The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-12-19

and Mrs. w. G. Lewis that their son
Frank, is dangerously i'll in a hos
pital in Rochester, N. Y.
Thomas w. Starkey and Mary E.
Sweet were united in marriage in
Flint Monday by Justice Halsey.
They will reside on the farm here.
Considerable excitement was
caused on Vienna street Monday,
when a team belonging to John
Sloan ran away. No damage was
done
G. w. JObsOn Sunday visited his
nephew, Hugh Gunnell, who has
been i'll of appendicitis in the Bay
City hospital for the past several
weeks.
M. and Mrs. Melvin ShOup and
Mrs. Samuel Shoup, of MOntrOse
and Miss Florence Pound and Miss
Rebecca Haffner. of Saginaw, were
the guests Sunday of Mrs. John
Haffner.
Raymond Burch of Rogersville,
lost child with Scarlet fever last
week, another is afflicted with the
disease and Mrs Burch is sick in
bed. Mr.. Burch is well known in
Clio, Mt Morris and Birch Run.
Thos. Holmes of Haynes township
produced over a thousand bushels of
apples from his orchard the past sea-
son. Twenty of his trees averaged
twenty bushels each and the lowest
price he got for any of the fruit was
rs cents per bushel-Harrisville Re-
view.
WILDER, the two-year-old son of
Lloyd Geiger ,Thetford township,
suffered a compound fracture of
the finger when he was caught in
the wringer on wash day. The bone
was cut half of and amputation
may be found necessary.
Mrs. II. Butler. Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Gillett, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac
Yield, Mr.. and Mrs o. VI. Field and
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Williams were
among the large number of people
rom this vicinity who attended
the meeting OF the state grange at
Flint last week.
Mrs. Manasseh West has submit
ted to considerable probing of her
finger the past week in an effort to
remove a needle which was buried
in her flesh. The needle was brok-
en- off in her hand when she was
scrubbing some curtains on the
wash board, halt the needle being
imbedded in the muscle of her fin
ger
Mrs. Robert Davidson of West
Forest, had the misfortun eWed-
nesday to lose purse containing
$40 in money while shopping in
this village. Mr.. and Mrs Davidson
rode to their home miles east of
here before they discovered their
loss and made the trip back to
Clio to find the purse. They were
unsuccessful.
The county road commissioners
of this county invested $16,329.56 in
good roads during November The
largest amount used on any one
road was spent on the North Sag
NAV road in Vienna township. The
amount used there was S2,91425.
The work of the road commission
ers for the season is practically
closed.
The cigar manufacturing firm of
Shorten & GoOdfellow, are prepar-
ing to move into larger quarters
over Huyck's drug store. The
growth of the business has been
phenomenal. They are now en-
ploying five cigar makers and they
have found it impossible to keep
up with the demand for their two
most popular brands, the "S & F
Special and the "Nu Style"
Miss Myrtle Hill, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Clark Hill has received
the valuable doll, Brenda" named
by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, first lady
of the land, and presented by St
Marys parish. The doll was on ex-
hibition at the recent Thanksgiv-
ing bazaar and was to have been
given to the person guessing its
name. OF course, nobody could
guess the odd name which Mrs. Will
son had attached to the doll and
it was necessary to hold drawing |
in order to award the prize. Miss
Hill was lucky. Accompanying the
doll is a bit of White House sta. |
tionery on which is written the
by the presidents wife.