• • . The Clinton Republican.

YOL. XLIV.-NO. 21. ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1899. WHOLE NO. 2,308. OUGHT TO. BE FINISHED. / VARIOUS TOPICS. TO TRACK RECORD. / Expansion. LOCATED HIS IT WAS MUCH HEEDED Met a feller t'other mornin' IS NO RESTRICTION Special Purae Will he Offered at Clinton The Cycle Path to Merle Reach. K. A. Most amusin' sort o' cuss, Had a ctir'us style about him— County Fair. Moore Will Contribute $195. \y Certa'n’y cooldn’t well be wus. I says. "Where you hail f'm partner?" President Travis states that a special Late last fall work on a gravel cycle An’ he smiled in a knowiii way Sheriff Dunn Locates a Man After The Rain That Fell Last Thursday An’ replied in furren lingo, On Selling' Farm Products on the purse will be subscribed by merchants path west of the village, was begun. A "Porto Rico, U. 8. A.” and others to be given to the horse beat ­ strip of ground four feet wide and three Seen a feller down on Broadway ing the track record. Nellie K. lowered Nearly Two Week ’s Work. miles long was graded and prepared, Evening and Tuesday Morning. With a xhochi' head o’ hair, Streets. An’ a lot o' tropic garments, the track record from 2:21 and a fraction but the gravel was never put on it. The An' a most outlandish air. “Wher’s he frumT ” a feller shouted. to 2:19)£ iu 1896. This time was path was to have been a portion of the Bat befor we’d time to say, equaled by Gowan in a race with Nellie state path that was talked of so strongly Tills yere heathen turned an answered. WRONG IMPRESSION FROM AN INCI­ IS WANTED FOR HORSE STEALING SEVERE DROUGH THROUGHOUT THE "Honolulu, U. 8. A." K. in which he beat her in 1897. Last last year. Nearly $400 was subscribed HERE AND ALSO AT HASTINGS. See a feller at the Southern, DENT SATUKDA Y. year the rain interfered with the fair and from St. Johns and vicinity. The path .STATE 18 BROKEN. With a heavy iron box; Overcoat as lined with bearskin made fast time impossible the last two was to have run from here to Lansing by Wore a dozen pair of sox, Sized him up to l>e a miner, days. With the vory fast time being the way of Merlebeacb. Judging from bis awkward way Last Saturday the marshall arrested made by so many horses, it ought not On Monday, August 21, Roy Plowman* Last week R. A. Moore stated to a Much to the great surprise of every Seen him write in big characters, "Dawson City, U. S. A.’’ Wm. Yarriger on a warrant charging to be a hard job to get ajfew seconds off of Eagle, reported to Sheriff Dunn that representative of The Republican that one, rain fell last Thursday evening. Seen a saddle colored heathen him with violating the peddling ordi the track record. he had a horre missing, and thought if the path could be finished to the The shower lasted about two hours The Wearing earings in his nose, Linen cuffs around his ankles, Dance. The marsh&U' explains the trans­ that it had been stolen. school house east of the Beach, he would noise made by the approaching rain on Most indecent lack of clothes. Wliere'd this heathen guy yere spring from? action below. The ordinance in question Sheriff Dunn immediately begun work give $125 towards it and finish the path the dry leaves could be heard at quite a 1 inquired iu lofty way; COME TO THE FAIR. was never intendod, and has never been I on the case. He found that the horse from the school house to the Beach.| distance. Everything was very much in An’ he had the nerve to answer, ‘‘From Manila, U. S. A.”—Buffalo Coroner construed to prevent the free marketing had been tracked to Monroe Whiternore, A gravel path would cost nearly $200 a need rain. rial. A Little Recreation Will do You Good. of all the products of the farm. In doing who lives two and one-half miles west o* mile, and as the first three miles have The success of the fair depends alto­ Quite a number of farmers had begun You cannot curb or suppress young this however, due regard for the rights Eagle. A man by the name of Frank already been graded it would not cost so gether upon the exhibits made. Every to cut their corn, the dry spell having enthusiasm in the capital city as the of the public has been insisted upon A Herney, who had been in the neighbor ­ much to finish these. There would be one has something worth entering. If cut the yield of it and potatoes nearly following dispatch to the Sunday News man could hardly expect to* take up a hood for some time had traded it to him. nearly fourjmiles yet to be graded. one third. Late potatoes will be bene ­ Tribune from Lansing, September 2d> you do not get first prize, you may see The Sheriff traced him to Hastings and If this path could be built it would be position in front of a store and hold it fited a little. proves: “A minister of the gospel per­ to the annoyance and interference of the how the other fellow does, and get it your ­ last Thursday afternoon telephoned a great pleasure ride for cyclists and self next year. A little comparing and Quite a few wells and a large Dumber forming a marriage ceremony in a hack trade of the owner or renter of the pro­ Sheriff Ritchie, of that place, asking him others as well. exchange of cisterns had gone dry, but were par­ while the horses were making a mad perty, or take such a position as to inter­ of views is always worth some­ if he knew such a man. He said that Notice to Deal' Mutes and Their Erlt-ntf*. tially filled. break to beat the train to the depot was thing, and a good visit with your friends he did and that Herney had advertised fere with the ordinary , traffic of streets A special service in the interests of In some* Michigan towns the rain fel^ one of the sights in Lansing this after or cross walks. in worth much. Come to the fair and to have an auction sale of horses Satur ­ bring something for exhibition. church work among deaf mutes will be heavy. Some of the oldest inhabitants Doon. Earlier in the day James Doner The complaint against Mr. Yarriger day afternoon in Hastings. held at St. Johns church, St. Johns, on say that they never saw the vegetation of Atheos, Michigan, and Alma Van Saturday Sheriff Dunn telephoned was withdrawn without costs, and the Wednesday, September 13, at 10 o’clock so dried up as it has been in the past Nuilys, of Lansing, had been granted a matter satisfactorily settled all around. Ritchie again that he had a warrant for in the morning. To the same a cordial few weeks. Some places report August marriage license. In his application, the Herney's arrest for stealing horses and invitation is extended to the deaf mutes as being the driest month in years. groom swore that the bride was 18 years to lock him up. He left for Hastings FROM MARSHALL KEENEY. ✓ I URGE NUMBER of the village and country and all others Tuesday morning the rain fell in tor­ of age. Just before the hour set for the Saturday night. He went over to the interested in this new work of the church. rents and was accompanied by a severe ceremony the authorities discovered that jail and asked fur the man. They re­ wind that caused a great deal of fruit she was only 16, too young to contract a A Latter Explaining a Few Points Relative Service read orally as usual by the Rec­ to Peddling Wagon ft. fused to give him over saying that they to fall. legal marriage without the consent of tor The Rev. Mr. Ewing will be inter­ Owing to the untrue stories and talk In Attendance at St. Joins Schools. wanted him on a similar charge. preted into the sign language for the It seems as though Sheriff Dunn, after / which bas been circulating here of late, deaf mutes in the congregation. The about the arrest of William Yarriger working on the case for nearly two weeks, sermon rendered both wfiys, is a brief ought to have the man. The fellow had and A. G. Simpson, Marshall Keeney OUTLOOK FAVORABLE FOR A SUC­ history of the two important movements takes this way of explaining matter: been in Hastings for the past ten days. of the nineteenth century which have CESSFUL YEAR’S WORK. Mr. Plowman reconized the fellow as St Johns, September 4,1809. resulted in the establishment of educa In regard to the arrests of A. G. Simp­ the one who had been seen in the neigh­ tion and spiritual care of deaf mutes. borhood before the horpo was stolen. son and William Yarriger, I will say to Readers of this notice will confer a the public: As marshall of the Village The schools opened Tuesday morning favor by showing it to their deaf mute with 180 in high school, 38 more than 03273884 of St. Johns I have never demanded a friends and the neighboring papers by license for the selling of farm products, in school last spring term. There are copying it. For upward of twenty five neither have I been instructed by the about 25 regular students in the com­ years the Rev. Mr. Mann has Jministered Yiltage Council to do so. mercial course. The different grades among the deaf mutes of the middle The only thing that I have ask«d of have the following number of students west, building up missions in the large people who have peddled is not to ob ­ thisyear: 8th, 51; 7th, 71; 6 th, 51; 5th, For a 6 O’clock Closing Move­ cities. struct the streets or stand their peddling 54; 4th, 40; 3rd, 3Tr, 2nd, 33; 1st, 29. North side school: 1st and 2nd, 42; 3rd Michigan Conference, *' wagons in front of places of business, ment. where the owners or occupants objected. 4th, 44; 5th and 6 th, .‘10. East side: 1st Michigan Conference will meet in and 2nd, 44; 3rd and 4th, 32. There are Ionia next week, and be entertained by I told each party before they were arrested unless they took some other S5 foreign pupils, making over $300.00 the citizens of that enterprising city. taken in for tuition the first day. PUBLIC MEETING FRIDAY NIGHT place they would be arrested The talk It is expected and hoped that Rev. Tho number is large but still another .SEPTEMBER ». Holmes will be retutned to St. Johns, which has been circulated to the effect that it was the intent of the village to teaberis not needed this year. The best where he has made many friends. work of school can be done by the hearty Rev. E. J. Bradner expects to be re­ tax people for selling hay, wood or any other farm product, is Dot true. co-operation of Teachers and parents and turned to Richland, and it is said Rev it is hoped that this may be more so Some time ago the retail clerks in St. D. D. Martin will be returned to Battle On arresting the two named persoaB I Johns held a meeting and formed a tem­ was only doing my duty ;as marshall of this year even than last. Creek, and Rev. Thomas to Kalamazoo It is important, being a great incen­ porary organizati m, electing Allie Brain- When Mr. Martin went to Battle Creek the village to keep the streets aDd walks ard president, and Hiram Bross, secre­ as clear from obstructions as possible tive to teacher and arouses a deeper in­ he found much to do, there was a church terest in parents. Tbe teachers all hope tary. On Friday evening of this week dept to be paid, and expansive improve­ and 1 was not told by any one to- arrest a public meeting will be held at G. A. either of them. the parents of the community will feel ments to be made. This he has accomp­ this. R. hall at 8:30 for completing the organ­ lished and much more, and it is said he J. W. Keeney , ization, when R. Askey, state organizer, Village Marshal). There is a spirit of earnestness in has grown to be a power there, and his teachers and pupils that fortells a year's will be here and deliver an address. Tbs chuch is much stronger than when he state ‘organization of retail clerks is affil­ went there. Mail t»» l*e Weighed. ’ successful work. The watch word of iated with the American Federation of A recent order from Wash the decade education, and St. Johns has Labor. Examined Sewer System. ington regarding the weighing of mails, caught the spirit. Secretary Bross states that the object A committee consisting of J. D. Craw­ says that all post masters will be in­ BUSINESS LOCALS. of the organization is to secure 6 o’clock ford and J. R. Gibbs, appointed by the structed to weigh all mails passing Apples Wanted. closing of retail stores except on Satur ­ Ithaca council, was in St. Johns one day through their offices. It is proposed to We are in tbe market for any quanity day and one other night in the week. the latter part of last week making a begin this work October 3 and continue of peariDg and cider apples, also winter Stores are closed at 6 in [cities, and just thorough examination into our sewer it for 35 days. This idea is to have barreling apples. Pearing apples must as much business can be done as by system. some reliable data to present to Congress be two aud one fourth inches in size and larger Keep cider apples separate from keeping open until late at night, giving Lost His Money. at its r.ext session, showing the amount both clerks atd merchants a little time of mail bandied, that legislators may see the others. Will begio barreling early A dispatch from Durand to the De winter apples about the 15th of Septem­ with their families for study, recreation troit papers Bays: “William Ames of the necessity for increasing the appro­ ber. Wolcott & D an ley Co. and social enjoyment. A large number priations for the postal service. Mails Elsie showed a roll of bills in a saloon, For Sale. of the merchants, Mr. Bross sajs, are in have not been weighed in their entirety and lost a watch and $ 100." A bay mare, 9 years old, weighs 1200, favor of the movement, and all merchants At Port. Huron one of the peculiar her parents. They repaired to the hou e for twenty years. inquire of O. P. D ewitt. 2w A Handsome Wagon. as well as the public, are invited to come effects of last Thursday night's heavy and stopped the ceremony, and would Farm for .Sale Cheap, A. T. Smith has just turned out a Rented Another Store. ' out and discuss the question next Fri­ raiD was the ascending of a dense vapor have arrested the groom for perjury had An 80acre farm on section 26, Riley, day night.______handsome jobber ’s wagon for O. P. laden with carbonic acid gas from Black he not established the fact that he acted O. P Dewitt, the grocer, w ho not only 70 acres being under cultivation. A fair A Striking Story. */ Dewitt’s wholesale trade. It weighs a river. The midsummer putrid condition in good faith, believing the girl to be of does a large and prosperous retail busi ­ house and large barn are on the place; little over 700 pounds, and is especially ness, but a large jobbing trade as well, fences in good repair. For further par­ At the Congregational church last of the stream, resulting from the action legal age. By the time the parents’ con­ adapted to the business. has rented the old State Bank building ticulars addreBs John M. Culp , Sunday evening there was read by the of the fibre works acids on the vegetable sent was obtained aDd a new license Administrator of Samuel Reason matter in the river was in its most aggra­ issued, the train the couple intended for additional storage room. pastor the story “For Christ and the Early Harvests. estate. 21-2 p. vated form, aDd the oder was carried a leaving the city on was nearly due. They Church ” by Chas. M. Sheldon, author of John I. Shaver has returned from a A large part of the bean crop has been considerable distance. The vapor clung jumped iDto a hack together with two Girls Wanted. “In His Steps.” The audience listened trip to the Upper Peninsula. He has a harvested, and corn cutting is well under to everything it touched and the crews witnesses and Rev. C. L. Seasholes of We will give steady employment to with deep interest and marked attention- way. The dry weather in August nephew visiting him from Iowa. twenty-five girls of good character if The story sets forth very vividly a con­ of the ferry boats were kept busy all the First Baptist church, and the cere­ ripened the crops unusually early. day in an effort to scrub off the thick mony was performed with the horses on Portland will hold a special election application is made at once. The work versation a certain minister had with the / September 15th to vote on the question is vory neat and cbd be quickly learned. devil who told the man of God that half black coating on the vessels. The gas the run. ” Yours respectfully, THE FARMERS’ MUTUAL is said to ha\e entered the vaults of a of bonding for $ 20,000 to buy the village , Richardson Silk Co . of his church members were liars. The water works, now owned by a private bank located beside the river to such an A citizen remarked to The Repub ­ 19 3 F. A. Washburn , Supt ., minister relates this to his congregation Belding, Micb. Statment of Lomrii From September 1st, extent as to discolor the silver coin. lican , that last Monday afternoon he company. on Sunday morning. The result of the counted 50 robiDs on John Hicks ’ lawn IWltH to September 1st, 1800. Silverware in a nearby jewelry store aNo etorv re veils how satan was beaten in atoDetime. Robins frequent this yard Every kind of book and job printing his own game aDd how deeply spiritual Houses burned ...... 19 became tarnished from the fumes. a great deal and can be seen there most at The Republican office. Satisfaction Second hand heating stoves, also pay Houses dnmaged...... 22 anytime. This was the lawn in front of guaranteed. tf. cash for rags, copper, zinc, lead and rub the church began to be. Barns burned ...... X ner, Faxon A Richmond block. Barns damaged ...... 18 his residence on State street. On next Sunday evening the pastor Losses of contents only, of bouses 8; hams 2 10 M. E. Chiirrli Not<*ft. Wm. Crich . will preach relative to the contentsof the lyoosos of live stock outside, by lightning. 8 ATTEMPTED BURGLARY. / Grain in stacks, by thresherengine...... 1 The services of next Sunday will be story w hich promises to be interesting School house damaged...... 1 CoiiKTeKHtinnal Chnrch Note*. tbe closing services of this conference To the property owners and otehr9 in­ as touching the criticism upon our Total nmnlier of losses 82 Parties Got Intotlie Cellar of Post Office We are now planning the service for year. The morning theme will be terested in the following proposed im­ churches, and whereas the story also CACHES. the laying of the corner stone which Methodism, its Life and Achievements. provement viz: The construction of an Defective chimneys, stovo pipes or flues V at Eureka. touches upon the vitality of church life Lightning, houses burned 1. houses damaged will be within three or four weeks. The evening theme will be, Education extension of New System sewer from the fi. barns burned 0, barns damaged 18...... 2." Unknown parties broke into the cellar Every department of our church work a message to the people of our public center of Spring and Higham streets to Tliroslior engine ...... 1 Large Box Receipts. All other causes known ...... 20 of the post office at Eureka last night. is opening with new vigor. Let every schools, and to all interested in the life the center of Higham and Oakland The receipts for postoffice box rent the Reported as unknown ...... 19 Christiau joiu the happy throng of wora- of studentship. streets. Notice is hereby given that the They were discovered and frightened ers. There will be a speci.'l service at assessment roll No. 9 for the above men­ present quarter are about $235, the largest 82 Sunday, September 10th. Services for tioned improvement has be< n n ade by in the history'of the St. Johns office, al­ AMOUNT OF LOSSES. awav. Grange Hall, Bengal, next Sunday p. m. Houses and contents...... 8 10,122 50 / the day: at 2:30 This special service will con­ tbe board of assessors of the village of though this is the dull part of the year. Barn- and contents ...... 1.712 50 Morning 10:30 Preaching by the sist of tbe quarterly Lqve Feast and tbe St. Johns, and has been filed in the office Live stock outside ...... 140 00 Violent Affection. pastor. Subject, “Tho Opportunities of the Village Clerk for public examina­ Twonty-four new lock boxes were recent­ Grain in stacks f>0 00 communion service. School house ...... IS 00 A dispatch from Muir to the Detroit for the Youth ” A sermon appropriate tion, and that the Council and board of ly added, and all are rented but three. with the opening of schools. assessors of said village will meet at the This is a fair indication of business. Total 8 12.030 00 Tribune sajs: “Became Laura Miller Evening Service at 7:30. The sermon Council chamber in said village on Mon« Assessment to cover said 1* «ses fired at 3 A package consisting of bedding, etc., Important Notice.. mills less 8 per cent, if paid in TO days. refused to marry him, Gaorge Comstkoc, will consist of comments on the story between Carson City and my residence. day, September 18, 1899, at 7:30 o'clock of Hubbardston, became real angry. He read laBt Sunday evening. Finder leave same at hotel, Maple Rap­ p. m. to review, correct and confirm said Saturday, September 9th is the last ANNOUNCEMENTS. flourished a revolver and made all sorts Sabbath school at noon. ids, and receive reward. assessment and to hear anv objection day to pay taxes. Endeavor prayer meeting at 7 o’clock. 