• • . 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.