4 The Clinton Republican.

YOL. XLII.-NO. 36. ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1897. WHOLE NO. 2,219.

CHRISTMAS SATURDAY. CROWLEY BADLY INJURED- BU8INE8S LOCALS. BUSINESS LOCALS. y Boucher & Pestch have the finest line It pay* to trade at John Hicks’. OUGHT NOT TO DK The Store a are Filled With Eager Buyer*. HE WILL HE LAID UI* ALL WINTER of trimmed hats to select from. Auction Sale. Next Saturday will bring around the Eugene Crowley, who sustained a H. J. G., Royal St. John, and New I will sell at public auction on Decem­ best of all the holidays, Christmas, and compound frseture of the leg last Ideal best Gc.cigars on the market. 2w ber 31, A. D. 1897, at 2 o’clock, P. M. at Neither Should They Play with it lots of happiness and good cheer, Isaac Ellsworth Has Plead Thursday, by falling from a high ladder the premises occupied by the St. Johns while putting an electric light wire in Holly for sale at D ewitt's. Spring Company in St. Johns, Michigan, judging by the way people are buying the following described property: 1 pair the gable at Moinet's house, was very Cards, holiday goods. It is greatly to be hoped Guilty Fruits, Oysters, Candies and every ­ Reynold trucks, 1 grinding machine, 2 that the various societies will cover the badly hurt. Dr. Dodge, assisted by Dr. thing to tickle the people at D ewitt'b. iron wheelbarrows, 1 drop press, 1 geared ground so thoroughly that there will not Weller, reduced the fractute, and the punch press, I buffalo blower, 1 lifter for Or Attend Theatrical Entertain ­ And is Awaiting Sentence for the doctor says he will have a healthy, good Innurance. Miner A Peach drop hammer, shafting be one poor child in St. Johns, but will and pulleys, boiler and Betting, 20 horse leg in time, but it may never be as good Fire, life and accident D. L. Hunt . ments. receive some little thing to make the Theft of Wilkins’ Team. power; 1 engine 12 horse power, 1 pair day glad and the world seem brighter. as the other one. Crowley also had one For the best trimmed hats at the low scales 1,(XX) lbs., 1 buffalo forgo, 1 hand- Systematic work to this end is being done. arm dislocated, and that, too, was so est prices go to Boucher A Pestch 's. bull dozer, 1 anvil, 1 harrow tooth ma ­ Quick and Clever Work of Sheriff badly hurt that it will require some time chine, 1 pocket fire, 4 galvanized iron Rev Martin Preaches on the Duties Friday evening the Cougregationalists Where to Buy. tanks, 1 Prentice vise, 1 set steel dies for to mend. A wire slipped off an insulator of Church Members. will give a supper in the rooms adjoining Dunn. At John Hicks ', (of course) drop-hammer for dropping, etc., also The Republican office, to which a large and threw him from the ladder. ‘ building which contained the above. G. Brown, Alias Ellsworth, Alias number have been invited. A Christ­ For ClirlMtinaM I’rescnts —Sugge-tlon- The property to be sold either in par­ Withington, but whose name is probably A Nice dress pattern cels or all together, as seems most profit­ mas tree will follow the supper. TRACY A WINNER After elaborate preparation and Isaac F. Ellsworth, who hired a team at A stylish jacket able at the time of sale. All bids to bo previous annou ncement Rev. Martin, of UHRISTMA8 SERVICES AT ST. JOHN'S Wilkins livery December 6th, and failed A silk umbrella subject to ray approval. Co-1- If 1m Neighbor* $500 to Tar and Nice table linen Ou v ek L. Spaulding , the M. E. church, preached a sermon CHURCH. to return, was traced to Toledo by the last Sunday night oi ♦ !*•' subject, “Can Feather Hint. A pair of kid gloves Assignee of the R. M. Steel Co., Ltd. Christmas Day will be observed at St. clever work of Sheriff Dunn, arreste . *os Flowers for Weddings, Funerals and Baptist clergyman condeming such Big Rapids. The latter was casher of a at #75 per month ...... #1,350 to take along, but Jay protested against Fine Silk Umbrella- For Chriitinn- all occasions. Roses, Carnations and amusements. He had no law of bank, and so us d and handled the funds “ " For loss of time. 17 Chrysanthemums grown in large quan­ it, saying his parents did not like to have months from this date At John Hicks '. the Congregational church, as each that the depositors and stockholders at #00 per month ...... 1,020 tities. A specialty of designs for fun ­ church was a law unto itself, in a him go hunting with a gun, but the gun lost thousand of dollars. lie was tried “ " For pain and sufTer Travis A Baker, St. Johns, Michigan. erals. Prices very reasonable. Mail, was taken. The boys tried to tire it, but ing endured in tlit* and telephone orders receive prompt measure, and passed that denomination and convicted in the circuit court, but past 80 weeks at #10 Gentlemen: failed, and thought it would not dis I have several hens, all young fowls, attention. Scnnysjd •: G reen House , without comment. the supreme court reversed the case be­ per week...... 800 North Washington St., Owosso, charge. Soon after they started tho d >gs “ ‘ For pain andsuffering twenty-live of which I found a few morn ­ He was sorry for people who had to cause Comstock swore that be did not in the fu lire, ho wks. ings ago with their heads swollen and 28-tf. Michigan, 'Phone 86 . look for amusements. There ought to got into a fight, and Jay took the gun, intend to defraud the bank in his tran at #5 per week...... 400 blind so they did not move when I came with the muzzle toward fawn, and tried “ '• For loss of power to Try our sauerkrout. Can ’t be beaten, be joy enough in life without such sactions, and there is no law to convict w alk s dely in t fie past around where they were. I bought one Dewitt keeps it. things. He was opposed to dancing, to separate the dogs. In some manner in such cases unless the offender in and futuie. 3 years at package of your Lightning Poultry Food the gun was discharged and the ball went #200 per year...... 000 and fed it to them for four days. Every Cliri-tiii-i I'rc-ent-. card playing and theaters because tended to defraud; and they do not fowl recovered and I have not speo one through his body. He lived until a little usually swear that they intend to de Total...... $4,170 Celluloid Novelties, Glove and Hand they hurt the church of Christ. The The accident occurred the 6th of April, sick since. I would not be without it kerchief Boxes, Necktie Boxes, Sliavo after 1 o'clock Sunday morning. The fraud. This man Ellsworth, with agree­ now. theater received less attention, as the 1896. On the first trial Selden got a ing Sets etc , etc., at funeral was held at his father's home on able manners, could have become a Thos . Shinnkr . F. K. A ldrich 's. hour grew late. At the close he wanted judgement of £46863. The supreme For sale by Travis A Baker , c>t. Johns. section 30, Ovid, at 10 a . m., Tuesday, and millionaire if he bad turned his atten ­ all church members who felt with him Otto Bullis , Maple Rapids. Candies and \uts m any quantity, at the U. B. church, in that towhship at reversed the case. tion to banks and general confidence I. N. Eagle , Eureka. ewitt s on the subject to arise. A large number 11 o'clock, tho pastor officiating. wholesale and retail at D ’ . work instead of livery Ptables. A Fine IMiint. arose. Then he called for others who It is a very sad affair. The aged Order the I.ehigli Valley Coal For the best trimmed hats at the low­ Ellsworth's wife and children were hero were not church members, but who grandfather was greatly affected by the The now electric light building is a At John Hicks ’ Store. est prices go to Boucher A Pestch ’s. would join with them in opposition to terrible news, as this grandson was very Tuesday, and the meeting was a very first class structure, and while it has dear to him. touching one. She left for Canada cost a little more than the first estimate, Subscriptions taken at Hunt's Drug Board £2.50 per week at Lyon's Hotel, popular amusements, to arise, and a it is because of changes made in the opposite the depot. 31 tf. number did so. where 6he has a sister, that night She store. Ladies' Home Journal and In, Annual Meeting, original plans to better the plant. The terocean Weekly, £1.40, Michigan Far­ There are probably as many Methodist The annual meeting of the shareholders told Mrs. Dunn that her husband had estimate for the building alone was Buy a 10 lb. crate of Honey at Dewitt's mer and Semi-Weekly Detroit Journal- put up especially for trade who wants church members who play cards as there of the St. Johns Building and Loan always been kind to her, and when she £1,800, but it was thought best to make £1.40. _ was with him had never got into a building to correspond with the water fine goods. are in either the Baptist or Congre Association will be held in tho office of works, and another £1,(MX) added to the Sale-men Wanted. gational churches, and it will be interest George H. Marshall, Monday evening, trouble. cost. A smoke stack was also added, Free outfit. One agent earned 822,000 ing to know whether they will now desist, January 3, 1898, at 7:30 o’clock, for the Sheriff Dunn is entitled to great the water works stack being inadequate in five years, several earn £1,000 yearly The regular annual meeting of the Specialty, Mines. Mills, etc. “Factory shareholders, of the St. Johns National or go on pretty much as they have done purpose of selecting three directors and credit for the rapid and accurate work for both plants, and a third boiler, cost­ done on this case. He found evidence ing £700, put in for additional safety. P. O. 1371 New York. Bank, of St. Johns, Michigan, for the in the past. transacting such other business as may The electric light commissioners say this election of Directors, will be held at the The Republican has no desire to properly come before the association. in Jackson, Port Huron, Flint and will make the total cost of the change Pillsbury, Grand Rapids, Flint and the Banking office of said institution on Mon ­ discuss this question. It has been a 36 2 F. M. Spaulding , Secretary. Detroit that led to the identity of his between £7,000 and £8 ,(XX) instead of celebrated Wood's Flour always in stock day, January 10th, 1898 at 2 o'clock r. m. bone of contention a great while. It is man, found his relatives near Kala £12,000 as reported. at D ewitt's. local time. P. E. Walswoktm . 34 5 Cashier. fair to the church that prohibits dancing,, X«w Bank in Ithaca. mazoo, and by a clever ruse got bold of For tho largest line of pure cream It is said that Dell Fowers and others a letter recently written by Ellsworth to Choice leaf sage crop 1897 at Hunt's Farm Fur Sale. card playing and theaters, that its candies go to Maksh K inney . Drug store. members should refrain or affiliate with will start a privato bank in Ithaca. Mr. Dewey, of Owosso, relative to the The 120 acres at the foot of Oakland handling and sale of the latter’s horses. Notire to Bingham Thi Payer*. A great line of holiday goods for the street, just outside the corporation. those where there is no such prohibition The Mlller.Voorhel* ('axe Hever-e«l. Large barn, fair house, very productive This is the fourth' horse thief Sheriff I wish to announce to the tax payers money at H. W. Morris'. It will pay This is not always convenient, and leaves The case of Robert F. Miller and you to call and see the line of Rockers, land. Inquire of P. E. Walsworth , Dunn has gone after, and eaptursd in of Bingham t >wnship that I am at C. A. At St. Johns National Bank. the other alternative of getting out Victoria Miller, of Elsie, against Wm. T. Putt’s grocery store to receive taxes, on Diners, Children ’s chairs, Easels, Screens, every case. Wall pockets, Picture frames of all kinds, altogether, and probably keeps many Voorheis, of Ovid, in which the latter won which 1 per cent, will be charged up to High grade Coffees at D ewitt b. out. The sermon greatly pleased those in the circuit court, was reversed by the The surprising thing is that Ellsworth and including January 9. After that etc. etc. who believe with Mr. Martin, displeased supreme court. Tho Millers claimed should have kept these horso at all, for date 4 per cent, will be charged. Farm fur Sale. that Voorheis through John BryRon. hessman Excelsior Diaries for 1808 at 120 acre farm, located in Victor town ­ some others, while others still were they were not valuable and he was do ­ I. C. C , agent, and also himself, sold them 36-2 Township Treasurer. A ldrich 's Book Store . ship. For sale cheap and on reasonable indifferent. What the practical results the Retan House, at Ovid, for £6,000 on ing business with horseman about the terms. Must be sold soon. state that would have made him much will be, no one can tell. a representation that it was clearing I have the best Crackerjack in town. In another column C. F. A F. W. Knapp Enquire of F. A. X kavis . £100 per month. In the deal Voorheis more money in legitimate business. Try it. M wtsn Kunncr. will tell you about their llow ers. 32 tf At Corner Drug Store. got a £1,500 mortgage on Miller's property Mr. Wilkins went to Toledo Saturday Annual Meeting of Fire Department Clime Hint Sep For Your-elf. at Elsie. Millers run the hotel about a morning and got bis team, which bad Fine line of Tobaccos at D ewitt’s. Oysters iu can or bulk, at wholesale or The best things for Christmas presents year, and claimed that the business was been kept in good condition. Will be held at fireman ’s hall Saturday retail at D ewitt’s. The little girl, who lost tho Xmac. come from a jewelry store and the best not at all as represented, and went back evening, January 1st. A full attendance to Elsie and wanted the £1,500 mortgage gifts she bought at the Penny Store. Notice. stock to select from will be found at Beautiful Windows. is desired. Guo. W. Estes, President. December 21, can have same by calling discharged. Voorneis won the case in St. Johns merchants and dealers of My wife, Christena Jennings, having A llison 's. thecircuit, but the supreme court re­ Christlima Harguln- at .lolin llit-k*'. at that store. 1 -wp left my bed and board without just all kinds have very attractive window cause and provocations, will pay no bills versed it. A. G. Shepard, with Lyon A Smoke Seal Brand best 10c cigar. 2p Dooiing of counsel, were attorneys for displays, equalling anything in the For the finest line of randies, nuts etc. contracted by her at my expense. Primroses for sale at the greenhouse. Millers. larger cities. call on Marsh K inney . It Pay- to Trade at Jolin Hicks'. 2wp Bert Jennings .

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Corbit & Valentine —General Hardware. DEWITT. Wilson &, Son —Clothing and Furnishing Goods The Republican. D ewitt. Dec. 21. 1897 Mr. Warren Stone, of Newaygo, in Thursday, December 23, 1897. visiting his father, Mr. S. B. Stone. Miss Tillie Moots and Miss Estella Brown, of Landing, are visiting Mr. and A Christmas Greeting! ! Til K COUNTY. Mrs. M. T. Woodruff. N1 ATHERTON. The congregation of the German M. E. church are making preparations for a We Have —\ Mathekton . Dec. 20. 1897 Christmas tree. Revival meetings have closed. All members of G. W. Anderson Post Nickel Teakettles, Teapots, Coffee­ Alton Howell, of Portland, visited and Womans Relief Corps are requested pots, Silverware, Cutlery, Blankets, friends over Sunday. to meet at their hall, Saturday, January II. M. Gillett was home from Grand 1, 1898, at 1U o’clock to attend a New Robes, harness and Cutters for Rapids a couple of days last week. Year dinner and in the afternoon attend Christmas Presents. Senator E. Mudge, of Maple Rapids, the installation of officers. gave us a talk Thursday evening, his At the regular meeting of the Dewitt subject was Maple River and its future Camp, Royal Neighbors of America, In addition to this new line of goods we have a possibilities. Saturday evening, the following officers Arthur Mulford, who is working at were elected for the ensuing year: Past Complete line of Hardware and Stoves. oracle, Mrs. Win. Taylor; oracle, Mrs. D. the widow Shafer’s, got a severe kick A. Utter; vice oracle, Mrs. Charles over the heart with a horse and is in a Farrier; recorder, Mrs. C. T. Rockwell; We are Agents for very dangerous condition. receiver, Mrs. H. Gillett; chaneelor, Mrs. Advance Engines and Threshers, NORTHEAST ESSEX Jay Flynn; sentinel, Mrs. Geo. Blizzard; Champion Mowers and Binders, outer sentinel, Mrs. I. M. Knapp; camp Empire Drills.— N orth Fast Essex , Dec. 21, 1897. manager, Mrs. Wm. Taylor. Mrs. Walter Butterfield and son from At the special meeting of the W. R. C. Minnesota are visiting old time friends the following officers were elected for the in this vicinity. We have the largest Stock of Agricultural Implements in Clinton next year: President, Mrs. Maggie Little Beulah Stead is seriously ill Howell; senior vice-president, Mrs. county and are in it for the Season of 1898. with brain fever. There is not much Rachel Brink; junior vice-presidedt, Mrs. hopes of her recovery. Helen Wager; secretary, Mrs. Ida Brink; Lewis Slight, of Traverse City, will treasurer, Mrs. Adelia Cole; conductor, Corbita , V alentine spend the holidays with his mother at Mrs. Alma Emery; asst, conductor, Mrs. Women ore the homo of his sister, Mrs. O. L. Rice. H. P. Clark; Guard, Mrs. Sarah Reed; asst, guard, Mrs. Lucy Stinson; delegate, Old Stand Walker Street West. A Merry Christmas to all. Mrs. Ida Brink; alternate, Mrs. Lucy Ralph Cowles of the Grove school and Stinson. Ray Rice of the County Line school Critical Observers. will each have a week's vacation during EUREKA. the holidays. Eureka . De.c 20. 1807. ® have made some changes in each, yet they say In Memory of K. Miller. The barn, the slaughter house and the back they are hoys yet .Many of their old comrades have been mustered out and otheis are old and Bkkckknkiikhc , Micii., Dec. 1. 1897. ® infirm, unable to get out and visit with their room as well as the sales room. We in ­ old comrades. Herman E. Miller died December 1, ® 1897, from the effects of a gun shot ® vite critical inspection of the most fastidious After meals you should have simply a wound inflicted by him while hunting, feeling of comfort and satisfaction. living only seven hours aftertheaccident. epicurean. You should not feel any special indica ­ He was horn in Elba township, (Jrutiot tions that digestion is going on. If you county, October 23, 1H84, being at the do, you have indigestion, which means time of his death thirteen years, one not digestion. This may he the begin­ month and eight days of age. He had (•) Pressed, Dried, and Fresh Corned Beef; Salt and Dry ning of so many dangerous diseases, lived with his grandparents, Mr. and that it is best to take it in hand at once Mrs. Bishop Miller from his infancy and ® Salt Pork; Pork Sausage with and without casing; ® and treat it with Shaker Dige-tive Cor­ took their name. He had resided in Veal and Hutton; Smoked Hams and Shoulders; ® dial. For you know that indigestion Breckenridge since March last where his makes poison, which causes pain and grandparents Imd moved for the pur­ Bacon; Frankfort and Bologna Sausage. sickness. And that Shaker Digestive pose of letting Herman attend the pub­ Cordial helps digestion and cures in ­ lic school. In his home life lie was a top­ digestion. Shaker Digestive Cordial ical grandson and son always seeming The only thing to buy your wife for Christ* i does this hy providing the digestive to take great pride and pleasure in aid ­ 6905 materials in which the sick stomach is ing his aged grandparents and loving Found only at our store. H. M- wanting. It also tones up and mother, being kind, loving and obedient & strengthens the digestive organs and at all times. In sehool lie was a great makes them perfectly healthy. This is favorite with his class He was a reg­ FOWLER & BALL the rationale of its method of cure, as the ular attendant at Sunday school and doctors would say. Sold hy druggists, seemed to show I»v* his actions the les­ 9 ST. JOHNS, MICH. price 10 cents to $ 1.00 per bottle. sons that had been taught him, and all 9' ® who knew him admired his gentlemanly appearances and actions and kind ami genial disposition. His funeral took S Heller—Bazaar Goods and Manufacturer of Cigars. LEBANON. place at the M. E. church. Rev. A. T lteKolution of Luther, of St. Louis, officiating. The Whereas , in the providence of God Lebanon . Dec. 21. 1897. school at t< iidcd in a body as a maik of Walter Float, an honorable member has respect. Ills body was laid to rest in Quarterly meeting at Benjamin been removed by death from our num ­ church last Saturday and Sunday. Worn Out? the village ciineterv . m ber, and *' * * Revival meetings commences there Sat Whereas , by this event we are re­ ib Whereas, It Iiiih pleased our Divine Parent REMEMBER w w urday evening. minded that in the midst of life we are Do you come to the close of to remove from our midst our dear young Frank Stone starts for Ijoh Angeles, in death, and that it is meet, right, and the day thorou ghly exhausted? Brother, friend and schoolmate, Herman K. $ California, to visit his parents. His Miller, and whereas we are loath to lose one our bounden duty that none shall fall Does this continue day after whose short stay among iis has endeared \T> j daughter, who has been attending unheeded by the living. day, possibly week after week? himself to us with such lies of frle->dshi|>. w school in Maple Rapids, will remain at Therefore Resolved : by the Far­ Yet we humbly bow to the Plvtne will, and home during his absence. Perhaps you are even too ex- looli forward to the filial meeting. Therefore w HELLER’S BAZAAR mers’ Central Club in regular meeting lie It Last week dogs did damage to sheep assembled. We feel that in the death of | hausted to sleep. Then some- Itesolved bv the pupils of Breekenrldge T our brother we have lost a wise cotin high sehool that we extend our most heart­ w Is the cheapest place to buy^^ belonging to Mrs. Hinley and H. Robin J thing is wrong. All these felt sympathies to the mother and grand ­ w son, killing three and badly hurting one. sellor and a valued associate, and the things indicate that you are parents of the d< reused a nil be It further Justice Sessions assessed the damage. community a citizen and friend, whose Resolved, that Ills seal be draped ill mourn- w HOLIDAY GOODS, example in every relation of life was $ suffering from nervous ex- ing for ten days. V1AI1PK IHISWKLL, About sixty friends met at Mr. and MARTHA \lcl AW. s» CROCKERY, Mrs. Corey Patrick's in honor of their worthy of our emulation. | haustion. Your nerves need I'HA IfLKH WATSON. first wedding anniversary. Some fine Resolved : that we hereby tender our J feeding and your blood en- w presents were left as tokens of the sympathy to the family of the deceased i> ridling. A Miner 's Sufferings . Exposure TOYS, CANDIES, nappy occasion. in this bereavement and trust they may induced colds, and colds developed into w be able to believe that Ho doeth all that commonest but most offensive of w BOOKS G A. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Jay things well. maladies Catairh. Dr. Agnew's Catarrh Sessions were in Lansing last week as Resolved : that these resolutions he I Scott’s Emulsion al Powder cleared the way to the pure w IN delegates to the State Association of spread on the records of this club and gold of go.'I health. Fred Lawrie, of w ENDLESS Farmers’ Clubs from Central and that an official copy be presented to the 1 Trail Creek, B. C , writes: "I was a great Lebanon clubs, respectively. widow of the deceased and flit) same he of Cod-liver Oil, with Hypo- sufferer from catarrh. I procured Dr. w The Christian Endeavor society last puulished in such papers as the club ■j- phosphites of Lime and Soda, Agnew's Catarrhal Ponder, 2 bottles cured me completely. 1 can highly w Tuesday evening, elected the following may by voto direct. Signed 4S contains just the remedies to w VARIETY. officers: C. F. Abbott, President; Mrs. H.W. Brown , recommend it." 38. Chas. Howard, Vice President; Miss R. K. Smith , * meet these wants. The cod- || Try Ontln.O ITrjr Oralu-OI w Myrtle Howard, Secretary; Miss Stella Mrs. H. J. Maurer , liver oil gives the needed \i/ Murwin, Treasurer. Committee. •> strength, enriches the blood, Ask your Grocer to day to show you n package of GRAIN O, the new fooo Prettier and CHEAPEN :> feeds the nerves, and the hy- drink that takes the place of coffee. The b A Man's Prosperity w THAN tJUiUTCfl— L°cal and Traveling Agents to J pophosphites give them tone children may drink it without injury as VI fill I LU “ take orders for our well known Depends largely on the health of his 2 and vigor. Be sure you get well as the adult. All who try it, like it. w Nursery Stock. Liberal terms wife. She should maintain her health GRAIN-Ohas that rich seal brown of and steady work. Orders tilled with stru tlv and promptly correct any weakness hy £ SCOTT’S Emulsion. Ever Before. high grade stock, grown by ourselves and Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure $ true to name. Immense stock of Fruit Trees, using Zoa-Phora. Sold i>y all druggists. 2 All druggists ; 50c. and $i.oo. grains, and the most delicate stomach at low prices. Write for terms, giving referen ­ ces KLLWANGER A BARRY? X SCOTT & BOWNF., Chemists, New York. receives it without distress. % the price Established 1840. Rochester, N. Y. Once tried always used is the way of coffee. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per pack r with Column's Petroleum Balm. age. Sold by all grocers.

