The Clinton Independent. VOL. XXXVII.—NO. 22 ST. JOHNS, MIOH.5 THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1903 WHOLE NO.—1884 ■■■ '■ ■ ■■ ■ ■ ...... Ml — — — -I — . I ■ ■ THE $8,000 PROPOSITION RICHAHD HAWSE ANTHONY SNITGEN, MARRIED. THE NEW COUNCIL. teaspoonful of wuter on the bottom ol - BAUM—RILEY. the phial, as if you meant to fill it that ----- 1------Dying at the Asylum for the insane at way. Every time you do this tbe phial One of the Beet Known and Moet Favored A quiet wedding took place March Special Meeting; La*t Tuesday Evening — To Erect a Now School Building on tbe Kalamasoo. will become more and more filled with Control School Grounds, Defeated. Sons of Westphalia, Is Deed. 15, 1903, at the home of the bride ’s pa Appointment of Committee*. Sheriff Schavey received a telegram rents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Baum. The water. As this evidently takes place The special meeting of the tax* pay* Tuesday morning from the authori Died at the home of his parents, in There was a special meeting of the every time you pour water on the bot Westphalia village, at ten minutes contracting parties being their second new village board at the council room tom it will look as though the water ers of this village, being in school dis ties at the asylum for the insane at daughter, Miss Esther R. Baum, and trict No. 4, Bingham, at the engine past 12o'clock, Monday, March 16,1903, last Tuesday evening, March 17th, for had passed through the solid glass. Of Kalamazoo, stating that Richard Anthony Snitgen, Jr., son of John and Charles T. Riley, Rev. W. H. Clem course the water really rises from tbe house last Monday evening, was large Hawes, of this county, who was sent ens officiating. the purpose of organization, appoint ly attended, by both men and women. Katharine Snitgen, aged 17 years, 10 ing standing committees and allowing plate with the contraction of the air to the asylum last summer, a second Mr. and Mrs. Riley will make their as tbe bottle cools. The object of this meeting was to months and 20 dayg. claims. The newly elected trustees time within the last two years, was Again has the rude hand of death home with Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Rich vote upon the question of bonding the dying and that the end was near at were sworn in by Clerk Stilson. The entered our midst and taken one of mond, where the bride has lived for order of business was presented by district in the sum of 1)3,000 for the hand. The friends here were notified The Cat-o ’-te* V*i*i, the brightest and most promising the last three years. Mr. Riley will en President Bullard, who named the purpose of erecting a new building for of the fact, who at once made arrange gage in farming for Mr. Richmond. Ten little kitty cat*, all dressed up fine; school purposes upon the south-east young men from us. The deceased was following standing committees : One tore her pinafore, then there were ments to have the remains brought nine. boro in Westphalia, April 26, 1885. They have the best wishes of a host of On Claims—Adams, Vauconaant, Horton. corner of the central school grounds or here for interment. friends for a happyand prosperous life. Nine little kitty cate eating from one attaching the same to the main school He possessed a good education, and to On Streets and Sewer* —Horton, Washburn, plate; know him was to love him. He was a Vauconsant. One got crowded out, then there were building. THE BAD ROADS Prof. Troop Return* Next October. On Grade* and Walks—Washburn, Vaucon eight The result of the balloting was as devoted young Christian; he received On last Monday evening Prof. Troop sant. Adams. » Eight little kitty cata sat up till eleven; On Fire, Water and Lights—Burnett, Ad One fell asleep., then there were seven. follows: Whole number of votes cast Render It Hard for Rural Mall Carrier his first communion from the hand of gave the last number of his second Fr. Herwlg, May 19, }898, and was con ams, Pouoh. Seven little kitty cats playing funny .102, of which 135 were in favor of the and Their Horses. series in the University Extension Lec tricks; On Laws and Ordinances —Horton, Pouch, One rolled out of sight, then there were proposition, and 255 against it, making firmed in the Catholic church by Rt. ture Course. Besides the centre a par Burnett. The breaking of winter and the un Rev. Bishop Foley, December 4, 1898, six. a majority of 120. Two ballots were usual early spring lias rendered it very ty of sixteen from Ovid listened with On Petitions —Pouch, Burnett, Washburn. Six little kitty cats learning to dive; thrown out on account of incorrect and has been a regular attendant upon delight to Shakespeare’s great histori On Finance —Vauconsaut, Washburn and One went down too deep, then there were! hard for the rural mail carriers and his church duties ever since. About Horton. five. marking. It requires a two-thirds their horses. They have not been able cal play of Antony and Cleopatra, in Ffve little kitty cats playing on the shore; two years ago he took cold, which cul The meeting was then adjourned to A big wave caught one, then there were vote to carry such a measure. to make anything like schedule time, which, as usual, Prof. Troop was at his We do not believe there was a tax minated in that dreaded disease, con the regular on the first Monday even four. „ , and in some instances have been really best. His rendering of the great ing in April. Proceedings next week. Four little kitty cata climbing a tree; payer in the voting ranks but what is sumption. He went to Detroit and scenes, notably Cleopatra and the mes One fell down again, then there weret obliged to abandon some portion of three. willing to provide sufficient good room was examined by Dr. E. L. Shurly, and senger and the banquet on Pompey ’s THEY'RE COMING. their route. Even here in the village everything was done that could be Three little kitty catsxnet a kangaroo; and competent teachers for the chil the grocers have been obliged to add gallery, were most enthusiastically re One went home with him, then there werei thought of by parents and physicians The Moat Sanguine Hope* of the People two. dren of the district. But tbe actions another horse or remove the covering ceived. Two little kitty cats sitting In the sun; to help him, but without avail. He Are to be Folly Realized. of the school board did not appear to from their delivery wagon or substi After the lecture the centre went One ran In the house, then there was ona.i be in accord with the views of the bore his pain without a murmur, and Into a business session with Rev. Mr. The unusual large and pretty stock One little kitty cat went to buy a bun; tute a lighter one. He never came back, then there was none. people, the majority of whom abhore acknowledged bis readiness to be taken Ewing, chairman of the executivecom- of latest things in ladies ’ dress goods, —Carolyn Wells. to that better land where there are no mittee, presiding. It was unanimous further bonding of an already over Union Telephone Company's Annual Meet ly voted to resume the work next Oc silks, satins, velvets, laces,trimmings, Olive Democratic Caucus. ing and Election of Officer*. cares nor fears. carpets, rugs, curtains, etc., which loaded village for any purpose. tober, and that Prof. Troop be re-en- The Democratic voters of the town It has been suggested to add to the Early Monday morning, surrounded igea. Subject: “The New England John Hicks has promised the pqpple The annual meeting of the directors roup of Authors.” ship of Olive are invited to meet at east and north side schools such rooms and stockholders of the Union Tele by his family and friends, the end S this spring, are now arriving, being came. His funeral took place from The Ladies ’ Literary Club have de unpacked and shown to the people by the town hall at 1:30 o ’clock p. m. as are needed to give frhe overflow of phone Company was held at Alma on cided to take up the University Exten Friday, March 27, 1903, for tbe pur pupils good and comfortable sittings, Tuesday of this week, to review the St. Mary’s church Wednesday, at 9 sion work, it was decided to add two a sufficient force of gentlemen and pose of nominating a township ticket and to use the primary scbtpl money o ’clock, Fr. Broegger officiating; inter of their members to the executive com lady assistants. See his ad. on 8th to be supported at the polls, Monday, business of the past year, elect officers, mittee. Mrs. Ezra Smith and Mrs. apportioned to this district for such etc. ment in-the Catholic cemetery of this page. ______April b, 1903, and to transact such place. Wm. Bird were nominated and elected. other business as may properly come purpose, and for any deficiency that The company is now in a flourishing AlsoSupt. Bishop of the public schools Lebanon Democratic Canons. before the caucus. may occur for such a purpose, to raise He is the first to depart from this in place of Rev. A. Binkhorst, resigned. condition, the capital stock having in The Democratic caucus for Lebanon By O kdkk of Committee . it by a special tax. It cannot be much, creased 29 per cent during the past life of the “ Young Men ’s Sodality, ” Mrs. H. J. Patterson moved that the a society formed here by the young centre give Prof. Troop a rising vote township will be held at MathertOD, Bingham Democratic Caucus. and by so doing avoid thlscursed bond year, and the gross earnings 61 per of thanks for his uniform courtesy and ed indebtedness, further than what we men since the arrival of Fr. Broegger. Friday, March 27, at 1 p. m. cent during the same period. kindness in answering all questions of By Order of Committee. The Democracy of Bingham town have already saddled upon us. The There are now in operation 629 miles The members of the society, attended the class and his generosity in giving ship will meet in caucus at the Engine banks and dealers in bonds are anxious the funeral in a body, and the paul to the centre so freely of hisservices. Commencement Folder*. House in St. Johns, at 1 o ’clock p. m., of tole line, and a total of 3,065 tele The centre is on a good financial to get our securities, but the princi phones. bearers were chosen from among their The Independent has just received a Saturday, March 28, 1903, for the pur number. footing, having paid all expenses, in complete line of Commencement pose of placing in nomination candi pal and interest must be paid, and they The meeting was a harmonious one, cluding a deficit from last year, and dates for township offices, to be elect may fall due at a time when it would every one present expressing them The bell on the public school build still having a surplus in the treasurer's Folders, and cordially invite teachers ed at the regular annual township cause many property owerners hard selves well pleased with the year’s ing did not ring from the time of his hands. and prospective graduates' to call and meeting on Monday. April 6, 1903, ana ship and loss to pay their proportion. death until after the interment, as a I jok over our samples before ordering. to transact, such other business as may business. The following officers suc ******** properly come before such caucus. Employ some competent person to ceed themselves for another year: token of respect to his memory. Mr. Snitgen ’s family have the heart The Iedependent and Farm and By order of township committee, make plans of such needed room as President —S. E. Parkill. Live Stock Journal, one year, for $1.25. A. W. Dukkee , Chairman. may be required, and learn what such Secretary—J. H. Fildew. felt sympathy of all in this their hour IN THE CHURCHES. will cost, and then submit these plat s Treasurer—G. S. Wood. of bereavement. FOR THE CHILDREN BUSINESS LOCALS. and figures to a competent committee Directors —J. H. Fildew. J. T. Mill- He lias gone and we shall miss lilm, man, Thos. Bromley, jr., C. T. Bab But we feel that he is at rest. In the Indian Boyhood. PENSION to be chosen at a melting of the tax cock, St. Johns; S. E. Parkill, C. W. tnltfd Brethren Church. Arms of Him who doeth all things best. Services next Sunday: Bengal 10:30 “What boy would not lie nn Indian Work. Money to Loan at low rate*. Pro payers, to co-operate with the school Gale, Owosso; Tod Kincaid, Corunna ; ______A. B. Burnes . bate work a specialty. Call on S. W. Itobirson, Vestaburg; W. O. a. m.; Bingham, 2:30 p. m.; West Ben for awhile when he thinks of the freest H. J. Patterson , board in deciding upon the needed Mfe in the world?" asks the Indian Mason, Merrill; G. S. Ward. Alma; J. Canning Industries. gal, 7 p. m. 14tf. Clinton Block. St. Johns. room and arranging for it, and a large P. Gibbs, Ithaca; C. H. Laflamboy, writer, Mr. Charles A. Eastman, in his majority of the tax-payers will endorse A Maryland journal in speaking of Presiding Elder ’s collections will be The Mercantile Co. makes a spe McBride. the outlook for canuing factories says: book. “Indian Boyhood." But while cialty of Salt Rising Bread at 3 cents their action. Our peopleseem to want taken at these services. Indian boys have the freedom of the a loaf. It’s fine,______(21) A Fine Pair. “The canning industry, especially of On account of funeral and bad roads woods they have a more severe train to know what they are going to have Ora** Need. and what it will cost before they have Sylvester Moon, of DeWitt was in fruits and vegetables, last year, was the pastor did not reach his appoint ing than white itoys to fit them for unusually profitable, nearly all those what their tribe believes to be the du Headquarters forclover and timothy gone too far and have become obligat town oue day last week with as tine a ments last Sunday. seed at Byr on Danley ’s. 20--w2. ed. And it is right they should. pair of young Wilks geldings, 5 and 6 engaged in it who used Intelligence Quarterly meeting at. Bengal Satur ties of manhood. Mr. Kastman thus re and economy, making profits in pro calls his own experience: “Easy Bright” for cleaning cur ^ears old as has ever been owned in this day and Sunday. March 28 and 29. • It seems to be a popular idea that the tains, carpets, etc., at the Mercantile Local Option Meetings. part of the state. They are of a rich portion to the size of their pack. Co. (21) These extra profits have been widely Haptlst Church. characteristic skill of the Indian is in Hon. J. W. Humphrey of VanBuren bay color, black points and handsome Lost Keys. discussed and have stimulated the Sunday services:—10:30, a. m. Sub stinctive nnd hereditary. This is a mis County, will speak to-night at tails and manes. They stand a little take. All the stoicism nnd patience of On Friday last I lost a bunch of Harmonie Hall. Hear him. business to such an extent that the ject, “Power of a Despised Doctrine. ”. the Indian are acquired trnits, and con keys on Clinton avenue, one of them better than 16 hands, and move with 12 noon, Bible School. A great meeting will be held in the ease and grace. They caused nearly current year promises fifty per cent, tinued practice alone makes him master had a colored string tied to it. Finder opera house next Friday evening increase in the output. Withthe mar 6:00 p. m. B. Y. P. U. of the art of woodcraft. please leave at my office and receive everybody to stop, look and admire as 7:00 p. ra. “The Old and the New in reward. Dr . Mary P. Havens . March 24th at which Dr. Harvey G. they passed by. Mr. Moon is a well up ket now heavy with last year’s goods, Physical training nnd dieting were Releglon, ” followed by evangelistic not neglected. I remember that I was Furbay, of Ohio, will give his splendid judge of a good horse. if the acreage and yield are as expect When you want a good job of repair lecture on, “Both sides of L(*cal ed, there will be a glut that can have service. not allowed to have warm lieef soup or ing done on short notice go to any warm drink. The soup was for the 19tf Furtney ’s Shoe Store . Option. ” Dr. Furbay has no superior War on Dog*. but one result—lower prices. With The service in Bengal Riley Baptist Secretary Baker of the state board lower prices for the sale of goods and old men. General rules for the young The Mercantile Co. are sole agents and few equals as a platform speaker. the higher prices for cam, fruit and church was postponed one week. Rev. were never to take their food very hot It is said of him: “he combines the of health, has issued a circular to the McDermand will preach next Sunday for CHASE & SANBORN’S Coffees. labor, the cost of production may nor to drink much water. ______(21) sublimity of Beecher, the logic of officers of all the cities and villages of exceed the market value of the finished at 3:00 p. m. My uncle, who educated me up to the Horae For Sale. Webster, and the rhetoric of Phillips. the state calling attention to the product, and it is among the possibili time when I was fifteen years of age. Methodist Epl*copal Church. A six-year-old black mare, 1,200 lbs. Let every one come and hear him. alarming prevalence of hydrophobia ties that the packers may lose this was a strict disciplinarian nnd a good ear, a large part of last year’s profits. Quarterly Conference tomorrow (Fri a good worker and traveler. Also good in the state and recommending that Iarford is largely interested in tills teacher. When I left the tepee in the driver, nearly new buggy and harness Mr. H. N, Spear of Beldiug gave a day) evening at 7:30. Dr. DeLamarter morning, he would say, “Ilakndnh, look good address to a good audienceatllar- all dogs running at large be either Industry and we hope for better things, at a bargain. Call at this office. muzzled or killed. but the w sicanner will make \ revision will preside. Meeting to be held in closely to everything you see,” and at raonie Hall last Friday evening. He for this contingency. S. S. room evening, on my return, he used often Go to the Mercantile Co. for Gluten, speaks in a number of places in the This is a measure that should have pure whole wheat flour. (21) been enforced long ago. The laws Lovefeast at 9:30 Sunday morning- to catechise me for an hour or so: county this week. He reports the out A Wok I of Wurnlng to the Friend* of “On which side of the trees is the Try the Mercantile Co. ’s whole provide that between the months of Holy Communion at close of morning look in thecounty as being good. Local Option. service. lighter colored bark? On which do they wheat bread. ______(21) June and September eyery dog unmuz It is known to the County Commit havethe most regular brandies?" Residence Property For Hale. zled and at large shall be shot down Annual Thank-Offering service of It wns his custom to let me name all Death of William M. Strong. tee on Local Option that the liquor Threegood lots with small barn and by the police. How strictlv this law the Women ’s Foreign Missionary So the new birds that I had seen during good stone wall for house ; lots of fruit/ H. J. Patterson and wife went to men are preparing to flood the county ciety Sunday etening. The pastor will and shade, 7 blocks northwest of Steel has been enforced may be determined with literature purporting to be in the the day. I would name them according Wacousta yesterday to attend the fu from reports of rabies from all parts deliver the address. to the color, or the shape of the bill, or hotel. Price, $450. Enquire at interest of temperance, but In fact in Streeter’s Real Estate Agency. neral of Mr. Patterson ’s brother-in- of the state. Preaching at Bengal Grange hall, their song, or the appearance and local law. Wm. M. Strong, who died Tues the interest of the open saloon. Tills Sunday afternoon at 2:30. ity of the nest; in fact, anything about Furtney pays 6i cents per pound for day evening, at 7 o ’clock. Peat. is a favorite mdthod of theirs and has the bird that impressed me as charac green beef hides. 