The Clinton Independent.

VOL. XXXVr.-NO. 49 ST. JOHNS MICH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1902. WHOLE NO.—1859

concerned were very shadv. his frieuds of Mr. Daniells and his friends. Mr. Lester K. Bond, St. Johns, Co. B, 3rd Mleh. laughed at them, and declared that Anderson then moved that the vote Cav. SENATOR H. M. HIGH “good, kind, genial Hi High could be made formal and that Levi Part 3RD ANNUAL MEETING Dennis Blrmlngton, Shepardsville, Co. F, never be guilty of any such thing.” low be made unanimous choice of the 3rd Midi. Inft. When the evidence of some of his convention for the office of representa Samuel Kinney, St. Johns, Co. K, 14th Mich, deals were laid before them to-day tlve In the state legislature. Inft. Of Ovid, Has Gone, Leaving His they were thunderstruck, and a num ­ Re-Nomination of the Present A committee composed of one mem­ Of the Clinton County Soldiers’ E. Wilson, U. S., St. Johns, Co, K, 102nd ber were heard to say that henceforth ber from each voting precinct In the Mieb. Inft. Friends in the it would be impossible for them to put County Officers With Two county was chosen by the respective and Sailors’ Association D. L. Eagle, Eureka, Co. B, 34th Ill. Inft. Lurch. any faith in human nature. Exceptions. delegations to name 14 delegates to Held Here. J. E. Moore. Elsie, Co. D. 81st Iowa Inft. The exact amount of his transac ­ the judicial convention at Grand Abner Letts. Elsie, Co. D, 1st Mich. Cav. tions cannot be stated at present, but Rapids today. The cornmltree report ­ W. Wilson. Bath, Co. H. 26th Mich. Inft. it is intimated that they will react) ed as follows: Geo. W. Simsou. Ovid. Co. I, 23rd Ill. Iuft., several thousand dollars, and that a Bingham—H. E. .Wiilbrldgo, W. M. Smith, E. Co. 87th Mich. Inft. IS A HEAVY DEFAULTER number of Ovid people will be losers. A GOOD REPRESENTATION H. Molnet, E. L. Walbridge. C. C.* Vaughan, A GOOD REPRESENTATION S. W. Newman, Laingsburg, Co. H, 2nd At least one instance of alleged and Geo. II. Marshall. Mich. Cav. fraudulent transactions on the part of Bath—II. C. Too leer. E 8. Vanburger, Ovid. Co. A, 5th Mich. Cav. High has come to light at Owosso, Bengal —B. F. Young. Frank W. Potter. Laingsburg, Batt. I, 1st Large Sums of Money Entrusted ana two others are known of. The Charles Eddy for Surveyor De­ Duplain —O. L Wise. List of Those in Attendance Mich. Lt. Art. man who tells the story and vouches Eagle — Leyi Partlow. B. E. Burues, Laingsburg, Co. A, 182nd Ohio to His Care Have Dis­ for its accuracy is W. Harvey Avford, clined, and M. Doyle, Rep­ Greenbush—D. S. French. With Residence, Company Frank Warren, Laingsburg, Co. D. 1st Mich. appeared. hay and grain dealer, who resides at Ovid-M. F. Bingham. and Regiment. Lancers. (512 West Main street, Owosso. resentative, Dead. Victor —W. A. Norton. Andrew Brink, Laingsburg, Co. B, 24th Two years ago Axford bought the Watertown —Wm. Schavey. Midi. Inft. property at 1017 West Main street, The regular business of the conven ­ W. H. II. Aldrich, Laingsburg, 5th Mich. Cav. Last week the people of this section corner of State, in that city, of Wright tion having been completed some of Chapman, of Duplain. On June 10, The Republicans of this county held The Clinton County Soldiers ’ and H. 8. Halner, Laingsburg, 27th Mich. Inft. of Michigan were surprised by a rumor the nominees were called upon for 1901, he bought the brick store and ad ­ their convention at the ccurt house speeches among whom were Levi Part- Sailors ’ Association, composed of all J. W. Sexton. Laingsburg, Co. II, 24th Mich. that State Senator Hiram M. High joining lot at 1013-1015 West Main last Monday afternoon. The atten ­ low and Wm. M. Smith. The conven ­ the soldiers and sailors who have en ­ Inft. and paid Senator High the sum agreed Samuel Foster, Laingsburg,24th Mleh. Inft. had disappeared. At first little im­ dance was good and representative tion then adjourned. gaged in any general war in the de ­ portance was attached to the news, as on in the transaction, he being Chap­ Harry Hibbard, Laingsburg. man ’s agent. The titles of all three members of the party from the several fense of this country, held their third Charles L. Parris, Owosso, Co. G, 14th N. Y. the statement had gained currency parcels are clear and Axford has ab­ townships were present. GOES TO YPSILANTL annual reunion at the court house, in H. Art. that he had gone to Oklahoma to visit stracts thereof. Atl:30th3 convention was rapped this village, on Thursday and Friday J. P. Campbell, St. Johns, Co. E. 5th U. 8. a brother. There was an undertone The first intimation of anything A Young Lady Kosiiicnt of 8 t. John* Will of last week. As may be seen by ref­ Cav. wrong came on Tuesday evening, to order by C. C. Vaughn, chairman of suspicion, however, which grew Kit Herself for Teaching. Andrew Robb, St. Johns, Co. G, 23rd Mlcb when Axford received a visit from of the county committee. F. W. Red- erence to the published list, despite Inft. more pronounced as time passed, that James Prall, a New Jersey capitalist, fern. of Essex, was chosen temporary Miss Zaiaa B. Rose, daughter of the unfavorable weather, there were II. H. Harris, St. Johns, Co. K, 4th Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Rose, will he had abused the trust reposed in who had been here several days await­ chairman of the convention, after upwards of one hundred members In Inft. him and was a defaulter to a consider ­ ing High’s return. The senator was leave St. Johns the first of the week attendance. Joseph Neulbury, Westphalia, Co. F. 14th his agent for several deals. He pro ­ which the various committees were for Ypsilanti, where she will take a Inft. able extent. duced a mortgage on property at 1013- chosen as follows: two years’ course in the Normal The first day was chiefly devoted to The people are almost speechless George Lible. 8t. Johns, Co. G, 4th Midi. 1017 West Main street, Owosso, for On credentials —Lin Allen, J. W. school, preparatory to entering the the business of the association, while Inft. from theshock of surprise caused by $2,000, which had been sent him by profession of teaching. the sensational developments connect ­ Fitzgerald and Cyrus G. Pope. the remainder of the time was given James Larkins, St. Johns, Co, A, 23rd Mleh. High. It had been signed by Chap­ Miss Rose graduated from the to rehearsing the scenes and incidents Inft. ed with the disappearance. The con ­ man and purported to be part pay­ On organization and order of busi­ Corunna high school in 1900. A little clusion has been accepted reluctantly, connected with army life, and story William A. Abel, Bath, Co. E. 18th Mich ment on the original transaction in ness —Edgar Burke, Capt. A. H. Harris over a year ago shecame to St. Johns, telling. Inft. but it is now generally believed that which Prall had sold property to where she was already well known. his disappearance was made in the and E. C. McCrumb. President Bullard, of St. Johns, de ­ Joseph S. Tucker, 8t. Johns, Co. I, 10th Chapman. The abstract blank was She is prominent and deservedly popu ­ livered the address of welcome. Mich. Inft. face of machinations involving thous­ tilled out. On resolutions —D. S. French, Jay lar among the young people of the ands of dollars. Just how much it is Martin and L. G. Bates. It was a scholarly production, G A. Jackwa, St. Johns, Co. A, 22ud Mich. ‘‘Axfcrd and Prall went at once to village, is leading soprano in the applauded by all who listened to it. Inft. impossible to even guess at now, but the register of deeds ’ office and found The committee on credentials re­ choir of the Baptist church, secretary his alleged shortage, it is believed, Edward Black, Laingsburg. Co. A. 1st N. Y. Ell Adams, St. Johns, Co. K, Penn, sharp that the mortgage had never been filed, ported the following named as entitled of the Sunday school and a member of shooters. will reach a large sum. Up to the so Prall is out the $2,000, the notation to seats in thisconvention: the B. Y. P. U. of the same church. Eng. day of his departure no man stood Henry M. Burns, Wacousta, Co. F, 23rd John G. Klsellng, St. Johns, Co. L, N. Y. H. of tiling being a forgery. Bath—H. L. Tucker, George Tyler. Ray Asa singer she is possessed of a voice A. higher in Ovia than did Senator High. Robinson. Mich. Vol. Inft. ‘‘Deputy Register Frank Peacock of good quality and power and of con ­ Alexander Dunlap, St. Johns, Co. K, 102nd He was a trustee and deacon of the states that within the past two weeks Bengal —C. G. Pope, William E. Eldridge, siderable compass, having that pecu­ Lewis A. Halstead, Maple Itaplds, 10th N. Congregational church, a Knight Y. Lt. Art. Ohio Inft. he has received evidence in letters of B. F. Young. J. M. Hicks. liar sympathetic tone required in solo A. 8. Jones, St. Johns, Co. E, 9th N. Y. H. A. Templar and Shriner, and was sup­ inquiry from Fairfield township of at Blmriiam—E. J. Moinet, Fred R. Jackson, work. She is also a reciter of no John McCloud, St. Johns, Co. B, 27th Mich. posed to be a man of most excellent Inft. C. T. Caruss, St. Johns, Co. D, 2nd Mich. least two similar cases in which High Horace P. Gage, W.H. Brunson, W. A. Norton, meau ability, and the Independent Inft. habits. He had a large and lucrative was the go-between in sales. Chap­ DeWitt H. Hunt, H. E. Wulbridge. J. W. Fitz­ prophecies that she will yet be heard Lenord Wilkins, St. Johns, Co. D, 80th N. Y. law practice, estimated to be worth Vol. Inft. Charles Fowler, St. Johns, Co. A, 23rd Mich. man is innocent of any deal to defraud gerald, Warner Bunday. Edward Lamb, W. from In both these lines of endeavor. Inft. from $5,000 to $6,000 a year, and he Prall, so it is up to High.” Stocker, W. M. Lelaud, John L. Tranchell, She goes to the Normal college with Ormal Whitaker, St. Johns, Co. H, 103rd handled large trust funds. He was Ohio Vol. Inft. Geo. Ai Wells, St. Johns, Co. A, 8th Mich. George 11. Marshall. the God-speed and good wishes of a Inft. possessed of a beautiful wife and Dallas—Wm Youngs, Mr. Drake. John H. Brink, Dewitt, Co. F,75th N. Y. Vol. host of friends, who, while regretting BenJ. Acker, St. Johns, Co. 1,103rd Ohio. daughter, also highly esteemed, and DeWitt—J. B. Stone, T. R. Stampfly, Frank her departure, rejoice iu the bright Inft. his home life was all that could be TIME OF FAIR EXTENDED. Oscar Loewe, St. Johns. Co. A, 30th Mich. C. E. Densmore, St. Johns, Co. H, 6th Mich. Hurd, W. T. Trout. future which is opening before her. Cav. wished. His wife is prostrated with Duplain —A. M. Birmingham. Peter Hess, Vol. Inft. Andrew J. Miller, St. Johns, Co. E, 6th Mich. grief and nameless fears and the It la Hoped that Saturday may be a Dry George Schenk, J. A. Watson. B N. Wooley, Thomas Bartram, Dewitt. Co. A, 9th Vol- Cav. neighbors know not what to say or Day—If It la Gatea will be Opened. C. L. Wise, George Craddock, L. G. Bates. CUPID’S WORK. Inft., H. A. John Kelley, St. Johns, Co. K, 14th Midi. think. Eagle —R. W. Davids. E. C. McCrumb, Jas- Silas W. Norris, Dewitt, Co. E, 0th N. Y. Inft. He left Thursday, Sept. 4, for De­ The managers of the fair have de ­ H. Fish. L. W. Tall man. Marriage of a Popular and Estimable Vol. Inft., H. A. William Gilson, St. Johns, Co. D, 68th Ohio troit, and it is believed took with him Essex—Robert Anderson, Munson Chase- Rbeuben Brink, St. Johns, Co. A. 9th N. Y. cided not to throw up the fair for this Young Couple iu Cheboygan. Inft. at least $5,000. On the train were a L. H. Pease, Wm. G. Anderson. Robert C. Vol. Inft., H. A. number of people who knew him, who year, but to wait in the hope that Sat­ Last night in Cheboygan occurred A. H. Wayer, Dewitt, Co. II, 107th N. Y. Vol. James H. Worden, Elsie, Co. H, 10th Mich. Cave. Inft. noted that he was drinking to excess. Greenbush—Edgar Burke, Leonard G. the marriage of Miss Eliza J., daughter Inft. urday may be a “fair” day. If it is, S. H. Gage, St. Johns, Co. E, 1st U. S. Inft. He put away 10 “high balls” during Loomis, David M.Eacgle, Frank L■ Marshall, of Mr. and Mrs. James Brooks, of that Calvin Iughram, Dewitt. Co. F, 1st Mich. Hon. W. A. Norton honorary member by the trip. come yourself and bring your.sister, or Erie Ingersoll. city, and Mr. Wilson J. Shaw, son of Lt. Art. vote of association. High said he was going to see his Lebanou-O. S. Harris, II. L. Burch, Emer­ Mr. and Mrs. Ira A. Shaw, of St. Monroe Cole, Dewitt, Co. D, 13th U. S. Inft. your sweetheart, or some other fellows Charles A. llulse, St. Johns, Co. A, 8th U. S. sick brother Nathan at Guthrie, Ok., son Vance. Johns. Miss Brooks is a highly J. Randal Beadle, Dewitt, Co. D, 8th N. Y. Cav. and to one lady he said it was his sweetheart. Never mind your wife; Olive— Lewis J. Carpenter, J. B. Howe, M, esteemed and deservedly popular Cav. William E. Gardner, St Johns, Co. G, 33rd brother’s wife who was ill. Neither E. Lanktou. Marshall Hand. young lady. Mr. Shaw is a native of W. II. Sweeney, Bath, Co. F» 8tli Ills. Inft. she doesn ’t need to see the fair. Sat­ Mich. Inft. Story was true, and it is now believed Cvla—E. D. Heebe, L. H, Allen, Cyrus Skin ­ this county, born and raised in Bath. James Courtrlght, North Lansing, Co. F, John Flynn, St. Johns, Co. G, 27th Mich. his flight was due to the fact that ex­ urday. then, if it is a fair day. ner, W. J. Martin, A. 8. Berry. Millard Birm­ He is the efficient night operator on 1st Eng. Me. Inft. posure of his deals was imminent. ingham, W. J. Johnson, John Link. the M. C. R. R.. at Cheboygan, has James Sweeney, Bath, Co. B, 15th Ind. Inft. Jesse Coert. Fowler. Co. G, 140th N. Y. Inft. High’s alleged wrong-doings appear Riley— H. S. Bliss, H. N. Carpenter. made rapid advancement in his chosen C. E. Flielps, Bath, Co. K. 15th Mich. Inft. N. W. Beebe, Duplain. Co. B, 4th Mich. Cav- to have commenced several years ago. YOUR PREACHER. Victor —John C. Brunson, J. I). Sleight, J. D vocation, and has bright prospects for H. A. Sage, St. Johns, Co. K, 23rd N. Y. Bat. W. W. Morgan, Eagle, Co. I, llltli Ohio. In 1890 William Swarthout made a Van Burger. tiie future. James Chupman, St. Johns, Co. G,5th Mich. N. S. Parmaley. St. Johns, Co. F. 4th Mich. general assignment to High for the Appointment* Made by Michigan Confer ­ Watertown —O. L. Daniels, J E. Hinkson, The young couple begin life together Cav. benefit of creditors. There were near ­ under the happiest auspices and with Peter Pung, Westphalia, Co. F, 14th Mich- Inft. ence of M. K. Church. W. Sherman, David Hodge, Fred Oppen- ly $10,000 of assets turned over to him. lander. , the hearty good wishes of hosts of Cav. Mortgages amounting to $3,500 pro ­ The Michigan conference of the M. Westphalia—E. B Hemmlngway. friends. Jonathan Miller, Riley, Co. I, 1st Mich. Lt. Water Tax Notice. tected several creditors, and after all E. church finished its labors last Mon ­ The report of the committee on per­ Art. H. S. Bliss, Riley, Co. G, 23rd Mich. Inft. Water tax for quarter ending Jan. exemptions and expenses, including dap evening. manent organization aid order of 105 YEARS OLD. High's reasonable fees, were paid, W. A. Robinson, of Quincy, gave a business was in the usual form and Steven C. Bliss, Riley, Co. E, 1st Mich. Eng. 1, 1903, is due Oct. 1st, payable at thereshould have been $3,000 for un ­ statistical report of the membership order. M. council room to and including Oct. II; secured creditors. They have never in the conference which is 53,684, an The committee on resolutions, Mrs. Anna Lewi*, Horn Nov. 14, 1707, Died Charles Land, Riley, Co. F, 5th Mich. Inft. Office hours, 7:30 to 11:30 a. m., 1:30 tc received a cent. increase during the year of 981. The through their chairman, D. S. French, Sept. 22, 1902. Fred Odin, Riley.10th Mich. Inft. 4:30, p. m., Saturday evenings 7 to 9. These creditors grew tired of wait­ Epworth league membership is 140,584, reported the following: Mrs. Anna Bentley Lewis, who was William Morgan, Wacousta. Co. I, llltli M. McDonald , Sec. ing and sued. The case has been put an increase of 513. There are (WO Sun ­ We. the Republicans of Clinton born in North Kingston. N. Y., Nov. Ohio Inft. over term after term until finally it Amter B. Otts, Wacousta, Co. K, 10th Mich. day schools: teachers and officers, 7.949; county, in convention assembled, un ­ 14, 1797, died at the home of her BUSINESS LOCALS. was set for trial and notice given that scholars. 55,344: the twentieth century qualifiedly endorse the present na ­ daughter, Mrs. Anna S. 'Whiting, in Inft. no further postponement would be thank offering was $61,958; benevolent tional and state administrations and Saginaw, on Monday, Sept. 22. 1902, Mathew Black, Laingsburg, Co. I, 24tli consented to. High tried to compro ­ money raised, $53,354; amount of congratulate the people of the country making her nearly 105 years old at tiie Mich. Inft. Money To Loan At Lowest Rate oflntereet mise. There was a meeting in his church property. $105,635; total amount upon the unexampled prosperity we time of her death. She was in re­ Warn E. Morris, St. Johns, Co. A, 23rd Mleh- II. J. Pattkuson , St. Johns. office but no one could understand his of salaries. $231,917. The amount are now enjoying as a direct result of markably good health considering her Inft. accounts. Tills meeting occurred tiie raised for conference claimants is J. C. Fltscher, Ovid, Co. C, 49th Penn. Inft. the application of Republican princi­ great age. and her death was unex ­ Ready-to-waar Hats in pretty shapes day before the supposed flight. $8,641; baptisms during the year. 2,878; ples and polices to government affairs. pected. The writer was present at W. E. Hamilton, St. Johns, Co. G, 8th Midi. For the past seven years or more deaths, 657; local preachers. 172. The Inft. at popular paices at We renew our allegiance to the Re­ tiie celebration of her 100th birthday Boucher & Petsch’s. High has been loaning money on farm conference meets in Jackson next publican principles and policies of pro ­ on Nov. 14, 1897. On that occasion James I). Sleight, Laingsburg, Co. H, 150th inorgages for James Frail of Belvidere, year. tection, and reciprocity and sound she was bright and active and declar ­ N. Y. Inft. N. J. That gentleman visited this Following are the appointments for money, under which we have made ed that she intended to live to see tiie Henry C. Cuddybnck. Laingsburg, Co. S, 151 Money to Loan. region six years ago and was well the present conference year. Penn. Inft. such unexampled progress during the opening of tiie 19th century. Mrs. On improved farms. pleased with the way High was mana­ M. Louis Delamarter, presiding past five years, and invite the voters Lewis lias done what perhaps no other Wllllum H. Smith, Eureka, Co. B. 8th Midi. ging Ills business. Recently some elder —Alma, J. II. Wootan; Ashley, to compare the country ’s condition living person lias, she has lived in Inft. 29 m 3 E. L. Dooling . things have occur red to alarm him. J. W. Hayward: Bath, A. T. Cartland; during the past live years witli the three centuries. Willium J. Mull, St. Johns, Co. B, 12th Midi. He notified High late in August that Belding, A. O. Carman; Berlin, N. W. condition under the Democratic ad ­ She had lived through the .adminis ­ Inft. Very Desirable Home For Sale. he would visit Ovid early in Septem­ Weston: Breckenridge. J. S. Valentine; ministration. tration of every president of tiie J. D. Vanburger, St, Johns, Co. I), 1st Midi. ber. High wrote back not to come Carson City, N. F. Jenkins; Crystal, D. Cav. Convenient to business center and Resolved, That we deplore the un ­ United States save one, ‘‘The Father churches and on one of the best streets before tlie 10th, as lie would be away. A. Rood; Danby, W. B. Meyers; Delta, timely death of our late Senator Hon. of his country, ” having closed his William U. Goddard, St. Johns, Co. B, 98tb L iter High sent word to Frail not to N. M. Barnes; DeWitt, S. B. Ford; N. Y Inft. in St, Johns. Enquire of James McMillan, and fully realize public career in March vreviousto her G. S. Cokbit . come before Sept. 15. Prall came on, Duplain, E. R. Lyon: Eagle, C. A. Van- that the state and nation has sus­ birth. The elder Adams was inaugu ­ J. W. Bronson, Dewitt, Co. I, 8th Mich. Inft. however, and what he found alarmed Atwerp: Elmhall. A. E. Wylie: Elsie, tained an irreparable loss in his re­ rated Marcli 4. 1797. She was a maid ­ A. Russell, Eureka, Co. G, 5th Mich. Cav. him. He waited until Sept. 15, and A. A. Stephens: Emerson, Don O. Col- moval from public life. en of 15 years when the war of 1812 Henry.I. Patterson, St. Johns, Co. G, 3rd Tiie prettiest tilings in new Fall since then has beeu investigating in grove; Fowler, to be supplied; Grand The reports of the various commit ­ began, a woman of 63 when the civil Midi. Inft. Millinery may be found at person and by attorney. Prall at first Ledge. Isaiah Wilson; Gresham. John tees were accepted and adapted in the war broke out and was still voung Jesse E. Stone, St. Johns, Co. I, 10th Mich. Boucher & Petsch’s. charged High with being a defaulter Klose; Hubbardston, D. Ward; Ionia, usual way. enough to take an active interest in Cav. in the.sum of $0,000. Other transac ­ M. L. Fox: Ithaca, J. C. Cook; Lyons, Tellers were chosen, after which tiie Spanish American war in 1898. Herbert M. Estes, St. Johns, Co. K, JOtli Horae and Buggy at a Bargain. Mich. Inft. tions have since developed which supplied: Lansing, central, W. A. Frye; the constitutional oath was adminis ­ She was a woman of 40 when Victoria A rangy and handsome 8-year-old place the sum total anywhere between Lansing, first, W. E. Doty: Maple Rap­ tered to the officers of the convention. was crowned queen of Great Britain John Patterson, St. Johns, Co. G, lOtii Midi. Cav. horse and nearly new top buggy at a $10,000 and $20,000, and no one seems ids, J. E. Foote; Mason. W. J. Wilson: On motion tlie convention proceeded and Ireland and was well past the great bargain. Enquire at the Inde ­ to know where it will end. One of Assu Pound, Laingsburg, Co. B, 4tli Mich. Middleton and Sethton, W. H. Web­ to the nomination of a county ticket. century mark when the death of that pendent office. tlie charges against the senator is ster: Nashville, Albert Smith: Okemos, In every case excepting representative lamented sovereign closed the longest Cav. that of raising a $100 mortgage to $2,- J. II. Hoover; Ovid, A. T. Luther; the nomination was made by acclama­ reign in tiie history of the Britisli em­ L. F. Conrad, Lansing, Co. B, 180th Ohio Inft. 100. The note and mortgage were Orange, A. E. North; Orleans, J. W. tion, and the present officers were re­ pire. Truly lier life was a long and John Hlurddeadt, Fowler, Co. B, 23rd Mich- Removed and Settled. given by A. C. Chapman of this place, Buell; St. Johns. R. S. McGregor; St. nominated, -with the exception of eventful one. Inft. Having removed my barber shop the mortgage being on a 100-acre farm Louis. S. C. Robinson; Sheridan. Al­ Charles Eddy, for surveyor, who de ­ M. Lamb, Elsie, Co. D, 26th Mich. Inft. from the basement under Wilson Bro. s in Gratiot county. fred Wa.v; Palo, J. Deitrich: Perrin- clined, and Martin Doyle, dead, as Morris B> Drake, Fowler, Co. K, 23rd Mich. clothing store to the Clinton Block, The mortgage is recorded as one of ton. L. B. Kenyon: Fottersvllle, O. J. follows: KING’S DAUGHTERS Inft. head of Clinton ave., west side, and $100. but when it was sent to Mr. Golden; Portland, G. A. Buell; Smyrna, For Sheriff—Wm. Schavey. Carl A. Webster, Maple Rapids, Co. G, 5th fitted up a good bath room in connec ­ Prall it had been changed to $2,100, C. M. Loomis; Shepardsville, W. A. For Clerk—Edward C. McKee. Sixth Annual Convention of King** Daugh­ Midi. Cav. tion, 1 invite old friends and patrons thus defrauding him out of $2,000. 4 Exener: Suntield, I. T. Weldon; Ver- For Treasurer—Dwight S. Morrison. ter* and Son* to be held In 8 t. John*. J. R. Jeffres, Eureka, Co. B, 3rd Mich. Cav. and the public generally to come and Yesterday afternoon Mr. Prall. in montville. W. P. Wosher; Wacousta, For Register of Deeds —Syrel Par- The sixth annual convention of the John P. Gross, Westphalia, Co. F, 16th U. 8. see me. Thanking you again for past company with A. C. Chapman, drove Willard Aldrich: Woodland, A. W. menter. international order of King ’s Daugh­ Inft. patronage and favors, I am into the country and on returning at Simmonds. For Prosecuting Attornry —Wm. M. ters and Sons, of the Michigan branch, William Leclund, St. Johns. Co. A. 8th Mich. Yours for good service, 0 p. m. stated that out of 13 mortgages Smith. will be held in St. Johns on Thursday, Inft. W. W. Feuouson . held against different farmers at least Specimen* from Jim’* Farm, For Surveyor —James F. Clemmons. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9, 10 and 11. William N. Stocker, St. Johns, Co. F, 27th 10 of them had been raised and that James T. Hughes, salesman in the For Circuit Court Commissioners — The convention will be called to Mich. Inft. the amount secured in this way employ of Fowler & Ball, while on a G. H. Marshall and Fred R. Everett. order at 1 p.m., standard time, Thurs­ C. C. Andrew, Wacousta, Co. A, 23rd Mich. £JTATB BANK OF ST. JOHN8. was a bout $12,000. vacation in the northern part of Mich­ For Coroners —John J. Wood, Robt. day , Oct. 9, in the Congregational Inft. COMMERCIAL AND SAYINGS Tw elve years ago the old Ovid Car­ igan this last summer, purchased 80 W. David. church. Andrew Granger, St. Johns, Co. D, 20th riage company assigned to High., acres of farming land in Antrim, At this point a dispatch was read The following subjects, never before Mich. Inft. CAPITAL, *50,000. About $70,000 in property was turned county, and to show his friends that from Congressman J. W. Fordney, discussed at a convention of the order, Peter Pohl, Westphalia, Co. I, 2nd Mich. over to nay $90,000 of' debts. The he made no mistake, he is exhibiting congratulating the people upon the will be abiy presented: ‘‘Child Labor, ” Inft. NET ASSETS OF STOCKHOLDERS *901,000 0» unsecured creditors received 25 cents some of its products in the company ’s John P. Miller, Pewamo, Co. I, 23rd Midi. great prosperity of the country. ‘‘Michigan Laws Protecting Women P.K PERRIN,President. on the dollar. They should have re­ show window. They consist of two Inft. After nominating speeches by Robt. and Children.” and “Our State Chari­ J. H, CORBIT, Vioe-President. ceived at least 40 cents, according to sweet pumpkins, weighing 65 pounds H. C. Williams, Wacousta, Co. D, 5th Mich. Anderson, of Essex, for ills townsman, table Institutions. ” J. W. FITZGERALD, CashHr the officers of the old company, but each, 2 eleven-pound heads of cabbage, John T. Daniells, for representative Mis. Isabelle Charles Davis, the Inft. High has never tiled his final report a number of fine nutmeg melons and in the state legislature, and by W. A. general secretary of the order, expects Geo. P. Matoon, St. Johns, Co. I, 27th Mich, DIRECTORS.: or declared a last dividend. some yellow flowers which flourish in Norton for his friend, Levi Partlow. to be present, and It is earnestly hop-, Inft. O. W.Munger, Otis Fuller, J. W. Fitzgerald T hat State Senator Hiram M. High that soil, all of which Jim is proud to of Eagle, for the same office, the con ­ ed that there will he a general attend ­ Nathan E. Jones, St. Johns, Co. G, 23rd J. H.Corblt,George W. Emmons,P.K. is a fugitive from justice there is have his friends look upon. W’hlle vention proceeded with an informal ance of members of the order outside Mich. Inft. little doubt. His life had apparently he has no idea of at once engaging ballot for choice with the following of those chosen as voting delegates. Emory B. Smith, St. Johns, Co. 1,10th Mich. Perrin. Jonn J. Reiser, G. E. bee n above suspicion, ana when in farming, he will take a great deal results: John T. Daniells, 26; Lev! The circle at St. Johns proffers its Oar. Corbin, J. Sullivan. ru mors began to float about that some of pride in growing big things in Partlow, 48, the latter receiving a generous hospitality to all visiting C. II. Boots. Perrlnton, Co. II, 151st N. Y. •,t ransactions in which thesenator was Antrim connty. clear majority to the disappointment and voting delegates. Inft. 3 per cent Interest paid on time d c posits CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1902.

