The Clinton Republican. VOL. III.—NO. 15. ST. JOHNS, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1898. WHOLE NO/ 2,250. More Sharp Killed. 1204 BREVITIES. BUSINE86 LOCAL8. The sheep killing dogs are at work G um , Umbrella*, again, and one night this week Charles L. Munroe, of Portland, was in town HE STOLE H BICYCLE JORDAN SHOT HIM! Clothes Wringers repaired. Lawn Walters, who was pasturing some sheep yesterday. mowers ground. Wm. Osborns . on the Merrill farm suffered a severe M. A. Hulse and family have gone to Vill Overly, a Notorious Criminal, loss. One sheep was so badly wounded Started Under Most Auspicious Crystal Lake. Peter Lambert Given Thirty Days Cleaning up Sale at Kendrick’*. that it had to be killed at once and nine Everybody sells goods cheap. Wa Mrs. Will Lyon is visiting friends in sell a little cheaper. If you doubt it wa Captured. others were very seriously injured* Circumstances. Maple Rapids. in Jail. will convince you if you will come in and Aside from these there were fourteen G. M. Knickerbocker is visiting his see. All goods in stock at special prices others missing. Justice Lyon went out from now on which will surprise yon, parents in Ithaca. They will be below all competition. to the farm Tuesday morning but as so A VERY A RLE COR 1*3 OF INSTRUCTORS HE IS NOW RECOVERING FROM THE Frank Stephens is home for a few Respectfully, many of the sheep were missing he was HE WAN ARRESTED AT CRYSTAL IN IN CHARGE ANDGOOD RESULTS days from Island Lake. H. L. Kendrick . WOl’NU HE RKCKIVED WHILE unable to assess the damages. It seems LAKE LAST SATURDAY NIGHT ARE CERTAIN. Mrs. S. B. Wheelock is the guest of TRYING TO ESCAPE. a pity that the township must pay for I1T SHERIFF DUNN. White Mountain* ami the Sea. the damage doue by worthless curs. J. C. Bronson in Victor. The buffet-sleeping car from Chicago to the White mountains and Portland, The soouer these dogs are disposed of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Davies are spend­ Me., via the Michigan Central, “The the better it will be for all concerned. A good, live summer school has been ing a few days at Bay View. For some time past Michigan officers Sometime ago Peter Lambert bought Niagara Falls Route, ” leave Chicago started here agaiD under the leadership N. C. Austin is visiting his daughter, 1U p. m except Friday, leave Detroit 7:50 have been in communication with the a wheel of a St. Johns dealer on contract. of some competent teachers. Supt. F. Miss Ida Austin, in Linden. a. iu. except Saturday. sheriff at Marion, Indiana, with reference AN IMPORTANT DECISION D. Smith, of Greenville, is conductor When the contract expired the wheel Jos. S. Hall , Mich., Passenger Ag ’t, M rs. Chas. Fellows, of Battle Creek, to a certain Will Overly, alias Weaver, and Commissioner R. M. Winston and was yet unpaid for and Lambert was Detroit. In Drain Proceeding* H uh .Iu»t lleeii is a guest at Noble Burnett’s. who was wanted there for burglary and Filed. Miss Ada Cochrane are instructors, the missing. .He was traced around to safe cracking. Miss Baldwin, of Ovid, w-as the guest to various places until Sheriff Dunn The low prices on my fine line of ham Section 13, Chapter 6 being section latter haring charge of primary methods mocks are selling them fast. A short time ago Sheriff Jordan, of of Florence Walters the first of the week. finally located him in the vicinity of 1740. provides for the relaying and com ­ and the geography of North America- Hunt ’s D rug Stork . Ionia, got track of his man in the woods pletion of any drain that has been held Mrs. G. S. Price is instructor in vocal Mrs. Dali Blackney has returned from Crystal. Mr. Dunn drove into Crystal in Ionia county, but he left for parts about 11 o ’clock last Saturday night and to have been illegally laid in the first music. The school started in with the a three weeks visit with friends in Ionia. From now until August 1st, we are unknown as soon as he discovered that instance. In the case of Houser vs very flattering prospect of eighty-four wgnt to the hotel. There he saw a There will be regular Sunday evening prepared to make the extremely low his whereabouts were known. He was a Burbank juBt decided, the supreme enrollments the first day, seventy being number of wheels, one of which answer offer for the Standard Designer for one services at the Baptist church hereafter. mystery for some time, until a few days court have passed upon this provision ladies and fourteen gentlemen. Quite