2 wk pd Andrew Eldridoe . thereto. Dated, Septemb r 3, 1890. i nt , of threats. He paid a fine for his D. L. H Village Treasurer. Special meeting O. E. 8. for initiation Sept­ Midweek prayer meeting every Thurs Byorderof the village Council of St. Office at Hunt ’s Drug Store. ember 14. * actions.” day evening at 7:30. New stock of guns at Osburu ’a. Johns. M. McD onald , Clerk. I OVID. » '^Ss»HEPARD 8VIL'LE. News from Clinto n Cou nty. Ezra Kqya, of Three Rivera, ie visiting Mias Fry, of Saginaw, la the gueet of friends in town. Mra. E. R. Munson. |p PERFECT Tito OLIVE. John Linton, of Detroit, was a guest Rev. and Mrs. Bouck and son, Percy, at W. H. Robson ’s lest week. What The Republican. Mrs. Cclestine Hugulett is no better. visited at J. J. Winfield’s Monday. Mrs. Matie Mapee, of Detroit, visited Miss Esther Love, of Elsie, spent Sun 17 Thqrsday, September 7 ,1899. Lewis Carpenter a*td family spent Mrs. Herbert Harris last week. ItVlfLED Sunday at E. McIntyre’s. Mrs. Frank Hoyt, of Mason, is visiting day wite her aunt, Mrs. J. J. Winfield. Miss Washington, of Eureka, opened her brother, Chae. Eton, of this place. Mr. and Mrs. Norton Smith, of Ovid, Zoa BENGAL. school at the Center Monday. Mr. and Mra. N. J. Clark have return are spending a few weeks on the farm. Mra. Belle Kearney and eon, Rftlph May Clavey and Florence Pennell, of ed from a few weeks ’ visit in Foetoria. s Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Smith are spend­ are visiting at Battle Creek. Dewitt, visited Blanche and Lizzie Wetherell Friday. A number of Ovid young people ing a few weeks with her parents in Free­ There will be a general opening of celebrated Labor Day at Round Lgke, port Phora Allison Merrihew and daughter, Clara, schools in this township this week. Mra. E. DeCamp fell and dislocated Mr. and Mra. Will Loomis and daugh ­ Mias Collins and Miss. Church, of St had a runaway Friday night neither her ahholder last week, but is now im­ won ’t do for Johns, were guests of Mias Pearl Jury were hurt and no damage done. proving. ter, of De'roit, are visiting at J. L. But ­ Friday. Mra. Griswold and daughter returned ton’s. WOMANKIND Mr. and Mrs. John N. Plowman are N VICTOR. Saturday from a two months Btay at Bay Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Aldrich, of Butter ­ spending ten days with friends at Mason, View. nut, spent Saturday with their son, J. H. no medicine Can always be Lansing and Laingsburg. Arthur Green and wife, of Ann Arbor, Mra. Geo. Rouch and family have re Aldrich. The man who took Bov Plowman’s are visiting Victor relatives. turned from a weeks ’ visit with friends Mr. and Mra. Charles Going, of Clio, will. found at horse two weeks ago has been located Paul Jamison has returned to Wash­ in Grand Rapids. , visited her , Mrs. Nancy Louns- and the horse was returned to his owner ington and Miss Blanche has gone to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Crouse, of Foe­ Saturday evening. teach near Mt. Pleasant toria, Ohio, are visiting at the home of bury, last week Mias Eva Edwards has returned to her It make* natural and eaay the passing fron ALLISON’S It is said the steam dredge will com­ Rev. Marshall, of Lowell, Michigan, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Clark. budding girlhood to full blown womanhood| plete its work on Stony Creek in about a has preached two Sundays in Victor and Dr. M. M. Martin returned last week school near Burten where she will teach enables the woman of later years to pass un ­ week by working night and day, which Laingsburgjand may become a future from his month’s vacation. Services the coming year. scathed through the trying change of life, and Jewelry Store. it is now doing. Huudreds have visited pastor. were held last Sunday as usual. The M. E. L. A. 8. will serve cake and insures her good health when all is over. It is it to witness its workings. O. L. Beckwith and some member of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Huntington re­ ice cream at the home of Frank Scudder truly called “the Woman’s Friend.”.A book about his family have been ailing the past week. turned last week from a few weeks ’ Saturday evening, September 9th.’ Zoa Phora unt free to alt women who write. \ DEWITT. The relic social given at the hospitable visit with relatives in Lima, N. Y. Alta Longcore, Belle Winfield, Althea ZOA PHORA MEDICINE CO.,Kalamazoo, Mick. J Western Fair at London, Ontario. home of Mr. and Mra E. D. Poet was in­ Miss Mabel Gunn left last week for Grove, Lena McLeod, Mildred Gates, In addition to the low rates made to the To­ Rev. H. B. Bard, of Lansing, will preach deed a success and only did we regret Baldwin, where ehe is engaged in type Judson Gates and Bert Cleveland start­ ronto Fair from August 27th to September 2d, Sunday, September 10, at 3 p. m. local that more could not eDjoy it The three setting on a paper edited in that place. ed for Ovid school Tuesday. the Grand Trunk Railway System will also time. make rate of a single fare for the round trip Misses Gibbards dressed in olden style Miee Fox leaves Thursday for Don’t Sheeze from all points in Michigan and as far west as Remember the ice cream social given and took the role admirably. Miss Mar­ Troy, Ohio, whsre she will commence A man in Iowa, who has passed hie South Bend, Indiana, to the Western Fair under the auspices of the U. M. society cia Beckwith as a Puritan maiden also 80th year, predicts that 1900 will have no at London, Ontario, which is held from Sept­ Thursday at 5 p. m. and in the evening. took her part well. Roy Huyck in his her work io the public schools of that summer. He says the weather has acted and Wheeze ember 2d to the 16th. Tickets for the London place. and cough yo Fair will be sold on September 7th, 8th and 9th, M. J. Tout will soon remove his family grandfather’s wedding coat and with just like it did in 1816 when a heavy snow with a limit to returu leaving London on all knee buckles and ruffles was a fine and Mr. and Mrs. .Herbert McEwen, of fell in July and water froze every month head half off. trains up to and including September 18th, to LanBing, where he has a position in Chicago, have been spending the past the State house. As Mr. Tout has work ­ stately figure of ye olden days. Mrs. in the twelve. According to him 1833 The Fair at London is one of the finest held ed steadily at his forge for 41 years, we Edith Green also wore a dress of a fine week with his father, Rev. McEwen, was a year of intense cold and fierce in Western Ontario. hope the change and rest may do him old pattern. One room was used for the of this plaoe. storms The people in many sections Petroleum display. There was a glass case in the Mrs. Charles Hurd, of Erie, Pennsyl­ wore their winter clothing the entire year. AGENTS WANTED.—For "The Life and much good. He leaves with the good cures Catarrh, Cold-in-head, Achievements of Admiral Dewey,” the world’s wishes of all. center for the most choice articles while vania, who has been visiting relatives This fame old man tells also of the year Sore - Throat, Cold-on-the- greatest naval hero. Ky Murat Halstead, the aroutfd the room were tables, stands and here for some time returned to her home without a winter. He says that in the „ Lungs, etc. lifelong friend and admirer of the nation's idol. A goodly number of Olive grange were shelves and articles were hung and drap­ this week. year 1837 pumpkin vines were in bloox Biggest and best book; over 500 pages, 8x10 present at the entertainment given by inches; nearly 100 pages halftone illustrations. the young men of Dewitt grange Satur ­ ed all oyer the walls. An ancient foot Mrs. Ed. Beebe, eon and daughter left Christmas time and the leaves green on A Certain Remedy. At Druggists. Only $1.50. Enormous demand. Big commis­ stove and warming pan were among the Monday morning for their Dome in the trees as late as February. sions. Outfit free. Chance of a lifetime. Write day night. Only four were ready but most curious. All through the house quick. The Dominion Company, 3rd Floor their parts were well done and we hope Marine City, where Mr. Beebe ie en­ Caxton Bldg., Chicago. £-16 to entertain the Olive members again were lighted candies in different styles gaged in the drug business. Like Dewey, Never Fails. of old candlesticks. The oldest article Miss Ethel Pierce, of Middleport, N. with a better program when the Band was alHolland linen shawl 200 years old St. Johns , Michigan, May 18, 1899. concert will not prove a drawback for belonging to Mrs. J. W. Beckwith as did Y., who has been visiting the past three Let all those who may be afflicted with Consultation and Examination Free and Strictly Confidential. our young people but we were all once very many other articles. A coin of 1728 weeks at the home of Mrs. Nora East­ cancer read this, for I want all myTriends young and must sympathzie with our was brought by Miss Gibbard and other man, returned to her home last Wednes­ to know that after being afflicted with young people. Richard Moore gave us a articles of note Mrs. Jamison displayed day. cancer on my nose ana lips for three good talk filled with good advice and we a strange old Masonic apron 150 years Miss Jessie Eastman left last week for years, I called on Dr. Ottman, who told feel any grange that holds him as a mem­ old. Mrs. Jones sent a epoon 130 years. Cleveland, Ohio, where she will do some me he could cure me, and I took his ber must advance. Mrs. Edwards added a good collection trimming before engaging in the fall treatment for three months, and he has DRS. B. S. & CO., ^ Fourteenth Annual Ohio Excursion. among them a cartridge box used in the millinery work in Ashtabula. entirely Sited me. I want to say this, war of 1812. J. C. Brunson had a Revo­ Mrs. George Beardslee gave a very that Dr. Ottman is the greatest special­ The Ann Arbor Railroad will give its lutionary sword and L. H. Allen his sabre pleasant tea party to her lady friends ist on earth,\nal can safely recommend The Celebrated Specialists fourteenth annual Ohio excursion, Wed­ and canteen used by him in the rebell ­ last Saturday afternoon. A large num ­ his absorption methods in curing cancer Of the American Medical and Surgical Institute, of Muskegon, Mich nesday October 4th. Tickets will be ion. He also brought an immense Afri­ ber were present, and all reported a very ae the best I ever knew, as I had tried a limited for return to November 4th, and dozen specialists before seeing him. will be sold to all principal points in can bow and arrow. Miss Brunson, Mrs. enjoyable time. Will be atthe Steel Hotel, St. Johns, Mich., Beardslee and Aunt Julia Upton had School opened Tuesday with a very While my nose is disfigured a little, still Ohio. Watch this paper for further an­ some fine old china and linen. Mrs. I would rather have no nose than to be nouncement as to rates and territory to full attendance, especially in the high eaten up with that horrid cancer. So which excursion tickets will be sold. Kate Huyck brought some glass brought school. The repair committee have not fzgro Scotland and other articles. Mrs. yet completed their week, but when let all mv friends call on him before go­ 17-8 ______Graves sent a back comb over 100 years done,-they will have added very much to ing elswhere.. WiLLtAM Sperry WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27th. ^ WACOUSTA old. Mrs. Dick a bed spread made 123 the building. Christina Sperry . years ago. An old and beautiful silk A reunion of the Class of ’98 was held Born, August 30th to Mr. and- Mrs. shawl was brought by Leora Chapin and at the home of Sopt. E. M. Plunkett last Office Hours From 9 a. m. to 7:30 p. m. One day of each month. Redoty, a daughter. a strange stone bearing 1491 found by Dr. Ottman: Dear Sir—I am glad to Mr. Chapin in a gravel pit was exhibited. Saturday evening. The members of the be able to tell you that I am very much Born, August 24th to Mr. and Mrs. Class of *97 and their friends were also better than I ever expected to be, and John Hunter, a daughter. Mrs. Post and others contributed old samplers. O. L. Beckwith sent a very invited. After refreshments, music, that your treatment for cancer on my W. E. Davis and family will leave on rude wooden pistol and F. E. Greene an recitations and a general good time was face was a success. Would gladly re Thursday for their home in Chicago. old English hoe. We can not name enjoyed by all; after which the Class of commend you to any one suffering with Arthur L. Daniells is slowly recover . ’98 remembered their former instructors cancer. M. A. Howe nearly all of the really worthy articles in the high school with very beautiful Maple Rapids, June 15,1899. ing from a three weeks illness from fever. but will hasten to speak of the choir, a gifts. A.J.Burnes isin Grand Rapids the sweet little song by Helen Freeman, two Dra. B. S. A Co. will visit St. Johns solos by Roy Green, recitations were Steel Hotel, Wednesday, September 27 first half of this week, purchasing goods English Spavin Liniment removes all hard Consultation free and strictly coofiden The schools here opened Monday, with given by Bernice Beckwith, Lucille Post soft or calloused lumps and blemishes from and Miss Lou Gibbard gave the Mony- horses, blood spavins, curbs, splints, sweeney ial. Mr. Phelps, principal, and Miss Ruth ring-bone, stifles, sprains, all swollen throats, Rose, primary teacher. musk very creditably. coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful blemish care REAL ESTATE. Corn cutting is in progress, the crop ever known. Sold by A. O. Hnnt, Druggist. is considerably shortened by the long Kellef In Hlx Hours. St. Johns, Mich. Isabella Norton to Simeon Hewitt, lot excessively dry weather. Distressing Kidney and Bladder disease 4, block 6, Maple Rapids...... $ 500 00 relieved it six hours by “ New Great South EUREKA. Alvin C. Wetberbee and wife to Milo Allan L. Daniells will spend a day this American Kidney Cure. ” It is a great surprise G. Taylor, swX of swi* of (section 23, week visiting some of the patrons of his on account of its exceeding promptness in Riley...... 1,200 00 former schools in Riley. relieving pain in bladder, kidneys ana back in ruy Ie returned from Petoe Alva Putman and wife et al to Burnice male or female. Relieves retention of water Hewitt, nX of lot 4, block 23, Maple The Wacousta base ball club went to almost immediately. IfIt you want quick relief key last ThThursday evening. Bapids, (Q. C.)...... 100 00 and cure this is the remedy.ledy. Sold by Portland last Friday to play with their A. O. HUNT.. -Druggist. ‘ ~St. Johns.‘ Mich. I Mrs. Mary Hixon of Shepard, Mich, Daniel Graham, by Adm. -to Alva Put ­ team, and were beaten 10 tol2. is visiting friends in this vicinity. nam, d H lot 4, block 23, Maple Rapids 100 00 Page School opened its doors Monday Rutus H. Hewitt and wife to Simeon Rain enough barely to lay the dust WEST RILEY. Hewitt, e*-6 of seV« of section 6. and came last Thursday night, but many Nk with Miss Lettie Leach as teacher. swJ4 <>f section 5, and w4 lot 7, block times as much is greatly needed. The ladies Aid society meets with Mrs, Rev Luther preaches the last sermon 7, and wH of block 7. Maple Rapids, of this conference year, next Sunday (Q. C.)...... 00 Mrs. Dexter Cronkite is nursing Mrs, Stabell this week Thursday. Clarence B. Hewittand wife to Simeon Wellman and her five year old son, who The West Riley Reading club met at evening. All are invited. . Hewitt, n1. of lot 4, block 23, Maple are severely ill with typhoid fever. W. H. Kincaid's Saturday evening Sep A very successful musical was given Rapids, (Q. C.)...... 100 00 Rev. Mr. Ewing, of Lansing, preached tember 2nd. at Dennis’ Hall last Thursday evening Chas. W. Bayley aDd wife to James an excellent sermon at the Congrega composed of Elise talent, principally. Worden et al, land on swl. of section Cassie Kincaid bas returned from II, Duplain...... 700 00 tional church Sunday morning, and Grand Ledge, where she bas been stay The Eureka Public Schools opened Mary V. Annin to John P. Fedewa, administered the Lord’s Supper at the ing for some time. Monday morning with good attendance, of nw)4 of soction 4, Eagle...... 2,400 00 close of the service. It is expected there Mrs. Ezra Chaffee was thrown from a Mr Cliee of Bath has been engaged as Byon W. Hewitt et al to Simeon will be preaching next Sunday morning. wagon at Wacousta, one day last week, Principal for the coming year. Mr. Hewitt sw1* of section 5, and 04 of Cliee comes well recommended and it is se?4 of section 6, Essex, (Q. C.)...... 1 00 The little son of George Brace, who stricking on her head and shoulders, John B. Ripple et al to Andrew J. had his big toe torn out in the sprocket although no bones were broken, her hoped that officers aDd patrons will Meiick. land een at Battle Creek brated her eighty third birthday. Mrs. reference and remembrance M the aged Catherine Wirth to Edward P. Wieber, since the latter part of June, continues Dillingham enjoyed the journey as much pioneers of church work. The church uwVi of sw'4 of section 14, West­ The moat widely and fa vfrably known Specialist In the United Htateo. His long expert to improve, she will be able to return as any of them, and without the least phalia...... 1,800 00 race, remarkable skill and universal aucoeaa In the largest hospitals In the world enable* was nicely arranged with rockers on Abigail Beebe to Henrietta Gibson, lot ilm to treat all CHRONIC, NERVOUS, SKIN and BLOOD Diseases upon the latest scieu home next Monday. fatigue, the platform in which the aged fathers “1, block 4, Van Deusen ’s Ad. Elsie... 300 00 iflo principles,and entitles him to the full confidence of the afflicted everywhere. pan ATTM t M has no superior In diagnosing and treating diseases and de and mothers were seated. After a £ ”f\. o 1 liilAit form lues. Medical and Murglcal Diseases, Acute and Chronir beautiful preface in which Rev. Luther jaiarrh. Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Lungs, Dyspepsia, Bright's I>l»en- * spoke of the inspiration he had received Diabetes, Kidney, Liver, Bladder, Chronic Female and Bex uni Diseases speedily cured b\ reaunent that has never failed in thousands of cases that had been pronounced beyotio from aged Christian workers, he then nope. Many people meet death every year who might have been restored to perfect beaut introduced J. R. Carter who gave a very lad they placed their cases in the hands of experts. interesting talk relative to the beginning IMPORTANT TO LADIB8.—DR. OTTMAN, after yesrs of experience, hss discover, ■. and arduous struggles of church scorn the greatest care known for sll diseases peculiar to the sex. Femsle diseases positively cum : work in Greenbu ih. He spoke of the by the new remedy, OLIVE BLOSSOM. The core is effected by home trestment. Entirely first class being otyanized in 1849 and of harmless and easily applied. Consultation Free and Strictly Confidential. Problem DR. OTTMAN operates successfully and DEAFNESS. I cure 90 per cent, of all the beginning of the present M. E. painlessly for squint eyes, pterygium. Iridec­ cases. Many cases cured in one treatment. church of which he was a char­ tomy, turning in or out of eyelashes or lids, DISCHARGING EARS cared in every closure of tear duct and all other eye opera­ case. ter member. “Grandma Ingersoll EMULSION tions. CATARRH OP THE NOSE, bronchitis then gave a very touching account of her CHRONIC SORE EVES and granu ­ and lung troubles, caused from catarrh, posi­ OF COD-LIVER OIL WITH lated lids quickly cured. tively cured. struggles in church work and especially A CERTAIN AND POSITIVE CURB Solved to Sunday school work. Others also for the swful effects of early vice and the RYPOPHOSPHITES TO YOUNG AND MIDDLE- spoke and altogether it was a very im­ numerous evils that follow in Its train. work ill the lunch day PRIVATE BLOOD AND SKIN pressive lesson. Well may the young to­ DISEASES speedily, completely and per­ AGED MEN. after day. It’s uninviting to open the lunch bag day stand with bowed beads, and pray should always be kept in manently cured. k CHRP PII DC The awful effects of early and speak earnestly and feelingly for t h* NERVOUS DBBILITY AND SEX. H OUllC UUnCi Tice, which brings or- the house for the fol­ UAL DISORDERS yieN rapidly to his ganic weakness, destroying both mind and and find the eternal bread, biead, bread. Bread it church pioneers. snd wh«r skillful trestment. body, with all Its dreadful ills,il permanently their earthly tortus eh >11 have been l*i> lowing reasons: PILES, FISTULA AND RECTAL cared good, but it’s monotonous— it lacks novelty. ULCERS guaranteed cured without pain or to rest, beautiful deeds of righ'eousnes detention from business. FIRST - Because, If any member DR. OTTMAN have thosim-* Break the monotony with the new delicacy— shall have been sown th it shall teach t- SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET, paired themselves by improper indnlgence rising generations of the immortality o of the family has a hard cold, it Spermatorrhea, Seminal Weakness, Lost and solitary habits, ’which:n ruin both mind man. Manhood, Night Emissions, Decayed Facul ­ and body, nnfitling them for business, study, will cure It. ties, Female Weakness and all delicate dis­ society or marriage. orders peculiar to either sex, positively cured, MARRIED MEN, or those entering on RILEY. SECOND- Because, if the chil­ as well as functional disorders that result that happy life, aware of physical debility, dren are delicate and sickly, It will from youthful follies or the excess of mature quickly assisted. Uneeda years. WE GUAHANTBE TO CURS Nervous The Boughton school has begun for make them strong and well. SPECIALTIES: Catarrh, Skin Diseases, Debility, Falling Manhood, Syphilis, Varico­ the fall term, Mies Eldridge presiding. Sores, Pimples, Scrofula, Blood Taints, cele, Stricture, Gleet, Unnatural Dischargee THIRD —Because, if the father or Ecrema, Cancer, Piles and Diseases of Women Weak Parts and all Kidney and Bladder Chas. Williams, of Ithaca, is visiting Quickly and Permanently Cured by the latest Diseases. mother is losing flesh and becom ­ approved treatment as pnrsued by leading Cases and correspondence confidential, Biscuit at his father’s. ing thin and emaciated, it will build specialists of America and Europe. bat personal consultation preferred. Clarence Miller who has been in New FREE EXAMINATION OP THE URINE.