Rabaon'a Doily Foanu. Ohio's Volcano. A postmortem was performed on the People living in Paint Creek valley, body of ('buries B- Rahson, who was Ohio, are alarmed over tlie apiiearanco found in the river nearly of smoke and sulphurous gust* from three mih* from Saginaw where Copp4»rus mountain. Ever since the he plunged into the river, THE NEWS OF THE WORLD first eruption of Mont I’clee smoke lias- and his stomach was found to be In u issued from tlie mountain nt intervals, normal condition. The wound on hi* but only within the past few days have A Romantic Career. head, where he was struck by Frank HENDERSON RETIRES. RECIPROCITY WITH Ct'BA. the smoke and gas become especially Fleweiliiig, who took him for ft burg ­ noticeable and maw attribute It to Mrs. Grace Rriggs Robinson Good- TIIOISAMIM Tt IIK Ol'T TO HONOR lar. was not very deep, and the skull The Speaker's Reasons for With­ the recent eruptions in Martinique. laiider died at the residence of hor par­ President Roosevelt’s Reference to HIM. was not ’fractured. A telegram was re­ drawing From the Race. Investigation shows that tlie slate ents in Lapeer Tuesday night. She was ceived from Victoria, Krltish Columbia, the Matter la Detroit. in the mountain has become hot and Fit*Went Roosevelt ft ml party ar­ Speaker Henderson, finding that his some of It has lieeome a dull red from rived in Detroit Sunday morning and the wife of David W. Goodlander, as­ Saturday night, by Chief of Police In his address at the banquet tend ­ Kain stating that relatives there views in respect to the treutineut of ered him by the veterans of the Span­ tlie action of tlie heat. The smoke is­ were received in the'iuost enthusiastic sistant freight agent of the Grand Trunk railway at Flint. Although but would not do anything regarding the trusts hy reducing the tariff lu whole ish wur lu Detroit President Roosevelt sues from tlie side and not the top of nmnner. “Nothing that could lx* con- 20 years of age. Mrs. Goodlander had remnins. The telegram intimated that or in part, are not in accord with the said: the mountain and scientists will tie tTlviHi was left undone to make the had more than her share of romance. his widow will have to liear the ex views of many of his party In Iowa, “It was for this reason that ITesi- j asked to make a thorough investiga I lease of burial. It 1h believed that arrival of Detroit's distinguished guest Grace Rriggs was a pretty girl and bus declined to accept the nomination dent McKinley urged and that I have tlon. a success, and surely President Roose ­ Riibson must have swum down the riv­ for congress, and has withdrawn from since urged and shall continue to urge, popular in social circles here. The un- er a long ways, as there is not eur the need of establishing closer rela­ The Whitehall Company, of tlie New velt could have no trouble in reading iiounccmcnt of her engagement to a the race. In eVery face that was upturned to rent enough to carry him thut fur. His Mr. Henderson gave out nn address tions with Cuba by reciprocity. We York state inilitl.T. lias l*een ordered to wealthy mine owner In the west, and j body was discovered by three boys in Fort Edward and Sundyhlll to protect catch a glimpse of hiiu ns he passed which states hi* views on the tariff anti urge reciprocity because it is for our her subsequent departure for tlint sec- i » lniat. His head was sticking above interests to control the Cuban market. the property of tlie Hudson Valley by unmistakable evidence of the fact trust questions, and because these tlon of the country to marry Robinson j "uter ami ids feet were buried in views, in his opinion, are not in ac­ Iiecause we are hound to place the Electric Railway Co., employes or that he was thrice welcome to the city caused quite a local sensation, til- sand. Insteud of the $500 or $800. Cubans on a peculiar standing econom ­ which system are on strike. Rome vio ­ —that the {>eopIe were proud of him cord with the state platform and with The developments following her which tlie bride said was on his i>er- the opinions uf prominent members of ically when they consent in our in ­ lence lias occurred ami more trouble as a soldier, as a president, and above marriage, however, caused even a son when he left the house, ouly two terests as well as their own to assume is feared. $"» gold pieces and three pennies were Ids party, he declines to accept tlie all as a private citizen. ’’ greater sensation. Before the marriage nomination. Tlie address is “To the Re­ a peculiar status Internationally, amt Fifty years ago Hiram Johnson, of He was driven to the Hotel Cadillac. ceremony was performed Grace insist­ found on the body. The pockets did not publican voters of the third Iowa dls because it is fitting for a great anu Syracuse. X. Y.. fell in love with 18- Whore quarters had been prepared for ed on $00,000 in gilt edged milling look as though they hud been dis ­ trict, He”«iys71 icing' *a*'Republican i Kencrous republic to stretch out a help­ year-oid Hattie Davis. He went west stocks being made over to her for her turbed. What has become of the ing hand toward her feebler sister to make n fortune, hut his sweetheart him and where he received numerous money is a question. lie Is a protectionist, and if be ever en distinguished visitors. The president own us(\ Robinson willingly acceded tertained a doubt as to wisdom of a Just start fug to tread the path of in­ married. Her husband died, leaving to the girl ’s demand. protective policy, a hasty comparison dependence. her with children and grandchildren. attended the Fort Street Presbyterian Six mouths later came the news that Durand to Stick. “Tlie ease stands by itself and Johnson, who had never married, re­ church in the forenoon and lunched between the present and the past (lie young bride had diverted her hus­ As far ns his health is concerned. would blot out such doubt. He then there can lie no other like it. Porto turned and wooed her. and thev were with General Alger and family. Dur­ band and was on her way home. This Judge Durand is gaining every day. speaks with satisfaction of the tiiriff Itieo. Hawaii and the Philippines have marked at tlie anes of 78 and 70. ing the afternoon he was driven about was followed by the news of her ar­ He was driven to ids farm north of the planks of tho last two national plat­ relations of varying intimacy to us. The appeal of Thomas F. MeGnrrv. the city. The great events of the visit rest at Cleveland, O., at the instigation city twice Monday and stood in tlie forms. Continuing, lie says: and they have either been admitted one of the convicted Grand Rnpids occurred on Monday and it was a busy of her husband, who had begun suit to pasture and watched his prize herd “For three years I have advocated within our economic system or have water deni lioodlers. proved successful day for the nation's chief executive. recover the $.*>o, prevent their affording D1* 1 productions of Culm. We must ae- AMERICAN I.EAntTK. was at that time standing in front of Wot. Lou. Per ck day and the throngs of people, the dec ­ Luther W. Shear, of Muskegon, the slielter to monopoly. ’’ ifept them as they are. and we must the saloon. When within six feet of ------1—t j remember flint in dealing with this 1 Philadelphia...... SI 61 .614 orations. and the many distinguished seif-confessed forger, believes lie will 1 Rt. Louis...... 75 56 ..'73 men made up a scene of rare magni ­ ids victim. Sinclair stopjied. raised the The liosera ip Attain. j island, especially now that we are riile to ids shoulder and- lired. The be able to straighten up his badly 1 Chicago ...... 72 57 .558 ficence. At 8 ji. in. the day's festivities tangled business matters and yet save China Is on the verge of another about to build the isthmian canal, and 1 Boston...... 71 59 .556 were clos«*d with a grand banquet ten- 11*°°^ ?? V* brftln * kUI* our interests in the West Indian wa- | Cleveland ...... OH 65 .511 his creditors from great loss. He is Boxer uprising, which may equal that Washington ...... tiered the president by the Spanish I" ''"•HtantJ.v. of liKKl, according to mail advices re­ tors have become so great, we must. ... . 57 7'* .433 peculiarly cheerful and is gaining 111*11 Detroit ...... W 81 .382 War Veterans, and the spacious Light * thS vived at the state department from shaiK* our policy with a far-sighted re­ every day since his coming back to his gard for tlie future and for tlie in­ Baltimore ...... 50 83 .376 Guard armory was tilled to repletion,.,- ’ , °,u * r,v!l,M oid home and giving himself up to Minister Conger. The troufdes appear NATIONAL i,.i. ..i i___ i’ lamer l»y name, gave chase. When terests and honor of the nation as a LEACtUL to hear Ids address. Sinclair was overtaken ho fought stub- the authorities. Together with Trustee to arise principally from extortionate whole. Wot. Lo*t Per ct. n esday morning the party left y ,mrnl ,jh1 t, him of rjfle in Bankruptcy John Wilson, several taxation, combined with resentment : Pittsburg ...... 100 31 .746 special train on the Wabash for tlm | wns hy l>rotl)er< but waR fin _ against tlie presence of missionaries, “I do not believe a particle of harm Brooklyn ...... 71 eo .543 hours are spent each day checking up Boston ...... his liabilities and assets and figuring thus justifying the judgment of tin will come to any American interest . . . C8 61 .527 " . * .. . .. iftliy overpowered and taken to a train from the adoption of a reasonable Cincinnati ...... 6> 6* .489 Among the rare sights was the, nn<1 , ht to Ul<1 ^ on the better means of settlement. department of state, which pointed out Chicago ...... 64 (9 .481 Twenty-first Regiment Essex Misl- j Tho Uwh1 is deserlived by those who to the jKiwers that tlie demand for ex­ measure of reciprocity with Culm. I Rt. Louis ...... Each account is receiving careful eon- am certain that tlie adoption of such a. ... 56 72 .438 liers, Lieut.-Col. Bartie, commanding. Mw p ns nioR t cold-blooded. j sideratioit from the two men, and local cessive Indemnities would result In Philadelphia...... 51 77 .412 measure will Ik * in the interest of our New York ...... doing honor to the 1'nlted States ami Sinclair lias nothing to say since his creditors have been invited to make serious internal troubles in China. .... 46 83 AjI the president. It is a fine body of men ! capture itemized statements relative to their Minister Conger presented to the people as a whole. Above all, while and with its thorough discipline and losses. Chinese foreign office a letter from Dr. fuily acknowledging the liigh-minded- THE MARKETS. ness and moral sincerity of those of striking uniforms formed a special State Senator High Misslngr. Canright, tlie American missionary of feature of the great parade. lied Cohi , Cheng-Tu-Fu. describing the massacre my associates with whom on tills point East Buffalo —Cattle— Receipts. 125; Mrs. High, wife of State Senator of native Christians there. Dr. Can I illffer. 1 yet feel most strongly that steady; prime steers, *7 5©rn8; gi.od to Hiram M. High, of Ovid. Mich., and Prof. Xovv, with a band of n*sist- right says that 11 converts were killed * . f ‘ on^itD mtion of a generous eteers. W 50 75: cows, $2 S) A Fugitive From Justice. ant", secured the brains, hack bones, her friends, are considerably worried by Boxers arid that the local official* , Vir sb'r|itod public policy we are | fe5; canners.Jl MKti2 25; bulla. $2 5UfM; feed- It is alleged that State Senator Hi­ over Mr. High's silence. Some davs and bottles of the blood of two cows lmund to prove to Culm that our I J™- w 500 4 75; Stocker*. $304 10; stock ram M. High, of Ovid, is a fugitive ago he dropped out of sight, and not a i J'f‘*°iiging to C. M. Rose, a farmer. Mr. refused to take measures against the Boxers. Tlie missionaries were guard- friendship with her is of a continuing $ 7 ’7 M* ’fio” = fcood to cho,ce’ from justice. His life had apparently trace of him lias been found I Ko8f“ livt*" two ,llilos Train Ann Arbor. iii hy troops and were nnalde to leave character, and that we intend to aid Hogs —Heavy. $7 wvqs ; medium $7 Htvy: Ivecii above suspicion, and when ru­ Senator High left his homestead on i , ,a?ro than a w<,<‘k the POWR have tlie mission buildings except when es­ lier in *-her“ struggle“*■ ------‘ for* the" material‘ 7 90; ------“ 6507 75; ‘ lgn ------mors began to float about that some Sept. 4. saving tlint he was going to I llk<* mad buI1"- foaming about tlie welllieing which must underlie pigs. 17 4007 50; roughs. $6 7507; stags. corted hy soldiers. Dr. Canright’s re­ 5006; grassers.• I7©7 60; dairies, $7 600) transactions in which the senator was visit ids sick brother in Guthrie. Okln. ! ,°ne of ,hp,n would charge cent telegrams say the situation is healthy national development. ” 7 66. concerned were very shady. Ills friends He eaine direct to Detroit, and after n °f wood and roll it hound­ worse. Sheep—Top lambs. $» 5005 65; fair tD laughed at them, and declared that 8 handing n short time here left for ing across a field. Fouicht the Hnnaman. good. $5 2605 40: (tills to common, $40 6; Five weeks ago these cows were bit- yearlings, $404 50; wethers. $404 26: ewes. “eV,'r '* KU‘"5' * 1 -tItS “f,I,SlLio' n, ...... do* P,„f. Xovy Mi««. Troops Called Oat. Peter Hernia was hanged^ in the $3 260-3 66; sheep, top, mixed._ $3 75424; fair_ In resjioi.se to the request of Sheriff <™nt> J«» Hnekensuek! N. J.. Frl- I » ^°d’ ° ^ WV cuU* common. Sehndt. of Lackawanna county. Pa.. dj,.v* f°r murder of Barney Kanter, | ______deals were laid before them they were |, T " * ue lmmeointe- ,j * . ’ . ’ . Gover.ior Stone haslias ordeiordered‘<*d out tin* a» butcher, but before his execution Chicago, cattle—Good to prime steers, thunderstruck and a number were ,y uP°n Ilis arrlvnl »» Guthrie. These I the niilmal s hind quarters be- $7 5008 ST* ; poor to medium. $407; stackers Leard to Hy that S. T woiihf f<1'v " on,s w“lp t,lp kl8 < "he heard j ^ralyzed so that they dragged Third Regiment of National Guards, was accomplished Hernia made a des- and feeders. $2 5006; cows. $1 fOGG; heif­ «0 for tHr.n to put any froni '"m. ! themselves along on tiie ground, Tliis action was taken in consequent*;* p<*rate figlit. ers. $2 5006 25; canners. $1 5002 50; bulls. be impossible for them to put any of the rioting in the county, when 20:i » When two deputy sheriffs ap- $2 2605; calves. $307 50; Texas fed stetrs, faith in humanan nature.nature * * * I A dispatch was sent to his hrbrother $30 4 50; western steers. $3 7506 75. amount of his transac- haskingk'nK himhl,.n if,f SenatorSonator HighH|Kh had reach-n STATE NEWS CONDENSED. strikers, mostly foreigners, drove out pnwebed him to strap his arms lie The exact amount of his transac-1 40 men employed at the Raymond suddenly tore off two brass brackets Hogs —Mixed and butchers. $7 2607 SO; l*e stated at presenL but ^ hat, a* v.et n ® ro »»,v ha" been good to choice heavy. $7 6007 !©; rough tioiis cannot The Fnited States recruiting station, wrshcry ot the Ontario-A- Western Co. on the side of his cell and. getting into heavy. $7 20h7 40; light, $7 »W7 75; bulk of It is intimated.si that they will reach ^hera has been no inintima ­ ar “'I lie Ridge ” and ransacked their the eorrider, leaped over a partition, sales. $7 3507 55. tion as yet that he has met any mis­ j which lias been maintained at South Sheep—Good to choice wethers. $3 500) several thousand dollars, and that a j Bend. Ind.. for two years, will be quarters. They then drove out He then tore off a piece of lead pipe number of Ovid people will be losers. hap. hut tlrere is a great deal of anx ­ 4; fair to choice mixed. $2 5003 25; native- iety as to the outcome. | moved to Traverse City. the workers and guards at and crouching in a corner shouted that lambs. $3 5005 65. At least one instance of alleged the colliery proper and took in* would brain anyone that came near | Tlie condition of T'ulted States Sena- Grain. fraudulent transactions on the part of xviiite Kisncs niaek. i ff,r rl honias R. Bard, who is dangcrous- possession of the breaker. John him. High lias come to light at Owossn, Burnett, a deputy, was shot in tlie By this time the jail was in an up­ Detroit, wheat—No. 1 white. 77r hid; No. and two others are known of. Tlie Eellatre was wild with indignation • Pneumonia at his home in 2 red. 5 cars at 72c; September. 6.300 bu at man who tells the story and vouches 1 week over tin* alleged actions of . ^'os * ’ s* ( * ,k’ aliplitly ixlter. firm. An Hungarian who made an at­ roar. The sheriff and his deputies tack upon Deputy Sheriff MeAndrew 72; I)e ember, 12.000 bu. ut 72Uc, 5 000 bu. foi its accuracy Is W Ilarvev Axford. 1 D. Deafen ha ugh, principal of the j •»ohn Long, a farmer living near were at first puzzled as to how to deal at 7?tyc. 5.000 bu. at 72Hc. closing nominal and Supt. Burklieiser was shot and with tin* murderer and disarm him, nt .2Hc; No. 3 red. 4 cars at 68>4c; mixed bay and grain dealer, who resides at! "’ll,’d «<’booI. There had lieen • Muskegon had made a tight fora pen- killed. winter. 72c; by sample. 1 car at 72Hc, 2 at fll’i West Main street. Owosso * | "orne dlfi'ereuees between eighteen of ! *ion for years. Tlie day following his but finally turned a hose on him. 61c. 2 at 62c, 1 at 60.- per bu. Detachnients of the Thirteenth Regl- Hernia was finally overpowered and Corn —No. 3 mixed, «>*<;; No. 3 yellow, James Prall, of Relvidere. N. J for 1,1 ’ cIr,s ot ,iH’ " at Rochester, and current will Ik * fur- ed. October, $1 75 bid: November, 3 tars at them. When asked if he had found | Kiss colored girls or take a licking, j libbed for the Pontiac division. $1 70; prime spot. $1 60 per bu. it Is unofficially announced in Jo ­ Chicago, wheat—No. 2 spring. 720>74c; imy of them paid, or part paid, he re­ !• Tightened, they all obeyed but one. [ The body of Win. Healer, who has Another Murder Mystery. hannesburg that the South African No. 3, 69071c; No. 2 red. 72V*073c. Corn- fused to state. and she escaped to her home, but was j boen missing from Ids home in Free- No. 2. 58069c; No. 2 yellow. 5914059^0. Tlie nude lmdy of a young woman ro,on,e * »»™»t rai"e n loan of $100,000,- Outs—No. 2. 284029.-; No. 3 white, 30034c. notified that she could not return to ! in) ,oration with ! tl'ftt !*•* put a cocked revolver tinder Gnrd'*n Denton was killed. Harrison line which lie and Ills colleagues can , 03 96; fair to good butchers, sheep. $2 150 tlie secretary of state and paid a fran ­ ids pillow. During the night he »k*- McDaniel and “Dutch" Burton were subsidize to tin* extent of $7.V>.0rtq 3 26; culls and common. $1 7602 So. His nhysielans say lie will soon be nble chise fee of ll.rss) on the basis of $.‘t.- eauie restless, and the weapon was dis ­ Hogs —Prime mediums. $7 2007 30: fat to speak well again. probably fatally wounded, and three yearly without further appeal to the 1 Yorkers. $707 15; pigs and stubble hogs, 000,000 of Its property being located in charged. the bullet finding lodgment others slightly so. Dominion parliament. $6 5006 75: rough nogs. $506; stags, one- in the Imy’s neck. He will recover. Tlie school houses of Cold water are this state. The hodv of Joseph Green, a promi ­ third off; cripples. $1 per cwt off. seriously overcrowded, and a fifth Thirteen keeiKTS of Saginaw ’ resorts No trace lias yet been found of Chns. From 3.000 to 7.000 delegates and nent Toledo citizen, was found in a building may hnvc to lie erected. where tlie liquor law was alleged to P*. Rahson. the gold mine owner who rlerrvmen will attend the national re- slough near Nllliot. N. I>. The Nnvnjo tribe of Indians In Ari­ have been violated, were recently ar­ came 4,000 miles from his home In gro Baptist convention In Birmingham, zona. numbering 20.000 men. women A movement Is on foot among opera ­ British Columbia to mnrry Miss The code committee of tlie Ohio and children, are facing starvation, tives in the factories ot Rattle t’reck rested. On eonelusion of the first ease Ala. state legislature lias slated ping-pong Prosecuting Attorney O’Keefe moved Phoebe Stephens, of Saginaw. The owing to long drouth and the barren to buy a farm near tlie city limits and Ephraim rhillp Rosenthal, secretary to eoine under tlie ban of the law witii country. that all tlie eases be dismissed, which mystery Is the talk of the town. He of the reception committee for Presi­ pint It. making a co-operative village. had a small fortune in his pockets. pool, billiards and roulette. The land comprises 40 acres, and It was done. Tlie Jury in the first rase dent Roosevelt ’s Chicago visit next fori Reiehard, operator on the Al­ J. E. Weiktnnn. a private In the ma­ stood 11 for acquittal and 1 for con ­ Tlie family of Charles Williams of month, resigned liceause It had been rine corps at the Brooklyn navy yard, is Intended that 40 families shall oc ­ viction. Jn'-kson is sorely afflicted. One of his legheny Valley road nt Ford City, Pa., cupy one acre each. rumored that he had anarchistic sym­ shot and killed a man who attempted was arrested, accused of n scries of Israel Delano and Roland Hill have children Is Just recovering from a seri­ pathies. robberies in the marine barracks. A F. R. Spencer, former representative ous Illness; Mrs. Williams Is at death’s to burglarize the station. The burglar in the state legislature from Downglac, l>e«*n arrested nt Kalamazoo, charged Mrs. J. W. Johnson, wife of a ser­ trunk, said to be Weikman ’s, was ex­ with statutory assault, the victim lieing door from typhoid fever; Wednesday wounded the plucky operator by shoot ­ amined and. It Is alleged. Jewelry, lias filed n petition In bankruptcy. In ­ another child scalded Itself so badly geant In the United States army, com ­ ing point blnnk nt him. The bullet I/Ci. the 13-yenr-old daughter of David mitted suicide by taking poison on a clipped off the upper part of his right Chinese and Japanese curios, rare por ­ judicious Investments got him into R. Horton, with whom both men liave it may die, and to cap the cllmox Wil­ celain and a great variety of Oriental debt, and he ultimately lost all his liams is confined in jail, he having train between Joplin. Mo., and Kansas ear. The burglnr was identified as possessions. He Is now nn employe nt boarded. The girl was an Inmate of the City, Iiecause her husbnnd had been Charles Andrews, who had lieen re­ goods were found in it. amounting t0.000. Wclk- the Round Oak stove factory. years, having returned in April. anced. cently released from prison man declares he Is Innocent. CLINTON INDEPENDENT. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1%2.

