ray Tompkins and family spent Sunday Clate Plowman and Jay VanDyke spent William Saier and Konrad Koch went They walked slowly on In the after­ near Ovid. Wheat No. 1 white and No. 2 red. 97c. Saturday and Sunday near Lyons. to Detroit Sunday. Oats—33 cents. noon sunshine. The air was hot and Miss Katie Swagart is suffering from Mrs. Clate Plowman and Mrs. Jay Van- Born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thies re­ Corn in ear—40c bushel. cently, a baby boy. the sun beat down with a fervor poisoning . Corn, shelled —80c to o4c per bushel. Dyke were callers of Mrs. D. G. Plowman which was almost overpowering. Away Mrs. Marla Bush visited friends in Fow­ Beans, hand-picked —11.75 per bushel. Monday evening. Mrs. Blshoff went to Grand Rapids to visit friends and relatives. to the west a cloud was banging, low. ler last week. Light Red Beans—61.30 per bushel. Mrs. Geofge Tidd and two daughters of Everyone welcomed the much needed Dark Red Beans—$1.20 per bushel. Forest Hill spent Sunday and Monday with The Young Ladies’ Sodality will give an black and ominous. Not a breath of rains last week. Rye—65c per bushel. Mrs. N. N. Tidd. Ice cream social Sunday evening. wind was stirring, and the leavas of "Mr. and Mrs. Guy Silvernall spent Sun ­ HAY. Mrs. Caroline Huguelet and two sons, Miss Rosa Noeker of Lansing visited the maples hung wilted from their day at Bay City. No. 1, Timothy —19. Vern and Newell were guests of Mr. and friends and relatives in Westphalia. Mrs. A. E. Huguelet Monday evening. stems. The birds barely skimmed th G. C. Sevey of Springfield, Mass., called Mixed—$3 to $6. Miss Anna Arens went to Detroit recent ­ on old friends Sunday. Clover—15 per bushel. Mr. and Mrs. Ollle Blizzard and sons ly to visit her sister, Mrs. Oberlieser. earth In their (light, and the crows CLOVER SEED. and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harris and fami­ Miss Mary Saier from Lansing is visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. Silvernall visited her ly spent Sunday with friends in Lansing. were keeping up an incessant cawing sister near Elsie last week. June—66 per bushel. her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Saier. Mr. and' Mrs. Herman VanDyke, Mr. while a peacock on the rail fence D. M. Carroll and C. C. Smiley were in Als.vke—67.00 per bushel. Mr. Ernest Loeher of Detroit visited his Alma Wednesday on business. Mammoth —66.00 per bushel. and Mrs. George Blizzard and Mr. and 1 parents Mr and Mrg prank Loeher. which separated the Holcolm garden Timothy —61.75 per bushel. Mrs. Albert Yanz were Sunday guests of Mrs. George Magley of Lansing spent Mr. and Mrs. Will Phillips. Mr. Arthur Pohl from St. Johns is visit­ from the barnyard was filling the uir VEGETABLES. FRUITS. ETC. ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pohl. with its discordaut cry. last week with Frank Swagart and family. Mrs. Charlie Rockwell. Mrs. Jay Van ­ Mrs. A. D. Gilson visited her daughter, Potatoes —75c per bushel. Dyke of Alward Lake and Mrs. Will Coff­ Miss Louisa Bauer of Lansing Is visit- “We are to have a storm, and that Mrs. Harry Baker in Grand Ledge the past PRODUCE. man were guests of Mrs. Clate Plowman ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bauer. last week Wednesday afternoon. before Reame gets borne again. ” mut­ week. Butter—21c @ 22c per pound. Miss Seveadia Roll from Detroit is visit­ G. W. Robart and wife left for Akron, Mrs. Hattie Whitehearse of Owosso, ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roll. tered Ben after bis companion bad Eggs—19c @ 20c per dozen. Mrs. Maude Blizzard and son, Donald. Ohio, Tuesday to visit friends for a few Lard—12%c per pound. Mrs. Wm. Sair and two children were in left him. “No matter, it can ’t be any weeks. Mrs. Belle Knapp and son, Don were Honey —10c per pound. 