—Each person applying for medical treat- them up and give them flesh and ment should send or bring from 2 to 4 ounces of urine (that passed first Inin the morning pre York state for about two months, has ferred), which will receive a careful chemical and microscopical examination, and if requested Nutritious —healthful —satisfying. Uneeda returned to his home in Riley. strength. a'written analysis will be given. Persons rained in health by unlearned pretenders, who keep trifling with them month after month, glvtng poisonous and injnrions compounds, should Biscuit are sold only in a new and novel 5 cent Jas. A. Keeney bas moved bis family FOURTH - Because it is the apply immediately. Delays are dangerous. and household goods to Riley. WMinCRHIl PIIDFQ Perfected in old cases which have been neglected or nnskillfnlly package which keeps them air tight and moisture standard remedy in all throat and TlUnULnrUL bunco treated. No experiments or failures. Parties treated by mat District No. 1 elected the following lung affections. or express, but where possible, personal consultation is preferred. Curable cases guaranteed. proofi Never sold in bulk. Ask your grocer about officers: Thedore Miller, director; H. Bp-Caaes and correspondence confidential. Trestment sentfC. O. D. to any part of U. 8L Glonn Bliss, assessor. No household should be without It. List of 1 Vi questions free. Address, with postage, Uneeda Biscuit. Miss Anna Hildreth, who bas been in It can be taken In summer as well Essex for some time, bas returned home. as'ln winter. G. F. Ottmar is attending camp meet soc. and ft.oo, all druggist*. Drs. B. S. & Co.,""SIC:,. Ing at Haselet Park. SCOTT A BUWNE. Chemist*. New York. The annual I Ohio picnic, held last Sat the ground that the court was lncom- •d it, before the dance oommenoed. One Prompt Relief. urday north of Hubbardston, was well Indian wee to stay sober. He took attended. The territory embraces Ionia, take diplomatic stepe to obtain thedoe- their guns, knives sad tommebawks pat 4 Montcalm, Clinton and Gratiot counties. umepts In question. It wag also decid­ them out of their reach then the dance F, C. Miller and Hon. James Scully, of ed to hear M. Cernuechl behind closed commenced singing, dancing and drink ­ Testimony to That Effect Accunrv doors. ing whiskey. On the second day of the Ionia, were the main speakers of the day. dance whiskey was like to give out eo —Ionia 8entinel. lat*» at tha Rennes Trial. they put an Indian on a pony who ran An ordinance has been presented to 9573 hia pony to Dewitt and back to get a the council st Kenosha, Wia., prohibiting new supply of whiakey to finish the women from riding bicycles unless they EXILE'S CONFESSION IS RECITED. dance. That same fall emallpox broke pass an examination as to their fitness out amongst them, took the thirteen to manage and guide a wheel. The mat­ Reporter Bassett of Tho Matin Narrates men also the old chief and the most of ter is not a joke, as many accidents their families. Haven’t got half through have occurred leading to this actions A His Intervlsw with Kstorhosjr In Lon ­ but must leave the Chippewas. In, the license to ride will be granted' to those don —Laborl Questions Roget Concern ­ Relating1 to the Early Settlement fall of ‘98 the Fisher Indians came and passing the examination.—Allegan ing Letters Ho Hud Received from Ks- encamped near father's, they seemed tq Chronicle. terhasy Slnee tho Trio! ltogau —Es-Min­ of Yictor. be quite a civil set Fisher was rather a Several of our exchanges tell of far­ ister of Justice Make. Strong Plea. small Indian. I remember he wanted* RenneB, Sept. 5.—M. Cernuschl, the Ralph, my aecood older brother, to marry mers in different parts uf the stats who one of his girls which was quite a joke thought to save money this summer by political refugee and reputed scion of on Ralph. Okemoe, the old chief, we buying tbeir binder twine from Chicago Servian royalty, who appeared Monday T, L. SWARTBOlirS PAPER HEAD AT used to see quite of ten,was a small Indian, mail order houses. Some of them have before the Dreyfua court-martial as a taken the paiDs to measure it and have ROUND LAKE AUGUST S4TH very hard hearted, lived to be over 100 found each ball about eighty feet short, witness for the prosecution was not ex­ years old. and the weight also several ounces “shy.” amined by the court during the time it I will tell you something of our school This is another evidence that it pays to sat behind closed doors on this, the priviliges. We used to walk from one patronize your home dealer. second day of the fifth week of Cap­ In the spring of 1837, my parents with to four miles and was glad of the chance. Two years ago I suffered se­ tain Alfred Dreyfus ’ trial on the charge a family of six boys, my wife’s parents We sat all day on a log split in the mid­ verely from neuralgia and pal­ Land has doubled in valuation in Isa­ Kidneys . Liver of treason. Examination of the secret and family, sad my uncle and wife, mak­ dle bolstered up on four legs with a pitation of the heart, I was bella county, so P. Ripenburg and T. ing in all six heads of families, of whom board in troot of ua for a deck. The Walton say. Since they returned from dossier was the sole occupation of the one only is living, left their Dative homes school houMs were well filled, though unable to do light housework. Missouri they were heard to say “ Mich­ and Bowels court-martial during its sitting in in the State of New York, to seek out a cold in winter. We had two terms of Nothing brought relief until I igan, my Michigan! ” Mr. Ripenburg Cleanses the System camera, the decision having been home in the west. On their arriving at three months each but most of us had took Dr. Miles* Heart Cure. 3 says they have no roads where they were; reached, probably in view of the mes­ Detroit, stoped there until the men came to stay at home and work half of the bottles removed all trace of my and they follow the valleys and go in ^ wivP* EFFECTUALLY sage telegraphed here by General de on through, had to make roads some of time so what we learned had to be done creek beds where water is three feet deep, Galllfet, minister of war, to hear the the way, and build a log house for their quickly. Weekly spelling schools and disorder and I now feel like a for roads They dont like the foothills rest of Cernuschi ’s evidence in open families to move into. Dr. Laing was then geography schools were much appreciat­ new Woman. Mr*. J. O. Houston, of the Ozarks; so are content to stay in court. living at Laingsburg, our nearest neigh­ ed. I will tell you of one boy who was ISO 8. Wafer 8».. Exetar, N. H. ** Isabella. Right they are, we think. — When the open session of the court- bor. We also found Robert McKee, so eager for an education that he Isabella County Enterprise. martial began M. Labor! presented a Squandip, as the Indians called him. ignored all difficulties. He came to the DR. MILES’ Pure Food Commissioner Groevenor formal application to the court for an Captain Scott was then living at Dewitt, school I was leaching 50 years ago. Ha «™al Coh ^w,on order upon Major Carriere, the govern­ our next nearest neighbor. Many were His clothing was made of blue denims. has commenced a wholesale crusade ment commissary, to request that in­ the deprivations those early settlers had A swanky sewed to the waist band of against hotels and restaurants using 11 VJMU » ornuAkirkrnv oleomargarine on their tables and not PERMANENTLY terested foreign governments, through to pass through. I think it was in the the pants. He had neither boots nor Heart displaying oleo signs in the dining room diplomatic channels, communicate to summer of 1837 Isaac Bennejt, the first shoes, but moccasins made of old rags as required by the law. A large number nSBEHtj the court various documents relating itinerant preacher, came to my father’s sewed together. A piece of cloth puck ­ of samples taken from tables of leading to the bordereau. house ana preached. I could make men­ ered and sewed up served for a cap. Says Enterhacy Confessed to Him. tion of many of our pioneer preachers For his dinner he had nothing but dry hotels in the state have been analyzed avy the GtuviNi - mamt d e»y Cure and found in many cases to be oleo. Two The first witness who was called to who traveled through this then wilder­ cold buckwheat griddle cakes, yet he is sold by all drucKlata on truarantee prosecutions have been commenced at the bar was Reporter Bassett, whom ness land on Indian trails, fording streams seemed to enjoy them as if they were first bottle benefits or money back. (AU&KNIA ffG ,SYRVP(S The Matin sent to London to interview for there was no bridges at that time. I the richest of delicacies. Book ou heart and nerves sent free. Adrian and another at Hillsdale Com­ Major Count Ferdinand Walsin Ester- think it was in 1838 a preacher by the Today he is a very acceptable preach­ Dr. Miles Medical Company, Elkhart, Ind. plaints will be issued against some of the kv . -v most prominent hotel keepers in the ret *AU®r»uoau«frJTi wnu so. RStsnu. hazy. The witness deposed that Ester- name of Jackson traveled the circuit. I er in the Michigan conference. Before state.—State Republican. hazy confessed to him that he wrote heard him tell of crawling on his hands I close I must tell you something about the bordereau under orders from Col­ and knees on broken down trees across pioneer farming. Most everybody used STATE AHD YICIHITY. A neat swindle is being worked with THE onel Sandherr, who was then chief of swollen streams with the bridle rein in oxen. There were but very few horses. ------i great success in nearby towns. A wo­ CLKANSINO the secret intelligence bureau. The hie mouth and hia horse swimming at He used to break up the virgin soil with It is said that there is neither aD empty man book agent appears in town and order, Esterhazy said, was to catch the aide; all this for the*master. I could four or five teams of oxen and a heavy house nor store in Ovid. AND HEAtINU CATARRH ;oes from house to nouse leaving books CURE FOR traitor at the headquarters of the gen­ also mention many of the pioneer settlers plow. We used a drag some with 8ix hundred new students are expect­ !or examination Next day a man calls £ly § eral staff, whom Esterhazy afterward that came in 1838,1839 and 1840 but will wooden teeth. Ox carts were used for ed at the Michigan Agricultural College toseedf the books are wanted. A few BAl* said was Captain Dreyfus. leave it for others to tell. I think there all sorts of business and pleasure too. lUp.fsU. days later •• woman appears and on being CATARRH M. Laborl then called upon Gen­ was no state in the whole union that At first we threshed our grain on the During the tiscal year recently closed told that he has taked \way the sample eral Roget to testify regarding let­ afforded so many helps to the early set­ bare ground with a flail, and winnowed the county clerks of Michigan issued 11,- books, weeps copiously, sayk-4hc villi3n ters he had received from Major Ester­ tlers as our fair Michigan; settlers could it by band. Very soon however, the 000 deer hunters ’ licensee. has been collecting her books all over JIIs’CreaiBali hazy since the opening of the trial. cut marsh hay foijcattle and horses, there first sweep power and thresher appeared, Lyons voted to bond the village for town, pleads poverty and so on accepts Easyafid. pleasant to He then asked Colonel Jouaust to were plenty of acrons for the hogs, cran and was considered a wonderful inven­ $3,000 to buy the Wagar water power the proffered compensation. That por­ use. Contrtr/PJ n<> in* have the letters read. berrihs and wild honey, blackberries, tion; the straw, grain and chaff came for the purpose of improving their light­ urious drug. tion of the population unduly affected t is quickly absorbed. Questioned by Laborl. whortleberries and strawberries for fruit through together; three or four men ing plant—Ionia Sentinal. by woman’s teare will please bear in IGives Relief at once. General Roget then read the one Es­ for man, wild turkeys, patridge and quail managed to take care of the straw and Earl Ziegler, a prominent young man, mind that these are superficial order and It Opens and Cleanses terhazy letter which he gdmitted hav­ for fowl; venison, bear and muskrat for rain. Our modern steam threshers will of Ionia, was killed one day last week by the Nasal Passages. 5 cost something—if payment is made. Allays' Inflammation C0LD«rtf&U> ing openejj^ In this letter Major Es- Indians and some white people; our o as much work in an hour as we could an excursion train on the D., G., R., & L-it'er weep —Grand Ledge Republican. Heals and Protects the Membrane. Restores terhajy'aaid aot prove the ex­ streams and lakes were full of fish; the do with the other in a whole day. M., while driving over a crossing about 1 ______/ the Senses of Taste and Smell. Large Sise, SO wolf, which was quite a terror to the Owoseo was our nearest market place, mile west of Lyons. cenU at Druggists or by mail; Trial Size, 10 igence of the alleged^ yfiTlf<*6v£-3T8an* but most produce was taken to Detroit • tOO. Dr. E. Datchon’s Ant! Diuretic cents by mail. ized in the interest of Dreyfus settlers, the fox, coon, lynx, wild cat and Roy I. Taylor of Mt. Pleasant has se­ ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street, New York. vtpink for fur; all of these were more or or Pontiac. The first wheat hauled to cured a commission in the new vo’unteer May be worth to yon more thsn $100 if yon complained that the general staff had Owoeso, brought 35 cents, which was have a child who soils bedding from inconten- refused to give him a fair hearing. M. leo£ the] early settlers, which regiment, being one of 200 or 300 appli­ afforded considered a big price. The trip to De­ cants. Mr. Tailor was 1st lieutenant in snce of water during sleep. Cures old and I Laborl then put a series of questions lo& °* means for poor people. young alike. It arrests t he trouble at once. $1. intended to bring out the fact that the Well dear friends JSgRnd I have lived troit required a who’e week. *A man company H. 35th Michigan volunteers. — Sold by A. O. HUNT, Druggist. SALESMEN to see this country in fti^ budding state, and team were well fed and sheltered Clare Sentinel. . St. Johns. Mich. general staff had made use of Major for the night for 50 cents. The women MW It I 8 I LU To solicit orders for Esterhazy even after he was known to witnessed it in bloom aiiaT?|®° r,Pen; 80 ■ ■ CHOICE and HARDY line of Nursery Stock. be unreliable. General Roget said he it is with you and I. Our whT&®?“ l00* 18 made the cloth and all the clothing for STEADY WORK and BIS RAY. Stock RE­ go to show we have 'witnessed mi?* the entire family. PLACED FREE. If you cannot work steady take a had not considered Major Esterhazy’s I cannot more suitably close this local agency. Secure territory by writing at avowals to be of any value. scorching suns and frosty winters. We> once to M. Demange asked Roget his opin­ have also seen the curling smoke ascend pajb y addiD8 -a*i THE HAWKS NURSERY COMPANY, ion of Major Esterhazy. “I have an from the wigwams heavenward until it poetry: Rochester, N. Y. 21-16 absolute conviction,” replied General seemed to almost kiss the clouds and “Tho land of tin. free. heard from the vigwams the whoop of Where the highest hope* real, Buy Shoes °f Clark Putt Roget, amid cries of “Oh!* ” from the I* the land of the vast audience, “that Major Esterhazy is a the red man of the forest. Now where The beautiful Wcbf. stranger to treason.* ’ these wigwams were fields are waving Where the savage once roamed, Proud cities now stand, General Roget then delivered a short with grain or your dwellings stand or And the Pioneers’ toil discourse in reply to the statement towns and cities have sprung up, but Has brightened the land.” of M. de Fond Lamotte on Saturday where are the Indians today? Our forests that the phrase in the bordereau, “I are gone and the Indian also. The To accommodate those who are partial am going to the maneuvers, ” showed steel of the white man has swept him to the use of atomizers in applying that Dreyfus could not be the author of away. I well remember of the Chippe liquids into the nasal passages for catar­ the bordereau. General Roget main­ was in my boyhood days. The old chief rhal troubles, the proprietors prepare used to be at father’s often; most always Ely’s Liquid Cream Balm. Price includ ­ Spaulding & Co tained that M. Lamotte was wrong. ing the spraying tube is 75 cents. Nrvar Aakeil to Go to Mananvar*. would come a little before dinner, would Druggists or by mail. The liquid em­ Captain Dreyfus arose and in a clear sit at table and eat his dinner with us as bodies the medicinal properties of the voice emphatically -insisted that the polite as a king. Said he was in his 104 th solid preparation. Cream Balm is Call’ your attention to the follow circular of May 17, 1894, announcing I -'ear; he was too old to learn our quickly absorbed by the membrane and that the probationers would not go to • lRn^uag ,« which^he very much regretted; does not dry up the secretions but ing seasonable goods— the maneuvers was written In the said if he could, could tell usof a great changes them to a natural and healthy clearest language, which the court many thiDgs that had happened in years character. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., would see If it were read. He reit­ gone by that would interest us. He was a erated that he had never asked to go tall well made Indian, a good man every N-Y------to the maneuvers, for he was absolute ­ inch of him, hoDest and. upright, full of Grain-O Brings Relief ly convinced that such a request would good wishes for his people. to the coffee drinker. Coffee drinking not be granted. Well I must tell you something of one iB a habit that is universally indulged in Refrigerators, - Ice Cream Freezers M. Defies, a reporter for the Temps, of their dances. Father was then liv­ and almost as universally injurious. testified that he saw Major Esterhazy ing time miles north-east of this place. Have you tried Grain O? It is almost in London, and that the latter con­ There was thirteen families of those like coffee but the effects are just the Lawn Mowers, Lawn Hose, Lawn Sprinklers. fessed that he was the author of the Chiopewas that called that their hunting opposite. Coffee upsets the stomach, bordereau. The witness added that he ground. At that time they were encamp­ ruins the digestion, effects the heart and raised the question of the letters of ed near where the Brick school house disturbs tbe whole nervous system. Madame Boulanc, and brought away stands in the Parker District, the time Grain-O tones up the stomach, aids di­ the impression that Esterhazy wrote was set for the dance, two Indians with gestion and strengthens the nerves. the “Uhlan” letter. keggs strapped on ponfee, had been to i There is nothing but nourishment in Ex-Mliiintar-of JiKtlrr TaMIfla*. Dewitt to get the tire water as they call- I Grain-O. It can’t be otherwise. 15 and M. Trarieux, formerly minister of 25c per package. 4 justice, was tljg jiejet witness called. He made a long deposition in favor of Dreyfus, reviewing the history of the Gasoline Stoves case and his own part in connection therewith. His deposition closed the public session. He made a very tell­ ing speech, describing how his original belief in the guilt of DreyfuB was first Blue Flame, Wick Oil Stoves shaken and then completely changed HOME CURE M to conviction of innocence by subse ­ quent developments and the noble con­ Blue Flame,Wickless duct of M. Scheurer-Kestner, formerly vice-president of the senate. The let­ ters exchanged between General Gonse and Lieutenant C6 lonel Picquart also strengthened his conviction. M. Trar­ FOR BLOOD POISON. ieux spoke of the machinations against There is not the slightest doubt that the Picquart and said he accused nobody. Beware of the Doctors’ doctors do more harm than good in treating He believed, however, that the chiefs Contagious Blood Poison; many victims or were deceived. M. Trarieux recounted this loathsome disease would be much better a conversation with a foreign ambas ­ Patchwork; You Gan off to-day if they had never allowed them­ sador, who declared, in a tone of the selves to be dosed on mercury and potash, ths greatest sincerity, that Dreyfus never only remedies which the doctors ever give for had relations with him nor with any Cure Yourself at Home. blood poison. Builder’s Hardware officer of his country, while the ambas ­ The doctors are wholly unable to get rid of sador added, he possessed documents this vile poison, and only attempt to heal up the outward appearance of the proving the guilt of Major Esterhazy. disease—the sores and eruptions. This they do by driving the poison into the is complete and we invite your attention He believed the general staff system, and endeavor to keep it shut in with their constant doses of potash wrong in the conclusion they had and mercury. The mouth and throat and other delicate parts then break out drawn from the correspondence of into sores, and the fight is continued indefinitely, the drugs doing the system agents "A” and “B” that Dreyfus was more damage than the disease itself. guilty. He reiterated that the ambas ­ Mr. H. L. Myers, 100 Mulberry St.-, Newark, IT. J., says: “I had spent 8 sador to whom he had previously re­ hundred dollars with the doctors, when I realized that ferred had affirmed that Major Ester- they could do me no good. I hod large spots all over my hazy was the traitor and the former bedy, and these soon broke out into running sores, and I minister of justice declared in an em­ endured all the suffering which this vile disease pro­ phatic tolle which made a deep impres­ duces. I decided to try S. 8. S. as a last resort, and was sion upon his hearers that no parallel soon greatly improved. I followed closely your ’Direc­ Also Carry a Full Line of Paints and Oils ought to be drawn between a model tions for Self-Treatment,’ and the large splotches on my Officer like Dreyfus and Major Ester­ chest began to grow paler and smaller, and before long hazy, who had not even the soul of a .disappeared entirely. I was soon*cured perfectly and my White Lead and Painter’s Supplies, Frenchman. skin has been as clear as glass ever since. 