The Clinton Independent. VOL. XXXVII.—NO. 46 ST. JOHNS, MICH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1903. WHOLE NO.—1908 W. A. Norton delivered a somewhat SOLDIERS AND SAILORS lengthy and no less interesting ad­ ST. JOHNS HIGH SCHOOL. .SUNDAYS IN SUMMER. A DELIGHTFUL OUTING OUR COUNTY FAIR dress. Of Cllntou County Held Their Annual Kf- It was voted to bold a camp-tire some The Outlook for it Prosperous and Profi­ Hom. Fuels Concerning (he Way They ere Is What Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cliapln En­ With Good Weather and the Preparations time in the comiug winter or spring, table Sc-bool Year It Favorable. uulon lu St. Julius, August HH Hint 29. the time to be Axed by the Command­ Spent slid the Effects Upon the Church. joyed In Their Seven Months Absence. Being Made Will Bender It the Notwithstanding the drenching rain er. At noon the meetlug was ad ­ As the day for opening approaches This is an exceedingly practical sub­ John B. Chapin, prominent among Best on the List. which fell upon this portion of Michi- journed to meet next year at the same the thoughts of a large portion of our ject. Tiie desertion of the Church in our most successful business men, said Manager Eisier, who has control of Kan last week, the soldiers and sailors time and place. townspeople center upon the school. the summer time by numbers of people to his good wife one day in the early the advertising and arrangments for of all wars, and now living in Clinton Every year finds the number to be This year promises to be an exception is having a discourging effect, which part of February last: “Let us go over the attractive features, says they will county, held their fourth annual re­ growing less, and it will not be long to the many good school years of the lingers along until late in the fall. to Lansing and from there to Chicago out strip those to be seen at tbe state union at thecourt house, in this vil­ before the last one will be called upon past. New students are enrolling daily. The winter ’s work is scarcely well in to visit relatives and friends, and from fair. With a hearty co-operation on lage, last Friday and Saturday, Aug. to answer his last summons. The old building lias been repaired, hand before spring comes, and the con ­ there go to some other place if we feel the part of the farmers and stock men 28th and 29th. The unsettled weather thoroughty cleansed, retouched with gregation beginR to talk of the summer like it, and come home when we get the fair this month may be made one kept many away who otherwise would varnish here and there and now has a let-down. If by any means the services ready. ” of the best in the state. If the at­ have been here. The residences and THE TAX COMMISSIONERS most iuvitingappearance The library in any particular church can be kept So after they had finished their visit tractions are as satisfactory at the places of business were not decorated hU8been classified, reshelved, the books anywhere near their normal condition in Chicago tiiey went to Cincinnati, fair as they are at the opera house, as they woald have been' iiad the W*r« Here Last Friday to View the Rolls labeled to corresponded with the shelf during July and August, large progress from thende to Chattanooga, and then which Mr. Eisier manages, they will weatiier been bright and pleasant. numbers and are now being catalogued. is assured for tiie rest of the year. to New Orleans, where the Mardi Gras of the Supervisors of This County. be all that a congregation of people However. Janitor Clark at the court When completed this will insure better The excuse most commonly made Is performance was at its best. Here could desire. Watch our advertising house, had the circuit court room hand- According to previous notice two service from the library as well as tiie bitter toil of the workingman, they met Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Allison. columns for a list of the attractions. somly decorated with the national r^Dresentatlves of the State Tax Com ­ better oversight and care of the books. which indesposes him for religious The city was flooded with water and emblems, and with the martial music mission were here last Friday to get Tiie courses of study have been worship. But the church which min­ a general “hold up” was the order of the old vets were very much inspired. acquainted with the supervisorsof this changed to better meet tbe require­ isters to this woskingman most of all things until the water went down and Lawrence’* Pint Birthday. Friday was partially devoted