The Clinton Independent. YOL. XXXYI.-NO. 21. ST. JOHNS MIOH., THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1902. WHOLE NO.—1831 DELINQUENT TAXES BIG FIRE AT DEWITT AGED PREACHER DEAD. NEW SUPERINTENDENT. Returned by the Several Township Treas­ Ordained In 1849 Actively Engaged For WUIts BUhop. of Decatur, the Chetoe eP urers to the County Treasurer. 85 Yenra. the Board of Education. It is believed that Clinton county As the Result of the Charter Disastrous Blaze in a Neighbor ­ Rev. Joseph Ashworth, a venerable Marked the Association Meeting At a recent meeting of the board of has returned the smallest amounts preacher of the Methodist Episcopal education, Willis Bishop, at present* Election Indicates. of delinquent taxes by the various boring Village Last Mon ­ at Bath Last Friday and superintendent of schools in Decatur, township treasurers to the county church, died yesterday morning at his Mich., was chosen to succed Supt. 1. A day Night- home, 517 Maple street west, Lansing. • Saturday. treasurer of any county in the state. He had beea ailing about a week, but Gilbert in a like position In the public The lollowing Is a list of the returns was confined to bed only the last three schools of St. Johns. by townships of state and county de­ days. La grippe, with which the Mr. Bishop is a graduate of Eaton THEY WERE FEARLESS. linquent taxes. It will be notieed that symptoms of pneumonia developed, Rapids high school, attended Oberlln Greenbush, Victor, Westphalia aud THE GRIST MILL BURNED could not be overcome by the aged GREAT NEED OF SCHOOLS college one year, is a graduate of Oli­ Essex returned not a penny : patient, who was in his eighty-firth vet college and took a post graduate Township. State. County. year. He was conscious to the last course in the University of Michigan, Bath .............................. ........... 9 10 41 $ S 56 so that there need be no doubt about The Party Whip and Frowns Victor ....................................... 87 and seemed to desire to linger until Ovid,......................................... 119 75 63 68 the arrival of his daughter from New his mental equipment and fitness for Had No Effect This Time. Duplaln, .................................... 30 58 31 06 Also a Nearby Barn with its Discussed by Ray Robson, Bath the place. lie is a scholarly gentleman DeWitt,..................................... 14 64 7 74 York City, whose train was delayed. Contents and a Horse Mr. Ashworth, wMl known In Lan ­ Board of Education and Is said to be practical in his meth ­ Olive,........................................ 1 95 1 02 ods. If we must part with Mr, Gil­ Bingham ................................... 70 89 58 89 Consumed. sing and vicinity, where he lived 25 and Others. Greenbush, ................. ....................... ......- years, was born in Dublin, Ireland, bert, a worthier successor, from all re­ The result of the charter election on Watertown, ............................ 1 54 82 ports, cauld hardly have been chosen. Riley,............................................ 12 76 6 61 September 26, 1817. Very little of his Monday last was a surprise to the Re­ Bengal, .......................... 8 50 4 50 He was unanimously chosen by the publicans as well as the Democrats. education was acquired in the land Essex, ..................................... .............. his birth, for he came to America board from among fifteen applicants The Republican leaders never worked Eagle,........................................ 13 06 C 95 The vlllage.of DeWitt was thrown The associational meeting of patrons for the position. He will enter upon harder for their continuance in power Westphalia, ....................................... ...... when he was but ten years old. The Dallas................................... .. 26 14 into a furore of excitement Monday family finally.settled in Novia Scotia, and teachers at Bath last Friday aud his duties at the opening of the next than thev did on Monday last. Lebanon, .................................. 60 30 Saturday, was, Commissioner Town ’ school year. The canvass showed a Republican night by a fire which completely de­ Mr. Ashworth leaving when he was 21 majority of 225. Butthe independent Total .................... $304 51 $157 26 stroyed the DeWitt flouring mill, and to engage in the ministry in the state send informs The Independent , one of New York. On completing his Business Change. and no lest disgusted members of that Total State Tax,. .......................... •4S.613 46 threatened the greater portion of the cf the best and mast enthusiastic ever party came out and exercised their Total County Tax ..........................