19tf St. John** Church. Deceased was one of the old pioneers The anthracite coal famine of this been resorted to in other places where teristic. Five cents per pound paid for old “Hakndah,” be would say to me, “you of the townshlpof Watertown, having winter will result In good to the state a vote on local option has been taken. Friday, evening prayer, 7:30. Sub rubbers at Furtney ’s Shoe Store . Thisstuff is usually printed in Detroit ject, “The beautiful life, or the'Chris ought to follow the example of the 19tf ______settled on the farm where he died, 11 by turning attention to the production skunktokecha (the wolf). Even when at the office of “Truth,” the liquor tian Graces. All Hat* at Co*t 1856. He leaves one son and four of other fuels. Michigan possesses vast he Is surprised aud runs for his life he daughters, all living in Watertown ex deposits of peat of the highest fuel dealer ’s state £aper, edited by Lon Sunday, celebration of the holy at E. B. Griffin ’s, will pause to take one more look at you Head of Clinton Ave., east side. cept the eldest daughter, who resides value, probably several hundred thou Burt. Heretofore the name under communion, 7:30 a. ra. Morning before he enters his final retreat. So in Spokane. Wash. The funeral will sand acres. Immense beds are found which it has appeared has been “ The prayei and sermon, 10:30. Subject, you must take a second look at every Money to loan on chattel mortgages. be held from the home tomorrow, in in St. Clair, Washtenaw, Van Buren Temperance Journal, ” but whatever “The parable of the laborers in the thing you see." Clinton Loan and Security Co., 7-9 terment in Wacousta cemetery. Obit Kalamazoo and Allegan counties and the name or form itemenates from the vineyard.” Sunday school, 12:00 M. All boys were expected to endure Clinton block, St. Johns. 6tt hardship without complaint. In savage uary next week. in the Upper Peninsula. The deposits same source, the liquor men, and is Evening prayer, 7:00. Ilarber Shop anti Hath Room. are about sixteen feet in depth and in composed of “pick-ups” from here and The Sunday school has begun the warfare a young man must, of course, » I have added to my shop at the head At Auction, many places are underlaid with marl- there, and of statements claimed to be practice of Easter music. The child be nn athlete and used to undergoing of Clinton Avenue, west side, a well from business men and others in local ren are working with great zeal for all sorts of privations. #He must be able equipped bath room, where hot or cold Charles F. Knaup having sold his There are those who bellve that the to go without food and water for two farm will sell at auction, on the farm option communities, but in reality, their Easter offerings, and several baths may be had at all seasonable peat deposits of the state are of more or three days without displaying any hours. W. W. Ferguson , Prop ’r. known as the “old Hanes place,” one immediate value than many mines, if they come from the friends^ of the sa pyramids are already hfeayy. weakness or to run for a day and night mile north and one mile west of St. loon. We warn the voters of the coun On April 3 there will be a special Money to Loan. they do not solve the fuel problem of without any rest He must be able to On Improved farms. Johns, on Wednesday. March 25, 1903, the century. For use the peat is ty that this sheet is due to appear the evening service in charge of the traverse a pathless, wild country with last few davs of the campaign. Don ’t 29m3 E. L. Dooling . commencing at 1 o ’clock p. m., horses, dried and compressed into briquettes be decel ved by it. We challenge those Brotherhood of St. Andrew. Rev. out losing his wny either in the day or cows, Durham bull, young cattle, which weigh about ten ounces each. having charge of it to have a chance to Rufus W. Clark, D. D., rector of St. at night. He cannot fall short In any of those things if he aspires to.be a war swine, sheep, wagons, harness, farm A large compressing and drying plant answer its statements before the vote Paul’s church, Detroit, will be the ^tatk bank or st. Johns . is taken. Then too, gentlemen, please rior. implements and machinery, stove, hay, is being erected at Chelsea. Another speaker. COMMERCIAL AND 8AVTNG8 to call your sheet by its true name. The Woman ’s Guild is breaking all etc,, etc. Terms favorable and sale atCapac, in St. Clair county, is nearly “The Saloon Journal, ” and not parade Water Bewitched. positive. Louis Boron, auctioneer. complete. It will cost *250,000, and in the guise of the good name of tem records at the Baking Exchange. A surprising feat may be accom CAPITAL. $50,000. inside of two months will be turning perance. Don ’t play the “wolf in The receipts last week, under the plished in the following manner: Take An Early Spring. out 200 tons of fuel per day. The sheep’s clothing ” act any longer. management of Mrs. F. M. Spaulding, an ordinary dinner plate and fill it with NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS MOO,000.01 According to an old German proverb: Press Committee, by Mrs. E. P. Waldron and Mrs. E. L. water. Then get a small empty vial Capac bog covers 2.200 acres and will R. S. McGiieook , Chairman. P.K PERRIN,President. “Thunder in March betokens an early be exhausted in 300 years at the rate Dooling, amounted to $24.00. This and assure the company that you are wizard enough to pour wnter through J. H, CORBIT, Vioe-Presldent. spring and a fruitful year.” of 200 tons of dried fuel per day. Mich G. A. R. and W. R. C. Reception. week the first division hold the sale, J. W. FITZGERALD.Csshlsr There was less frost In the ground in charge of Mrs. C. S. Scofield, * Miss the solid bottom. Having declared that igan's unlimited supplies of timber, Tuesday evening March 24. the ladies the phial must be perfectly dry when this spring than for several years, ow coal and peat form the basis of her of Grisson W. R. C. and G. A. R. will Helen Corbit, and Mrs. Janes. On DIRECTORS: ing to the fact that the earth was the experiment is performed, thrust O. W. Hunger, Otis Fuller, J. W. Fltsgeraid present and future industrial great give a reception to the members of the Saturday before Easter, Easter eggs a stick into It and hold It to the fire covered with snow during the widest ness.—Moderator Topics. Post and Corps, in honor of Mrs. and a great variety of Easter novelties J.H.Oorblt,George W. Emmons,P.K, will be on sale in addition to delica till It is very hot—too hot to hold. Then Perrin, Chas. T. Babcock, G. E. weather. And for this reason wheat Martha Green, who is so soon to leave stand it, without delay, mouth down cies and substantial for the Sunday Corbin, J. Sullivan. is in good condition and bids fair to Great combinations in first-class read us. Light refreshments will be served. dinner. It is Dot too early to place ward, In the plate of water._ Pour a yield a bountiful harvest. Ida Whitney , Sec’y. your orders now. ing matter may be had at this office. I S per cent Intereat paid on time deposit* CLINTON' impendent , thebedey . march is, isos .
Tks Ptsaclli Botb Dead. The unexpected happens much lesi. Arthur U. Pennell, the Buffalo law frequently than the expected falls to yer, co-respondent In the Iff. L. Bur happen. THE MICHIGAN NEWS dick divorce .action and prominently STATE LEGISLATURE ] mentioned In the Investigation into Don ’t get discouraged. Even to the Burdick ’s murder, rode over an em bankment on Kensington avenue Tues Brief Chronicle of Matters of ImportantanceB | oyster there comes an opening when day night und Into a stone quarry and least expected. was crushed to death. A wheel of the r> V'Vv'yw VWT WW WvV IVvv Wvwvwwv'rTrv Robbers (lot the Bootv. | There was once a man who admit BlfamUt and Tkiet. AROUXD THK STATE. uutoinoblle was on his head, which For emne days to come the ways was crushed Hat. Mrs. Pennell, who and means committee of the house ted there were others as smart as Claimed by three wives and alleged A bold robbery took place Sunday ; Newport is to have a canning fac went over the embankment with him, will be iiuioug the busiest members nlgnt near Orldersvllle, Ohio. Four- ' himself—but he died before the flood. to Ih> an erabegzler in the sum of $1100. tory. was shockingly mangled aud was tak of that body. Appropriations for over Cashier Arthur S. Chisholm, of the teen masked men entered the house Menominee Is to have a new public en to a hospital where she lay uncon $8,iXX;,000 have been asked in bills of Mrs. Jacob Reluchelderfer, an aged Whenever a woman makes a confi United States Express Co., in Grand scious till she died on Wednesday now before the house—something ap Rapids, has become suddenly notor library. and wealthy widow, and took posses dant of a man she has an ax to grind night. A faint twitching of the eye proaching $2,000,00 more than was ex sion. With Mrs. ReJschelderfer are and wants him to turn the grind ious. Chisholm is 28 years old and Caro is going to have a health food lids or a murmur of pain were the pended last session. The committee came last June from Fort Wayne. factory. living her grauddUlighter, Blanch^, only signs of returning consciousness will commence pruning under pres aged 12 years; George James and his stone. Ind.. to enter the employ of the ex Footpads held up three men In the perceptible durlug the 24 hours the sure. One of the first things it will do press company. He soon impressed wife and their son, Jos. James, a streets of Gland Rapids Monday Injured woman was in the hospital will lie to determine Just what ex young man. At the muzzle of a shot Nothing annoys the youth with a the local officers of the company with night. ward. There is no doubt that the penses are to be included under the bunch of keys at the end of his watch his polished manners and refined ap gun the little girl was made to tell Lenn Weber and his vVife Maud plunge of the auto with its occupants maintenance fund of so much per day where the money was to be found. chain like being asked what time pearance and his advance was rapid. are behind prison bars in Detroit on into the stone quarry was an accident for each patient at state Institutions. During the past few months losses They secured $1,200 iu cash and it is. suspicion of making und passing und not purposely made as at first sur Tho special expenses of these institu $7,000 worth of notes nnd securities luive been noticed daily at the local counterfeit coin. mised. The machine was found with tions offer sonic very Interesting items. office but the leak could not be from an old chest and proceeded to The only real difference between The school savings system which brakes firmly set and reversed to stop Here afife quotations from some vouch ransack the house. They took pos men and women is that men have to traced. Suspicion at last pointed to ers for the Michigan .Soldiers ’ Home, ward Chisholm and a warrant for his has proven so successful in Adrian if, showing that Pennell hnd used session of all tlie Jewelry and silver die before they break into the angel and several other cities of the state every precaution to prevent the dis which have couic to hand for last ware and secured' a month's wage? arrest followed an examination of his year: October —Eight gallons whisky, class. books. will be tried at Ludington. aster from the elder James. They blind Leslie Geary, 18 years old, of San at $2, $1(1; 2!) gallons port wine, $27.4(1; folded all Dut the little girl. After .la Aged Thief. one-haif barrel Chase's Bourbon whis dividing the money some of the rob A Texas man with seven wives has The ramon Cnnglil On. ford, lost both legs below the knees just been sent to the penitentiary. through being run over by a I’ere An alleged professional shoplifter, ky, 18(10 brand, $05.88; five gallons bers left at midnight and the others Bay City, west side, ••went dry ” Occasionally the’law helps a man out Sunday for the first time In many Marquette train. Ills recovery is aged t>3 years, who gives her name as whisky, at $2, $10. A September stayed until 2 o ’clock helping them moons. The reason was the accidental doubtful. Mary Frazier, but whose real name item reads: “Five gallons Melwood selves to wine and eatables. of a bad scrape. discovery by Rev. W. It. l’ope, of the from papers and letters found is whisky, $lo. Several dozen bottles of Tlie lumber camps along the Me “Sliver Foam beer,” for the hot The Csur (irons (liberal. Methodist church, that at least one nominee are rapidly breaking up. and thought to be Mrs. E. L. Moran, was NEXT MORNING PHILOSOPHER. captured by officers in Van Wert, O., months of July and August come to The czar has issued a decree provid saloon was doing business on the If the present warm weather lasts $8.50. Lord's day. He tried the hack door. Saturday evening with four trunks ing for freedom of religion through Your share of the world is too there will not be a camp left inside out his dominions, establishing to some It was locked. Just then a mail caffiie of ten days. full of goods, claimed to be stolen. Michigan will probably have no Officers nave ouiy commenced to in state representation at the St. Louis degree local self government nnd mak small to be unduly proud of. around the corner, remarked that the August Shultz, section foreman for gentleman must be a stranger there, vestigate and have found several hun world ’s fair. The house of represen ing otlier concessions to the village the Grand Trunk, at Drayton Plains, dred dollais in Canadian and' Ameri tatives will not vote an appropriation committees. Among the measures out When a man does a mean thing he and proceeded to show him a “blind was accidentally shot at ids mother's entrance. ” Inside, the reverend gen can paper money, it is asserted that to exceed $40,000. and Gov. Bliss is lined by tlio czar for the attainment generally has an excuse handy to house while trading revolvers with his she has visited Ludington, Hart, not inclined to stand for such cheap of these ends Is reform of the rural offer for it. tleman found a dozeu men drinking. brother Fred. He talked with the proprietor, and Shelby, Montague, Grand Haven, Hol representation as tills would provide. laws. The system of administration the place was closed and the screens Laird Hinkle and Morris Berry are land, St. Joseph. Niles, Cussopolis, ”1 don't find that there is any general in the various governments and dis No one but a fool experiments removed. under arrest for aggravated assault, Schoolcraft, Vicksburg, Battle Creek, demand for an appropriation,' ’ suid tricts is to be examined by represen more than once with the kicking the charge being preferred by Ben Bellevue, Charlotte. Vermontville, Gov. Bliss. “In Detroit, for instance, tatives of tiie different localities con qualities of a mule. I'lntoln and Jealousy. jamin Cole, a farmer living five miles Hastings, Middleville, Caledonia, nolKxly seems to care much for it. cerned. with the view of effecting the Two women met late at night near southwest of Hillsdale. Grand Rapids, Elmdale, Lake Odessa, George H. Barbour *tohl me lie didn ’t necessary amendments. Measures are Grand Ledge, Portland, Ionia, Sheri want to see any appropriation at all also to be taken to relieve the peasan The man who has no command Shnughnis & Co. ’s carriage shop, in A chance for recovery is enjoyed over himself should not aspire to Camden, two revolver shots were by Win. Nicolaj ’, of Jackson, whose dan, Stanton, Ed more, Vestabnrg, unless it were a decent one. ” try of tlie burdens of forced labor. heard, and one of the women ran skull was crushed in a fight with a and some thirty other towns iu Wis However, the representatives of the command over others. away. The other woman went iuto fellow employe In the Michigan Cen consin, Iowa, Indiana und a few in Grand Rapids furniture interests are The l.artcest Ever. Potter ’s livery stable, und it was found tral shops Friday night. Ohio. Among the many articles al undaunted. They maintain that $100,- Admiralty Secretary Arnold-Forster A woman ’s tongue does not always that she was Minnie Bennett, who has ready listed is some cutlery from 000 will be appropriated. So sure are Introduced the navy estimates for run in her own family; quite as fre The suit of Gov. A. T. Bliss’ lumber Standart Brothers, Detroit. they that the bill granting an appro been working for Mrs. John Croxton. firm to collect n judgment of $500 1903-04, providing for an expenditure quently it runs in other families. She had a bullet in one of lier hips, priation and creating a commission of $179,184,205 in tho house of com* against S. L. Fox and the furniture Another Extra Session. will pass that they have already se and another in one of her legs. She manufacturers, Fox & Mason, of Cor mons Monday. In tlie course of an Howsoever »it might have been in asked Mr. Knthbun to go for Job Me- President Roosevelt told Senator lected some of the men for the com explanatory statement the secretary unna, has been discontinued. Culloin Friday that be would call con mission. Roy C. Bnrnhardt, of Grand the beginning, it cannot be said now Grey, who took her away and pro remarked that the estimates were un that every man carries the image of vided treatment for her. The bullets Willie Hawkins, the 13-year-old son gress in extra session in October if the Rapids, president of the Furniture paralleled in peace or war, nnd ns a of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hawkins, of senate could 1 not conclude action on Men's Association, is one of tlie pro the Maker. are said to have been tired by a Mason, died Monday morning from private citizen be could not help re jealous married woman. the Cuban treaty without the aid of prietors of the Downey House, Lnu- gretting that the great competition blood-poisoning, the result of a gun the house. It is known that Cannon, sing, is another. Mr. Farrell, of the While it can hardly be said that shot wound received Saturday. and rivalry in the matter of naval ar Flushing; ’* Fire Loss. the next speaker, will insist that this Cleveland Clift's Mining Co., has been maments continued “to make this the man who suffers most enjoys Fire broke out in Flushing at mid- Lawton 1ms three or four grape action is necessary. Many senators mentioned as another. enormous and unproductive expendi most, he certainly has the finest ap sight Thursday, which destroyed the juice factories, and now another one also think the house must eo-operute. The house ways and means commit ture necessary.” preciation of his enjoyments. double store building of Niles & Ken is to lie built at Lake Corn, In that The president says ho will not discuss, tee asked Auditor-General Powers to the merit of these views, leaving them nedy, dealers in general merchandise. .same section, which will use up the submit for Inspection some of the bills BITS OF PHILOSOPHY. The furniture and undertaking estab product of 1,200 acres of the fruit. entirely for tlie consideration of con that come in from state institutions, gress. The point he makes is that the and these are samples: Vouchers lishment of Cameron A Shannon, ad Commissioner Atwood neoortft that Sloth makes all things difficult, but joining. was completely gutted. The the Michigan earnings of railroad com treaty must be ratified, and if it can from the Ionia institutions, dated Jan People ’s bank building was also dam panies for January this year were $3.