1 cured my­ Reject Labor! ’* Application. self at home, after the doctors had failed completely.” At the conclusion of M. Trarieux ’s It is valuable time thrown, away to expect the doctov testimony, which was a veritable to cure Contagious Blood PoiSbn, for the disease is be ­ speech for the defense, and which ap­ yond their skill. Swifts Specific— parently made an Impression upon the judges, the court-martlnl went behind S. S. S. FOR THE BLOOD closed doors and examined the secret —acts in an entirely different way from potash and mercury —it forces ths espionagi dossier. The court also de­ poison out of the system and gets rid of it entirely. Henoe it cures ths SPAULDING & CO liberated upon M. Labort ’s request that disease, while other remedies only shot the poison in where it lurks forever, application be made to Germany for constantly undermining the oonstitution. Our system of private home treat­ the documents described In the bor ­ ment places a cure within the reach of all. We give all necessary medical ad­ dereau. The decision was unanimous ­ vice, free of charge, snd save the patient the embarrassment of publieltf* ly reached to reject the application on Write for full information to Swift specific Co., Atlanta, G*. LIST SU1YIT0R OF WAR OF 1812 Street Commissioner Keeney submitted the following report of defective sidewalks: 4 “ Dimness of sight, j PISSED AV1T. ■ Judsou H. Dutton, w. ends lots? and 10, block 32, new stringers; Eliza Hoyt s. side lot6 palpitation, shortness BAKING except the east 50 Teet In width block 30, re­ Rdba Iri^n / pairs. Crunk Wm 90 Year* of Age and COMMON COUNCIL ROOMS, I By Trustee Hpauldlng: of breath, black spots Wu the Oldest Pensioner. St. Johns . Midi., August 20, 1*U9. f Resolved, That the report of the Street Commissioner bo received and ordered placed Powder New York, September 1.—A special to Regular adjourned meeting. upon the records, and that the Htreet Com­ or else shining lights ^ ^HOuntnrktE Called to order by Prtyddvut Travis. missioner Is hereby Instriicu-d to serve no­ before my eyes, terrible headache, numb ­ the Herald from Washington says that Present—Trustees King, Hunt, Richardson tice on J. H. Dutton and Eliza Hoyt to repair Ihelr respective walks within dfteen days of ness in my arms and hands and tongue, Makes the food more delicious and wholesome although Hiram Crook of Ava, New and Spaulding. sendee oi notice. also my igws would get numb: constipation, York, aged 99, ia still carried on the By Trustee Spaulding: Carried. prolapsus, debilitating drains, soreness •OVA*. MKfM N*WU CO., MW VOMC Whereas, The contract a warded to William Yoas^Trustees Hunt, King, KIcliardRon through my bowels; in fact I was diseased pension rolls, press dispatches recently and £pVuldlug. Crlcli for the construction of the Oakland Nays—None. from head to v./. foot,”'w rites announced his death. He was not only and State street sewer extensions has been On motion Council adjourned. Mrs. Mollie E. • Carpenter, of the last surviving soldier of the war of oomplled with, and the said sewers complet­ M. SIoDONALD.Cler. Linaria, Cum- , berland Co., ed to the satisfaction of the Sewer Commis­ 7 Tenn. “When I first wrote to 991,519 PENSIONERS. 1812, but also the oldest pensioner. He Be Prepared to Answer. Dr. Pierce con- The Republican. sioner. health, I was so served 40 days in the fall of 1814 in the Resolved, That said sewer extensions arc The census taker will soon be around weak I could only t Commissioner Evans luum a Statement— New York militia. hereby accepted by this Council. and it is well for the citizens of this write a few words Thursday, September 7,1899. Carried. when I would have (138,Sff5,OSi) Paid Out. Of the four revolutionary widows still glorious republic to poet up on the fol­ drawing pensions, the youngest is Mrs. Yeas—Trustees Hunt, King, Richardson to rest. I could A representative of Russia has been Washington , D. C., Aug. 31.—An and Spaulding. lowing and be able to answer promptly hardly walk. MaryShead.of Parksley, Virginia. As Nays—None. Words cannot ex­ in this country the past few weeks, and interesting feature in the report of Com­ and truthfully all that is asked of them. press my- suffer ­ has inspected and shipped to eastern missioner of Pensions Evans is a state­ she is now 83 years old, she was born in By Trustee Spaulding: In taking the census of 1900 the enumer ­ ings Now I can 1816, or 33 years after the treaty of peace Resolved, That the Clerk vls hereby In­ ator, besides questions as to age and do my own wash­ Asia 40 locomotives made by the Baldwin ment showing the number of pensioners structed to draw au order In favor of Wil­ ing and cooking. Works at Philadelphia. He will ship 30 in each state and territory on the rolls with Great Britain. Assuming that her liam Crleh for the balance due on sewer color, will ask you whether you are male I can take a ten more. A short time ago American June 30, 1899, and the amount paid for husband was 20 years old at the date of contract. or female; married, single, widowed or quart pail in one hand and a six bridge builders furnished the English pensions during the fiscal year 1899, the treaty, he was 53 years old when his Carried. divorced; whether married during the Yeas—Trustees Hunt, King, Richardson quart pail in the an immense bridge to span the Nile. The whole number of pensions on the wife was born, and if she was 17 at the census year; whether mother, and if so Other (full of water) date of their marriage, he was 70. and Hpauldlng. and carry both one The fact is now recognized that America rolls is 91)1,519, of whom 4,306 are now Nays—None. ho# many children; how many are living; fourth of a mile has taken the lead - in the manufacture residing in foreign* countrifs, and the By Trustee Hunt: place of birth and birthplace of parents; and never stop to of iron and steel, as well as in electrical total amount paid on account of pensions Table Talk, Resolved, That the time for collecting the number of years in the United States; rest. I am as heavy Who but can remember the time when special sewer assessment tax be and the whether naturalized and if papers have as I was at 19 years appliances and scientific instruments. is given at 1138,355,062 95. In the list of their appetite has been stimulated by same Is hereby extended sixty days from and (125 lbs). I also As our navy showed superiority because pensioners by states: Including August 27, 1WI). been taken out; your profession, tradeor had dimness of the odor of aromatic herbs! And again sight and impaired memory. I had spells of the character of the man behind the Ohio leads, with 105,527, drawing this pleasant sensation is theirs while Carried. occupation: the number of months that when 1 would try to speak I couldn ’t gun, so our manufacturers lead because 115,456,006.90. reading “A Talk About Herbs, ” in the Yeas—Trustees Hunt, King, Richardson you have been employed during the think of the words I wanted to say, but September issue of Table Talk, and all and Hpauldlng. census year; whether you can speak would say something else. I bave im­ 1 the American workman is tha most Pennsylvania stands next, with 104,681, mander of good things crowd the memory Nays—None. proved, oh, so much, and Dr. Pierce’s med­ intelligent, the best paid and the best drawing 112,470,795.11. and imagination, and they will immedi­ By Trustee Hunt: English; and if not what language; the icines have done the good work. It has New York stands third, with 87,527, ately decide that thyme, sage, sweet Resolved, That the Clerk durw au order on number of families and of persons in been about a year since I commenced to Jed of any in the world, use the medicines. My health has been drawing *12,003,854.75. marjoram, and the host of others shall the general fund In favor of the sewer fund your house and the number of persons improving slowly but surely. We cannot be in more common use in the kitchens for the sum of three hundred dollars. in your family. This is the population expect a disease that has been coming on Illinois stands fourth in the number of today. Other timely and helpful Carried. for years to be cured in a few days. If any Among the many suggestive cartoons of pensioners, 70,476, but Indiana takes articles in this issue are: “The Evolu­ Yeas—Trustees Hunt, King, Richardson schedule as far as ia decided upon at ladv, suffering as I have, will write to Dr. published by the daily newspapers on the fourth place as to amount received, tion. of a Single Sauce; ” “The School and Hpauldlng, present, and when he gets through with R. V. Pierce, at Buffalo, N. Y., and get his advice and use his medicines according to labor day, none were more suggestive the 67,095 pensioners in that state receiv­ Lunch Basket; ” “Friends in Need,” or Nays—None. you he will have sufficient information easy |and satisfactory cake baking; By Trustee Spaulding: directions, a cure will surely result.” than that of the Detroit Evening News. ing *10,443,951.26, against *9,856,499.14 to write your biography. Most dealers in medicine sell Dr. Pierce’a The larger part of the picture showed a “Household Methoos;” “The Early Resolved, That the reviewing of tfie Hlgham Favorite Prescription. There is no other for Illinois. Training of Children;" Ac. A sample street sewer extension special assessment medicine that is “the same” or “just ss workingman contemplating the horn of Iowa has 37,955 on the roll, receiving copy of the magazine free to any of our roll Is hereby postponed to Beptember 1,1890, Portland Observer: ‘ Robert Toan, good.” Don’t accept a substitute. plenty tilled to overflowing with the sun *5,156,942.62. readers who send name and address to at 7:30 p. m., at which time the board of spe­ son of Hon. William Toan, and Miss of prosperity shining upon him, while Table Talk Publishing Co., Pniladelphia. cial assessors will meet with the Council at Edna Hathaway will be married at the 4 Kansas has 41,791 pensioners who in one corner was re-produced the car­ the Council rooms to review and correct said Robert Macfarlati, who is working for received *6,203,897.29. roll. home of Mr. Toan in Olive township, the Associated Press, at Chicago, has re­ toon published in the same paper od TORIA. Carried. Clinton county, Thursday noon, Septem­ Kentucky hae 28,927, who received The Kind You Have Always Bought cently been ill for threo weeks. He is labor day, 1893, showing a parade, with *4,119,108.31. Bean the Yeas—Trustees Hunt, King, Richardson ber 14th, and at which place they will and Hpauldlng. expected home for a vacation the first of the sky dark with the clouds of misery Michigan has 45,170, receiving *6,835- Signature reside.” and want. It is good of the News to of Nays—None. October. 328.09. 'v ------publish Buch a cartoon, in as much as it Minnesota has 16,554, receiving *2,372- did all it could in 1896 to continue the 243.40. fclouds of want and misery by fixing a Missouri has 53,876 receiving 87,160,- debased currency and free trade upon 091.03. Two Facts About the country. Happily for the whole Nebraska has 17,6ll, receiving *2,757- people, the news policy and tho news 304.92. candidate Bryan were defeated, pros­ Wisconsin hae 28,005, receiving *4,009- perity returned, and will remain in a 543.41. Arbuckles ’ Coffee ( great degree, some years, of course North Dakota haa 1,762, receiving being more prosperous than others, *219,935.94. It has set the standard of quality for all competitors for the last thirty years. The strong ­ until the people again become careless Sjuth Dakota has 4,814, receiving of the blessings they eDjoy and vote for *610,706.38. est claim any competitor can maks is that his cofTce is “just as good as Arbuckles’.” hard times, as they did in *892. There is not a state or territory*^!^ out the pension list, evep^^ga having eighty-five, who * 10,744 02, while THREE CONCLUSIONS At bo time lo the history of France the Indian terpifory has 2,812, who drew has the civilited world been so thor­ $385,90§j£|^and Oklahoma 6,801, drawing The best Coffee is Arbuckles’. The only Coffee to buy is Arbuckles’. oughly disgueted with that mercurial *»>#;ol3.57. The ri£;ht thing is to insist on having Arbuckles’. people as at present. The Dreyfus case Among the states Nevada haB the Vv jM&4ho*n of rott^WeiTin | list* of pensioners,puuoiuuoiO) aw266, , withnn»u No. 72 I No. 74. Noijcleso Spring No. 76 No. 78 iT&S!?, the army and goveirnfrr8nt luat would do Wyoming next, 279. Kentucky leads the A School Bag. Tape Measure. Lady’s Bolt Buckle. An Album of illustrated Sixty Inches lin-;. Natural History. credit to a third rate oriental power, aouthem state with 28,027 pensioners; 11 Inches wide, 10 Inches deep, nickel-plated Silver plated artistic design. Sent tnt-tal cas>,-. well- postpaid on receipt of ‘J cent Fifty colored pictures of Animals made of handsome colored Capt. Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, was Tennessee, 18,327; Texas, 7,955; Virginia tin Isbcd. 1: can postage stamp a:id S signa­ selected for their beauty and rarity. netting. Sent post-paid ox i be carried !n tiio tures cut from wrappers of Sent post-pnid on receipt of 3 tried a few years ago on a charge if 8,820; West Virginia, 13,067; South Caro 1 vest pocket. Sent receipt of 3 cent postnee Arbuckles' Roasted Ccfiae. cent postage stamp anil 10 sig­ Belling army secrets to a foreign power, lin8j 1,627; North Carolina, 3,971; Mis Pon t.pn ix with lock in tbe cover no . ex pres*-, charge* Dreyfus condemned, became a prey to a The pensioners are not only distributed and key, con­ house ­ larger than prepaid by us, #■ taining lead pen­ hold and on ordi­ guilty conscience, confessed that Dreyfus throughout lbe Btate and territorie8 of on tbe nary natch receipt of 9 ceat cil, pen bolder, when tele­ i postage itiai was convicted on forged evidence, and , TT ...... rule and rubber. farm. and 200 ilgsa- Brass case, scoped , , . .. • . j. the Union, but they are found in sixty- Heat post­ Made of German Silver without i tures cut from committed suicide. This disgraced two nickel- plat­ when ox - w rappers of Ar- | seven foreign countries. They are in paid on re-i ed linen tape tended seam or Joint except where tops eelpt of two screw on and off. Seat poat-paiil I buckles ’ Roasted or three others who fled to England. A fifty feet long. holds as much as a coffee cup. Sent Coffee. When or­ Algers, Argentine, Australia, Austria ceat postage Sent post­ posi-pnld on receipt sf 2 rent on receipt *f 3 rent postage ■tamp and 15 stump and 12 signatures cut dering name your few honest men made such a clamor for paid on receipt of 2 cent postage postage stump mid l.'t signa­ ■nearest Express Hungary, the Azores, Bahamas, Belgium, signatures out stamp nod IS signatures cut from tures cut fr m wrappers of Ar- Irom wrappers of Arbuckles ’ a new trial, that it waB finally reluctantly from wrappers of Arbuckles' Roasted Coffee. Roosted Coffee. Office as well aa Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, British Guiana, wrappers of Arbuckles'Rousted Coffee. buckles ’ Rowed C--ffi-e. I your Poet Office. granted by the court, against the bitter j Bulgaria, Canada, Chili, China, Comaro opposition of the army. The trial has No. 81 No. 82 Any one Book of the following will be sent post-paid on receipt No. 91 islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cypress, Barber been in progress several weeks, and has Danish and Dutch West Indies, Denmark Men’s of a 2 cent postage stamp and 10 signatures cut from The Flr»t Prayer. only demonstrated that ex ministers of 8wlng Ecuador, England, Egypt, France, Ger 8uspenders. Strop. the wrappers of Arbuckles' Roasted Coffee. A beautiful war and generals high in the army were many, Greece, Guatemala, Hawaii, Hon­ A double etrop. No. C4 A ONE NIQHT MY8TERY, and two other great Detective Imported the corrupt and guilty parties, and that duras, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, one of leather and t tones, by "Ot.uNi.gl.TH." Picture 18x30 poor Dreyfus was sacrificed to shield one of canva.i, No. C5 ADVENTURES OF A BASHFUL BACHELOR, by Clara In ches in Japan, Korea, Liberia, Maderia, Malta, bound together. Acousta . A mirth provoking story. else. Sent them. As the court is a military one, it Length. 22Inches, No. C0 TEMPEST AND 8UNSHINE. A Novel by Mrs. Mary J. Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, New width, two Inches, Holmes . The most popular f. male w r.ivr of fiction of the age. poet-paid may re convict Dreyfus, but such a ver on receipt Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, trimmings nickel No. 87 THE 8UNHYSICE COOK BOCK, hv Mrs. Jennie diet will receive the condemnation of plated. Sent Harlan . This b 0:1 j of the most comprehensive, common of ‘J e e n t Peru, Philippine islands, Porto Rico, post-paid on sense Cook Books ewr publish iL po at age every civilized power on the globe. receipt of two No. C8 OLD 8ECRET3 A.’O NZW DISCOVERIES. This l*.ok a'nmp nnd Portugal, Russia, San Salvador, Scotland, cent postage Ilandsome cloth, vafle- takes the reader out ef the h— ;*« trucks tf knowledge, u.id will When the trial got pretty hot for the teU figured pnitem with I be found both enterl.ili.lug a. i useful 10 algna- Seycbilles islands, Siam, South African stamp and 13 nge, 32 Inches. Sent persecutors of Dreyfus, an attempt was signatures cut R No. C9 THREE THOUSAND 7HINCS WOIT-I KNOWING, by tarre cat ) Republic, Spain, St. Helena, SwedeD, post-paid on receipt K. Moore , author of -Moore’s t'river*iil Assistant ” This hook from wrap- from wrappers ol of two rent pontnco Is an encyclopedia of highly useful Inf relation Inrondeiined fora*. made to assassinate his chief lawyer, Arbuckles Roost* nnd M.f.’.n-I Switzerland, Tahite, Turkey, United ilnmp 25 per* of Arbuckles' Roosted Coffee. ed Coffee. ! tnrrs cut from v-appers <>f No. 00 THE CITY OF DREADFUL N GHT, and other stories- ^tkD was shot down on the street; but he Arbuckles 1 Roasted Coffee. by Ruuyahd KipltSo . had sufficiently recovered to resume bia States of Columbia, Uruguay, Wales and West Indies. work. All sorts of disasters are pre­ No. 93 No. 94. A Basket of Beauties. No. 93 No. 96. Noah’s Ark. dicted however the trial ends. It is said If there is at.y place on the globe where the Union veteran is not found Two Is Company. A magnificent picture of. Roses by Puul d« Three Beautiful A menagerie, consisting of 12 pairs of if justice is done and Dreyfus aquitted, Longpre. the great painter of flower*. Wo Flower The original believe this to be one of the humlftecK-si Animals--Elephants, Camels, Ifeer, Hors—. the army will overturn the republic; and and where some of Uncle Sam’s pension was pm n ted Pictures. money does not go, the pension com by l’orcy Cattle, Donkeys, Goats, I.lons, Rears,Tigers, on the other hand it is said if he is Motb .-i.'I his Each measuring missioner has not heard of the country. rep rod uc- j Inches. The titles are . Dogs and Cats. Mach pair is coupled and again convicted the decent sentiment of tlon In II printings is . •• Summer Fragrance," stands alone. They ar* lithographed in France will arise in wrath and overturn If tlie’Fruit Is Good the Tree Must be a gen uIn o “ A Vane of Lilies," nnd many colors on heavy cardboard, cut out work of art. "rrtsh and Swoet,” the government; this is doubtful, for 8 Ize im,x j nnd embossed. Every feature of the Animal* N Good. 25>4 Inche*. i These threo pictures all there does not seem to be enough of Sent post­ -© together, nnd will be Is distinctly shown. The elephsuts are 7 The Republican Party baa been in paid on such sentiment there. It is not likely sent poat-pnid on re­ Inches high and IU Inches long, and tbe other control of the National government for rrrelpt of that anything more than a riot and the two cent ceipt ol 2 rent post- Animal* ure proportion .tely large. Seat little more than two years and during soitaic ncc stump and 5 sig- destruction of property will result in stamp and flower pictures ever offered to the public. It post-paid on receipt of2 cent postage that time every promise made by it has 10 signn- Is 11 xJiinches In size. Sent pus'-pnid nnturrs cut from wrap­ either case, and as riots are a regular __ . ._! ———— tnrrs cut on receipt of 2 ernt postage stamp uud pers of Arbucktos ’ stamp and 15 aignafares cut from pers or a r- from wrappers of Arbuckles' Roasted b3en fulfilled. lO signatures cut from wrappers of At- Roosted Coffee. wrappers of Arbuckles' Roasted Coffee. semi- annual feature in Paris, it will not buckles' Roasted Coffee. Coffee. buckles ’ Roasted Coffee. < I be much out of the ordinary. If France During these years bnsinose has been active and remunerative, labor has been could take her leading arpy officers and No. 97. Elghty-ono Gold Eyed Needles. and still is employed at good an increas­ No. IOO shoot them all. it would be a blessed Put up In a No. 99 Safety ing wages, capital has ample field for pretty mor­ A Pocket Mirror good thing for the peace and digDity of occo care as­ No. 98 Pin Book investment and an era of unexampled sarted sizes, Hair Pin Cabinet and Comb. I Contains the so-called republic. and made by twen ty-four prosperity has been inaugurated. tbe Iwst Eng­ A metal lot llthoerapheo Set In neat leatber nickel - plated Contrasting the present administra­ lish manufac ­ In colon, containing One Safety-Pins, turers. Sent Hundred Hair Pins, as­ combination com , with tbree sixes Michigan State Fair. sorted sizes and styles; which enter tion and the times with that of Cleve­ p ost-pnld white metal frame. 