( I ii tho oquator. Professor Snell, with his this old craft of a world can keep Bulling Urination of tho Scriptures tho time will chain of triangles, and Professor Varln, on much longer. It is like a ship on fire ooum whon tho truth of the Bible will no RHEUMATIC CRIPPLES »“HOME, sweet homei- TESTIMONY OF ROCKS with the shortened pendulum of his clock, at sea, tho fact that the hatches are kept more ho doubted than tho common al­ found it was not round. But w« do not down the only reason that it does not be­ manac, which tells you tho days and the Good New* for Crutch Bearers. REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE GEOLOGY hccomu rritieul of uny one who says the come one complete blaze—masts on fire, pionths of tho year, and tho unbelievers With All the Little Luxuries That OF THE BIBLE. world is round. Let us deal ns fairly with ratlins on lire, everything from cutwater will bo accounted harmless lunatics. For­ Moses or Job as wo do with each other to taffrall on lire. After geology has told ward tho telescope and tho spcctroscoj>o There Is s Relief for You as Sure as the Make It Happy. Everlastingly Eight. us how near tho internal fires huvealready and tho chemical batteries and critically Sun Shines, A Sermon of Interent to All, Showing examino the ostracoldsof the ocean depths But for years good people feared geol­ burned their way toward tho surface, it and tho hones of the great mammals on That Geology Confinin' the Truth ol ogy, and without any imploratioii on ought not to he a surprise to us at any "Thum pety the gruvely hilltops! And tho mlghtior, Household Health Means Prosperity their part apprehended that the rocks and time to hear the ringing of tho ilro hells of thump l” — there he the Word of God —The Itock of Ages. and tho grander, and tho deeper, and tho mountains would fall on them until Hugh a universal conflagration. Oh, I am so hobbles, another poor and Pleasure in a Hundred Ways higher the explorations tho better for our [Copyright, 1807, by American Press Asso­ Miller, thoeldorof Ht. John ’s Presbyterian glad that geology has been horn! Astron ­ unfortunate limping ciation.] cause. As sure as tho thunderbolts of tho church in Edinburgh and parishioner of omy Is grand because it tells us ubout along life’s way, with Almighty are stronger than tho steel pens Washington , I)oo. 19.—Tho throngs Dr. Guthrie, came forth und told tho other worlds. But I must say that I am a pain-rackea body of agnostics, the ark of God will ride on “Ours is a happy home," remarked a coming to I)r. Talningo ’s preaching serv ­ world that there was no contradiction be­ mere interested in our world than in any and a bitter heart. unhurt and Uzzah need not fear any dis ­ laboring man the other day, “and I have ices at tho First Presbyterian church tween tho mountains and tho church, and other world, and geology tells us all about asters upsetting. The apocalyptic angel But rheumatic suf­ learned to thank the perfect health of nre all the time Increasing ami far beyond O. M. Mitchell, a brilliant lecturer before what it was, its eradlo and what will ho flying through the midst of heaven, pro­ ferers should not give its inmates for half the blessings we the capacity of his church to hold. In this he became brigadier general, dying at its grave. And this glorious geology is up hope. enjoy. Why, Ire- sermon ho discusses a subject Interesting proving itself more and more the friend of claiming to all nations and kindred und Beaufort, H. C., during our civil war, took people and tongues tho unsearchable riches There is a cure— member when my to all—viz, “Tho Geology of tho Bible; or, the platform and spread his map of the theology. Thank God for tho testimony of of Jesus Christ aro mightier than tho shy­ Rheumaticure, the house was a hos­ God Among tho Hocks.” Tho text is II strnta of rock in tho presence of great au­ the rocks, tho Ten Commandments an ­ ing off of a yoke of oxen. most natural remedy pital month in and Samuel vi, 0, 7; “And when theycanio to diences, and Professor Alexander Winchell nounced among the split rocks of Hinai, month out. This Nnchon ’s threshing floor Uzzah put forth the greatest sermon of Christ preached on The God of the Kook*. in the world. of Michigan university and Professor It tones up the en ­ constant sickness his bond to tho aik of God and took hold Taylor Lewis of Union college showed the luisallie rooks of the mount of beati­ Tho geology of tho Bible shows that our kept my nose to of It; for the oxen shook it. And the an ­ tudes, tho Havlour dying on tho rooks of religion is not a namhy pnmhy, nerveless, tire system, expells that tho “without form and void ” of the all uric add from the j, the grindstone. I ger of the Lord was kindled against first chapter of Genesis was tho very chaos Golgotha and buried amid tho limestone dilettantish religion. It was projected and was always hard Uzzah, and God smote him there for his rocks of Joseph’s sepulcher, the lust day has been protected by tho God of tho rocks. blood, lubricates the out of which the world was formulated, “ creaky ” joints, u p—a 1 w a y s in error, and there he died by the ark of God.” the hands of God packing together the to ho ushered in with a rending of rucks Religion a halm? Oh, yes. Religion a debt. First it A hand of music is coming down the und our blessed Lord suggestively entitled soothing power? Oh, yes. Religion a nourishes and vital- land and tossing up the mountains into Izes. would be my wife road, cornets blown, timbrels struck, great heights and flinging down tho seas tho “Rock of Ages.” I this day proclaim beautiful sentiment? Oh, yes. But wo It stops the most severe attack. tho banns of a marriage between geology —then my eldest harps thrummeid and cymbals clapped, all into their great depths. Before God gets must havo a God of tho rocks, a mighty Read the experience of one who suffered: daughter would be led on by David, who was himself a musi­ through with this world there will hardly and theology, the rugged bridegroom and God to defend, an omnipotent God to taken down. The cian. They are ahead of a wagon on which he n book of the Biblo that will not find the fairest of brides. Lot them join their achieve, a forco ublo to overcomo all other Kalamazoo, Mich., June 26,1896. doctor ’s cart was Is tho sacred box called the nrk. Tho confirmation either in arclueology or geol­ hands, und “whom God huth joined to­ forcos in tho universe. Rose of Sharon Specific Remedy Co., Kalamatoo, Mich. : *' v *' always at my door. yokoof oxen drawing tho wagon imperiled gether let not man put asunder. ” and Lily of the Valley is he, combina ­ Gentlemen: — For upwards of twenty years I ogy. Exhumed Babylon, Nineveh, Jeru­ have suffered from Sciatic Rheumatism, during But one blessed It. Somo critics say that tho oxen kicked, salem, Tyre and Egyptian hieroglyphics Never Vet Upset. tion of all gentleness untl tenderness and which time I have sought relief la many ways, day my wife came across an advertise ­ being struck with tho driver's goad, hut aro crying out in tho eurs of tho world: sweetness? Oh, yes. But if tho mighty treating with leading physician* at home and If anything in the history or condition abroad, but with no approach to anything like a cure ment of Zoa Phora—the ‘woman ’s my knowledge of oxen leads me say that “Tho Biblo is right! All right! Everlast ­ of tho eartli seems for tho timo contradict ­ forces now arrayed for the destruction of until 1 began Uie use of lOieuniaticure. It has been friend. ’ She tried it—so did my daugh­ if on a hot flay they see a shadow of a tree ingly right!” Geology is saying the same ory of anything in geology, you must re tho nations are to bo met and conquered, my custom to take treatment at Mount Clemens, ter. And it cured them both. Since or wall, they are apt to suddenly 6hy off and even European and other similar retreats, but I thing, not only confirming the truth about member that geology is all the timo cor­ wo must havo a God of tho rocks. The cannot say that they have given me, at best, more that day we have had no more sickness to get the coolness of tho shadow. I think the original creation, but confirming so recting itself and more and more coming “Lion of Judah ’s tribe,” as well ns tho then temporary relief. I have derived more benefit —no more doctor ’s bills. There’s a these oxen so suddenly turned that tho “Lamb who was. sluin. ” Ono hundred in tlie past few months from the use of your medi ­ many passages of the Scriptures that I to harmonization with the great hook. In cine than I have from the combined use of all other piano in the parlor now —we all ride sacred box seemed about to upset and bo can only slightly refer to 'hem. tlie last century tho French Scientific asso­ ami thirty times docs tho Biblo speak of medicines and treatments taken in the past twenty wheels, and there’s money in the bank thrown to tho ground. Uzzah rushed for­ tho rock as defense, as armament, as ref­ years, or since Rheumatism first took hold on me. I But you do not really believe that story ciation printed a list of 80 theories of geol­ have personal knowledge of several other remark­ beside. ” ward find laid hold of tho nrk to keep it of the deluge and the sinking of tho moun ­ ogy which had been adopted and after­ uge, as overpowering strength. David, able cures effected by Rheumaticure, and truly ba­ Zoa l’hora is the sick woman ’s great­ upright. But ho had no right to do so. A tains under the wave? Tell us something ward rejected. Lyell, tho scientist an ­ tho psalmist, lived among tho rocks, and de ve it to be the greatest remedy of tlie age. est treasure. It acts gently but posi­ special command had ~cen given by tho wo can believe. “Believe that,” says nounced bo theories of geology thut hud they reminded him of the Almighty, and Faithfully yours, tively on her delicate organism—regu­ Lord that no one snvo tho priest under geology, “for how do you account for been believed in and afterward thrown ho ejaculates, “The Ixird iiveth; blessed DAVID LILIENFELD. lates—strengthens —makes way for per­ any circumstances should touch that box. those seashells and seaweeds anti skeletons overboard. Meanwhile tho story of tho ho my rock.” “Lead mo to tho rock that Llllenfeld Bros., Wholesale Tdbacco and Liquors, fect health. A book which tells of Zoa Nervous and excited and irreverent, Uzzah of sou animals found on the top of some of Biblo has not changed at all, und if geol­ Is higher than 1.” And then, ns if his Phora, free. disobeyed when ho took hold of tho ark, ogy has enst out between 100 und 200 theo­ prayer had been answered, ho feels the Booklet mailed free. Gives further evi ­ Write Zoa Phora Medicine Co., Kala­ ami he died as a consequence. In all ages, die highest mountains? If tho waters did ries which it once considered established strength cornu into his soul, und ho cries dence of the value of Rheumaticure. mazoo, Mich. and never more so than In our own day, not sometimes rise about the mountains, wo can ufford to wait until tho last theory out, “Tho Lord Is my rock.” “lie shall Specifc Remedy Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. there aro good pcoplo all tho time afraid how did those seashells and seaweeds and of geology antagonizing divine revelation set mo up upon a rock.” that tho Iloly Bible, which Is tho sacred skeletons of sea animals get there? Did shuil havo been given up. Would tho Biblo present a sublime pic­ ark of our time, will he upset, and they you put them there?” Now, in this discourse upon tho geology ture of motherly desperation in defense of Your Limpy Don’t Sneeze hnvo been a long while afraid that science, But, now, you do not really believe that of tho Biblo, or God among tho rocks, I her children, It shows us Rizpah on the and especially geology, would overthrow It. story about the storm of Are and brim­ charge all agituted and affrighted Uzzahs rock forthreo months with disheveled hair Horse and Wheeze While we nre not forbidden to touch the stone whelming Sodom and Gomorrah, to calm their pulses about tho upsetting and wild screams lighting hack vultures —heal him and give him and cough your holy book and, on the contrary, aro urged and enwrapping loot’s wife In such saline of the Scriptures. Let mo see! For sev ­ and jackals from tho corpses of her sons. his natural gait. head half off. to fondlo and study it, any one who is Incrustations that she halted, a sack of eral hundred years tho oxen have been Would tho Bible set forth the hardness of afraid of the overthrow of tho hook Is salt? For the confirmation of that 6tory jerking tho ark this way und that und the heart and tho power of gospel to over ­ McCRUM’S greatly offending tho Lord with his un ­ the geologist goes to that region, and pulling it over rough places and trying to como it, it tells us of tho “hammer that Petroleum Balm belief. Tho oxen have not yet been yoked after trying in vain to take a swim in the stick it in tho mud of derision und kick­ breaketh tho rocks in pieces.” Would our which enn upset that ark of tho world ’s lake, so thick with salt he cannot swim it ing with all tho power of their hoofs Lord represent tho durability of his church SPAVIN CURE cures Catarrh, Cold-in-head, salvation. Written by tho I.iord Almighty, —the lako beneath which Sodom and Go­ against tho sharp goads und trying to pull against all assault ho says, “Upon this Sore-Throat, Cold-on-the- ho is going to protect it until Its mission morrah lie buried, one drop of tho water it Into the cool shade away from tho heats rock will I build my church and the gates will do it for Spavin, Splint or Lungs, etc. is fullllled and there shall ho no more so full of sulphur and brimstnno that it of retribution from a God “who will by of hell shall not prevail against it. ’’ Would Ring Bone. need of a Biblo because ull Its prophecies stings your tongue, and for hours you can ­ no means clear the guilty.” Yet havo you ho closo his sermon on tho mount with a A Certain Remedy. Sold Everywhere. will have been fulfilled and tho human not get rid of tho nauseating drop —the not noticed that the hook has never been peroration thut would resound through rneo will havo exchanged worlds. A trum­ scientist then digging down and finding upset? Tho only changes made in it wero centuries, standing on a rock so high that pet and a violin are very different instru ­ sulphur on top of sulphur, brimstone on by its learned friends in the revision of it overlooks Lake Galileo to tho right und ments, hut they may bo played in perfect top of brimstone, while all round thero tho Scriptures. Tho hook of Genesis has on a clear day overlooks the Mediterranean Spaulding- & Company Hardware and Bicycles. accord. Ho the Bible account of the crea­ are jets and crags and peaks of salt, and t>een thundered against by tho mightiest to tho left, I hear him stamp his foot on tion of tho world and the geological ac­ If one of them did not become the sarcoph­ batteries, yet you cannot today find in all tho rock beneath him as be cries to the ^VtikWiV#iViWvViV«(«V*Vm^ ~~~ count aro different —one story written on agus of Lot’s wife, they show you how tho earth a copy of the Biblo which has surging multitudes at the base of that parchment and the other on the rocks and a human being might in thnt tempest not the 50 chapters of the first copy of the rock, “Whosoever heareth these sayings yet in perfect and eternal accord. The havo l)cen halted and packed into a white book of Genesis overprinted, starting with of mine and docth them I will liken him word “day, ” repeated in tho first chapter monument that would defy the ages. the words “In tho beginning God ” and unto a w ise man, which built his house of Genesis, has thrown into paroxysms of But, now, you do not really believe closing with Joseph's coflin. Fierce at upon a rock, and the rain descended, and [Spaulding- & Co criticism many exegetes. Tho Hebrew that New Testament story alniut the earth­ tack on the book of Exodus has been made the floods came, and the winds blew and word “yom” of tho Biblo means some­ quake at the time Christ was crucified, do because they said it was cruel to drown beat upon that house, and it fell not, for times what wo call a day, and sometimes you? Geology digs down into Mount Cal­ Pharaoh and tho story of Mount Hinai was It was founded upon a rock.” Ah, my friends, we want a swarthy, a stalwart, a it means ages. It may mean 24 hours or vary and finds tho rocks rupturixl and improbable. But the book of Exodus ro We wish to call the attention of our partrons and the 100,1)00,000 years. Tho order of creation aslant, showing tho work of an cepeciul mains intact, and not one of us, consider brawny religion. Wo have a great many ^i general public to the fact that our line of Fall and as written in the book of Genesis is the earthquake for that mountain, and an ing tho cruelties which he would have people who can sit and gently rock the order of creation discovered by gtologists' earthquako which did not touch the sur­ cradle of their infantile ho]>es, and can Winter goods is the most complete of any in Central continued among the brick kilns of Egypt, Michigan. In addition to the elegant lines of crowbar. Ho many Uzzahs lmvc been nerv ­ rounding region. Go and look for your ­ would have thrown Pharaoh a plunk if faintly smile when good is accomplished, ously rushing about for fear tho strong self, and see thero a dip and cleavage of we had seen him drowning. And Mount and walk softly through a sickroom, and oxen of scientific discovery would upset rocks as nowhere else on the planet, geolo­ Sinai is today a pile of tossed and tum­ livo inoffensive lives, and manage to tread tho Biblo that I went somewhat appre­ gy thus announcing an especial earth­ bled basalt, recalling thecatAclysm of that on no one's prejudices, and their religion Cook and Heating Stoves; hensively to look into the matter, when I quake for the greatest tragedy of all the mountain when tho law was given. And, is at tlio best when tlie wind is from the found that the Bible and geology agree in centuries —the assassination of the Hon of as to those Ten Commandments, all Ro northwest and the thermometer at 70 de ­ Raying that first were Uni It the rocks, then God. man law, all German law, all English grees F., and they havo their spheres, and which we have carried in the past, we have added tho plants greened tlie earth, then marine Confirmed by Geology. law, all American law worth anything may God prosjier them. But we want in New and Up-to-date lines which we are at a!l times creatures wero created from minnow to But you do not really believe that story aro squarely founded on them. So might} tliis great battle for God against tlie allied ready to show to our customers Our line of whale, then tho wings and throats of of tho burning of our world at tho last assault for centuries has been made on the forces of perdition some John Knoxes, aerial choirs wero colored and tuned, and day? Geology digs down and finds thnt book of Joshua. It was said that the story some Martin Luthers—men of nerve and the quadrupeds began to bleat and bellow the world is already on fire and thnt tho of the detained son and moon is an insult faith and prowess, like the Huguenots, and neigh. What is all this l'uss that has center of this globe is Incandescent, molt­ to modern astronomy, but that book of and tlie pilgrim fathers, and tho Dutch been tilling the church and the world con ­ en, volcanic, a burning coni, burning out Joshua may he found today in the chapel at Leyden keeping back the enemy until =General Hardware= cerning a light between Moses and Agas­ toward tho