•26,000.00 course at Genesee Wesleyan seminary, Having purchased the stock, fixtures town. No insurance was carried by which he entered in 1839, he was regu­ held in the county. There was a large and good will of the retail grocery rights and performed a duty they owed attendance and unflagging interest to themselves and their neighbors. MICHIGAN CROP REPORT. Mrs. Webber, of Lansing, who owned larly ordained by Bishop Hedding. business for so many years successfully The Democrats remained loyal to the mill, nor by Levy Schiveley and After 35 years of active work in the was shown in all the discussions. carried on by Mr. O- P. DeWitt, I their nominees, while the independent ministry, Mr. Ashwoith wasattackhd The chief interest was, perhaps, take this opportunity of saying to the Wheat Reported to l>e In Excellent Con John Schiveley, his son, who conduct ­ Republicans, who held the balance of by a throat trouble, which so increased shown in the paper read by Ray Rob ­ peoDle of St. Johns and vicinity that dltlon. ed the business. The total loss- is up ­ that he asked to be released from it shall be my aim to merit a continu ­ power, took the opportunity of more son, of Bath, on “The Greatest Need effectually chastising the wrong doing wards of $5,000. Many farmers lost preaching. His request was granted, ance of the confidence so generously The opinion is nearly universal that large quantities of grain stored in the and in 1876 he moved to Lansing, of our Schools, ” the discussion which accorded to my predecessor. Good of those in power. wheat is in a good condition; many r Some of the best men in the Repub ­ where he has since lived. For five followed being led by members of the goods at fair prices, courteous service correspondents say that the crop looks mill. years he was connected with the Mich ­ and prompt delivery will characterize lican ranks were most fearless in their bettor than when winter began. If The cause of the fire is unknown, Bath board of education. The discus­ work against those who had become igan conference, supplying charges the business in the future as in the the condition does not materially but manv are inclined to believe it under a presiding elder. It Is a re­ sion centered round the idea of town ­ past, and I shall endeavor to make so defiant over their great majority change during March the prospects and strength. The leaders had an idea the work of an incendiary. Others markable (act that in all the years of ship centralization of schools. Instead trading in this store as profitable to all will be good for a fair crop of wheat. his ministry, he was prevented by ill­ of dividing the townships into a num ­ concerned as it always lias been. that the rank and tile of the Republi ­ The total number of bushels of who have more faith in human nature can party would remain loyal, no mat­ ness rrom fulfilling his duties on only ber of districts, some of them having Very respectfully wheat reported marketed by farmers attribute it to a tire box in which two Sundays. less than half a dozen scholars, the H. E. Pierce. ter what they, the leaders, had done. in February at the flouring mills is Upon this occasion they abandoned there were live coals. Levi Schiveley idea is to establish one strong cen ­ 208,174, and at the elevators 91,238, or was in Lansing when the flames broke tral school. To this school would be Notice. party for principle. They adhered to a total of 299,412 bushels. Of this party at a time when it was not so out. John Schiveley is ill of tonsilitis devoted the entire school moneys of Having retired from the retail gro­ whole amount 219,713 bushels were OUR DUTY the township. This would result In expensive to do so as now. marketed in the southern four tiers of and was unable to lend his services in cery busiuess and being desirous of The fearless Republicans rejoice the tight which the majority of the securing better equipment, a better closing my books as soon as possible, counties, 05,843 bushels in the central men residing in and near the village class of teachers and in securing from with the Democrats over the result of counties, and 13,850 bushels in the To Ourselves, To the Church, and To those indebted to me are hereby re­ Monday ’s work, which w'as as follows : waged against the flames. The tire tiie patrons greater interest in the quested to call at my office on Walker northern counties. The total number was first discovered between 11 and Our Fwitor. work of the schools. The cost per cap ­ Totals by Products — 1st 2d 3d of busheis of wheat reported marketed street east and settle their accounts President — 12 o ’clock. The village was aroused Perhaps in no other relation in life ita for the support of the school would at their earliest convenience. 157-427 in the seven months, August-February, Or. Henry Palmer, r.....154154 116 at once, and with pails of water and be greatly reduced, while giving a DeWitt. 143 170—434 is 2,420.000, which is 303,503 bushels are obligations, entered into with a O.