Temper is something that at once election,m ieavJrg the President his op. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL THE VARIOUS TRUSTS Mortunitiesilties to humbugnumbug both the trust gets the best of a man and betrays the EQVESTRIAN STATUE OF GENERAL and anti-trust people. His party wants worst of him. SLOCVM ERECTED AT, GETTYSBURG A REPUBLICAN ESTIMATE OF the votc3 of one section and the LESSON XIII. SEPT £3; REVIEW A boy wouldn ’t be happy in heaven THEiR QUALITIES. money and power of the other. OF THE QUARTER'S LESSONS. unless he could run the risk of break­ ing bis neck. Many a man who is a walking en­ The Trusts Desire “Publicity." Golden Text—"Thou Shalt Remember Admitted That Five Per Cent of the The Now York Commercial, which cyclopaedia is anything but a peram­ Combines Are in Need of Purifica­ Is a stanch Republican and protec ­ the Ljrd Thy God" —Deuteronomy bulating bank. tion —Now the Job la to Pick Them tionist journal, assures us, in its issue 8>18 —Lessons Taught the Israelites There is a great deal of difference Out of Sept. 9, 1902, that: in Cod ’s Training School. between a guilty conscience and a “Notwithstanding reports to the gilt-edged one. It doesn ’t matter about running into It Is a great satisfaction to know, contrary, corporation lawyers and rep­ The review may be taught In several resentatives of the big combines are ways, each bringing out a new phase of debt if you can avoid running into from what should be an authoritative the quarter’s teachings. The moat Im­ your creditors. not all offended by the attitude of portant view to take la that for which source, that 95 per cent of the trusts Wonder where the minstrel got his are real good and useful members of President Roosevelt toward the In­ preparation has been made throughout dustrial combinations. They claim the quarter, the comparison of the wil­ idea of a negro with coal black skin the body politic, and should be en­ derness to a training school, in which and football hair? that so far as they know no steps God waa teaching the chosen people. We couraged. The remaining 5 per cent When the fire of ambition turns to may be bad trusts, and If they are have been taken nor will be taken in may call It the National Review. See the Preview, in the Introduction ashes of despair there is but little the Republicans will purify them the matter of influencing the presi­ dent to desist from forcing the Issue to the quarter, for a schedule of the les­ need of hope rekindling the flame. with publicity, but it will take time sons taught. A brisk method of re­ If you can ’t afford champagne drink to do that. Senator Lodge has ar.a to the front. They argue that the viewing these lessons is the following. president is advocating publicity in Fasten twelve hooks in a board, and nothing stronger than coffee, and lyzed the trusts and has arrived at prepare twelve cards to hang on them, when you can afford it let it alone. the above conclusion, and condescend its connection with combinations is each card bearing the title of one of tha When the fashionable young ladies ingly offers the result of his lnves voicing the sentiments of organizers quarter's lessons, not numbered. The first of Japan desire to make themselves tigationa in a speech at Portland. as well as owners of combinations exercise is for the class to place these in the proper order on the hooks, thus re­ very attractive, they gild their lips. Eelng In close and confidential reia ;hat l ave been created on legitimate viewing the course of events. The sec­ In a country town a 10 cent vice tions with the president and having Hr.es. Said a corporation attorney: ond exercise is for the class to name just had a conference with him, the ■‘Publicity is what we desire. ” the teaching of each lesson, the teacher looks like a dollar one, while in a discussing the development of the na ­ city a dollar vice looks like a 10-cent information must bo considered ar Certainly the trusts desire anything tional character. The third exercise is one. the Republican ultimatum on the that will .throw dust ir. the eyes of a “quiz"—"Which event studied this trust question. he people, so that they cannot clearly quarter teaches faith?” and so on. The see the tariff and other special privil­ fourth exercise reverses this, the ques­ TURNED ON OUR OWN LATHE. Now the big job on hand Is to pick tions running: "What lesson was taught eges that foster and protect the by the expedition of the spies?” etc. out the five per cent of had trusts, Silence has its speech—stringless for Senator Lodge does not give a list trusts and enable them to fleece the The object of tills review Is to exhibit public. The assurance of the Com- the dlvlno plan in God's leading of the instruments their melodies. of them. We know from the list in mcrclal .hat the trusts are not .Bend- ISSJIr'.STiSid'r XT"Si Tn". If you make up your mind to be a the Democratic campaign book pre­ cl by the attitude of the president course of his wonderful providences. liar, first cultivate your memory. pared by the greatest authority In Draw the practical .es3on that In Just this country that there are 2S7 cor ­ was not necessary. He never, by Trifles are sure to get tangled up any chance, mentions the tariff in as marvelous ways our Father is still porate trusts, and a vast number of leading the nations and the men that with the lives of all women and most connection with trusts, and is very men. The part which the state and city summer some historic society or as­ minor corporations that might be trust in him. The personal review deals with the un ­ of New York took In the battle of sociation of veterans assembles there classified as such. Five per cent of particular in many other respects not It is just as easy for sugar to be to offend them. If he can, by refus- j charact“r of Moses, and the en ­ Gettysburg was celebrated on the bat­ or some state erects a new monument the corporate trust would give about tire course of his life should he review­ sweet as it is for virtue to be virtu­ ing to discuss the tariff, postpone the tlefield with peculiarly impressive to its dead. Hundreds of excursion ­ thirteen that Senator Lodge considers ed. The teacher will need a blackboard, ous without temptation. evil days for trusts he will be their or a large board covered with paper, on services Friday of last week. The ists go thither to roam over the his­ as bad ones, but bis analysis would The tragedies of love have produc ­ best friend. He is doing his part which he can write In view of the class. ceremony had for Its climax the un ­ toric hills and ridges, and hear again seem to be faulty for nearly the ed the greatest achievements ln nobly. Will they show their apprecia- Ask the class to name the various char­ veiling there of an equestrian statue the story of Pickett’s charge. whole list have increased the price acteristics of Moses ’ life, and to give Il­ music, art and literature. of Gen. Henry Warner Slocum, which The statue of Gen. Slocum takes iion in 1904? Of course! lustrations of each point. When this The most dangerous thing to a man of their products away beyond what has been done, something like the follow ­ stands where he stood on that memor ­ first rank among the monuments of the people would have to pay if open besides a widow that has been thrice A Few Trust Items. ing outline will have been constructed: able Friday, July 3, thirty-nine years thi3 historic battleground. It is an competition was allowed to regulate Life of Moses —Length, 120 years; his­ married Is a reconciled enemy. ago. equestrian figure of bronze on a gran- Almost every trade paper of to-day tory given at all fully, three and one- A great many men imagine their their charges. Then, over one hun­ half years. (Compare life of Christ.) The people of the little borough of i ite pedestal. Bronze and pedestal, the dred trusts are selling their products is full of inforjnation about the trusts minds dressed up in fine store and advancing prices. Thus, taking Born In Egypt. Tribe of Levi. Father, Gettysburg have become used to monument measures 31 feet from base at a much lower price to foreigners Amram. Mother, Jochebed. Brother, clothes, when they are in fact only up the Iron Age of Sept. 4, 1902, we statues, monuments, reunions and ex­ to tip. The statue itself is 15 feet 6 and that would hardly seem to be a Aaron. Sister. Miriam. wearing rags. find on page 47, that manufacturers ! Outline of life: forty years at Phar- cursions ever since Abraham Lincoln, inches high and 10 feet G inches long. fair deal to the American people, What a monotonous life Solomon of iron ware h£/e revised their I aoh’8s courtcourt, - forty years a shsnherd in on November ID, 18C3, before the On the western plate of the statue although Senator Loage believes the ...... j Mldlan, forty years the leader of the would be forced to lead if he lived In prices, and as a result pails are . Exodus. grass had had time to grow 6ver the are the words which Gen. Slocum ut­ trusts that do so are good ones and (his age with only one wife and one quoted $1 per gross higher and wash- Providential and Supernatural Ele- blood of the battle, dedicated a groat tered at the council of war held on should not be meddled with. mother-in-law. tubs 25 cents to 50 cents higher per | n\enta;, the discovery by the princess: national cemetery there, with it3 mas­ July 2, the night preceding the final The birds that sing the sweetest Another fact that Senator Lodge dozen. “The manufacturers of body nnd mlnd ln M,dlan .“the burning sive central monument and its three day of battle. They are: has evidently overlooked, for he says express the deepest sorrow, but the and a half thousand graves. Every “Stay and Fight it out. ” scythes, who have been working in hush: miracles ln Egypt; the passage of nothing about It, is that 1G8 of the the Red Sea: the manna, etc. conflict of their woodland courtship narmony for some time, have agreed mellows the shade of the forest soli ­ great corporate trusts enjoy direct upon a uniform schedule of prices for Personal Characteristics: a strong body protection from the tariff, ranging and vigorous old age; meekness, shown tudes. next season, which may be in a gen ­ at the burning bush, at Miriam’s re­ from 20 to 100 per cent. Then there eral way referred to as about 50 volt. etc.; boldness, shown before Phar­ are thirty-eight others that receive aoh, at the time of the golden calf, cents in advance of the price for that etc.'; faith, shown in the miracles of some benefit from similar protection, season just closed. It is thought j Egypt, the manna, victory at Rephldlm, but Senator Lodge, nor, for that mat­ probable that prices will be well : brazen serpent, etc.; sin. at Merlbah. California ter, the president, does not say any­ maintained and perhaps advanced, I Achivemonts: as a general, in the thing about this. It i3 difficult to be­ ...... , , Exodus, battles with Amalekltes, Ca- For many miles along the Wyoming- are burning fiercely. A government especially if the plans that are under naanitee, Amonites; us statesman, in or- Oolorado line north of Pearl, Colo., a agent with a large force of men is on lieve that this is an oversight of thce;e consideration looking to the consoll- ganlzlng the nation, and in the Mosalo furious forest fire is raging, devastat ­ the ground, but is reported to be mak­ leaders of Republican thought, if it dation of the edge tool interests are system of laws; as prophet, ln th in Summer communion with God, t’’e tabern.'v le ing everything in its path. Every ef­ ing little progress. was they are very much out of touch effected. ” 900 from Chicago with the voters of the United States symbols, the brazen serpent, the proph­ fort to subdue the flames has been ex­ Five or more fires are burning in It is stated that the American Fork ecy of the Prophet like Moses; as orator, 947.SO from St. Lonle and are “blind leading the blind. ” It hausted without effect. Fremont county, and more than 300 and Hoe company, which includes the in the addresses on Sinai, at Kadesh, 945 from Kansas City they know all about these extortions nnd in Deuteronomy; as author, ln the Oat and back According to the latest reports there square miles of magnificent timber principal manufacturers of steel that the trusts are perpetrating on Pentateuch and the ninetieth psalm. August Z to 8 are at least eighteen serious forest land is already in ashes. goods, has not yet announced its For the Map Review you may utilize Quick and Cool way to go fires burning in Wyoming, to say noth­ In Central Uinta county a fire 13 the people, and have ignored them prices. the maps drawn in connection with the because the protected corporations Harvey Meal Service ing of numerous smaller fires in south­ burning, and in the Jackson Hole , "A" fiance <* twmty — Sec Grand Canyon of are masters of them and the Republi­ ern Albany county that are destroying country two big blazes are eating the hundred pound has recently been not only looked forward from that Arizona and Yosemite can party, and dare not tell the truth great swamps of fine pine timber in timber in the game country. Farther made in- the price of wrought ison point, but backward over the entire Address. Gen ’/ Agent's Office. about the tariff, then the voters can course of his life. First, let the class the Medicine range and threatening east in the Shoshone Reservation a washers.” A. T. & S. F. R'y. 131 brtsuolJ hardly be expected to stand for their name, ln any order they please, the mining buildings. One hundred miles fire has been burning for weeks. An advance of $2 a ton has been places connected with Moses: Mt. Sinai. Street, Detroit, filch. away from Cheyenne the smoke from In Natrona county a good-sized fire namby-pamby fight against the trusts; made in the price of sash weight in Mt. Hor, Mt. Nebo, Kadesh, Rephldlm. these fires obscures the sky here and has been destroying timber for the they look for something more vigor ­ the New York market, making the Merlbah. etc. As each place Is named, ous. let it be marked on the map. the odor of burning wood is plainly last ten days. present price $25. Next take up th? Important events, from noticeable. One big fire threatens the timber of Nearly every trust is protected, “Further steps are being taken the birth of Moses; number them as you Santa Fc The fires in southern Carbon county the Dig Horn mountains. and is. or aims to be, a monopoly, and with a view to the harmonizing of on. and print the numbers ln the yet the announcement is made by proper places on the map. Finally, re­ our window glass interests with a pos ­ view by asking questions at random: these Republican leaders that but a sibility of success.” “What event took place at No. 6? No. few of them are hurtful and should These are only a few items on one IS? No. 10?” be eontroiied. Senator Hanna says page cf the Iron Age. The events of the quarter’s lessons may be reviewed very briskly and effec­ there are no monopolies except pat­ tively in the following vay. Write upon ents. slips of paper brief titles of all the Wanted —A Working President. anything you invent or improve; mlao get Have ail the Republican leaders The Southwestern soft coal combine events. Including the principal happen­ CAVfALTHADE MARK. COPVUICHT or DESitlK ings, not Included directly in our les­ PROTECTION. Send model, sketch, or photo, joined together to continue to protect is putting on the screw to the peoplo sons. such as the story of Balaam, the for free examination and advice. the trusts? It looks that v.ay. of St. Louis. There being no anthra- j revolt of Korah, and Moses ’ s!n at Meri- cite ccal for sale, soft coal is being 1 bah- BOOK ON PATENTS I These slips are not to be numbered, "TO. A.SNOW& CO. The President ’s Anti-Trust Policy. used in its place, and thl3 extra de ­ | and the class will draw them at ran ­ The New York Times thu3 sums up mand has been taken advantage of by dom. afterward attempting to arrange Patent Lawyera. WASH I NGTON, D.C. President Roosevelt's indefinite, inco ­ the ccal combine and its co-partner, them in exact chronological order. The the railroad combine. Between them teacher will ask. "Who has the first herent program for the remedy of the event? ” and the scholar that thinks ha trust evil: they have increased the price of coal has It will read his slip, the class pass­ “The president talks with great zeal frem $6 a ton to $7.75. The railroad ing on the correctness of each reply. and earnestness about remedying evils freight charges on Arkansas coal have TREE OF GREAT VALUE. which he does not define, by an amend ­ been $1.75 a ton. but notice has been Wonderland ment, which hs dees not clearly ex­ issued by the railroads that this rate Palm Grown in Brazil Furnishes Nu­ and —. press, to the constitution, which can will be increased to $2.50, so that the merous Products. beamended only with the greatest dif ­ price of ccal will be further advanced Undoubtedly the most marvelous ficulty at any time, and not all at a 75 cents a ton. tree ln the world grows In Brazil. It time when, as now, the people have It is hardly probable that publicity temple Cheater Is the carnahuba palm, and can be em­ no notion even of what amendment is will have the effect of stopping this ployed for many useful ’-’rposes. Its Most Beautiful Playhouse feasible, or what it could do if extortion, though the President seems in the United States. to think it will. It Is, however, quite roots produco the same medicinal ef- adopted. ” iects as sarsasaprilla. Its stems af­ It will be recalled that In the last likely that ir the anti-trust law was DETROIT’S HOME OF enforced, which provides for the fine ford strong, light fibers, which acquire Congress half a dozen bills were pre­ a beautiful lustre, and serve also for HIGH-CUSS VAUDEVILLE sented by Democratic members of the and imprisonment of any person cr joists, rafters and other building ma­ House and Senate, and an important persons “who combine with any ether person cr persons to monopolize any terials, as well as for stakes for 4-SHOWS DAILY-4 bill by a Republican member—the fences. Eabcock bin—to meet the trust evil. part of the trade or commerce among S o ’clock, 4:13-7:30-9:13 P- m. the several states,” the magnates of From parts of the tree wines and Local Time. Even the president ’s appeal for a pub­ vinegar are made. It yields also a licity bill was taken account of by the coal combine and the railroad cor ­ porations would be satisfied with a saccharine substance, as well as a these bills. But what came of this 3tarch resembling sago. Its fruit is The Lowest Prices, rush of legislation, by the Republican moderate profit rather than spend one Afternoons, zo, 15, ao cents. year in the penitentiary. That is the used for feeding cattle. The pulp has majority in Congress, or through Pres­ Evenings, Sundays. Holiday*, law, but it requires a working Presi­ an agreeable taste and the nut, which ident Rcosevelt ’s intervention. Every is oleaginous and emulFive, is some ­ zo, ao, *5 cents. scrap of it was sidetracked; It was dent rather than a talking one to ex­ ecute it. times used as a substitute for coffee. Reserved Seats in Boxes, not even allowed consideration; all Of the wood of the stem musical in­ test votes were dexterously avoided. struments, water tubes and pumps are -r- each The Babcock bill, breaking up the Tom Johnson in Politics and Busins?* ______+ Very' fov/ men ln public office can made. The pitch is an excellent sub- •artnership between the trusts and stitute for cork. From the rtem a the Dingley tariff, was suppressed. separate business from politics, sel- The Headquarters of Suburban \ President Roosevelt was unquestion ­ Ushresa from patriotism, a3 can Tom ; ^hite liquid similar to the ~*!lk of . Visitors to Detroit. 5 ably a party to this policy cf avoid ­ I . Johnson, who just now. as the ■ the cocoanut and a flour resembling | Democratic leader in Ohio, is ccr : ma,ie®a may be abstracted. ance and evasion. He uttered no word Of the straw, hats, baskets, brooms advising action on, or even the con ­ ducting such a spectacular ca :• ra'rr. and mats are made. Moreover, salt is sideration of, these anti-trust biil3. I extracted frem it, nnd likewise an al- 'lhey were suppressed with his ap­ When in congress. Johnson, who !. .... proval. was known as the big manufacturer 1 US3t :1 manufacture of com- of 3teel rails, was asked how he could ir.oa soap. Replanting Grass. The Omnipresent Mosquito. Abandoning all attempts at legisla ­ reconcile his free trade policy with The replanting of grass on the From the equator on either hand tion, demonstratively in the power of hl3 duty to his steel rail company. He Cdd Plcd203. to the Arctic and from the Antarctic Congress, the president has started wasted cattle ranges In Nebraska, replied, substantially, as follows: the anophele is irrepressible. In the out on his stumping tour with a great At the Paris Mont-da-Piete Is an Em­ Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana. “I will reply to the distinguish®.! tropic jungle, as among the icebergs, hullabaloo for a constitutional amend ­ pire clock pfcwned in 1835 for 330, an Idaho and the Dakotas is to be at­ gentlemen by saying first that I was TftAOC M«*A»9 tempted by the railways penetrating the mosquito is equally pestiferous. ment. old silver lid pawned aaventy oars ago. Otucni The president ’s policy, to which he not nent here to represent any cor ­ those states. The first problem to be In remote Alaska, as in Manhattan and a bit of lace pawned seventy-five .... Ct»«*vmoHT9 Ao. is devoting his stumping swing around poration or manufacturing concern; Anyone rending a ekeich and deeenntton solved is the finding of a grass plant the venomous insect makes life a years ago for $2.50. For all these eutrkly oeeortaln our opinion free ebother aa . I am here to represent the people. intention le probably pater.tablei CotnoMinieo- burden to man and beast alike. Cold the political circle, is clearly one of things the contract has fc»er religious ­ suitable for stock purposes. Nearly Also that we, in this country, can ilonietnoHr cootidentfui. Handbook on Patent* . that stiffens the mercury in the tube evasion and delay. He lacks the cour ­ ly renewed every year by somebody. eent free. Oldoet agency tor »eounnep*t*o»* 4,000 acres will be fenced in and manufacture steel rails more cheaply Patent# taken through Muon A Co. fnaatve does not put an end to this plague, age to face the issue. He dodges all Eut the oddest of these oddities is a tgteHt notice, without cbergn. In the divided into thirty lots for experi­ expression on the anti-trust bills be­ than in any other country ln the and the poisonous creatures revel in common old umbrella In green ging ­ Scientific flsserican. ments in planting. These western fore Congress, and then declares noth­ world, and there should be no duty the extremest heats of Central Brazil ham, in value perhaps werth $3 to a rattle ranges have been ruined by ing can be done but by the impossible upon them. I know what I am talking A bardeomely Qltwtrated weekly, larvaet sheep. It is expected once the feasi­ or Middle Africa. For what purpose connoisseur. The pledge lor this has ••baton of any erte-itWe j.umali Teru.e fit remedy of a constitutional amend ­ about, as I have been long In the busi­ rear. f >ur month#. IE byaB ne«*oe#<*'% could they have been created? And been slradlly renewed for sixty-throe bility of replanting is proved the ment This will throw the qaestton ness. and am also familiar with the federal and state governments will why were they kept alive in Noah’s years. KUiifi itoJVirir^SsS Ip 1 ever until after ths next presidential foreign modes of the same.", - - AM#-* ci..* • f ^ , lend their aid to the movement ark? THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1902.