surface, anil tho internal fires tho tides of the sea came in. Lord, God of siz? There is no light at all. But is not havo so far reached tHo outside rim that I of every c.ilvcrsity in America, in deflame the rocks, help us in this awful struggle, of any telescope projected from tho roof of iu which heaven or hell is bound to beat I is also more complete than ever this season, and the geological impression that tho world do not see how the world is to keep from PRICES at ROCK BOTTOM. . . was millionsof years building antagonistic complete conflagration until the prophe­ that university. Tho book of Jonah has How much the rocks have had to do to t ho theory of one week's creation in cies concerning it are fulfilled. The lava been the target of ridicule for the small with tho cause of God in all ages! In the Genesis? No. A great house is to he built. wit of ages, but thero it stands, with its wilderness God's Israel were fed with umbii g Heatirg, Fheet Metal Work a Specialty. poured forth from the mouths of Vesuvius, Yours to Please, A men takes years to drr.v ’ to the spot the Mount Etnn and Cotopaxi and Kilauea is four chapters inviolate, while geology puts honey out of tho rock. How the rock of up in its museums remains of sea monsters foundation stone and the heavy timbers. only the regurgitation from an awful in ­ 11 oreb paid Moses back in gushing, rip The house is about done, but it is not fin ­ flammation thousands of miles deep. Thero capable of doing more than tbc one which pling, sparkling water for the two stout ished for comfortable residence. Suddenly aro mines in Pennsylvania and in several swallowed the recreant prophet. There strokes with which he strtu-k it! And tho owner calls in upholsterers, i lumbers, parts of the world that havo been on lire st md the I,i'Ml chapters of the Bible not ­ there stands the rock with name —1 guess SPAULDING & CO. gas fitters, ] aper hangers, and in one week for many years. These coal mines burn ­ withstanding ail the attacks of ages, and the longest word in the Bible—sola-ham it is ready for occupancy. ing down and tho internal fires of the there they will stand until they shrivel tip nmlilekoth. and it was worthy of a re Now, it requires no stretch of imagina­ earth burning up. after awhile these two in tho final fires, which geologists sav are sounding, sesquipedalian nomenclature, tion to realize that God could have taken fires, tho descending and the ascending, already kindled and glow hotter than the for at that rock Haul was coiii]>ollcd to millionsof years for the bringing of the will meet, and then will occur the uni ­ furnaces of an ocean steamer as It puts quit his pursuit of David and go home ner and comfort a praying mourner The tiplionul m which all heaven responded, rocks and tho timbers of this world to­ versal conflagration of which the Biblo out from New York Narrows for Ham­ mul look alter tho l'hilistines, who were one divine hurry was set forth in tho para­ ‘From everlasting to everlasting thou art gether, yet only one week more to make speaks when it says, “The elements shall burg or Houthampton. muking a flank movement. There were ble of the prodigal son when it says, “the God.' Oman! O woman I Ho fur ns your it inhabitable and to furnish it for human melt with fervent heat, tho earth also, I should not wonder if from tho crypt tho rocks of Bozez and Soneh, between father ran. ” He was old, and I suppose earthly existence is concerned, only the residence. * Remember also that all up and and the works that aro therein shall be of ancient cities the inspired manuscripts which Jonathan climbed up and sent fly had as much as ho could do to walk, but insect of an hour, he not impatient with of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, in down the Bible the language of the times burned up.” ing in retreat the garrison of tho uncir- the sight of his had hoy coming home lim­ the workings of tlie Omnipotent and tho was used —common parlance —and it was Instead of disbelieving tho Bible story their own chirography, would be taken, cuincised. And yonder see David and his bered the stiff knees and lengthened the Eternal !" not always to lie taken literally, .lust as about tho final conflagration, since I have and the epistles which Paul dictated to his men hidden in the rock of Adullam and shortened pace of the old man in an ath­ And now, for your solaco and your we say every day that the world is round lookeil a little into geology, finding that ] amanuensis as well as the one in tho Engedl. letic stride. “The father ran! ” Put it safety, I usk you to como under tho shel­ j apostle's own handwriting. At the same Divine Deliberation. when it is not round. It is spheroidal — its explorations are all in the line of con ­ Into your oratorios. Hound it with full ter, and into tho deep clefts, and tho al­ I ratio of archa'ological tind geological eon- flatten'd at the poles and protuberant at firmation of that uronheev. I wonder how But while I go oh with my study of tho orchestra. Repeat it through all heavens. mighty defense of a rook that is higher geology of the Bible, or God among tho “Tlie father ran!" O soul farthest off, than you, higher than any Gibraltar, como hack, and God, your Father, will . -->*■ ■>> •>>. ■>*. ris ks, 1 got a more intelligent and helpful higher than the Himalayas—the Itock of F* * ^^* *^* * ^ ^ idea of di\inu deliberation. These rocks, como out to meet you at full run! The Ages—that will shelter you from tho the growth of thousands of years, and, other time when God is in a hurry is when storm; that will hide you from your ene ­ geology says, of millionsof years, ought to a troubled soul rails for comfort. Then mies; that will stand when tho earth­ show tho prolongation of God's [dans and the Bible represents tho divine gait and quakes of the last day get their pry under cure our impatience because things are swing and velocity by tho reindeer, say­ the mountains and hurl them into seas Until December 31st w not done in short order. Men without ing, “Be thou like a roe or a young hart boiling with the fires which are already seeing it become critical of tho Almighty on the mountains of Bother. ” T hat pa­ burning thoir way out from redhot centers anil think. Why does he not do this and renthesis I put in thinking that there may toward the surfaces which are already hero We- will place the very best clothing within the reach of all buyers, VI/ do thnt and do it right away? Wo feel l>e 6ome repentant sinner who wants t<> and there spouting with fire amid tho at the prices inferior goods are usually sold at. As a special for holiday Vj/ sometimes ns if we could not wait. Well, find pardon or some mourning soul who quaking of tho mountains under tho look I guess we will have to wait. God is never needs comfort, ami therefore I mention and touch of him of w horn it is said in tho business our 53 cent purchase is making a great drawing card. The Vf/ in a hurry except about two tilings. IIis tho two things about which God is in a subliniest sentence ever written: “Ho public has not been slow in catching on. plans, sweeping through eternity, aro be­ great hurry looketh upon tho mountains, and they yond our comprehension. They have such Truth of the Omnipotent. tremble. He toucheth the hills, and they wide circle, such vastness of revolution, But concerning nil the vast things of smoke." ‘ All of our $22.00 such infinitude thnt wo cannot compass God ’s government of tho universe l>o pa Hie you ono and all to tho Rock of Any of our $12.00 them. Indeed he would not bo much of a tient with the carrying out of plans be­ Ages. And now as before this sermon on All of our $1 M.00 God whom we could thoroughly under ­ yond our measurement. Naturalists tell the rocks 1 gave out the significant and AM of our $1 .">.00 Any of our $10.00 v stand. Thnt would not Ik > much of n fa­ us that there are Insects that are horn and appropriate hymn “How firm a founda ­ ther who had no thoughts or plans larger die within an hour and that there nre tion ye saints of the Lord" I will give out than his babe of 1 year could compass. If several generations of them In one day, after this sermon on the rocks tho signifi­ All of our $ 8.00 Any of our $9.00 God takes millions of years to make one and if ono of those July Insects of an hour cant and appropriate hymn: 1 0 T All of our $7.00 Any of our $ 8.00 rock, do not let us become critical If he should say: “How slow everything gw-s' Rock of Ages, i-loft for me, 0 il l All of our $0.00 Any of our $7.00 I was told in the chrysalis state by a won ­ Let me hide myself in thee! taxes 20 years or a century or several drous Instinct that 1 would find in this centuries to do that which we would like world seasons of tho year—spring, sum­ Wonderful Cures in Wisconsin. Any of our $ 22.00 fc. havo done Immediately. Do not repeat mer, autumn and winter. But where an* Dr. Warner Dear Sir: Last March An.v of our $ 20.00 the folly of those who conclude there is no the autumnal forests upholstered in fire, my children were taken down with the Any of our $18 00 God or that ho is not in s> mpathy with and where are tho glorious springtimes, measles, which left four of them with Any of our $ I .*> 00 Bov’s $41 the right and the good because he does not with orchards waving their censers of per­ very had coughs. My oldest daughter s do certain things In tho time we set apart fume lx*fore the altars of tho morning? I case became so alarming that we feared for their performance. Do not let us hold do not believe there nre any autumns or she would have quick consumption. Try on one of our Beaver Overcoats or Ulsters, or Plaid or Play Worsted Suits of Clothes. Clear your up our little watch, with its tiny hour hnnd springtimes.” If, then, a golden eagle, Tried many different medicines recom­ mind of any prejudice you may have against ready made clothing, and you ’ll he forced to admit and minute hand, and by It try to correct many years old, In a cage nearby, heard mended for coughs and lung complaints, tho clock of the universe, Its pendulum the hum of that complaining Insect, it hut all to no purpose. One of my neigh­ that thtse goods are equal to any custom made goods.—Of course they are. The style is jin-t the taking 500 years to swing this way and same as the tailor will give. The cutting is as skillfully done and the material and workmanship might well answer “O summer insect bors recommended your W hite \\ ine of 500 years to swing that way. Do not let of an hour, though your life Is so short Tar Syrup, as one bottle had cured nearly just ns good; everything is there but the tailor's big price. Added to this is the ability/o see how TK us set up our little spinning wheel beside you cannot sec the magnificent turn of every man in camp where he worked of the complete suit looks,.and to make mire of a good fit. Our Boy ’s clothing is the most complete the loom in which God weaves sunrises the seasons, I can testify as to their reali­ and sunsets and auroras. Wo have the severe colds, and my family commenced of any stock in the city. ty, for I have seen them roll. When I was taking it. In three days we saw a great l>est of authority for saying that “one day young, and before I wns imprisoned in change for the better and they did not with the Ix>rd is as a thousand years and this cago, I brushed their gorgeous leafage use the whole of one bottle beforo their a thousand years ns ono day. ” Do not and their fragrant blossoms with my own expect, that Uzzah's oxen, even if they do coughs were cured. wing You livo an hour. I have lived 30 Garden Valley, Wis. L. T. Prindi .f. Webber & Peck, L™ phc «. i not shy off, hut go straight ahead, can years. But In one of my (lights high up, Sold byFiLDEW it Mii.i.man . keep tip with the fire shod lightnings. tho gate of heaven open for a soul to go in But thnt was not a slip of the tonguo or n seraph to como out, I heard the choirs To Curs Constipation Forever. when I said thnt, God is never in a hurry chanting. * Front everlasting to everlast ­ Take Cascarets C’andv Cathartic. 10c or 25c. rxcept In two tilings. Those two things ing thou art God!' And It wns an an if <' C. C. fail

Royal MkH tho food pare, ADDITIONAL COUNTY NOT ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD. TTfe Wily High Gra.de D&kin0'Powden MICHIGAN MELANGE. wholoaoma and dollciow*. 1 Offered at a moderate price —■* WASHINGTON NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST TO OUR A fact often overlooked, ur not always understood, is that women suffer as READERS. Washington Dec. 81.1897. much from distressing kidney and Mrs, Ethel Burch, of Bis Rapids, is bladder troubles as the men. The womb visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James is situated back of and very close to the Important Happenings In the State Daring Boyle. the l’ast Few Dav* K«porteen mentioned A lso free surgical operations to llgin 15 jeweled nickel Pendant set drawing pensions after the death of County op Clinton . (S8, a day or two after It was discovered It ALL THOSE THAT ARE TOO POOR TO PAY. ?wot ks for...... 17 00 I, P. K. Wslsworth treasurer of the above named as a candidate for the supreme bench their husbands. The advocates of the was found to have been opened. Mur­ All that he asks in return is that Ladies 14k 20 yr. filled, full engraved Bank, do sol* mnly swear that the above statemeiii of Michigan, says such talk Is not au­ every patient will state to their friends case will 16 jeweled nickel Doeber is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. der is feared by his family. Harm den works for...... 14.00 measure think many young women F. K. WALSWORTH, thorized. the results obtained by his treatment. marry aged veterans to enable them to Treasurer Attempted Train Wrecking. Gents 14k. 10 size. Special full engraved Subscribed and sworn to before me this 22d daj The I.Hnt Straw Of Hope. All forms of chronic diseases and de ­ draw a pension later on. Tin- proposed Menominee. Mich., Dec. 16.—An at­ formities treated. No man in this case, warranted for 88 yean with 16 of December, i897. a . e. WILSON, Like a sinking one the sufferer grasps jeweled nickel works adjusted t.• heat Notary Public. tempt to wreck a train on the Soo road State has had such extended expe­ and cold and position ...... 18 50 measure will probably fail to become a CoRRKtT A ttest: ALBERT .1 BALDWIN, after any seemingly available thing W. BUND4Y was made. Five telegraph poles were rience in the treatment of CATARRH, law. that promises to impart hope to fast EYE. EAR, THROAT AND LU.NU Genuine Paul E. Wirt fountain pens for $150 JOHN C. HICK ». sawed off and thrown across the track failing life. Directors. on the Wisconsin side of the Menominee DISEASES as the doctor. He gradu­ Goods fonntian pens ...... 1 00 The meeting of the State Grange and A promise means so much to the af ated 37 years ago from Cleveland, Ladies hard soldered roll plate longett river, near Faithorn. A special train fiieted that there is little wonder they Farmers Clubs demonstrated that the REPORT OF THE CONDI I ION Ohio; was 15 years iti general prac­ chains.gold front slide ...... L88 bearing line repairers and material was are so easily imposed upon. When hope Ladies hard soldered roll plate chains with farmers present w. re opposed to an or T1IK tice; after that lectured as Professor dispatched to the scene and detectives is well nigh gone, when .ill that is of Anatomy and Physiology in Detroit solid gold slide, pearl set...... 2.00 extra session of the legislature. A res" are on the track of a man who is sus­ sweetest and best in life seems fading Homeopathic Medical College for 1 Sterling silver Butter knife ...... 150 olution in the grange indorsing Governor pected of being implicated. from view, it is then that the poor years; was 3 years Superintendent of “ “ Sugar shell...... 1 25 starveling, human wreck, snatches at Pingree’s railroad messagesfailed to pass Si. Jims Alma and Ypsilanti Sanitariums Also a fine assortment of plain gold and set Drug Store Consolidation at Detroit. all that comes within their grasp rings in Opals. Rubies. Emereld-. i.arnets. It was stated that while the messages At St. Johns. Michigan, at the close of This experience, combined with many business, Dec. 15, 1897. Detroit, Mich., Dec. 18. —It is rumored Here’s the field the charlatan, the ini years ’ study in the best hospitals in Moonstones Pearl and Turquoise w Inch must were generally approved, the grange did postor, (he human vulture gnised under be seen to I e cpnreciated. Renun I er that RESOURCES. that the two large wholesale drug the country, and examining and treat­ with every purchase of one dollar or * ver you not care to dabble in politics. The houses of Williams, Davis. Brooks & the cloak of a bogus medical education, ing thousands of chronic cases, has can get free one of tin se tine, engraved Loans and discounts ...... *11 4.046 Of, works irt, and imposes upon the poor Christmas or presentation cards. Kv« r> thing grange elected F. W. Redfern a member Stocks, bonds, mortgages...... 42,409 56 Company, and T. 11. llinchman & Sons, prepared him to cure when the general in our stock w ill he sold as cheap in propor­ Overdrafts ...... 7SU K2 misguided mortal. It is then of ut­ practitioner fails. Have you been sick of the executive committee. Banking bonne ...... 8,BOO 00 will soon be consolidated. The members most importance that due inquiry be tion as the prices w e have given you. Furniture and fixtures...... 2,500 oo of the two firms refuse to give out any ­ for years? Are you discouraged? The ptato association of farmers clubs Other real estate...... 5.352 S' made as to the qualifications, ability Call and see us, we will tell you whether Call and be convinced, elected the following officers last week: Due from banks In reserve dttee. 16,924 66 thing for publication at this time, but and skill of the one *o whom the sttf we can cure you or not. If xve cannot i xt-ltanges for clearing house..... its 32 practically acknowledge that negotia­ ferer contemplates intrusting their case. President, E. J. Cook, Owosso; vice- Checks and cash items...... 510 18 cure you. we will tell you what relief Nickels and cents ...... 70 71 tions are now on foot looking to Dr Ottuian of the firm of Drs. 13. S. & we can give you. president, Mrs. E. L. Lockwood, Peters Gobi coin ...... 7,240 OO consolidation. Co. Muskegon, Michigan, makes no £4*“ Re member, one month will be burg; secretary, C. M. Pierce, Tuscola; Silver coin ...... 2.2 17 00 claims that cannot be substantiated by U. S. and National bunk notes.. H.902 OO Out lor Governor of Mlcdilg.in. absolutely free—medicines, surgical directors, Harrison Grant, of Livingston, proofs irrefutable and unimpeachable operations, and the benefit of all our Detroit, Dec. 18. —A special to The What he has done he can duplicate and A. P. Gre$n, of Eaton. Total...... $209,804 55 skill to all who are too poor to pay. LIABILITIES. Tribune from Jackson, Mich., says: Ex- r'lin. He never fails in any case under Our methods of treatment is all tnat is ST. JOHNS MARKETS. Capital stock paid In ...... $ 50,000 00 Representative James O'Donnell, editor taken, if treatment is persisted in and known by all the schools, with the aid Surplus fnn*l ...... 4,86600 directions intelligently and faithfully Grain quotations are furnished bv 'he St. When you are suffering from Catarrh Undivided profits less current of the Jackson Citizen, has declared of electricity, that most wonderful of Johns wheat houses every Thursday, and are or Cold in tho head you want relief himself as Republican candidate for the followed. all agents in Paralysis, Loss of Power, for the prices paid that day only. expensses. Interest and tuxes To sufferer* from any or all func right away. Only 10 cents is required paid ...... 