to re­ county and to review their tax rolls ments of tbe University and keep manages to get him up early on Sun ­ the show was out. From here they Lawrence Townsend, Jonly son of ceiving the visiting members, record­ and to compare them with the figures pace with the more progressive high day to go to mass, does not seem to went to El Paso, Texas, and after a Commissioner T. H. Townsend, is five ing their names, telling stories, etc., they have made. In doing so they schools of tiie state. One feature of have any particular trouble in keeping short sojourn there they joarnied Into years old today, and, with the consent and a camp tire in the eveniag. Rev. f »und theseveral townships short of the new courses is the elective plan of its services crowded with worshipers Old Mexico, and from thence to Col ­ of his papa and mamma, has issued J. T. Ewing of St. John’s church, was their figures to the amount indicated subjects for tbe course pursued. A In the slums of the cities. The diffi ­ ton, Southern California, and from invitations to as many little frituds present at the afternoon meeting and in the following list: minimum of subjects, those demand ­ culty today is not with this man, worn thence to Riverside, which is in the of his age as the number of his years offered prayer and later made a short Bath................ .....31.7 Green bush ...... 24.2 ed by tiie University, is required; out with his dally toll, but it is witli heart of the orange country, where indicate, to assist him in celebrating speech. The following is the enroll ­ B -ugal ............ .....13.2 Lebanon ........ .... ll.t the full number required for grad ­ the great middle class and well-to-do. they enjoyed the native fruits. From his fifth birthday anniversary and ment at this meeting : Bingham _____ .... 2.2 Olive............... ......24.6 uation is made up by the student Many people who can take a day off here they went to Los Angeles, where first birthday party. There will be Dallas.............. .. .. 8.4 Ovid .................. .. 16.2 from tiie electives offered. The stud ­ now and then, and who can take sum­ they met Dr. Pollard, and where they increased joy in that home today. Jesse E. Stone, Co. I, 10th Mich. Cav., St. DeWItt 43.5 KUt»y . 28 5 ents are to have free range of choice mer vacations, are using the day for remained for a time. From here they -Johns. Michigan State Fair, Pontiac, September Duplaln ............ .....19.5 Victor ................ ...... 96.8 but are expected to consult parents all kinds of recreation. The great went to Pasadena and then to Alta- Wayne E. Morris, Oo. A, 23d Mich. Inf., St. 7th to 11th, 1903. F.agl j................. «~..,10.7 Watertown ...... .......36.1 and teachers before making a final de ­ mass of pleasure-seekers on Sunday, dena. where they visited an aunt, sis­ .lob ns, aged 67. Es ex............... ... 8.8 Westphalia ....... 15.5 cision. The required subjects decrease then, are not toil-exausted working­ ter of Mr. Chapin's fattier, and where The Grand Trunk Railway system C. Wlllyoung, Co. K, 11th I nd. Cav.. Fowler, The Commissioners took the rolls to each year while the electives increase. men but the comparatively well-to-do. they remained until their visit was will sell Excursion Tickets at single aired 61. the headquarters at Lansing where Thus, the number of required subjects The great danger in Sunday pleasure, well completed From there they went Fare for the round trip, plus 50c. for H. J. Patterson, Co. G, 8d Mich. Inf., St. they will undoubtedly be doctored to of tiie first year is three, the number seeking is the seeking for that which to Santa Barbara, where they met admission to the Fair Grounds on Johns, airc 63. conform with their new style of prac­ of electives, one. On tbe other band, is less and less refltied, and which m a Donald Stephenson, who is getting on Sept. 7th to 11,exclusive. Return limit H. M. Estes, Co. K. 30th Mtch.Inf., St.Johns, tice. If the other towns had been as but one subject is required in tbe short time will drive out the spirit nicely. From here they went across Sept. 12th, 1903. Through Train aire 57. near perfect as Bingham no change last year, the number of electives Some summer resorts and pleasure the bay to Oakland. After remaining Service to the Fair Grounds, for fur­ N. E. Johns. Co. D, 23d Mich. Inf., St. Johns would have been attempted. Howev ­ is three, to be taken out of six offered. grounds —for these are the thronged there for a time they returned to San ther particulars consult agent or write a ire 70.