Tor Trusts determined not to touch pose of greatly augmenting the divi ­ teachers will be expected to handle It Without agriculture tho world can ­ BUSINESS DIRECTORY. The Independent. the tariff Is like hunting mountain dends to the Orange Grove Sharehold­ in next month’s examination, and not thrive; but the agriculturalist is lions and shooting only at gophers. ers. The Company sells a specific and pioie than that, as every teacher no longer the baron of chivalrv or MRS. MARION K. DODGE, Music Teacher. definite contract, in which it agrees to throughout the county should be prosperous days, and looking down OBOROB8.00KBIT. - • • Proprletoi ut the plantations in a high state of handling that and ot her reading selec­ the tide of years to follow I see ten ­ OINIEL AHHOrT, IDITOR AND MOK THE NATURAL HOME OK THE ORANGE Sevelopement, along the lines indicat ­ tions in her own school. Uoless you ants, or slavery In a new form. Why Attorneys. During my five months’stay in Cuba ed, aria to pay the entire profits to the are already au expert in teaching is it even literature makes the farmer UBVOCHATIC STATE TICKET. j last year In behalf of The Tropical urchasers of tbs Orange Grove reading, you can ill afford it be with­ illiterate? Why Is it he Is ever the OGLING M KELLEY, Attorneys at Law ; Land Company, of Detroit, I saw hares. In this way. all who are for ­ out such excellent aid. butt of the traveling public? Only St Johns, Mich. Office up stairs on Walk­ For Goernor — g erD aireet east. ISO GEKGK H. DURAND of Flint. abundance of evidence to convince tunate enough to become the owners Very sincerely, last evening I heard two traveling of these Shares may participate in the For Lieutenant Governor — any reasonable person that Cuba is Thko . H. Townsend . men talking abroad a train aud one VTORTON & JAMISON, Attorneys at Law JOHN F. BIBLE, or Ionia. destined soon to become a great pro ­ profits of a great orange grove in Cuba, said to the other, “a farmer will J_N Office over 8t. Johns National Bank. st. For Secretary of State— ducer of oranges of the very first managed by careful business men, travel twenty miles for three cents Johns. Mich. , 1819 JOHN DONOVAN, of Bay City. quality. Every one knows that the without experiencing the inconveni ­ IN A COTTON FIELD when he sees an advertisement, For ^tate Treasurer— whole history of fruits which grow ences aud discomforts of leaving their ‘twenty pounds of sugar for a dollar ’ EARL BROWN, Attorney at Law, St W. F. DAVIDSON, of Port Huron. own homes, or without devoting any » Jobna .Mich. Office In the Clinton block For Auditor-General - upon trees contirms the Idea that IaUmtlttg UlKrlptlon of Colton Growing Said the other, "we haveto carry them J DAVID A. HAMMOND, of Ann Arbor. cultivation and care greatly improve time to tiie business. As these Shares a year and we must have the interest the quality and the quantity produc ­ may be bought for small mouthlv in ­ In Arkansas by Mrs. Fauhcl. on our money. ” ONEY to loan on real estate security For Land Commissioner — M by Henry E. Walbrldge, St. Johns. luis ARTHUR K WATSON, of Cheboygan. ed. The pioneers of Michigan and stallments, they are within the reach Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 15, 1902. Why is It that he does not compre ­ For Attorney-General — Ohio brought apple seeds with them of all thrifty people, who desire to hend state questions and national W. F. MCKNIGHT, of Grand Rapids. Editor Clinton Independent : EWI8 SEVERANCE, A. B. Attorne from the east, and started young better their condition in life, and to issues, but must take the newspaper i Counselor and Solicitor, St, Johns. MIc l For Sunt, Public Instruction — orchards without grafting the trees. provide a perpetual Income for them­ 1 send you today a box of cottou version and explanation in general, W. N. FERRIS, of B1k Rapids, The result was that the earliest selves and their heirs after them. specimens, from blossom to picking aud stump speakers in particular? For Member State Board of Education — condition. When it has served its in ­ YON * MOINET, Attorneys at Law, St. CHARLES K. FIELD, of Hastings. orchard bore apples which were called More detailed particulars of tills in ­ Some person, possibly of U. E. A. Johns, Mich. Offloe over Chapman's store. “natural fruit.” Thus a tree spring ­ teresting enterprise may be obtained terest to you band it to some one of membership may say, “what woman L For Justice of Supreme Court — the teachers or pupils of tiie St. Johns BENJAMIN J. BROWN, of Menominee. ing from a seed which came from a by addressirg the Company at its is this with hysteria?” Nq need. 1 yyiLLH. BRUNSON, Attorney at Law and fairly good apple, might produce offices in tiie Chamber of Commerce school as a botanical gift. Solicitor In Chancery, Office over the CONGRESSIONAL TICKET. am perfectly normal. I am not a Mrs. apples which could scarcely be tolerat ­ Building, Detroit, Michigan. Today 1 passed through a cotton C’att, of New York City, afraid to tell poat-offlee, St. Johns, Mich. 1610 For Member of Congress. Eighth District— ed, either iu size or in quality. In John Western . field which 1 saw planted last spring, HENRY M. YOUMANS. Saginaw. the truth and let It hit where it may E. A E.L. WALBRIDGE, Attorneys at after years, grafting was introduced, and 1 will give you a brief description Very kindly, Law, St. Johns, Mich. 1367 from seed time to harvest: and tiie present generation knows L. C. Faubel . Democratic County Convention. nothing of the “natural fruit” of the COMMISSIONER’S SECTION. The ground is prepared with a one- ERRINS A BALDWIN, Attorneys at horse plow by back-furrowing two The September “American Iloy. ” Law, Money Loaners and Real Estate The Democratic party of Clinton pioneers. So It is with the citrus PAgents. Office over Chapman's, Clinton Ave.. family of fruits, which includes the furrows and skipping two furrows; county will meet in convention at the Advantages And Dtsad vantage^ Of High “Napoleon Bonaparte ” occupies the St.Johns. Court House, in the Village of St. ietuou, the lime and the grape-fruit. next, a small roller of two-furrow School Subjects In Rural School*. width is run over tiie plowed furrows lace of honor in the September num- Johns, on Saturday, September 27th, Cultivation, study, budding, grafting, er of TilE AMERICAN BOY. Tiie Dentistry. at one o ’clock in the afternoon for the care and good management in other (Continued from last week.) to fialtcn aud pack them; then a cot ­ K ton drill follows; the drill will hold frontispiece is a crayon drawing of tiie purpose of placing in nomination ways, have brought these fruits to We thus see that attempting high Young Napoleon, supposed to be a E. CORHIN, M. D., D. D. S. To fret tbs candidates for the various county their present ttate of perfection from school work to any great extent in tiie about a bushel of cotton seed, and • benefit of tL 3 r-'jerlence medical know ­ plants in tiie middle of the two fur­ good portrait of him at the age that G offices and a repsentative to the state comparatively insignificant specimens. strictly rural school not onlv fails to he entered the Military school -at ledge and surgical skill wnicb are indispensa ­ legislature, to be voted for at tliecom- Any one versed in these matters, does successfully cover tiie Itigh school sub­ rows plowed a single row. When the ble to perfection of results In dentistry app » cotton comes up so that the rows can Brienne. Tiie editor of THE AMERI­ to Corbin A Son. St. Johns. iug November election. not expect to find delicious fruits jects attempted, but it takes tiie time CAN BOY has undertaken to write The various towuships will be en ­ growing upon trees that have never of teacher and pupils from the work of be followed well, tiie man aud ins mule, with chains for tugs and a rope the history of Napoleon for boys, and H. KENYON, Dentists. Over Weils’ titled to representation as follows; had any care from mankind. Hence the first eight grades; and in my judg ­ the first chapter, treating of "Corsica Grocery.* Grc St. Johns. Mich. Bingham...... 7 every person who is iuformed regard ­ ment, any tiling that tends to weaken for lines, plows another furrow each A side of the row. When this is done and the Corsicans, Napoleon ’s parent ­ Bath...... 4 ing horticultural matters, and who the work of the first eight grades is age, birth, childhood and school days, G. H. M ANN, D. D. 8. Offlceover Bengal ...... 4 travels in Cuba for the first time, Is strictly detrimental to the school, be tiie field is fully plowed. The first Spauldinir A Co.s hardware, op ­ secret is to keepdown the weeds; next; appears in this number. There are posite The Steel Hotel. Surgery Dallas...... 5 surprised to find such delicious it rural or city school; because better seyenty-tive pictures in this interest ­ DeWitt...... 5 oranges growing upon trees that have than four- fifths of our boys and girls to thin tiie cotton so that tiie stalks a specialty. Office hours.8 to D will stand from eight inches to a foot ing number illustrating the stories a m., l:3uto5p. m., 7 to 8. eve’g Duplain ...... 4 never had any care from human be­ dropout in the sixtti, seventh and and the leading articles. Among the ings. 1 have repeatedly picuea oranges eighth grades, and hence the schooling or eighteen inches apart. This is call­ Essex ...... 5 stories, in addition to the Napoleon homas s. mann , d . d . s., middle of Eagle ...... 4 from trees that iiave grown up in the in tiie grades below tiie ninth is all ed chopping cotton, and is done witli a hoe. Cotton is a long season crop Bonaparte story are the following: upper block, same floor as Perrin A Greenbush...... 4 brush or from the grass, and that have they ever get; again, the branches of "My Only Bear;” “Rob ’s Race;” TBaldwin, St. Johns, Mich. Lebanon ...... 4 never been budded, grafted, pruned, the first eight grades contain those and requires hoeing and cultivation until weeds are subdued and blooming “.atlff-Neck Peter;” “Abe’s Luck;” Olive ...... 4 sprayed, or had the soil cultivated or principles that tiie individual must “A Young Hero of the Frontier, ” bv Physicians. Riley...... •...... 4 fertilized about them. use every day of his life. Iu the gen ­ begins. It does not require deep cultivation, Captain Jack Crawford, Ex-chief of Ovid ...... « Without constant attention along eral occupations of life, where one is Scouts; “Patsy Mulligan, The Cub;” HODSK1N GALE, M. D. Office ore Westphalia...... 0 all ttiese lines, and without the addi ­ called upon to apply the principles of tier does it thrive with it. The roots . State Bank. Night calls at TLe 8te<- flatten out and run in a net work “A Tale of the Southwest;” “A Les­ W Watertown ...... 4 tional feature of liberal irrigation, no algebra and geometry once, that same son in Botany; ” “Tiie Downfall of a uince hours:—11 to 12a. m.; l toil aud7to9p.u: oranges tit for the markets could be individual is culled upon to apply the close to the top of tiie ground. Tiie Victor ...... 5 Forest Tribe,” and “The Wild West V.I)OOLLNO, Physician and Surgeon. J. Earl Brown , Chairman. produced in California. Nevertheless, principles of arithmetic a thousand low lands grow the best quality. It is the crop that always brings the cash, Show.” Other articles that con ­ • Office over Allison ’s store. St. Johns. Emory E. (Jrie, Secretary. one may find these natural trees in times; aud ten thousand times more tribute to tiie Interest of this number J Rodney A. Beebe:, Treasurer. every locality in Cuba, loaded witli necessary it is that tiie boy be thor­ but, like tiie wheat of tiie north, in jfij P;>^Physician, Sur­ these later years tiie prices paid to the are “The Pennsylvania Nautical geon and Electrologlst, Ovid, Mich. large juicy, thin skinned and tine oughly grounded in tiie history of his School ” and “The Bluecoat, A Famous flavored oranges. This is convincing own nation and the civics of kiis own producer are so small that tile produc ­ WHAT COUMKIiCE NEEDS. er is the slave—of what? Let him London School. ” A page is devoted **• D•• Surgeon and Homeo- proof that Mother Nature does more institutions, than that he attempt to to How to do Things, and another to * pathlc Physician. Office and residence John Sherman, ex-Kecretary of the to bring this important fruit to a high master the history and civics of name it who can. Cotton buyers, like over SpauIdlng ACo s hardware.opp tbeStee! wheat buyers and heavy manufactur ­ the first of a series of articles by Treasury, and United States Senator state of perfection in this fertile ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, at Archer Brown, of Rogers, Brown & island, than in any other locality in the expense of the knowledge of ills ers. live iu fine homes, while the agri ­ C’ M* D” Physician and Sut- said: culturists of the country, as a rule, are Co., New York, entitled “Top or Bot ­ • geon. Office over Spaulding A Comps - ••Every advance toward a free ex­ the world. Suppose that Nature’s own Institutions. The same argu ­ tom —Which?” The usual depart ­ nyP s hardware store, St. Johns, Mich. Office work be supplemented by the enter ­ ment would hold true relative to Eng ­ paying interest. hours l to 4,7 to 9 p. m. change of commodities is an advance Cotton picking has begun and will ments appear, interesting, as usual, to prise, energy and watchfulness of lish grammar against rhetoric. A amateur journalists, lovers of animals, in civilization: everj obstruction to a American fruit-growers, transplanted third reason for making exceptionally lust, if the weather is favorable, until HART, M. D., Physician and Sur Christmas. This Held of cotton 1 am young photographers, young scientists, H. geon. Eureka, Mich. 1217 free exchange is born of the'narrow to Cuba! No one doubts for a moment strong the work of the first eight stamp, coin and curio collectors, and that the result would be an extraordi ­ grades is, that that work is not only describing stands from two to six feet despotic spirit which planted castles high. Tiie smaller stalks had upon boys in games and sport. Lovers of HAVENS, M. D. Homeopathic Phy. nary yield of the nuxst delicious oranges the entire schooling of such a large puzzledom have a page, as does also * ’ slcian and Surgeon. upon the Rhine to plunder peaceful ever eaten by human beings. The re­ percentage of our boys and girls, but their trunk and tiny limbs from ten Bazaar. Offlceover Heller a to thirty cotton bolls; tiie tallest THE ORDER OF THE AMERICAN commerce; every obstruction to com ­ markable circumstances in favor of it is tiie foundation upon which all BOY, while tiie editor devotes a page merce is a tax upon consumption; Cuba as a fruit growing country and high school and college work must stalks had divided into three main 1*; AM,Physician and Surgeon branches with from fifty to one hun­ to chats with boys, and the first of a D. residence, opposite court bouae against California cannot be too stand; and if the foundation is weak, series of Lessons in Shorthand for west. Office hours 1 to 4 p m and 6 to 9 p. m every facility to a free exchange strongly emphasized or too often re­ weaker still must be the superstruc­ dred and fifty bolls to tiie plant. Tiie cheapens commodities, increases trade ground over which tiie cotton had Boys, edited by Isaac Pitman & Sons, peated. ture built npoo such a foundation. is given. and production, and promotes civiliza­ In the first place, the island is For illustration: Tiie pupil wins com ­ been picked ten days ago is ready to Undertakers. I go over again new bolls had burst and One Dollar a year. THESPRAGUE tion. Nothing is worse than section ­ founded on lime-stone, and the soil is pletes his work in U. S. History, and PUBLISHING CO., Detroit. Mich. ILL A EDD OSGOOD, Undertake heavily impregnated with lime, which by virtue of the time and labor putl tiie cotton, like tiie samples I send W opp. post-office, St. Johns. Mich. alism within a nation, and nothing is makes an ideal soil for the citrus upon that subject does not learn to 1 you. give a decidedly white and J^EFORT OF THE CONDITION better for the peace of nations than family. In tne newer sections, no reason from cause to effect (real his­ peculiar effect to tiie long green rows. TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS unrestricted freedom of commerce and American will need to use any ferti­ tory,) that pupil will get but little, if An average cotton crop yields 500 OF THE pounds, or one bale to tiie acre. An intercourse with each other. lizer during the present generation. anything, from the subject of general One result of litis fact is the extraor ­ history. In his study of U. S. history average picker will pick one hundred FOR 1901 AND 1902. The primary object of a protective dinary advantage of having trees grow he should learn how to study all his­ pounds a day. an extra picker one Clinton County Savinp Bank, r'fh 8chooi r°om, beginning third tariff is to invite the fullest competi- [ several times larger in a given period tory. In as great or a lesser degree hundred and fifty pounds, while once AT ST. JOHNS, MICH, lmir><1rt> of Aujrust. tion by individuals and corporations than can be produced anywhere else the same relation exists between all in a while in good picking, a person At the close of business, September 15, 1!I02. us can pick two hundred pounds in a day, called for by the Commissioner of the in domestic productions. If such in ­ where orange trees will grow. I the common branches and those prop ­ T?ur'i3i?o? ‘fiirSbh"OJ r°°"’ >*>• stood on tiptoe to reach to the top of erly belonging to the high school and and cotton is selling at this date upon Banking Department. dividuals or corporations combine to RESOURCES. grade room, beginning a little orange tree, which had grown college. tiie market at S cents per pound. third Thursday of June. * advance the price of the domestic pro ­ 1 asked what prices they were pay­ Loans and discounts ...... „..# 25.142 97 from tiie seed in thirteen months. The teacher and the school board Bonds, mortgage* and securities.... . :«»».;**} os ard*Ume natl°n8 w111 commence at 8:80siand duct, and to prevent the free result of This extraordinary rapiditv of growth now enquire, “What shall we do? We ing for picking? To which the owner Premiums paid on bonds ...... 6.787 47 is maintained for many decades of have this condition to meet: Here is a answered “fifty cents a day.” You Due from other banks aud bankers 4.660 50 T H. TOWNSEND. open and fair competition, 1 would, cannot pick while tiie cotton is damp, Due from bunks In reserve Commissioner of Schools. years. Great wide-spreading trees, pupil, or here are several pupils who cities...... $00,558 00 without a moment ’s hesitation, reduce lienee tne picking must Ik * done in tiie many times larger than tiie orange have passed through the eighth grade, U. S. and Nationul Bunk ROBATE ORDER.—STATE OF MICH I- the duties on foreign goods competing trees of California or of Florida, result and who desire and whose parents de ­ fieat of tiie day. When enough for a currency ...... 4.084 00 GAN County of Clinton, ss. At a session with them in order to break down the from this favorable condition, com ­ sire, that they receive more schooling, bale is picked, it is sent to tiie cotton- Gold coin ...... 11,101 oo Pof the Probate Court for the County of Clin­ Silver coin ...... 1,514 <8 ton, holden at the Probate Office, in the Villag ­ bined with tiie ever genial tempera­ but do not feel that ttiey at that time gin which machine—and it is of Nickels and cents ...... 0 04 83.782 72 combination. Whenever this free simple construction —1 saw in opera ­ er St. Johns, on Tuesday, the 9th day of ture and atmosphere. 1 do not know can bear the expense or inconvenienc ­ 'hundered tand ntwobe y6ar °ne ,hoU6and D,'.e competition is evaded or avoided by that orange trees grow every day in es of sending them away to tiie high tion after I caine last fall. The cost Total ...... $420,879 80 combinations or corporations, the the year; but 1 do know that there school. Shall we refuse to provide for of ginning is according to tiie con ­ Probate' 11’ Charle8 M' Merrill, Judge of science of tiie gin-owner, sometimes LIABILITIES. duty should be reduced and foreign are no conditions of soil or atmosphere sucli in tiie home district? ” To all Capital stock paid in...... g 28.000 00 MIBRatifwa .*hw{. 6 l8tate of .’BERNARD 75 cents a hundred, sometimes more. -u. radkmac HER, deceased. competition promptly invited. ” to prevent sucli growth. Cuba is just such teachers and district boards I Surnlu* fund ...... 5.600 00 inside of tiie torrid zone and it is would say that a teacher or board The cotton seed tiie farmer has to Undivided profits, net ...... 2,851 55 Peter Thelen executor of the will of said- dispose of as he wishes. Little Rock Savings deposits ...... 367.609 82 deceased. having made application for the south of the wonderful Gulf Stream, ought never to turn a pupil of the dis ­ Savings certificates...... 26,818 43 384.428 25 discharge 01 h * fl,'al aceount and for hie “ETH TARIFF IS tAe MOTHER OE which wields such a potent influence trict away when he comes desiring lias compress works. Here in tiie TRUSTS." city tiie large bales are worked over Thereupon it Is ordered that Thursdav. the upon all shores which it washes. reasonable instruction and I should Total ...... #120.879 80 2nd day of October. A. .D., 1902, ktone President Roosevelt, In his last mes­ Constant vigilance to ward off frosts endeavor to make my course of study, any stray seed taken out and the bales Static or Michigan , County of Clinton, ss: o clock in the afternoon.be assigned for the is tiie rule botli in California and and my program to meet tiie required made smaller for tiie world ’s market. I. I*. E. Walsworth, Treasurer of the above- examinttion of snid account, at the Piobut. sage to Congress said: Cotton seed oil is also made which is named bank, do solemnly swear that the Office In the village of st. Johns. Florida, but hundreds of thousands of conditions. However, I should aim above statement Is true to the best of my And it is further ordered, that notice l>e giv ­ “Tiie creation of great corporate dollars wortli of damage is often done to make the pupil see the conditions used to a great extent in place of lard. knowledge and belief. en to the persons Interested in said estate of fortunes ”—notice that nice little cir­ by cold waves. In Cuba, frosts are as they really existed. I should aim The cotton seed hulls are left and are P. E. WALSWORTH, tne time ami place of said hearing br uhun - Treasurer cumlocution he uses to get around call­ absolutely unknown, and temperatures to make him understand that, al­ largely used in stock feeding. Ing a copy of this order to be published In the The cotton plant continues to Subscribed and sworn to before me tills Clinton Independent , a newspaper printed ing the Trusts by their right name — low enough to retard rapid growth of though lie had gone through his eighth 20tli day of September. 