The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-09-29

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Mr.. Pratt was also guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gilmore. Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs j. F. Wirth visited Mr..
and Mrs. j. F. Gully, in Detroit the
fore part of the week. While there
they listened several times to Billy
Sunday, the famous evangelist.
| Mrs. II. C. Rose, of County Line,
who has been receiving treatment at
Mercy Hospital, Bay City, is reported
to be improving nicely, but will remain
at the hospital for a short while longer.
Fl. w. Choate spent Sunday with his
wife and daughter who are spending an
indefinite time with her mother, Mrs.
o. r. Davis. The latter has moved
from Shannon SCOTS residence to
rooms in the residence of Thomas
Moshier.
The May Lumber Company, with
characteristic enterprise, has recently
installed one-ton Ford motor truck in
it's delivery service. This will facili-
tate quick deliveries and doubtless find
much favor among the patrons of the
company.
Stephen Hopkins left for Chicago,
Tuesday morning, where he expects to
enter college and take course in dent
istry. Steve's many friends here will
join in the wish that he may make rapid
progress and attain unqualified success
n his chosen profession.
A Miss Erwin gave very interesting
temperance lecture at the M. E. church
Monday evening. In the afternoon
proceeding the lecture she trained
chours Of boys and girls who will sing
at the temperance rally to be held in
Clio tomorrow Saturday afternoon.
Rev. and Mrs. E. c. c. Benson re-
turned home Saturday, the former from
conference and the latter from visit
with her parents, in Howell. During
the past week Mr.. Benson was called
to Fenton township to officiate at the
wedding of two prominent young peo-
ple who were former parishioners of
Jack and his famous bean stalk have
rather pretentious rival in Arthur
Butler and his pumpkin vine This has
not been very good year for pump
kins, but the two vines that Mr.. Butler
grew have done wonders. They ran all
over the lot, like neighbours chickens,
and bore sixty perfectly good specimens
of pie timber.
C. B. Barker, who was seriously in
iured in an auto accident in Detroit,
during the State Fair. has returned
from the hospital to his home in Thet-
ford and has been able to get down
town on one or two occasions. He is
making as favorable progress as could
! be expected, but it will probably be
some time before he fully RECEIVERS.
On Sunday morning. Sept. "a, 1916,
. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stuber were made
happy by the arrival of fine twin sons.
The little boys weighed 6h and ca lbs,
respectively, and are making splendid
progress, as is also their mother We
beg to extend sincerest congratulations
to the happy parents and also to ex-
press the hope that the boys may grow
up to be happy, prosperous and useful
citizens.
The editor acknowledges, with thanks
gift from Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G.
Matzen of beautiful bouquet of ever
J blooming roses. This species of rose
begins poisoning early in the spring
and continues its mission of beautify-
!. ing the earth until winter is close at
hand. Mr.. and Mrs. Matzen have a
beautiful flower garden, planted with a
large variety of choice flowers-beauti-
full now and destined to become more so
as the plants increase in size and age.
VIM. English was in Detroit on bust
ness, Monday. When he was in Grand
Rapids, week or so ago, he saw Harry
H. Gardiner, the human fly, climb up
the walls of thirteen story office
building without the assistance Of any
, thing but piece of rope about four
, feet in length. And wonderful feat
ure was that Gardiner accomplished
, the feat in about fifteen minutes, fin
ishing at the top of the fifty foot flag
staff on the top of the building, on the
ball of which he placed his hat. This
man climbed up the outside of the state
capitol building the other day. concern
ing which one of the local papers said
Harry H. Gardiner, the human fly, ,
scaled the east side of the state house
this afternoon while 25,0O0 people
looked on. Thirty minutes after he
started from the ground he was seated
on the top of the capitol dome waving
his hands at the crowd.
Edward Grower, hardware merchant
of Eureka, Mich, was painfully injured
: as a result of his auto upsetting while
{ en- route to st. Johns. However,
: Grower is thankful he is alive. In the
auto were so pounds of dynamite and
, 45 percussion caps in his pocket. De-
spite that the gasoline got afire and he
was badly burned, besides being pinned
unconscious under the machine, the
!, dynamite was not set off.
: NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.