0. f\ r f > n n o 0 tbe sh l e Ids The Fiftieth Annual Fair of the Michigan on receipt straight, crlmpled and In­ visible. The different from either itite agricultural society ia to beheld atOrand land’s, can any business man regret the ef 8 cent Sent post-paid so npprnnr.fi eld*, requiring Rapid*, September 25 -29th. styles are In separate com­ change? And all this without tbe free p os t a * e partments. Heat post­ receipt of 3 cent no guiding The annual fain of the society hare been stamp and paid on receipt ef 2 when being uniformly good exhibitions of the material ooinage of silver or any change in the 30 signa­ cent postace stamp postage stamp and secured or re­ interests of state and we understand that the and 10 signatures cut leased. Heat officers are putting forth efforts to make thia currency. It is due to the good judg ­ ture* cut 7 signal ore* cut from post-paid an from wrap­ from wrappers of Ar­ the banner fair. A fine premium list has been buckles' Roasted Coffee wrapper* of Arbuckles' receipt of 3 isaued and a number of special attractions are ment, wise counsel, administrative abil ­ pers of Ar- i „ 1eent postage promised which can be seen free every day of ity, diplomacy, and atatesmanship of our b u c k I e s' Roasted Coffee. stamp and 8 signatures cut from the fair. Roasted Cof­ wrapper* of Arbuckles ’ Roasted Coffee. patriotic President All true patrots fee. should ffrmly support and fully endorse Thla represents one pnge of a Llat which la round In eacb his administration and place on record Th»s It a picture ol Ihe Slf- pound package of Arbuckles ’ Boasted Coffee, and with each the wish of the republicans of Michigan nature on Arbucklot' Roasted package In which the Ltet Is found tho purchaser hoo bought CASTOR IA Cofle* Wrapper, which you or* * definite part of some article to be selected by him or her 1 For Infknti and Children. that he be nominated to lead our hosts to cut out and tend to uc os ■ from the Llat, subject only to the condition that the signature to victory in the campaign of 1900 and voucher. on tbe package Is to be cutout and returned to Arbuckle Bros, me a voucher, in accordance with tbe directions printed In Tin Kind You Han Always Bought to this end, we, the republicans of Mich­ ' No other port ol tho Coffee connection with each Hem Illustrated and deocrihedln the IJaL igan recommend the election of delegatee Wrapper will bo accepted aa a Thie Llat will be kept good only till May ffi. 1900. Another Bears the voucher, nor will this Picture bo page of this Met will appear In this paper shortly. who will give his candidacy earnest and aotpM aa tuck. •ONE OF ntJR Sieif ATDRE* ABB PBIBTBB If BBB BACKBBOTIWB. Signature of vigorous support in our next national <4* convention. Address all communications to ARBUCKLE BROS.f NOTION DEPT-, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y* \ tLBIt =T Louise Brebany Concert Company, y Oqtober 18. Mrs. “Win” Moore is in Ohio visiting. ••Osluiwst ” D om Mot Belong to W Mrs. R. Miller was in Owosso Satur ­ Baking Powder Trust* but Con ­ Something New! Mr. O. L. Esler is spending the week sumers are Rapidly Learning Dr.W.C. Walker ia Adrian. day. to Pisco Their Truet in “Born, to Barton Fox and wife Satur ­ “Calumet. ” Carl Weatpointer, of Bay City, was day, September 2d, a boy. The successful specialist, of De­ in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Curtis, of Per- troit, nich., will make the Richard Richie, of Detroit, spent Sun ­ rinton^are visiting at John Wooll’s. day with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snelliug were in CALUMETS following regular gt. Johns Wednesday of last week. L Spencer, of Pinconning, was a guest W. W. Wooll, I. A. Wooll and wife all monthly at W. H. Burley ’s first of the week. of New Lothrop, were in Elsie Sunday. Martin Barnard, of Pinconning, is the Miss Nina Clark, of St. Johns, visited NONE SO COOD. visit gueet of Clayton Burley this week. friends here the latter part of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bross, of Sheridan, Mias Persia Martin, of Ovid, was the are spending tho week at Claud Tabor ’s. gueet of Miss Belle Bfildwin Tuesday. Frank Theirs, of Mt. Pleasant, was in Miss Hazel Keoplipger, who has been Elsie on business Wednesday of last in Saginaw a month came home week. ADDITIONAL COUNTY ‘ Large package of tho 'World'* best Tuesday. Mrs. Loren Austin and son, Leslie fkaoier for a nickel. Still greater econ ­ were in Durand on business the latter PEWAMO. omy In 4 pound package. Made only by Dr. Thos. Mann returned from a busi ­ part of the week. \ THE N. K. FAIRBATfK COMPANY, ness *trip to Ann Arbor Wednesday Mrs. Chas. Dodge has returned from Pewamo va, Woodland at Portland CMcae*. St. Leete, New Yertuaeaton. Ptalladripbla evening. Mt. Clemens, where she has been taking next Tuesday. Miss Francis Ripley, of Chicago, ar­ the baths for some time. MiBS Stella Keister was in St. Johns rived this morning and is the guest of Mrs. H. M. Goodell died of cancer Monday. BREVITIES. / Thursday, August -31. The funeral was The Republican. Mias Oelle Baldwin. held at the M. E. church Saturday. Miss Nellie Waterman is on the sick Insure with D. L. Hunt . Miss Florence Rose, who has spent Elsie has another drug store, Leroy list. C. C. VAUGHAN, Publishes Mrs. Louis Magley rpent Saturday in the summer with her parents, returned Lawrason having put in a stock of goods Mrs. Jess Catlin has been on the sick Ovid. to Grand Rapids Monday. in the building lately occupied by Frank list. TERMS;—$1.00 Per Year. Peck as a furniture store. Mrs. A. J. Baldwin returned Friday Mrs. Sousiana Grady, of Cleveland, is Chas. Dixon and wife, of Ionia, were JOB PRINTING. L. A. Chase and Ross Payne have re­ in town over Sunday. night. spending the week with her mother, Mrs. turned to the school for the blind at Our material is new and of the latest styles Miss Lizzie Alton Bpeut Monday in Pickering, near St Johns. Lansing. The former will enter the C. N Gleason has closed up his meat and we guarantee satisfaction, both in market; and gone out of the business. prices and quality of work. Grand Rapids. Mrs. H. J. Shaw, of Ithaca, spent Sun ­ Lansing High school and take the next >Oer Advertising rates are $M0 per column per two years course there in connection School commences Monday with the ST. JOHNS, anuum. Business notices five cents per line Miss Sueie -Durkee is spending the day at the home of J. W. Bradner. Mrs. with his work at the Blind school. same corps of teachers as of last year. tor each insertion. Editoral notices, ten cents, week in Detroit. B. Shaw returned with her. business cards, $1.00 per line per year. Mrs. Emily Bates, wife of George Born, on Monday, August 28, to Mr. HOTEL ST. JOHNS, Marriage, birth and death notices inserted Tree. Miss Sophia Feir, of Pontiac, is here Miss Zadie Rose, who has been with Bates, and mother, of Superior, L. G Obituary comment reeilntioni, cards of thanks, Bates, died at her home Wednesday, and Mrs. Geo. Morris, a 9 pound girl. etc., will be charged for at the rate of five for three weeks. her aunt, Mrs. Fred Bolds, several weeks, oents per line. " . .. August 30, and was buried the following Mrs. M. A. Britton and Miss Sadie Correspondence containfng focal news is soil©- Miss Aleine McCallum is spending the returned to her home in Corunna Mon­ Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Bates had been Comfort were in Ionia Monday Morning. Saturday, Sept. 30 Ited from all psrts of the county. ▲anonymous communications not inserted unaer week in Jackson, day. married fifty-three years, thirty of which Miss Della Keister will teach the any circumstances. . they had spent in this village. Nickel Plate school in Ronald this year. Office Hours, 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p.m. Announcements of Wife and society meetin^e, Mrs. M. L. Kenyon and daughter spent 'Rev. E. J. Dradner was here from entertainments etc., wiTl 'be charged for at Richland the first of the week. Mrs* V Mies Bessie Helms will teach in the Monday in Owosso. brick school north of town this coming ‘five cents ner line. Bradner will remain until after Con­ BATH- Willard Cornell, of Harbor Springs, year. 5PECIALTIES: was in town Saturday. ference. Born, THm-tiday, August 31, a daug'iler, to Mr, Rev. Odgen, of Lyons, preaches his vgTATE BANK OF ST. JOHNS. H. E. Walbridge is in Flint today. and Mrs. Peter Mnckly. farewell sermon ^n the M. E. church Mrs. Ned Keys, of Lansing, is visitiDg Miss Frances Ryan, of Lnnsing, has been COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS. Mrs T. G. Allen, of Ovid, was in town spendings few days with friends in B.ith. next Sunday. Nerveous Diseases friends in Maple Rapids George McGonigal is now book keepe. for the CAPITAL $50,080*0. yesterday. B. M. Keister, of Sparta, spent Sunday ^ AND A deer parkas one of the attractions at Michigan Produce of Lansing. and Labor Day with bis parents in thiB Mrs. Wm. Hulbert is visiting in Ches' Miss Florence Everett, who has been :i> Lan­ village, Mr. and Mrs. D. Keister. Net Assets of Stocklieldees, 4900,000.00. Shepard, Isabell county. aning. sing for a few weeks, returned home ‘S»: erday Dise&ses of the Stomach Lester Wilcox is visiting in Toronto, Horace Hall and vife took a trip to D. troit Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dean were called to P. K. PERRIN, Preaideut. Fall football practice by high school on the Snnduy excursion. Perrinton last Friday on account of the ALSO boys commenced Monday. Canada. The W. C. T. V met Tnesday afternoon of serious illness of Mr. Dean’s sister, Mrs. O. W. MUNGER, Vice-President. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Dooling spent Sun ­ this week at the home of Mrs. 1. T. Weldon. Stone. Catarrh, Blood, and Skin J. W. FITZGERALD, Cashier. Mrs J. O. Riley is visiting her sister at day at Crystal. Mrs. J.T. Barry and Miss Minnie Storey, wl Climax, Kalamazoo county. linve been visiting Mrs. Allard, returned Pewamo went up to Carson City last Diseases. DIRECTORS: _ Mrs. R. G. Steel, of Lansing, has been Reed City Monday. > i Thursday and met the Sheridan team, O. W. Muuger. Geo. F. Marvin, J. H. Corbit, G. H Speoltuan is spending a couple here tho past week. Sam McGoniu'.il, of Tecumeeh, is in town on •• slts. relatives in Saginaw two weeks. Miss Nettie Rose returned to Lansing Mon­ the v "dding of Mrs. Lockwood's mother, and his success is well known. with L. A. Mulder. day to re-ume attendance at the high school. Mrs • im’es Robertson to John Roynon, No cases will be taken for treatment A cement walk has been laid in front Upholsterer Harley has moved into Schoo1 began here Tuesday with a good of Hubbardston. rriHE CLINTON COUNTY SAVINGS BANK of the Hyatt and Leland bricks. attends:' -* and a larger number of fibeigu unless there is a possibility of a cure the Wilcox building. scholars .ban usual. and he will so inform you. Consultation ST. JOHNS. MICH. Miss Nellie Dennis, of Ovid, spent Watt Cline and George Tyler left town to Miss Dora Moinet is visiting Miss begin their fall terms of school, the former a free. Sunday with Miss Leliah Haller. Marne Ackley in Carson City. Eureka, the latter at Oral. NOR m-WEST LEBANON All wishing to consult the Doctor are Pays 3 per cent. Iwtereet on Deposits and Loans Miss Lizzie Palmer and Samue| W. T. Parker and wife, of Sturgia, Wm. Price, who has been visiting at the homeA Honey on Approved Bonds and Real of his uncle. Thomas Price, returned to his Rev. A. V. Moore is visiting his parents* requested to bring two to four ounces Shaffer spent-Sunday in Frankfort. Indiana, ar9 at the home of S. Kinney. home in Union City, last week. of urine, first passed in the morning pre­ Estate Security. Wm. French is spending a few days Miss Anna Ryan is teaching in the Cushman L. S. Scott and wife are .visiting in Edward Thome and Levi Friebie, of with friends at Green Bay, Wisconsin. district, Grace McGonignl in the Love district, Battle Creek. ferred, for analy sis. Remember date of ALBERT J. BALDWIN. President. Owosso, spent Sunday in St. Johns. The Misses Leliah Haller and Emma and Ella Smith at Ounnisouville. Miss Etta Stoddard is visiting relatives visit. G. PENNELL. ViceJfresident. G. H. Ball’s family arrived here last week in Belding. P. E. WALSWORTH. Treasurer Geo Smedley, of PorCiac, is spending Woodkey went to Columbiaville yester­ ami will remain until the close of the apple Those unable to see him may address the week with -friends in St. Johns. day. season. Zopher McQueen is also here again 51'rcie John Schoomaker is very^ sijk Mrs. Parker, who has been a guest at this year. at this writing. W. C. WALKER, M. D., ST. JOHNS MARKETS. The Laingsburg milliners will be in Bath A system of free rural mail delivery is E.L. Valentine's, returned to her home every Friday and Saturday again this fall, Mrs. Born to Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Locke> Lock Box 78. Detroit, Mich. soon to be installed in Ionia county. in Detroit today. Lebar at W. A. Teel’s and Mrs. Fisher at J. C. August 29, a son. Davis A Son’s. Grain quotations are furnished by the St. Miss Nettie Smitherman, of Ovid, Franois Mead, of St. Louis, has been Miss Mary O’Brien began school in the idbns wheat tiou see-every Thurcday, and are for spending two weekB with his sister, Improvement* and repairs are in progress at be prices paid that day only. Spent Sunday with Miss Nina Darling. the M. E. parsonage. New shingles are being Daniel's district this week. The elevators wiTl-open promptly at 7 a. m. Miss Mable Mead. laid and the appearanceof the building is also Samuel Evans is making his home at ind close at 0 p. m. Iocrease of pension to M. B. Face, of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Waldron and much improved by a few coats of paint, which L. S. Scott’s for the present. Vheat, old...... * „ has been badly needed. Bicycle Vheat, now------S" Maple Rapids, from-610 to $14 per month. Mrs. Aldrich went on the excursion to While out buying beans Tuesday, W. S. Miss Ada Houghtaling began school Jets...... Philadelphia Sunday. Rhodes and Sam Cushman stopped at the Park in the Allen district this week. Dressed Chickesw ------— Bert Green, of Greenbush, has a plum Mrs. Florence Brodrick, of Traverse Lake resort, tieing their horse to a post but in Dressed Turkey* ------ix tree in blossom far the second time this a few minutes the horse arrived in town, minus Miss Carrie Banta, of Pohtiac, is spend­ Dressed Ducks...... — county, isspending a few days with her the buggy and a good share of the harness. ing her-vacation with her parents. Dressed Geese...... „ r? year. cousin, Mrs. E. E. Emmons. The damages, however, were not as great as Dressed Beef------. they at first appeared, the buggy needing but a Fay Cooper and family occupy A. H. Bargains. Dressed Hogs ...... - S-Sfcig Mrs. Rosetta Oakley returned last Mrs. K. M. Strong, a teacher in Albert few repairs. Lattimer's tenant|house. Lee college, Minnesota, has been at the Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Feier were given a fare­ week from a four weeks ’ stay in Bay ho^e of J. S. Bristol, for the past six well reception by the Maccabees and many William Maurer, of Grand Rapids, Dressed Mutton ------J "Jj City. other friends at Progressive hall Tuesday even­ was the guest of his brother last week. FOR- latter...... weeks. ing. They leave in about ten days for Ann !ggs, per doser------rl Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Welle, of Aetabul:-, Gaylord Wilner and wife, of Pontiac, Arbor where John will enter the law depart­ Misses May and LaVerne Smith re­ ->ard, per pou 4...... ,7 ment of the kL of M. He has been station turned to their school work in Denver, ’oDi toes...... —------Ohio, are spending bbe week with friem . and Mrs. Susan Wilner, of Nuoday, New agent here for seven or eight years and iheir Colorado, Dnions, per bn ...... —------York, visited F. H. B.sh first of the departure will be felt as a Toss to the commun- hover Seed, Mhisibo A------here. Mrs. A H. Lattimer entertains the SEPT. 8. *• “ June ______- 8°° week. ------leans------_ J! Geo. Baldwin returned from a visit i> Tyler Georgia sold John Hicks a load J ladies Aid and Foreign Missionary ilsyke Clovet Seed...... SJ~ Oldest American Aclree* Dead. societies Wednesday. lye------“ Detroit and other eastern points Fridfci of oats yesterday, which weighed 265 Philadelphia, Sept. 5.—Mrs. Sarah A. 1 Ladies’ Wheel (2£s). .$17 50 larley, per cwt.------7 L night bushels and tive pounds. How is that Baker, who has Just died at Forest Father Kemp, who has been visiting lay. No. 1 Timothy...... 5.00-7.00 for a load? Home, was the oldest American ac­ his sop, William, returned to his home 1 Ladies’ Wheel (black) . .$17 50 Miss Loa Travis went to Lansing Mon­ Mrs. Dr. Weaver and son, who have tress. Her last appearances were made in Greenville last Wednesday. Both of above wheels guaranteed day, where she teaches in the public been spending six weeks with her father, with Thomas W. Keene during the Mrs. Eugene Townsend and children, to 1900. schools. C. T. Carusa. returned to their home in season preceding his death. After of Grand Rapids were the guests of Mrs. f MUSIC. S Freemont vesterdav. that she retired from the stage and a A. H. Lattimer last week. 1 $ 5o Crescent, new tires.. $15 00 I Piano Instr-ietlon. Developaieat of A Mrs. E. E. Albertson, who has been in Mrs. Louise Brooks, who has been place was found for her at the Forest Miss Bernice Maurer entertained the F Voire. Hnrmony in Classes. * Armstrong, Illinois, nine weeks, returned visiting her brother, John Hicks, and Home. Mrs. Baker was born in Phil­ J. E. L.'business meeting Saturday 1 Featherstone was$ 4o for $10 00 { NORA WANDEL-MANN. * Monday. adelphia in 1818 and made her debut 0 Residence on Trobridge St., near Union V family, the past few weeks, will return to afternoon and her sister Ethel enter­ a School Building. d her home in Cleveland today. nineteen years later at the Walnut tained the S. E. L. business meeting in O. G. Plunkett, Mrs. M. Howe, of West Bay City, was Street theater.______the evening. the guest of Mrs. R. W. Jennison in There will be an excursion to Detroit, St. Johns. Saginaw and Bay City Sunday, Septem­ Porto Klcan* Need More Help. / Greenbush last week. ber 10th. Train leaves St. Johns at 8:45 New York, Sept. 5.—The central MAPLE RAPIDS. Harry Martin, who has spent most o The fare the same as usual. Porto Rican relief committee has Is­ Jobs Roberta haa his new residence the vacation with his mother here, Miss Julia Brass and Miss Kate Seibert sued another appeal to the people of UBEROiD All ready to lay. announce the beginning of a new term the United States on behalf of the suf ­ inclosed. returned to Owosso Monday. ferers from the Jrdrrlcane. The appeal EADY . . Needs No Coating or Painting Emma Wilson ia visiting friends at of music. Miss Seibert will give instru ­ Mrs. H. H. Aldrich, who has been at mental and Miss Broee vocal and kinder ­ declares that $1,500,000 will be re­ except at seams, for a years. Drleane. the Wiggins house a week, returned to garten. quired to procure for the destitute the OOFING . Mias Irene Dunatall ia attending.achoo1 Carson City first of the week. A. P. McIntosh and five men are here bare necessities of life. Made from the very best of Mloeral Rubber, It is light, easy to lay, odorless, absolutely it Y pail anti. in the interest of Old Virginia vat*rproof, and willrill resist1 sparks. Can be used over shingles of* either isteep * or flat roofs. Mrs. Wm. Mulder returned from working Will outlast iron or tin and ia much cheaper. Write for samples and prices. Mrs. M. Horr, of Vickeryville, ic visit- Cheroots, for the American Tobacco Co., Every kind of book and job printing Building Papers. Tsrred Felt, H. fit. REYNOLDS * SON, ng her sons here. Battle Creek Friday. Mr. Mulder ie and distributing Cake Walk pictures at The Republican office. Satisfaction Sraw Board. Coal Tar. Root Pitch, Manufacturers of Rooting Materials, Dell Hyde, of Fowler, ie visiting with still at the sanatarium and improving in advertising their goods. Rosin, Roof Paint, Etc. GRAND RAPIDS and DETROIT, MICH. guaranteed. tf. ^ (Please mention this paper when writini 3. M. Hoerner. health. Mrs. 6 . W. Gloner, of Grand Rapids, a visiting friends in town. Miss Carrie Ritchie, of Detroit, who Mammie and Blanch Butler returned has been spending several weeks with 'rom Marysville Saturday. relatives in St. Johns, returned home Mias 'Louiee Tuller, of Detroit, is vtsit- yesterday. ✓ Call at ng her uncle and, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Advertised letters St. Johns Mich. Sane. September 5,1899: Miss Lou Brown, R. Bicycle Sale Eugene Roberta, Lulu Chilaon and May Crawford, attended the Elk ’s ear Earle Cole, Roy Huntoon, Wm. Parkes, l E. I. HULL’S rival at Lansing. Mrs. John Scott. Village schools opened Monday with Geo. Baldwin, accompanied by his and examine the new line of To close out what stock we have on ;he following enrolled: Forty four in friends, J. J. Walser, of Chicago, and G. 3igh school; forty two in intermediate; hand we offer it at cost for spot cash, ifty-three in primary. D. Wheeler, of Defiance, Ohio, spent FURNITURE Married, at the residence of Roberi Sunday at Crystal. Lowe, Sunday by Rev. A. T. Luther, Edgar Rice, Lynn Woodbury and Will or on good notes we will give 90 days ’ ft. F. Armoor, of Duplain, and Miss Howland went to Grand Rapids Monday that is arriving every day for the Sarah Scott, of Ithaca where they will take the business course Fall Trade. time. in McLachlan college. UNION HOME. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Abbott started A Fine Line Tuesday for a week or two carriage trip Iron Beds, Sideboards, Chiffoniers, SATURDAY, SEPT, pth Irs. Ida Gilson lias the frame up for a new visiting friends in Ronald, North Shade, use. Hall Trees, Bedroom Suits, Rockers, ’his section has been blessed with two good Lebanon and Hubbardston. ns recently. Tables, Chairs and other things too We will sell 10 guaranteed lorn, September 1st, to Fred Gardner and Lansing Journal: Mr. and Mrs. Guy fe, a 9% pound boy. Vandekreeke of Kalamazoo entertained numerous too mention. ‘here were warm discussions at the school New Bicycles at $14.99 each, eting Monday evening. Thursday evening in honor of Rev. E. B. Irs. Harriet Hyde is quite poorly, not fully Allen of Lansing and Rev. Binkhorst Prices and quality sell our Goods. overlng from her recent siekness. and wife of St. Johns. don ’t miss the sale. • • • • • !. Finch and wife, of Ovid, visited friends in s vicinity Saturday and Sunday. ------P ‘he Mleeee Ethel and Doll Loomis, Mildred The Ladle*. ______E. I. HULL, lidman and Katie Thompson will be students The pleasant effect and perfect safety the St. Johns school the ensuing year. with which ladies may use Syrup of 'be band social held at L. G. Loomis’ last Funeral Director sk was a decided success socially and Figs, under all conditions, makes it their kncialiy. The program was well rendered favorite remedy. To get the true and and i the boys did finely considering the very genuine article, look for the name of the F. H. Bush & Co. >rt time which they have had their instru- Furniture dealer . nts. The receipts were $19.90 which was California Fig Syrup Co. printed near Ided equally between the hand and Union the bottom of the package. For sale by ime Sunday school. all druggists.