1902. .rCU at‘?K in 8ald Coun, y <»f Clinton, for orange trees are never experienced, grade year, there were many things in blossom until cut with the frost, buds HARRY N. BRIGGS. hearing 0te8 * VC weeks l,revious to said day of “has not been due to the tariff.” although tiie orange tree seems to be all of the essential subjects that he and bolls are constantly forming. If Notary Public. tiie conditions are right and the cot- CORIIECT—Attest: /* . CHARLRS M. MERRILL. Will he, while he is proposing revo ­ as sensitive to the cold as a three-days’ could delve deeper in, and thus become jno . nicKs. (A true copy.. Judge of Probate. lutionary amendments and other old babe. It is essentially a tropical broader and stronger either to fight toc is scalded with tiie heat, tiie boils WARNER HUN DAY. tree. the battle of life, or to take on high drop and the crop is injured. Some ­ JOHN C. HICKS. impossible remedies for tiie Trusts, Directors SALE-Default having been I saw no sign of insects or disease school and college work. For instance, times the cotton boll worm injures made In the conditions of a certain Mort ­ during his swing around tiie circle, even on these wholly neglected trees. he could plow deeper in his ninth year the crop. Cotton Is graded botli as to gage dated the 21st day of Anril ivis EPOKT OF THE CONDITION executed by Julia Ann Rider atfd Charles H* mention any other country in which a This is another sign that all thecir of school into his grammar, arithme­ color and length of fibre. You pull R Rider to Sarah J. Corey, all <>f St. Johns and great steel combination, holding a cumstances seem to be more favorable tic, history, geography, masterpiece, from the seed a portion of the cotton -----OF------recorded April2ist. 189ft, in Liber 90 of mori- for the production of this important etc., than he possibly could in his and if it is three fourths of an incli in iPaR* ,h<> offlce ot the Register monopoly of its own market, has sold length it is fair, if an inch good, if an of Deeds In and for the county of Clinton, fruit in tiie “Pearl of the Antilles” . eighth year, ana I should endeavor to ^ and state of Michigan, on which mortgage rails at $11 a ton less in foreign mar­ If tiie facts regarding transportation have him utilize the greater part of inch and a quarter it is extra. In its Tie St. ;.L Natiooal Baal, if •l^!2,due .al ‘he date of this notice the sum kets ttian it sold them for at home? facilities were about even, the condi ­ the ninth year in such a study of those earlier stages of growth it resembles ▲T ST. JOHNS, MICH. of $->5.00, principal and interest, which still And Jdoes lie think that tiie Dingley tions already referred to, would for ­ subjects; and in connection with those the bean crop, later It looks like cot ­ remalnsdue an., unpaid, besides an attorney ton only. One must see it to appre­ At the close of business, September 15, 1902. fee of #30.00 provided In said mortgage and bv “prohibitive” rather than “protec ­ ever give Cuba an over powering subjects. I would -endeavor to find statute, and no suit or proceedings at law or advantage over any other locality in time, without encroaching upon the ciate “Dixie.” RESOURCES. In equity having been instituted to recover tive” tariff had nothing to do with the any part of said debt secured by said mort tiie orange growing industry; but it Is many, to start him and guide him far Tiie schools are opening and the Loans and discounts ...... 4107.184 81 gage. k making of such a thing possible? very interesting to note that she has enough into the elements of algebra, quarterly examination for teachers Overdrafts, secured and unsecured. 778 48 Now, therefore, by virtue of the power of Does he think that the tariff was not an equally great advantage, when we so that he would be able to do broader with the Saturday institute to follow U. S. bunds to secure circulation ...... 15.000 00 sale in said mortgage oontalned. and by stat­ takes place this week. 1 hope all will U. 8. bunds on hand ...... 18.500 00 ute In such case made and provided, notice is responsible for the Steel Trust? If it consider the important problem of work in that subject when he came Premiums on U. 8. bonds ...... 1.826 88 hereby given that on the 8th day of Novem- transportation. New York City is tiie to take it up in the high tchool. get first grades or have the privilege Stocks, securities, etc...... 57,200 94 her. 1902. at one o ’clock In the afternotni at was not then why under heaven was most important of all the world ’s The work of village schools with but of self-renewal. Ranking-house, furniture and fix­ the west front door of the court house, for the American people forced to pay Election is over. Jeff. Davis re­ tures...... 7.000 00 Clinton county. Michigan, in the village or markets for all of Cuba’s products, one teacher in the high school will be Other real estate owned ...... 9.500 00 St.Johns, there will be sold at public vendue higher prices to build up the steel in ­ and it will continue to hold this discussed in next week’s issue. elected. On Saturday evening pre­ Due from State Hanks and Hankers 3,*>4 96 to the highest bidder the land in said supremacy longer than any present The State Department has sent out ceding the election at the West End Due from approved reserve agents... 25.968 22 mortgage described, viz: Lots 7 and 8 in dustry? If on the other hand it was reader of this paper will live. Now, park of this city a union meeting of Checks and other cash Items...... 2,786 31 block 85. in the village of St. Johns. Clinton some pamphlets entitled “Michigan Notes of other National Hanks...... 714 00 county, and state of Michigan, as appears bv responsible for the Steel Trust, then New York Is only 64 hours from Pioneer Day.” The booklets contain candidates was held or attempted. Fractional paper currency, nickels, the recorded plat. * why In the name of reason shall we Havana by cheap water transporta ­ a program and suggestions on the pro ­ The republican candidate was kindly and cents...... 735 52 •eigned) SARAH J. COREY, Mortgagee, Lawful money reserve In bank, vl>: continue that tariff? He is welcome tion, while Riverside and Los Angeles, gram for “School Pioneer Exercises.” received but when ex-Governor Davis Dated August 7th, 19«2. attempted to speak, from republican Specie...... #16.162 95 H. J. Patterson , Attorney for Mortgagee to either horn of the dilemma. Cal., are from ten to fifteen days by Tiie day designated is Friday, October Legal-tender notes ...... 3,600 00 Business address —St. Johns. Mich. 13-t the fastest time that is now being 10. Your commissioner thinks the center in the audience so much disord ­ 19.662 95 Could the Sugar Trust maintain the made by the great fruit trains. This idea is an excellent one, and hopes er arose that he ceased speaking. Redemption fund with IT. S. Treas­ ortgage sale -default having urer (a per cent, of circulation) ...... 750 00 been made In the conditions of a certain* extortion that created that “great, means getting the fruit upon the that every school on the day designat ­ They used to send, It is said, troops mortgage,M dated August I3tb. I8M,executed corporate fortune ” had it not been for I market in much fresher condition, ed by tiie Kimerintendent of Public here to preserve the peace, but it was Total ...... #270.863 07 by Julia A. Rider to Sarah J. Corey all of St tlic differential duties which havp all • days earlier at the hc^innin^ Instruction will have a program pre­ not the Democrats this time that Johns, Mich., and recorded August 13,1898, in omereuuai uuues wmen na\e .ill f,mio an rt much Hocortorn. needed them. The days of discussion LIABILITIES. Liter 91. of Mortgages on puge 107 In the , of the season, and much less deteriora ­ pared, and in tiie presence of patrons Capital stock paid In...—...... $50.000 00 office of the Register of Deeds in and for t he along given them a monopoly of the tion in quality in transit, besides of the district carry out the same in a of issues and real principles of govern ­ Surplus fund ...... 10.000 00 County of Clinton and state of Michigan ; on sugar business? much lower freight bills. creditable manner. In mailing them, ment have passed. Politicians in Undivided profits, less expenses and which Mortgage there Is due at the date of taxes paid ...... 2.427 32 this notice the sum of #30.25 principal and Is there any other country where a On account of these extraordinary if I should happen to omit the name their own interest travel over their respective states or counties to abuse National hank notes outstanding.... 15,not) 00 interest which still remains due and unpaid coal combination is enabled to control conditions in favor of Cuba as an of anv teacher, will such teacher notify Duo to Trust Companies and Sav­ besides an attorney fee ns provided by law orange growing section, the Tropical me or the fact. opponents. There is something of ings Banks 1.410 56 and no suit or proceedings at lawor in equlti* the market and fix arbitrary prices. In Land Company decided at the out-set Teacher, how much special prepara­ mirth in the make up of the speech, Ill'lltvidunl deposits subject to cheek 117,015 32 havlng been instituted to recover anv nart of Demand certificatesincatesofdep of •posit.. 4.721 84 said debt and by said mortgage. part by tariff which protects it from to make oranges its leading product, tion are you giving yourself that your and even if largely slang, the most Certified checks 288 03 Now. therefore, by virtue of the pow«r competition from abroad? and has named Its plantations “Tiie morning exercises may be interesting? refined ear must acknowledge it apt. of sale In said Mortgage contained, and bv One democratic speaker drew from Total ...... «... #27'»,868 07 statute In such rase made and provided, notice Orange Grove Plantation. ” This What have been your morning exer­ Is hereby given that on the 8th dav Thissame line of inquiry, honestly Company will employ a practical man ills pocket two pamphlets of the two cises this week? State or Michigan . County of Clinton, ss: of Novell! ter. 1902, at one o ’clock and fearlessly followed, and followed of many years’ experience with In each week’s issue of “Timely republican wings and read them say­ I. P. E. Walsworth, cashier of the above- In the arternoon, at the west front with a desire to learn the truth, will oranges, and will grow the leading Topics ” will be found a lesson covering ing: “Each had accused the other of named bank, do solemnly swear that, the door of the court bouse for Clinton County Ir# tilings grave, serious and criminal,” alsive statement Is true to the best of my Michigan, in the village ol 8t. Johns in snld show to the President the truth ad ­ varieties of orange, lemon, lime and a certain part of Goldsmith ’s “De­ knowledge and lieller. countv there will be sold at public vendue to grape-fruit trees. While these trees serted Village. ” The aim of Mr. Pat- and he believed all each had said of P. E. WALSWORTH. Cashier. the bighost bidder, the land In said mort- mitted before the United States In ­ gage described, viz: Lois 7 and 8 In block 46. are reaching the producing period, engil is to continue these lessons until the other. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th dustrial Committee, by Mr. Ifayc- I send greetings to all. 1 hold tender day of September, 1902. n the Village of St. Johns. Clinton Countv. the Company will raise pine-apples, the selection is covered. I have just a8 6y the recorded plat of meyer, the sugar king, that “the bananas, and other annual crons, to finished a careful examination of the and sweet memories for the state of HARRY N. BRIGGS, said village. Notary Public. Dated August 7th, HKC. protective tariff is the mother of produce early dividends. It will also questions and digest of the same In last my birth and education. Mv sympa­ COKRECT—Attest: continue the cultivation of these crops week’s "Timely Topics, ” and I want thies are with theclass—the farmers— JOHN C. HICKS, 8 A RAH J. COREY, Trusts.” r during the whole period of Its manage ­ to say that In my Judgment the sub- in which I had my being, and of w hom WARNER BUNbAY, H.J. Patterson . Mortgagee. But for the President to go hunting ment of the plantations, for the pur- ject isIs being hamhandled exactly as the I shall never be ashamed. C.C. VAUGHAN, Attorney for Mortgagee. Directors. Business address St. Johns, Mlcb. ll-t V ' •«■ y ‘ J jj, I THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1902. I

From the Sunday later Ocean, August 24, 1962. THE OLD RELIABLE DRY GOODS CLOAKS .... HICKS THE GREATEST STRIKE IN HISTORY. You could not speak that name without thinking of Dry Goods, Carpets, Cloaks, etc. And this season more than ever before do we expect to make the name and line go hand in hand to the homes of careful The following article appeared June dry goods buyers in this community. We know that we have a line of dry goods that is second to none as 13, 1902, In the Baxter Countv Bulle­ tin, also a similar article in the Bax­ far as careful selecting regarding style, quality and price are concerned. ter County Citizen, published at We also know that the ladies here know good values when they see them and are appreciating our line Mountain Home, Ark., as well as in various other Arkansas and Missouri &AKIMG this season, we ask you to take a look at the goods and tell us what you think. papers:

OUTING FLANNELS DRESS GOODS Black BLANKETS - That’s “The most important discovery yet where we are in line. Bought be­ made in this county, and one that is POWDER 5c, 8c and ioc . and colors in all the newest weaves second to none in the Arkansas dis ­ Absolutely Pure —P^tamines, Scotch Heather, Mel­ fore the price advanced and now trict. has just been revealed by the Got an elegant line of them. log of the Kimberly Mining and Mill­ THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE tons, Cheviots, etc. Not neces­ we can sell them as cheap as the ing company's drill on the Last See if you ever got as good for Chance, 31-21-12. sarily high priced, but high grade wholesale price is today. Come “Tills company commenced drilling the monev. for style and wear. early on these. on their property in January, but the LOCAL JOTTINGS. Inclement weather in February com ­ pelled them to temporarily shutdown, Who wishes the moderate use of a after reaching a depth of 68 feet. ood driving horse for his keeping? Work was resumed three weeks ago, inquire at this office. and the hole put down to 154 feet. At f Trimmings, Hosiery, Underwear, Handerchiefs, 42 feet the drill passed into a body of A widow ’s pension of $12 a month heavy ore and continued in it for 20 hos been granted Juliet Skelton, of feet, when the ore got lighter and Fagle township. Towels, Table Linens, etc., showed lead mixed with the jack. Watch the columns of the Inde ­ This run continued for 32 feet, then pendent for Boucher & Petsch’s im­ passed into a heavy ledge of blende, portant announcement next week. IN ABUNDANCE. COME AND SEE US. and this held without any breaks for Call on Wrilson Bros, to see the great 60 feet, and was still in good ore at new line of woolens received from the bottom of the hole—making an STRAUS BROS., America’s Leading ^.JOHN HICKS, almost continuous run of ore for 112 Tailors, Chicago. feet. The drill cuttings in the last 60 feet of hole show a very large per Mrs. Sarah Rathburn. who has been ST. JOHNS, HICHIGAN. cent of blende, and the bottom of the suffering from an attack of typhoid ledge has not been reached. None of fever, has been given up to die by her the officials of the company are here. attending physician. Before leaving for Chicago Mr. Tru­ Hicks is hustling hard to make this man, secretary, gave instructions to season the best in his dry-goods exper­ move to the bottom of a ravine as soon ience. He has created much talk Lulu Nelson, after visiting her as its level was reached. This the about his fall line of new goods. aunt, Mrs. Byron Danlev aud family, DECATUR BROSS DEAD contractors proceeded to do without Miss McMillan, of Detroit, an artist returned to her home at West Branch communicating witli the compauy. in her line, is now at the head of the last Monday. A ilooil M«n Hus Finished 11 Ik Work on and they are now drilling at the place trimming department of Boucher & Mrs. Nancy Phelps and Nellie Drake, Karth. designated, about 100 yards on a level Petsch’s millinery estrblishment. of Bengal, left this station Monday from the first hole. No report has Decatur Bross died at his home in been received from the drill since it The bent rails for the street corners morning to visit a sister at Linwood, this village at 11 o ’clock p. ra . Satur­ occupied by the electric road, have Bay county, Mich. started at the new location Monday day. September 20, 1902. from typhoid or Tuesday. arrived and will be placed in position Mrs. C. S. Scofield and children, fever, after six weeks contest with Millionaire as soon as the weather will permit. Howard and Helen, are visiting rela­ that dread disease, aged 57 years, 0 “The result of the work done by tlie W. K. Sage, of this village, is fast tives and friends in Oxford and months and 20 days. Kimberley company is a verification nearing the final end of this life Pontiac this week. Mr. Bross was born at Johnsons, Feeling of the opinions held by men best ac­ quainted with the North Fork district, due to frequent attacks of heart T. V. Hoagland, of Britton, Lena Orange county. N. V., where, at the wear garments trouble, from which he has been who have ever held that great bodies wee county, who was present at the age of 24, he was united in marriage made-to-order of ore would be revealed in this dis ­ suffering for many years. funeral of O. L. Vreeland. returned with the lady, w ho, with two children, a son and daughter, grown to man ­ by : : : : : trict when the proper depth was Dr. R. G. Morrison, this village, an home last Monday. reached to cut the ore-bearing ledges. old soldier, is suffering from stomach hood |and womanhood, besides one Mrs. Mary Jackway, who had been “The development on the Ilawkeye. trouble and a wound received while in visiting in the family of Geo. Perry, sister. -Mrs. B. II. Nelson, and a service. In fact many things com ­ nephew, Geo. R. Nelson, both of and on the Hulsenbeck lease, adjoining Greenbush, returned to her home in Strauss Bros. the Last Chance, is in the same form ­ bine to render him in a very critical Pontiac last Saturday. Binghamton, N. V.. survive him and “America’s Leading Tailors, ” condition. were present at his funeral. ation, and while these two properties Alfred, son of Charles E. Lamb, Mr. and Mrs. Bross came to Michi­ Chicago have shown up large bodies of fine A Mr. Ledvard. graduate of the Uni­ this township, who had been visiting ore, the work has not yet readied the versity of Michigan, is here training gan in 1879 and settled in Howell, his parents, returned to his home in Livingston county, where they re­ Good clothes contribute much to happi­ deptli of the Kimberley, yet proves the high school fool ball team. He Everett, Mich.. Monday. ness. You gain the point in Stranss Bros.' conclusively that this same ore body thinks they should thoroughly master mained until the spring of 1880 when Mrs. E. S. Bartram and daughter they came to Clinton county, and set­ made garments. They are made scientifically is continuous and extends over a large the rules of the game before attempt­ went to Ithaca Monday, where they area of territory, making it the largest ing to play it. tled upon a farm in Duplain township, to your exa.ct measure by highly skilled have taken up their residence with where they remained about a year, ore body yet discovered in the district ••The American Boy, ” the most other members of the family. when he sold the farm and purchased tailors in clean, sanitary shops. Every detail and one that will attract the atten ­ popular publication ever issued for W. T. Madden, of Washburn, Wis., one in the north-east part of this irom first to last given the minutest attention, the tion of zinc miners everywere and boys, the yearly subscription price of who had been here visiting his (Bingham) township, on which he result being garments distinctly above the ordinary make the North Fork district famous which Is $1 and the Independent $1, in the zinc world. parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Madden, continued to live until 1899. when he and absolutely satisfactory. You will wonder both for $1.25. Call at or send your left for home Monday morning. removed to St. Johns, w here he had “This discovery marks a new era in orders to this office. since resided. He w as tlie first carrier how it can be done at the low prices quoted. Call and see the development of Baxter county, Mrs. Nathan Ellis, of Greenbush. our line of 500 samples of choicest new woolens. Mr. Riley, step-father of C. C. left this station Monday morning to on the first route established under and will inaugurate a thorough system Vaughn, now and for some time past visit a sister at Farmiugton, Oakland the free rural delivery system in this of mining that will develop the im­ a member of his immediate family, county. They will visit the state fair. county, and began his work Dec. 4, mensely ricli ore bodies known to exist lias been quite sick with a stubborn 1899, and was thus engaged when pros ­ here. Owners of mineral land will C. E. Lamb is spending the present Wilson Bros. st>uchns' attack of bowel trouble. He is now trated witli the fever, which termin ­ not be satisfied with merely showing in his 88th year. At last accounts he week with his brother Sam at Farm­ ated his life. the presence of ore; they will not he was somewhat better. ington, Mich. Of course thej will spend Mr. Bross was a member of the content until the extent of the ore a good share of their time at the state Congregational church and a faithful bodies lias been fully developed. The rain which began Tuesday and fair. continued through yesterday, the open ­ and cousistant Christian gentleman in “Vin Truman and other representa­ ing day of our county fair, has spoiled Mrs. Grove Wheeler, of South Bend, all that pertained to right living on tives of the Kimberley are expected what otherwise would have been the Ind., who had been visiting Mrs. Frank this earth. He was honored and res­ here tonight, and we hope to be able best fair yet held in this county. Every Wheeler, north of Eureka, returned pected by all men. In his home lie to give more particulars next week, department would have been well home yesterday, accompanied by the was all that could have been desired 1.1st of Fetters. together with the intentions of the .JUDGE DURAND, Remaining In the St. Johns post-office week filled, and the special attractions and latter.' as a true and devoted husband, and company on the premises—if they se*e Miss Jennie Richmond, who has father. As a neighbor he was honored ending. September 16, 1902. races would have given great pleasure. Rodin. Mrs. .1. S. Neal in#, 11. fit to give the information to the pub­ It should be remembered by those been spending a part of her vacation and respected. IIIk 1’hysiriHiis, Family and Near Krlrnili* Brooks, Charles A. Pike. F. J. lic.” visiting the West Michigan Fair at at home and with friends in St. Johns, While engaged in farming he gave Deem it Expedient That lie .Should S nlrh. Albert. Bovrt, Murguret returned to her work at J. L. Hudson's, much of his spare time from his duties Cook, John II. Smith, Alviu Grand Rapids, that the old Sweet’s Withdraw From the Ticket. Dickson, Dr. C. M. Shelters. Mrs. M, hotel has been thoroughly re-modeled Detroit, last week. to establishing, building up and Lee. Joseph Terpenlng, Mrs. J. WORK NOW GOING ON- and rendered one of the best hotels in E. R. Averill, of Grand Rapids, call­ maintaining farmeis’ clubs and Even at this late date fudge Durand, Lee. Mrs M. J. 1'pston, Mrs. Mate agricultural societies. Munroe G. J. Worden, 1. II. the state. Its name has been chang­ ed upon Mrs. Averill’s parents, Mr. his attending physicians, family and WILL H. BRUNSON. P- M. ed to “The Pantlind' ’ and it is under and Mrs. J. L. Ring, last Saturday. Ilis funeral took place from the most intimate friends have arrived at ' Congregational church last Tuesday tlie conclusion that it is for his best We are at present sinking a shaft at the management of Boyd Pantlind, He is employed in the office of the G. drill hole No. 1, where the big strike who has made “The Morton ” so popu ­ R & 1. R. It. at the Rapids. afternoon, and despite the rain was physical interest and welfare that lie A. E. RICHARDSON, | largely attended by earnest friends resign from the ticket .is nominee for was made. We expect within the lar with the traveling public. It is Mrs. J. II. Corbit and daughter next ten days to put on another shift conveniently located, its service com ­ Helen, returned from Detroit last , and neighbors who had assembled to governor of Michigan. Therefore he pay their respects to his memory. has asked that the committee select of men and push the work night and plete, and charges popular. Friday evening, after several weeks’ ^ day until the large body of ore is visit with the fofmer ’s sister, Mrs. F. Rev. A. Binkhorst, assisted by his another person to till the vacancy cre­ Gontractor and “. former pastor, Rev. W. C. Allen, of ated by his withdrawal. reached. L. Drake and daughter Alice. Laingsburg, Revs. B. McDermand and PERSONAL. Mrs. Enos Rath, of Hicksville, O., Mr. Durand ’s phyaical condition is JOBBER IN HOUSE REPAIRING R. S. McGregor officiated. the only reason for iiis withdrawal, and who was with her brother, W. H. Postmaster Brunson and his assist­ PRICES A ND TERMS UPON A. E. Durkee went to Ashley on Wilson, of Essex, during the major he lias heeded the abvice of Ids physi­ And Jobber In all kinds WHICH STOCK CAN BE HAD ants attended in a body. The follow ­ cians aud familv. business Monday. portion of his sickness, and at his ing named served as pall-bearers: Geo. of Woodwork.to order. IN THIS GREAT ZINC AND Miss Rosa Foerch went to Ovid Sat­ death, returned home last Monday. Lapham, Wm. Woodbury, R. D. Foote, LEAD CORPORATION The place to buy your Screens. BY SENDING IN urday to visit friends. A. F. Rowley, of Essex, and A. I. C. S. Scofield, C. C. Vaughan and Ceo. Democratic Caucus. Laughlan, of Bengal, left this station N. Ferrey. Agency for the YOUR ORDER Mrs. A. H. Kenyon went to Detroit FOR STOCK. Monday to spend a week. Monday morning for their final year The floral tributes were many and A caucus of the Democrats of Bing ­ Beat Rooting on tlie market. in the State University, the former in beautiful. ham township was held in the engine U. G. Carter spent the fore part of the dental department, and the latter Now all that belongs to earth of house in this village Saturday, Sept. Shop opp. Wood Bro. ’s mill, the present week in Pontiac. in the medical. this good man rests in a beautiful 20. ST. JOHNS. MICH. BEFORE SEPT. 29, 1902. F. H. Rose visited his parents in John Turner, formerly of St. Johns spot in St. Johns cemetery, while the Henry J. Patterson was made chair­ Grand Rapids the first of the week. and for many years a successful busi­ spirit has gone to dwell with God. man and Daniel Abbott secretary. Mrs. E. M. Snyder left here Mon ­ The family have the deepest sym­ INSTALMENT TERMS: ness man of Cadillac and now a resi­ The following delegates were chosen 10c per share. $5 cash with subscrip­ day for St. Louis, where she will visit dent of Grand Rapids, is here visiting pathy of all who know them in this to attend the Democratic county con ­ their hour of great bereavment. tion, and $3 per month on each thous­ friends. his sister, Miss Ann Turner, and vention which meets in the court and shares subscribed for until paid. Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Arnold are brother Dan at Eureka. house, next Saturday, Sept. 27, Granite & Marble spending the week at Detroit and Miss Leone Shaw went to Cheboy­ MICHIGAN SUBURBAN. II. J. Patterson, J. Earle Brown, E. Pontiac. gan Tuesday to be present at the .T. Bullard. Lyman Parr, YVm. E. A DISCOUNT. Geo. Flynn, of Olive, is visiting marriage of her brother, Wilson J., to Slade, Ed. Brcwn, Daniel Abbott. friends and the state fair at Pontiac Miss Eliza J. Brooks, which happy Work on the Overhead Bridge at Lansing Work. this week. event took place last night. She was has Begun. of 10 per cent will be allowed for all Mrs. James Richardson went to accompanied by Claude E. Wilson, of Real Estate Transactions. cash with order, and 5 per cent if paid Addison, Midi. Work on the Michigan Suburban Ithaca Monday morning to be absent bridge over thePere Marquette tracks Frances A. Wood to Hiram C. Haley, e in full within six months from date 6f two or three days. Oliver, son of Judge Merrill, and a began vesterday,-and will be rushed to V4 of e(4 of out lot “F”, Ovid ...... $35 00 MURDOCK & DAVIES contract. Par value $1 per share, Mrs. Henry Crowell went to Ovid graduate of our high school with completion. Grading and other work Hiram M. High and wife to Neva fully paid, non-aseessable, and bearing Saturday to visit her brother Charles many honors, left his home for Ann on the roadbed is progressing rapidly. Huntley, lot 18 and n 62 feet of lot 16, The new firm, succes­ no personal liability to the pur­ Arbor Monday morning, for the pur­ bk 8, Ovid, q. c...... 1 00 chaser. Aldaffer and family. The track through our own streets Anthony Arens and .wife to William pose of entering the law department has not yet been planked, but no II. Arens, ej^of w)4 of se^, sec 0, Miss Ethel McCormick, of Ovid, was of the University. Oliver is a cap­ sors to F. F. Murdock, a visitor with St. Johns friends the doubt this will be done as soon as Westphalia...... 2000 00 able and moral young man, and his possible and Clinton avenue be put in Almira C. Demurest to Albert J. Bal­ NOTICE OF ADVANCEMENT latter part of last week. many friends here predict for him a dwin, e 62 feet of lot 7 and e 02 feet will continue at the old shape again. of s ;32 feet, lot 8. bk 119. Walker & County Clerk Edward C. McKee bright future as he lias the right stuff Steel’s sub-dlv., St. Johns...... 6C0 00 went to Adrian Tuesday to visit his to make a vety useful man in social stand and will be in bet­ Democratic Senatorial Convention. ./. C. Flynn to Harriet Adams, lot 8, bk On the 29th day of September. 1902, brother. Will return home today. and business circles. 34, St Johns...... 100 00 price of Kimberley Mining and Milling Mrs. Mary Roats is spending the Mr. and Mrs. Charles McAuliff, for A Democratic Convention for the E. A. Durkee and wife to Daniel W. ter shape than ever before Company ’s stock will advance to 20 present week with friends in Detroit /.achariiiH, apiece of laud on nwli of the hist fifteen years or more residents 16th Senatorial District, will be held nw^, sec 15, Bingham ...... 1500 00 cents per share. All orders for stock and at Pontiac viewing the state fair. of Owosso, have removed to their farm at Ithaca, Friday, October 3. 1902, at Sarah H. Knapp by Admr. to John to sell you at the above price must bear postmark Mrs. J. E. Richards,of Ann Arbor, in Bengal township. Their children | 2 o ’clock p. m., for the purpose of plac­ Read, eVi of e& of nwJ4, sec 20, Bath. 171 0 no later than Sept. 29, or they will net made a hurried business trip to and have all grown to manhood and ing in nomination a candidate to be Ell Mann and wife to Alice L. Freeman be accepted. We have given timeiv from St. Johns the latter part of last womanhood, are well settled in life supported at the next election for et al. lot 8, except e 50 feet there if, warning. If your subscription should bk 17. St. Johns...... 1550 00 week. and are honored and useful members State Senator and for the transaction The best, at the come late-and is returned to you do of such other business as may proper ­ Elmer Cross et al to Walter Spaulding not blame us. Tills Is an opportunity Miss Ethyl Shuttleworth, of Corun ­ of society. Mr. McAuliff spent the et al. swlf of swlt, see 27, Bath...... 1600 00 ly come before the convention. where your investment will double in better portion of his life in the service Charles C. Uatlifoot to Danford Shad- na, spent last Sunday with her friend, C. M. Brown, Chairman. lowest prices. thirty days. Miss Zaida Rose, and returned home of the I). & M. railroad. They are duck. 40a on of nw«. sec 13. Eagle 1066 67 comfortably well off and may they Write for FREE prospectus. Monday. Letty Uatlifoot by g ’dn ‘to Danford CALL AND SEE THEM. live long to en!oy the fruits of their Will Be With Cft. Shadduck, 40a on elf nwjf, sec 18, Address Mrs. R. A. Wallace, who had been labors. Eagle ...... 383 33 visiting her neice, Mrs. E. L. Nichols, Hon. Quincy A. Smith, of Lansing, William Moore and wife to Frank J. KIMBEHLY MINING A MILLING CO. returned to her home in Detroit last will be present at the Democratic Gass and wife, 45a of land on n4 of Those wishing to become members aw HI, 6, F.iurlc...... _.. 1600 CO of the American Buffaloes under the county convention next Saturday, MURDOCK & DAVIES Saturday. Helen C. Hewitt et al to DBnlel Flesb- 609 Baltimore Bldg., Chicago, 111. Mrs. B. D. Palmer will sm/TH Fri­ charter should be present at Wood ­ September 27, and address the conven ­ mau anil wife, lots 1, 2, 3, bk 26, day and Saturday of this week with man hall Friday evening, Oct. 3, as tion. Everybody invited to hear him Maple Rapid* ...... >...... 300 00 Opposite the Postotflce. her husband in Detroit and at the the charter will be closed that even ­ discuss state matters from a Durand Elizabeth Blundy te Peter Pohl, w4 of swV4. aec 14, Dallas,...... 3850 Oi state fair. ing. J. F. Smith, Deputy. standpoint. St. Johns ... Michigan CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THITRSDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1202. V

side of a great ntono tfhlch reared it- )n tho dried grass, striving to per- DON’T GIVE UP. anow-cappecl head a hundred feet inti .made hicucif that after all this was If—1_T Don ’t bo discoursed by past ef­ the air. seme horrible dream. The man whom forts to find relief and cure from the Paul’s pack was removed from his ho had assaulted In company with myriads of Ills that come from sick bacK and he laid on a blanket in Padgett and Morris approached him. kidneys. You may pass nights ot front of the Are witu the hermit by Morris handed Paul a letter In the By JOHN R. MUS1CK, sleepless tossing,annoyed by frequent his sida. well-known handwriting of Laura urination. Your back may ache like a r mi ’•lAymtmUmm Mr. H.wird," “Th» The rascal named Morris came tc Kean. It was dated at Juneau and toothache or sudden twitches and Bwfc Straw*'." “Cfcartle Allendale's the old man ’s side and said; addressed to Paul’s mother in Fresno. rM OhU*,-1 etc. twinges of backache pain make life a “You sr.Id you could not glVg Up Tbe letter was brief, saying she had misery. Perhaps you have nervous that secret If you wished.” just arrived, and would rest a day or spells, are weak, tired-out, depressed. by XMmStnxCi Sosa. "I did. ” two before proceeding farther. There Is a cure for all of this and for UiWiNMnl “What do you mean?” “Isn ’t that evidence? ” asked Morris. Benjamin Franklin ’s Boyhood. 8ole3 of my feet a kind of sandal; every trouble of the bladder and kid ­ CHAPTER IX.—(Continued.) “It is lost. ” "Yes; but she did not come with neys. Read this case and note it Morris stared at him for a moment him.” When Benjamin Franklin was a boy but I was not satisfied with them, be­ -Wfcj have you lived so long In be, like most boys, took to water as cause I observed that the stroke is tells how well tbe cure was tested: with wide open eyes and gasped: “,Oh no; he came on another ship." jUukar naturally as a Newfoundland dog. partly given by the Inside of the feet Charles Llndgren, sealer of freight • *1 could not get away,” was the “I don ’t understand you, Cap; you Then he lied when he said they cars on the L. S. lb M. S. R. R., La came together. ” Benjamin Franklin, you remember, and ankles, and not entirely with the «M«er. "Yours Is the only face I are talkin ’ in riddles. ” Porte, Ind., says: "I have greater Morris laughed a cold, sardonic was one of the greatest Journalists, soles of the feet.” hare seen since I left my friends, the “I care very little whether you un ­ faith in Doan ’s Kidney Pills to-day laugh, and In a voice that seemed to statesmen and philosophers in our The other device Franklin told of ladianfi. save those who held me derstand m3 or not, ” the old man de ­ than I had in the fall of 1897 when 1 have all the evil of a demon in it. country at the time of the Revolution. in this fashion: “I amused myself •captive.” fiantly answered. “The secret is lost. began taking them and aiade a pub­ answered : Even as a boy he was always patch­ one day in flying a paper kite, and, ; “And you have escaped?" It was written in cipher on a walrus lic statement of the result. At that “Though they came on different ing up some Invention, trying all tho approaching the bank of a pond which I “Tea" hide and the walrus hide Is lost. ” time I had suffered with lameness ships from America, there is but one time to improve upon and make was nearly a mile broad, I tied the < “Then come with us to the camp It was some time before the Idea and soreness of the bacK, which was train going to the Klondyke and both things more handy. This habit last­ strings to a stake, and the kite as­ on the Klondyke.” could get through the thicK skulls of eo excruciating that I could scarcely the ex-sallors, hut when they came will be in that train. The chances are ed him all bis life. But as a boy cended to a very considerable height “Klondyke —I’ve heard of It; they swimmer he devised two methods of above the pond while I was swim­ turn in bed, and Doan's Kidney Pills* often talk about it when they think to fully comprehend the los3 they she knows no one but him, and you know Lackland ’s feelings towards the increasing swimming speed which are ming. In a little time, being desir ­ completely cured this trouble. I am «np> asleep, but I do not always sleep roared like madmen. Ned seized his always ready to endorse Doan's Kid ­ girl. When he starts to win he wins; ous of amusing myself with my kite when I seem to. ” knotted stick and swore he would ney Pills personally to anyone requir­ brain them both, but his more cool he’s got millions to work with, and if and enjoy at the same time the pleas­ Paul was filled with delight, for ure of swimming, T returned, and, ing a kidney remedy. After au lapse of Itere was a chance to unravel the companion interfered, saying: it’s necessary to buy the entire pack train off he can do it.” loosing from the stake the Btring with ! three years I make this statement, njstcry in which he was Involved. “It may all be a trick. After all It ! which shows ray undoubted faith in may be only a trick to throw us off Paul Miller groaned aloud, but the little stick which was fastened Another silence fell on tho group, the preparation. ” the trail. If wc decide for the old made no answer. He realized how to it, w'ent again into the water, broken by Paul asking: A FREE TRIAL of this great kid ­ cuss to pas3 in his checks, let It be great her danger and how uterly hope­ where I found that,, lying on my “Do you know a miner named hack and holding the1 stick In my ney medicine, which cured Mr. Lind- Glum?” done deliberately and give him time less he was to aid her. “Now you san save her,” said Mor ­ hands, I was drawn along the sur­ gren, will be mailed on application "Glum—Glum—no. ” to reflect.” : to any part of the United States. So Padgett decided to let them live ris. face of the water in a very agreeable ’"Glum Ralston. ” ! Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, and trust to some chance to reveal “Save her? My Heaven, how? manner. Having then engaged an ­ The old mau again shook his head^ N. Y. For sale by all druggist^ 50- the hiding place of the money. Paul What other infernal scheme have you other boy to carry my clothes around declaring he had never Known such a the pond to a place which 1 pointed cents per box. person. Paul was disappointed. From had heard the above conversation be on hand?” tween their captors and waiting for “You were overheard talking with out to him on the other side; £ began arhat Glum Ralston had told him he to cross the pond with my kite, which Log Cabin Philosophy. ♦ was confident that this mysterious an opportunity to speak with the her­ the old man about a walrus hide. From carried me quite over without the Wisdom didn ’t die wld Solomon;.pa* hermit of the woods was the long* mit when he would not be overheard what you said it was understood you least fatigue and with the greatest tlcnee wid Job, nor meekness wid loot captain who had followed the by them, whispered: knew something about it. If you will pleasure imaginable. T was only Moses. Come ter think er it, Solomon Indians to the place where they said “Is the walrus hide you referred to give us information that will lead to obliged occasionally to halt a little wuzn ’t ez wise ez what he ’lowed he- gold in great quantities was found. the one left In the cavern where you finding it, you shall bo given your lib­ The Kite Drew Him. in my course and resist its progress wtiz; Moses wuz fur fum meek, en But when the mysterious hermit took me?” erty and be taken to this young lady, of Interest to boys of to-day. When when it appeared that by following too Job wuz de bigges ’ growler in de disclaimed any knowledge of him at “Yes." Laura Kean. ” he came to be an old man he told quickly I lowered the kite too much, country. mil he was quite as far away from “I took It.” “I cannot, ” groaned Paul. about his devices in the following by doing which occasionally I made I don ’t spend any time at all in the solution of the problem as he “You? ” There was an expression “Why.” growlin ’ at de weather. W’en It’s “I don ’t know where It Is.” words: It rise again. ” had been before. on the old man ’s face almost fierce “I made two oval pallets.” Frank­ cold, 1 thank God fer fire—eff I got Next morning the party resumed “What did you do with it?” asked The other boys of the neighborhood as he asked the question. lin said, 'each about ten inches long any, en I ax Him fer wood, ef I ain ’t. their march guided by the sun, which Morris, his face expressing the deep ­ soon copied Franklin ’s invention, and “Yes, I took it.” and six broad, with a hole tor the Den, w’en do summer Is hot enough ter shone a portion of tbe day. Paul est concern. it was not long before whole fleets of “What did you do with it?” thumb, in order to retain it fast in make folks think er de herafter, I and tbe hermit were constantly to ­ “Gave it to the miner who was with “I gave it to another. Where he is young fellows were cruising about the the palm of my hand. They much bless God dat I’m ten mile fum freez- gether. and hourly grew more and me before I fell from the precipice and or what he has done with 1- I do not pond. However, Franklin excelled lu\ en dat palmetto fans is cheap. resembled a painter ’s pallets. In more friendly, until, as the noble whom I found after leaving the cav­ know. ” them all, for he so manipulated his No matter whether de world is swimming I pushed the edges of these nature of the hermit unfolded itself, ern. He said he had seen it before. ” A look of disappointment swept kite a3 to get the full force of what­ roun ’ or flat, de sum en total er de forward, and I struck the water with Paul came to love him. He was “Where? ’ over the faces of the captors at this ever wind there was, much to the whole business is—we’re on de green their flat surfaces as I drew them known to the hermit by his sobriquet “The Indians who had enticed his announcement. They retired to near chagrin and astonishment of his play­ side er it, en de very bes’ thing we back. I remember I swam faster by of Crack-lash, for he bad been called captain away in search of gold had the entrance of the cavern and there mates, who could not see why they kin do is ter plant shade trees fer means of these pallets, but they fa­ by no other name since his arrival some such hide, only there had been held a consultation. never won the impromptu races which glimmer en strong shelters fer winter. in Alaska. painting added to it since. ” “It’s all a pack of lies,” cried Pad ­ tigued my wrists. I also fitted to the took place almost daily. —Atlanta Constitution. Paul was hourly entwining him­ The hermit turned, and fixing his gett. “We’ve been twenty years in self about the rugged heart of the old great, earnest eyes on him in aston ­ these woods waitin ’ t’ grab that pile, A Boy ’s Ambition. Of course the handkerchief has Tramps Murder a Woman. man. One night when they had ishment, asked:* an ’ no nearer to it now than before. Forty years ago John Dunfree of been prepared before. The object, Beatrice, Neb., special: Mrs. Kato baited and the Indians were building “His captain—had he been a sail­ Knock out their brains an ’ go away Syracuse, N. Y., was a ragged boot- which has to appear later, Is placed Fournell of Steinhauer was assaulted A lire for the night the hermit said: or? ” is what I say.” black. on the handkerchief, and the latter by tramps, who then murdered her “Crack-lash, you impress me “Yes, sir.” Tom Ambrose, though equally as One day he sat down on the steps folded as shown in I a, In such a way and dragged her body Into the yard, strangely. I don ’t know why, but 1 “In what seas?” much a villain as his companion, of the Pike block in that city to eat that the larger part (1) overlays part where they set fire to the clothing, have grown to love you as If you “Almost all over the world, but hiS urged moderation. During all the his lunch. 2 as shown in II. which was consumed. were tnj nearest relative. When my last voyage was in a sealing schooner years tho unprincipled rascals had The janitor emptied a pail of dirty At the performance the slip of pa­ own dear boy grows up to manhood to St. Paul Island, Alaska, and this struggled to get possession of their water on him from an upper window. per containing the question is placed Had Crazy Spells. I could only wish that he would make coast. ” captive’s secret. Tom had acted as a “I’ll own this block some day, ” said on an I and the handkerchief is rolled West Pembroke, Me., Sept. 22.