ALL" CLOAKS1 AND CAPES AT BARGAIN* PRICES‘ AT JOHN HICKS'. / Clinton Republican. VOL. XLIIL—NO. 43. ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1899. WHOLE NO. 2,278. BREVITIES. BU8INE88 LOCALS. ^ VARIOU8 TOPIC8. IB. BROMLEY RESIGNS Insure with D. L. H unt . The Peoples* Mutual. For some months Rev. G. C. Longman Mias Anna Dooling was In Detroit FARMERS INSTITUTE As Directors of the People ’s Mutaal After SS Yean Service as Station Agent In has been suffering from bronchial trouble Monday. Fire Insurance Company, representing St. Johns. Clinton county, we desire to express our and lately sought medical advice regard ­ Willard G. Lyqp was in Cadillac over ing the same. Just what the outcome Thomas Bromley, Sr., sent in hie resig­ confidence in the management of the nation as agent of the D. G. H. A M. at Sunday. Company. Its plan is to solicit only lid the St. Johns Table Factory will be is at present uncertain, but he Miaa A. G. Dean, of Detroit, is visiting Mach Interest Taken in the Sugar prompt paying members and safe risk% was advised to give up public speaking St. Johns Friday night, and turned the friends here. insuring no dwellings unless they stui | las Been Organized. for a year, and may find it necessary to office over to Mr. Marvin, of Owoaso, Beet Question. on stone foundations and have brick as do so. The matter will be determined Saturday night Mr. Bromley had F. Murdock spent Sunday in Dexter stone chimneys. Livestock is also fis­ occupied the position 31 or 32 years, and with his mother. sured against lightning anywhere withim the Company ’s territory. The ---- tt had been connected with the road for Mrs- M. Roehon visited friends in GKO. E. CLIFFORD, W. H LEONARD HOME WILL RAISK BRETS IF THEY ment levied by the Board of Directory Invitations are out for the marriage of 40 years He was at one time train dis­ Fowler over Sunday. Dec. 14,1898, payable during March an isf AMD D. 8. FRENCH INCORPORATORS. CAN BE SOLD. Dr. R. D. Sleight and Miss Am bra Patter­ patcher iD Detroit, and station agent at E. P. Waldron was in Mt. Pleasant on April, 1899, will pay off the entire liab­ Gaines at another time. He was a very ilities of the Company up to the close of son, February 15. The doctor is a business Monday. 1898. The policy of adjusting and pay­ efficient man. The cause of the resigns deservedly popular young physician : Ire. Charles Patterson has returned ing all losses promptly, making the recently located at Maple Rapids, ami tion was the taking away of experienced The sale of the St. Johns Manufactur ­ to ler home in Jackson. The Farmers Institute was opened annual assessment sufficient to pay off ing Company plant to George E. Clifford, his bride is one of the many fair daugh ­ help in the freight office. It is not Thursday morning, February 2nd, at all liabilities incurred during the year and cancelling delinquent members will of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was con ­ ters of St. Johns, and will be in every known who will be the permanent agent ] farney Haley, of Buffalo, was the guest 10:30 o ’clock by some well chosen re­ of V.T. Church Saturday. marks by President Geo. N. Ferry and be rigidly adhered to Wo take pleasure firmed by Judge Daboll Tuesday morn­ way a worthy companion to the doctor. followed by a short talk from Conductor in recommending the People ’s Mutual ing. The St. Johhs Table Company, V I. E. PASTOR APPOINTED. ] Irs. E. H. Hasfords, of Lansing, was C. B. Charles, of Bangor, Michigan. J. to the citizens of Clinton county, who he: e on business .Saturday. F. Woodward, of LocKport, New York, desire to insure in a conserative, stable successor to the old company, tiled Probably owiu t to the fact that Chau. and prosperous company. articles of incorporation the same day. 1 falter Merrill, of Grand Ledge, was was then introduced, his suoject “What P. Baker has charge of the Loud drug Rev. W, L. Holine*, of North Lansing, to ails the orchards? the remedy. ” Mark Pennell , DeWitt, The capital stock is $100,000, with Geo. stock, a report got into circulation that Come here. in own the first of the week. Would like to have seen more young Newell Parker , Victor Ellis S. Doty , Eagle, E. Clifford, W. H. Leonard and D. S. the Travis A Baker drug stock was for Presiding elder Puffer has appointed 1 iditor Corbit, of the Independent, has people present; has attended several French incorporators. Farmers Institutes in Canada and the A. W. Durkke , Bingham, sale, aud the firm has received several Rev. W. L. Holmes, of North Lansing, beOn quite