- not he done by the senate alone, the uary 15, and at various times for a industry all things easy.—Franklin. aged several hundred dollars and the 720,723.53. This is an increase of $374,- president will see that tho whole con week before that time have in them gress has a chance to act. He wants The highest genius is willingness plate glass fronts of the i>ostoftioe und 427.20 or 0 per cent over the same one item of $9 for six dozen red roses; An anti-cigarette law has been pass .1. It. French’s store were completely mouth last year. a session that will have an opportunity $3 for white ones; $2 for carnations. and ability to do hard work. —R. S. Mc to consider this and nothing else. He ed by both houses of the Missouri wrecked. Niles &. Kennedy sustain a Merritt Mason, who is charged with There are other floral items, bringing legislature. Arthur. wants congress to faee the question tlie total up to $211.25. Then there was loss of $7,.TOO, covered by insurance; tlie attempted murder of Edward Tipping of porters on the Pennsyl F. A. Niles. $:t,000, no insurance; Cam squarely, so that it cannot evade re a long string of table delicacies, He is rich who is content with the Stewart for his money at Niles six sponsibility. vania lines west of Pittsburg has been eron & Shannon, $2,500. weeks ago, has confessed and been among which was an item of $15.(10 least, for content is the wealth of na for squabs; $2.50 for blue points; $2.50 prohibited. sentenced to 20 years in Jackson pris Ten Dollars for a Murder. The pure food company which was ture.—Socrates. Roasted the Mayor on at hard labor. for brandied cherries, etc. The com The whole city of St. Joseph, appar- The police believe that tlie arrest mittee has also bills for $19.50 worth organized iu Leslie some months ago .. . c* ] _ ... .i,„ Thelilt* Uice c 111in OuKilonvSaginaw bay isIn rapidlyIn IslUiv of George Hossey, the negro “herb of Ice cream and $12.50 worth of flow lias been dissolved. • Individuality is everywhere to be John'WeUs, ihe hack driver murdered beaming worn away, yet the daring doctor, ” who was committed to prison ers from the Adrian school for girls. The condition of Justice Day, of tlie spared and respected as the root of by the proprietor of a tough hotel. j flHbermen still ply their precarious with Mrs, Catharine Danz, on the There are hills for candy from the United States Supreme Court, who has everything good. —Richter. Rev. 1>. F. French offered prayer and ; fade on the immense Ice floe extend- charge of causing the death of the school for tlie blind. A more serious been ill for several days with grip. Is called for help in the city where inP f,’oni Bay Port on the east to Point woman ’s husband 18 months ago by matter, so far as amounts of money is said to be critical. Nothing is less our power than tho Ixiokout on the west. crime has been rampant. Rev. Dr. 41. poison, will lead to tlie disclosure of concerned, will be brought to the at Wrecktr Fvank E. Brady, of Toledo, heart, and far from commanding we S. Roblee, who preached the sermon John Kubcink, of Bay City, aged 14. one of the greatest criminal sen tention of the committee. This relates got a five years’ sentence for altering are forced to obey it.—Rosseau. roasted the city government, laying ran away from school and rather sations since the Holmes case. Mrs. to the making of Improvements by the books or the Imperial Building & the blame for the present conditions j than be taken In charge by the truant Danz is said to lie only one of a host boards of control out of money sup Loan Co. to deceive operators. upon the rnavor nnd the police depart- officer, he Jumped into the Saginaw of women whose object In consulting posed to bo used for the maintenance the “doctor ” was not legitimate. The Tlios. Byrnes, one of the men ar imut. Mayor Nelson C. Rice, who is a river and swam among the chunks of of inmates. rested in the recent raid on “Get-rich- deacon of* Dr. Roblee ’s church, was Ice to the other shore. authorities say they expect to trace Tlie senate has passed the so called YOU a number of deaths to Hossey ’s quick” concerns In New York, was present, and'occupied a conspicuous A. II. Buck, the young Paris town Baugbain bill, amending the law for sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. seat. ship farmer who confessed having poisons. A private detective told of orgnizatiou of corporations, so that BHICAN burned his barn for the insurance, three visits lie laid paid to tlie herb concerns may Incorporate with no capi He has no use for money, so Ernest The Millie Mine Disaster. doetor and dec la red that Hossey had Hussman. of Fremont. Neb., lias re anything yon invent or improve t also got was sentenced to one year in Jackson. tal paid in. All attempts to amend CAVgATJRADC-MARK. COPYRIGHT or DESWZ All miners in the Millie mine dis A light sentence was Imposed because entered into an agreement with him were defeated. Baughnin says of his fused an inheritance of $(10,000. “There PROTECTION. Bend model, sketch, or photfe aster have been accounted for. Four of Buck’s wife and child. to kill a woman, whom the private de hill: “This bill is far from being as are no luxuries I care for that money for free examination and advice. men were drowned. The fourth level Two years ago the city of Jackson tective. so he said, desired to “get liberal as the New Jersey laws, but can buy.” he. says. BOOK ON PATENTS SXlSVSSS was completely filled with water from issued $25,000 lionds to improve the rid of. ” The price for the job was to we do not want to liberalize our laws Repeated indignities and threats of an old mine under which the men Grand river. The other day the coun be $10 and was io lie paid in install to a certain extent and bring in the imprisonment in a vile, foul-smelling 'TC.A.SNOW&CO. were working and into which the cil paid $875 interest on the bonds, but ments. wild-cat companies which are taking jail, ha* driven F. A. Little, of Cleve Patent Lawyer*. WASH INGTON, D.C. water broke. The bodies of four men ■ )ts y<>t there lias been nothing done advantage of the partnership associa land. from Honduras, where h.% lias drowned in the disaster have been ! toward improving the river. Tlie Burdick Inquest. tion limited act. This will compel large property interests The inquest pilo the death of Edwin recovered. The public opinion con Mrs. Ida I’erg, whose home is in them to make public their affairs Beginning in 1904 tlie sheriff of 60 YEARS* demns the company for not keeping a L. Burdick began in Buffalo Saturday, which at present they are not com Wayne county will he paid a salary of EXPERIENCE Saginaw. Mich., committed suicide by four witnesses being examined. Dr. civil engineer to map out work. The taking carbolic acid at the home of pelled to do. ” $8,000. Tlie fees will go to the county. men did not know they were on dan Howland told of being called to tlie The Grand Rapids furniture matiu The office has lieen considered worth her sister, Mrs. Jennie Pressor, in Burdick home shortly after 8 o ’clock gerous ground. Tlic feeling is very Chicago. Mrs. Borg was 45 years old faeturers evant tlie legislature to ap $20,000 to $30,000 annually. great against the company. on the morning of February 27. Dr. propriate $150,000 for a building at tlie Patents and had been in ill health some time. Relics of the revolution are suppos \V. H. Marry met him at the door world ’s fair, to lie held in St. Louis. The Rill Was Seeded. Because they didn ’t like the rations, and told him of Burdick ’s death. He ed to have been buried by Anthony two youths deserted from the navy a The delegation of manufacturers who Wayna’s forces near Brinsley’s Sta Gov. Bliss signed the bill of Rep. asked Dr. Howland to make it out a appeared to advocate tlie appropria I HADE KIMW* week ago last Thursday. They were case of suicide, as there Had been a tion. Ind., am, a company lias been Francis, of Alpena, which the physi Bonnet H. Moran, aged 18. and Walter tion were from Grand Rapids, other formed to excavate for them. Designs cians of the legislature fought, giving good deal of gossip about the rela parts of the state had no advocates. Copyrights A c. A. Nash, aged Hi, and both claiming A boycott by tlie Centra! Labor Anyone sending e sketch and description may lioards of supervisors more power on tions between Mr. and Mrs. Burdick. They claim that they prefer to pay enlcsiy ascertain our opinion free whether as Bay City as tlicir home. They were Mrs. Hull, mother of Mrs. Burdick, union against' the Evansville (lml.) inrentlon Is probably patentable Communica nuditing claims of physicians for the (.ain Detroit, for the space they use but. want tin.* tions strictly conlldentlaL Handbook on Patent* care of indigents ill With contagious admitted that she thought her daugh state to be among tlie leaders at the Gas & Electric Co. compels the mayor sent free. Oldest agency for eeoortnspatents. Rev. Fr. Van Stralcn, of the Cath ter was imprudent. She had never told and several of ids cabinet to discon Patent* taken through Mann A Co. reeelV* diseases. Previously tlie boards of big show. It looks as if the scheme gyeriei notice, wlthont charge, in the supervisors liad no alternative but to olic parish in Sebewaing, has become Burdick he was as much to blame as will be favorably reported. tinue the use of gas for heat or illum .allow tlie claims at the amounts ap violently insane, choking and other his wife. Burdick had always treated ination. as all are members of unions. wise abusing his aged housekeeper. her kindly and with consideration. The senate state affairs committee Scientific American. proved by tlie local boards of health, has set the appropriation for tin* Mich The last chief of the Miami Indians, A handsomely Illustrated weekly, Largest etr- Bishop I’olcy lias ordered tin* dement She stayed in the house after her Gabriel Godfrey, so years old and very eolation Of any sclentlflo Journal Terms, M a lint under tlie* new act. which takes igan exhibit to tin 8,\ Louis world ’s year: four months, |L Bold by an immediate effect, tlie supervisors can ed priest to l»c removed to a retreat daughter left on account of love for fair just about $l(K-.(MiO higher than feeble, who 2n years ago owned 1.003 do some cutting, if they think it jus in Detroit, where lie can receive proper the children and for Burdick ’s sake the bouse will sanction. The commit acres of rich government land, lias lausBsrww tified. treatment. tee decided to put into tho blank space just deeded to his children tlie last Glomvood, the little village to the AKcp tlie ClerKue Properties. 10 acres, situated 12 miles from Wa It is tlie opinion of Philadelphia in the bill introduced by Senator Mnrrlrd anil Expelled. north of Wyandotte, had a tiro scare Sleeper the figures $125,000 and to re bash. Ind. Bert Nan Horn and Miss Cynthia Friday morning, and tor a time it hankers that the United States Steel Suicide, owing to domestic and finan corporation Is seeking to control the port the Dill out to tlie senate at once Foley, students of Albion College, looked as though a good part of the with the recommends!tion that it pass. cial trouble. Is believed in the case of went to Marshall Monday and were town would be destroyed. As it was, Consolidated Lake 'Superior Co., pro Mar.in ('. Bowman, aged 50. formerly viding It can obtain a majority of the The house and senate met for 15 married. Van Horn had just left the a damage of about $7,000 was rec minutes Monday night. The former manager and part owner of the new college and gone to work in a Lansing orded before the flames were finally stock cheaply enough. Wright house. Cleveland, O.. his body The steel trust already has a firm lists lies! to something about a bill of '•illij barber shop. President Dickie heard j extinguished. minor importance. In the upi>er house having been taken from the lake ut all ill a rumor of the wedding, nnd ques- j Arthur 8 Chisholm, the United footing in Canada through ownership Chicago. of Lake Superior Consolidated iron Goodeil offered a resolution to send I tioned Mrs. Van Horn. She confessed. States Express Company cashier, of the committee on elections to Detroit Preston Garland, colored, has cele and he expelled her. Her home is In Grand Rapids, wiio is charged with mines and control of the Consolidated Lake Superior would enable it to nako to investigate- the working of tlie new brated bis 104tli birthday anniversary. Lexington, Mich. Two students who tho embezzlement of $ "Do you know, Cornelia, grand which led him to question the efficien ALL TIRED OUT. mother?” cy of the out-turning screw on the The weary, “Well, then, I have seen her; more ground that in getting the ship under worn-out, all- than once. A great beauty I think tired feelings THE MAID af MAIDEN liANE way and In maneuvering at moderate her, and Doctor John has money- come to every Sequel to •• Tlie Bow of Orange Ribbon." speed the Inturning screw was not bo plenty of money —and a very good body who taxes effective as the out-turning screws. family are the Morans. Now, then, the kidneys. thy grandfather is coming; thy trou TO BE COMPILED When tho kid Consular Charges. ble tell to him. Good advice he will neys are over A LOVE STORY BY AMELIA E. BARR Washington, March 17. —The Presi give thee.” worked they fail Secretary Root Undertakes to dent has accepted the resignation or Senator Van Heemskirk, however, to perform the (Copyright. 1900, by Amelia E. Barr) United States Consul McCallum at St. went first into his garden and gath duties nature has Supply Information to Gall. Willing Peters of the District of ering great handfuls of white nar- Columbia, at present United BUM I ^ CHAPTER IV.—(Continued.) heaven! you must .forget Miss Moran. cisses and golden daffodils, he called State Officers. consul at Plauen, Germany, has been At this moment Mrs. Hyde entered She is not to be thought of as a a slave woman and bade her carry When tho kid the room, her fair face alight with wife—for one moment. ” them to the Semple house and lay promoted to the vacancy at St. Oall. neys fail, danger ‘love. A servant carrying a tray full “Sir, you are not so unjust as to them in and around his friend ’s cof IT WILL BE AN IMMENSE WORK Hugo Muench of Missouri, now consul ous disease quick •of good things to eat, followed her; make such a statement without giv fin. at Vittau, Germany, has been promot ly follows; urin and it was delightful to watch her ing me a reason for it.” With these preliminaries neither Publication Will Consist of Thirty ed to be consul at Plauen. William J. ary disorders, diabetes, dropsy, rhew Pike of Pennsylvania has been ap eager happiness as she arranged “Giving you a reason! Look east, Joris nor Lysbet interfered; but Volumes and Will Contain Names of matism, Bright’s disease. meats, and sweetmeats, in tempting and west, and north, and south—all pointed to the vacancy at Vittau. Dr. when he had lit his long pipe and Officers and Men Who Served on Doan's Kidney Pills cure all kidney ■order for the hungry young man. As these rich lands were bought with seated himself comfortably in his William Shaw Bowen has accepted and bladder ills. Read the following he ate, he talked to his father of your Uncle William’s money. He chair, Lysbet said: Both Sides in Civil War. the position as consul at Guayaquil. caso: those things interesting to him. made hihaself poor to make me rich. “Where hast thou been all this Veteran Joshua Heller of 706 South “Pray,” asked Gen. Hyde, “what Tell me now what child is left to afternoon? ” Washington, March 17. —A complete Aids to President. Walnut street, Urbana, Ill., says: “In can you tell me about the seat of your uncle? ” “I have been sealing up my friend's roster of the officers and enlisted men Washington, March 17. —Rudolph the fall of 1899 after getting Doan's government? Will Now York be “Only his daughter Annie, a girl of desk and drawers until his sons ar of the Union and Confederate armies, Forster of Virginia has been appointed Kidney Pills at Cunningham Bros.