— as noble a man.” “What was this sailor ’s name?” brake to fiery Ned ’s temper. the lad, “and I’ll fire you. ” up, beginning at R. When rolled The thirteen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Paul, deeply Impressed with the “He is called old Glum.” “We have a hold on the old man," The other day John Dunfree, the altogether, give it one more turn A. L. Smith suffered with a peculiar -old man ’s sad story, expressed a hope “No other name? ” one of the plotters at last declared. millionaire contractor, bought the affliction which her mother describes -Chat he would soon be able to leave “I believe Glum Ralston 13 his “He can be made to tell where the Pike block, paying therefor $225,000. as follows: .Alaska and reach his home, and that name, but after all his real name, I gold is cached.” It is in the center of the business “It i3 two years now since she was bis wife and child might yet be alive don ’t think, is known. In this coun ­ “But he don ’t know. ” district and has been a landmark in first taken with crazy spells. to welcome him. try nearly everybody goes by some “He doe3 know. He must know. ” Syracuse for many years. “They kept on coming at intervals Their stock of provisions were run ­ nickname, and I fancy that Glum Ral­ “Well, what good ’ll that do? Hain ’t Unfortunately the objectionable and I could get nothing to do her any ning short. One day the Indians ston w-as only a nickname. ” we been the last eighteen or twenty janitor i3 dead and the millionaire good. •came on the trail of a moose and “Might have been Jack Ralston. ” years tryin ’ to open the hatches o ’ canr.ot “fire” him. “The doctors gave me no encourage ­ were anxious to start on its trail. “Well, since you mention it, I be­ the old capen, who’s as close-mouthed Boyish beasts are not always to ment. They all said they could not -Paul gave them permission to go, lieve I once heard him say his real as a clam? We’ve threatened t’ hang be taken seriously, but John Dunfree's help her. while he and the hermit kindled tbe name was Jack Ralston; however, I him—done everything any one kin, but made good. “The crazy spell would last about »re and prepared to makj themselves will not be sure.” it’s all no use.” “I’ll be governor of Indiana some rrine days, then she would be 'well comfortable for the night. The hermit was very calm. Paul “We got a stronger pull now than day, ” said young Wright when his about nine days, but would eat very The prisoner as usual cr.t in sullen waited a long time for him to answer, ever.” companion hodcarriers working on little and was very yellow. Even the silence, with hfca back against a tree but the old man was silent as the “What Is It?” Indiana ’s state house made fun of him Q whites of her eyes were yellow. and his eyes fixed on the fire. Paul grave. Then two of their captors came “Come here.” because he curried a book in his pock ­ “I heard that Dodd s Kidney Pills and tbe hermit sat engaged in earn ­ rear where they were sitting, and His companions gathered abont him et. let the rim of the smaller half of the were a great remedy for young girl3 est conversation. The tormer was they dared not talk anymore. * and he spread his arms around their And he wa3. handkerchief lay on the table, while and decided to try them. talking in a low tone, telling Low he Their journey was very painful and shoulders and began to reveal the Blessed is the bey who has a high, you roil the rim of the larger hali “After taking one box she was com ­ had been robbed by the prisoner and difficult. Grown desperate, Paul had plan which emanated from his won ­ definite aim. back, until the hidden answer comes pletely restored and she has not had gbree others, and followed them into determined to escape from their cap- derful brain—a plan that was diabol ­ He may not climb as high as he in­ forth. one bad spell since. Of course we con ­ A-.o forest. He was in the midst of tors even if he had to kill them. ical, but promised success. tended. but his mental and moral tinued to use the pill3 and she used (To be continued.) his narrative when two objects sud ­ One Jay they reached a great, fiber will grow strong in the climbing. Pattering Feet. altogether five boxes last fall. denly appeared before them, each gloomy cavern which extended to an Never laugh at a boy ’s ideal if it Something's a-foot; beware, beware! “In March I thought 1 saw symp­ with a Winchester rifle aid said: unfathomable depth In the earth. RACIAL FEUDS IN EUROPE. is honorable. It Is the divinity that Something is climbing the bedroom stair, toms of the spells again and I got . “Surrender or you are dead men. ” Their captors had pine knots on the stirs within him! It differentiates | With here a stumble, and there a slip. six boxes of which she has taken Resistance was useless; they were wall about the cavern, and lighting Antagonism Engendered Between him from the crowd which has no 1 Into the passage —trip,, trip, trip! four, and is in splendid health. ! prisoners almost before they knew it. two of these went back to where Prussians and Poles. ideal3 worth having. I Tripping bright on the passage floor. “Her case was certainly a remark­ there were piles of dead grass and Hardly a day passes but the news­ Eesides. if the boy is of the Dun ­ | Up they come to your bedroom door; able one and we are very thankful papers contain striking evidence of Never wa3 music half so sweet CHAPTER X. a table of stone on which lay a pack free or Wright type and you poke fun As the pit-a-pat patter of tiny feet. to Dodd ’s Kidney Pills for the great Paul I .earns That Laura Is In Alaska. of greasy cards. Here they took up the antagonistic spirit which is being at his ambition he is likely to make good they have done my daughter. ” "He, he, he!” chuckled Ned Padgett, their abode. engendered between the Poles and you out a false prophet. Dear little voice., high and clear. rubbing his hands gleefully at seeing Several days passed, and then Mor ­ the Prussians. Last week it came to Ring like a bell in the sleeper’s ear; Peculiarity of Bean Blossom. the ears of the publishers of a Polish Small hands pluck at his tousled head— the tables turned. “You hove in ris and Padgett left the cavern in Butterfly Trick. “Daddy —oh, daddy, git out of bed!" The dark spot in the center of a sight, mates, in good time. Must ‘a’ charge of Tom Ambrose, who tied paper circulating in Westphalia that Get a bottle with a wide opening bean blossom is the nearest approach, had fair winds. ” the prisoners every night, established one of their compositors was about and close in with a cork in which Keeping the rules—it’s all a game — to black that occurs in any flower. to marry a German girl. They con ­ Out they patter as in they came; Paul had no difficulty in making a deadline in the cavern in daytime, a glass funnel is inserted. Close all But somehow the song moves rather out the two men, companions of the and swore he would shoot the first sidered that this stamped him as a crevices with shellac. Fill the bottle slow Hall's Catarrh Cara third, whom he had met on other oc- one who attempted to cross it. traitor to Poland, and although he half way with water, in which you As down the passage and ofT they go. b a constitutional cure. Price, 75c. had served them faithfully for many osaions. As these were the men who Two or three weeks had elapsed, for drep the two powders belonging to a And it's oh. for the years that have had robbed him and whom he and in that dungeon night and day were years they dismised him on the spot. Seidlitz powder. Tne carbonic gaa passed away. No woman ’s guardian angel trea-tsii •old Glum had chased in the forest, one, when the two men came back A large number of Poles work In the generated tries to escape tlirough the And the feet that pattered at break of her right if she doesn ’t tell her when there was little mercy to expect from and with them another whom Morris Westphalia coal mines, and In order funnel. But by placing two or three day! the frost will hurt her palm If she* to further the amalgamation of the Now they are heavily-booted feet. them. With thongs of seal skin Paul seemed to have known. He intro ­ small bails, made of cork, in the fun ­ | And they trump and stamp in the busy leaves it out on the porch over night. sad the hermit were quickly tied hard duced the newcomer to Tcm Ambrose races the authorities have issued nel. th3 gas can escape only a little at street. slid faat, and told they must move on as a friend fresh from San Francisco. regulations to the effect that no per­ a time, as one or tee ether of the lit­ One of naturo's remedies ; cannot harm son shall be employed underground And some of them seemed to tire of the weakest con*titutloa; never fai.s to cure* he??re the Indians returned. Padgett took Paul to where the tle balls will keep the Opening of tho fun. summer complaints of young or old. De. As it was dark and the snow falling stranger sat on a musk cx hide and who i3 not proficient In the German funnel closed, until the pressure of ; So they wandered away till they met Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry. rapidly, there was little danger of the latter asked: language. The Poles obstinately re­ the ga:i becomes strong enough to the sun; Eut he sends them sliding along h'.s sreit the Indians following on their “Is your name Paul Miller.” fuse *0 know a word of German when fere2 ’.he ball u.i. In such a way-a The sap of the sugar eano produce* beams. from fifteen to twenty per cent ef trail, shrewd as they were in such “It Is.” — they happen to be called up to make To patter again In your morning dreams. experiences. “Are you from Fresno, California? ” statements in public. sugar. The night was dark and the anew “I am.” A few days ago a Polish miner haJ Make Most of Gifts. To Cure a Cold In One day,. falling, so it wjub difficult traveling. A "Do you know Laura Kean? ” to give evidence in a Westphalia I Personality has done wonders with Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab.eta. Alt Strip of walrus hide was tied about “I do; what of her? His whole police court. He was, of course, as 1 both heredity and environment. It druggists refund money If it foils to cura. 2Tmi the arras of each above their elbows frame was trembling with anxiety and innocent as a newly-born babe of any ■ has ir.ade moderate gifts accomplish and fastened about their backs. They emotion. ” knowledge of German until the magis- | marvelous things. Men with moder ­ After nil, our lives are lived, ns tt were heavily loaded, and threatened “She is in Alaska. Just landed a tratc threatened to report the caso ' ate gifts, by patient and persistent ap­ were, in a elrcle. We generaIty end with the knotted stick which Ned ear- few days ago at Juneau in company ;o his employers, who would have where we began. —Ladles ’ IlonieJotrr- plication, have put .0 shame the nal. vied in his hand when they staggered with Mr. Theodore Lackland. ” been compelled to dismiss him. splendidly equipped, who have indo ­ under their heavy loads. “It J3 a lie—a lie!” roared Paul, be­ Thereupon his German came back,} lently frittered away their patrimony. On. on and on they staggered ARK YOUR CLOTHES PARED f side himself with rage and mortifica ­ and he replied fluently to all tho Out c£ the most untoward surround ­ Use Red Cross Ball Blue anl make them through the darkness and over the tion. “It’s a lie and I will crowd It questions put to him. His wife had ings men have found thtflr way to tho white again. Large 2 oz. package, 5 oenta •nevon ground. At last Paul, utterly down your threat!” been present during the hearing of jzrt ci the gas cscipos, the pressure grandest achievements. The boy exhausted, sank down at the root of Eefcrc ar.ycno knew what he In­ the case, ar.d was waiting for him in from the log cabin has outstripped Girls always let on that they never .3 relieved, and another bail clcse3 at tree. tended he had his informant by the the passage just outside the court the boy from the palace. The bare­ heard of a girl that really proposed to up the funnel opening. This will ke«tp a man, hut every man knows hotter. “Get up! Go on! ” cried one of their threat and hurled him to the ground. room door. As soon as he appeared foot boy hai outstripped the boy of on until the gas I3 exhausted. •captorn. The guards came to the relief of she oltterly reproached him for hav­ pampered indulgence. The plodder ^ Mrs. Winslow ’s Soothing Hymp. "I cannot. ” their companion. Paul was) quickly ing given way, and to render her has outstripped the genius. The tor ­ For children teething, soften* tho truntH. reaueen In­ "Ye lie!” cried Padgett and raised torn away from him and his hands arguments more forcible, soundly Oracle in the Handkerchief. flammation, nllaya pain, curea wind colic, tic a butUn. Kindly write a question upon this toise has passed the hare. Whether bis club. bound. He lay upon the dead grass boxed his ears. She then kicked nim a man be richly endowed or moderate ­ Rut one of his companion^ quickly rtrip tf paper. We will see if the The troubles that trouble us th? piled In the ravern. His mind was in with such vigor that he had to race ly endowed, his success will depend most are the ones that should trouble Interposed with: a whirl and he kept saying to him­ down the corridor into the street to spirits will favor us with an answer. , us the least- I place the slip with tho question on the use he makes of what God “Hold on, Ned. Don ’t be a fool, self; escape tho attentions ot his “patri­ has given him.—Independent. mow, and throw away every chance “Can It be possible? No, no, It Is otic ” better half.—London Leader. upon it on the handkerchief and roll When doctor* fall, try Burdock Bloc we hrxve.” not possible. The whole world may it up, hiding the slip In the inside, Bitters. Cures dyspepsia, conutipatiot until a small margin of the rim is A safe flagman must be unflagging invigorated the whole system. "What ye gain* t* do?" asked Ned. ho false, but Laura is not. Come to Novels Read by Statesmen. in hi3 duty. "We’re too far away for the Met- left. I roll it back again, and roe— Alaska In company with that man— The yearly bill for novels supplied There never wss a day that did not of- lakahtUnx to overtake ns. so we will no, It is not true.” to the library of the French Chamber we have the answer to our qu33tion, Tho 8imo girl that calls corsets Its o*R opportunity for doing, what nev go Into camp and wait till mom in’.” written by a spiritual band. Hero, stays speaks of her legs as If they could miro been dune before, end never a A thousand tumultuous emotions of Deputies is usually between $4,000 igftin. A roaring fire was built against the were stirring his breast as he lay and $4,S00 -ou can read it! were on trees. Cotton. CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. 1902.

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j her, ‘I’ll leave a remembrance of my The Wrong House. visit you ’ll recall long after you forget Mrs. Ida L. Gregory, President of the your diamonds. ’ BY GEORGE R. PARRISH. “She must have felt that I meant Poets and Authors Club of Colo ­ (Copyright, 1902, by Dally Story Pub Co.) it, for she sank back on the pillow, rado, President of Colorado Art “It was a strange town to me,” said and began to quiet the child. While the reformed burglar reflectively, still keeping my eyes upon them, I Club, Director of School of Indus ­ “and I was looking about for a part­ stepped backward until I was enabled ner to help me pull off a particularly to reach one hand behind me into the try and Design, Vice President of good thing, when I ran across this still open drawer. A moment later my Sherman Art League, is One of the man Watson. He was hard up, and fingers came in contact with the case somewhat shaky from a prolonged I was seeking, and, forgetting cau­ Leading Clubwomen of Colorado. spree, but he had the look of a gentle ­ tion, I turned entirely around in my In a recent letter from 2 Grant ave­ man under his rags, and struck me as eagerness to get it out frem under nue, Denver, Colo., this prominent lady the sort of a fellow who would show acme clothing. says; plenty of nerve In an emergency. So “Some years ago my husband I put the proposition squarely at him. Mrs. Emma E. Felch, Treasurer Fond suffered from nervous prostration The lad shied a little at first, but and advising with a friendly drug­ when a man is hungry and up againsc du Lac, Wis., Social Economic Club, Tells gist he brought home a bottle of it generally, he is mighty apt to for ­ Peruna. His health was restored get some other things, and Watson H ow She was Cured of Irregular and Pain­ from Its use, his appetite was In­ finally said he'd help me out. creased and restfulsleep came to “It was as black and foggy a night fluids the weakening drain of their as 1 ever remember, and I was fairly ful Menstruation by Lydia E. Pinkham’s- him. / therefore heartily endorse discharge is prevented. Peruna, as an honest remedy The medical profession is just begin ­ lost twice before we brought up in ning to awaken to the fact that chronic the right street. But after that it Vegetable Compound. worthy the good things which are catarrh,especially systemic catarrh,will was easy. You see I had marked the said of it. ”—Ida L Gregory. soon produce a condition so nearly re­ Courtney house by the big plant in “ Df.ar Mrs. Pinkham :—I have used Lydia E. Pinkham's Nervous prostration is so frequently sembling nervous prostration that it is a tub they always had sitting out on associated with systemic catarrh that very difficult to tell one from the other. the front porch, and as soon as that Vegetable Compound for irregular and painful menstruation, and some doctors do not distinguish between Peruna cures these cases without loomed up thro’ the fog I knew what the two. In systemic catarrh the dis ­ was entirely cured after using two bottles. I can truly say it is a. fail. to do. What I didn ’t know was, that ease has pervaded thewhole system and If you do not derive prompt and satis­ boon to suffering women, and I would recommend all suffering from there is a constant loss of vital fluids factory results from the use of Peruna. the servant girl who scrubbed the from the mucous membranes. write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a Eteps that afternoon had lifted the the above troubles to try a few bottles and be cured. Very thank­ A great many people are doctoring for full statement of your case, and he will plant over the railing and forgot to nervous prostration who would l>e im­ be pleased to give you his valuable ad ­ return it, so that instead of cracking fully yours, Emma E. Felch, Division St., Fond du Lac, Wis.” mediately cured by-a course of Peruna. vice gratis. 410 I went to work on 412. As for $5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE- Peruna makes cleun, healthy mucous Address Dr. Hartman, President of Watson he was too thoroughly soaked membranes, By this preservation of the The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. to pay much attention to anything. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful Tattooed by Lightning. “It wasn't much of a trick to get menstruation, weakness, leueorrhcea, displacement or ulceration of the in, as the front window under the All how The lightning bolt that struck a stall womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, some area was unlocked, and, as the street at the fair grounds in Macomb, Ill., on bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous pros­ dealers was quiet I told Watson he better “Oh, Fred! ” she cried. “Fred, is it will im- Sunday made of Ray Clupper a tat­ tration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, rise come in with me. All those houses really you? ” r on tooed man, says an exchange. When excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, “all- It beatsh e f r were built Just alike, so I had no dif ­ “There was a sudden rush of feet, customers by offering them, when Ala- tbe bolt fell Clupper was standing gone ” and “ want-to-be-left-alone ” feelings, blues and hopelessness, bastine is callo>l for, cheap k<fonUio's ficulty in finding the stairs, dark as and revolver in hand I sprang forward near a large black oak tree. He was they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia that will spoil their walls. Such action it was. The carpet was thick and is certainly prompted by rendered unconscious and came to toward the fleeing white-robed figure. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound at once removes such trouble*. we reached the upper landing with­ and screaming “Help!” and “Murder! ” As she reached the half-open door she Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. such out making enough noise to startle a came face to face with Watson. There After he recovered he kept complain ­ No other medicine for female ills in the world bu received tneth- mouse. The front room was the one was a quick exclamation of surprise, o d e ing of a pain In the region of his stom ­ such widespread and unqualified endorsement. will I was after, but the door was fas­ and then, to my utter amazement, the devilnot ach. directly under the watch pocket Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. tened, and I was obliged to cut the commend themseWes to honest dealers. of his pants, in which he carried hla what did that woman do but fling her Alabastine, a durable cement base wall panel before I could get a hand in, arms about the fellow ’s neck. She has guided thousands to hettlth. Address, Lynn, Mass. watch at the time of the accident. He coating, not a kalsomuie. costs no more and turn the key. Then I stood there to apply thRn cheap dope that spoils examined his watch and found it had "‘Oh, Fred! ’ she cried. 'Fred, is it your walls and injures tbe health of in the darkness and listened. really you? ’ your family. Alabastine is a Ary pow ­ been stopped. He found on his body Over-pleasure i* — hard der, comes !r. puckuges, mixes with cold “I could tell from the breathing “I stood there looking at them too oq the muscles and joints water, in white and fourteen beautiful % perfect photograph of the tree near which he was standing, limbs, leaves, there were two persons sleeping in dumbfounded to move, when there as overwork. The best tints, for use on plastered walls, wood the room, but to make certain as to Mexican celling, brick or canvas, suyierior to and trunk being perfectly revealed. was a bump on the floor, the sound of thing to do to get the paint or paper. Full directions on every where the furniture stood, I let a toddling feet on the carpet, and the body right after a long package. Ask druggist or paint dealer The picture is eight to ten inches long, bit of light out of my lantern, and bicycle ride is to rub the for sample card of tints or write to of a bright red, and appears to be baby was pulling at Watson ’s coat. took a quick glance at the bed. It “ ‘Papa,’ he lisped, half afraid, ‘is Mustang sore, stiff parts well with ALABASTINE COMPANY burned in the flesh. He suffered no GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. was a woman and baby lying there, Mexican Mustang Lini­ ill effects from the shock in a short oo cum home?’ ment. No better remedy time alter it occurred. At the fair one and a right handsome woman, too, “Say, I’ve had seme queer Jolts in made for bruises, cuts of the fakirs offered him $25 to let with hair that looked coal black my time, but that beat them all. I Liniment and chafing. him exhibit him at the fair Thursday, against the pillow. But I wasn ’t just started to get out of there, when but Clupper declined. there for any romance, so I just Watson looked up, and 1 never want lITY! ADVANTAGES shoved back the slide and felt my to see such a look in any man ’s eyes If afflicted with tort) eye®, use [Thompson's Eyo Valor can be secured by all residents of Lodln Can Wear Shoes way over to the dresser on the other again. It frightened her. too, 1 guess, tbe country or smaller cities if side of the room. our catalogue Is kept for reference. One site smaller after using A lien's Foot- for she put her hand on his shoulder. ve. The Twentieth Century We sell every variety of merchandise of Ease, a powder. It makes tight or new “We learn in the trade to Judge “‘Oh, don't, Fred, don ’t hurt him,’ MONEY MAKER. reliableC quality at lower f nets than any 810,000 profits per were. lairg" shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot,sweating, other house, we have been right here in pretty nearly where a woman is apt sh« pleaded softly. ’He brought you aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and to keep her sparklers, but I found ABOVE cat Garden in America. Address the same business for thirty-one years back to baby and me.' and have two million customers. If we bunions. All druggists and shoe stores, nothing in the upper drawer that felt R- E* BARNARD,Houston,Me, save them money, why not you} 1 25c. Trial package FREE by maiL Ad­ “Ho dropped his face until It rested like a Jewel case, and I shoved it WUl b# pdd tor onr cut that Ilk Hftve you our latest, up-to-date cata­ dress Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. T. against her black hair, and his hand KKITII S IAqnor, Tobacco and Chf»- logue, 1,000 pages full of attractive offer ­ back and tried the second. It stuck a rested gently on the head of the little THING® rette HaimrtUM la liquid form will me ings? If not send 15 cents to partially care, ruber with or without Sm m- >ay postage or expressage —the book Never borrow trouble. If the evil Is bit, and I must have made some one. I doubt if they even noticed as tlent'i knowledgo-, ter and V. TaMaS tself Is free. t not to come, it is useless, and so much noise, for I heard a sudden exclama­ I slipped past them and down the dark vfticn form aliio. (liutranteod by ail drupelets. WrMe- f Dli. H. C. KEITH, F 811 Mooros SC. Toledo, ONta. Montgomery Ward, dr Co. waste; if It is to come, best keep nil tion and when I wheeled and flashed s CHICAGO stairs. And I was out on the street The house that tells the truth. your strength to meet it.