1.000 30next nomination for governor in opposi­ Rheumatism, and all diseases of the Wheat, white...—...... 85 Commercial deposits subject to tional >r organic troubles we recotit Wheat red ...... ~...... 85 to test it. Ask your druggist for the tion to Governor Pingree. His campaign nervous system. Go early, as mj check...... 61,886 l* mend them to call oo I >r Ottman, when office is always crowded. Buckwheat...... — ...... trial size of Ely ’s Cream Balm, or buy Commercial certificates *>r de ­ slogan will be economy in state affairs. Oats...... 21 to 22 the 50c. size. We mail it. posit...... 67.879 84 he visits St. Johns, Mirfi., Thursday, N. IL—Cancers, Tumors, Blood and Skin Dressed Chickens ...... -...... Savings deposits ...... 34,730 17 December .TO! 1l in the private parlor ol Diseases cured by a new system. Piles cared in Dressed Turkeys ...... 11 ELY BROS., 56 Warren St. N. Y. City. Accident to Dr. Willi* Craig. from 5 to 30 days without the knife. Female the Steel Hotel, from 0 a . m. to T:'1G p. m. Dressed Ducks...... I was afflicted with catarrh last Totnl ...... $209,804 56 Niles, Mich., Dec. 21.—Rev. Dr. Willis and private diseases of all forms treated suc­ Dressed Geese...... 7 One day onlv. Consultation free and cessfully. Many patients that cannot be treated autumn. During the month of October STATE OF MICHIGAN,\n Craig, president of the McCormick Dressed Beef...... 014—7 County ok Clinton . I strictly confidential. at home can be cared at oar Sanitarium, which Dressed Hogs...... Pc I could neither taste or Bmell and could Theological seminary, of Chicago, is In charge of the best of medical skill, under Live Hogs...... $3.00 to 3 00 I, J. Fitzgerald, cashier of the above the doctor's direction. Terms for board and hear but little. Ely ’s Cream Balm slipped and fell here, dislocating his left Live Cattle...... $3 to $8.50 named bank, do solemnly swear that the treatment the lowest of any sanitarium or ho*, Dressed Mutton ...... -...... 7 cured it. Marcus Geo. Shautz, Rahway, above statement Is true to tlie best of my hip. Dr. Craig came here to occpuy the Holiday Kate* 189 7-98. pital in the United State*. N. Y. knowledge and belief Butter...... — 15-10 pulpit of the Presbyterian church and All agents of the C H. A D. 'Ky., will Remember, we give a written guar­ Eggs, per dozen —...... -...... 10-17 J. W. FITZGERALD, Cashier. Lard, per pound ...... 5 Subscribed and sworn to before me this was on his way to the church when the sell tickets for the holidays at one fare antee to cure every case of PILES and Don ’t Toliarco S|.it nn8 oo nctlc. full of life, nerve and vigor, -alio No-To- Society Wedding at Saginaw. Beans ...... 70-80 Hac, tho wonder worker, that makes weak men Correct—Attest : connecting lines. Tickets may be sold tun. Send for Journal, Msvke Clover Teed ...... —...... *8 50 strong. All druggists, 50c or $ 1. Cure guaran­ PORTER K PERRIN, Paginaw, Mich., Dec. 17.- Miss Sophie December 24th 2T*th and .list, 1897 and Rye...... 40 50 O. W. MPNG Kit. Itai ley, per cwt...... 00 to 09 teed Booklet and sample free. Address GEO. F. MARVIN, Mills Ayers, only daughter of Colonel January 1st, 1898, good to return until Dr. Spinney will be at the Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York. January 4th, 1898 inclusive. Hay, No. 1 Timothy...... -...... $4.00 $ 7.00 Directors. Steel Hotel, Tuesday, Jan. 25. Corn, on the ear ...... 10-10)$

( / \ \ Awarded BREVITIES. NOTICE. The Republican. We, tho undersigned, do hereby agree Highest Honors —World ’s Pair, Miss Anna Ryan will go to Toledo for to refund the money on two 25 cent C. C. VAUGHAN, Publisher . Gold Medal, Midwinter Pair. vacation. bottles of Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters, if 1 Republican i it fails to cure consumption, billiousness, i. TEHMSs-tl Per Ve»r. DR Dr. Frederick Leland and wife are sick headache, or any of the diseases for Our Advertising rates are $100 per column guests of President and Mrs. Leland. “ The Kind that Cures,” which it is recommended Also will [and I per annum. Business notices live cents per refund the money on a 50 cent bottle of line for each insertion. Kd It oral notices, ten Freezing weather has damaged .the _____i ...... I cents. will give you pure blood ; make Downs ’ Elixir, if it does not cure any Business cards, $1.00 per line per year. California orange crop the past three cough, cold, croup, whooping cough, or Marriage, birth and death notices inserted free days. your stomach digest readily ; throat or lung difficulty. We also Detroit Semi= jj Obituary comments, resolutions, cards of thanks, etc., will be charged for at the rate of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gould and Miss your liver and kidneys active; guarantee one 25-cent bottle of either of the above to prove satisfactory, or money five cents per line. w Loa Carey will spend Christmas in your nerves strong. That’s Correspondence containig local news is solic­ refunded. A. O. Hunt, Travis & Baker, Weekly $ ited from all parts of the county. Ionia. only assertion, but we back it Annonymous communications not inserted w CREAM C. E. VanSickle. ,¥ j #!U»JS under any circumstance. C. W. Monroe arrived from the east up with this — YOUR One announcement of society entertainments Educate Your Howe’* With Caacaret*. Journal will be published as news. Any futher men ­ yesterdayjto spend the winter with his MONEY BACK IF IT Cathartic, cur const (nation forever. tion, where admission fee is charged, will be i0c,25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggi >s refund money. charged for at five cents per line. BAKING son, J. G. Monroe. DOES NOT. This is an HMrs. Clarissa olton, who has been in offer honest like the medicine. JOB PRINTING. Fildew & Mlllman —Drugs, Books and Stationery Detroit the past two months, has re­ EVERY bottle of DANA’S is Our material is new and of the latest styles turned to St. Johns. guaranteed to benefit or you and we guarantee satisfaction, both in POWDER prices and quality of work. A Pure drape Cream of Tartar Powder. The Alma Argus runeight extra pages get your money back. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD* of cuts and write up of that progressive BUSINESS CARDS. town last week. It was a handsome All Druggists Keep It. extra edition. WE EXTEND MARION K. PODGE. The Republican. Owen Hughes died in St. Johns Decem­ THE COUNTY. eacher of vocal and instru - ber 11th, of bowel trouble, aged 61. He mental music and harmony. Rooms over To our Customers earnest wishes for a TSpaulding & Co.'s hardware, St. Johns, Mich. Thursday, December 23, 1897, was unmarried and an uncle of E. A. and James Hughes. RILEY- ATTOBITXTB. Riley , Dec. 22,1897. Merry Christmas and brevities . Chas. H. McRae was heard before S.lTsMIT»r A number of the friends of Alfred Justice Lyon Monday, on the charge of A Bright New Year. ttorney at law . office over Lina Conn is improving. Lance and wife gave them a genuine sur- Heller’s Bazaar, leaving his wife and family a burden on rise Monday night and presented Mrs. A F. L. Green left for Saginaw Monday. WILL H. HKUNSON. the public. He plead guilty and received Eance with a beautiful parlor lamp. We still have for yourj ins pection a' fine line of Mr. and Mrs. Thus. Bromley left for Quite a good time was enjoyed by all. ILL H. BRL’NSON.-ATTORNEY AT twenty days in the county jail. Holiday Gifts.^ > " law, over Putt's Grocery, St. Johns. 28-5 The following were elected as officers W Deiroit Monday. Charles Richardson, of Ithaca, who LEWIS SEVERANCE, A. B. of the Modern Woodmen for the year Do you need something useful as well as dainty? A. D. McCabe went to Corunna on 1898: V. C., Elmer J. Pratt; W. A., ttorney , justice of the peace was convicted of running a house of ill- |Look at our pretty Brushes, Combs, and Hand Mirrors. anu Circuit Court Commissioner, Office business, Monday. repute with Mary Thum, who was sent Fred J. Brooks; Clerk, A. J. Hildreth: A over Bunday ’s Grocery, St. Johns. Banker, O. C. Pratt; Escort, H. G. Bliss; to the Detroit house of correction for one WM. N. STOCKER, Editor Fitzgerald and wife went to Sentry, G. W. Weltoa. year, was sentenced to Ionia for one year oldiers and comrades , i being Detroit Friday. The Royal Neighbors will be officered WE HAVE! ! one of your number, therefore know your by Judge Daboll. wantsS and also your rights by law. therefore B. L. Marsh left for Owosso Monday, by: Oracle, Viola Burns; Vice-Oracle, respectfully solicit your patronage in the pros­ Miss Julia Bross, who has been in Anna Williams; Recorder, Jennie Will For the young and the old. ecution of claims for pensions, back pay, where be is working. iams; Chancellor, Susanna Brooks; Mar­ bounty or rations. Also Notary Public. En ­ Detroit the past three months taking For the coy and the bold. quire at Heller's Bazaar. WN. N. STOCKER. Mrs. Sarah Rathbone left for Plymouth shall, Anna Hildreth; Sentinels, Anna Monday, where she will spend the winter. vocal lessons, returned home Tuesday Pratt and M. E. Landers. Games For the rich and the poor. rKDEWA * WALBKIUGK, night for a two weeks vacation. Miss ttorneys at law , st. Johns , Miss Vesta Woodbury is home from Games, oh Games Galore. Mich. Over Travis & Baker’s. Bross is making good progress in her Mrs. C. N. Cowles and Mis* Clara Hill the Agricultural College to spend the made a business trip to Lansing last A PERKINS & BALDWIN, work. Our books are going fast for we are giving bargains. Bargains holidays. Monday. ttorneys at law , money Webber A Peck have a very pretty Miss Agnes Groner, who is attending which have never been seen before. These are facts come ana see Loaners and Real Estate Agents. Office E. Malthouse went to Durand Monday, them. overA Well’s Grocery, Clinton Ave.. St. Johns. window, with a cupid ushering in the school in St. Johns, expects to spend where he is working on the new Stevens EDWIN H. LYON, New Year, and father Time disappearing. Christmas with her parents in Riley. building. Buy your wife one of our Pocket Books that she may take care of ttorney at law . st. Johns . A Christmas bell and lake are also nicely There will be a Christmas tree at the the money she has. We have some splendid ones for the money A Mich. Office over Kendrick's store. 35tf Dr. G. E Corbin continues to improve, Kincaid school house Christmas eve. we ask. worked into the display. Will Ingrahm Exercises will be given by the school SPAULDING, NORTON & DOOLING, and will probably be out again before ttorneys at law ,office over was the artist. and Sunday school. Everybody cor Don t forget that we have the finest line of BIBLES in town and A St. Johns National Bank. long. Peter Mauren, once a resident of dially invited. the cheapest. R. J. WOODRUFF, Miss Iva Hubble and Miss Kathrine Westphalia, was burned to death at USTICE OK THE PEACE, OFFICE OVID. There are a Thousand and One Jover Allison's Jewelry store. Collections a Vaughan, of Maple Rapids, were in St. Wyandotte, last Saturday. He lived sicidity, Johns Saturday. alone and in a little cottage, being, some O vid . Dec. 21.1897 Miss Gertrude Eaton was in Owosso Mon ­ PgTSICIAITS. Lew Fasquelle and wife are guests of thing of a recluse, and the exact cause of day. BARGAINS B. DODGE, M. D.. SURGEON AND Mrs. M. Fasquelle this week. Lew is the fire will probably never be known. Christmas trees at the three churches Friday • Homoeopathic Physician. Office and resi­ evening. Jdence over apaulding <& Co’s. Hardware Storetravelling in Michigan now. In our Store. Almost as many Bargains as there are articles UNCONSTITUTIONAL. A C. Chapman Is in Chicago this week on to select from. Clyde Armstrong, of Bannister, was business. HENRY PALMER, M. D., Chas. Curtis, of Ovid, lost a valuable horse 1 ENEKAL PKACTIONEK AND PRAC- acquitted of the charge of attempted last Saturday. T tical Occulist. Office over Hunt ’s Drug Peddler* Lir«nr« Act Knocked Out. GStore. Office hours 2 to 5 PM. 4t>tf assault made by Edna Hammond. Bertha Hotter is clerking at Den Hotiten's COME AND SEE. The peddlers lioense act, passed by the during the holidays. a. K. gilla .m, m. d , Miss Jennie Bowen, who has been last legislature, has been declared Mrs. B. V. Soule, of St. Johns, called on HYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE visiting relatives here, returned to her Ovid friends Saturday. We will take care of all our old customers and they may rest and residence west of Court House. Office unconstitutional by the supreme court Gertrude Eaton will spend Christmas with assured that nowhere in town can goods of like quality be P home in Clare Monday morning. hours 1 to 4 p. M., except Wednesdays, from class legislation. relatives ill Three Rivers. bought at less price than at our store. The new customers, 7 to 9 P. M. Robert Crouse, of Fostoria, Ohio, is spend ­ Bless them, we are always pleased to see them and will try and John Fedewa has gone to Ireland to ing the week at N. J. Clark’s. DR. K. G. MORRISON. Another Tax Title Decision. use them in such a way that they will be glad that they met us. HYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE Bettle up some matters connected with Mrs. Dollie. of Pennsylvania, has come to ou Clinton Avenue, north of railroad. the John Seri von estate. Willie Scriven Tho Lansing Republican says the spend the winter with her sister, Mrs. A. C. POffice hours from H to 12 A. M.. and 1 to 5 p. M., Chapman. and 0 to 8 evenings. Sunday 2 to 5 P. M. and Johnnie Fedewa accompanied him. decision of the supreme court Tuesday Mr and Mrs Geo. Huntington went last that the state after having bid in lands w-eek to Lima. New York, to spend the Holi­ DR. ERNEST SCHEMER. A widow ’s pension of $8.00 per month days with relatives. J HYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE has been granted Carrie Hathaway, of for one year's taxes, may not sell them Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Janes moved their over Gruler's Store, Fowler. Mich. again for taxes of subsequent years while household goods to Owosso yesterday, where P Ovid; and a pension of $2.00 per month they intend to run a hotel it holds title has paralyzed the tax 3DE2TTISTS. granted the minor of Joseph O. Hatha­ Jay Shaver aged 15, son of Theron Shaver, title business. Score one for the supreme of Victor, while out hunting last Saturday with Fildew & Millman. G. E. CORBIN, M. D.. D. D. 8., way, St. Johns. another boy was accidentally shot in the court. The tax title business was bowels, his death occurring eight hours later $ Our Baking Powder is All Right. 'l K A DU ATE OF THE UNIVERSITY Tl e two dogs, which accompanied the boys i GI of Michigan. Thirty years experience in Mr. and Mrs, Lafayette Jones went to robbery, and ought to be paralyzed. on their rabbit hunt, got to righting and Jay St. Johns. Trust entirely to his taste, ability,Grand Ledge Friday to attend the wed ­ endeavored to separate them by beating them $ Who Said so? Everybody conscience, and you will get the nearest ap­ Held for Trial. with his gun. which being loaded went off proach possible to perfection of results in ding of the latter's sister. Mr. Jones dentistry. ______*48 causing the fatal accideut. This is the second returned Saturday, but Mrs. Jones will Ex-cashier C. H. Oshand, of Lansing, deatli in our immediate vicinity caused by the who has used it. ARTHUR CORBIN, D. D. 8. has been held for trial in the circuit Court careless use of firearms. /^KOW NS, “BRIDGE WORK” (TEETH be absent two weeks. Mr and Mrs. C. A. Johnson and Mrs J. Vy without plates) and all Latest Processes. on the charge of making false entries in Dunlap very pleasantly entertained at the The Michigan Trust Company, of home of Mrs. Dunlap on William street, last G. H. MANN, D. D. 8. the books of the People's Savings bank, Wednesday evening the members of the Ovid to «S (ft <*) Grand Rapids, is sending out a beautiful defunct. school board and their wives and the Ovid "GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY little book, finely illustrated, entitled “A corps of teachers. About thirty were present G1 of Michigan. Dental Surgery a specialty. and when all had arrived Mrs. Johnson an ­ Office over Spaulding A Co.'s Round of Birthdays. ” It will afford Hnee Lived in 8t. Johns. nounced that each guest was expected to take V hardware, opposite the Steel A dispatch from Lansing to the Even ­ a journey bv filling out the blanks on the hotel. Office hours: 8 to 12 A lots of pleasure to the little folks. tickets which she distributed Small cards Hill m., 1:30 to 5 p. M., evening, ing News Tuesday says “Dr. William were hung in various parts of the rooms, on 7:oo to 8 :00. St.Johns. Mich. J. C. Shaver has leased the Round Miller died in the city jail, this morning, which was written figuratively the name of a Lake resort to Win. H. Benson, of Laings of delirium tremens. city. The blanks on the tickets were to be tilled out witli the literal name which proved burg, who will assume control March 1 Not many years ago, he paid taxes on amusing. As for instance one card read ^lANDV CATHARTIC E. I. HULL. It is said the buildings will be improved an assessment of $2<),000. Today his ' Something to squeeze and a kind of lied ” NDERTAKER. NO. Id CLINTON body was removed from the jail in a city From this the guests knew that Prescott was Avenue Residence, first house west of and the resort conducted in a first class one the cities which they were to visit. A U coffin, and he will be buried at city prize of » toy trunk was awarded to Miss Congregational church. manner. expense ” He w as once a promenent Rennet for filling out her ticket correctly. 8. W. INGRAHAM. prohibitionist. Dainty refreshments were then served fol­ NDKRTAKKK. REAR OF FOWLER The following students are homo from lowed by music and the company dispersed A Ball's Hardware St Johns, Mich. all declaring Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and Mis. u the University to spend the holidays: DIED. Dunlap exemplary hosts. -K-r-rci'—ft.t. a TTEorre. Frank and Robert Buck, Glenn Steel, Tiie L A S. bazaar of the Congregational CURE CONSTIPATION John Harvey, aged 77. died of dropsey. church held last Friday and Saturday at the MRS. J. E. LITTELL. Louis Henderson, Paul Seibert, George December 21st, at the poor farm. Buried in opera house proved to be a financial success. the South Bingham cemetery. December 23. Tiie gross receipts were $108 but it would ALL ESSONS IN SHORT HAND AND Baldwin, Alex Kinmond and Miss take a greater sum then tHat to compensate Typewriting. Terms reasonable- ______Elmira Merrihue wife ot Jason Merrihue, DRUGGISTS L Winfred Daboll. of Olive, aged 57. died ot heart failure, ec em­ the ladies for their time and hard work spent ! IRQfil IlTPl V r.niPJlITPPn t0 core any case of constipation. Casrarrts *rc the I en at work Articles in needle work, both useful and orna ­ ALBERT J. BALDWIN. President. for the past two years. mental were on sale and the beautifully expect to move to that place until spring. dressed dolls delighted the children. All were “THE STEEL” HOTEL, well pleased that the efforts of the ladies were (i. PENNELL, Vice President. We understand that Mr. Barnhart is a GUNNISONVILLE. so well sustained. A good program of music and a ph on graph was a pleasant feature of P. E. WALSWOKTH. Treasurer. dealer and will hold the property for Guninsonville . Dec. 23. 1897. both evenings. another deal. ” Mr P. Kians is improving very slowly since ST.JOHNS, his illness Dr. Walker, of Detroit, who has visited Mrs James Gunnison returned home last TATE BANK OF ST. JOHN'S. week from the south, where she has been NORTH-WEST LEBANON. Thursday, Dec. .