ed the description of the missing bicycle. year, monthly, for only 50 cents, regular price 85 cents. This i9 for only the ago he was located by Sheriff Dunn, of the statute and held that it was valid a number of these are eighth grade Union Farmer’s club will meet at the He put the wheel behind the counter who found that he was working on a month of July. Every lady should have and time the commissioner was com ­ diploma pupils. Judging from the en­ home of Henry Hudson, August 6, 1898. and awaited developments. After a it at this extremely low price. farm about five miles from DeWitt. time a man came in and bjgan to search pelled and fully authorized to relay and* rollment of the three years preceeding The families of O. P. Dewitt and John H. L. Kendrick . Mr. Dunn at once telephoned to Mr. for hiB wheel. He could not find it and reassess in such cases. The question this one, there can be no doubt that Wheat will go to Crystal Lake next Jordan, who came and they immediately finally asked if anyone had seen it. Mr. The North Shore Limited was presented and claim made that the there will be over one hundred pupils week. drove to DeWitt. They came to the law was invalid, but the court held in a short time. Dunn showed him the wheel he had Of the Michigan Central, “ The Niag ­ A little daughter was welcomed at ara Falls Route, ” now leaves Chicago at farm of Wm. Somers, where Overly was other wise, saying: “We see no reason The object of the school is to prepare secreted and asked if that was the one the home of John Baumgardner last 4 p. m. and Detroit 11 p. m. It gives working and upon inquiry they learned why this equitable provision should not pupils for second and third grade certi­ he wanted. Lambert said it was. “Well Friday. you two hours more in Chicago, makes from Mrs. Somers that he was at work be sustained.” ficates. The school will continue for I want both you and the wheel,” said the run from Chicago to New York in in the field setting up bundles. They The question was recently raised in four weeks, closing with the regular Misses Edith and Winifred Marskey, the sheriff. He brought the man to St. twenty-four hours, as before, and gets there in ample time for dinner and went down the lane to the field and this county, and Judge Daboll also held Teachers’ examinations in August. of Saginaw, are guests of Miss Olive Johns and he entered a plea of not found Mr. Somers on the binder, but Munger. evening entertainments. that the law was valid and ordered a re­ The instructors are much pleased with guilty. Yesterday afternoon, however Jos. S. H all , Mich. Passenger Ag ’t, Overly was on the opposite side of the assessment. This action of the supreme the prospect for a most successful Miss Lulu Pepple spent Sunday and he withdrew this plea and plead guilty. Detroit. field, diagonally across from them. They court seems to settle the question for school here this summer. The summer the first of the week with her sister in Justice Severance sentenced him to made no haste, judging that he would all time. school !b certainly a good institution and Lansing. thirty days in jail. For weak back due to kidney and think them men from some harvesting liver trouble, take Hunt’s Liver Elixir, ought to be well patronized by those Mrs. F. A. Lewis, of Byron, is visiting 50 cents per bottle. Burii«*<l hy h (iiuioliii* Explosion. machinery company, as they followed I. O O. F. Picnic. people who are desirous of teaching her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. the binder around the field. Overly The second annual picnic of the for they are sure of the very best r‘ in­ Stephens. Yesterday afternoon while Hubert Bargains all along the line. From kept ahead of them and came up the "Maple Valley PicDic Association, ” com ­ struction here this summer. Stanchel was busying himself fixing a this date on all goods in stock to close Mrs. R. J. Sinclair, of Ovid, spent Sun­ side of the field towards the entrance of prising the Counties of Clinton, Gratiot, gasoline burner at Richmond Bros ’, without regard to previous cost. day with her sister, Mrs. Mary Bevington, Kendrick . the lane with the evident intention of Saginaw and Shiawassee will be held in Trio* H uh (inn* Up. machine shop, a tapering plug in the H. L. in St. Johns. getting a drink of water from a jug Caledooia Park, Owosso, August 2, 1898. The price on money orders has been bottom of the burner, which he supposed Our new full liue of furniture is arriv­ which stood there.