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The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
Wood Funsch

The first of the soldier boys to be
married since the word came that the
troops were to be taken from Fort
Brady, was solomnized Saturday morn
ing, September 20, when Miss Eva
Funsch of Mt. Morris and Sergeant
Clarence Wood of Co. A. were united in
marriage at st. Mary's Church, Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich. Rev. Fr. Renillard
performed the ceremony which vas a
combination of Catholic and Military
rites. The young couple were escorted
to the church in an automobile ac-
companed by the brides maid. Miss
Barbara Zanalla, the best man, Private
Dorothy, the Military band and three
gunboat wagons drawn by black
mules and an escort of soldiers from
Co. A. Mrs. Lieut.. John Hynan acted
as matron of honor, Mrs ]. L. Irving
and Mrs. Lieut.. G. Lautz of Ft. Brady
Mrs. Loretta Barber and Mrs. Clinton
Irving of Kalamazoo as maids of honor,
Miss Nina Paterson, Miss Mae Buck
and Miss Merle Paterson as flower girls.
Lieut.. j. L. Irving had the honor of
giving away the bride and Sergeant
McVansell, Sergeant Wright, Corporal
Mulligan and Corporal Irving all of Ft.
Brady acted as ushers. The bride was
attired in a blue travelling suit and
carried a bouuuet of white astors tied
with the national colors. After the
ceremony a wedding breakfast was
served in the Sprague Hotel where the
girls of the party took advantage of the
opportunity to kiss the blushing groom
and the soldiers saluted the bride like
wise. Mr.. and Mrs. Wood are both
we'll known in Clio and vicinity and The
Messenger joins with their many friends
in wishing them health wealth and
happiness.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
Fire Damages Residence

An unruly oil heater was the cause of
fire in the residence of DR.. B. T.
Goodfellow, Wednesday evening, that
might have caused large loss but for
it's timely discovery. Mrs. Goodfellow
was making a call on neighbor at the
time and had left the oil stove burning
in the front room. A young gentleman
on his way to call on a girl friend
observed the flames consuming the
curtains and rightly concluding that he
could do all the sparkling in that neigh
borhood that was essential to human
happiness promptly broke in a window,
threw the burning curtains and rugs
out doors and extinguished the fire.
The damage was about $4,000.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
Thetford Red Cross

The Thetford Branch of the Red
Cross society met in the town hall Fri
day afternoon, September %. The fin
ished work turned in by the knitters
since August is 13 sweaters, 5 muff-
lers, 46 pairs socks. Al pairs wristlets, Z
chin bandages, IL wash clothes and 2
pairs knee caps. This work has been
sent in to the Flint chapter of the Red
Cross except 5 sweaters, 3 mufflers,
10 pairs socks and 6 pairs wristlets furn-
ished for the Thetford boys who either
enlisted or were drafted. All those who
wish to help can get material and in
structions at the meetings held in the
Town Hall every Friday afternoon.
Mrs. M. Sheridan
Sec.-Treas.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
COAL SITUATION SERIOUS.

Recalling that the public service
cornorations were embarrassed last
winter by shortage of coal and IN
view of the fact that the outlook Is
even more serious now than IL was
then. the editor interviewed Superin-
tendent F. A. Beard of the Consum-
ers' Power Co., on the subject ana
elected the following. statement:
"The coal situation is very serious.
Our stocks are only about fifty per
cent of what we should carry at this
time of the year. Winter is coming
on when it will be increasing difhcult
TO get coal unless the government
gives us help in getting coal for pup
lie utilities. We have every reason 10
believe that the government will see
that we are kept in sufficient coal TO
meet our power obligations.
eve are not depending on this,
however, and have engaged the SER
vices of some of the leading coal men
of Michigan to aid US in securing
coal. We, also, have men in the west
Virginia field doing what they can to
get coal 1rOIn tIldI uioeiiS", "
own organization is working continu-
ally toward the same end.
"We have notified the Michigan
Railroad Commission and the mayors
of the various towns in which we op-
crate, of the serious situation, and
notified them that if conditions did
not improve in the near future, we
might be forced to limit our service
to some of our consumers. We hope
this condition will not arise, and we
are doing our best to see that 1t does
not. Should we be compelled to limit
our service, we will notify our con-
sumers as far in advance as possible
SO they can prepare for the limited
service.
ave do not anticipate any inter
ference with residence or commercial
lighting, as we always protect this
class of service. Their individual de-
mands are small, and we must follow
the policy of The greatest good to
the greatest number"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
Obituary
YOUNG

After an illness of more than eight
months duration, Mrs. George Young
passed to the great hey ond at her home
Sunday, September 30. The deceased
was born at Zurich, Ont, April %, 1886
and came to Michigan in 1895 and settl-
ed in Montrose where she was married,
December %, 1903. She leaves to
mourn her loss her husband. her mother
Mrs. Margaret Swayze of Montrose.
four sisters Mrs. Robert Wilcox of
Montrose, Mrs. j. o White of Los
Angeles, Calf, Mrs. Fred Bowman of
Saginaw and Mrs. Mervyn Coveart of
London. Ont, and two brothers, ]. S.
Swayze of Regina, Sask, and W. A.
Swayze of Toronto, Ont. Ms. Young
was an active member of the M. E.
church and was loved and respected by
all who knew her.
Funeral services were held Wednes-
day afternoon, Rev. E. c. C. Benson
officiating and the remains were laid at
rest in Montrose cemetery,
Sleep on. Beloved. Sleep
and take thy rest.
Lay down thy head upon thy
Savior's breast.
We love thee well but
Jesus loves thee best
Good Night.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
Methodist Protestant Notes

"Man and His Influence in the
World will be the theme of the
pastors sermon Sunday morning. Sum
day school following. Christian En-
deavor 7:3O. This will be conservation
meeting.
The Ladies' Aid will meet next week
Wednesday in the church parlors.
Service at the Montrose Brick church
at 2 o'clock.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
Repair Stone Roads

County Highway Supt. Montague in
forms us that the stone roads Leading
south from the cemetery, east to Pine
Run and north to Birch Run county line
will be resurfaced with tarvia and that
this work will be undertaken at once.
In order that the work may be done
properly and expeditiously it will be
necessary to close the roads while it is
being done.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
KEEP TO THE RIGHT.