°>0, 1897. s St. Johns regularly during the past two visiting tor the past six weeks f-T* COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS. N orthwest Lebanon . Dec. 20, 1897. years, will discontinue his visits for a Delbert Hubbard, of Williamston. made a One Day Only Each Month. 4 (lying visit at Ins grandmother's, Mrs. Morgan, Mr. M. L. Peck is on the gain. little while during the cold weather and yesterday. Haden Smith was in Pewamo E'riday. CAPITAL $50,000.00. take a needed rest. The doctor has been Cards are out for the wedding of Chris Zeeb Mrs. Frank Bolender is still quite sick. Consultation and Examination to Miss Mable Stampfly tne 81st of this month. Peter Banta returned from Detroit Saturday. very successful here and enjoyed a large The members of the fourth division of the Free and Strictly Confidential. Net Assets of Stockholders, $900,000.00. practice. Dr. Walker will resume his Ladies'Aid society gave a drama at the hall Mr. Wilkenson went to Grand Rapids last 1 last evening. They had a good attendance week. OKS. II. S. A CO., devote their attention to Diseases of the Eye, Far, Throat and Lungs, P. K. PERRIN, President. regular visits in the near future. Watch and every thing passed oil very nicely. Re­ Patience McGinn is home from Grand Asthma and Consumption, and all Chronic, Private and Nervous Diseases. Deformities, Gran ­ newspapers for dates. ceipts about fifteen dollars. Rapids. ulated Lids, Cross Eye, Deafness, Discharge of the Ears, Bronchitis, Chronic Cough. Goltre, O. W. HUNGER, Vice-President. Ernest Kemp, of Greenville, called on his (big neck) Fever Sores and Ulcers, Bright’s Disease, Rheumatism, all diseases of the Kidneys brother the first of the week. and Bladder, Heart. Stomach and Nervous Diseases Chorea—St. Vitus’ Dance —, General J. W. FITZGERALD. Cashier. Clark A Latting, attorneys and councel Christmas ami New Years Holiday Kxcnr- Debility. Scrofula, Skin Diseases, diseases of men and women, and all diseases due to bad lors, is the firm name under which sious via Grand Trunk Kail way System. I)r. Batchler, of Grand Rapids, visited at blood. » William Marlet's last week. EPILEPSY, OR FITS positively cured by a new and never failing remedv.* r r-' DIRECTORS: William Ii. Clark and Raymond A. Tho Grand Trunk Railroad Linos wost Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harris are at home to their Drs, B. S. A Co. make a specialty of all forms of Rectal Diseases, Piles—internal friends on the old homestead. Latting will practice at Grand Ledge. of tho Detroit and St. Clair Rivors will and external, Itching and Bleeding, Rectal Ulcers. Figures. E istula -w hich are often taken D. W. Monger, Geo. F. Marvin. J. H. Corbit make Holiday Excursion Kates at One Mr. and Mrs. II. J. Maurer attended the for Nervous and Lung Troubles, all cured. Remember, w e cure all forms of Piles w ithout State Farmers Club in Hanging. pain, interruption or detention from business, and without the use of! knife, caustic or ligature J. H. Fedewa, P. K. Perrin. Jesse Sullivan, Mr. Clark graduated from tho Law And One Third Fare for tho Round Trip. Miss Edith Proctor, who has been sick with Come and he convinced. James Richardson, C. S. Allison, J. W. Fitz­ Department of University in '83, worked Christmas Tickets will bo sold Dec­ a fever, is around the house again. gerald, G. K Corbin. Geo. W Emmons. for R. L. Polk A Co. for three years after ember 24th and 25th, and Now Years TO YOUNG, MIDDLE AGED AND’ OLD MEN. 3 Tickets will bo sold December 31st and Kpwortli League Notes. Pf>r Cent.Interest Paid on 11me Deposits which he engaged in the practice of law Suffering from Weakness brought on from errors or indicretions. Absolute cures guaran. January 1st. All valid to return up to HCBBARDSTON, Dec. 20, 1897. teed; strictly confidential -w£ Lettern advertised St. Johns. Michi at Grand Lodge under tho firm name of and including January 4th, 1898. These Leader for December 20, A. H. Lattimer. TUMORS AM) CANCERS cured without acids, knife, pain cr scar. New methods. McPeek A Clark till Mr. McPeek's elec­ tickete will be sold between all Grand Porter Sessions, of Carson City, attended CATARRH. New home treatment. Unsurpassed and cheap. gan, December 21, 1897: A. H. Benedict, services Sunday. UUAKANTEE to cure every rase of Dyspepsia. 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\ i ; you lu marriage whom lie liimself created, was the same, for tlio gates wefo guarded, stand what they were fitted for. and that It was that the symbol may lx> perfect and (ho and the walls were too high to climb. •HALL WE ENDURE OR OURE Impossible for all to occupy high places mystery fulfilled. Yet, lest your joy should There they were slaughtered, every man But that all exist for some noble purpose. i Ik) too full, l.xik now on thut which shall of them, and may G ou not aim for, or fail in this par­ limbs and head were held by five priests, stared at the dead and those who had mur­ FOR THEY KNOW ticular, life would he a total failure. , and a sixth stcxxl over him clasping a dered them and said nothing. Only Oto- THE COMFORT OF it matters not how much good you may have | knife of obsidian in his two hands. It mio spoke. “ You Christians are a gentle PROMPT RELIEF.)! 06 ( CorrJMaHTllBSa.gVTftEAVTMOK..) ^ people,” she said, with u bitter laugh. “It been instrumental in accomplishing, how flushed oil high, and as it gleamed tho many sad lives you may have made happy, . torches were extinguished. Then came Is thus thut you repay our hospitality. Now, 1 trust thnt Montezuma, my father, how much benefit you may have been to your tiie dull echo of a blow ami a sound of family, your neighbor anil your country. SYNOPSIS I goon's note, r.re long there wITI lie merry groans, and ull was still till once more tiie Is pleased with his guests. Ah, were I he, THE FOUNDATION. Thomas Wingfield was born in England of doings in Tcnoctitlnn.” brides broke out into their marriage song every man of them should lie on the stone Your life has been a barren waste, and you an English father and a Spanish mother, liis He was right. Within a week Montezu- —a strange chant, and a wild and sweet, of sacrifice! If our gixls are devils, asyou might as well not have existed as to die poor ! inn was treacherously seized by the Span- though after what I hud seen und heurd it say, what aro those who worship yours?” llOW IT SHOULD IIK LAID KOK A 8UC- VVliat a mistaken idea; while I believe mother confided to him that a certain Span ­ CK8SKUL LIKK. wealth is desirous to a certain extent, and like iard had sworn to take ‘her life. CHAPTER | lards and kept a prisoner in their quar ­ lmd little power to move me. Then at length Guatemoc said: “Only ters, watched day and night by their sol­ They sang on in the darkness ever more ono thing remains to us, and that is venge­ possition is gained through persistant etfort in 11—One clay, when Thomas was about IK, he a particular direction. diers. Then came event upon event. Cer- loudly till presently a single torch was lit ance. Montezuma has become a wom­ Paper Itenil by Henry N, Webb, of De- went out into the maytields to a tryst with I also believe that he who lays the founda ­ ; tain lords on tho coast lands, having kill- at the end of tho chamber, then another an, ami 1 heed him no more. Nay, if It Wttt, before the Clinton County Po­ LSy Bozard. A Spanish stranger attacked 1 ed some Spaniards, were summoned to tion for iris life with an e> e sing e to the accum­ himon the road, and the boy cudgeled the nnd another, though I could not see who were needful, I would kill him with my mona Orange at Olive, December 8. I Mexico by the instigation of Cortes. They lit them, nnd tiie room w as a flare of light. own hand. But two men are still left in ulation of wealth, and follows it to the end, ruifan into helplessness, leaving him tied to a ! came and were burned alive in tlie court­ may reach that point. tree 111—Lily ’s father detects Thomas kiss- Now the altar, the victim and the priests the land —Cuitlahun, my uncle, and my­ yard of the pnlaco. Nor was this nil, for were all gone. There was no one left in self. Now I goto summon our armies. ” VVliat beauty there is in the great sys­ But by so doing will loose sight of tiie most ingthe maiden to seal a love compact and Montezuma, their monarch, was forced to And he went. tem of created tilings, when we sis1 und beautiful things of life, and in many cases all forbids further meetings of the lovers. Re­ tho place «xcept myself and my four witness the execution with fetters on his brides. They were tall and lovely wom­ All that night the city murmured like a realize a perfect creation ; that which is that makes life worth living. turning home. Thomas rinds the Spaniard ankles. So low had the emperor of tho swarm of wasps, and next day at dawn, wanting it. nothing to innke complete­ It is said that the will of man is the propelling gone and his mother lying dead on a scene en, all of them clad in white bridal robes Aztecs fallen that be must bearchnins like oi. rrcd over with gems and flowers and so far as tho eye could reach, the streets ness itself. Anything that is complete power of his nature. where footprints betrav a struggle. IV—The n common felon. After this insult he and market place wero filled with tens of must necessarily possess that which is How true it is that a man to successfully lay mother has been stabbed by the Spaniard, wearing on their brows the emblems of swore allegiance to tho King of Spain and tho four goddesses, but Otomie was tho thousands of armed warriors. They threw capable of or does produce an effect. It plans and then carry out these aims and objects Jean de Garcia, her cousin. Thomas’ father even contrived tocapturu Cacaina, the lord stateliest and most beautiful of tho four themselves like a wave upon tiie walls of is claimed that man, and man only, Of life, must, necessarily, possess this great tells the story of his own early adventures in of Tezcuco, by treachery and to deliver nnd seemed in truth a goddess. One by the palace of Axa, and like a wave from crowns a creation of completeness. He is propelling power, will. Spain, of I)e Garcia’s passion for his cons'" him into the hands of the Spaniards on one they drew near to me, smiling and a rock they were driven back again by the endowed with reason and capabilities It is almost as essential as the heart that and tiie vow to kill her because site tied ti • whom lie would have made war. To them sighing, and kneeling Ix'fore mo kissed fire of the guns. Thrice they attacked, and which necessarily give him powers, which forces the blood through the physical system. country the bride of a deadly enemy. Tim . also lie gave up all the hoarded gold and my hand, saying: thrice they wero repulsed. Then Monte­ if developed and brought out to their As we journey along the highways of life, swears vengeance on I)e (iarcia. V—He -hi s treasure of the empire to thcvaluoof hun­ ‘‘I have been chosen to be your wife for zuma, tho woman king, appeared ujxin fullest are adequate to the accomplish­ how many men we meet and become ac­ for Spain. I.ily Bozard pledges eterna' mve. dreds of thousands of English pounds. All a space, Tezcat, happy maid that I am. the walls, praying them to desist, because, ment of an object. All have intelligence; quainted with that possess a most wonderful VI and VI1—Thomas is a medical sti dent and this the nation lx>rc, for it was stupefied May the gods grant that I become pleasing forsix)th, did they succeed, ho himself all are iu possession of faculties to a more brain capacity, but who tail to have this great finds employment in Seville with a popular at still i beyed tlie ». mmanus of its cap ­ to your sight, so tlw.t you may love me us might perish. Even then they obeyed him, or leis degree. Each individual possesses motor , ower, .iis engine, will, in their nature quack -Dr Konseca He meets De Garcia and tive king. But when lie suffered tlie is prevented from killing hint by a woman 1 worship you. so great was their reverence for his sacred an understanding and ability varied nnd to propel the beautiful mental machinery of whom the villian has wronged. VIII and Spaniards to worship tho true God in ono Then she who hud spoken would draw royalty, and for awhile attacked the Span ­ much different from another; which like­ their existance. that which if put in motion and IX— Korseca dies and leaves vast wealth to of tho sanctuaries of tho great temple a back again out of earshot, nnd the next iards no more. But further than this they wise gives them capabilities of doing kept at work would produce notoriety and Thomas. I)e liarcia has gone to the Spanish murmur of discontent and sullen fury rose Indies. Thomas sends his wealth home to would take her place. would not go. If Montezuma forbade them that which is impossible for the other to prominence. prop'* ite Lily's father andsails for Hispaniola among the thousands of the Aztecs. It Last of all came Otomie. She knelt nnd to kill the Spaniards, at least they deter­ do. I wish to be understood as referring This in our judgement proves beyor.d a filled the air, it could be heard wherever X.—Thomas is shipwrecked in the Indian seas, said tho words, then added in a low voice: mined to starve them out, nnd from that to mental attainment. doubt that to live a successful life one must escapes Detiarcia's power and falls among the men were patheml, and its sound was like Indians of I abasco, where a native maiden ‘‘Having spoken to you as the bride and hour a strait blockade was kept up against If one is to attain the highest degree study nature, the fields of operation ; measure named M arina, saved him from sacritice. that of a distant angry sea. The hour of goddess to the husband nnd tho god Tez­ the palace. Hundreds of the Aztec soldiers his capabilities, weigh his adaptabilities, then the breaking of the tempest was at hand. mentally they must enter into close com­ XI Montezuma ’s nephew, Guatemoc. be cat, now, O Teule, I speak ns the woman hnd been slain already, but tho loss was munion with, hold us it were secret con be certain and choose an occupation in accord ­ friends Thomas and takes him to the capital. Now, all this while my life went on as not all upon their side, for some of the Thomas saves the life of the prince when lie to the man. You do not love me, Tcule; ferenee with self. Become thoroughly ac­ ance with these God given faculties. before, snvo that I was not nllowd to go therefore, if it is your will, let us be di­ Spaniards and many of the Tlascalans had is attacked by a tierce puma XII and XI11 In outside the walls of the palace, for it was quainted with your own disposition, Then act with unfaltering, untiring firm­ Montezuma ’s palace Thomas meets Otomie. vorced of our own act who were wed by fallen into their hands. As for these un your inclinations and passions, in fact ness and energy, never forgetting that the ac­ the emperor s daughter He is made a god feared lest 1 should find some means of lucky prisoners, their end was swift, to doomed to sacritice according to Aztec cus­ the command of others, for so I shall bo all the little traits, the evil ones as well complishment of the great and noble purposes Intercourse with the Spaniards, who did spared some shame. These are friends to they were taken nt once to the temples i tom, with one year's grace .The Spaniards not know that a man of white blood was as the good. When these important les­ of this life for which we were created, depends and on the Mexican shore. XIV and \\ — me and will not betray us. ” And she nod­ the great teooalli nnd sacrificed there u sons are learned and understood we are upon our persistant effort in the right direction. Montezuma ’s kingdom is disturbed by evil confined there and doomed to sacrifice; ded toward her companion brides. the gods in the sight of their comrades. omens and auguries. Four Mexican maidens also in these days 1 saw little of tlie prin­ prepared to start life but without this For a successful life is one that has been of are chosen as earthly brides of the god Tezcat, 1 “As you will, Otomie,” I answered Now it was that Cortes returned with knowledge we are wholly unprepared. benefit and worth to the world. and Otomie is one of them. She discovers his cess Otomie, tho chief of my destined briefly. many more men, for ho had conquered brides, who since our strange lovo scone All men are not gifted alike. One has And the greatness of the success depend love for the farotT Lily, renounces her brule- “I thank you for your kindness, Teule,” Narvaez, whose followers had joined the capabilities required for pursuing a cer­ ship, but resolves to die by Ids side on the hnd avoided me, and when wo met at standard of Cortes, and with them others, wholly upon the amount of good the life lias altaroi sacrifice.______she said, smiling sadly, and withdrew, tain line, while the other hus qualifica­ been the means of accomplishing. feasts or in the gardens spoke to mo only making obeisance, looking so stately and ono of whom I hnd gixxl reason to know. on indifferent matters or of the affairs of tions fitting him for an opposite course. so sweet as she went thnt again my heart Cortes was suffered to rejoin his comrades One mentally is as bright us the other, CHAPTER XVI. 6tate. At length came the day of my mar ­ was shaken ns though with love. Now, In the palace of Axa without attack, and THF Fob'K GODDESSES. riage. It was, I remember, the night be­ the difference lies in their adaption. Close Some weary time went by, ami at last, from that night till the dreadful hour of Cm the following day Cuitlahun, Montezu­ observation has taught man this prin ­ came the day of the entry into Mexico of fore ths in tAsooee )t the COO Aztec nobles sacrifice no kiss or tender word passed be­ ma's brother, king of Palapan, was releas ­ ciple, that in laying the foundation for a Cortes and his conquerors. Now, of all on tho occasion of the festival of Ilultzcl. tween me and the princess of the Otomie. ed by him that he might soothe the people. successful life the talents, the capabili­ the duings of tin Spaniards after they oc­ On this my wedding day I was treated And yet our friendship and affection grew But Cuitlahun was no coward. Once safe ties one possesses must be concentrated cupied the city 1 do not propose to speak with great circumstance and worshiped daily, for we talked much together, nnd I outside his prison walls lie called the coun­ upon one thing, or in other words the sit length, for these are matters of history, like a god by the highest in the city, who sought to turn her heart to the true king cil together, of whom tho chief was Gua- intellectual ability one possesses must and I have my own story to toll. So 1 came in to do mo reverence and burned in­ of heaven. But this was not easy, for, tomoe. harmonize with the profession chosen or shall only write of those of them with cense before me till I was weary of tho like her father Montezuma, Otomie clung There they resolved on war to tho end, a perfect success will not be reached. which I was concerned myself 1 did not smell of it, for though such sorrow was on to the gods of her jx'ople, though she hat ­ giving it out that Montezuma lmd forfeit­ Human has a talent for agricultural ed the priests, and, save where the victims ed his kingdom by his cowardice, and on see the meeting ix'twoen Montezuma and the land the priests would abate no jot of pursuits, his whole mind, soul und body Talking it Over. Cort»>, though 1 saw the emperor set out , their ceremonies or cruelties, and great were the foes of her country, shrank from that resolve they acted. Hail it been taken should be given up to thut, his thoughts, the rites of human sacrifice, which she said but two short months before, by this date When a party of 1 to it clad like Solomon in his glory ami hopes were held thut I, being of tho race of his mind, which is the man proper, must middle aged wom­ surrounded by his nobles But 1 am sure Tcules, my sacrifice would avert t lie anger were instituted by tho paints, since in no Spaniard would havo been left alive In be concentrated upon thut profession in en get together of thi.