1 guests of Mrs. Lettle Huguelet Monday Detroit recently to visit friends and rela­ worse than the one we stirred up Mrs. Lottie Foster and Mrs. Eva Foster LIVE STOCK. afternoon. tives. spent last Wednesday with the latter’s pa ­ The Young People's club met with How ­ Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Snitgen went to when we chopped that maple dowu. rents in Bengal. Hogs—63 @ 67.25. Who ’d have thought It would have Beef cattle—63.50 @ 64.50 per cwt. ard and Edna Plowman last week Wednes ­ Milwaukee Monday to visit relatives and The Indies ’ Christian aid will meet with Sheep —62.50 ® 64 per cwt. day. An enjoyable time was had. The friends. She turned and left than. brought on all this trouble? Who do Mrs. Wm. Beebe Wednesday, August 11th, Lambs —63 @ 65.50 per cwt. next meeting will be with the Misses Mrs. Frank Loeher went to Detroit last those trees belong to. anyway? Reame in the afternoon. Veal Calves—and 67 per cwt. Esther and Ruby Coffman next week week to visit her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Reame. “But for nearly sixty years Wednesday, August 11th. is honest as sunshine and wouldn't Dai stopped and pointed. Mr. J. F. Andrus and wife and daugh ­ DRESSED MEATS. Burman. I'\e watched the birds build their ter, Bessie visited at G. B. Andrus in Miss Louisa Schmidt of Kalamazoo is put up such a fight If he didn't think West Greenbush Sunday. Beef—6c @ 8%c pound. nests in those trees. 1 climbed those It's getting dark, and mother will be Hogs—8c to 9c pound. visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph he was standing on sure ground. ” Mrs. Lottie Foster returned from Oak­ DELTA STATION Schmidt. hickories for nuts when 1 wasn't big ­ so anxious." Mutton —7c to 8%c pound. He stopped at the fence and looked land county, last Tuesday where she visit­ Veal Calves—7c @ 9c per pound. Miss Francis George from St. Johns is “It isn't as dark as It was a little ed her sister. Mrs. Nellie Hummer. ger than a pint of elder, and It’s been POULTRY AND HIDES. G. Derby of Lansing visited at the home visiting her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. An ­ at the sky. The cloud In the west while ago. I guess I better go to the Mrs. Garlock of Howell returned to her thony Yolmer. to those maples that I’ve looked for was no nearer, the air was stifling, (Corrected by Byron Danley.) of his daughter, Mrs. Lewis Master*., the first signs of sap. Maybe they ’re house and tell your mother you ’re all home Friday after a week's visit with Mrs. Mrs. Lizzie Green of Saginaw spent ’’’** *A while a muffled grumbling kept sound Lottie Foster and Mrs. John Mahar. Hens, large fat—9c pound. not mine. I don ’t know. I’ve always right. When your father gets home Ducks—Young. 10 per pound. few days of last week w-ith her parents, ^ Flint —Clyde Hadden of Rochester, ing away off where the cloud hung. Norman Ream and family, Mrs. Sarah Broilers. 1*6 to 2 pounds —14 cents. Mr. and Mrs. M. Tripp. employed at the Buick plant, was from the village be can come after you Shanower of Ovid and Miss Dorothy Tyler supposed they were, and they shan ’t “I’ll get the cattle under cover. ” he Geese, alive—8c per pound. Orley, the son of Mr. and Mrs. George seriously hurt about the face and head of Lansing spent Sunday at Mrs. Eliza­ Fat turkeys, alive—I2c per pound. be cut dowh without a fight to save said to himself. “When that cloud unless you ’re willing to make terms. beth Smiley’s. Waite, had his left eye removed at Ann by the bursting of an emery wheel. them. ” What ’ll you give me to help you? ” Beef Hides— 9c per pound. Arbor last Tuesday and is improving nice ­ gets to moving there ’ll be something Horse Hides—62 @ 62.75.- ly He will recover. Out from the bouse down to the gate doing, or I’m no judge.” She was near crying, but was too Deacon skins —25c. where the men were talking came a plucky to show it. it wasn't like him JESSIE. Tallow—4c per pound. A half hour later the cows were RETAIL SELLING PRICES OF WOOD girl, dressed all In pink, a soft, flufTy boused, the chores well under way. to treat her In this way. Wasn ’t it pink which reminded one of a cloud enough that he had chopped down her Henry Hipolite lost a valuable horse Wood, soft—62.25. and be was In the mow of the barn Monday evening. Mixed—62.50. at sunrise, while her hair lay plied throwing down hay, when there came trees, and now — Will Putnam of St. Johns called at D. Hard—63.00. above her head in a great mass of a sound like the rear of a breaking ‘What do you want? ” she demand ­ M. Putnam ’s Sunday. Buffalo Live Stock. golden light. She gave the young man ed. “It’s mean of you to treat