ill the past week. J. L. H olbrook , Greenbush, Messrs. Clifford and Leonard were audience is largely young people propositions from would-be buyers. The to fill the vacancy caused by Rev Love- J rchie Mcllhinney will be here Feb- The U. S. Government is paying more Phillip Cook , Westphalia. hereyesterday, going over the business stock is not for sale, however, except in joy ’s resignation. Mr. Holmes is a grad ­ run ry 15th to do piano tuning. attention to agriculture, issuing more Directors People ’s Mutual Fire Ins. Co. with Mr. French. the usual retail way, with Travis A bulletins aloDg all lines and farmers can Greenbush Flour Mills, D. S. French is president of the com ­ uate of Albion College, Rod also of the Rrof. Lymi, who has a music class in profit by them if they only will; knows Baker behind the counters. Boston Theological seminary, is a very Fowler, goes there each week. there is a great antipithy against scien - I am prepared to furnish first claai pany, Geo. E. Clifford, vice-president, *** title farming, but if you find a good stone made flour, having secured the ser­ and Geo. M. Petrie secretary and bright man and a deep thinker, and Fred Denoie and Miss Jet Sturtevant vices of a first class miller. I solicit the It took $80 in revenue stamps for the comes highly recommended. » farmer in the neighborhood he is a treasurer. of Owosso, visited friends here Saturday. scientific farmer. Fruit is conducive custom of all my old patrons, also other* deed conveying the St. Johns Manufact­ requiring first class grade of stone made Mr. French states that the business Assistant Secretary Spaulding. Increase of pension to Dexter B. to health therefore the apple orchard uring Company plant to Mr. Clifford. should be well looked after. A good flour. Thanking my old patrons for past will be pushed for all it is worth. They This will buy a few liflee to do mission ­ Assistant Secretary Spaulding will be Proper, Ovid, from $8 to $10 per month. many orchards are planted on soil not favors. W. J. Kockwood . have plenty of business in sight now. ary work in the Philippines. assigned to the charge of the customs Mrs. Frank Den Houten, of Ovid, was adapted for them; in a majority of cases Auction Sale. V division of the treasury department, to the gu eat of Mrs H. E. Walbridge Sun ­ the land should be underdrained; we Chas. Laughlin will hold an auction take effect March 1. Assistant Secre- plant trees too cloee; the sunshine must of live stock and farm implements, on MAKING EITENSIYE REPAIRS. The supreme court has decided that day. get to the ground. We have cropped the t ary Howell, at present at the head of his farm two miles south and three west attorney Kirby, republican, was legally Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Steel came from land too much, have been soil robbers. of St. Johns, on February 15. w-l-p elected prosecuting attorney of Gratiot the customs division, has been chosen as Lansing Saturday and spent Sunday The leaves are good fertilizers and the Geo. H. Chapman U Thoroughly Overhaul­ a member of the board of general ap- here. carbon of which the bulk of the tree ia Finest selection of black crepons at ing the Kendrick Store. county last fall. His populist opponent, formed is taken through the leaves. Noble Burnett ’s. Archie McCall, tried to oust him by hav­ pr aisers, which is about to be re-organ­ Henry Pouch, of Grand Rapids, spent We sometimes put on too much stable Geo. H. Chapman, who purchased the ing the vote of one township thrown out, ized. t he latter part of last week with' his manure inducipg too much wood growth Buy your shoes of Woodruff k Thome . Kendrick dry goods stock last week, has parents here. which will notripen, thereby damaging It Fays to Trade at John Hicks’. but it did not work. the tree. Plow any time from the time completed inventory, and while the VAS A GREAT SUCCESS. J. T. Danielle isin Vernon and Port- store is open, he is devoting his atten­ V the leaves fall until the buds open in Notice. 1 and on business pretaining to farmers’ the spring. Under no circumstances Having recently Bold my stock o < tion to a thorough overhauling of the Fred McKeever, of Mason, forged spar­ 1 ho Glee Clnb Concert Tuesday Night. institute work. would have his orchard plowed more boots and shoes to Clark A. Putt, I take store. The front will be changed and row bounty orders, and haa been sen­ than three inches deep then work with a tenced to state prison for three years. The largest crowd that baa been in the this medium to thank the people of St.