* chosen?” fourteen or fifteen years.” • rive. Very happy he looks. Ho is to be compiled and published by the assistant secretary to the President. drug store In Champaign and taking a “Upon my word, sir, the opinions “Well, then, sir, what is you duty now one of those that know. ” war department, is a great work just He was educated in this city and Is a course of treatment I told the readers are endless in number and variety; to Annio Hyde? ” “I wonder, Joris, if in the next 1 fe begun under the direction of Secre graduate of the Columbian University of tho paper that they had relieved but, in truth, there is to be some sort “I do not conceive myself to have we shall know each other?” tary Root. This is the secretary’s own Law School. He entered the govern me of kidney trouble, disposed of a of a compromise with the southern any special duty to Annie Hyde. ” “My Lysbet, in this life do we km w project. ment service in 1894, and since 1900 lame back with pain across my loins senators, who are promised the capi “Upon my honor, you are then per- each other?” Congress Approves. has been executive clerk to the Presi r.nd beneath the shoulder blades. Dur tal on the Potomac, Anally, if they no vorsely stupid! When your uncle “I think not. Here has come our In calling the matter to the atten dent. Warren S. Young of Ohio has ing the interval which had elapsed I longer oppose the assumption of the wrote me that pitiful letter which in dear Joris full of trouble to thee, foi tion of congress he said that the de been made executive clerk to the have had occasion to report to Doan ’s state debts. ” formed me of the death of his last his father has said such things as I partment was constantly in receipt of President. Mr. Young was appointed Kidney Pills when I noticed warnings “And Joris, the ladles? What say son, my first thought was that his could not have believed. Joris, tell appeals from state officials, historical to a clerkship in the White House by of attack. On each and every occa they on the subject?” asked Mra daughter must be assured her right thy grandfather what they are.” societies and patriotic or memorial President Garfield, and has been on sion the results obtained wero just as Hyde. in the succession. There is one way And this time George, being ver* associations for transcripts of the mil the executive force ever since. satisfactory as when the pills wern “Indeed, mother, some of them are to compass this. You know what itary records of state troops, to an first brought to my notice. I Just as lamenting, and some looking forward that way i3. Why do you not speak?” swer which would cost more than a Confirmation May Stand. emphatically endorse the preparation to the change. All are talking of the “Because, sir, if I confess your evi million dollars, so that the most eco Washington, March 17. —Unless to-day as I did over two years ago. ” social disposition of the beautiful dent opinion to be Just; I bind myself nomical way would be to publish a charges are preferred against William A FREE TRIAL of this great kid Mrs. Bingham. ‘She will have to to carry it out, because of its Justice.” complete roster. Congress adopted the Pllmley, nominated to be assistant ney medicine which cured Mr. Heller abate herself a little before Mrs. “Is it not just?” plan. treasurer of the United States at New will be mailed on application to any Washington, ’ I heard one lady say; “It might be just to Annie and very Will Be Big. York, Senator Aldrich, who had the part of the United States. Medical whilo others declare that her asso unjust to me.” The publication will be enormous in nomination recalled after it had been advice free; strictly confidential. Ad ciation with our republican court will “No, sir. Justice is a thing abso size, including no less than thirty vol confirmed by the senate, will with dress Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. be harmonious and advantageous; lute; it is not altered by circum umes as large as the rebellion records. draw the motion for reconsideration Y. For sale by all druggists. Price especially, as she is beloved in the stances. What are you going to do? ” The secretary has written to the gov of the vote by which the nomination 60 cents per box. home of the president. ” “I know not. I must think—” ernors of all states piking their co was confirmed. This would have the “Our republican court! The defi “I am ashamed of you! In the operation in the work. The compila effect of allowing the confirmation to When a man resolves to turn over a nition is absurd! ” said Gen. Hyde, name of all that is honorable, what is tion will be in the immediate charge stand. Charges have been filed against new leaf lie should bo in sober earnest. “court pre-supposes both royalty and there to think about? Have I a son of Brig. Gen. F. C. Ainsworth, chief two of the recent appointees as ap If you will not lend love you can nobility! ” with so little proper feeling that he of the record and pension office of the praisers at the port of New York anci not borrow any. “We have both of them Intrinsic needs to think a moment when the war department. are pending before the finance com ally, father.” case is between honor and himself?” Catarrh Cannot Re Cared mittee. w!th LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they eannoa “In faith, George! you will find, “Sir, you are more cruel and un ELLIS GLENN CASE. reach the seat of the tliHeaso. Catarrh is a that intrinsic qualities have no social reasonable than I could believe pos blood or constitutional disease, and in order to Administers Oaths. cure it you must lake internal remedies. Halt a value. What people require is their sible.” Writ of Habeas Corpus Is Annulled by Washington, March 17. —Chief Jus Catarrh Cure is tukon Internally, and acta “The railings of a losing lover are directly on tho blood and mucous surfaces. external evidence. Now I am sleepy. Federal Court. tice Fuller administered the oath to Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine: I will talk to you more on these sub not worth answering. A man mad in Washington, March 17. —The Su Henry M. Hoyt, the new solicitor gen It VMpc—artbed by one of the best physicians love has some title to my pity.” In this country for years, nnd is a regular pre jects in the morning. Good night!” Che had gone to feed her swans. preme court of the United States eral of the Department of Justice, to scription. It is composed of the best tonics He put hi3 hand on his son ’s shoulder “And, sir, If you were any other sure of hearty sympathy, told his tale quashed the writ of habeas corpus the retiring Solicitor General, J. K. known, combined with the best blood purifiers, man but my father, I would say ‘Con actinic directly on the mucous xurfuceit. Tho and looked with a proud confidence with great feeling —perhaps even granted by Judge Jackson of the north Richards, as United States circuit perfect combination of the two ingredients is Into the bright face, lifted to the found your pity!’ Our conversation is with a little anger. His grandfather ern district of West Virginia in the judge for the sixth circuit, and to what produces such wonderful results in curing extremely unpleasant, and I desire Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. touch. listened patiently to the youth’s im case of Ellis Gler.n, alias E. B. Glenn, Judge Vandeventer as United States F. J CHENEY & CO.. Props., Toledo, O. Then George was alone with his to put an end to it. Permit me to Sold by druggists, price 75c. patience, but he did not answer ex at.d remanded the case for trial. This judge of the eighth circuit. Later in Hall'a Family Pills nre the best. mother: but she was full of little return to the house.” actly to his expectations. is the “man-woman ’’ case which has the day J”dge Vandeventer started “Let it be so. I will see y?u to household affairs; and he could not “My Joris, ” he said, “so hard it is attracted considerable attention. The for St. Louis, where he will hear argu Beauty Is often one woman's thorn ta morrow in town. ” bring into them a subject so close to accept what goes against our woman for years masqueraded as a ment Wednesday in the Northern Se another woman ’s flesh. He stood in the center of the road and so sacred to his heart. “I will wishes. If Cornelia Moran you had man under the name of Ellis Glenn. curities case. way watching his son ’s angry car ALL UP-TO-DATE IIOt'SKKEEPERS speak to my mother in the morinir.g£ not met, would your father's desires She was tried for forgery in Wood Use Red Cross Ball Bluo. It niakos cloth— riage and his rapid, uneven steps. he thought. “To-night her mind is bo so impossible to you? Noble and County, West Virginia, at the May Miss Taylor Loses. clean and sweet as when new. All grocers. “He is in a naked temper, without full of other things.” generous would they not seem—” term of court, 1901, and the Jury dis Washington, March 17. —The Dis even civil disguise, ” he muttered, The usher Is one man who can make But in the morning Mrs. Hyde was “But I have seen Cornelia, and I agreed. She claimed at that time ♦bat trict Supreme Court dismissed the pe~kus* ail "take a back seat. still more interested in “other “and I hope that he will keep away love her.” she was the sister of “Ellis Glenn. ” At tition of Miss Rebecca J. Taylor for a from his mother in his present unrea things.” She had an architect with “In too great a hurry are you. Miss the fall term of court, when she came mandamus to compel the Secretary of PWo's Cure for Consumption It nn Infallible son. ” medicine for coughx and colds — N. W. .Samuel . her, her servants were to order, her Moran may not love you. She may up for retrial, she claimed that she war to restore her to a clerical posi His mother was, however, George's Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, I'JOd house to look after. So he ate his refuse ever to love you. Beside this, was being placed in jeopardy for the tion in the war department. She gave breakfast rapidly, and went out to the first desire. He did not believe she in his family her father may not wish same offense, and sued out a writ of notice of appeal to the court of ap Straight bharacter cannot come out of crooked living. new stables. He expected to find the would sanction his sacrifice to Annie you. A very proud man is Doctor hapeas corpus beforq Judge Jackson. peals. She was dismissed for pub General there, and he was not disap Hyde. When he reached the house John.” The writ was granted, but Judge Jack lished criticisms of the administra pointed. There was much to interest he found that his mother had gone to “Faith, sir, I had not thought of son ’s decision is now overruled. tion ’s Philippine policy. them; men were busy draining and the pond to feed her swans, and he myself as so very disagreeable. ” Chief Justice Fuller announced a re decided to ride a little out of his way building stone walls; plowing and “No. Vain and self-confident Is a cess of the court until April 6. Telegraphers Meet. sowing, and digging and planting. in order to see her there. Upon the young man. See, then, how many Washington. March 17. —Officials of Yet, in the midst of all this busy soft earth the hoofs of his horse were things may work this way, that way, SUSTAIN ILLINOIS COURT. the International Union of Commer jV? life, George detected in his father’s not audible, but when he came within and if wise you are you will be quiet cial Telegraphers and of the Order of manner an air of melancholy. Pres her sight, it was wonderful to watch and wait, for events. Now I shall Just United States Supreme Bench Upholds Commercial Telegraphers of America PLEASANT the transformation of her counte ently he asked, “How goes it with say a word or two on the other side. Decision in State Case. are in session here. An effort is mak nance. A great love, a great joy, your law books, George? ” If your father is so set in bis mind Washington. March 17. —The Su ing to consolidate the two organiza “Faith, sir, I must confess, very in swept away like a gust of wind, the about the Hydes, let him do the Jus tions. The officers of the two or peace on its surface, and a glowing, preme Court of the United States has differently. I have no senses that tice to them he wishes to do; but it refused to consider the decision of the ganizations were presented to the way.” loving intelligence made her instant is not right that he should make you President. ly restless. She called him \fith Illinois Supreme Court on the act or "Consider, George, that not only do it for him.” THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW sweet Imperiousness, “George! Joris! May 10, 1901, in relation to the dis AND MY COMPLEXION IS BETTER. this estate, but also the estate of your “He says that only I can give An Bank in Florida Is Closed. Mr doctor Mr* it aria gantla nn tha at«m*rb. liwr Joris! My dear one! ” and he an connecting of territory from cities and •nd kidney* and ia a nlMaant laaatire. Tbi* drink i* Grandfather Van Heemskirk must nie justice.” villages. The decision was brought Washington. March 17. —The First m* THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1903. „, injudiciously, untime saloons in the county of Clinton are BUSINESS DIRECTORY. THE INDEPENDENT ly used. * Tfie same remark will apply located In the village of Bt. Johns. If A. E. RICHARDSON, ESTABLISHED 1«6 BY GKO. 8. COKBIT. with equal force to the improper use of there are sixteen In tbe entire county DR. FENNER’S I. MARION E. DODGE, MusioTeaohe very many other medicinal substances ; (and there are probably more) at the rate of five hundred dollars annual tax Attorneys. Orsiot, it Cumrom Avm., Ur SrAimm. for example, opium, morphine qoinine, CONTRACTOR- BUILDER chloroform, cocaine, etc. for each one, they have abated or less DOLING * KELLEY, Attorneys at Law, UNION THONI NO. 7. It is very much to be regretted that ened tbe otherwise necessarv taxation KIDNEY - Jobber in House Repairing D St Johns, Mloh. Office upstairs on Walk any persons, old or young, men or of tbe citizens of this county within er street east. 1**# SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: the last twenty-five years, to the And Jobber in all kinds women, will becloud their intellects, of Woodwork to order. vtokton * JAMIBON, Attorneys at Law One Year...... Bl.OO impair their abilities, do violence to amount of two hundred thousands of Office over St. Johns National Bank, St Six Months...... ™...... AO their physical organisms by an improper dollars. Backache The place to buy your Screens. Johns, Mich. 18*9 Three Months...... W use of liquors or of any of the other Under the prohibition law the ex All disease* of Kidneys, T>EKKIN, BALDWIN A WALSWORTH, The subscription department Is under the pense for prosecutions was large, and , Agency'for the A Attorneys at-law. Money Loaners and charge of Oeo. S. Corblt, to whom subscrip drugs above mentioned. Why have the Bladder,__ Idor, urinaryUrinary Or«„.Organs. laws in the past, why is it that the there was no revenue derived from the ■Also Rheumatism, sack BEST ROOFING ON THE MARKET. Real Estate Agent*. No. 11, 2d floor, Cllntou tions may be paid. saloons by taxation. ache, HeartDlsease. Gravel avenue, St. Johns. change proposed to be effected on the Dropsy. Female Troubles. CURE sixth day of April next, why is it that The United States government col 8hop opp. Wood Bro. ’s mill. ' KARL BROWN Attorney at Law, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1903. lects an internal revenue tax from each a Johns .Mich. Office in the Clinton block all these efforts have been and are to be Don ’t become discouraged. There Is a ST. JOHNS. MICH. aimed at the suppression of the use of person engaged in the sale of liquors. cure for you. If neeessury write Dr. Fenner. ONEY TO LOAN on real estate security SNTEHED AT THE ST. JOHN’S. MICH.. POSTOKFICE only one of the drugs above mentioned? At the time that Gratiot county He lius spent a life time curing Just sucb M by Henry B. Walbrldge, St. Johns. 16»S AS SECOND-CLASS MATTEH. To this question I have many times changed over frqm the license or tax cases as yours. All consultations Free. law, to prohibition under a “ local op “Eight months In bed, heavy backache, YON A MOINKT, Attorney* at Law, St. received the reply “Because a drunken pain and soreness across kidneys, also rheu CHICHESTER’S ENGLISH j Johns. Mich. Office over Chapman's store. State Democratic Ticket. man advertises his condition in a way tion ” vote, (as we are asked to do on matism Other remedies failed. Dr. Fen to disturb tlie jieace of the community: the 6th day of April next), Mr. Otis ner ’s Kidney and Backache Cure cured me ILL H. BRUNSON, Attorney at Law and Fuller was internal revenue collector completely. H. WATERS, Ilaiulet, N Y." PENNYROYAL PILLS Solicitor In Chancery. Office over the lienee we have a right to enact and Wpost-office, St. Johns, Mich. 1616 For Justide of the Supreme Court — enforce restrictive laws to protect our for this district. Druggists. 50c., fl. Ask for Cook Book —Free. HON. JAMES 11. POUND. selves, whereas the morphine eater, to He affirms from actual records that E. A E.L. WALBRIDGE, Attorneys at For Regents of the University — the number who secured government CT VITlIR’flANPP Sure Cure- Circular. Dr • Law, St. Johns, Mich. 1387 HON. WELLINGTON R. BURT. bacco user, etc., harm themselves oniy. ” Ol-VIlUO UAIUlCFenner. Fredouia.N.Y H WILLIS J. ABBOTT. Our modest “fellow citizen” and licenses to sell liquors in that county many others, however, evidently seek —the Dumber of persons actually en- Dentistry. County Ticket. the change proposed principally, if not gugaged iu selling liquors at retail--was You will never again have an oppor o°° entirely, through sympathy for the greatly increased during the continu tunity to get themat such wonderfully E. CORBIN, M. D., D. D. 8. To get the ance of the positive prohibition law. MafV. Always reliable. Ladle*. *sk Druggist for G.a benefit of tLj experience, medical know County Ct drunkard himself, expecting thereby to low prices as we now offer them to < IIK IRIATCK N ENtiLIKH ill Red and ledge and surgical skill wnlcb areindtspensa- C. BLANK, of Elsie. remove the jiossibility of procuring li With a knowledge of these facts, Gold metallic boxes, sealed with blue ribbon. ble to perfection of results in dentistry apply ROBERT you. T®*)* *»*» oilier. Refuse dangerous substi to Corbin St Son, 8t. Johns. quors. How much consistency is there “how are you going to vote? ” tutions anti imitation*. Buy of your Druggist, in that expectation? That is a very im Shall we turn the wheels of progress I or send 4e. in stamps for Particular*. Te*tl- H. KENYON, Dentists. Over Weils’ Ax architect has made a startlong backward for a quarter of a century, , luoulaU and •* Relief for Ladle*,’’ in Utter, Grocery. St. Johns, Mich. portant question for yonr consideration I b>; fw'ura Mall. 10,000 Testimonials. Bold by discovery that the captial roof at Lan at this particular time. Let us investi and enact all those bitter fights and j all Druggists. sing is unsafe, and that some 400 pound gate and reflect. feuds all over again? Or shall we OHIO HESTER CHEMICAL OO. G. H.MANN.D. D.S. Officeover have the good sense to “let well enough | MOO Madison Square, PH I LA., PA. Spaulding & Co.s hardware, op chunks of cement are liable to crash Prior to the year 1855 there was no LOUIS BORON Mentis* tkll y*po. posite The 8teel Hotel. Surgery alone? ” a specialty. Office hours.8 to D down on the senators at any minute. law in this state either to prohibit or to These remarks have all been based 1 a.m., 1:30to5p. m., 7 to 8. eve’g Some of them want a new roof, but for regulate the sale of intoxicating spirits. on conceded legal powers. Certainly Then in saloons, drug stores, hotels, aud there must be a moral aspect iu the | General Physicians. mercy sake, keep the old roof on and it parhajw ill other places, such liquors HON. J. W. FOBDNEY. President. case. , HODSK1N GALE, M. D. Office ove may cause the senate to adjourn earlier were freely retailed by jiersous, many W. H. HOWLAND, Secretary. of whom were entirely irresponsible and Really, have I any moral right—pos- j Auctioneer. W• State Bank. Night calls at TLe Steel. some of whom were entirely conscience sessing the power —to decide for my Office hours:—11 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 3 and 7 tokp.m neighbor what he may eat and drink? Will cry sales by the day or on com There was' much in the closing less.. mission. Speaks English, German V. DOOMSG, Physician and Surgeon. hours of Congress to inspire hope in Then in the early history of this new Our modest “fellow citizen” may en FIDELITY Office over Allison ’s store, St. Johns. state, the moral sentiment of the com joy a cup of good coffee. and French. Has had large exper the hearts of the Democrats. As Mr, munity was at a much lower ebb thau Large numbers of very excellent peo ience, well acquainted with all Accident £ Protective Society S. LEONARD, M. D., Physician, Sur- Lincoln once said. “You can ’t fool* all it is at the present time. Then drunken ple think coffee very harmful. Have kinds of farm property, stock and E• goon and Kiectrologfst.Ovid, Mich. they