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“There will be no need to go to the j Had he known it, hie pigheadedliees tatlou "soara the land” oftentimes, a* czar,” laughed the student. “Go to • ILLS OF AGE cost that student dear, for 1 then and we fanners express it. There are liv­ lesser man, though perhaps as worthy there determined that bis next secret, ing organisms In All good ions at work • one. Go—or rather come back —to if required, should not be unlocked for the farmer, making tough plant- me. I shall have something to propose, An Unually Due to Some De­ With a key of gold, as the first had been. food available. They multiply in a on^r there must be another arrangement rangement of the Borofsky should squeeze it out of him. sweet soil, adding available fertility theSS®^ in this event—and another check I” Tbe little fool seemed to forget or ignore all the time, but cannot thrive In a that we bad tbe terror side of him, if good soil that has been made acid by CHAPTER XXIV. KIDNEYS. we cared to attack him at a disad­ the addition of a mass of green ma­ TUB COUNT’S KX1MC TO SIBERIA. Which Can be Remedied by the Use of vantage terial in hot weather. I hATe seen ■of count ^ “Do you mean,” I said, “that your (to aa ooNTuruxo.] good fields made unproductive for will be able to provide evidence that Df. Chase’s Kidney-liver Pills years by plowing under a heavy coat this man Andre is the convict Kornilof of rye, clover or weeds in midsum­ LANDPINOF '* and not my father?” In the evening of life—after the mer. Such a result is not always got­ SSi' “Perhaps,” said the student, smiling battles are fought —why shouldn ’t the THE VALUE OF A RYE 80D. ten, of course, bat may be expected in BYFPED WHISHAW conceitedly. old folks enjoy in comfort their well- warm latitudes, and especially In the “It is ridiculous, ” 1 cried hotly, “to earned rest? ✓ ------^ copyright ibs^bythe American press association . It ix usually the kidneys which first IT IS ALL RIGHT IF HANDLED AT ease of heavy soils, though very liable suppose that the police will refuse to to occur with sandy soils also. Much CHAPTER XXIII accept the evidence of a man’s own et out of order, aud cause backaches, PROPER TIME. “What of my father? I have beard eadaches and urinary troubles. As land Is slightly too acid for best result* ADDUCTION OK THK COUNT. wife and child and will believe yonrs filters of the blood the kidneys work In farming. “I think I begin to understand the enough of your detestable Andre. Tell for the asking. ” me of my father. Where is he? What bard to remove from the body the last If Plowed Under at the Wrong Time, The safe thing io do Is to break the detestable plot a little,” I said. “My “It may be ridiculous, but the police trace of poisonour aric acid, but they Good Field* May Be Made rye* sod as early In the spring as la father fell, I suppose, into the bands of have they done with him ?” never admit a blunder if they can make do get tired and cause pain in the “Ah. you must ask the police that Unproductive For necessary for reasonably early plant­ the precions villains who are yonr ac­ any one else suffer for it instead of back, and unless attended to will leave Tears. i, i • question, ” said the student. “Probably ing of a spring crop. The rye will complices. What have they done with themselves. As for my part in the busi ­ foul poisons in the blood which will then be several inches high, and the him? For by all that’s sore”— he is at Sakhalin or in that choice ness, yon forget that I possess informa­ cause the most painful and fatal dis­ Some of our farm papers arc discuss ­ neighborhood. He was taken out of our eases. roots will be found to extend deeper ‘‘Not so fait I I am no accomplice, so tion of various binds with regard to Df. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills strike ing the value of a rye sod, a few cor­ into the soil than the plow goes. There far as you can prove. May not a man —out of Andre’s friends’—bands, you Andre, which might be useful and even respondents having poor results from see. .1 cannot be supposed to be in the at the root ot trouble by making the will be an Increase fn the amount of Bp!-.- discover a plot without being set down important to them and might throw a kidneys strong, healtby and vigorous. its use, while others- are strong ad­ organic- material In fhe land, an Ita- at once as an accomplice T I am coming confidence of the third section, which light on this matter.” They cure Brigbt ’s disease, dropsy, vocates of rye as a manurlal crop. I is the section of police spies. Can I. crease of fertility and an improvement to yonr father’s fate.” “I see.” I said. “But I shall be both diabetes and all diseases of the kidneys, have been growing rye as a winter of the mechanical condition of the “For,” I repeated, springing to my now? Be reasonable! ” surprised and disgusted if it prove to liver aud bladder, as v«tt aa chronic cover crop for many years, plowing it ’“I suppose not,” I groaned. “But, constipation. They have won the ad­ soil, without any danger of souring the feet and seizing the little rascal by ths be as you say, and the authorities re­ under at different stages of growth, land or of robbing It of moisture. Rye shoulders and shaking him as a cat great heavens, what are we to do? How fuse to believe our evidence. I shall miration of old people in particular, be ­ are we to get at the authorities? Will cause they make it possible for them to and can easily understand how farm­ as a mnnurial plant has been con­ would a mouse, “see here, you vile lit­ leave ycu now and consult my friends. enjoy in old age the comfort and rest ers may differ widely in their esti­ demned because it has not been used! tle wretch, if you dare to tell me that they believe us? ” I believe your story as to father’s cap­ “Ah,- that is a very delicate question I they have so well earned. mates of its value. The objects In aright by some experimenters. Wrhen these people have injured a hair of my ture ; so you may consider yonr check Mr. J. D. Brightnran, Ledyard, N. Y., view when using rye as a crop for crimson clover does not thrive rye Is father’s bead I swear to you that no I should say they will not, but it is safe. At the same time you are to re­ writes: “I am a blacksmith, and have green manuring are these: First, to worth trying.” had kidney disease in ita worst form. the best winter cover crop we have. promise or anything else shall save you main where you are until other mat­ give the soil a cover, because a mulch It Is sure In making a catoh, does fair­ and your abominable friends! I”— “What will Andre's attitude be, ters are settled. You have no objection At times 1 could not straighten op, and of any sort adds to the fertility; sec­ supposing we go to the police and ex­ to continue as my guest ?” for five years I was never free from back ­ ly well on thin land, and works when ‘‘Do be n reasonable creature and al­ ache aud terrible pains. Mr. Alexander ond, to prevent leaching, the roots go­ many other plants would remain dor­ low me to finish my story, ” said my plain that, though passing as the count, “So long as my safety is guaranteed ing down into the soil and picking up> my father, this man is not my father, Thomas recommended Dr. A. W. Chase’s mant. companion, twisting himself out of my I shall be charmed to remain,” said the Kidney-Liver Pills so highly that 1 tried the soluble plant-food; third, to release clutches. “I did not say your father but an imposter?” student. “Does Andre enjoy the ran them, and am now entirely free from tough plant-food in the soil; fourth, to- was injured, did I? If he was injured, “My dear sir, do I know the mind of of the house? He must not see me or backache aad kidney disease.” dry wet soils by pumping out the ex­ it was not, at any rate, by our people. Andre? Thcngb acquainted with him, know that I am here He would mur ­ Dr. A. W, Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills, cess of watei* In late spring; fifth, to* Will you allow me to go on in peace or as you are aware, I cannot therefore der me, and your cause would be one pill a dose, 25 cents a box, at all make the soil more friable; sixth, to Be Prepared! not? I will not be hustled; remember state w bat he would do under any given rained.” dealers, or Dr. A. W. Chase Mediciuc add to the content of organic ma­ circumstances. But I will say this— Company, Buffalo, N. Y. Tbe beat ing of that. You are stronger than I, but I “He shall not come here or know of terial. children is not have a will which is perhaps more that probably our good friend has not your preeeuce. I shall see that only Rye is a hardy plant, growing In such a very se­ than equal to your own. You cannot neglected to prepare himself for such trusted persons are-aware that I have a “Stop!" said Bbrofsky. “Did’ j*oa the warm days of winter and the early rious ordeal to compel me to speak. There is much an emergency. He must know that at —an acquaintance staying in the tell tie rascal anything of your journey days of spring, and springs up ready the woman who more to tell, but I will not tell it unless any time you might for reasons of your bonse. ” to Erinofka' and your finding of a olew for heading early in the season. If it is- prepared. If you promise to behave like a gentle­ own disown him and declare that, “Good! See that the same wine is there U* Is left until nearly headed’ out before Mother's man.” though you have pretended that be is served to me, like the generous bost I reflected-a moment “No,” I said, tbe crop is turned under, an Immense ‘‘Go on, then,” I said, ‘‘but if 1 find Count Landrinof, he is in effect nothing you are, and plenty of it!” He shouted “I dun t.think fidid. I’m sare I didn’t” amount of water Is pumped'out of the Friend you have lied, and your friends have of the kind, but Mr. Kornilof, the the last words at me as I left the room. “Ah!* Then the tale is true, ” said soil by the growing plants and In a that wonderful- done father any injury, heaven help escaped convict. He will probably say “I shall have you watched, my fine Borofsky, “tor it fit* in with tint dry season there may not lie enough Dr soothing and you, for I think I should kill you! ” that you are mad, and that your moth­ fellow, ” I said to myself aa 1 hurried which we know, unieas, of conrse, ke relaxing 1 i n i- moisture left 4o tbe ground to start the nrent, be faith- “Bab! I am not afraid. You are not er. the ccnntess. is no less, or that the away to confide my great news to Percy was sharp enough to pnt two and two- summer crop well. More than this, countess has reasons for cherishing ani­ together and build his tale on tbe ru ­ felly used dur ­ the kind to kill a fellow creature, espe- and Borofsky, “for you are a pearl of the rye-stalks become slightly woody, ing the period mosity against him, and that you are great price.” And I may say in-this mors he may have heard of nnr re­ and lying lit the bottom of the fur ­ a.i pregnancy, with her—being a mother’s child—to place that from this time untit — well, searches a4< Erinofka. His precious so­ row they hold the top soil away from thtere will be little morning sickness or rid her in this crude way of a husband until certain things had happened, ciety, or brotbenhood, or gang off the subsoil and shut off the rise of nervousness, the critical hour will be re­ of whom she has grown tired. ” either Percy or Borofsky or I was- con­ thieves, or whatever yoa bke to call it, moisture from below. In this way the lieved of much pain, and labor will be “Such a ridiculous cock and boll stantly on duty in the passage outside- may have beard at out bein'/ on thw brief. Recuperation will be rapid, and chances for an good summer crop may ail After-dangers will be avoided story would never take in the police!’ the student ’s room, both to see that be scent them, even, thongb it were not be ruined. The roots of the plants I cried scornfully. they who murdered the wretc It ’d little* Sold by drnniiS tor $1 m botttfc. . did not attempt to escape-and to guard hold some drnr soil around them, mak ­ JJTHD FOR OUR PR1R ROOK OH THE SUBJHCT. “My dear sir,’ said the student against surprises from without, Andre peasant who brought you information. ” ing the ground cloddy, and as the rye TWKMAPTOtLD OGOATOK CO.. At**stx,6«. blandly, “you are forgetting one thing being a kind of bugbear that one must “No. ” said Percy. “The Erinofka bit- rots cavities arc made at thle bottom and that is that the police will be preju­ suspect and fear all times. belongs all right; it is parted our affair. of the furrow, and a proper amount diced in favor of Mr. Andre, or rather I found Borofsky and Pfercy playing Tbe little peasant told us a true tale* Ftrut-'-lHM* Steamboat Service Between of the count, as they suppose him.” and suffered death for i*. Wbo nior­ of moisture cannot be secured and held W billiards. for a summer crop in a dry season. Detroit and Cleveland and Tolede, “Why?” I said angrily, “You are dered him ? Why,, these in* ••nal ras­ “Weir?” cried the latter. “What There is always another danger Detroit HidTacklnac. talking noneense. my friend” luck? ” Both he and Borofsky laid down- cals ; poseibly the student hsaa *elf. The* arising from the plowing down of a “Nonsense or wisdom, it is neverthe­ their coos and waited for me to speak. story is consistent, Borofsky from be ­ heavy growth’ of rye in hot weather. D. A C. Floating Steel Palace Steam­ less true. See here, now. The police N-ow that I was here and my heart ginning to end. Bbris has- ; >i bold of The mass ofgroen stuff in ifs fermen- ers are now. running Daily between have committed one of the stupidest bursting with the news I had to telL the right man.at last. Yoa- nere after Detroit and Cleveland. Two trips per blunders that ever effete officialdom them, 1 was nnable to utter a single ham, 1 know, for weeks) and therefore performed, and that is saying much. the credit is your* as-much, x? bis ; but Week between TolSdo, Detroit and word. 1 suppose I dreaded, being dis­ Mackinac Island. Regular service will They have sent the wrong man to Si­ couraged. I had formed lovely hopes so Boris it was that nabbed. le>.u. Well, beria and left a dangerous revolutionist many times and on each occasion they done. Boris, old boyT You. db- rve your HERE TH,?.,S comroedce June 17fcb. Spend your vaca­ at large. Do yon suppose, as a reason­ had been dashed from me- thatvI sup­ success. Gad* Borofsky ! Tec wouldn ’t Know by the sign tion on the Great Lakes. Bend 2 cents able. reasoning creature, that they will pose I feared to be told by Borofsky bore gone in after the felkw into am for illustrated pamphlet. Address be bo very ready to admit their error at that all this which my student bad told ice hole! Con*s ; would, yott uow? ” AvA.. Schantz , G. F.’ A., D. A C. Line, your bidding and on so flimsy a story me was mere buncombe; that be had, Borofsky, pleased! with ttn* # compli­ Detroit, Michigan. as tb» you will bring them in support taken me id , and there was»-not a word ment conveyed*1 in tfle earlier part^cf of your assertion? They will laugh in r of truth in bis story. the sentence, smiled acquiescence. your face and say that you are-a uiad “You ’E probably say it’seal! a tissue “I don’t think I wonld, ”he said. “E F. Murdock —Marble & Granite <2? schoolboy and had better go back to of lies,” 1 blurted at lengths with diffir Can’t swim. Yes, ” be continued, “tbe- ’ ST. JACOBS Oil. “Bah! You are not the kind to kUl a fel­ your English school or to the English culty. story sounds consistent) enough, and ifc CURES low creature.” asylum you have escaped from. Even “That’* extremely probable, ” said< may be that oar little rascal has come Rheumatism*. Neuralgia, Sciatica, cially one who is trying bis best to do if they believe your tale—which, of Borofsky, who had been soared of late over, body aixLsoul, into the enemy’* Lumbago, Sprains, Braises, MARBLE and you a very great service. Besides, I course, they may do. though they will by his ill successes and was- not in- the camp. ” Sotnsss, Stiffness. might not be so easily killed. Killing pretend they do not—they wiE still best of humors. “And no wonder either, I should 1 is a game of which it is necessary to laugh in yonr face and refuse to- move “At any rate, old mai*. we’ll con­ say, ” said Percy, “saiioe they starved GRANITE WORK understand the elements There is sci­ in the matter. ” sider it in its bearings, “ said Percy. hiui in tbe other, while- w* offer hirnr ence in it. Maybe I have thought over “Do you eeriously mean that they “Three heads are better than one, fond and raiment and! shekels of gold such matters more than you have, and will refuse to set right this fearful though I admit yours is nofcsnch a bad: and of silver. This student knows whioh side of his bread is well jammed !” understand more thoroughly the tricks blunder that they themselves have com­ one Is it so very incredible? ’’ ! 1 have just received a car-load of of the trade. ” mitted?” I said. “You are saying all “On the contrary, I don’t think it is “Tbe thing is, conk! the police hawe Granite work direct from the “You are welcome to your knowl ­ this, as Andre’s friend, in the hope that so at all.” I said, “but Bcrofaky may been such otter idiots as this wonld' quarries. edge,” I said. “For all I know you may I will allow matters to remain as they prove them, ” I said, “and, again, if j' I have on haod at the preeent time be a murderer already, but it is certain are. You wish to screen Andre, and my they have blundered, will they acknowl ­ at least one hundred monuments that I will thrash you within an inch father’s fate is nothing to yon. Bat do edge their blonder and allow poor fa­ and tablets in granite and marble, of your life in certain events. Therefore not make that mistake, my friend. I ther to come back? ” the finest variety to select from to be careful how yon tell yonr story. ” shall move heaven and earth. I shall “The police-blunder often enough,.” be found anywhere in Michigan, “Bah!” said the student, who assur ­ spend thousands of pounds. I shall nev­ said Borofsky. “Thera wonld be ncthiug and more coming all the time, extraordinary in that. They would r A visit to my show rooms will con­ edly was no coward, though he was the er rest night and day until I have com­ vince you that marble and granite most conceited and detestable little ras­ pelled the authorities to redeem their have drugged, the count, of conrse—An­ work cai> be bought right at home cal, I should say, that ever breathec sinful blunder. ” dre & Co. I mean—so that be couldi not in St. Johns, with mere satisfac­ God’s air. “Bah! I shall tell the tale “My dear sir, you rave!” said the protest his innocence when arrested; at A Yo«ng Girl’s Experience. tion to tbe purchaser and at less as I think best. If you do not like my student coolly. “Yonr father’s fate is, any rate, not in a comprehensible man­ My daughter's nerven wore terribly out .rf price than of some outside shop. ner. As for whether the police will ad­ order. K!» wuxtbln and weak; the least nol-at manner of telling it, that is your mis­ of course, of little interest to me, ex­ startled her, and she wan wakeful at nighi. fortune, but not my fault. Well, then, cepting in so far as—out of compliment mit their blunder, that remains to be Before she bad taken one package of Celery seen. We moet interview the pristaf King IhflrtSml In her was so great that nhw Ivanof’s plan was this: Arrangements to yourself —I should like to see so po­ could hardly he taken for the name girl. 8tie were made to seize your father at lite a friend as you have proved your ­ who arrested him. The student wiE tell Is rapidly growing well and. strong, her com­ you which district tbe bonse lay in.” plexion la perfect., and nhesteepe well every Erinofka, on the moor or at the lodge self gratified. But neither is Andre’s night.—Mrs. Lucy McNutt, Brunh Valley, F. P. Murdock or wherever it should prove to be most fate of any interest to me. To me it is “And if they simply iangh in our Celery King for the Nervee, Stomach, faces, ns my fellow says they probably and Kidneyn In nold In 25c. and 50c. packages St. Johns, Michigan. Opposite the Posh practicable. From there he should be', nothing whether he lives in this palace by druggists and dealeiw. brought by road to the house of—it will, what then?” Office. or in Sakhalin. I have no personal af­ Sold by C. 3. VanSickle. does not matter whose house —and there fection for him. To jirove that I do not “Then, apparently, he has another he should be shut up. Then some one, wish to screen him, I invite you to go card up his sleeve.” said Borofsky, “and since- he seems to be very proud one of the cirole of friends, should go as soon as yon please to the nearest ‘‘Nonsense/” mid Borofsky. “•She shall with a tale to the police announcing pristaf of police, tell him the wholo not pay him another penny.” of it and very anxious to prodnes it for 4 What Shall We Do. that by means of accidentally overhear­ story and see what he will say. You a wage we may hope it.is a trnmp.” At serious and dangerous diseats pre­ tAKE THE BOAT with his detective order of mind, and I “If it is the key that will unlock fa­ ing a conversation he bad become aware will not, of conrse, mention me, or give simply dread to. be told there's nothing vails in this country, dangerous because of the hiding place of one upon whom any hint of my existence, or, indeed, ther’s secret and bring him back to bis so deceptive. It gomes on so slowly yet in it—because ”— own,” I said, “mother will pay any surely that it is often firmly seated be­ he believed the police desired to lay their speak of the details of your father’s “Well—because what ?” said Borof­ hands. The police would then send and capture, and so on. Tell them simply amount for it and feed the little rascal fore we are aware of it. sky. “I shall criticise. It is my duty. like a fighting cock all bis life besides. ” The name of this disease which may arrest your father, believing him to be that their recapture of Kornilof on such Bnt I shall be only too glad to recognize he divided into three distinet stages is, Andre, and Andre himself would quiet ­ and such a day was a blander, that they “Nonsenpe!” said Borofsky quite a real clew I” angrily. “She shall not pay him an­ First, Kidney trouble, indicated by pain ly depart for England, dressed en grand took this wrong man and that the right “I think U is a seal clew, and that 1 in the back, rheumatism, lumbago, fre­ seigneur, and, batz, there’s the endl” man is at this moment in your house. other peony. This time be shall swal­ quent desire to urinate, often with a now know what became of my poor fa­ low the pill which is net gilded. I shall “I see,” I gasped. “And did this all See what the pristaf‘will say He will ther,” I said. “You see, the student burning sensation, the flow ol urine be ­ happen, then, as arranged? Father was laugh in your face.” take him in hand myself. You have- ing copious os scant with strosg odor. couldn ’t have known that we”— done well, Count Boris, but not to* captured, as I believe, at Erinofka. “And if be does, if be and his supe­ “Stop I You forget that we sbonld If allowed to advance, this reaches the What happened then? Tell me the riors refuse to set the thing right, am I wisely?’