— that no slave led to the sacrifice of the gods. At sunset 1 was entertained the early days there were no men offer­ Tcnoctltlan, for, after Marina, tho lovo all Its detuils if he exjx*cts to reach tin* alone, a common carried a heavier heart in his breast that with a splendid feast that lasted two hours ed on the altars of the gixls, but flowers of Cortes, whose subtle wit brought about state of protection or the degree border ­ theme of conversa­ that of Montezuma on this unlucky day, or more, and at its end all the company only. Daily it grow and ripened till, al ­ his triumph, It was Montezuma who was ing on that condition. It is next to an tion is their phys­ for now his folly had ruined him, and 1 rose and shouted os with one voice: though I scarcely knew it, nt length in the chief cause of his own fall and of that impossibility ’or an individual to be suc­ ical ailments. It would be better if think he knew that he was going to his j “Glory to thee, O Tezcat! Happy art my heart, after Lily, I loved her lx*ttcr of the kingdom of Anahuac. cessful in any , rofession joii may assign thou here on earth, happy mayst thou bo than any ono on earth. As for the other these discussions of the ailments peculiar doom. [CONTINUED.] them providing they are endowed with a to women took place twenty years earlier Afterward, toward evening, I saw the in tho houses of the sun. When thou com- women, though they were gentle and beau ­ natural aptitude in some particular di ­ in life. If a little of the prudery of mod­ emperor i me Tack in his golden litter and esthither, remember that we dealt well by tiful, I s(x>n learned foliate them. Still I rection foreign to the one you have ern society were banished, so that young passover to the palace built by Axa, his thee, giving thee of our iiest and intercede feasted and reveled with them, partly since chosen for them. At this door may be women talked these subjects over among father, that stood opposite to and some 500 , for us thnt our sins may be forgiven. Glo­ I must, or bring them to a miserable death laid lunch of the unhappiness and failures themselves, there would be less suffering paces from his own, facing the western ry to thee, () Tezcat! ” because they failed to please me, and part ­ of life. Great care should be taken in among women in middle life. gate of the temple. Presently I heard tho Then two of the chief nobles came for­ ly that I might drown my terrors in drink Good health is the best endowment that the choosing of and assigning of profes­ a human being can have. Good general sound of a multitude shouting, and amid ward. and taking torches led me ton mag ­ nnd pleasure, for let it be remembered that The Dreaded sions. It would be as absurd for one to health among women is largely dependent it the tramp of horses and armed soldiers, nificent chamber that I had never seen lx*- the days left me on earth wore few, nnd expect a successful trotter from the large upon good local health in a womanly way. and from a seat in my chamber I saw tho fore. Here they changed my apparel, in­ the awful end drew near. draft horse as a flowery platform orator Through ignorance and neglect it has be­ Spaniards advance down the great street, vesting me in rob. s which were still more The day following the celebration of my from a man with natural talents fitting come such an ordinary, common - place nml my heart heat at the sight of Chris­ splendid than any that I had worn hither­ marriage was that of the shameless mas ­ liin for a stone mason. I believe every thing for women to suffer from weakness tian men. In front, clad in rich armor, to, being made of the finest embroidered sacre of GOO of die Aztec nobles by tho or­ Consumption one passes from childhood days to the and disease of the delicate and important rode their lender, Cortes, a man of middle cotton and of the glittering feathers of t lie der of the hidalgo Alvarado, whom Cortes more matured age with more or less feminine organism, that many women have size, hut noble bearing, with thoughtful humming bird. On my head they set had left in command of tho Spaniards, come to look upon these troubles as an thought concerning the course of action unavoidable inheritance. This is a mis­ eyes that noted everything, and after him wreaths of flowers, and about my nock for nt this time Cortes was absent on the they are to follow through lif**. Perhaps take. All troubles of this nature may be some few on horseback, but the most of and wrists emeralds of vast size and value, coast lands, whither he had gono to make T A. Slocum, M. C., the Great they have not always a well defined idea cured in the privacy of the home, without them on foot, marching his little army of and a sorry popinjay I looked in thisattirc, war on Narvaez, who had Ix'cnsent to sub­ Chemist and Scientist. Will Send of what the particular course will be, yet undergoing the obnoxious “examinations” conquerors, staring about them with bold, that seemed more suited to a woman's due him by bis enemy, Velasquez, the Free, to the Afflicted, Three Bot­ there is a lingering desire to follow some and “local treatment ” insisted upon by wondering eyes and jesting to each other beauty than to me. governor of Cuba. tles of His Newly Discovered the average physician. Dr. Pierce’s Fa ­ On this day was celebrated tho feast of one course more titan another. There is vorite Prescription gives health, elastic In Castilian. They were but a handful, When I was arrayed, suddenly tho torch­ Remedies to Cure Consumption certainly in every ease a hope that life bronzi<1 by the sun and scarred by battle, es were extinguished, and fur awhile there Huitzel, that was held with sacrifice, songs strength and vitality to the sensitive organs and All Lung Troubles. will not be a failure, this much must cer­ concerned. It allays inflammation, heals some of them ill armed and almost in rags, was silence. Then in the distance I hoard nnd dunces in the great court of the tem­ tainly be true, for if it were not for tin* ulceration and frees from pain. It tones and looking on them 1 could not but niar women’s voices singing a bridal song that ple, that court which was surrounded by Nothing could be fairer, more philanthropic the nerves and builds up the nerve centers. a wall carved over with tiie writhing or carry more joy to the atllicteil, than tiie hope, the desire of good that lies in the vcl at the indomitable courage that had was beautiful enough after its fashion, offer of T. A. Solcum. M. C., of 183 Pearl human soul how dark and gloomy the It makes a woman healthy anil strong, and enabled them to pierce their way through though 1 forbear to write it down. Tho shapes of snakes. It chanced that on this Street. New ^ ork City. thus prepares her for healthy wifehood, hostile thousands, sickness and war, even singing ceased, and there came a sound of morning before he went to join in the fes­ Confident that tie has discovered an absolute whole future would be. Many go even as capable motherhood and a safe transition tival Guateinoc, the prince, came to see cure for consumption and all pulmonary com­ far ante entertain hopes that great suc­ at the change of life. to the home of Montezuma's power. rustling robes and of low whispering plaints, and to make its great merits known, tie cess lies just beyond a little effort in some By the side of Cortes, holding Ids stir Then a man's voice spoke, saying: me on a visit of ceremony. will send, free, three bottles of med'cme, to " I want to testify to the great benefit derived undertaking, when at tin* same time they from using I)r. l’ieree’s Favorite Prescription, ’* rup in her hand, walked a beautiful In­ “Are ye there, ye chosen of heaven?” I asked him if he intended to take part any reader of The Republican who is writes Mrs. H. Mason, of Strykersville, Wyo­ dian woman dressed in white robes und And a woman’s voice—I thought it was in the feast, as tiie splendor of his apparel suffering from chest, bronchial, throat and are far front being fitted for that under ­ lung troubles or consumption. taking. ming Co., N. Y. “ I commenced using it about that of Otomie—answered: brought mo to believe. A tread v this "new scientific course medicine" three months before confinement. With my “Yes,” ho answered, “but why do you lias permanently cured thousands of apparently How often it awakens to our minds a former confinement I suffered greatly, while this “We are here. ” one was comparatively easy, owing to the use “O maidens of Anahuac, ” said the man, ask?” hopeless cases. desire of becoming great, how it kindles The Doctor considers it his religious duty —a the fires of ambition in our nature to do of the * Favorite Prescription. ’ " speaking from the darkness, “and you, O “Because, were I you, Guatemoc, I duty which he owes to humanity —to donate Tezcat, god among the gixls, listen to my would not go Say, now, will the dancers his infallible cure. something whereby our names will be words. Maidens, a great honor has been be armed?" Offered freely, is enough to commend it, written on the pages of history and stand and more so is the perfect confidence of tiie ns a monument of everlasting renoun, done to you, for by tho very choico of “No, it is not usual. ” great chemist making the proposition heaven you havo been endowed with tho “They will bo unarmed, Guatemoc, and He has proved tiie dreatfed consumption to when we know or hear of one with more names, tho loveliness and the virtues of they are the flower of tho land. Charmed be a curable disease beyond any doubt than ordinary mental endowments being II ■ | There will he no mistake in sending-the mis­ ushered in t > publicity by the performance the four great goddesses and chosen to they will dance in yonder inclosed space, take will he in overlooking the generous in ­ 4604 abide awhile at tho side of this god, your and the Tcules will watch them Urincil. vitation. He has on tile in his American and of some great work, i believe if one at­ maker and your master, who has been Now, how would it lx* if these chanced to European laboraties testimonials of experience tempts to become great by following in from those cured, in all parts of tiie world. the fcotsteps of another he will fall much pleased to visit us for a space before lie . pick a quarrel with the nobles?” Don ’t delay until it is too late. Address T. seeks his home in tlie habitations of the “I do not know why you should speak A. Solcum. M. C , 08 Pine street. New York short of tin* fostered ideal, nnd failure sun. See that you show yourselves wor- , thus, Teule, for surely theso white men and when writing the Doctor, please give the enemy of success, thnt which has are not cowardly murderers. Still I take express and postoftice address, and mention made strjng men grow weak, will crown MAKES THE BEST thy of this honor. Comfort him and cher­ reading this article in The Rkpuhlicn ish him, that he may forget his glory in your words as an omen, and though the his efforts instead of success. your kindness, and when he returns to his feast must be held, for see, nlready the Then there are people w ho are willing to take own place may take with him grateful ' nobles gather, I will not share in It.” the great responsibility of setting others on the memories and a good report of your pco- | "You are wise, Guatemoc,” I said. “I R. Jackson —Merchant Tailor real road to success, by pointing out or dictat ­ pie. You have but a little while to livo am sure that you are wise.” ing the profession they are to follow, which at his side in this life, for already, liko 1 Afterward Otomie, Guatemoc and I is almost certain to he entirely foreign to their Photographs those of a caged bird, the wings of his went into the garden of the palace and sat natural taste. spirit beat against the bars of the flesh, 1 upon tho crest of a small pyramid, a tco- By so doing progression is blighted, success ST. JOHNS, MICH. and wxin he will shnke himself free from calli in miniature thnt Montezuma hnd is not acquired, hope, that beautiful desire of us and you. Yet if you will it is allowed built for n place of outlook on the market good united with expectation, is thwarted to one of you to accompany him to his and the courts of the temple. From this Simple because they were in the wrong home, sharing his flight to the houses of J spot we saw the dancing of the Aztec no­ sphere of action, or in other words the wrong F. F. Murdock —Granite .By the bide of Cortes walked a beautiful the sun. But to all of you, whether you - bles and heard the song of the musicians. course was pursued. Indian woman. go also or whether you stay to mourn him : It was a gay sight, for in tho bright sun­ Can always be had of How many we see toiling on day by day crowned with flowers. As she passed the during your life days, I say love nml cher­ light their feather dresses flashed liko coats completely discouraged. Why ? Because palace she turned her face. I knew her at ish him, be tender nnd gentle townrd him, of gems, nnd none would have guessed failure after failure has met and accompanied once. It was my friend Marina, w ho had for otherwise ruin shall overtake you here ' how it was to end. Mingling with tho them along the pathways of their lives. now attained tin; greatness which she de­ and hereafter, nnd you and all of us will dancers were groups of Spaniards clad in And sometimes we are almost compelled to Fred F. Murdock sired, and who, notwithstanding all tho bo ill spoken of in heaven. And you, O mail and armed with swonls nnd match ­ believe that circumstances are bound to be DEALER IN evil tlint she had brought upon her coun­ Tezcat, wo pray of you to accept these ! locks, but I noted thnt ns the tlmo went against such. try, looked most happy in it and in her maidens, who ix-ar tho names and wear 1 on these men separated from the Indians But still we are certain that success w ill crown master ’s love. the charms of your celestial consorts, ! and began to cluster like Ixxis nlxnit tho each and every effort to overcome anil put for then1 are none more lx-aiitifnl or hotter gates ami at various points under the shad ­ Foreign and As the Spaniards went by I searched under foot, opposition; the guardian if not the Their faces one by one, with the vague hope horn in the realms of Anahuac, nnd among ow of the wall of serpents. parent of the monster, failure. of hate, for, though it might well chance them is numbered the daughter of our I “Now, what may this mean?” I said to F. E. Jackson We have often heard the assertion made and thnt death hnd put us out of each other's king. They are not perfect indeed, for J Guateinoc, nnd ns I spoke I saw a Span ­ we believe it to be true, that no one who has American reach, I half thought to see I)e Garcia perfection is known to you in the heaven ­ iard wave a white cloth In the air. Then taken the right course in life will meet an ad ­ among the number of the conquerors. ly kingdoms only, slnco these indies aro In an instant, licfore the cloth had ceased versity too great to be overcome Such a quest as theirs, with Its promise of but shadows nnd symlxils of the divino ' to flutter, a smoke arose from every side, Oftentimes men become discouraged and blood and gold and to his evil heart should gcxldesses, your true wives, and hero them ' nnd with It ranm the sound of the firing MERCHANT TAILOR. their discouragement many times developes it lie in his power to Join it, and a strange are no perfect women. Alas, we have nono ' of matchlocks. Everywhere among the into despondency, because, they as individuals instinct told mo that he was not dead. better to offer you, am! it is our Hope thnt i dancers men fell dead or wounded, but tho have not reached the highest realm in social, Rut neither dead nor living was he among when It pleases you to pnss hence yen will 1 mans of them, unharmed as yet, huddled Has the Newest Things and political or business circles, as the case may be those men who entered Mexico that day. think kindly of the women of this land ' themselves together like frightened sheep Such imagine a heavy cloud hovering over and sUxxl silent nnd terror stricken. Then That night- ( saw Guatemoc nml asked nnd from on high bless them with your their lives, shutting out, as it were, all the CEMETERY WORK. him how tnings went. blessing, lx>cnuso your memory of these the Spaniards, shouting the namo of their guarantees a perfect fit beauties of life; and they look out into the •‘Well for tjie kite thnt roosts In tho who were called your wives on earth is patron saint, as it Is their custom to do failure with a despaired feeling that nothing dove's nest,” ho answered, with a bitter pleasant. ” when they have soipe such wickedness In is in store for them. Hope is lost, ambition is laugh, "but very 111 for the dove. Monte­ The voice paused, then spoke ngnin: hand, drew their swords, and rushing on every time. the unarmed Aztec nobles tx‘gnn to kill destroyed, the once bright and happy existence zuma, my uncle, bus been cooing yonder,” “Women, in your own divino names of gives way, is allowed to drift unguided on Cut Stoie for Building Purposes, and he pointed to the palace of Axa, ' and ■ Xochi, Xllo, Atla nnd Cilxto, nnd in the them. Now some shrieked and fled, nnd some sfixxl still till they were cut down; WALKER STREET EAST, life’s dangerous sea and is wrecked SHOP OPPOSITE THE POST the captain of the Tcules has cooed in an name of all the g.xls, I wed you to Tezcat, The secret of the truth was they failed in the swer. but th )iigb lie triisl to hide it ! the creator, to sojourn with Jilm during but, whether they staid or ran, the end ST. JOHNS, MIOH. begining of their life work to learn and under ­ OFFICE ST. JOHNS, MICH, \ could hear tho hawk ’s shriek In his 111 ; tiis stiii' on earth. The g.xl Incarnate takes 7 TEACHER’S EXAMINATIONS Legal. I JROKATE ORDER.—STATE Op' MICHIGAN ^CoXoxrtv FOR 1897 AND 1898. I County of Clinton, >s. At a stasiou ol the Yortd Until further notice Teachers' Exam illations Probate Court for the CuuuiV of Clinton, lioldeu at will he helii as follows: the Probate Office, in the Village of Nl. Johus. od Grand Trunk R’y Hiatt school room, St. Johns, third Thursday Saturday. he4th day of December, In the ytar Blood Poison. and Friday of August. one thousand eight hm.drid and ninety-seven. Court house, St Johns, third Thursday and Present. < barlrs M. Merrill Judge ot Probate. STSTBM. Friday of October. In the matter of the estate of HENRY A Report of the December Contagious B’ood Poison has been ap' St. Johns, last Thursday and Friday of March SMITH, deceased. propriately called the curse of mankind, DETROIT AND MILWAUKEE Court house, St. Johns, third Thursday and On reading aud filing the petition duly verified, DIVISION. Friday of June. ol Ethan A. Smith, praying that the last will aud Meeting. ft is the one disease that physicians can ­ 4ues‘ sns will be written in the following testatin ut of said deceased may be proved and not cure; their mercurial aud potash Time Table in Effect Oct. 4, 1807. order: admitted to probate and that lie or some other remedies only bottle up the poison iu Arrival and Departure of Trains at St. Johns. Thursday A. M.