the moral right to deprive our household goods. Call at The In OF SAGINAW, MICH. of the people all of the time,” and brawls and street fights were not at lUl dependent office for dates. B. DODGE. M. D., Surgeon and Homeo- uncommon in mining eamffs and in modest “fellow citizen” of his cup of Pays for los9 of time by accident and • pat hie Physician. Office and residence there are many indications that the Jover Spaulding&Co ’8 hardware,opptbe8teel. frontier towns ; and, m fact, the older coffee? If instead of coffee he should LOUIS BORON, sickness, and pays a death benefit from people have learned a few things about indulge freely in the use of absinthe, either natural or accidental causes. Ten C. DUNN, M. D.,'Physician and Sur- aud better organized places were not all per cent, additional given to all benefits the dominant part. exempt from them. These experiences as many do in France and become dan R. F. D. No. 4 . St. Johns, filch. when policy Is one year old, or when * geon. Office over Spaulding A Compa gerously frantic in consequence, the twelve months is paid In advance. ny’s hardware store, St. Johns, Mich. Office so wrought nixm public sentiment as to r. hours 1 to 4, 7 to 9 p. m. cause the legislature in the year 1855 law of self protection would give to us Claims paid on sight and in cash. No The Grand Ledge Times, a republi to enact a strict law prohibiting the the moral right to restrain him; but future assessments deducted from HART, M. D., Physician and Sur sale of ardent spirits or mait liquors at so long as he in no way interferes with claims. Inuulre of CHAS D. CLARK, H• geon. Eureka, Mich. 1217 can paper, says: “Unless a Michigan the rights of others he is certainly en Independent office, St. Johns. legislature had a scandal of some sort retail anywhere in the state. SENT FREE TO M. HAVENS, M. D„ Homeopathic Phy This law prescribed the usual penal titled to his cup of coffee —to all the Reliable Agents Desired. W sician and Surgeon. Office over Noble connected with it we might not know ties of fines and imprisonment for its rights of freedom —in this boasted free Burnett's store. country. that the law makers had been in ses violations. From a strict prohibition C- A. BYERLY, Dist. Agent, R. 8.E.GILLAM,Physician and Surgeon sion. While the legislature was on its law much improvement was expected. For eacli drunken, boisterous man MEN AND WOMEN! owosso, MICH. Office at residence, opposite court bouse This law—strict prohibition —remained that we see now under our existing DR. ANDREW B. SPINNEY, Dwest. Office hours 1 to 4 p. m and 6 to 9 p. m recent northern junket, Senator La- law, there certainly were a dozen or Formerly ef Detroit, tid proprietor of Reed City upon our statute books, and was thor iMltaHaa. The old reliable frpeelalWt, crowned Flamboy was accompanied on the trip oughly tested for a period of twenty more to be seen during the continu with forty yooro of unparalleled puccesa in treating Undertakers. ance of the strict prohibition law. Nervou*. I rlimrj, Hexuul. and all forms of Chronic by his stenographer, aud it is said years. The older voters will all dis IHaeaaea, has such faith in his ability to cure whet ILL & KDD OSGOOD, Undertakers that such a degree of intimacy existed tinctly remember the lesson we learned Shall we blindly ignore such facts? others fail that ho will send on© month's treatment W opp. post-office,St. Johns. Mich. G. E. Corbin . free. He has no patent medicine to advertise, nor a between the two as to cause the mat by that protracted experiment ; where F&KE SPECIFIC. Each caw Is carefully studied by it- I as the younger voters, not knowing, •elf, aud will reoeivatha most careful attention. rons of the party to elevate their nasal Game* For Winter Evening*. Particular attention i* given to the treatment of the should lie informed that they may vote Following long-standing diseases, vit.: Nasal taturrh, : Michigan Suburban Railroad. appendages whenever the unfortunate intelligently. Here are a fe>v games that do not re Polypus. Mucous and Follicular Diseases of the Throat, — pair happened in their immediate quire any apparatus and very little We Can Not | “The Lansing, St. Johns & St. Louis Line.” Very well. Consider the following ------*uvt|/iouv vuiiouiiipiuiu, ASU1- I Lv. St. Johns —8.20 a.m., 1:15 p.m., 5.00 p m. vicinity. The senator from Montcalm thinking: mn, Uumwj of tho Heart, General Debility, Diseases statement of facts. Try to stand for five minutes without Peculiar to Women, Neuralgia and al! form* of Ner. j A k . Lansing —9.00 a.m., 2.00 p.m., 5.45 p.nt. explains his conduct by saying that rout Diseases, Diseases of the Kidney* and Bladder. 1 The desire for liquors was in no way moving and with your eyes blindfolded. Stricture*. Constipation, Plies, Fissure, Flsiula, Irrita ! Lv. Lansing —7.30 a.m., 11 00 p.m., 4.00 p.m. changed or lessened by the law. ble and Indolent Uloers, Hip Disease*. Scrofula, Blood Make prices lower than when lie invited the lady to accom Get up out of a chair without bend ?. ojftu Disease*. Surgical Disease* of ail forma, the \ 1 A k . St. Johns —8.15 a.m., 11.45 p m-, 4-45 p.ir». The number of places where it was r.ye. Ear, Face and Internal Organ*, including De any one on earth, but pany the party lie w;is moved to do so ing your body forward or putting your formities, Olub Feet, Cross-Eyes, Tumor*. Hare Lip*. < retailed was certainly not diminished; etc AlsoJaundioe, Drstiepsia, Diarrhea, and all forms we can SUNDAY TRAINS. by only the loftiest motives. By the but the persons who were willing to foot back under the chair. You ’ll be of Liver, Stomach ana Bowel Disease*. Lv. St. Johns —10.00 a.m., 5.00p.m. YOUNG MEN led into evil habits, not knowing the A k . Laxsinu —10.40 a.m. 5.45 p.m. way. what good does the state derive engage in the illegal traffic—the per very clever if you can do it. barm, and now nervous wrecks, unfit for study, social sons who were willing to defy the law. Lay a match across the nay of your pleasures or business, with loss of memory, headache, from these biennial picnic parties?” weak back, palpitation, red and sunken eye*, pimples, Lv. Lansi .no —9.00 a.m., 4.C0 p.m. hoping by scheming and misrepresen middle finger and try to break it by tired mornings.no ambition, aversion to society,dream* Give A k . St. Johns —9.45 a.m., 4.45 p.m. and ioxwes, deposit* in the urine.which i« passed too of tation to evade its penalties —were pressing upon It with the first and ten, sometime* smarting, milky urine, kidney trouble, found to be far more unscrupulous than third fingers of the same hand. gonorrhoea, gleet, stricture, or any disease of the sexu $10.00 book tickets on sale for $8.00. LOCAL OPTION. their predecessors. Occasionally a man al system, oan here find a safe and speedy cure. Charges As low a price as pos D. W. JOHNSTON. was convicted and fined, but that was Stand with your left foot, shoulder rTSra5,rSi#ll«Y^hiifrLeCblSSKd ,»d^ Munager, Lansing and the left side of your head touching ease*, painful swellings, bone pains, mucous patches sible and do good hon the exception. Most or the attempts in the mouth, hair loose, pimples on the back, and PAST AXD PRESENT CONDITION IN- the wall and try to kick with your **rty growths. These cured fer life without the use est made were failures. If. was found to of Injurious drug*. CLINTON COUNTY. be exceedingly difficult to procure posi right foot. VARIOOOELE. PILES, Etc.. Ctrkd at One*. Grand Trail Railway System HAVE YOU the seeds of any past disease lurking in tive evidence of sales. your system ? IMPOTENCY, or Loss of Sexual Power, The Tallest Tree* That Grow. and do you contemplate MARRIAGE? Do you feel "How Are You Going to Vote? ” Drunken men upon the streets could •are in taking thissteD? You can ’t afford to take any West-Bound trom St. Johns . not be relied upon as witnesses. They The highest trees iu the wurld are risk. W e cure all such cases by building up thesystem Work Editors of St. Johns Papers, One and and purifying the blood. No. 19— Morning Exp.to Gd. Haven, 11:00 am All:—In a very few weeks the voters of would refuse to tell where they had the eucalyptus trees, which are fa If you cannot be treated successfully at home, he will • No. 13— Mail and Chicago Exp. to tell you what he can treat you for at the Sanitarium, Gd. Haven ...... 3:15pm the county of Clinton will be called up procured their liquors. Many of them mous because It is believed that they where you can receive the best of treatment at thelow would indignantly deny having had have the quality of purifylug regions est price of any Sanitarium in the country, and where Call and look over our No 11—Express to Grand Rapids 7:57 pm on to express an opinion by ballot on a he has a flrst-claes medical staff and the beet of profes subject of very great importance to the any liquor at all. Juries would seldom that are cursed with fever. There are sional nurses. work and get prices on No. 17 —Western Exp. to Gd. Haven 7:25am Those unable to come to the Ranltarium should write Nos. 19.13,11, Daily except Sunday whole community. For this reason I agree; some men on each jury sympa nearly 100 different varieties of euca particulars, inclosing stamp, and reoeive question list. same before placing thizing with the liquor dealer. Prose Thousands cured at home by correspondence. Write - No. 17, Dally. earnestly hope you will all be willing to lyptus, uearly all of which reach great us, and if the case is one that can be treated at hornet i your orders. cuting attorneys in various counties of ast ound publish the following statement of facts. heights. The biggest variety produces we will do so. Consultation free. Our honest opinion | E -B I notice that a “fellow citizen,” who the state were frequently charged Uwnys given, and good, honest, careful treatment given No. 12—Express to Detroit and East 8:28 am with making weak cases intentionally trees that grow to such enormous a. every patient. Address all mail to from modesty or other reason withholds heights that no structure in the world REED CITY SANITARIUM, No. 20— Mall to Detroit ...... 11:31am his name, in The St. Johns News ex for precisely the same reason. Reed City. Michigan Walter & Hodge No.18--EveninKExp.to Detroit and horts all voters to vote conscientiously. ■ Many prosecuting attorneys who had can compare with them. Trees have East...... -...... 4:42 pm He also expresses great sympathy for been thus criticised, positively refused been measured that were 390, 405 and Dr* A. B. Spinney will be at the to act at all in subsequent cases. That No. 14—Eastern Exp. to Durand and the “man who lias come within the even 450 feet high. They are not as STEEL HOTEL ST- JOHNS, on East...... 8:52 pm power of the demon, strong drink. ” was the case with one in Clinton coun big around as would be expected, the Nos. 20. 18, 12, Dally except Sunday. As I understand the situation, the ty. Then contributions were solicited. largest beihg only a little more than THURSDAY, MARCH 19, from No. 14 Dally. ballot to be cast on the sixth day of A purse was raised, and Randolph twenty-five feet in girth. 8 a. m- to 4 p m W. J. BLACK. April next is to decide this question, Strickland was employed as attorney Agent. viz: Will we in the county of Clinton to prosecute all subsequent cases. continue to permit the sale of spiritu A large number of noble and earnest ‘Z-X’ WW ’Z •f-S* W '■Z-V'n-V ous aud malt fiquors under the existing women of this village formed them law witli its restrictions and conditions, selves in to committees to procure proof as lias been done for a dozen or more of sales. They made some progress in year* in the past, or, will we attempt to the direction of interesting and secur prohibit the sale of all liquors under a ing spies among their gentlemen ..Read Our Magnificent $2 Offer.. peualty of fines, or imprisonment, or friends; but it soon became apparent both? that all such spies were in danger of A Year’s Subscription to THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, $1.00 personal violence, and hence they re That language briefly, fairly, candid fused to testify. OO. WE A Year's Subscription to Gjnkey's Home Journal ...... 50 ly expresses the question at issue. Study One evening at ten o ’clock a brick FOR OFFER A Year's Membership in the American Musical Association ...... LOO it well; reflect; be careful and conscien bat was violently hurled through Mr. tious in depositing your ballot. The Strickland ’s office window, aimed at YOU A Set of Any 5 Books from our list of 30Standard Titles...... L25 youqger class of voters may not see his head. The music alone in 12 successive issues of Conkey’s Home Journal would coat you 96.00 / rvri their duty clearly. They may hesitate. , if purchased in sheet form...... O.UU With the older class there is no occa ■ One morning the north end and west sion whatever for hesitation. side of the old Methodist church build K TOTAL VALUATION OF $9.75 ALL FOR $2.00. On no subject whatever can we pro ing were observed to be badly smeared with black ink, numerous bottles NO MORE LIBERAL OFFER WAS EVER PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC from new. perfect plates, on good quality of ^book^paper, cure any better guide for our future and are bound in strong cloth stamped with a beautiful design in attractive colors. We have only 600 of these sets and can make this wonderful offer for a limited time only. conduct than by a carefnl and intelli having been hurled and broken gent study of the records of the past. against the walls of the building du READ THE TITLES NOTE THE PROMINENT AUTHORS There is no occasion whatever for any ring the night. A large percentage of uncertain experimentation on this stfb- the women ’s “smelling committe. ” (so Set Mo. i. Popular Fiction Set Mo. 3. "Poetic Masterpieces Set Mo. 3. For "Boys ject. All the legal aspects of the liquor called), were members of the M. E. BLACK ROCK...... Ralph Connor LONGFELLOW’S POEMS...... H. W. Longfellow LITTLE LAME PRINCE...... Miss Mulock question have been thoroughly tried in church. TURBB MEM IM A BOAT...... Jerome K. Jerome HOLMES’ POEMS...... Oliver W. Holmes TRY AGAIN...... Oliver Optic This is but a fair sample of the fail ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN...... WHITT IBR’8 POEMS...... J. G. Whittier WATER BABIES...... Charles Kingsley the state of Michigan; have been thor HOUSE OF THE WOLF .. ^...... Stanley J. Weyman LUCILB...... Owen MeredithROLLO IN LONDON...... Jacob Abbott oughly tried in the county of Clinton. ures and of the feelings engendered in SIGN OP THE FOUR...... Conan Doyle THB PRINCESS...... Alfred TennysonTALES FROM SHAKESPBARB...... C. and M. Lamb The sentiment of the people of the all the counties of the state, in a vig orous twenty years effort to enforce a Set Mo. 2. Standard Classics Set Mo. 4-. For Girts Set Mo. 6. "Religious state of Michigan on the subject of tem ...... R- D. Blackmore BLACK BEAUTY...... Anna Sewall PILGRIM’S PROGRESS...... John Bunyan perance was indicated at an early date, strict prohibition law in the state JOHN HALIFAX...... Miss Mulock FLOWER FABLES...... Louisa M. Alcott IMITATION OF CHRIST...... Thomas a Kempis as we can see by the language of ‘Arti of Michigan. After this fierce tight, SKETCH BOOK...... * ...... Washington Irving LADDIE, AND MISS TOOSIB’S MISSION...... KEPT FOR THB MASTER’S USE...... F. R. Havergal THE SCARLET LBTTBR...... Nathaniel Hawthorne ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND...... DAILY FOOD FOR CHRISTIANS...... cle 4 of Section 47 of the constitution of prolonged effort, and pronounced fail AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE...... the state as adopted in the year 1851. ure, the people of the entire state earn UNCLE TOM’S CABIN...... Harriet BeecherStowe PARADISE LOST...... John Milton That article reads as follows, viz: estly sought a repeal of the law. Cf»nkpv\ Hnmp .Imirnnl Is one of the best family magazines published. It contains from 36 to 68 pages, is printed on good paper and is beautifully illustrated “The legislature shall not pass any act A proposition to so amend the con .... ., ., I ne home departments are as follows: Lesions in Home Millinery. Home Dressmaking, an Up-to-Date Pattern Department, Lac THE OLD RELIABLE PERSONAL MENTION. | COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS Rev. McGregor was In Ovid yesterday. 8t. Johns , Mich., March 2, 1903. Joseph Bowers, of Fowler, was in town Recularfm eating. Monday. Called to ordaifby President Ballard. Wm. H. Snelltng, of Fowler, was In St.Johns Present, Trustees Barnett, Richardson, Stone, on business Monday. Vauoonsant. » NOBLE BURNETT Minutes of February meetings read and ap Morris Hayes, of Fowler, was transacting proved. business tn St. Johns Saturday. The following claims were presented and Miss May Haurord, of Plymouth, Is a guest were referred to the committee on claims: IS SHOWING of Miss Minnie Baker, this week. 1801— John Hicks...... 1627 11 Miss Martha Anger went to Detroit Monday 1805— Hiram Dunn ...... 1 50 to study the spring styles In millinery. 1806 — Simoon Tenyek...... 7 60 J. G. Watkln left Tuesday ou a few days business trip to Ionia and other points. Total Water Fund ...... $636 21 A. C. Lewis, of Detroit, spent Saturday and 1106—A. O. Hunt ...... 7...... ( 3 75 Sunday with Miss Fleagie. in Greenbush. 1109— Pay Roll — J. B. Henderson ...... 60 00 *AKlN0 Mr. and Mrs. T. Lee went to Pewamo Tues J. Bristol ...... 60 CO day for a visit with relatives and friends. O. L. Richmond ...... 45 00 \ Mrs. J. T. Wood and daughter Lucy, of Grant Hall...... 45 00 NEW SPRING GOODS Fowler, were visitors in St. Johns Monday. Orley Randolph ...... 25 00 POWDER M. McDonald ...... 25 00 Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Moore are In attendance OF EVERY DESIRABLE KIND. Absolutely Pure at the Grange dinner at Mr. Forbes ’ today. Charles Fehr____...... 40 00 Mrs. John H. Frit/, went to Owo9so Satur 1110— Viscosity Oil Co...... 10 80 THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE day to visit with two sisters and a brother. 1111— Michigan Elect. Co ...... 146 07 George Baldwin and Edward Martin,, of Total Electric Fund ...... $460 42 Fowler, were transacting business In St.Johns S ******* *^*A*M*M ******** **************************** 2694—C. A. Putt...... $100 00 Monday. 2095—Charles Hulse, Tr. H. Co ...... 10 00 \ LOG At JOTTINGS 1 Mrs. C. B. Griffin left yesterday morning 2696— G. IV. Thompson, Tr. H. A L. Co.... 4 50 The Styles Are Right; for Detroit and Cleveland In the Interest of 2697 — J. H. Shulls...... 12 15 her millinery business. 2698 — Wood Engine House ...... 3 50 With the early spricjj come the worst Mrs. A. G. Jones and two children, went to 2699— Fowler A Ball...... 4 75 .roads we have ever experienced. Owosso last Saturday to spend Sunday with 2700 — Jones A LeBaron ...... 1 24 her mother, Mrs. Gardner. 2701 — Spaulding A Co ...... 3 59 The Quality Good; Are you mindful of the fact that you Mrs. L. G. Palmer returned to her home in 2702 — J. W. Keeney...... 