^, Second stage, or Bladder trouble, with like to bear the tale itself before listen­ “Let’s tackle the poliesfirst,” I said. heavy pain in the abdomen low down truth. ” to concur tamely in their decision? Not ing to yonr comments on it,” laughed between tbe navel and tbe water passage,, t “Why should I lie? The count was I, my friend. I will go to the czar him­ “There’s no need to qnarrel over the Borofsky. other matter yet awhile. I’ll just go increasing desire to urinals, with scald­ TO brought to St. Petersburg by road, as self, but I will see justice done to my Then I told them as clearly as I could, back id find out from my man the ad­ ing sensation in passing, small quantities per programme. He was dressed in a dear lather!” and without the circumlocution that being passed with difficulty, sometimes suit of Andre’s clothes and looked, I dress of the bouse in which my father necessary to draw it with instruments. my conceit* i student garnished the tale had been placed in order to be arrested, CHICAGO am told, marvelously like Andre—in- If uric acid or gravel has formed, it will with, father bad been cruelly according to tbe scheme of Andre and »Ved the police bad no doubt whatever and wickedly entrapped and substituted prove dangerous if neglected. $5.70'8476 Beith. that he was that very individual. They Eureka Harness Oil Is the l>est his friends. ” Tbe Third stage is Bright’s Disease* preservative of new lent her for a wretch who was wanted by the The student was in a bad humor, I There is comfort in knowing that Dr. bagged him neatly, and I hare no doubt and the best renovator of old police, and bow the police bad fallen Lv.St.Johns 3:12 p.m. D.G.H.&M that they are still firmly under the im­ leather. It oils, softens, black ­ found. I had forgotten to send up wine, Kilmer, the great kidney and bladder ens and protects. Use into the ambush prepared for them, he complained. specialist, has discovered a Remedy fam­ DAII.T pression that they have in their clutches and bad in all probability deported fa­ ous for its marvelous cures of the moet somewhere Andre, or Kornilof, as they “You shall have it presently,” I ther to Siberia, while Andre was left promised, and I bade him tell me at distressing cases and known as Dr. Kil­ call him, and no other. Eureka to live in luxury and freedom. mer’s Swamp-Root. b. Muskegon, via Steamer 6 0. m. “2ta for the real Andre, you know all once the address I required. It is sold by all druggists. I paused when I had finished the “Not till I have the wine!” said bs. about his doings. He went to London etory Then. “Great Caesar!” mur ­ As a proof of the wonderful virtues of Harness Oil “You shall have it the instant yon this great discovery, Swamn-Root, a Lv. Grand Haven, vaStearnur9D.ni. like a milord, and like a milord he re­ on jroer beet harness, roar old bar- mured Percy. Borofsky meditated in turned. He fell on bis feet and still ness, end rotir carriage top. and they have told me, ” I replied angrily. “Do sample bottle and book of valuable in. wtU not only look better but wear silence. you think I grudge yon the wine? formation will be sent absolutely free by Arrive Chicago, . . 6 a.m. stands upright. Who knows it better longer. 8oM everywhere to cans—ell “Well. Borofsky, ” I said presently, mail on application to Dr. Kilmer St Co., than yourself? ” Meat from half pints to See gallons. “don’t keep me in suspense. I long to What is it to me if you besot yourself AL«O FAST FREIGHT LIKE. Mtd. by ITUItU OIL CO. with two bottles or three?” Bihghamton. New York. When writing “Stop, yon infernal little rascal!” I bear yonr opinion. Is the tale trne or a kindly mention that you read thia liberal cried, stamDinK my foot with rage. “Not a word till I see the winel” be W.T. burke . D.C. M. A M. Local A*t. tissue of lies?” replied obstinately offer iq Thk Cunton Republican . ■i

Dairy aai Vse4 Department. J has been recovered after being twenty- AGENTS WANTED.—For “The Life and LagtL Achievement* of Admiral Dewey,’’ the world’s The annual report of Dairy and Food tour days in the water. sreateet naval hero. By Marat Halatead, the CommiMkxwr Qroaveoor which has juat W. 8. 8malley, a drug clerk, wa* lifelong friend and admirer of tho nation’* idol, IEACHERS*EXAM lNATiONS WEEK’S HISTORY. struck by an engine on the Panhandle act and best book ; over 500 j»*«e», 4x10 gone to preaa contains a complete record uiiCKiuAiiUlNDSALES »t nearly 100 page* halftone Illustrations, FOR 1898 AND 1899. of Department's work during the tracks at Chicago and died on the way ___ 61.50. Enormous demand. Big commis­ Until fmAtraatin IWInn Examination* flml t ending June 30th, 1890. to a hospital. sions. Outfit fres. Chance of s lifetime. Write 'ssMiBflM N«w* from All Part* of th* Croat quick. The Dominion Company, >rd Floor will be held a* follow* : No tate_____ in the Union it more strongly W. S. Smalley of Chicago was struck Cexton Bldg., Chicago. 4-14 High school room, 8t. Johns, third ThanAjr fortified today than ia Michigan, wit b Heaviest on Recorcj for the Yeai World. / by an engine on the Panhandle tracks *^ouia1mm»,^t*'john*, third Thursday aad questions of food legislation and food Ended on the 30th of J at Fifty-fifth street boulevard and died Friday of October. agitation correctly ana authoritiveiy in­ Last June. J on the way to a hospital. BtJohu, lasttit ThnreaayThursday orof March.«areu. terpreted. HAPPENINGS BRIEFLY NARRATED. At Ponce, Porto Rico, 250 bodies of Michigan ^ Court hense,auae, St. Johns, 4third Thursday and Friday of JuneJum Although restricted by a limited in­ the late hurHcane have been burled CemAoates of all grade. will be granted at spection force a vigorous prosecution of All the Latest Good News, Foreign Event* and it is certain that the complete list the examinations at St. Johns in August and OVHER FACTS ABOUT THE SU8INE88 March. Certificates of the second and third the work of inspection has been carried Which Are of Oenoml Interest, Disas­ In the city and Its “barrios ” will ag­ State Fair... trade* will be granted at all ether examinations. on during tho year. The stocks of 2380 ters, Crimea and Other Subject* Chroni­ gregate 400. All examinations will begin at 8 o clock A. M. dealers carrying food products have been will hold Us Fiftieth Grand Ex­ R. M. WINSTON. cled In Condensed Form for tho Busy Harry Wlnans was killed at Garnett, Death of CoL Me Co mas, a Veteran of the position at Grand Rapids, Sept. Commissioner of School*. examined, in addition to whick 1190 Render. Kan., by the explosion of a gas tank special investigations were made. Civil War Hehoonor OB’ Loxlngton An­ nsed in connection with a klnetoscope. 35th to apth, 1899. ortgage salm -default having The butter and milk supplied to guests chored and Abandoned by Her Crew- THE WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES. been made in the qoudl tioas J*H|p A freight on the Chicago and East­ 16 GRAND DEPARTMENTS. tnortgHffoM executed b;by John Kelly and Sarah at 246 hotels and restaurants were exam­ Principal town at tho Fluconning Fir* A report received at Manila from ern Illinois struck some box carsstand- is EXTRA SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS FREE. Kelly his wife to The Michigan Mortgage Com­ ined and 449 dairies inspected —Weddiag That Was a Rash Order— Cebu says that Dato Mundl with hla ing on the main track at Rossvllle, is GOOD RACES. pan;pany Limited dated January 18, 1884, and re- The laboratory report shows 1050 tribesmen has taken the warpath Ills., and wrecked the engine and a corDrded January 27. 18M, in the office of the regie- 8tat* Notes. >r of deeds of Clinton county, Michigan, in samples analysed, in addition to which against the Insurgents who are hold­ number of cars. Engineer Tilton, Fire­ Every reader of this Liberiber 87 of mortgages, on PegePage ft; which” mort- valuable research work was carried on* Lansing Mich., Sept. 5. — During ing Zamboanga and has given them a man Hollis end Air Brake Inspector paper specially invited. gagei was duly assigned by written assignment Twenty-five cases were brought to the last year, the end ot the fiscal pe­ warm battle. Kellogg were killed. January 20,20 1801, by The Michigan Mortgage Half fare and exouisiou rates on all Company Limited to O. B. Baker, which assign­ trial, in "20 of which the defendants were riod being June 30, the traffic in atate General Josehp Wheeler has been Albert T. Curtis, John I. Curtis and ment was recorded February t, 1884, in Liber 80 oonvicted. A large number of cases are lands has been the largest In the his­ ordered to report to General MacAr- Hobart Curtis, aged 62, 34 and 25, re- railroads. -of mortgages, on Page 127, oa Which mortgage now ponding. there is claimed to be due at the date of this tory of the atate. The report of th6 tbur at San Fernando. He will be upectively, were killed at Enfield, Me., Live Stock and Race entries close notice eleven hundred four dollars and seven­ state land commissioner shows that at given command of General Funston ’s by gas at the bottom of a well. S ptember 16th. All other entries close teen cento (81104.17) besides an attorney fee of Give the Children a Drink. brigade. Gilbert Bennlng, 20 years old, and thirty five dollars and other legal costs stipulated the beginning of the year the state 8 ptember 23rd. In said mortgage to be paid should any proceed- called Grain-O. It is a delicious, appe­ held 695,034.11 acres of land. During The railroad to Angeles will be re­ Abraham Hill, aged 13, were drowned soft i orbe proceedingstaken to foreclosesatd at law ar mortgage,in equ —and no tizing, nourishing food drink to take the stored shortly, and General MacArthur from a rowboat in Buffalo harbor. M. P. ANDER50N, in equity havii the year 120 acres of part.-paid lands will then advance his headquarters to President. been instituted to recover any part of the daft laoe of coffee. Sold by all grocers and LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. ked by all who have used it because were forfeited to the state; 1,612.30 that place. secured by said mortgage, therefore, by virtue E acres of swamp lands were forfeited, Corean advices report a recent At I. H. BUTTERFIELD. when properly prepared it tastes like the The transport Grant, bringing home tempt to seize the throne of Corea by 2l 3 Secretary. finest coffee but is free from all its injur ­ and 13,845.89 acres of tax homestead from Manila the Wyoming, North Da­ Wang Eul Soo. SEPTEMBER 9,1&99, at ten o’clock in the fore- ious properties. Grain-O aids digestion land reverted to the atate for non- kota and Idaho volunteers, has arrived noon, at (be west front dour of the court houae and strengthens the nerves. It is not a compliance with the laws. Only forty at San Francisco. Rain throughout England promises for Clinton county, Mkfoigan, in the Village of stimulant but a health builder, and chil­ an effectual upbreaklng of the drought CANCERS. St. Johns (said place being the place for hold­ acres of land were patented to the The Twenty-seventh regiment has period, which has been unusually se­ ing the Circuit Court for said county) there will dren, as well as adults, can drink it with state by the general government dur ­ started from Camp Meade en route for vere this season, practically having be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder great benefit. Costs about ^ as much ing the year. the Philippines. External or internal permanently icured with, the premises contained in said mortgage, vis , as coffee. 15 and 25c. 3. lasted for thirteen weeks. oat surgical operation or caustics, or causing, Commencing on the east line of section seven­ Number of Acres Sold la 4808. After two weeks of absolute quiet the Advices received from Hankow state ain, Write for book on cancers and tnmor*. teen in township seven north of range two west The number of acres sold during the Cleveland street car trouble broke out R nmerons testimonials. Dr. Smith, Cancer at a point twelve and four fifths rods from the year was 39,327.03, the sales being afresh. Two cars were derailed and the Russians have refrained from fur ­ Specialist. Port Huron. Mich.. P. O. Box 1048. southeast corner of the north east quarter of Ten New anti Original Songs Which CiJ ther interference with the workmen said section, running thence north along the largely on account*of mining develop­ demolished by the mob. smployed by a British concern. The section line nineteen and one fifth rods, thence Be Had Free. ment In the upper peninsula. The land The rebels generals in the province west fifty rods, thenoe south nineteen and qne What will the great metropolitan pa­ department licensed 2,353.73 acres of of Cavite have been ordered to attempt Woodlark ’s bluejackets have been fifths rods, t hence east to the place of beginning withdrawn. II ■ | ' and being in the Village of St. Johns, Michigan. pers do next? This ia the question some swamp land and 26,651.91 acres of land to recapture Imus. The Americans Two new serious cases of bubonic Dated St. Johns, Michigan, June 15, 189 were entered as homestead land under have intrenched the town, and have no 0604 Spaulding , Norton A Cooling , one asks nearly every day. But there is the homestead act of 1893. The total fear of the outcome. plague are officially reported at Oporto. Attorneys for Assignee. Q g. BAKER, one which leads all others. It has gain­ number of acres of land held for sale The American forces at Iloilo have The revolution in the southern prov­ 9-13 Assignee of mortgage. ed the sobriquet of “American's Greatest and homestead entry at the close of the destroyed the bandit stronghold at Ar- inces of Peru has been completely year was 642,319.53. gogula, killing twenty-one of the reb ­ crushed. * TATE OF MICHIGAN.—TWENTY-NINTH Newspaper” by just snch remarkable Yokohama, Japan, has had the great­ 8 Judical Circuit in chancery. Suit pending pieces of enterprise as the one which has Lands Held by the State. els and wounding many others. Large in the Circuit Court for the County of Clinton, The lands now held-by the state are quantities of supplies were captured. est fire In her history. A densely pop­ MAKES THE BEST In chancery, at the Village of St. Johns, on the just now attracted the attention of the classified as follows: Primary school ulated square miles of the native town 9th day of August, A. D. 1899. The Minnesota volunteers, now at was burned with a loss of sixteen lives Louisa Howard,'Complainant, vs. Charles E. press all over the country. land, 172,132.77 acres; university land, San Francisco, will be transported Howard, Defendant, Last week the New York Sunday 40 acres; Agricultural college land, 75,- home free by funds raised by the cl.l- and from 65,000,000 to 66,000,000 of In this suit it appearing that the Defendant, World announced that it would give away -824; salt spring land, 320 acres; asylum zens of the state. property. 955031 Charles E. Howard, is a resident of this state, Emperor William arrived at Prague but his whereabout* are unknown, therefore, an album of new and original music, con- land, 1,162.98 acres; swamp land, 96,- Five men of Colonel Bell’s regim?~t on motion of J. C. Flynn, solicitor for com­ sirting of ten of the up-to-date class of 553.76 acres; tax homestead land, 296,- encountered a rebel outpost near Port e, on his way to the maneuvers. He ad plainant, it is ordered that the defendant enter songs that are now so popular, such as 286.02. dressed crowds of German Czechs and his appearance in said cause on or before three and in the flgh ing that ensued on ; expressed his good wishes for the wel­ months from tile date of tl is qrdor, and that songs of sentiment, “coon” soogp, “cake ­ DEATH OF -COLONEL M’COMAS. American soldier was killed and one within twenty days the complainant cause this walks, ” Ac. These tec songs the Sunday w’ounded. The insurgents were driv­ fare of Bohemia. , ST. JOHNS, MICH. order to lie published in the Clinton Republi ­ THE FIRE RECORD. ' * Bit* ■***■ ***ni*l 1111*8 can , said publication to be continued once in World propones to distribute one each Found Deud in HU Hed—Prominent In en from their .position by the others, rJVniilmTyVYTnrnlYVirn’ each ween for six weeks in succession. week, with every copy of the Sunday Political and Military Affairs. who then captured a bull cart in which Tire in the second story of E. F GEORGE H. MARSHALL, _ World. When it is considered that the l Okhkatoei Eagtlah Mmaoa* Bread. ' 'Circuit Court Commissioner, Lansing, Mich., Sept 5.—Colonel D. to remove tae injured. Sul nettl’s merchandise store at Yuma, Clinton County, Michigan. average price of new music, written and A. T.. resulted in the loss of six lives H. McComas was found dead in bed Til •: CRIMINAL RECORD. J. C. Flynn . Solicitor for Complainant. 17-6 composed by popular authors, is from 30 at the Downey House about 9 o’clock and a total destruction of the store ENNYR0YAL PILLS to 45 cents, the unparallcd enterprise of Frederick Johnson, a Gilbert Plains. buildi. A„Mama ft Pi. In the matter of the estate of JOHN C. A Music Album free. From Septem­ . At .11 nrucftn* dtlrbrttrr E ki-e-tc-el < BURGISS. deceased. Colonel McComas was 53 years old. He the morning In the street at Omaha nard StaM & Co. at New York was de­ MM Mediae. On reading and filing the petition, duly veri­ ber 3 to November 5, the Sunday World was the father of company E, M. N. G., dead. Her 6 kull had been fractured. stroyed l y fire. Loss, 6120,000. fied, of Harrison: L. Burgiss, praying this will issue weekly a song in sheet music of this city, and always took great coart to adjudicate and determine who are or form, with handsome colored cover. The pride in this company. Jacob Lipman of Milwaukee, Wls., a Disast-ous forest fires are raging in were at the time of his death the legal heirs of Jeweler, was arrested at Bernle, Mo., the southern portion of Calhoun coun­ said deceased and entitled by the laws of this entire set will be mailed, postage paid, There was probably no better known by United States Deputy Marshal As- ty, Ark. Already great damage has state to inherit his real estate and the share or for 50c. Remittances received after man in state military circles than the mer on the charge .of passing counter ­ portion thereof that each of said heirs were en­ September 3 will get the back numbers colonel. He was deputy secretary of been done, and unless rain comes soon titled to at that time and the right title and feit coin. the loss will be incalculable. The interest that each of them or their heirs or and each new number iesued. Besides state under Harry Conant, and at the Mack Adkins shot Ben Fults at loss to stockmen is very heavy. assigns may now have therein. ______the song, The World will also send its time of his death held a position in the Thereupon it' is ordered that THURSDAY, colored Art Portfolio, which is a marvel auditor general’s office. The colonel Morehead, Ky.t and then locked him­ The large stock and storage barn FOR THE21st DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A. D. 1899, at self in his home and defied arrest. owned by Lou Evers, pne mile south one o’clock in the afternoon, be assigned for the of journalism; its Sunday Magazine, was a familiar figure at the Downey hearing of said petition, at the Probate which equals the monthly periodicals, House, where he had lived for years. Joe Carroll, a negro, was executed of Franklin, Ind., was fired by some Northern and all Southern Points Office in the Village of St. Johns. and its Comic Weekly, which excels Some years ago he was divorced from In the Jail here at Atlanta. Ga,, for the unknown person. Loss estimated at And it is further ordered that notice be given hiTwife.“‘ Sen7t(£VcComas'T oFMar “ ( ““rd£r„ °f Josie Alexander- a negress, 65,000, partially Insured. Toledo and points east and tothe heirs at law of said deceased andto all every comic weekly in the United States last May J. other persons interested in said estate of the except two, and in its comic scope equals land, is his cousin. A daughter, who NOTABLE DEATHS. south and tor time and place of said hearing by causing a these two 10 cent publications lives at Washington survives him. John Olson died at St. Elizabeth ’s Mrs. Elizabeth Grier Hibben, former­ copy of this order to be published in the Write a postal card to the Sunday . ------i hospital in Wabasha, Minn., from in­ Direct Connection* at Owoaso Junction and Clinton Republican ,a newspaper printed and BOAT ANCHORED AND ABANDOXEI^ juries Inflicted by Cyrus Brown a few ly president of the Woman’s Christian Durand with D. A M. R’y Train*. circulating in said county of Clinton, for three World Music Editor, Pulitzer Building, Temperance Union in Illinois, died at FOPULAB bouts to successive weeks previous to said day of hear- New York, for a list of the songs. days since. Condition of tho Schooner Nellie May, of J. F. Turner, a real estate agent of the home of her son In Princeton, N. J. 'Dg20-3 CHARLES M. MERRILL, Lexington, Mich. The reported death of Frank C. Ives, Howell, Ann Arbor, (A True Conv.) Judge of Probate. O ASTonrA. San Francisco, was shot and killed by the billiard player, at Progresso, Mex., Kind You Haw Always Boupi Port Huron, Mich., Sept. 5.—The lit­ Joseph Frena. a barber, In the cor­ CLARE, CADILLAC, MANISTEE, Special Term of Court, Bran tks tle schooner Nellie May lies at anchor ridor of the third floor of the Crocker has been confirmed. Signature Samuel Merrill, ex-governor of Iowa, traverse city and points STATE OF MICHIGAN > in Lake Huron off Lexington with its building as the result of a long-stand­ CLINTON COUNTY ) at flag at half mast and no one on board. ing feud. died at Los Angeles, Cal., as the result north. A special term of the Circuit Court hi and for of a paralytic stroke which occurred The yawl hangs at the davits and the 1 Firebugs saturated buildings In Cal­ W e oDerate our own line of steamer* from the County of Clinton State of Michigan, is several days ago. He was 77 years old. Frankfort, Michigan^ to Manitowoc ana hereby appointed and ordered to commence at &(/S//VjESS loss of the deckload of cedar posts ia lender, Ia., with kerosene, but the at­ the Court House in St.Johns, in said Count* -, on Pope Sophronlus, patriarch of the Or­ Kewannee, Wisconsin, and Menominee the only thing that indicates any 111 tempted incendiarism was discovered and Gladstones Michigan, and can save THE 20th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1899, at ten thodox Greek church of Alexander,, o’clock a. m. A jury is hereby ordered and will luck. The passenger steamer Douglas In time to prevent serious losses. yon money on tickets to the west and be drawn and attend said term. All cases may sighted the Nellie May at 6:30 o’clock Deputy Sheriff Lewis of Manchester, Lybia, Ethiopia and all Egypt, died northwest. be noticed for said term the same as. for the Ky., was killed Saturday in Clay coun ­ yesterday, aged 103. W. H. BENNETT. G. P. A.. Toledo. Ohio. regular terms of fhe Court. Dated at St. Johns Sunday evening, and observing the dis­ Tbs b«»t place in America for young men and tress signal the captain ran close to the ty while attempting to arrest Mart Warren H. Corning, a wealthy Cleve­ Michigan, August"7th, 1899. women to eecure a Buaiaen Education, Shorthand, land distiller, Is dead. He never re­ 8. B. DABOLL, Mechanical Drawing or Penmanship. Thorough sys­ schooner, which lies about two and a Smith, a murderer. F. R. Jackeon — Merchant Tailor / Circuit Judge 29th JudicialCircuit of Michigan. tem ot Actual Bualnass. Session entire rear. Student, half miles off shore. % | covered from a surgical operation per­ (A true copy; Aittest.) begin any time. Catalogue Free. < lleference. all BUSINESS NOTES. / formed four years ago. WILLIAM M. SMITH, Detroit. W. F. JEWhLL, free. P. R. si’ENCBK, Sea. Passing within hailing distance the Clerk of said court. whistle was sounded several timeB. but ' A trust with 6150,000,000 capital Is ODDS AND ENDS. (Seal.) 47 no one answered the hail or appeared said to be negotiating tor the purchase An oil company has been formed at ROBATE ORDER-STATE OF MICHIGAN W. A. BEACH, on deck. The fact that the boat Is an­ of every print cloth and fine goods mill Fresno, Cal., capitalized at 6100,000, in F. R. Jackson County of Clinton—ss. At a session of the chored would seem to indicate that the in the United States. which Mrs. Phoebe Hearst Is the prin­ PProbate Court for the Count* of Clinton holden Articles of incorporation of the Amer­ at the Probate Office, in the Village of St.Johns, Successor to Cha-. Hammond, does sailors were not lost overboard when 1 cipal stockholder. Is the most popular tailor in on Thursday, the 24th day of August, in the year all kinds of the deckload slipped off. The rudder ican Hide and Leather company, or the “The high price of meats is caused St. Johns and the one who one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine and steering geer were apparently in upper-leather trust, have been filed by the smaller supply and the improved Present Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probate. Draying and Trucking good ccnditiop. in Jersey City. It will have a capital In the matter of the estate of WILLIAM of 635,000,000. conditions that enable the masses to GULICK, deceased. promptly. Prices reasonable. Leave Married In * Hack. yj purchase more animal food,” says Sec­ On reading and filing the petition duly veri­ orders at the Mercantile Company’s. San Francisco reports that a Chlnese- retary of Agriculture Wilson. fied, of Edith Qulick, praying that Edward L. Lansing, Mich., Sept. 5.