— 0:00-18:00. Algebra, suitable (arson may be aiqsduted executor of said I|||a vci Arithmetic, Botany, Civil Government. estate. |UKr^.„r>.f3 Election of Officers for the Ensu­ the system, to surely break forth in a aat-bouixA . Thursday l*. M.—1:00-5:00. General His­ Thereupon it Is ordered that THURSDAY, THE more virulent form, resulting in a total I.eave. Arrive. tory, (it igrapliy, Grammar, Natural l’hiloso 3(tth DAY OF DECEMBER. A. D. 1897, at oue ing Year. wreck of the system. Gd. Rapid*, Gd. Havet: aud O’clock in the aiteruoou, lie as-iigued lor the bearltig ELY'S CREAM BALM la a positive cor*. Mr. Prank B. Martin, a prominent Mu*ke|(on...... f 10:47 a. in. f5:23 p. m iGlday A M.—8:00-12:00. Orthography, o’ raid petition aud that the heirs at law aud lega­ Apply into the noatrila. It ia quickly absorbed. 10 Od. Rapid*,Gd. Haven and Fennmanship. Physiology, Plane Geometry. tees of said deceastd aud all othtr persons inter ­ jeweler at 926 l’ensylvania Ave., Wash­ Muttketion ...... f3:18p. in. + 12:10 p.m F'riday P. M.—1:00-6:00. Heading, School ested iu said will are required toappear at a session cent* at Druggists or by mail; samples 10c. by mail ington, D.C., says: Gd Rapids, (id llaven and Law, Theory and Art, U. S. History. ol said Court theu to tie hoideu at the Probate ELY BROTHERS. 66 Warren SL, New York City. The Union Farmers’ Club held its Milwaukee...... t7:59 p in. +8.2f> a. in Class in Intellectual Arithmetic Thursday Offiee iu the Village of St. Johus and show cause, annual meeting at the home of Mr. and I was for a long Gd. Rapids, and Mus- and Reading Friday. it any there l>e, why the will should uot heap- Mrs. Wm. Woodbury on December 4. time under treat ktieiiOD...... *3:58 a. m. *l: ’7a.m The above order cf examination MUST be proved. nient of two of Mixed to Gd. Rapids ...... + 10:25 a m. + I Sttp. ra preserved. Aud it is further ordered, that notice lie given to The day was rainy hut a fair attendance The evening train west, leaving St. Johns at Certificates of all grades will be granted at the persons interested iu said estate, of the 1 was out. A short session was held after the best physi­ 7 :5», now nuts through to Grand Haven, con ­ the examinations at St. Sohns in August and pendency of the hearing thereof, by causing a copy which dinner was announced. cians of this city, necting with steamers for Milwaukee. March. Certificates of the second and third of this order to be published in the Clinton Rkit ’h The voluntary program was succoss- for a severe case 3Cauot- touna. grades will be granted at all other examinations. LICsN.a newspaper printed and circulating in said of blood poison, All examinations will begin at 0 o'clock A. M. couuty of Clinton, for three succeaiive weeks (OFFICIAL.) full) carried out. Mr. H. P. Keys gavo Detroit Canada ana East.... f8:25 a. in. t7-.69p.in R. M. WINSTON. previous lo said day of hearing a talk on the “Feeding Value of Straw.” but my condition Detroit and Chicago, via Commissioner of Schools CHARLES M. MERRILL. grew worse all Durand ...... tl2:10p in +:<:17 p. m (A true copy.) 31-3 Judge of Probate. Discussed hy Messrs. Bair, Ingersoll, Detroit, Canada and East... f.i:23 p m. tnt:47a.ia COMMON COUNCIL ROOMS. 1 Lapham and Holbrook. An extract the while, not ­ Detroit, Canada and East... *1:67 a. ui *3:SK a. in QHERIFF’S SALE—NOTICE IS HKRKI St. Jo H'9, Mich ., Dec. 20, 1897. ) withstanding the Mixed to Owosso...... t4 8U p in. + 10:2.5 a. ui IO (liven Ibat by virtue of a writ of fieri facias Adjourned regular meeting. taken from tlie Wisconsin Experiment fKxcept Sunday *Dativ. issued out of the circuit coin! lor the county of !>R‘>BATE NOTICE.—St ate of Michigan, county Station on "Grinding teed for calves ” fact that they of Clinton, ss. Notice is hereby given that all Called to order hy President pro tem. Ken ­ charged me three Parlor Cur Service Clinton, in favor of William Hardy, against the rclaims and demands against the estate ofCiarisaaC. was read by Wm. Bird and discussion of goods and chatties and real estute of Charles A. Crandall deceased, will lie heard by the Judge of yon. hundred dollars. "W««t-'fc©vi.aa. 5.. Quay, In said county, to me directed and de ­ Present —Trustees Cross, Danley. Hunt and the same. Paper by the host, subject Probate of said County . at the Probate ( ftlce Id My mouth was 10:47 a. m. train has Parlor Car u livered, 1 did on the 8th day of December, 1897. levy the Village of SI Johns, on < lie 9lh day of June “Revolving ” in which he showed that we w (i rand upon and take all the right, title and inter st, ol Kenyon. filled with eating sores; my tongue was Rapids. Extra charge 86 rents. A l> , 1898, and tiiat the creditors of said deceased On motion Geo. T. Cros6 was elected clerk as farmers are doing the same things as 7:60 p. nt. train has Pallor ( the said Charles A. Quay In and to the following are allowed six months from the date oi litis did our forefathers many centuries ago. almost eaten away, so that for three to Grand described real estate, towli: The south­ pro tem. Rapids. notice in which to present their claims for adjust ­ The association question: “State months I was unable to taste any solid EaLat-teiAnS west one-quarter (If) of the aorth-west one quarter ment. Daied December 6th, A D. 1897, The elaim of J. O. Selden for $4,170 for per­ i}/i) of section No. tnlrty-oue (81). in township No. CHARLES M. MERRILL, Farmers’ Institutes. How can the food. My hair was coming out rapidly, 8 :25 a. m. train has Parlor car to Detroit. ■even (7) north of range No. one (1) went, in 34—4 Judge of Probate. sonal injuries claimed to have been received present method of conducting and sup­ and I was iu a horrible fix. 1 bail tried Extra charge 26 cents. Pullman Parlor Car Michigan, all of which I shall exnose for sale at on Hlgham street east, on April 6, 1890. was Detroit to Toronto connecting with sleeper public auction or vendue to thehighest bidder at the porting them be improved upon?" Dis­ various treatments, and was nearly dis ­ . lead and referred to the Committee on Claims. for the East and New York. west front door of the court bouse, iu the Village U>ROBATE NOTICE—PROBATE COURT cussed somewhat and finally laid on the couraged, when a friend recommended 6:23 p.m. train has Parlor Car to Detroit! ol St Johns, in said county, (that being the place I. Clinton County, m. Notice is heieby given On motion the Connell adjourned till Tues­ S.S.S. After T had taken four bottles, I extra charge 25 cents, and Pullman sleeper of holding the circuit court fur said coug'y) on table until the next meeting. Motion that the claim and demand of the estate of LEVI day morr.lng at 8:30 o’clock. made and carried that H. P. Keys act began to get better, and when I had Detroit to Toronto Supension Bridge. Hnifalo, Saturday, the 22nd day of January, 1898 , at one HYDE, deceased, against the estate of Jimeg F GEORGE T. CROSS, Philadelpla and New York. o’clock in the afternoon of that day. w Baker, deceased, will lit heard by the Judge of as delegate to the State Association in finished eighteen bottles, I was cured 1:57 a rn train has through day ParlorCarsand Dated December 9, 1897. Probate of said county, at the probate office in the Clerk pro tem place of W. K. Sage. sound and well, my skin was without a Sleeper. Windsor to Suspension Bridge, Buf­ ALONZO E. DUNN, Village of 81. Johns, ou the 17IH DAY OF blemish, aud I have had 110 return of falo, New York and Boston. Sheriff of Clinton Couuly, Michigan. MARCH. A. I). 1898. COMMON COUNCIL ROOMS. I It being the annual meeting the fol­ 8:25 a. m and 12:10 p. m. train connects at Edwin H. Lyon , Dated December 13, A. I' 1897, St.Johns , Mich ., Dec. 21. is'J7. f lowing officers were elected for the en ­ the disease. S.S.S.saved me from a life Durand with C. A G. T. Division for Chicago. Attorneys for Plaintiff 84-7w ('HAS M. MERRILL. Adjourned regular meeting. suing year: President, Wm. Woodbury; of misery.” S.S.S. (guaranteed purely 8:25 a m. and 6:23 p. nt. trains connect at 35-5 Judge of Probate. vegetable) will cure any case of blood Durand with C., S. &. M. for Saginaw and Bay Called to order hy President pro tem. Ken ­ Vice President, Geo. Lapham; Secretary, City, and with C. & (J. T. Div. for Port Huron ortgage sale -whereas , default Erie Ingersoll; Treasurer, Mrs. Erie poison. Books on thedisease lias been made in the conditions of a certain T}HOBATE ORDER-STATE OF MICHIGAN* yon. and Battle Creek. mortgageM dated on the 26th day of May. 1891, made Present —Trustees Kenyon and Millmati. Ingersoll; Directors, W. T. Bair, Mrs. and its treat- i. .i ,iUGHEH, BEN FLETCHER, I County of Clinton — s«. At a session ol the Asst. G. P. A T. A., Chicago. Trav. Pas*. Agent and executed by George W. Pray aud his wile, Prohate Court for the County ol Clinton lioldeu at On motion Trustee Millman was elected H. P. Keys, J. L. Holbrook. ment. mailed Carrie H. Pray, to Horatio Setlerlngton, of Elsie, THOMAS BROMLEY. Local Agent t he Probate Office, in the village of St. Johns, on clerk pro tem. Program for the January meeting: free by Swift Michigan, and recorded in the office of the Register Monday, (he lttli day of December, iu the year Specific Co., Of Deedsof Clinton Comity, Michigan, on the 8tb one thousand eight hundred aud ninety-seven. On motion the Council adjourned till Tues­ Paper by Stephen Keys and discussion day of Juue, 1891, in liber 75 of mortgages, on page Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Piohate. day evening. Dec. 20, 1H97. of the same. Paper by host, Discussion; Atlanta. Ga. 21, by the non-payment ot principal and interest In the matter of the estate of LEWIS KESHY, recitation by Blanch Bair; report of due thereon, the principal sum and interest thereon deceased. JOHN T. MILLMAN, sss of said mortgage being sow due and payable, Oil reading and filing the petition duly verified, Clerk pro tem. delegates to State Association and a whereby the power of sale contained in said mort­ of Sarah Ke-hy praying that the last will and general discussion of the same. Club gage is now operative, and od which there is testament of said deceased may be proved and ad adjourned to meet with Mr. and Mrs. claimed to he due at the date lierecf the sum of mined to probate and that she or some other Ko-To-Hac for Fifty Cents. $150.00 principal and $47 46 interest thereon; and suitable person maybe appointed Executrix of Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak W. T. Bair the first Saturday iu January. no proceedings at law or iu equity having been men strong, blood pure. 50c. $1. All druggists. Winter instituted to recover the same or any part thereof, Thereupon it is ordered that THURSDAY. THE notice is‘therefore hereby given that under and FOR 6TH 0AY OF JANUARY, A I) 1898, at one Eczema Relieved in a D av . Dr. by virtue ol the power of sale iu mid mortgage con ­ o'clock in the aiternoon tie assigned for the hearing Real Estate. Northern, and all Southern Po’nts tained, 1 will sell at public audiou or vendue, on of said petition, aud that the heirs at .'aw and Helen P. Adams et. al to John E. Jayne, land Agnew’s Ointment will cure tlm dis ­ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3Iht , 1897, st 1 o’clock in legatees of said deceased and all other persons oil public square, village of DeWitt, $10. gusting skin disease without fail. It Direct Connections at O wosho Junction and Du­ the aiternoon of said day, a. the west front door of interested in said will are required to appear will also cure Barbers Itch, Tetter, Salt rand with D.G. H.A M. K y Traina. the Court House, iu the Village of St. Johns, that a session of slid Court, then to he holden at the Frank Jan/, et al. to Charles E. llaird, s lots being the place where the Circuit Court for the 183 and 181 , block 27. village of -5ewitt, $ 260. Rheum, and all skin eruptions. In from Tourist Popular route to Probate Office, in the Village of Sf, Johns, and County of Clinton is held; the premises in said show cause, if any there lie. why the will should F. D. Cleveland and wife to Mary A. Doe, 42 three to six nights it will cure Blind, low round-trip rates are now in effect IIowcll, AnnArbor, Toledo, mortgage described are as follows, to wit: Village not he approved. And it is further ordered that a st| rods of sec 10, town of Ovid, $2-i. Bleeding, and Itching Piles. One ap to Florida and other winter resorts for lots Nos. eight (8) and nine (91, iu block three ,3>, notice lie given to the persons interested in said Frank Barnhart and wife to John Cunning ­ in Cobh, Handel A Wooll's addition to the Village estate ol the pendeucy of the hearing plication brings comfort to the most the season of *97 '98 via the and points east and south Of Elsie aforesaid, according to the recorded plat ham, land sec 17, village of St. Johns, 81 into. thereof, hy rsusing a copy oi this order to irritating cases — 35 cents. 39. AND the.eof.or as much thereof as may be necessary to be published in TitK i'linto .n Rkithi .ican . a news ­ Thomas Cravens et al. to Superintendents of satisfy said mortgage and interest and the cost aud the Pror, land on sectiou 22, town of Duplaln paper printed and circulating in said County of 81.00. QUEEN \ ACCENT l( UTE expeuses of sale, including an attorney fee of $15. Clinton for three successive weeks previous to said There Is a Class ot People 0 bor Clare, Cadillac, Manistee, Dated October 7th, 1897. day of hearing. Henry M. P**rrtn and wife to Elliott Smith HORATIO SETTERINGTON, [ \ true copy] CHARLES M. MERRILL. 40 .. or sec. 26, town of Lebanon, $25. Who are injured by the use of coffee. 1 raverse City, and points Mortgagee. 35-8 Judge of Probate. Clark A.ServIss et al. to Mary A. Serviss, 80 Recently there has been placed in all the from all points North. Spaulding , N orton A Pooling , acres of sec. 36, town of Bingham, 82,000. North. $ of St. Johns, Mich., grocery stores a new preparation called The train service of the Queen &. Attorneys for Mortgagee. 25-13 r>R«»RATE NOTICE.— PROBATE COURT John I. Baker and wife to Lttella Baker Jar Grain O, made of pure grains, that lakes Crescent from the North via Cincinnati, V\ e operate our own line of steam­ 1 Clinton County, sx. Notice is hereby given is, Jo aeres of sec. 21, town of Ovid. $i 800 . the place of coffee. The most delicate that all claims and d* mauds against T .1. Kirby to Mary A. Kirby, s ‘j lot 5, block is the finest in the South. Vestibuled ers from Frankfort, Mich., to Man ­ "P HO RATE NOTICE.— PROBATE COURT, the estate of CAROLINE BROWN, deoea-ed, will 5, village of Eureka. $1. stomach receives it without distress, and trains make fast schedules, with through itowoc and Kewaunee, Wi+tousin, X Clinton County, ss. Notice is heieby given tie heaid by the Juige of Probate of said county, at but few can tell it from coffee/ It doe and Menominee, and Gladstone. that all elaim and demands against the estate of the probate office in the Village of St. Johns, on James S. Parmelee et al. to Orange A sink 8 |eepers to principal Southern Cities, WALTER FLoATE, deceased , will be heard bv the 9th DAY OF JUNE, A. D 1898 etui., 40 acres of sec 2;, town of DeWitt $250. not cost over J4 as much. Children can w rlte for imfotmatioD to Mich., and can save )ou money on the Judge of Probate of said c untv at the Probate and that the eredltora of said deceased are at nw«d Sears Gardner and wife to Christopher drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and W C- Kinearson. (frneral Passenger Agent. tickets to the west and northwest. Office in the Village cf St. Johns, on the 28 th six months from the dale of this notice in w hich Foereh et al, 40 acres of see. 1, town of Ben ­ 25 cts. per package. Try it. -,sk for Cincinnati. O. Send 10 cents for fine Art to present their claims for adjustment. Cl,l0red Lithographs of Lookout Mountain H. W. BENNETT. G. P. A.. Toledo O DAY OK MAY, A. D. 1898, and that the credit gal. 82,7<»o ;in ,l Chicaniagua. ra of said deceased are allowed six tn«nhs from Dated, Decern tier 9th, A. I > 1897 . 35 4 Walter Pierson to Joseph Hankey, 80 aeres GRAIN O. bedate of this notice in which to prescut their CHARLES M. MERRILL, of see. 3, town ol Greenbusb. $2,4'iO. laims for adjustment. Judge of Probate. Dated. November 27th, A D. 1897. Catharine Rademacher to Edward M. Hude- CHARLES M. MERRILL. maehcr. 40 acres of sec. 3, town of Westphalia, Judge of Probate. PROBA'E ORDl R—STATE OF MICHIGAN, $1 on. I County ot t linton —s*. At a session ot the Wm M. Stephens and wife to Sarah J Stieh- ortgage sale .—default having Protiate Court lor the County of Clinton, lioldeu at leret al., 10 acres of see 22, town of Victor, a M.been made in t lie conditions of a niortgsge.exe- the Probate Office in the Village of St. Johns, on $6f>0. cuted by Robert C. tinrthy and Mary Arn Gorthy Thursday, the 9th day of December, in the year Addle Brown to George W. Shuman. 311 a to Thomas McKlsin. dated June 2, 1896, and re­ one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. aeres of sec. 1, town of Hath, $.59. corded Id th* ottc* of lbs Register ot Deeds tor Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Protiate. Clinton county, iu Michigan, on Juue 2, 1896 , in Iu the matter ol the es’ate of ALMIRA Andrew Carp to Rachel llntne. 41 16-100 acres XMAS liber 88 of mortgages, on page 470, on which mort­ PI El.SON, dei eased. of sec. 2 town of Duplaln. $1,100. gage there is claimed to be due at the date of this On reading and filing tne petition duly verified. Daniel Fleshtnan et al. to Ann Ell/.n Marsh notice, two hundred and twenty-one dollars and Of Walter S. Pierson praying that the last w ill and lot 2, block 23. villagoof Maple Rapids, support nineteen cents, h.-sides an attorney fee of tit teen tesiaui-nt ol sri I deceased iu ty he proved aud ad- of one of grantorB. dollars, stipulated in said mortgage to be paid, tnitled to probate and that he or some other suit, Wm. H Robson, ex., to Howard Sf Clair et should any proceedings be taken to foreclose said able person may lie appointed executor of said al., 20 acres of sec. 29. town of Ovid. $7"0. mortgage; and no suit or proceeding at law or in estate the APPROPRIATE ALIKE FOR ONE OR ALL. equity having been instituted to recover any nan Thereuntil it ia ordered that THURSDAY, THE Rachel Hume to Andrew Carp lot in, block ot the debt secured by said mortgage: therefore 6T t DAY OK JANUARY, A. D 1898, at one 1, Cobb, Randall & Wool's ad, village of Elsie, A broad statement this, but one that is borne out by the facts. by iirture ot the (>ower of sale in said mortgage o'cloek in the altertioon. tie assigned for the hearit g two. howeiiterence Not only can you make such a present on such terms, Contained ami of theslstute iu such case made of said pit it ion, and that the heirs ft law and but in doing so you will be giving something that will and provided, notice is hereby given that on legatees o' said deceased and all other persons Cinnamon Coated Pills. Dr. Agnew’s remain a source of delight and instruction to its fortu­ February 26, 1*98, at one < '< lock in the afternoon, Interested in said will, are required to appear at a Liver Pills are coated like a cinnamon at the west (rout door of the Court House for session of slid court then to lie hoi,ten at the LIBRARY. nate owner for years to come. We have decided to Clinton couuty, in Mi- blgan. In the village of St. Prolate office, in the Vilage of St. Johns and drop, very small and delightful to take. extend through the holiday season our remarkable In­ Johns, in said county, there will he sold at public shoo r.iuse, if any there tie. why the will should One pill a dose, 40 in a vial for 10 cents. troductory Offer on the great veudue, to the highiat bidder, the premises in mi lie approved. A ud it is further ordered that Their popularity is a whirlwind, sweep saio mortgage described, via.: The east halfof the notice lie given to the persons interested in said es­ Toir non h-west quarter of section seventeen, arid the tate of the 'tendency of the hearing thereof, by ing competitors before it like chaff. No port b-west quarter of the north-west quarter of causing a copy :ln order t.