50 00 have well entered the Lenten season ? Big Rapids yesterday after a week’s visit M. McDonald ...... 25 00 with her cousin, Mrs. K. A. Moore. JayMattoou ...... 30 00 The Conversation Club will meet John Crichton...... 10 00 J. T. Mlllmun and C. T. Babcock were at with Mrs. O. W. Muu^er on Monday 2703 — A. E. Richardson ...... 814 62 The Prices Reasonable. Alma Tuesday In attendance at the annual 2704 — Loren Castle...... 88 92 evening, March 23. meeting of the Union Telephone Co. 2705 — Pulfrey A Pouch...... 34 70 R. G. Clark is confined,to his home James H. Collins, of Ionia, was In town last 2706 — Geo. A. Wells...... 1 20 by another severe affliction —this time Saturday. From here he went to Plymouth 2707 — Electric Plant ...... 281 50 coupled with great pain in his head. to attend the funeral of a sister last Sunday. Dr. W. H. Gale returned to St. Louis, Mich., Total General Fund ...... $975 67 Some very Special Bargains in Suits and Skirts, a* Sixteen citizens of Ovid, chiefly lad Mouday morning, to continue treatment at 2708 — Fowler A Ball...... $ 1 40 ies. attended the lecture by Professor the mineral springs for sciatic rheumatism. 2709 — Philanus Emmons...... 169 49 Troop, at Harmonie Hall, last Mon Mrs. J. Wilcox returned to her home in 2719 —Spaulding A Co ...... 2 25 Grand Itaptds Tuesday, after a« extended 2711 — St. Johns Table Co ...... 1 60 Handsome Patterns in Linoleums, 1 yd, 2 yd, 4 yd ^ day evening. visit with her nepeew. J. S. Tatro and other 2712 — Mead A Roehon ...... 1 00 “A merchant always watches the relatives and friends in this village. 2713 — L. G. McKnight...... 3 81 (Fine Inlaid Linoleum in stock at Reasonable Prices.) fS Rev. 8. C, Weed, of Oberlin. Ohio, spent 2714 — Pay Roll — clerk who watches the clock, and the Richard Foley ...... 34 95 fellow who quits a job before he is 8unduy with Rev. A. Blnkhorst. and very ac ceptably tilled the pulpit In the Congrega William Corkins ...... 28 05 9 through soon has no job to*quit. ”— tional church, both morning and evening. John Crichton...... 30 The finest line of Lace and Muslin Curtains Samuel Salt, in “Adam Rush.” Charles Townsend ...... 180 John Horn and family will start Monday Sherley Woodliam ...... 30 Party lines were drawn at the Port next for their new home In Douglass county. Charles Bannister ...... 3 00 at 50c, 89c, $1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 2.00, 2.50, 3.00,1 land village election this year, the Re Washington. Mr. Horn has sold his farm 3X Abe Foster ______6 60 publicans electing their ticket with miles rtortb or Elsie, to Wm. H. Snelltng, of Joe Acre...... 16 50 3.75, 4.75, 6.75, 8.75, $10.00 a pair. the exception of Wm. Ryan, demo Fowler. Chas. Atkinson ______6 30 Mrs. C. Pittfleld, who has been visiting Rev. Robert DeGursey...... 7 20 crat, for treasurer, who won out with and Mrs. McDermand, returned to her home Simeon Tenyek...... 1 70 eight majority. at Sarnia. Ont., Tuesday last. She was ac William Beach 25 The head of an ignited match flew companied by Mrs. McDermand for a short Geo. Ticknor ...... 7 80 Special Values in Fine Dress Goods, black and S visit at Sarnia. Lewis Throop ....______5 40 into the lace curtains in the Maple “Sol ” Richards, formerly of St. Johns and Clarence Woodruff ...... 90 colors. , H Rapids hotel, one day last week, caus now a resident of Lansing, where he is en ing a blaze. The curtains were speed gaged in the house painting business, was in Total Highway ...... $300 60 ily pulled down and thrown out. thus this village last Saturday. From here he The finance committee submitted their report preventing a conflagration. went to Bay City to visit his son Jasdn. for the year ending March 4, 1993. together with Fine line of Washable Taffetas and Skinner Satins H Mrs. S. I). Watson and Miss Emma Hunt, an the treasurer and clerk’s report. Geo. A. Estes and other local horse old schoolmate of Mrs. Watson, and residing Ou motion the reports were accepted and « dealers take no stock in the prediction at Toledo, who was here spending a respite adopted and ordered printed. thatthe automobile is going to put the from a busy clerieal life, went to Ithaca Sat By Trustee Stone: urday to visit a classmate, Kelley Syrle and Resolved : That the report of the commit Live Geese Feathers and Bed Pillows at Old i horse out of business. Things in their tee on claims be and is hereby accepted and line look brighter than they did a year family. Mrs. George Corwin, of Detroit, who had adopted. Prices. fi ago, and there is an increased demand been here visiting in the families of D. G. Yeas, Burnett, Richardson. Stone, Yau- « for good horses at fair prices. and G. H. Steele, went to Saginaw Monday to consant. Nays, 9. Rev. R. S. McGregor addressed a visit a sister. Mrs. Corwin was a resident of St. Johns when a small child, and everybody By Trustee Stone: large and intelligent audience at Maple knew her as “pretty little Fannie Curtis.” An ordinance to amentfOrdinance No. 58, ex tending the time to Bixty (60) days for the Lans Rapids one evening last week upon the From here her parents removed to Fenton, Thousands Saved By where her father, Wilson Curtis, died about ing, St. Johns A St. Louis Railway Co. and De question of local option, under the ti troit Tru9t Co. to accept the amendment adopt twenty years ago. tle of “ Two Sides of Local Option. ” ed January 19, 1903. The village of St. Johns DR. KING'S NEW DISCOVERY hereby ordains that the Lansing. St. Johns A It is said he handled the question to ******** ******************** ******** ******** the satisfaction of a majority of his St. Louis Railway Co. and Detroit Trust Co. are This wonderful medicine posi It Pays to Paint listeners. hereby granted sixty days ’ time from January tively cures Consumption, Coughs SCHOOL NOTES. 19,1903, to accept the amendment to said ordi Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Pneu Attorney H. J. Patterson has shown nance, adopted January 19,1903. [Reported by Charles B. Pierce. Student in Carried. monia, Hay Fever, Pleurisy, La- his patriotism by erecting a tine flag Grippe, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, There is nothing that adds to the selling value or the aft staff over the front porch of his new the Eleventh Grade.] Yeas, Burnett, Richardson. Stone,L Van* consant. Croup and Whooping Cough. and handsome residence, from which a The orations for the local oratorical renting value of a house like Good Paint. There is contest, which will take place in the Nays, 0. Every bottle guaranteed. No beautiful national emblem floats since St. Johns , Mich., March 2,1903. | nothing that makes home more home-like than Good jFjj first part of April were all handed in To the President and Council Cure. No Pay. Prioe 5Qo.&$l. the occurrance of the late village elec Trial bottle free. l Paint. It Pays to Paint. The better the paint, tion. He says people may expect that on Tuesday last. Gentlemen :— Professor A. S. Whitney, of Ann I hereby resign my position as a member of something of importance has or is to the council to take effect at once. the better it pays. occur when “Old Glory" is seen float Arbor, the university high school in A. E. RICHARDSON. ing from that staff. spector, reported favorably upon the On motion council adjourned. acceptance of St. Johns graduates m. McDonald , LYON & TEN EYCK THE Muskegon Heights is to be incorpo without examination at the U. of M. Clerk. rated a city, and large manufacturing This gives the graduates of the St. Proprietors of the industries have signified a willingness Real Estate Transactions. SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINTS Johns high school admission to the Arthur Wing and wife to Benja to locate there as soon as a system of min F. Wing n % of ne J4 of se X freshman class without examination of sec 12, Bath...... $ 200 00 water works can be secured for protec for the next three years. MAIN DRAY & BUS LINE PAY BEST tion against fire. A number of our George A Hibbard and wife to John Miss Morrison, who has been ill for A Beck. 30 a on e H of nw X of sec people who are interested in real estate 10, Greenbush...... 700 00 Prompt And Careftil Service some time, is again on dutv as teacher W H Robson and wife to Ralph at Reasonable Charges. Because they go farthest, last longest, and look best. there will be pleased to learn of this of the third and fourth grades of the Stanhope, land on Out Lot 1, Ovid 200 00 outlook and the possibility of saving Henry C Koenig to August W There is no paint like it for beauty and durability, East Ward. Koenig, lots 5 and 6, blk 41, St. Telephone or other orders left at The their investments. Miss Nellie Smith. Language teacher Johns...... 300 OC Steel for Bus calls wlfl receive careful for economy and satisfaction. For sale by Suit has been commenced in circuit Hettle Hicks to William E Slade, attention ; also for dray service for bag in the grades is organizing a boy lot 6, blk 118. St. Johns...... 500 00 gage or otherwise. court for this county against Eugene chorus. John Foerch and wife to Alonzo E Rail, charged with appropriating to Dunn, s 44 of w H of sw W sec 5. Lyon A TenEyck. The Sigmaw Epsilon society will and e 60 a of 4 4 of se sec 6, SPAULDING & CO. his own use, notes, mortgages and per hold an open meeting on Tuesday, the Bingham ...... 7800 00 sonal property to the amount of $2,000, William Stadel, Sr., to Charles C ST. JOHNS. MICHIGAN. twenty-forth, at 7:30 p. m. The pro Stadel, 64K a on s In of sw H sec 16, left by an aunt, Miss Mary Rail, who gram will be as follows: Bath...... 32.17 50 died two years ago at the home of de Simeon Hewitt, heirs by attorney, Debate—Earle Dodge and Miss Shaw to Ahram L. Underwood, 250 a of Granite & Marble fendant. Lucina Foster, of Jackson, 1 on the afflmative; Charles B. Pierce land on sec’s 5 and 6, Essex...... 5500 00 sister of the deceased, has employed Ernest E Sturgis and wife to Fred L and Virginia Watson, on the negative. Wilcox, e V4 of se W and 8e of ne H. J. Patterson, as administrator of Oration —Dale Finch. X sec 25. Greenbush...... 5300 00 Work. theestate, to conduct the case. Stebbins C Bliss to Charles N Cowles Recitation —Bernice Bush. et al. land on sw X of sw Hi s«c 9, Here is a puzzle that puzzles every Vocal solo —Miss Esther McCabe. Riley...... 60 00 Anna M Petsch to Jesse E Stone, n body. Take the number of your living Quartette—Bishop, Chick, Judd and 40 ft of w H of lot 4, blk 31, St. Johns 500 00 brothers, double the amount, add to it Wheat. Elizabeth H Richmond to John W Fitzgerald. 5 » on sw X of sw X M0B1CK i DAVIES 3, multiply the result by 5, add to it Instrumental trio —Chick, Scofield, sec 8, Bingham...... 405 00 WE DO FINE JOB PRINTING. the number of living sisters, multiply and Peck. Isaac Hewitt and wife to Henry D Schlarf, land on w H of ne 14 sec 8, The new firm, succes theresult by 10, add the number of Instrumental solo —Anna Fedewa. Essex...... 135 00 deaths of brothers and sisters, and sub Music by Mandolin Club. C J Stabler to W J Linn, land on tract loO from the result. The right blk 31, Dewitt ...... 1500 00 sors to F. F. Murdock, hand figure will be the number of Character sketch—Maude Krepps. Wilbur N Reddout and wife to Sarah deaths, the middle figure wfiil. be the Essay—Ivah Bannister. A Marvin, n 14 of se 14 sec 22. and will continue at the old number of living sisters and the left Newspaper—Fane Norton. nw X of sw 14 sec 23, Greenbush ... 7200 00 will show the number of living Chauncey B Vance to Edward M Rademacher, n H of nw 14 seo 32, stand and will be in bet K&K K&K K.LK K&K K & i\ K K brothers. The American Musical Association Lebanon ...... 3250 00 PhilipA Erlon and wife to William Have you read our magnificent offer furnishes its members sheet music, Exelby, 40 a on sw H sec 15, Ovid ... 2000 00 ter shape than ever before of a set of five elegant cloth bound folios, instruction books and every Fred L Wilcox et al to Joseph Elbach books, a year’s subscription toCockey ’s variety of musical literature at dis n 4 of nw fr’i 14 sec 31, Duplaln.... 4225 00 to sell you BLOOD POISON Geo W Gross et al to Charles L Hill, On Account of its terrible effects, blood disease le called the king of all dleeaaw. , Home Journal, nearly $6.00 worth of counts ranging from 50 to 90 per cent. se 14 of se H sec 29, Olive...... 1950 00 It may be either hereditary or contracted; so while it mar not be a crime to have sheet music and a year’s membership Thomas Hwaney et al to Calvin E the disease, It is a crime to permit it to remain in the srstem. It may manifest Persons who have occasion to purchase Sexton, land on w H of ne H. also Itself In the form of Scrofula, Bczema, rheumatic pains, stiff or swollen joints, in the American Musical Association, music or ask for advice on any subject on se 14 sec 29, Victor ...... 566 00 ttebiness of the skin, eruptions or blotches, nlcere In the mouth or on the tongue, together with a year’s subscription to Sylvester E Scott and wife to George The best, at the I sore throat, falling out of hair, ' sordered stomach, and a general depression of pertaining to music, cannot afford to \y Gross and wife, land on nw 14 of JWM the system. If you hare any of these symptoms don ’t neglect yourself You hare this paper, a total valuation of nearly nw 14 sec 83. Olive...... 700 00 I hi no time to lose. Beware of “old fogy ” treatment—beware of mineral poisons — miss this opportunity of obtaining a M| beware of Quacks and Fakirs. OUR NEW METHOD THIATMRNT $10.00 all for $2. If you have not sent George W Gross and wife to Sylves lowest prices membership in this association, prac ter E Scott, und ’d 14 of ne 14 of ne M !■ guaranteed tecure this disease, nerer to return. Bank Bonds wilt protect yon. in your order do so at once, as we are 600 00 fertl Our treatment le not injurious la any war, but reaches the eery root of the disease giving this oppurtunity to our readers tically free. X sec 32, Olive...... [73 snd eliminates ill poison from the sv»tera. 'The symptoms of disease gradually CALL AND SEE THEM. ■ A*disappear. The blood becomes pure and enriched, the whole system le cleansed for a short time only and we cannot Licensed to Wed. and purified, and the patient feels prepared anew for the duties and the pleasures make any promises as to how long it of life. COBBS OUAIAKTBBD OR NO PAY. IS Years ta will be open. A small damsel of twelve who dis Date * Name. Age Detroit. 3*0,000 Cssred. March14—Charles W. William. St. Johns.... 25 liked boys wrote an essay upon them. Coufultatio* Free. Question Blank lor Hoi** Treatment and Books Fra*. Lilt of Letters In which she said, “If I had my way, Essie Williams, St. Johns,...... 24 March14—George H. Darnells, Wacousta,... 31 Remaining In the St. Johns postofflee week half the boys in the world would be Hazel L. Lowell, Wacousta ...... 21 ending March 17, 190(1. girls and the other half would be dolls. ” March14—CharlesT. Riley, Greenbush,.... 36 MURDOCK & DAVIES. Brown, Rev. F. W. Plesely.Nesely, Miss Nelly. Esther Baum. Greenbush...... 21 rs kergan Jai D KENNEDYA Britton, Richard, Runcfman, Mrs. Jane. March16—Dennis A. Fox, Winn, Isabella.... 21 Foster, N. J. Tick, Mrs. Alice, Hate hurts the hater most Don ’t Jessie E. Hrodle, Mt. Pleasant,.- 21 Oor. Michigan Awe. end Shelby Ot.. Detroit, Mich. Klrchen, Mrs. John, Vance, Robert W. (i) Opposite the Postolfice. pinch yonraelf and expect other* to March16—Floyd Jones, Bengal, ...... 23 Miller, Mrs. Effle. F.desta E. Stowell, Bengal, ...... 20 K« K K*K Ku K K&K K 5. i t Ku K W. H. BRUNSON, P. M. feel the hurt—National Magazine. St. Johns - Michigan f.. V. v* . iK.W '. *<- ■ npEsr CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY. MARCH 19. 1903. 6 K "In th# course o t this trip they, ‘WILES OF A CONSUL always got to the graveyard sooner Philadelphia Society is Unique, or later and then Brown alwaya be MOW ONE MAN "CINCHED” DIP came deeply affected. Going around LOMATIC JOB. he pointed out this and that tomb Organization of Rich Men Formed to Relieve the Distress stone, accompanying his gestures with something like this: of One, Time Millionaires Who Hare Fallen •eeret of His Long Tenure In South “ ‘Do you see that grave over, Upon Evil Times* America Told After His Death— there T Well, that’s poor old Robin Mrmtr Mad Little Trouble In Driving Away son s. He came down here full of: Competitors. hopes of a good beginning in a bril- It is curious anti, indeed, startling, tunes or in othei ways suffered t&v lant career and, poor fellow, he was lays the Philadelphia North American, vicissitudes of time which come to so carried away at almost the beginning to find that right here in this city many. Jtnytf/vZui / A man from South America tells of it. there has existed for nearly fifty years The act of incorporation, dated 1854, this story of an American consul without the knowledge of more than a " 'If my memory does not fail me he says that the object is "to furnish re down there who died recently after few persons an association of men de lief to Indigent merchants of Philadel having retained possession of bis office came here on the 7th and died on the 11th. Oh, yes, he was the consul voted to a unique and unostentatious phia, and especially those who are through administration after adminis well-doing. Public Ignorance of their aged and infirm, ’’ and there is a com tration. here. I followed him, in fact “ ‘That over there is old Carey’s enterprise is all the more remarkable mentary on the ironic whims of cir r "Brown," he said, "held his post grave. He was a very popular fel from the fact that among these men cumstance in the fact that since that through sunshine and through rain, low, too. Yellow jack got him: I are some of the wealthiest, most in time 8300,000 has been paid out in ben through Republican and Democratic think he had hardly landed before he fluential and test-known citizens In efits. the community. administrations, through revolutions became ill. His folks were terribly In that first year seven merchants But it is the unusual character of and' through invasions, through yel cut up over it. Can ’t blame them. wore aided, while in the year Just their beneficence that attracts inter low fever and through everything " ‘And Paisley’s grave is somewhere past forty-three beneficiaries were on est. All these men (\re wealthy—some «lse on the South American calendar. in here. I don ’t see it Just now, but the roll and $10,200 was disbursed. beyond the dreams of avarice—but Mot that he was a particularly bright it’s here just the same. Yes, another Comparison of those figures might af their purpose has nothing to do with The Ills of Women Act upon the and shining light at the diplomatic case of yellow jack. ford matter for interesting speculation. the amelioration of the condition of ffame, either, and not that he worked “ ‘What’s the matter, old man? Not Is the merchant of to-day more reck the pauper. On the contrary, there is Nerves like a Firebrand. particularly hard at Washington to feeling well? Oh, it’s nothing, I dare less than he of half a century ago, or bold his job, for he just plodded along a society for the rescue of the de is it that the number of merchants The relation of woman ’s nerves and generative organs is very say. A fellow is often taken that way, cayed millionaire. close; consequently nine tenths of the nervous prostration, nervous In an even way and didn't appear to when he has been here a little while.’ has increased, and, therefore, of They call it the Merchants’ Fund as care a rap for his place. ‘‘The thing invariably ended in the course, the number of unsuccessful despondency, “tho blues,” sleeplessness, and nervous irritability of sociation, and the 49th annual meeting women arise from soma derangement of the organism which makes "I learned the secret of his system newcomer ’s taking the next steamer merchants. was held the other day in a little old her a woman. Herein we prove conclusively that Lydia E. Pinkham’# some years ago and now that he is back and in Brown blowing the gang More than $400,000 is now in the in room in South Fourth street, away Vegetable Compound will quickly relievo all this trouble. dead It won ’t do any harm to talk off at his joint. It was at the final vested fund of the organization, and it from the clamors of the more preten is almost constantly receiving accre •bout it scene of one of these occasions that tious virtues. tions, so that there is plenty left Details of a Severe Case Cured in Eau Claire, Wis. "The place where he was consul the poor old chap was taken off, and In a word, the plan of these kindly wherewith to provide for the unfortu was one of the choicest yellow fever he met one of the most tragic deaths 44 Dear Mrs . Pink riam : — I havo been ailing from femalo trouble for old gentlemen is to relieve once nate plutocrats of the future. If the past five years. About a month ago was taken with nervous prostra hatcheries anywhere on the globe. All in view of the circumstances, that I the I wealthy, companions of their early supply of unfortunate plutocrats holds tion, accompanied at certain times before menstruation with fearfnl head the troublesome applicants for consu ever heard of. days, who have since lost their for out. aches. I read one of your books, and finding many testimonials of the beno- lar Jobs who went to Washington ‘‘He had ordered the first bottle flcial effects of Lydiiv E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, experi were assigned to that place when from the servant when it came. You enced by lady sufferers, I commenced its use and am happy to state that after hothing else served to put them ofT. see, it was always a celebration for using a few bottles I feed like a new woman, aches and pains all gone. "When Brown learned that he was him because all he had to do after Say All the Stars Are Aglow* “ I am recommending your medicine to many of fny friends, and I assure practically proof against the old yel the newcomer sailed back was to ask you that you have my hearty thanks for yoxir valuable preparation which has low and the rum habit he hatched up done so much good. I trust all suffering women will uso your Vegetable Com for the job over again. pound. ”— Mrs . Minnie Tietz, G20 First Avc., Eau Claire, Wis. (May 28, 1901). • little scheme to stay there. “ ‘Here’s prosperity and long life Scientists Declare That, Like the Sun, They Are Masses * "When a new aplicant came down to the new consul, ’ he said, raising Nothing1 will relievo thia distressing condition so to take the post Brown always greet his glass and waving his hand at the of Burning Matter—Fires Die Down and Then surely as Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound; it ed him with the utmost cordiality, departing steamer. Blaze Out Again as of Yore. soothes, strengthens, heals and tones up the delicate aaying that he was glad to get out of “Then he suddenly grew pale and female organism. It is a positive cure for all kinds of the blasted old hole and that nothing tottered for a moment. *on earth could tickle him more than female complaints; that hearing down feeling, back " ‘Guess there is a new man com During the last sixty years search watcher in the old barony of Bon- ache, displacement of the womb, inflammation of tho to take the very first steamer back ing this time,’ he said, regaining his ers of the heavens have made the nlngton, in the year of grace 1901, |to civilization. His next words were composure. ‘The old yellow jack has discovery that the celestial bodies sees a new star suddenly blaze out in ovaries, and is invaluable during tho change of life, all 'always an offer to take the new man hit the consul at last. known to us as stars are similar in the midnight sky, to fade away only of which may help to cause nervous prostration. ^around the town and snow him a few “And he died within forty-eight many respects to the sun. some con as its predecessors had done, leav «f the ropes of the place. hours.’’ siderably larger, others smaller, but ing, perchance, not a trace In the Read what Mrs. Day says: on the average not much different in sky to tell the spot where once a “ Dear Mrs . Pinkham : — I will write jrou a few lines to let you know of size and nature lrom the sun. They world existed. Among the millions the benefit I have received from taking your remedies. I suffered for a long are—at least the visible stars are— of stars are to be found bodies In all time with nervous prostration, backache, sick headache, painful menstru great glowing globes of gaseous mat stages of development. Some are ation. pain in the stomach after eating, and constipation. I often thought I ter. glowing with an intensity of heat would lose my mind. I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable As a rule these vast furnaces burn and light far beyond our utmost con Compound and was soon feeling like a new woman. I cannot praise it too steadily. Sometimes, however, the ception: others are slowly cooling highly. It does all that it is recommended to do. and more. 441 hope that every one who suffers as 1 did will give Lydia E. Pinkham’s fires seem to die down and then blaze down —already they are dull red in remedies a trial.” — Mrs . Marie Day, Eleaaora, 1’a. (March 23,1901.) out again as of yore. Three hundred color: some are cold and dark and SPRING such stars are known to astronomers, dead. says Chambers’ Journal; they are No telescope will ever perceive called variable stars because of the these latter bodies and no camera Free Medical Advice to Women. waxing and waning of their light. will detect them. We only know that Now and again the seething fires they are there by their influence over Mrs. Pinkham invites all women to write to her prove too strong for the bonds of at the light and motion of bright stars. for advice. You need not be afraid to tell her th© tractive force which hold the star One of the most Interesting sections together, and with one mighty up of the new astronomy deals with things you could not explain to tho doctor—your let PURIFICATION heaval the vast globe is shattered these dead, dark stars, and, although ter will he seen only bywomen and is absolutelycon into fragments, blown into atoms, no eye has seen them, or ever will fidential. Mrs. Pinkham’s vast experience with such veritably "dissolved into thin air.” see them, still we are able to ascer troubles enables her to tell you just wliat is best for Thousands of years after this ex tain their size, weight and position plosion the record of the catastrophe just as If they were in the zenith of you, and she will charge you nothiug for her advice. ur A. reaches the earth and a solitary their glory. Another Case of Nervous Prostration Cured. 44 Dear Mrs . Pinkham : — Allow me to express to you the benefit I have Many Made Idle by a Trust, derived from taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s VegetalR© Compound. Before I started to t*ike it I was on the verge of nervous prostration. Could not sleep nights, and I suffered dreadfully from indigeston and headache. I Case in Point Shows One of the Great Evils in the Oper, heard of Lydia E. Pinkham’s wonderful medicine, and began its use, which immediately restored my health. ation of Industrial Combinations—New England 441 can heartily recommend it to all suffering women.” — Mrs . Bertha Village Wiped Out. E. Deirkins , 25H Lapidge St., San Francisco, Cal. (May 21, 1901.) 0CAAA FORFEIT If we cannot forthwith province the original letters and signature* of .\?llIIIII above testimonials, which will prove their absolute genuineness. UUUUU Lydia K. Pinkham Medicine Co.. Lynn. Maas. One of the great evils in operation more than $173,COO a year, and when of industrial combinations, from the the spending of this money stopped nDHDCV MEW DISCOVERY- gives SLS it O T quick relief and care* worn point of view of the wage earner, it seemed as ff the community must ntee* llook of testimonials and 10 SAYS' treatment is their power to scatter a community die. ’.•he income of the churches TREE. Dr.H.H. ORKEN 8 SONS.Box ft, Atlanta. Oa to the four winds or starve its peo was cut down, a large part of the for BABY’S ple into submission to the demands eign congregation of the Catholic of capital. It has been pointed out church disappearing as if swept out that perhaps one man or a smali by a cyclone. There were fewer BOWELS “JMPKSl group of men, by the mere act of sign children for the schools. The value Createst, Cheapest Food on Earth for Sheop, Swine, ing an order to close up a plant, could of real estate declined and those who are delicate and Cattle, etc. Will be worth |100 to you to T**d whit exercise a power of life or death had put their savings into homes no drastic purga Belxer s oatalog ears abou t rape. over thousands of human beings. found themselves unaole to get rid of tives should ever Billion Dollar Grass Something akin to this happened in them. There were too many mer will positively make yoa rich; 11 ton* be given. Neither of hay and lots of pasture per acre, so the beautiful New England village of chants, too many physicians, too many *!so Bromut, Peaoat, Spelt*, Ifocarooi should a mother wheat for arid, hot toll*, 63 bus. per New Hartford, (?onn„ last August barbers—and, one and all, they sat acre. 2l)th Century Oats, 2.V> bu*. per and September, when the compara down to see who would go away or go give herchild any aero and Teosinte, Yield* 100 ton* concoction con Green Fodder per mere. tively large cotton duck mills of that to the wall first. Gloomy forebod Forthlo Notice and 10o. taining opiates. We mail bif catalog and 10 Farm Seed place were ordered closed. Nearly ings cs to the increase of the poor Novelties, felly worth $lo to get a start. 1,000 persons of the 2,300 in the place fund of the town arose; the bells of If necessary to of the Skin and Blood were compelled to leave the town. the mills ceased to ring; the town assist Nature to] !j0HNA5AlZERSEtDC0..uSSssti Nearly a hundred houses were board band, that gave a concert every week, move the little HI ed up and rents were offered free to ceased to play; a water power, esti one ’s bowels give WESTERN CANADA Should Begin NOW the mill hands who remained, for mated as worth from $200,000 to it one-quarter teaspoonful of some men who had worked thirty, $300,000. lay Idle; the machinery of HAS FREE HOMES FOR LOOD HUMOURS, Skin Humours, Scalp Humours, Baby forty, or even fifty years in the plant the mills was being shipped to the MILLIONS. were too old to get work elsewhere. trust’s mills in Alabama; only tae Upwards of 100.000 Americans Humours and every kind of Humour from Pimples to Dr. Caldwell's hsve settled In Western Canada B Scrofula, with Premature Loss of Hair, may now be speedily, With the population cut almost in four walls of three large buildings during tbe past 5 years. They are half, the merchants of the place remained. The town was dead; the COXTKNTKU HAPPY. permanently and economically cured by Cuticura Resolvent, greatest Syrup Pepsin AND PROSPEROUS, thought they saw ruin before them. heavy hand of a trust seemed to have and tbere la room still for of Blood and Skin Purifiers, assisted by the external use of Cuticura The pay rolls of the mills had been crushed it.—World's Work. MILLIONS. Pleasant to the taste — contains Wondarful yields of wbest and other grains. Tbe Ointment and Cuticura Soap. best grsstng land* on tbe continent. Magnificent Thousands of the world ’s best people have found instant relief, nothing which can harm the most climate; plenty of water and fuel; good school*, ex and speedy cure by the use of Cuticura Resolvent, Ointment and HOW ROBSON BECAME AN ACTOR from John Sleeper Clark and Edwin delicate organ ism. Physicians will cellent churches; splendid railway facilities. Booth to join a company which they testify to the truth of this state HOMESTtAD LANDS 0116# AfltfS FREE. Soap in ‘the most torturing and disfiguring of ITCHING, BURN First Received Encouragement From had just formed in Baltimore, to tour tbe only ebarge for wblcb Is 110 for entry. Send to tbs ING, and SCALY HUMOURS, ECZEMAS, RASHES, ITCH- ment. See page 21 of our book following for en Atlas and other literature, aa well as the Great Webster. Delaware and Virginia in Shakespear for certificate giving you reduced railway rate*, etc.; INGS and INFLAMMATIONS. ian plays. I did not know what to do. of "Proofs. ” Write for it today. Superintendent ot Immigration. Ottawa, Canada, Stuart Robson tells this story of or to M. V. Mclnnet. No. 2 Avenne Theatre mock. Thousands of Tired, Fretted Mothers, of Skin-Tortured and how he became an actor. My mind was In chaos. I wanted to Mrs. Allte Jackson, ot Fanner City. Ill.. Detroit, Mich.,or J. Orleve. Sautte ste. Marie, Mich- writes: “My seven months old baby was the authorised ( auadlao Gp-aramenl Aged la Disfigured Babies, of all ages and conditions, have certified to almost “I had run away from home In Bal be better than a page, and yet I had troubled a great deal with his stomach and miraculous cures by the Cuticura Remedies when the best medical timore and had drifted to Washington a yearning for the stage. It was at bowels. I bad tried numerous remedies with no good result*, until tho baby lost much flesh, skill has failed to relieve, much less cure. with my playmate, Arthur Puc Gor this time that I met Mr. Webster. He and was in poor health. A friend recommend man, now a senator-elect from Mary was hurrying toward the Senate cham ed Caldwell ’s Syrup Pepsin. 1 procured a 60o amlins Cuticura Treatment is local and constitutional —complete and bottle at tbe drug store and gave the contents H perfect, pure, sweet and wholesome. Bathe the affected surfaces land, and for several weeks I was on ber. to tbe baby according to directions, after which the verge of starvation. Gorman had “I said to him. ‘Mr. Webster, I have therewas a decided improvement in his condi with Cuticura Soap and I lot Water to cleanse the skin of Crusts and tion. Have been giving him Syrup Pepsin for Scales and Soften the Thickened Cuticle, dry without hard rubbing, a lot of push and he landed as a page had an offer to go on the 6tage. ’ about a month, with very satisfactory results, In the Senate, but somehow I couldn ’t bis stomach and bowels being in good healthy and apply Cuticura Ointment freely to allay Itching, Irritation, and “ ‘Indeed ’ replied Mr. Webster. condition and his former weight regained. ” connect, but I used to hang about the Inflammation, and Soothe and Ileal, and lastly take Cuticura “ ‘Yes, sir,’ I replied, timidly, 'and Veur Money Book Resolvent to Cool and Cleanse the Blood, and put every function in eapltol just the same, and ono day — do you think it a great chance for M H Don ’t Benefit You 1 remember It well, because it was me?’ a state of healthy activity. PEPSIN SYRUP CO*. Montlodlo. !U. marked by sort of dull, ret! clouds, “ ‘Yes, my boy, I do, ’ answered Mr. To those who have suffered long and hopelessly from Humours that now Is spoken of as th# 'Yellow Webster. ‘You were cut out for an of the Blood, Skin and Scalp, and who have lost faith in doctors, Day’ In Washington —Gorman ceme to actor, and not for a statesman. I saw medicines, and all things human, Cuticura Remedies appeal with a me and said: you yesterday laughing at one of An “ ’Rob, if you see Dan Webster ho’ll force hardly to be realized. Every hope, every expectation awakened drew Johnson ’s Jokes, and your laugh LargestPOTATOES growers efSeed Pet*tee* In: At fix you. ’ The "Herat New Yorker" atveePeteer’elar- , by them has been more than fulfilled. More great cures of Simple, ter fooled me for a minute. Go on the 1/ W IwwuU • yield of 7 AS he. per a. Prlee* “I was astonished at the asst ranee dirt shear, H am—et h •eeoheek e«d eewple ef' Scrofulous, and Hereditary Humours arc daily made by them than stage, my boy. That is where you Teealate, •pelts. M eeereel W heat, ll he. per < ot Artie Gorman, but I saw Mr tVeb- belong. ’ a., Clast cterer. et»..ap»a reo.tr t of IPe postaga. by all other Blood and Skin Remedies combined, a single set being JOHN A.SALBKRSEKJDCO..La Cress*. Wla. often sufficient to cure the most distressing cases when all else fails. ster, and within a week through his “And I went on the stage, and I am f influence, stranie as it may se*'tn In still on the stage. ”—Baltimore Sun. CUTICURA REMEDIES ire sold throughout th* drills*! world. PRICES: Cuticura Resol- the light of history, I was made » page eret, SOc. p«r bottle (Id the form of Chocolate Coated Plila. 26c. per rial of 60), Out team Ointment. 60c. per boi, aad Cutlcora Soap, 26c. per cake. Head for the (teat in Congress. Daniel Webster, Toombs P'bO 5 CURL K )t? wort. ‘Humour* of I ha Blood. 8kla and Scalp, and How to Cure Them.” 04 Pages. 300 Dta- of Georgia and Jefferson Davis acting Senator Hoar ’s Two Hobbies. oaaaa. with IUuotratlon*. Tratlmonlala, aod Directions Id ill lingusces, including Japanese as my sponsors, Among the many hobbles of Sena and Chinese. British Depot. 27-28 Charterbouae 8q , Ixnidon, K. C. French Depot. 6 Rue “I served two terms as a par* and tor Hoar of Massachusetts Is his fond CONSUME riON 4a la Pali. Parte. Australian Depot. R. Towns ft Co., 8ydoey. POTTER DBL'U AND CHUM- When answprlng Ads. please mentien this pats' ftOftJL. CORPORATION. Sola Proprtatora. Boston, 0. S. A. one afternoon I received an invitation ness for trolley trips and dime novels. CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY, MARCH 19. 1903. Cstflag Out Convict labor. LAST OF CLIFF DWELLERS. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL The E. It took Co., manufacturers of shirts, who employ a larger number Interesting Characteristics »f thi The Grip Leaves Thousands in its Path of Jucksoii prison convicts than any San Juan Fueblos. LESSON XII., MARCH 22; EPHE other single contractor, have taken a One of the projected concession! SIANS 2:1-10—PAUL’S MES8AGE. step towards employing only free la for the world ’s fair la a Tillage of the bor. They have a contract with the Weak, Nervous, Dyspeptic, Catarrh Wrecks. state for the work of :»50 convicts at last of the ancient Pueblo Indians of Golden Text—“By Grace Are Ye 8aved 3.1 cents a day, but at the expiration New Mexico, the lineal descendants Through Faith"—Paul Visited Ephe of the six months' notice which they the Interesting cliff dwellers of pre sus on His Second and Third Mis have served upon Warden Vincent, historic times on this continent Al sionary Journeys. they will canoe! tlielr contract, which though of pure Toltec strain, the San lias two years to run. The Wlthlng- Juan Pueblos are blanket dudlans, ton-Cooley Company, another large but they lend to this primitive dress T. A Wonderful Letter.