The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-01-28

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Shorthorn Breeders Association, at M.
A. C. last week. He reports a very
fine exhibition Of stock and says he
purchased very fine young male which
in due time. he expects, will head his
herd.
Floyd McCrady received a badly
bruised back, one day last week. from
the backfiring Of an auto engine which
he was cranking, being thrown with
considerable force across saw horse.
The accident took place in Flint and as
a result of it Floyd was laid up for sew
eral days.
Miss Mary Lowell, of Detroit, will be
a guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Lowell, for a few weeks. The
young lady is nurse in Grace Hospital
and is now enjoying her vacation and
convalescing from an operation for APP
pendicitis which she underwent about
ten days ago.
i Rev. C. w. Greene, on behalf of the
M. p Church, hes invited all members
of the Masonic Order to attend spec
ial service at that church next Sunday
afternoon at 2:3O. Rev. John Erskine
will preach the sermon and it is hoped
that as many members of the Order as
can possibly do so will be in attendance.
Some time during the last two weeks
some one took saddle from the barn
of T. d. Brown, it being the second
article of the kind taken from the barn
within year. Quite naturally, Mr..
Brown is very indignant over the mat
ter and offers a reward, which is pub
lished elsewhere, for the apprehension
of the thief.
Nearly all members of the faculty of
: Clio schools, attended the annual BAN
quet of the County Teachers Associa-
ton, at Flint, on Tuesday. A very en-
joyable occasion throughout is reported,
:, the speech of the president of Vermont
University, Tuesday evening, on Sam
uel Adams, Patriot, being, it is said,
: a masterpiece.
Bear in mind the M. E. Church ban.
quet and the lecture by DR.. M. S. Pice,
;, of Detroit, which will take place at the
= church Feb. 8. DR.. Rice is one of the
, most able and eloquent clergymen in
{ the United States and those who come
to hear him on the date above stated
q may be assured they will enjoy an ex'
/ traordinary privilege. DR.. Rice's lee
n ture will be on some topic applicable tc
r the every day life of the people.
j. H. O'Rourke has secured the
agency for the Studebaker automobile:
4 at Vassar, and, we understand, expects
: to move to that place with his family
> in the near future. The territory wa
secured for Mr.. O'Rourke by the loca
/ Studebaker agency. The many friends
II of Mr.. and Mrs. O'Rourke, in Clio
n will regret they are to leave, and will
d join in the hope that they may b.
abundantly prosperous and happy il
e their new location.
= You know what happened to Ma
! poleon at Waterloo. Grouchy failed t.
IS come up in time and the great Corsican
as consequence, passed into the dis
l. card. The editor of this paper want
! to take leaf from Napoleon's histor.
It and avoid the discard. 1t is up to SOM
= of our subscribers to help out in thi
emergency. If you are in arrears OF
h subscription don't be Grouchy, come up
:. or if you prefer, "come across" il
t. time. That time is now. Read our larg
e nd elsewhere.
Mrs. E. C c. Benson was in Ann Ar
% Dor last week and had the pleasure o
u attending a recital given by the dis
3. tinguished Polish pianist, Paderewski
I'd When the latter was in Detroit, a fey
days previous to his appearance in An
.e Arbor, he gave vivid description o
W the devastation caused by war in hi
IN native land. He said that he, in com
j. mon with the majority of his country
s. men of the well-to-do classes, had see
re his property practically swept away
ls that once populous districts have bee
N utterly abandoned and that the morta
10 ity among children from famine an
w disease has been appalling beyond an
power to describe.
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