> lie published in Tits pain, r.o griping, no inconvenience. 40. ■N ewark HOME REFERENCE LIBRARY sect ion seventeen alio township six north, of Clinton Rhhtm -ican , a newspaper printed aud in ten large handsome volumes, over 5,000 pages and j range one west, iu Michigan.—Dated November cireulating in -aid County of Clint n. for three suc­ Everybody Says So. 24 1897. cessive Weeks previous to said dav of hearing. 3,000 illustrations, which has recently been completed , THOMAS MVBLAIN, [A true oopy.J CHARLES M. MERRILL, Cascitrets Candy Catlmrlie. the most won­ 7. after years of preparation and the expenditure of vast Mortgagee, 35-3 Judge of Probate. derful Me dical discovery of tlie age, p ras- sums of money. Our reason for this is that the sets Perrins A Baldwin , ant and refreshing to the taste, net gently Attorneys lor Mortgagee. 32 12 and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, sold in this manner will be the most effective advertising I >RUKAIE ORDER-STATE Ol MICHIGAN cleansing the entire stst-m. dispel t olds, that we could give the regular subscription edition, which / TllANCERY SALE-NOTICE IS HEREBY I County of Clinton, »s. At a session of the cure headache. livnr, habitual constipation will be sold at $60.00 net. V given that by virtue of the decree, dated Proh«te Cmtr» for the Countv of Clinton , holden at t’ Probate Office in the Village of St. Johns, on and biliousness. Please buy and try a box Briefly, it is a gathering within the covers of one set of 1 November 9. 1897, made try the > ircuit court for of < O. C t.o-dnv, 10, 2.5, fit) cents. Sold and the eountv of Clinton, in chancery, in a certain Saturday, the I l'h day of December, In the year books of all that usually goes to make up the "reference suit pending in said county, it which Annie Belle me thousand eight hundred ami ninety-seven. guaranteed to cure by all drm gists. comer” in any public or private collection of books. Blanchard is complainant and Martin Ie III-i and Present. Charles M. Merrill, Judge nf Protiate Chief among the contents of the library stand the Charles L Smith are defendants. I shall s II at In the mat ter of^l he estate of RATRICK NEWMAN public vendue to the highest bidder at the west de. cased. On reading and filing the petition, Legal. 1 rolll door ol the court house iu the village of Kt. duly verified, of Rachel Newman, praying that ENCYCLOPEDIA, ATLAS & DICTIONARY Johns, in sani county, on rUESDAY.THE 18TH W ill ia tit W. Dennis or some other suitable person IDRi(BATE ORDER.—STATE OF MICHIGAN, DAY i>K JANUARY’, A I). 1*98, at the hour of ntav he appointed administrator of said estate. I County of Clinton, ss. At a session ol the necessities in every home, office, or school in the land. eleven o’clock in the forenoon, all the property Thereupon it is ordered, that THURSDAY, THE Probate Court for the County of Clinton, holden at But besides these, it includes Biographical Diction­ described in said decree as follows All of the east 6th 1)4 Y of JANUARY, A.D.,1898, at 1 o’clock the Probate Office, In the Village nf St. Johns, on ary, Gazetteer of the United States, Dictionary halt < ■.a> of northwest quarter (!4' of section in the afternoon, lie assigned fur the hearing of said Saturday, the 18th day of December in the year one thirty six (36). and thirty (ISO) a< resotfol the west (H-titiott, at the rrohate Offi:e, in the Village of thousand eight hundred and ninety-suven. Of Technical Terms, and other indispensable requisites side of the west hall (Jf) of northeast quarter of St, Johus, Present , Charles M. Merrill. Judge of Probata. of a working reference library. section thirty-six (36), all in township six (6) And it is further ordered, that notice lie given to In the matter of the estate of NICHOLAS norm of range two (2) west, in Clinton countv, the persons interested in raid estate, of tlie time SCHOMI.lCH, deceased. On reading and filing Michigan, containing one hundred and ten (110) and place ot said hearing, ny causing a ropy of this the petition duly verified, of Mary O. Schomiscb, The Encyclopedia *&S?iJE5; acres of Ian 1. order lobe publish d iu the CLINTON Rk I’UBLI- praying that the last will and testament of Mid the whole library. It is par excellence the book of refer- ( Dated, December 1, 1897 can a newspaper printed and circulating in said deceased may he provtd and admitted lo probate ence for every man, woman or student to have at his or 1 LEWIS SEVERANCE, County of Clinton, for three successive weeks pre- and that she or some other suitable person may he Circuit Court Commissioner in and v oils to said day of hearing appointed executrix of said estate her elbow at all times for quick, ready reference. It » for Clinton eountv, Michigan 35-3 .CHARLES M.MERRILL, Thereupon it is ordere' 1, that THURSDAY', THE the latest, best, most concise, yet thorough and accurate Cahill A Ostkandkr , (A true copy.) Judge of Probate. 13th DAY OFJANUARY.A. D.1898, at one o'clock encyclopedia extant, and the only one in existence 1 •■solicitors for Complainant, in the afternoon be assigned for the hearing of that is brought down to September, 1897. It is 1 Lansing, Michigan. 33-7 said petition and that the heirs at law and legatees / t UA of said deceased and all other persons interested edited by John Clark Ridpath, LL.D. It includes ' I given that hy virtiteand in purananceof license in said will are required to appear at a Comprehensive and reliable articles on The Cuban Re­ 1 UARftfAN KALE: Notice Is hereby given and authority granted to me, tlie undersigmd on session of said court then to he holden at the (i that by vittue and in pursuance of license and the ICTH DAY <»F DECEMBER, A. D. 1897, by the Probate office in the village of St. Johns and show bellion, Klondike Gold Fields, Moving Photogra- J authoritv granted tome, the undersign'd, on the Phy. and other topics of live interest to-day. In all, 1 4th day of November. 1897, by the Probate Court of Probate Court of Clinton County, Stateof Michigan, cause, if anythere be, wity the will should not Clinton County, State of Michigan, lo sell real to sell the real estate belonging to HIRDELLA be appioved. nearly 100,000 topics are treated, and these are STICKLER, BERTHA STICKLER, HERBERT And it is further ordered, that notice he magnificently illustrated with thousands of engravings, \ estate belonging to Arnold F. Snider, a minor. 1 STICHLKR and FLORENCE STICKLER, given to ‘be persons interested in said estate, of will sell at public auction to the highest bidder minora, I will sell at public auction to the high­ the pendency of the hearing thereof colored maps and charts. therefor, on the 4th day of January, A. D. 1898, st HTHf* Aflfxe comprises a handsome series of 1 one o’clock p. in., at the Probate Office, In St. est bidder therefor, oil the 7TII DAY OF FEB­ by causing a copy of this order to lie RUARY. A. D. 1898, at one o’clock in the after- published in the Clinton Rki 'L'blican , a news ­ I Ilw Mil Go maps and charts, brought down to Johns, Clinton county. Michigan, tne following mien, at the probate offiee in the Village of St. described premises vix: The undivided one paper printed and circulating in said county of date; 100 colored and 200 in monotint, which, for con ­ seventh (I 7| part of the north half (lent the west Johns. Clinton County. Michigan, the following Clinton for three successive weeks previous to thirty acres thereof) of the north-west qiarterof d esc r I tied premises viz: The southwest quarter of said day of hearing. venience sake, are scattered through the volumes of the * n. section numher two (2) In the Township of West­ section number nineteen, township ot Ovid, c'HARLES M. MERRILL, Encyclopedia, according to their alphabetical arrange­ phalia Clinton County, Stato of Michigan. Said Clinton County, Michigan, excepting therefrom (A true copr.) 36-3 Judge of Probate. ment. Also hundreds of diagrams, sketches, battle sale will be made subject to the unaxsign. d dower twenty acres sixty rods north and south out of the interest therein of the widow of Michael Snyder, soulhwest corner, and excepting also a piece of ROBATE NOTICE-PROBATE COURT plans, portraits, etc. lam! one hundred rods north and south out of the Clinton Courtly, ss. Notice is hereby given deceased. Dated Noveintier 15lb, 1897. northwest cornet and extending east and west P MRS. THEREHS i SNYDER. sufficient to contain five sixteenths of tne said that all claims and demands against the estate ol The Dictionary JgffiVSJSSi Guardian of Arnold F. Suyder, STEPHEN J. WRIGHT, deceased, will be heard times. It is an unabridged, etymological, pronouncing, 31-7 a minor. quarter section, also excepting a etrip of land by the Judgi of Pronate of said county, at the forty rods north and south out of the northe.ast probate office in the Village of St. Johns, on the literary, scientific and technical Dictionary of the English corner running west to the alore land described language, and is an acknowledged authority both in Eng-1 I > ROBATE ORDER.—STATE OF MICHIGAN, • t* five sixteenths of satd southwest quarter, con ­ 23RI) DAY OF JUNE. A. D. 1898, and that the creditors of said deceased are allowed six months land and America. The regular price of this great king ' A I County of Clinton, as. At a session ol taining seventy acres of land more or less. from the date of this notice In which to present the Probate Court for the County of Cilnlor, Dated, December 16th, 1897. their c.aims for adjustment. of books is $ 24.00. It comprises nearly 3,000 closely \ holden st the Probate Office, in the Village ui SARAH J. STICHLKR. Dated December 21st, A. D. 1897. printed columns of words an d delefinitions. * St. Johns, on Monday, the 6th day of December Guardian of said mittora. CHARLES M. MERILL, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 36-3 Judge of Probate. For advertising purposes merely, and to introduce this seven. OUR GREAT grand work to the public, we have decided to place a GOOD FOR A Present t hsrles M. Merrill. Judge of Probate IJR'tHATE ORDER-STATE OF MICHIGAN In the matter of the estate of CATHERINE I County of Clinton —ss. At a session of the T3ROBATE ORDER.—STATE OF MICHIGAN. INTRODUCTORY few sets in each community at about one-third ol SHORT DAVARN, deceased. On reading and Aling the Protiate Court for the County of Clinton, holden at 1 County of Clinton, ss. At a aession of the OFFER.____ the subscription price, and deliver the set complete TIME ONLY. petition duly verified, of James ll. Ruel paying the Protiate Office, in the Village of St. Johns, on Probate Court for the County of Clinton, hoideu at tits tlie last will and testament of said deceased Tuesday, the 21xt day of December, in the year tlie Probate Office, in the Village of St. Johns, on may lie proud aud admitted to probate and that one t honsand eight hundred and ninety-seven. Thursday, the 16th day of December, in the year UPON PAYMENT OF ONLY ONE DOLLAR, he or soul • other suitable person may tic appointed Present, Charles M Merrill, Judge of Probate one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. Excutor of said estate. In the matter of the estate of MARf’ELLUS Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probate. the balance of the special reduced price being due in small monthly payments. Tnereupon it Isordered that Thursday, the 80th day VAN OILS tN deceased. On reading and filing In the matter nf the estate of FRANK To show our entire confidence In the work and to insure you against any risk whatever, we further agree that \ of December, A. I>. 1897. at one o’clock in the after the petition, duly verified, of John Van Gieton, W. I/)8EY, deceased. GardnerC. Stanton, adminis ­ if, after keeping the set ten days and thoroughly testing it, you are not perfectly satisfied, you are at liberty to return it to , noon, lie assign d for the hearing of said petition and praying that he or some other suitable person, trator of said estate, having trade application for us, and receive your money back. that tlie heirs at Ijw and degatees ot said deceased may he appointed administrator ot said estate. the allowance of his final account. and all other persons interested in said will are Thereupon It ia ordered that THURSDAY, THE Thereupon I' la ordered, that THURSDAY, THE and the complete set will be forwarded, at once, to any address you may desire. Unless otherwise required to appear at a aission of said court then 13TH DAY OF JANUARY, A. D. 1898. atone I Itii DAY OF JANUARY, A. I). 1898, atoneo ’clock OtLlwU instructed, shipment will be made by freight, at purchaser’s expense. Subsequent payments will, to tie holJen at the Probate office in the village of o'clock in the afternoon, be assigned for the hear­ In the afternoon lie assigned for the examination | | A U be at the rate of $ 1.50 monthly for fifteen months. Half Morocco and Full Sheep bindings can also be 1 St. Johns and show cause. If any there he, why ing of said petition, at the Probate Office, in the of said account, at the probate office, in the village the w.ll should not tie approved. Village of St Johns. And it Is further ordered that of St. Johns. gupplied, the monthly payments being $ 2.00 and $ 2.50, respectively. To those who desire an extra dura- \ And It Is further ordered, that notice lie given to notice t,e given to the persoos interested in said And it is further ordered that notice tie given to We refer to this publication [ the persona interested in said estate, ol the pen ­ estate of the time and place of said the persona Interested in said estate of the time and 1 on 40-page booklet of sample 1 dent y and the hearing thereof by ca using a copy of hearing, by csuslng a copy of this order lo place of asid hearing hr causing a copy nf this pages, illustrations, etc., ana runner pamcuiars regaratng our wonaenui nome iteierencc j-aorary and its contents. this order to he published in the Clinton kk - t>e published in Tint Clinton Rxpublican . a order to he published In the Clinton PUBLICAN, a newspaper printed and circulating in new -paper printed and < imitating in the said RRPCRLirAN, a newspaper printed and circulating said County of Clinton, for three successive weeks County of Clinton for three successive weeks pre­ in said county of Clinton, for three successive THE STANDARD AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO, 9-11 Earl 16th St., New York City. previous to said day of hearing. vious to said day of hearing. weeks previous to said dav of hearing. 84-8 CHARLES M. MERRILL, [A true copy ] CHARLES M. MERRILL, 86-8 CHARLES M. MERRILL, (A true copy.) Judge of Probate. 36 8 Judge of Frobate. (A true espy.) Judge of Probate. l / ■\ J0 0 A

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A O Hunt Drugs, Books and Stationery. WACOUSTA. UNION HOME- Travis & Baker Drugs, Books and Stationery. WACOUSTA. Dec. 21, 1807. .^VtViViVtVmViWiWtWtViWtiVvKVv^WvW^iWtViV^-. Union Home . Dec. 21. 1807. h . 1 Nelson Daniels returned last Saturday from a visit of several days in Grand Lewis Hyde, who has been recently ill, Rapids. is on the gain, as his young friends will 3 A. 0. Hunt-»Manufacturing Druggist. be pleased to learn. FRED A. TRAVIS, Ph C, CHAS. P. BAKER, Errata, the name given in two items Registered Pharmacist. Registered Pharmacist. last week as George Gale, should have Bulah Stead is lying dangerously ill been George Gall. with spinal fever and inflammation of the bowels, with but slight hopes of recovery. The brothers, Fred and Alvah Serviss, returned last week from their trip to George Chesebros’ wife presented him M^rry Oakland county. with an 8'2 pound girl Saturday morn­ ing. George feels very proud of her and Louis Barnes caught some fine fish in the world seems brighter than ever to . the river here yesterday. A present of $50 IN GOLD GIVEN AWAY. him one to the writer was highly appreciated. Willie Howard is still very sick with | Christmas to all !!! 1 Miss Louise Plowman returned hast Fri­ typh'fid pneumonia, although some­ day night from a three weeks’ visit at what improved from the critical condi­ the home of Rev. J. H. Ashby iu Armada, s> tion he was lying in last week. His at On July 1, 1898 we will give $50 in gold to the i------Macomb county. tending physician says he will pull The W. C. T. U. will pospone their th rough. Church society bringing to our Store the largest r| next meeting, on account of Christmas, Captain George W. Townsend, a for­ New Medallions s; until two weeks from next Friday, Jan. Received this week. SUBJECTS: 5c mer resident of this place, but for many amount of our checks. We give a check with BACH 7, when they will meet with Mrs. Hazard. years residing at Baldwin, Lake county, Three unmailable letters were received is now confined to his bed with rheuma Cash purchase of any amount. *2 The Old Song, Priscilla, My First Lesson, Sc at this postoffice last week, two were tism, from which he has been ailing for I without stamps, and one though stamped, the past eight years. His physician says Guess Who, Fairy Tales, Hard Lesson. 2J had no address whatever on it. it is doubtful about his ever getting up j ^55 Subscriptions are Pouring in to 2l The Christmas tree will be held in the again, as the disease is rapidly bringing Congregational church on Christmas on consumption. THIS OFFER**** dg Ladies ’Home Journal, Michigan Farmer, ^ eve, next Friday night. The invitation The society at Mrs. Wm. Caruss' last McClure’s, Munsey’s, Cosmopolitan. is general, and all are invited to patron ­ Thursday was largely attended, and they ize it. were well repaid for coming, if it was a Includes any church society in Clinton The Plowmans and immediately re­ cold day. Mrs. Caruss had her usual county. lated families will hold their regular good dinner on time, and as Mr. Caruss annual Christmas tree with feast and met each one with a smile and word of song, and How of soul, at Mrs. Mary welcome, kindly caring for their horses Plowman's on Friday night. as they came, the company had nothing Every customer lias a right to*keep their checks and Drug Store..! Mr. Murphy, who has worked John L. else to do but “eat and be merry." After Benedict's farm for the past two years, all had dined, they were invited to the present them to any church society in the county ;| has bought a farm of eighty acres east of parlor, where devotional exercises were St. Louis, Gratiot county, and will re­ held. Following that they were enter they may prefer. We give a check with every cash move his family there in the spring. tainedby a short literary program: Recitation —"Samantha Smith llecomes Jo purchase of^-^^ As the roads and weather were very siah Allen ’s VVite”...... Jennie Weidman Woodruff cure. **»»4C0RNER DRUG STORE***** Send for circulars and testimonials Address, disappeared. It is a wonder worker, for F. J. CHEN F.Y .V C( >., Toledo. (>. my ease was chronic." Rev. L. S. Dana, SoM bv Druggist*. 7f>c. WWW WWW Pittsburg, Pa. 37. Hall’s Family Pills ere tli^ best.

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