—Rev. Charles American corporation with a capital Makes Pooling or some other suitable person may be L. Seasholes, of the First Baptist stock of 620,000,000 is in progress of The claim of Entymia Montoya to appointed administrator of said estate. church, performed a marriage ceremony 800,000 acres In New Mexico, upon Your clothiDg to order in Thereupon it is ordered that THURSDAY, Legal organization for the purpose of estab ­ which a dozen flourishing towns are such a.manner that you are the 21ht DAY OF SEPTEMBER. A.D. 1899, at in a hack while a chase was belog made lishing large enterprises in China. one o’clock in the afternoon, be assigned for the to catch a train. The contracting par- j located, was rejected by the United always suited. His stock is hearing of said petition, at the Probate Office TATE OF MICHIGAN.—IN THE CIRCUIT The Pittsburg rail coal mine combin­ States court. in the Village of St. Johns. And it is further SCourt for the County of Clinton in Chancery. ties were James Doner and Elma Van ation has been formed and a meeting * jf ordered, that notice be given to the persons Edgar King vs. Mary J. King. Neiuys, of Lansing. They procured a will be held within two weeks to elect The battleship Alabama, on her interested in said estate, of the time and place Suit pending in the Circuit Court for the marriage license early in the day, In­ builder ’s trial ^trip, developed a speed Good of said hearing, by causing a copy of this order County of Clinton in Chancery, at St. Johns on officers. Capital stock will be 664,- of seventeen k'nots. to be published in the Clinton Republican , a the 29th day of July A. D. 1899. tending to be married at i o’clock. Just 000,000. newspaper printed and circulating in said In this cause it appearing from affidavit on before that hour the return of the 11- | The attempt of the retail butchers of Professor F. R. Jones, of the engin­ And always up with the County of Clinton for three successive weeks file, that the Defendant Mary J. King is not a eering department at the Wisconsin times. Prices are invariably previous to said day of hearing. resident of this Stato, but resides at Ontario, cense was demanded by the authorities, New York to organize against the al­ 20-3 CHARLES M. MERRILL, Ontario County, in the State of New York, on It having been learned that the bride leged beef trust will probably be a fail­ university, has resigned to accept a right. Let him make your (A True Copy.) Judge of Probate. motion of Pond and Hamper Complainant’s was under the age given, making her similar position in the School of Tech­ Solicitors, it is ordered that the said Defendant ure. nology at Worcester, Mass. Mary J. King cause her appearance to be enter­ mother’s consent necessary. This and The 800 men employed at the car ROBATEOKDER.-STATEOF MICHIGAN, ed herein, within four mouths from the date of a new license were obtained so late John R. McLean, Democratic nomi­ P County of Clinton—ss. At a session of the this order, and in case of her appearance that that it was necessary to have the cere­ works at Terre Haute, Ind., have been nee for governor of Ohio, was born in Suits. Probate Court for the County of Clinton, holdenshe cause her answer to the Complainant’s Bill notified they would be laid off for three at the Probate Office, in the Village of St. of Complaint to be filed, and a copy thereof to mony performed on the way to the sta­ weeks. There are persistent rumors Cincinnati, Sept. 17, 1848, and is 51 Johns, on Tuesday, the 5th day of September, he served on said Complainant s Solicitors, tion. years old. WALKER STREET EAST. ST. JOHNS, HICH in the year one thousand eight hundred and within twenty days after service on her of a that the car trust intends'to close it In the fight at Dubuque, Ia., between ninety-nine. copy of said bill, and notice of this order; and Losses nt a Michigan Fire. ^ down. Present,Charles M.Merrill, Judge of Probate. that in default thereof, said bill be taken as The New York Times has reduced Tommy White and Henry Lyons, the In the matter of the Estate of ABIJAH confessed by the said non-resident Defendant. Bay City, Mich., 8ept. 6 .—Business former won in the twentieth round. FRISBEE, deceased. And it ia further ordered, that within twenty men losers by the fire at Pinconning, by the price of its Sunday edition from 5 GRAND TRUNK RAIL­ On reading and filing the petition, duly veri­ days the said Complainant cause a notice of cents to 3. The treasury statement shows the which 675,000 worth of property was net gold on hand to be 6247,860,601. fied, of George L. Frisbee, praying that Ed­ this order, to be published in the Clinton 8 The proposition to organize a Texas WAY SYSTEM. ward E. Frisbee or some other suitable person Republican a newspaper printed, pnblished destroyed, were: Samuel . Morris, • At the Charter Oak Park meeting be appointed administrator de bonis non and circulating in said county, and that such drug store; William J. Doak, meat mar­ traffic association to take the place of the will annexed of said eetate. publication be continued there at least once in ket; Barsky 4b Rlvkln, dry goods and the Southwestern Freight bureau, re­ Star Pointer went a mile in 2:00. His Detroit and Milwaukee Division. litisordered.thatTHURSDAY. the each week, for six weeks in succession, or that cently dissolved, is off, and the meet­ previous record was 2:00^4. F SEPTEMBER. A. D. 1899. at one because a copy of this order to be personally groceries; Charles A. Johnson, wall pa­ W. B. Dean, who has just returned Time Table in effect June 19, 1899. o'clock in the afternoon, be assigned for th* served on said .non-resident Defendant, at least per; Frank L. Elsie, tailor shop; ing of traffic officials scheduled to be hearing of said petition, at the Probate twenty days before the time above prescribed Charles L. Scoutten, drug store; Doc held at San Antonio, Tex., will not be to Seattle from Cape Nome, claims that WE8TBOUND. Office, in the Village of St. Johns. for her appearance. held. ______| the district will become the richest And it is further ordered that notice be given S. B. DABOLL, E.Jennings grocery; GeoTge De Remor, mining camp on earth. No. 19. Western Express to Grand to the persons interested in raid estate of the Circuit Jndge. barber shop; Louis Lord, bakery; Will- | Haven------8--20a.m, MISHAPS AND DISASTERS. The government receipts during the time and place of said hearing by causing a Pond a Hamper , Complainant's Solicitors. iam A. McDonald, grocery; Jennings 4b No. 11, Morning Express to Gd. Haven, 10:47 a. m. copy of this order to be published in the Clin ­ (A true copy, Attest.; While walking on the Western In­ month of August, from all sources, No. 15, Mail and Chicago Express to ton Republican , a newspaper printed and WILLIAM M. SMITH. Malone, furniture; Louis Landsberg, amounted to 649,978,175. The dis­ Gd. Hayen______« 8:12 p. ns. circulating in said county of Clinton for three 18 7 Register in Chancery. dry goods; C. V. Crampton, Jewelry. diana railroad tracks at Chicago Mrs. No. 17, Steamboat Express to Gd. successive weeks previous to said day of hear- The fire started In Barsky 4b Rlvkin ’s Fanburg was struck by a Western In­ bursements were 645,522,311. Haven A Milwaukee ...... 7 :59 p. m. (A^True Copy.) CHARLES M. MERRILL. PROBATE ORDER-STATE OF MICHIGAN, diana freight train, the wheels of which The body of a man, supposed to be Nos. 11.15, and 17, daily except Sunday. store.______No. 19 daily. 21-3 J udge of Probate. l County of Clinton—ss. At a session of the passed over both legs. L. L. Applegate ot Cincinnati, was Probate Court for the County of Clinton, holden Will Pmh the Road Now. No. 17 arrives at Grand Haven at'll p. m. and at the Probate Office in the Village of St.Johns, I An explosion in the yards of the found in the woods near Blandon, 8L oonnects with Chicago boat. on Friday, the 18th day of August, in the year Northvllle, Mich., Sept. 5.—Now that Standard Oil company at Whiting, Ind., Louis county, Mo. A half-emptied bot ­ ROBATE NOTICE.—PROBATE COURT, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine. EASTBOUND. Clinton County —ss. Notice Is hereby the injunction against the Detroit, Ply­ wrecked two of the sweetening tanks, tle of morpbine seemed to Indicate P Present, Charles M. Merrill, Judge of Probate. No. 14, Steamboat Express to Detroit given that all claims and domands against the In the matter of the estate of JOHN MEL­ mouth and Northvllle Electric road is demolished an engine and the engine that Applegate bad committed suicide. estate of BENEDICT 8TAMPFLEY deceased and east...... 8:20 a.m. VIN, deceased. dissolved, work of building will be house and burned Stephen Wilkins, a The woman who died on the evening No. 20, Mail to Detroit______12:09 p.m. will be heard ire the Judge of Probate of said John L. Melvin, administrator of said estate, County, at the Probate Office in the Village of pushed vigorously. The roadbed is fireman, so badly that he died. of Aug. 9 at the Lindell hotel, Hast­ No. 22, Evening Express to Detroit having made application for the allowance and east.______5:22 p. m. St. Johns, on the 8th DAY of FEBRUARY, of his final account and for his discharge. Teady for the rails and has been laid Mrs. Florence Simons of North ings, Neb., where Bhe had registered as A. D. 1900, and that the creditors of said No. IS, Eastern Express to Durand Thereupon it is ordered, that THURSDAY, to the Detroit, Grand Rapids and West­ Creek, O., was killed by her son Carl­ Mrs. A. L. Lee, has been identified as and east...... 9:17 p. m. deceased are allowed six months from thedate THE 14th DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A. D. 1899, at of this notice in which to present their claims ern crossing. ton, who mistook her for a burglar. Miss Laura Lee French of Burling ­ Noe. 14, 20, and 22, daily excepCSunday.; one o’clock in the afternoon, be assigned for the No. 18 daily. for adjustment. / examination of said account, at the Probate Seeond Ottftof the Kind. / * J. F. Atkins, of Virginia, Ills., who ton. Ia. Dated August 3rd,A. D. 1899. Office in the Village of St. Johns. E. H. Huohes . started out on horseback to buy cattle, Marshall Field, the dry goods king G. P. A T. Agent, W. H. BURKE, CHARLES M. MERRILL, And it is further ordered, that notice be given Mason, Mich., Sept. 6 . — George J. | j — ^ X am * — — - D4 laWaa 17-4 Judge of Probate.. to the persons interested In said estate of the Walker, of this city, aged 24 years, was drowned in the Sangamon river. of Chicago, has decided to donate a Chicago, Illinois. Agent, St John*. time and place of said hearing, by causing a was lodged In jail Sunday on the { In a wreck of a Northern Pacific public library to his native town, Con­ copy of this order to be published in the train near St. Norbert, Minn., G. C. way, Mass. Mr. Field was born there TH08. 8. 8PRACUE 4t SON, Clinton Republican , a newspaper printed charge of criminally assaulting the 7- and circulating in said County of Clinton for yoar-old daughter of Fred Elliott Johnson, the express messenger, was in 1835, being the son of a farmer. A Free Trip to Paris! three successive weeks previous to said day of Walker eoafessed to the sheriff. Walker killed. Bank clearings In August were near­ f a mechanic hearing, ly a fourth larger than for the corre­ desiring a trip to the Pari* Exposition, with g*Qd PATENTS. 19 3 CHARLES M. MERRILL. has served time in Ionia for the same '{ The body of Frank Easte, the aero­ offense. naut drowned in Leech lake (Minn.) sponding month of last year. »re,Bid* * Wayne County Bank Bldg., DETROIT. (A True Copy.) Judge of Probate,

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Canopy and Extension Top Surries, 2 Seat Open Wagons, Top Buggies and Road Wagons. To reduce stock and make room for Winter Goods, we offer for Cash or Good Notes our Entire Line of above Vehicles at LESS THAN MANUFACTURERS’ PRICES. These are all reliable goods from Responsible Makers and are warranted just as represented. This is the chance of a lifetime to get a good vehicle at your own price. If you need ANYTHING ON |44th Annual Fair? WHEELS, you cannot afford to miss this sale. $ OF THE „For 30 Days Only.^ ^ J Clinton County Agricultural and Horti= * cultural Society. * * AT J DAVIES AND ADAMS St. Johns, Mich. $ 1 OLIVE. ^ MERLE BEACH. News of Clinton County. Mrs. S. W. Norris is a great sufferer Plum Huntoon ’s little girl is quite from hay fever. sick. DUPLAIN. Leah and Letah Wilcox are visiting The recent rains have helped pasture friends in Detroit. to some extent. The Republican. Miss vEtta Seeley is visiting at St. Miss Regina VanFleet returns to Myrtle Moore will leave for Ann Arbor Louis. Chicago this week. about the 20th. Thursday, September 7,1899. School began Monday. Wintield Ash Several from around here attended Merle Beach school began September teacher. Labor day at Round Lake. 5th, with Edith Taber as teacher. * FOWLER. The W. F. M. S. meet with Mrs. Mar- Several ladies from around here and E. W. Ramsey, of Bolding, and a stud gret Pearl today.. Dewitt are camping at Round Lake. ent at M. A. C. spent Saturday and Sun John thlyneB is sick at this writing. Mrs. Lowell Crandal is spending some Mrs. Fred Smith, of Central Lake, is day at the beach, Mrs. Pasch had company from Detroit time at Harbor Springs. visiting her grandmother. Mrs. Lewie Mail now leaves Merle Beach at 1:15 last Sunday. Winfield Ash commenced his school Smith. standard time, For the past two months Our village schools commenced Mon­ in Duplain Monday last. Mrs. 0. B. Dills and daughter, Helen, 1:45 has been the time of departure. day morning. spent a week in Lansing recently visit­ Will Moore moved his wife and family The North Olive M. E. aid society will A STUDY W 8UOBTHOBN CBABACTXB. Joseph Cooper suffered with a lame to St. Johns last Monday. ing relatives. hold its next meeting at Mrs. Floyd back last week. Darwin Norton began school in the Charles Mix, a former resident of this Watkins ’ Wednesday, September 15th. Mrs. Snitgen, of Westphalia, is visiting Richards district Monday. town, died at his home in Jackson Social dancing party at the beach Fri­ recently from heart disease. her mother, Mrs. Casper. There will bs a social one week from day evening, September 15th. Clavey’s Mr. F. H. Oding and wife spent Mon­ Friday night at Herm Taylor’s. The many friends of J. Tout, of Dewitt, orchestra will furnish music. Bill 50 j Speed Premiums: day with Cbas. Dane and family. □ Mrs. Emma Lowell entertains the are glad to hear that he has received a cents. Hattie Bleise returned to Chicago Ladies Aid society September 20th. position in the state capital. Richard Moore and daughter, Mrs. last Wednesday, where she has work Class No. 5 will meet with Miss Ethel Several of the young people around Alice Schemer and little Max Moore Dr. Hay, of Pewamo, was in town on Cook next Saturday night eo as to attend here went to Lansing last Saturday were guests at the beach Sunday. This 2 Wednesday, Sept. 27,1899. business last Wednesday, also called on to some business evening to attend a party given in honor is Mrs. Schemer’s first visit to her cous ­ Mr. Gross’people. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Smead are rejoic­ of Jay Reed. in’s resort. ± 3:00 Trot or Pace, Purse ...... $100.00 Chas Dane spent Tuesday at Shepards- ing, a girl came to lire with them last Several members of Olive grange visit­ A very pleasant evening was rpent at J Green Race, for horses without record, Purse $50.00 villo with his siEter, Mrs. Faragher, who Friday. ed Dewitt grange Saturday evening, Dewitt grange Saturday evening by is sick with typhoid fever. Mr. and Mrs. William Loomise, of September 2nd, among them was Richard those who went from Oliv* grange. Wm.Youngs and wife are spending Detroit, visited bis brother, Edd Loomise Moore, of St. Johns, who organized These social visits are profitable as well Thursday, Sept. 28,1899. the week in northern points, White River, over Sunday. Dewitt grang many years ago. He gave as pleasant. W 2:35 Pace, Purse ...... $200.00 Hesperia, etc. Mrs {Youngs parents Mrs. Homer Allen has returned to her an interesting talk. The young men So far as learned Frank Baumgardner reside there. home in Ohio after a four months yisit entertained the grange. Though not so has the giant corn crop; eleven acres of t 2:30 Trot, Purse ...... $200.00 Cbas. Dane and family and Minnie with her father, Henry Moore. many were out as we wished to see. which stands from ten to tv l ive feet Oding, spent last week at Crystal Lake, About fifty of the friends and neigh­ Those who were present did finely. high with an estimated yeild of 125 and other places, visited relatives at bors of Mrs. J. Mogg gave her a surprise The young ladies will furnished the bushels per acre —Next! Friday, Sept. % 1899. Stanton, McBride®, Carson. Miss Oding last Wednesday it being h-ir birthday. program Saturday evening, September 2:30 Pace and 2:35 Trot, Purse ...... $200.00 is staying yet this week at the Lakes. A very pleasnDt time was enjoyed by all. 16tn. • We hope to see every member out. PRICE. Free-for-all Trot or Pace, Purse ...... ;..... $250.00 Marshall Hand visited his eister in Running Race, Purse ...... $5C.OO Tuscola county last week. School commenced Monday in the Price and Krepps districts. Mrs. Arthur Mead is sick. The ladies' aid society will serve ice cream on the church lawn at Price, Sat­ [ Are You A Card to the Public!! urday evening of this week. ^ SOUTH OVID [ flaking Rev. Whiticar of the U. B. church, is at conference this week. Regarding a Malicious Untruth Being Circulated Georgie Daust is quite sick at the J Arrange= home of her sister, Mrs. Maris Sitts. L. J. Boyd, of Bannister, is preparing About THE MERCANTILE COMPANY. to build a dwelling house on his father's farm, where he will reside, to care for k°4 ments ? his parents in their declining years. The annual school meeting was held UR ATTENTION has been called to a report being circulated by some of in district No. 6 , on Monday evening, when R. J. Grove was elected treasurer. our over zealous Competitors to the effect that the arrest of Wm. Yariger on Miss Marcie Beck w ft h has been engaged to tench the school in said district. £ Attend • O the Streets of St. Johns, Saturday, had been indirectly instigated by The \l GUNNISON VILLE THK BUNKING BACK. Mercantile Company. It has been evident on past occasions that a certain element Mrs. Downer Smith has purchased a If you enjoy having a corn harvester. of Rival Merchants, who are sore at the Success and Push of The Mercantile Com­ School opens today with Miss Ella good time you should Smith as teacher. pany are always ready to employ any means which they imagine will stem the tide Ladies Aid society meets with Mrs. I Well prepair to do so at Mina Smith Saptember 14th. of customers to ’The Big Store, but it remained for some of the more short sighted Mrs. James Cortright is ill. Dr. Bays once. The show this fall is going to be a she has a tumor of the bowels. ones to attempt to perjudice the farmers by as flimsey a yarn as the above. Our MisseB Ina Lott, Tillie Kraus and Fay are ail attending school at Lans­ “Warm Number” Customers are attracted by fair treatment, dependable goods and honesty in all ing. The social held at T. R. Stanapfly’s last And to miss it will be to pass by one of the dealings, and no class appreciates this so well as the farmers. It is a well known week netted the church a little more than six dollars. pleasant events of the year. Come and meet fact that there was NO CASH MARKET in St. Johns for produce until THE Samuel Smith, known as old Sammy, old friends and acquaintances as well as your has been ordered sent to the poor house MERCANTILE COMPANY started. The farmers who sold their butter and eggs has been sick for a few days past. own neighbors, and enjoy the sights together. While Mrs. Boichot and her sister and other products before The Big Store appeared on the scene do not need to be were driving Sunday their horse became frightened, overturned the buggy and The Following names are a guarantee of a told this; they often mention it themselves and their appreciation is practially demon­ threw them out. No serious hurt. ' good Celebration. HUBBARDSTON Officers: strated by their trade which is constantly bestowed upon our store. We desire to Prnidmit...... F. A. TRAVIS brand any story connecting our names with the unfortunate episode as an absolute Rev. N. M. Barnes is on the sick list. £?cre,ar-v...... MURRETT FRINK C. R. Proctor is spending the week in Treasurer ...... GEORGE N. FERRY North Shade. General Superintendent...... WILLIAM BYRNES falsehood. As far as we are concerned the farmers are only to welcome to sell their Mrs. Minnie Peck was in Pewamo last MarHhal...... GEORGE SOCLE Sunday. Superintendents: products of any nature or kind upon our streets. Dr. F. S. Hoag returned home Sunday ...... M.c. LI VESA Y from Iowa. Cattle...... FRANKTAFT Mrs. Shields iB spending the week in Sheep and Swine ...... NEWTON CARPENTER Grand Rapids. Farm Garden and Fowls...... ROBERT HICKS Miss Vicie Proctor has returned home Floral Hail...... J. W. ENNE*T from Shepardsville. Fine Arts Hall...... ROBERT ARMOUR Mrs. Chas. Doremus is slowly improv­ Farm Machinery,...... WM WIDEMAN ing after a long sick spell. Arthur Moore filled the pulpit at the M. E. church last Sunday. Arther Graham and wife return to their home in York State tomorrow. Arza Clark returned home Sunday from a week's outing at Crystal Lake. MERCANTILE W. W. Townsend and wife were the guests of Foster Hunter and families of Carson City last Sunday. Among those that were ^t Crystal Lake from here last Sunday were Miss Ethel Proctor, Ben Marlett, Henry Slocum, Cora Strickling, T. 8. Strickling COMPANY. Jr., C. B. Sanford and wife. 1 O 9L J?S. X -A. . Bear* the Kind You Haw Always Bought Signature •t COMING DOWN THE STRETCH.