—Tiyon Ed ­ my lantern there was the woman sit­ before I remembered I had left the wards. ting bolt up in bed, her face as white diamonds lying in the diawer. ” One Fare Round Trip* as a sheet, and her great, black eyes staring full at me. A Kipling Story. “It's easier handling a man in such The following story from Kipling — a case than a woman, for the latter is who opened a new rifle range at Sy­ Nature Home Visitors bound to scream unless you shut her denham on Saturday —was related by Has Vat a bachelor of about 48 who was in the Into Every Excursion habit of wintering in one of those towns which Stevenson has described Stomach Via somewhere as “perched like birds on s liquid called the the olive-crowned cliffs of the Ri­ gastric juice, which in viera.” Rushing in where angels tear a healthy condition is to tread, with the courage born of in­ capable of digesting the experience, this courageous one had food and converting it Into ‘chyme,” which at length Big Four Route undertaken the escort of four small becomes good, rich blood. children, their ages ranging from C to To all point# on the Big Four Route. Theleast little ailment of tbe Also to all points in Central Passenger 12, on the tedious journey of Borne stomach affects this "gastric Association territory via Big Four nnd thousand miles, to visit grandparents juice” and quickly leads to various serious connections, West of and including residing in England. He was relating sicknesses. Tbese ailments may be easily Buffalo, N. Y., Dunkirk, N. Y., Sala­ (he various experiences through which avoided by taking regularly manca, N. Y., Erie, Pa.. Pittsburg, PR-, he had parsed on this long journey to Bellaire, O., Wheeling, Parkersburg ant a lady sitting next him at a dinner Dr. Caldwell’s Charleston, W. Va., Toronto, Suspen ­ party. Rudyard Kipling on the oppo ­ (LrkJKatiW*) sion Bridge, Niagara Falls, Tonawanda, Black Rock, East Buffalo and Bofl&lw site side, but a little bit lower down, Junction. , happened to catch some of the re­ Syrup Pepsin marks, and asked to have the narra ­ SOc ana at.oo Bottlea Half rates will be made by lines west tive repeated. Having had the entire and south of St. Louis, Chicago, Peoria,. ALL DRUGGISTS Cairo, Cincinnati and Louisville. episode related to him, he looked SENT FREE; Sample bottle and an in ­ wonderingly across at the quix­ teresting book on stomach troubles. Tickets will be sold October yri orn into the orld 6th, ipoa, Inclusive, with extreme limit: FVFRY rHII F) P W with an otic 20th century bachelor and mur­ PEPSIlf SYRUP CO., Monti cello, Ills. * Llv 1 V..I llLLs inherited tendency to distress­ mured gently: “For of such is the leaving destination not later than November 3rd, 190a. ing, disfignring humours of the skin, scalp, and Mood, kingdom of heaven.”—London M. A. When I wheeled and flashed the lan­ For tickets and full information, call on becomes an object of the most tender solicitude, not only tern there was the woman sitting P. because of its suffering but because of the dreadful fear A Boon to Humanity your nearest Railroad Ticket Agent and bolt up In bed. Mr. Thomas J. Coughlan of Lake­ ask for tickets via “ Big Four Route, ” or that the disfiguration is to bo lifelong and mar its future Lifetime on the Ocean. address off before she can, but I had this ono Capt. R. W. Fuller of Boston, has land. N. Y., in a letter says: “I have happiness and prosperity. Hence it becomes the duty of by the throat bo quick she never even derived great benefit from the use of sailed more than 650,000 miles and Baxter’s Mandrake Bitters when suf­ *A*RCN J. IYNCI* W. 8. Mm, motliers of such afflicted children to acquaint themselves gasped. I hated to do It, but Lord! has passed around Cape Horn twenty- Oso ’l Pass. A Tkt Ag*. Asst U. 1’. A T.g. I’ve been In the ‘pen ’ once. fering from indigestion and loss of ap­ with the best, the purest, and most effective treatment two times. CnrciMwan, O. "‘Madam, ’ I said, as gruffly as I petite.” It certainly is a boon to hu­ manity. Sold In liquid or tablets at 23 available, viz., TIIE CUTICURA TREATMENT. could speak, ‘do you know what this How to Down Smokers. cents. W. N. U—DETROIT—NO. 30-1902 means? ’ and I pressed the muzzle of Warm hath* with Ccticcha Soap , to clean*** the akin of crust* nnd scales A Cleveland man has sued a manu ­ J/’nin, Johnnontt Lorn. Prop*. Burl upton. Vt. a revolver against her cheek. snd soften the thickened cuticle, gentlo riiokitings wilh Ccticuka Oint - facturing concern for $50,000 because i nt “The terror in her eyes was a suf­ M : , to Instantly allay licking, irritation, nnd Inflammation, mid soothe and smoke from its chimney have ruined HAMLINS WIZARD OIL heal, are all that can Iw di ’.V.red for the alleviation of the suffering of skiu- ficient answer, and I let go iny grasp. Rost (Xmgh Syrsp. wjy ' SORE THROAf / In tlms. Hold by dross Ms. tortured infants and children ur.d the comfort, of worn-out, worried mothers. As I did so the child stirred uneasily. his flowers. A single set 13 often sufficient to cure when the best physician* full. “ ‘If that baby cries before I get Few people know what they don ’t All DdUGCIS.t ’i SPL»- It W&mw«mei • 4d !h« wo-'it. TVpoti 1"-**. Char*-rl-»n.« Fq . I^mdnr. fmfh I).*rn«: IKniib out of here,’ I went on to intimidate want until after they get it . .utjuuo* HtfuU B. 16WJJ* Cv-, I'O.II* L>»cw A»u Chim. lour. THE CLINTON INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY" SEPTEMBER 25, 1902

Mrs. Trowbridge entertained Miss FOWLER. A Demented Old Soldier. Moore and Dr. Ripley Monday after- j Samuel Rogers, an old soldier about Clinton Go, Savings Bank noon at tea. 75 years of age, who had been wander ­ Mike Gross has returned from KEYNOTE OFJHE CAMPAIGN ing about, our streets in a demented ST.JOHNS. MICH. It. A. Moore and family spent Mon ­ day evening at E. Forbes Wyandotte after spending a few days conditio'., was given a place of safety CdjHti Per Cent. Intereston Deposits. with his sisters, Mrs. Anna Buehl, and witii Sheriff Sohavey, where he re­ Miss Myrtelle Moore leaves Sunday Mrs. Lena Affholter. mained about a week, when his son, for New York City. She will visit Scorching Arraignment of the residing at Ashley learned of his OANI MONEY ON APPROVED BONDS AN l\ friends in Detroitand Ann Arbor and Mrs. Caroline Pasche, of Detroit, is REAL t ST ATI tfkCURITY. spending a week with friends and re­ whereabouts and came and took him see the Fallsen route. After two days Bliss Administration home Tuesday. He lived most of his of sight seeing in New York City she latives iu town. OFFICERS: life in Gratiot county. He draws a will join a party of five friends und Miss Abbie Fesser returned Monday pension of $24 a month. J. Baldwin ,Pr«>*. P. E.WAUswoRTH.l'rea sail for Glasgow, Scotland, where they to her home in Millord. Oakland Co., U Pennkli .. V-Pm. R. G.D extsk . Asat.Tre* Extracts From Chairman Alt re ' Luc king’s will spend the winter. They contem ­ after spending several weeks with her Central Convocation. plate spending the winter and spring uncleand aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Address to the Democratic State The Central Convocation of tlie THE LOCAL MARKETS. in Great Britain, and the summer in Pasche, and other friends. Episcopal church will be held in St. the continent. They wil^ be gone a Miss Mary Geller and Mr. Joseph Convention, July 30,1902 Paul’s church, Lansing, Wednesday jWit. Johns elevator* open at 7 a. m ana year. Bauer and wife spent Friday witii and Thursday, October 1 and 2, 1902. u.ose at 0 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Moore, Mr. Webb friends in Ionia. St. John *, Mlota., Sopt. 29,1002. A program of interesting subjects has and Dr. Ripley were entertained at republican nominees. But when they Tbe following are the price* paid in cash lunch at J. W. Ennestson last Tues­ Subscribe for the “Delineator ” lion. Alfred Lucking, upon as­ been prepared. Rev. J. T. Ewing of for produce in thl* market: day. Good old-fashioned pumpkin pie through Mrs. W. M. Youngs, as she is suming the duties of temporary chair­ got to Lansing, they deliberately St. John’s church, this village, is Wheat. white...... © 87 the agent. man of the Democratic State Conven ­ broke ttieir promises, and now they down for an address upon the subject Wheal, red ...... 85 was among the edibles enjoyed. of “Michigan as a Missionary Diocese. ” 28 Mrs. Cora Parks and sons Adrian tion, at Light Guard Armory, Detroit. ask you to forget that. Cat* ...... i Mr. and Mrs. Tout, of Lansing. Mr. July 30 11)02. aroused the assembly “A grave crisis-confronts our state It bids fair to be a very Interesting Clover Seed ...... 4 no ® 6 on agd Mrs. Win. Roschon, of Cleveland, and Ernest spent Monday with friends Albike...... 6 60 & 8 00 in St. Johns. to wild and continued cheers with his at this time. The Michigan Central meeting. Hay, new...... 5 0000 & 800 O., Mr. and Mrs. Huotand, J. W. 1 40 ® 1 60 Miss Nina Parks, who has been very arraignment of the present adminis ­ Railroad Oo. is about to begin suit Adjudged Insane. Bean* ...... 1 AO Ennest and wife were entertained at tration. The crowd yelled its ap­ Raney.....-...... 1 0000 ® 1 10 M. F. Trowbridge ’s Sunday eve. ill witii tonsilitis, is better. against the state for damages, on ac­ Rye...... 40 plause as every telling i»oint was count of the repeal of tlie special Walter Bartlet, of Ovid, a man Corn, ear ...... © 30 Gramaplione music furnished part of James Lance is again able to be out. made. He said in part: about 30 years of age, was adjudged Potatoes, ...... to the entertainment. charter by tlie legislature of 1000. 18 Peter Edlngerspent Friday in Ionia. “We are met together to devise Under tlie law, suit must be begun by insane and taken to the asylum at Rutter...... Kalamazoo last Tuesday. For a num ­ 8fc==== 18 SOUTH OVID. Wm. Youngs attended the soldiers ’ ways and means to redeem the state Dec. 31. 1002. The railway has tuken reunion at Grand Rapids Thursday of Michigan from misrule and to pre­ more than two years in which to pre­ ber of years he was employed as night Lard ...... © 12 watchman at the carriage factory iu Hides ...... «!4® 7 From Our Correspondent. and Friday. vent a great contemplated raid on her pare its evidence, and compile its es­ Beef, live...... R. D. Stitchler, of Victor, visited Wm. Snelllng spent Friday in Ionia. treasury. These things the democrats timates of damages. It claims $27,- that village. Beef,dressed ...... his brother, W. Stitchler, Sunday. of Michigan cannot do alone. We He bore a good reputation as a Pork,live ...... John Raker, wife and daughter 000.000, according to the best informa ­ citizen. He leaves a family. Pork.dresBed ...... Miss Myrtle Deaoe visited at J. Mamie called on Joseph Ilafner and are a minority in Michigan. We rec­ tion we can obtain, and the. suit is Veal calf, live...... 5 00 Deane ’s Sunday. wife, of Dallas, Sunday. ognize, as citizens of Michigan, anx ­ to be pressed with all tlie power, pres­ Wanted. Veal calf .dressed ...... 7 00 ious for her welfare, that without Wood,dry hard...... 2 00 Elmer Crane ’s sister, Mrs. Emma Mrs. Bert Ulrich, of Ionia, spent tige and resources of that great corpor ­ A trustworthy gentleman or lady in Wood, soft- ...... -...... Knight, of Ithaca, and his brother, Saturday with John Schafer and wife. wise, considerate and tolerant action ation. A judgment for $23,000,000 each county to manage business for an Chickens, dressed ...... /... 10 on our part, no hope exists for a re­ means a large mortgage on every old established house of solid financial LIVK POULTRY. Ansel Crane, of Lyons, visited Mrs. Fred Lee, wife and children, of demption of ourselves and our fellow home I11 Michigan. The interest alone standing. A straight, bona tide week­ Elmer Crane and family here the Muir, visited the latter’s parents, W. Hens, fat...... „ O 7 latter part of last week. citizens, the republican masses, from would lie $1,230,000 a year, adding ly cash salary of $18.00 paid by check Spring Chickens...... 9 @ 10 H. Buck and wife, Sunday. the hiq>euding evils which all foresee. one-tliird to our taxes each year, and each Wednesday with all expenses Broilers ...... »...... - j* Wm. Hettinger and 'wife, from Miss Minnie Kahagen. of Dallas, Turkeys fat...... ± Arenac,, who have been visiting We are here to nominate a state if we desire to pay off the principal direct from headquarters. Money ad ­ Ducks, fat...... —- * called on friends in town Monday. ticket. If elect ed, the officers can do of tlie Judgment within a generation. vanced for expenses. Manager, 340 Bees©...... friends here for some time visited at Geo. Suttin ’s the first of the week. M. J. Smith and Mrs. Frank Rogers, nothing affecting national questions. It would double our taxes next year. Caxton Bldg., Chicago. 44-10 Byron Dnnlcy buys live poultry every of Dallas, called on friends in town They’ can ue'ther further nor retard The situation is grave and tffe danger week day the year round, and full value paid Miss Lula Shaver was home Satur­ Monday. day and Sunday. any project about which people di ­ impending. Michigan must have a at all times. Eli Brenneman has the foundation vide as democrats and republicans. powerful defence iu powerful hands, Grand Trnnt Railway Systeo There will be prayer meeting at the laid for a new house which is now Let us then, us practical men loving under a commanding leader. A weak U. B. church Thursday evening; WESTPHALIA being erected. our state, proud of her record, tender or perfunctory defence means bonds West-Bound from St. John *. preaching Sunday morning and even ­ of her name, and interested Iu her From the Portland Review. ing; young people ’s meeting Sunday James Bibby has been spending a and mortgages, and Increased taxation No. 19—Morning Exp.to Gd. Haven, l! :00 am few days with his son, Wm. Bibby, government, consider the subjects 011 every home in Michigan for from No. 13— Mail and Chicago Exp. to Wm. J. Smith was In town Tuesday. evening at 7 o ’clock, subject, ‘‘Mis­ which are practical, which pertain to Gd. Haven ...... 3:15 pm sions, missionary heroes,” “Cheerful and family, of Grand Rapids. 30 to 30 years to come.: The people Theo. Heogesbach and wife spent a her well-being —alxmt which we can of Michigan are now called upon to No 11—Express to Grand Rapid* 7:97 pm day at the Ionia fair last week. Amid Adversity; ” Acts 27: 22-.%. L. W. Baldwin attended the fair at Pontiac Tuesday, from there going to accomplish something. le thnf If Walter & Hodge. is nicely located near Pine Lake. indorse them and Invite them to con ­ Pomona Grange at Hickory Grange Admission It) cents. Gov. Bliss and the republican legis ­ and report a very enjoyable meeting. The season was such a busy one that tinue in their course? ” Stonecutters, and Dealers in Marble the attendance was not as large as it I)r. Ernest Schemer f pent Friday in lature lie elc -ted tills fall, the street J. W. Ennest, Mrs. M. F. Trow ­ otherwise would have been, but a Ionia. railway company of Detroit will lie and Granite Monuments, Stone bridge and Mrs. E. Forbsspent Friday Hon. Charles L. Harden, a well pleasant and profitable meeting was Mrs. J. T. Droste and children are granted its long-coveted 30-year fran ­ known attorney at Greenville, and a Sidewalks, etc. afternoon at the Beach house, the held. Though this grange is not as visiting friends in Mt. Pleasant for a chise in spite of all we ran do. For guests of Mrs. Moore and daughter. stalwart republican, has Issued an large as some granges, what is lacking few days. years the people of Detr< it have tried open letter giving his reasons for op ­ St. Johns - - Michigan There was a good attendance at iu quantity Is made up in quality. Prin. E. J. Led dick visited his to get a law that all street railway posing the election of Gov. Bliss from Olive Grange Saturday evening. Mr. O. L. Fletcher and wife opened parents, Amasa Leuddick and wife, of franchises in Detroit should be sub­ which tlie following is taken: inifi Mrs. Forbes and Mr. and Mrs. Roy their house for dinner and a. feast tit Fulton, Saturday and Sunday. mitted to a vote of the people of De­ "Largely, opposition to Bliss will be Taylor were elected delegates to the for a king was soon prepared and full Win. Dunneback, of Westphalia, troit. but republican legislature after found among farmers and laboring county convention to lie held October legislature lias refused to grant ttiis STANDARD Justice done to the choice eatibles. spent Sunday at the home of Mathias men who 1. ivc ever been the most 7 at Olive Grange ball. Grange was called to order and an Gross. simple right and to-day we are left loyal supporters of the Republican Mrs. Bertha Wixam is riot as well interesting program listened to. open to the • anger of having bartered Party and its principles, but not office- Rotary this week. O. L. Fletcher welcomed Potnona in Masters Barney Geller, Herman away by legislature or council the 1 seekers, office-holders or politicians for Feldpausch. Herman Hoerner, and Mrs. George Ennest has been quite a very hearty and cordial manner. right to use our public streets for 30 revenue only. Shuttle J. F. Clemons responded. Isaac and Willie Wood spent Saturday “If you wotiid ascertain the magni ­ Sewing ill for the past ten days with symp- witii friends in Lebanon. or 30 years longer; whereas, if we had toifis of lever. The singing by the choir was much a law leaving the matter to the peo ­ tude of the Republican revolt against Machine enjoyed by all. Darias Eidredge and wife spent ple everybody would rest secure. Bliss, listen to the talk of people on v Geo. Brink and wife were guests of Several recitations were also listen ­ .Saturday witii friends near Muir. Eugene Forbes and wife Sunday. "The caucus and convention system railroad trains, in hotel lobbies, on the ed to and enjoyed William Long, of Pittsburg, Pa.. Is of nominating officers must go. It streets and at every ernss-road and it Mr. and Mrs. William Roschon. of All who did not attend tills meeting spending a few days with his cousin, will seem as If everybody Is for Du­ Cleveland, arrived at J. W. Ennest ’s innst give place to a simple, missed one of the most enjoyable Mrs. Isadore Sage and family. strong, well-regulated primary elec­ rand. Nor Is the cause for this ob ­ Sunday morning via the Suburban. Pomonas of the year. scure. The great mass of the Repub­ They left Monday morning for home Miss Eva Buck lias gone to spend tion law. The demand of ttic jico - A vote of thanks was given Hickory several weeks with Mrs. John Padget ple for tliis reform has lieen growing lican voters of this state will not be driving a span of horses, previously grange and the choir for the hospital­ used to further the schemes of dishon ­ left in the care of Mr. Ennest. near St. Johns. fast ever since the carnival of crime ity extended. and corruption of two years ago. est manipulators and they will go to Howard Crum, who was seriously ill Pomona grange will meet with-Essex Mrs. Mary J. Smith, of Rochester, the polls and vote against Bliss, for grange Wednesday, Oct. 15. spent Sunday with Mrs. J. T. Wood en when the office of governor was put with an acute attack of appendicitis up at auction, like the Imperial crown they can no I >nger be tricked Into the called at the Beach house ten days Mrs. C. L. Pearce , Lecturer. route for Lebanon, where she will re­ support of n man who Is so weak that after lie was taken ill, a little weak main at home for some time. in old Rome, to the highest bidder, by thp republican convention. But hr docs not even know when he Is be­ but apperantly a well man. Dr. New Use for Rellned F«niflln« Wax ing used by dishonest schemers. Ripley attended him. Licensed to Wed. why should our republican friends “The Republican party was organ ­ complain of the caucus und conven ­ M. F. Trowbridge met with a pain ­ A new and important use for refin­ Date Name. Aire ized bv and made up of ‘bolters ’ and ful accident wiiile assisting in clearing ed paraffine wax seems to have been tion system ff they are satisfied with within Its ranks was conipcehenedetT away the iron from the site of the re­ discovered by a prominent resident of Sept. IS—Hurry E. Klee. Elsie...... Gov. Bliss? He is tlie legitimate pro ­ the noblest and best of this land of Ohio, near Lancaster, who had two L. Elgin Woodard, same...... duct of the system. ours. Actuated by the noblest Impul­ cent tire. He was walking backward Sept. IS—Clyde I). lint cm, Elsie...... trees badly damaged by fitorm, one “The republican party organization ses and purest motives It has written standard grand . and stepped upon a spike which pass­ being a maple and the other an apple. Retta E. Woodard, same___ ed through a thick rubber, and pene ­ Sept. 10— Peter .1. Thelen, Dallas ...... will not give the people on effective the most illumined pages I11 our na ­ LOCK AND CHAIN STITCH. trated into the center of Ills right In eacli case a large limb was broken Rarbera Thelen, Green Bay primary law. The owner of the re­ tion's history and to-day 30.000 Repub­ foot. Ills man, Harvey, pulled the down from the trunk, but still attach* Sept. 'Xy— Walter A. Raker, Hlnirliam publican party in Michigan is opposed licans of Michigan, proud of the TWO MACHINES IN ONE. ed to It. The limbs were propped up Ida M. Rune, same ...... achievements of their party and jeal­ spike from his foot and household and fastened securely with straps, to the reform. Under the present sy­ We also manufacture sewing machines that remedies were applied until I)r. Ripley Sept. 20-Geo. W. Miner, f/ctmnon stem he has made Michigan a “rotten ous of Its honor and purity, will vote retail from f11.00 up. very much as a broken leg might be Ida L. Messer, same...... The Standard Kotarv runs as silent aa the arrived, who dressed the foot and pro ­ pocket borough ’’ and carries It in against Bliss to prevent Its prostitution fastened with splints, and then melt­ Sept, 20—0. W. McCreery. Ovid ...... and dishonor by those who are trying tick of a watch. Maks'800 stitches while other nounced It a bad wound, though not a ed refined wax poured into and over Mrs. Jennie Gilbert, same ... his pocket. He is openly opposed to machines make 300. dangerous one. Mr. Trowbridge Is to traffic in Its prestige. ” Apply to otir local dealer, or if there is no all the cracks. The “surgical opera ­ change, and no change will come dealer in your town, address very comfortable at this writing and tion ” was entirely successful. The Don't Forget It, from Gov. Bliss and a republican took a short drive Sunday. When we stop trusting God and be­ TMt paraffine prevented the escape of the Let every Democrat keep iu mind legislature against bis wish. Two gin to lean on our own understanding HJay VanDyke visited Charley Van- sap. kept out the rain and moisture the county convention at the Court years ago tills reform was promised trouble conies. Standard Sewing Mach. Co, Dyke at Ovid last Sunday. which would bile rotted the tn rS. house next Saturday to nominate to the people of Detroit if they would Fire and sword are but slow engines George W’llklns threshed oats on prevented the depredations of insects, County officers and a candidate foi the elect the republican ticket These of destruction In comparison with the E. M. SMITH, Agent, Friday of last week. He reports a and the limbs seem thus far to be per­ state legislature. It is hoped every promises were made In great flaming babbler—Steele. much better yield than he anticipated. fectly re-attached to the trees. township will be fully represented. advertisements over the names of the St. Johns, Mich.