me so. Paul and Richard Jarvis are visiting in dam. a crash that deafened, and all Sunfleld and Woodland. East Buffalo N. Y. Aug. 5—Cattle, a simple nod of greeting while passing was black as mid- If it’s money you want ”— two cars, steady. ^r**a»uUo^ “I want you to take back what you Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hettinger are camping a hand through her father ’s arm. Her r __ — night. The rain at Round Lake this week. Hogs—10 cars; steady. Heavy, $8.30 presence seemed to bring a constraint came In torrents, said at the gate. Will you marry me Mrs. Myrtle St. Clair has returned to @ $8.35; porkers, $8.20 @ $8.30. Pigs, upon the recipient of the nod, for he beating upon the If I help you now? ” her home in Flint after a short visit here $8 .20. spoke with a diffidence not noticeable Her eyes flashed. “No, I will not. Misses Tressa Dunkle and Leota Mc- Sheep— 4 cars, strong. Best lambs. roof like pebbles Creery went to Toledo Monday to spend before. thrown from a I’ll keep my word If I stay here for ­ two weeks. $7.75 @ $8; yearlings, $5.25 @ $5.75; “We supposed when we bought our thousand slings. ever, and I’ll never marry you until Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Washburn of Owos- whethers, $5.00 @ $5.15; ewes, $4.40 place that the trees belonged to us. you own that those hickory and maple so and Mrs. McMaster of Clare spent the @ $4.65. Calves. $4.00 uy $8.25. The wind whis ­ first of the week at George Marvin ’s. A and when you said they were your tled and rumbled trees are on my father ’s land. ” Detroit Grain. For answer he came under the tree A birthday surprise was given Edgar property father had the land surveyed. while he stood Dunkle Tuesday evening by a few of the Wheat —Cash No. 2 red, 5 cars at GREAT The decision was that th 6 trees were with arms outstretched. “Drop, ” he young people. Ice cream and cake were $1.06, 3 at $1.05, closing at $1.06; Sep ­ quiet, not daring served. on our land or, of course, father would to move until the said. “I’ll catch you so you can ’t get tember opened unchanged at $1.05 3-4, hurt. Just take hold with your hand The Ladies’ Aid society will hold an ice never have touched them. They are darkness less­ cream social at the home of D. M. Put­ declined to $1.04% and closed at $1.06; Refrigerator Event grown so large that the field is practi ­ ened. Thus five and then drop down. ” nam Friday evening, August 6th. All are December opened'at $1.06; declined to We have just received an immense shipment of “I’ve*done that many a time,” she invited. cally useless because of their shade. minutes went by. $1.04% and closed at $1.06%; May op ­ replied, and In a moment more she Mrs. B. H. Cortrlght is spending a few ener at $1.09%, declined to $1.08 and Nothing will ripen there. ” * and then he slow­ days in Chesaning where she went to at­ “I’ve had surveys made myself,” ly. carefully grop ­ was on the ground. tend the funeral of a niece. Mr. Cortrlght advanced to $1.09%; No. 1 white, one Leonard Cleanable Refrigerators “Vlnnle, ” he said.^tt’ ^ her arm also attended the funeral but returned car at $1.06. came Reame’s ready response. “It has ed to the little showing a big variety of styles of this famous line and at prices to fit every and tucking It through I’ve been home Monday. Corn —Cash No. 2, 73%c; No 2 yel­ been done three times to my certain ladder built Will and Mark Marvin went to New­ pocketbook. We cordially invite you to call and inspect this stock whether knowledge and each time In my favor. looking those trees over since I left low at 75c. against the side berry, Upper Peninsula. Saturday evening Oats—Cash No. 2 white, 50c bid; you intend to buy or not. We’re proud of the showing. Besides. I offered to buy the field of your father this afternoon, and I’m to accompany home the remains of their of the nearest perfectly willing to testify that I be ­ sister. Mrs. Alice Dean. Mrs. Dean's to come in, 2 cars at 41c; standard, your father, not because I cared for stall, down that funeral was held in Ovid Tuesday forenoon 49c; September standard, 37%c bid. the laDd, but to preserve the trees.” lieve they are entirely on your father ’s Furniture. Undertaking. and then to the land. ” Rye—Cash No. 1, 