—Its Character. employer of convict labor, has, for The Epistle to the Ephesians, a« Chrysos an air of. gayety and rude splendor tom said, “overflows with lofty thoughts some time, been increasing Its free- that characterized the Aztecs of the and doctrines." The Epistle sums up. In sliop product, and decreasing the num time of Cortez. Their blankets and a wonderful way, the entire gospel of ber of Its convict workmen. Last year headdresses are emblazoned with pat Christ. It “embraces, in its brevity, the this company dropped 2-1 convicts from terns of gayly colored beads and sil whole field of the Christian religion.*' — its employ. The managers say they A. Monod. find free labor cheaper than convict ver ornaments of their own smithing, ' The Keynote of the Epistle is found In labor. which set off their costumes with the present lesson; it is the new life In more or less effect. Christ.—the church as the body of Christ, Flooded (he t'onntr;-. They have their own mission and therefore filled with his Spirit. “In Christ,” or its equivalents, occurs more 1 lie Saginaw river was spreading schools, conducted by Catholic mis than twenty times. over a wide area on Wednesday. North sionaries, and are a really Intelligent Prom N. II. Dead In Sins without Christ.—Va. of the city toward Hay City the coun and fairly well-educated race. They Y.Journ 1-3. Chapter I. closes with a picture of try for miles is a vast lake. Much in manufacture a kind of pottery, some al." Dur Christ as head of the church. Paul now convenience has been caused and some thing similar to the celebrated ware ing the passes on to show how God brought the damage has resulted, but it is believed recent Ephesians Into his church. In painting of the Zuni Indians, and are a strictly “For Grip tlie limit lias l»eea about reached. Cass agricultural people. A survival of and the Gripepi- their lost condition without Christ, the d emit, apostle paints a picture of all sinners. river came up five inches since Tues a f t e ancient Aztec days is their national claiming a He uses four dark colors in the picture. day. but the ice Is all out and no in dunce, “Los Matchines.” effects like First: Death. 1. "And you hath he convenience Is caused except from the debility, nervous million vic quickened. ” “Made alive,” the old English flooding of low binds. The Riverside He Means It. ness, dyspepsia tims or more,, meaning, still seen In the phrase, “the coal mine was drowned out and is full New Berlin, 111., March 16th.—Mr. and other ca the efficiency quick and the dead. ” "Who were dead of Peruna in of water, caused by a big leak in the Frank Newton of this place speaks tarrhal condit In trespasses'' {special acts) "and sins” air shaft. At Fra nken myth, Cass quickly reliev very earnestly and emphatically when ions resulting {all forms of sin, —-a more general term). river has fallen lonr inches. In the from the Grip, in ing this mal Second: Worldltnesa. 2. "Wherein la lower part «f the town mauv houses asked by any of bis many f-riends the the entire Mater ady and its af time past ye walked. ” The sinful life is reason for the very noticeable im ter effects has here spoken of as the road in which are doodl'd. ia Me die a I have provement in his health. found no remedy been the talk of the evil wsiTk, as in v. 19 “good works" the continent." are named as the road fn which the Beet* und Alcohol. For a long time—over two years—he that equuls Pcru- righteous walk. “According to the course The Michigan Chemical Co. ’s distil has been suffering a great deal with na for prompt ac of this world. ” lery No. 1, of Bay. City, is shut down pains in his back and an oil-over feel tion."—Dr. S.B. Third: -Satan. “According to the prince for the season, .after a short but suc ing of illness and weakness. His ap Hartman, Presi of the power of the air.” Satan, the per cessful run. The scarcity of beets Inst dent The Hart- sonal spirit of -evil. petite failed him and he grew gradu man Sanitarium fall made the supply of sugar beet mo ally weaker and weaker till he was "The spirit.” That is, fiatan, or Satan lasses considerably less than expected. and his followers. “That now worketh.” very much run down. IKE A DEMON grip has crossed our out of my system in a few days and did not “First, it cured me of chronic bronchitis- The distillery, tho only one of Its kind A friend recommended Dodd's Kid country, leaving behind scores of hinder me from pursuing my daily work. of fifteen years' standing, by using two- 3. “Among whom also we all.” All In .tlie country, began operations .Tan. physical wrecks. . “ I should like to see our Board of Health Christians, Jew and Gentile, Paul and the ney Pills and Mr. Newton began to L bottles of Peruna in January, 1894, and* 1, 1902, closed down last July and re Victims of catarrh of the head, catarrh of give it official recognition and have it used no return of it. most ignorant disciple, were, before con take two at a dose, three times a day. version. children of disobedience. “Had opened Sept. 10. The government is the throat, catarrh of the lungs, catarrh of generally among our poor sick people in “After I was cured of bronchitis I had la- •our conversation. ” Ft. V., "lived." "In the said to have received over >1,000,000 In a very 6hort time he noticed an im the stomach, catarrhof the kidneys, catarrh Greater New York." —Joseph A. Flinn. grippe every winter for several winters. lusts" ^0 ■ • 40 40 • 0b B Ill LET CENTER. SOUTHEAST LEBANON. C:-./^^$B ST.JOHNS, MICH. Ruth Landers returned home from John Slllman, Jr., will work this Chicago last week. summer for John Klssane. Pays 8 Per Cent. Interest on Deposit*. Willie Groner has begun work for l Lucy Wood, of Fowler, visited in theseason at Ed Pingel ’s. 1 Lebanon a few days last week. MONEY ON APPROVED SON REAL ESTATE SECURITY. On account of the bad roads Mr. * Casper Wagoner left last week for Ross bas stopped drawing milk for the Muir where he has employment. p o OFFICERS: present. Its TU TT )Jou. Dalsee Kinley, of Ovid, spent Friday A. J. Baldwin .Pres- I*.E. W a ls worth ,Pres James Redford, who lias been sick and Saturday at her home fo Lebanon. G. Pennkll . V-Pw. H. C.DMTKH.ANt.Troi all wiDter, is able to sit up a little. He has been under the care of Dr. Several from this vicinity attended THE LOCAL MAKKCTb. Ripley. the dance at Fowler Wednesday tST’st.Jobiis elevators open at 7a.m ano evening. close at 6 p. m. Mrs. Stebborn Bliss, an old ploreer WE HAVE THE GOODS of Riley, passed away very suddenly Miss Susan Miller, who has been in St. Johns , Mlcb., March 19,1903. last Wednesday night. She had been Bengal the past two months, returned The following are the prices paid m cash to her home Sunday. for produce in this market: in poor health for some time. The' YOU HAVE THE MONEY. Wneat. white...... 0 60 funeral was held in the Boughton 1 Miss Kate Carrow, accompanied by Wheal, red ...... 0 66 school house, Sunday, March 15, Rev. her cousin, Mrs. F. M. Plggott, visited Oats...... (dk 35 Good, of Bengal, officiating. Inter Clover Seed ...... 6 00 0 7 50 the former ’s home near Collins last A mutual exchangeis what we are all looking for. We can A.bike...... 7 00 ii 8 50 ment in Boughton cemetery. ‘ Wednesday and Thursday. Hay. new...... — 5 00 0 8 00 please you on Price; we can please youon styles and qualities. Beans ...... 1 75 <1 1 85 Tragedy Averted. The winter term of school in Dis Barley...... 1 00 0 1 10 “Just in the nick of time our little trict No. 2, closed last Friday. Miss A. Kye...... Corn. ear...~...... boy was saved ” writes Mrs. W. Watkins Seibert, teacher, will spend the vaca Potatoes ...... 45 0 50 of Pleasant City, Ohio. “Pneumonia tion with her parents in East Bengal. Butter...... 14 0 IS had played sad havoc with him and a 12 ^ 13 Miss Maggie Craig, who has been “WOOLTEX” goods have been popular for sev fSR?z:=:=z=.z terriole cough set in besides. Doctors staying with her sister.Mrs. EilaTalt, Lard ...... O IS treated him. but he grew worse every NEW SUITS. eral seasons, and are better this season than ever Hides ...... day. At length we tried Dfr. King ’s the past two months, returned ta her Deakon skins...... 25 0 50 New Discovery for Consumption, and home near Canton, Wayne county, one before. Every year adds to their popularity. Better styles, better goods' is what Sheep Pelts...... 25 0 1 00 day last week. Beef, live...... 3 00 0 4 00 our darling was saved. He’s now sound, makes them popular. Some of the spring Suits and Skirts have arrived —More Beef,dressed ...... 5 00 0 6 00* and well.” Everbody ought to know, Pork,live ...... J— 6 00 0 6 75 More Riots. are coming. See them. Pork,dressed ...... 7 50 0 8 GO it’s the only sure cure for Coughs, Colds Veal calf, live-...... 6 Q 7 and all Lung diseases. Guaranteed by Disturbance of strikers are not nearly 7 00 0 9 00 Fildew & Millman. Only 50c and $1.00. as grave as an individual disorder of 2,00 0 2 88 Trial bottles free. the system. Overwork, loss of sleep, Wood.soft ...... 0 2 25 nervous tension will be followed by Chickens, dressed ...... 9 0 10 OLIVE. utter collapse, unless a reliable remedy Never before did we have such an assort LIVE POIJL’ NEW CARPETS ment of patterns in Ingrain Carpets as we Hens, fat...... 8 08* Is immediately erayloyed. There’s no Turkeys fat...... 10 12 Frank Murphy’s little daughter has thing so effllcient to cure disorders of are showing this season. Never such a line Ducks, fat...... 8 the whooping cough. the Liver or Kidneys as Electric Bit Geese...... 0 terer It’s a wonderful tonic, and ef AND RUGS. of Rugs. All new patterns, all best goods. Byrou Danley buys live poultry every Otto Martzke. of Lansing, visited at fective nervine and the greatest all week daylay 1the year round, and full value paid Jerome Dills Saturday night. We want you to see them. at all times. around medicine for run down system. Mr. and Mrs. V. D. Pearce visited It dispels Nervousness, Rheumatism at Irving Eaton ’s in north Olive Sun and Neuralgia aud expels Malaria day. germs. Only 50c. at Fildew and Mill man, Druggists. SAINT JOHNS, MICHIGAN. Mr. and Mrs. Gust Martzke will Correspondencelive in Frank Murphy’s house this Number 33, Clinton Avenue. summer. NORTH EAGLE. JOHN HICKS, All correspondence should be Mrs. Major Lewis and daughter Ag mailed not later than Tuesday- nes visited at Leslie Gibson ’s in Bing Three cheers for the R. F. D. morning of each week...... ham Sunday. John Jewell moved his goods and Mrs. Marc Cutler, of Lansing, visit family to Montcalm Co. this week. ed her mother, Mrs. Ida Randall, of Dan Dravenstatt left Monday morn Return* From Grid. UNION HOME. Rliey, last week. ing for St. Johns to act as jury man. WESTPHALIA TEACHERS’ EXAMINATIONS Frank Murphy has rented Dr. Sim Last week we published a table of Claude Sweet anticipates moving Phillip Keusch is home from Macki The Union Home postoffice will be mon ’s farm and will move on the same into Jake Dravenstatt ’s house soon. tbe amount of state and county taxes discontinued March 31. as soon as the house is vacant. nac for a visit. returned to the county treasurer by FOR 1909 AND 1903. Mrs. W. R. Dockham Is recovering C. T. Rockwell and Rudolph Young TheCitizen ’s Telephone Co. finisned Sickness has confined Frank Paul to the treasurer of every township in the 8t- Johns high school room, beginning third each have a very sick horse. Dr. Gohn erecting the wires on their line last his house for a number of days. Thursday of August. from an attack of mumps. week. county with the single exception of St. Johns eighth grade room, beginning Gsrd Winslow had a stroke of par of St. Johns, is attending them. The Democratic township caucus Ovid, which was not in at the time we •bird Thursday of October. “Clint” Howe has returned from St. Johns high school room, beginning last alysis one day last week, from which Will Arksey and Loren Dunlap have will be at 1 p. m. March 25th. received the list from Treasurer Mor Thursday of March. he has partially recovered. each purchased farms in Calhoun Vermont and will live in Zell Howe ’s St. Johns seventh grade room, beginning county and will move there soon. house. Ferdinand Eickelman, of Grand rison, and which we now give below : third Thursday of June. Wheatand clover are looking well, Rapids, was here to attend the funeral State Tax. County Tax Examinations will commence at 8:8bsiand having had an exceptionally good O. B. Dills and family, of DeWltt, Miss Kate Thompson has closed a of hissister, Mrs. Dunnebeck. *13.53 $23.95 ard time- T. H. TOWNSEND, winter and spring thus far. Jerome Dills and wife, and Varney very successful term of school and re John Simon has purchased of Tony In 1902 It was $119.75 $03.68 Pearce and wife vitited at Fred turned to her home in Eureka. Commissioner of Schools. Many of the rural patrons are unable Tucker’s last Sunday. Simon 40 acres on section 31, West to obtain their mail boxes on account Lewellyn Monroe having rented his phalia, for which lie paid $1,500. John &Q flfl worth of nursery stock for one of the demand being greater than the Married, at the home of the bride farm will take charge of his father’s Simon also sold 20 acres on section 36, MANAGER WANTED. $0,UU dollar. In order to establish our supply. in Riley. March 12, 1903, Lavina Wott place and will move there tills week. Portland, to Joe Willems, for $1,025. Trustworthy lady or gentleman to manage trade with you we will send you twelve business In this county and adjoining terri MoKinley Strawberries, six Columbian The Union Home school closes this to Will Zlschke both of Riley. Only The McKira school has been closed Fr. Reichenbach, who was at one tory for well and favorably known house of Raspberries,one Campbell Early Grape Vine, near relatives were present. solid financial standing. #20.00 straight cash four Apple and four Peach trees, standard week for vacation of one week. Miss on account of smallpox in the family time assistant to Fr. Herwlg, in West salary and expenses, paid each Monday by varieties, all for one dollar. L)o not fall to Margaret Brown will continue teach About tweuty of the friends and of Mr. Myers. At last reports they phalia. died at St. Mary’s hospital, check direct from headquarters. Expense write for our wholesale catalogue. ing the spring term. neighbors of Lewis B. Drake very were improving. Iletroit, last week of dropsy. The re money advanced ; position permanent. Ad Rochester and Hrigbton Nurerles. mains were taken to Connor ’s Creek, dress Tliomas Cooper, Manager, 1030 Can 13wl0 Rochester, N. Y A few of the farmers who had too pleasantly surprised him at his home ton Uldg., Chicago. 22 much to do or were hindered by the in Watertown Monday evening of last WESTERN EXCURSIONS. Mich., for interment. rain from husking their corn last fall week. Games and music were Indulg Via Grand Trank Railway System. Mrs. Mary F. Dunnebeck, an early are finishing it up this spring. ed in. One way Colonist tickets on sale settler, died Thursday, March 12,1903, OSTEOPATHY February 15th to April 30th, 1903 In aged 81 years. Funeral services were Dr. Donald McDonald If the man from Carroll county, Va. Pomona Grange met with South Riley Grange Wednesday, March 11. clusive, to certain points In Montana, held at St. Mary’s churcli Sunday af R. W. E.8VMMONDS, Osteopathic phy who laid out the rural routoi in Clin Utah. Washington, Arizona, Oregon ternoon. Deceased was the wife of sician. graduate of the American school THE SPECIALIST, ton county, had to make the circuit Although the roads were almost im Dlit t Ktenput 11 v, Ktrksvlllc. Mu., receiving in over the roads in their present con passable, and only four Granges were and California at greatly reduced rates. Josepii Dunnebeck, who died six years structions direct from Dr. A. T. Still, found represented, all who were there en For further Imformation call on local ago, and she is survived by two sons, er of the science, treats all kinds of chronic is ooivniira-1 dition. lie would change his mind joyed the meeting. As usual South agent or write to Geo. W. Vaux. A. G. John and Ferdinand, of Grand Rapids. and nervous affections, corrects deformities somewhat. of every description, and Is especially suc Riley Grange furnished a bountiful P. & T. A., Advertising I)ept., Chica Tiie daughters are * Mrs. Nicholas cessful In treating all diseases common to dinner and supper. School Commis go, 111. Thome, Mrs. John Fox, the Misses women. Office 227 g Washington Ave. N., 2d WATERTOWN. Katherine and Rosina, who live at floor. Lansing. Mich. Lady attendant. sioner Theo. II. Townsend came 15 &fT~Al Hotel St. Johns. St. Johns, Tuesdays miles on horseback to attend, and all FOWLER. home, and Ida, who resides in the far and Fridays of each week. 14 Ben King has bought the farm were glad he was there. The Grange west. known as the Stace place. voted in favor of the primary election Almond Buck spent Monday In St. William Strong, living near Wa- law. Pomona will meet with Bing Johns. SOUTH OVID. cousta. died Tuesday evening. ham Grange Wednesday, April 8, 1903. Mus. C. L. Pearce , Lecturer. Miss. Susie Miller spent Monday in This is the last week of the Wilson Mrs. Flora Francis lias been under St. Johns. school. BUISSON the doctor ’s care for a few days, but is Woricliigtng Over time Mrs. Wm. Freeman spent Monday in now improving. Eight hour laws are ignored by those Pewamo. Mrs. M. L. Walters visited Mrs. II. Ira Bowman, who has been ill for little workers —Dr. King ’s New Life Rennie last week. several years with a pulmonary dis Pills. Millions are always at work Mrs. Joseph Bowers spent Monday B. Miller and family spent last week order, is now on the gain. night and day,curing Indigestion, Bili in St. Johns. with C. Boice and family. ousness, Constipation, Sick Headache Morris Hayes was in St. Johns Satur A. Coykendal had an auction sale The roads in this vicinity are under and all Stomach, Liver, Bowel troub day on business. an embargo of mud, making it almost les. Easy, pleasant, safe, sure. Only Tuesday. He ex pests to move to St. impossible for loaded teams to get 25c. at Fildew & Millman ’sdrug store. John Patterson was in St. Johns Johns. about. Monday on business. FRENCH’S CORNERS. Miss Adah Smith and Miss Ethel Abe Rose ’s house caught tire last George Baldwin was in St. Johns Holly were home from their school The Fowler Draft Horse Company ’s Stallion, Sunday but with the timely assistance Monday, on business. duties at St. Johns over Saturday and will make the of neighbors was extinguished before William Cleland has rented David Sunday. SEASON 1903 at KENYON’S FEED BARN much damage was done other than Steadman ’s extensive farm f6r this Edward Martin was in St. Johns St. .