• • . 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 BEAT 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 mother, 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 Georgia 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
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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 hit 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 Kinnie 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.