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Grattan.

Mr.. and Mrs Hit. Watkins visite
Orleans friends last week,
The ice cream social held with Mrs
Godfrey brought in over SO.
Miss Emma Ashley, Of Howard City
is expected here on visit this week.
Miss Angie Murphy has returned I
Grand Rapids after "A two weeks visi
here.
Regular communication of GrattaI
+. x A. Nj. last Saturday night will
visitors from Greenville and Rockford
There were two funerals at GrattaI
Catholic church, July 20. Mrs. Johl
Flanagan, IA pioneer, who died from
paralysis, aud Mrs. Branagan, VIII,
died of apoplexy.
The Pensioners OF st. Patrick
church, Grattan, will hold their annua
reunion Thursday, August 3, in Laugh
Inns grove, one mile west of Parnell
"A good time anticipated and every
body invited.
Master Freddie Wander Pool receiv
ed for his twelfth birthday present a
valuable watch from his mother, one
that his father carried for many years,
also a tirst-class violin from his mother
and Uncle Phin. Tuthill.
Messrs. c. III. Edwards, of Edmore,
and j. l.. Weekes, of Stanton, called
here by the death OF their grand
mother, Mrs. +. Y. Fuller, have re-
turned home; also her daughter, Mrs.
Celistra Jakeway, of Lakeview; and
among others from distance at the
burial service were MIR. and Mrs. X.
W. Graham, Mrs. Eaton and Mrs. John
White, all of Lowell, also Mrs. Alger
and granddaughter from near Green
vile.
As already announced Mrs Phebe Y
Fuller passed to rest July 10, aged 80
years, 5 months, day. Her maiden
name was Beakes, her birthplace Ma
makating, N. Y. At an early age she,
with her parents, joined the society Of
Friends, sometimes called Quakers,
and before 1880 this family removed to
Sylvan, Michigan, where the lovely
village of Chelsea is now located. On
January |, 1885, Miss Beakes was unit
ed in marriage with John +. Weekes,
and in 1915 they, with four little
daughters, came to Grattan, even be.
fore the dense wilderness had "a name,
and only lew families who had clear.
ed a pla ace to rear the rude Image OF a
home, actuated by the God-given fea-
ture Of our being to desire a home, To
give LIES best energy to improve and
beautify our homes, SO hand In hand
they left kindred far behind for this
worthy purpose. This dear mother
ever lived and taught the purity of
heart and spiritual worship Of the
Master, being a mother indeed, bear
ing eleven children, seeing four pass
away beside her loved companion, as
Mr.. Weekes died in 1882 IN few
years Mrs. w. was united in marriage |
To w. S. Fuller, also an early pioneer
who died four years ago. After living |
on the old homestead over 80 years
Mrs. f., because of failing health, came |
to live with her daughter, Mrs. Elite |
McCauley, just over the line of Graf
tan and Oakfeld. Last March when
taken very sick, feeling that the bless
ed portal of rest was near at hand and |
that the one desire of years To be wor
thy of salvation would soon be real.
lied, she selected Rev. l.. b. Albert,
of Ashley, to be her spiritual adviser
and officiate at her burial, also choos-
ing this text for the sermon: Let me
die the death of the righteous, and let
my end be like his Desiring that
the services be held under the auspices
of Grattan Grange, she being the old.
est member, the hall was opened for
services July u, Rev. A. giving most
excellent rendering Of the text; the
Grange officiating at the grave ia their
services, and in bed Of
beautiful flowers she sweetly sleeps
Lies duties done, as sinks the day
Light from its load the spirit flies.
While heaven ana elrth unite To say
How blest the righteous when he dies"