73%c. E. I. HULL “He doesn ’t want to sell’’—the eyes door to look out PRICE. Bean —Cash, $2.15; October, $2. of the young man were on the girl In Then they went home together, drip Cloverseed —Prime October. $7.30; Of the great ping wet. but wondrously happy. But pink —“and I presume the only way straw stack March, 150 bags at $7.40; prime alslke, out Is to let the courts decide. Fnther “ We are to have a as they neared the Reame farmhouse Mrs. Eliza Price and Mrs. Vina Doty 8.35; sample alslloe, 10 bags at $7.75, storm." which had been spent Tuesday with Mrs. W. G. Hunter of says Just what you do —that the Ben stopped and pointed where the Ovid. 41 at $7.50, 13 at $7. 10 at $6.50. staudlng beside rows of hickory and maple trees had quarrel need not In auy way Interfere the barn not a spear was left, the car­ Mr. and Mrs. George Sutfin and daugh ­ been standing. From those his finger ter, Ruth spent Sunday with their daugh ­ with us young folks. I’m sorry that riage bouse was piled, a chaotic heap, moved to a great heap of twisted ter. Mrs. Ethel Price. It can ’t be settled In some other way. against the barn, other outbuildings branches and uprooted tree trunks ly­ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Price spent one BENGAL CENTER. but It won ’f make any difference with day last week with the latter’s sister, Mrs. bad disappeared, half the trees in the ing at the corner of the kitchen porch. the friendship of our families.” orchard were uprooted, the smoke­ George Wilkins of Merle Beach. “Don ’t you think. Vlnnle.” he asked, Bernice Gardner is spending a few days Mr. J. M. Hicks Is visiting relatives in “Do you think those trees are on house of the Uolcolms was reposing “that even my father will be willing, with her sister. Donna at their aunt's, Aledo, Illinois. Mrs. Jay Monroe's of St. Johns. your father's land, Ben Holcolm? ” de­ very nicely against the Reame kitchen ander the circumstances, to confess Will Hayes returned Tuesday from a The Ladles’ aid society was postponed trip in the west. Summer Service manded the girl suddenly. door, and for yards around nothing ludgment? ” could be seen but devastation. for a week but will meet with Mrs. Hand Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rice visited his sis­ “I should not have cut one of them She gave a little cry. “Oh, Ben. next Wednesday afternoon, August 11th. ter at Carson City last Sunday. down If I did not, Vlnnle, ” he replied While he stood there a thought came there Isn ’t a single one left! Every*- Wm. Green of St. Johns and Miss Elsie Miss Oieson of Shepardsville visited at TO EASTERN POINTS* In surprise. which made his cheek grow white. Wellington of Ovid spent Sunday with the home of Mrs. Mary Love and family. every one Is gone and both our or­ their aunt, Mrs. E. Lattimer and family. “It’s Just like killing on old friend. ” When bringing up the eows he had chards! ” Miss Marion Cartwright of St. Johns is noticed away over In the Reame pas ­ Mr. and Mr*. E. F. Elserman and son, visiting at the home of her uncle, R. R. Her face was cold, but tears were In Lyle, Misses Carrie and Grace, and Mr. Rlsley. Excellent connections, superb service the voice which held so much of pro ­ ture a pink robed figure. Had Vlnnle Edwin Lattimer and William Green of St. ‘ Catarrh Cannot be Cured. Johns are spending the week at Pine Lake There will be Sunday school and Ep- and cool, well appointed trajns maks trav­ test. “I used to build my playhouse reached home before tbtf storm struck? With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they camping. worth League services at the hall next Sunday. nnder that one, and I’ve spent many Where was she now? Regardless of cannot reach the seat of the disease. Ca­ Mrs. Jane Hunter of Ovid and cousin. eling to eastern points, via The Grand the rain, which still fell as though the tarrh is a blood or constitutional dis­ R. E. Hicks, Mamie Glllison and Fred an hour in the crotch where the tree ease, and in order to cure it you must Mrs. Lizzie Gannon of Grand Rapids spent Hicks spent Sunday at the home of J. M. heavenly faucet had been turned on Sunday with the former’s brother, Stephen Trunk, a pleasure. branched. It was there I used to study take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Price and family. Mrs. Eliza Price, Mr. Hicks and family. my lessons, and now you ’ve cut it full force, he started on a run up the Cure Is taken Internally, and acta direct­ and Mrs. Charles Price, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold of Texas are visit­ ly on the blood and mucous surfaces. ing at the home of her sister, Rev. and Try this route for Buffalo, NeW York, down. ” road. Into the Reame house be dashed Halt’s Catarrh Cure is not a quack medi­ Robert Price and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. No one was there but Mrs. Reame. and cine. It was prescribed by one ef the best Doty, also spent the afternoon at the same Mrs. D. S. Arnold. “We did not know how you felt physicians In this country for years and ‘place. The ice cream .social which was held at Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia and inter­ about them. We supposed that they she was walking the floor, white with Is a regular prescription. It Is composed the home of Mrs. Dan Harper was largely were ours, and If they are father In ­ terror and anxiety over Vlnnle. She of the best tonics known, combined with attended. The net proceeds were 623.03. mediate points. bad not been seen since leaving him the best blood purifiers, acting directly WEST RILEY. The Cabinet meeting of the Epworth tends to have the ax at them all/ Now on the mucous surfaces. The perfect League was pleasantly entertained at the that your father has arrested mine for and her father at the gate. On to combination of the two ingredients is Mr. and Mrs. James Kerr visited rela­ home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Rosecrans. trespass and destroying property the where he had seen the figure In pink. what produces such wonderful results In tives in Grand Ledge Saturday. After the business meeting refreshments 8 curing Catarrh. Rend for testimonials were served aod an enjoyable evening only thing left Is to fight It out. But, be must have taken refuge some- free. A. B. Kincaid is treating his house to spent by all. F6rty-two were present. The whei.e. What If— He could not get be ­ a coat of paint. J. T. Brace is doing the GOING ABROAD? Vlnnle. It won ’t make any difference F. J. CHENEY A CO.. Props., Toledo, O. work. next meeting will be held at the home of yond the ‘if.” She must be fouDd. Bold by druggist, price 76c. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rice. with us. will Itr Take Hall’s Fi’’amlly Pilla for* constlpa- Mrs. Everard and son. Frank of Chica ­ She tqrned resolutely from him. “It 8000 It ceased raining, and on be tlon. go have been visiting at W. W. Morgan ’s for a few days. When the digestion la all light, the will make all th« difference In the kept, stumbling over uprooted trees, action of the bowels regular, there is Parties contemplating European Tours fallen branches, jumping over pools of Mr .and Mrs. Peter Juenker have been world. Those trees are ours. They Clark & Hulse, St. Johns clothiers, entertaining a nephew and wife from Lan ­ a natural craving and relish for food. should bear in mind that steamshil tick­ shall not be cut down. Until you are water, calling her name over and over are selling broken lots of mens' and sing for a week. When this is lacking you may know willing to say that they are ours and again; back through the woods, this boys ’ suits at % off. See add. Little Kittle Caruss of DeWitt has been that you need a dose of Chamberlain ’s ets may be procured at the localticket staying a few days with her cousins. not yours I will never speak to you time In another direction. -v Stomach and Liver Tablets. They “Vlnnle! Vlnnle! ” Suddenly In an ­ Edith and Mayo Jones. office. For particulars, rates, etc.,tall or agaln-tbat Is. In the way you bare The men ’s class of the Tecumseh The bountiful rain which fell in this strengthen the digestive organs. Im­ asked ftie to.” swer to hla call he beard a response, Presbyterian Sunday school is provid ­ vicinity Saturday last, was much appreci ­ prove the appetite and regulate the write W. J. BLACK, Agent, St. Johns. faint and far off. He called again and ated by all. The corn, potatoes and gard­ bowels. 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