The public is requested by the
Council to heed the traffic "cop" who
was placed on the corner of Vienna
and Mill streets last week. All autos
and other vehicles should keep to and
turn to the right when passing or
turning the corner and in this way it
is hoped that many accidents will be
avoided in the future.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
School Notes.

MRS. II. GilleIt visited tne Scnoo'
last Monday.
Florence Wilson, of Birch Run, visit
ed the high school Monday.
Mrs. S. Reed sent another beautiful
bouquet of astors to Miss Lash.
Elwin and Leo Williams visited the
high school Monday afternoon.
The beginning German class is study
ing Jacobs House" from Marchen und
Erzahlungen.
The Accent History class is studying
the history of Assyria.
Norma DAILY is absent on account of
illness.
lone Best of Birch Run visited the
primary room Monday.
Only three of the second and third
grade pupils have been absent this
month.
Fifty-cne of the seventy-five pupils
in the high school were neither absent
nor tardy this month.
The following pupils of the 7 and 8
grades were neither absent nor tardy
this month: Edward Beeman, ROLAND
Covert, Keith Chappell, Elfie Dobbs,
Helen Lafferty, Vera McCombe. La
verne Miller, vinton Maine, Beulah
Petit. Mary St. Clair, Olive Secor.
Isabelle Tracy, Ruth Wadsworth. Vera
Yeaster, Mabel Alley, Alice Goodrich,
Gladys Haskins. Gladys McKillop, Ear
Payne. Luella Sedlow and Frances
Utley.
Thirty pupils out of thirty-five in
Mrs. White 8 room We're neither absent
nor tardy this month.
The seniors will give box social Fri
day night, October IL, at the school
house. 1t will be an indoor track meet
which is a very interesting form OF
entertainment. The girls will please
bring boxes and the boys bring cash.
The public is cordially invited.
There were twenty-eight pupils of the
fourth grade who were neither absent
nor tardy during the month of Septem-
Der.
The following are the names of the
pupils in the kindergarten and first
grade who have been neither absent
nor tardy during the month of Septem-
Der: Clifton Conlee, Darwin Marshall,
Mildred Doyle, Ruth Woolson, Alice
Dingman. Amos Collver, Maynard Ford,
Luella Anderson. Amos Lown, Ruth
Hymen, Donald Halligan, Glendale
Pierce, Gerneth Woolson, Paul Chappel
Sheldon Stiltz, Merritt McComb
Foster Smith, Claude Lown, Jennie
Cummings. Ralph Wadsworth, Hildrec
Gere and Joe Hurd.
The eighth grade glee club and the
high school orchestra have been or
ganized. The orchestra will have theil
first practice Friday night.
The first report cards of the yeal
have been distributed. Parents are
requested to examine these cards care
fully. sign and have them returned
promptly.
The attendance has been very goot
in all the rooms this month, but {
certain few insist on being absent Oh
tardy once or twice a month whether
necessary or not.
A new system of examinations is tC
be tried out in the high school thi:
year. Four examinations are to bs
held during the school year, one every
ten weeks. A pupil who has passed
the first three satisfactorily, who ha'
no failures in monthly reports and wh'
keeps his daily work up to the required
standard during the last ten weeks il
exempted from the final test.
The chemistry class has started ex
periments. They have prepared oxygei
and found it an interesting experiment
The Geometry 2 class has been givei
a series of "honor" exercises to solv'
this month. Credit is allowed TO
original, individual solutions.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
Card of Thanks

We wish to thank our friends for the
sympathy and beautiful floral offerings
and for the services of Rev. and Mrs.
C. w. Greene rendered us in our late
bereavement
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Baldwin
and family
Mrs. Mary Cooper
and family
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
T.OO A Year in Advance

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Anderson and Mrs.
ID. ). Anderson entertained seventeen
at dinner Sunday. Among the guests
were Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Griffith and
children of Plymouth. Mrs. Mrs. H. d.
Blackmer and children of Ypsilanti and
Mr.. and Mrs. d. F. Anderson and
daughter of West Vienna.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05

The first school social of the year will
be an indoor track meet given by the
seniors of C. II. S. on October IL, 1917.
Girls please bring lunch in boxes which
will be sold after the track meet.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05

Jess LaDue made business trip to
Alma Thursday.
Mrs. Ola Beardslee of Birch Run
spent Sunday in town.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
Not q Botanical Species.

The artichoke, which originally came
from Barbary, Is not botanical spe-
cIes, but variety of the thistle. which
grows spontaneously all along the
African coast Of the Mediterranean
from Morocco to Palestine.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-10-05
Free Methodist Church

Services every Sunday at 3 p. m.
o. B. GRIFFIN, Pastor,
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02

and in the end he will know just which
 car will produce the best results under
 like circumstances.
 Wide attention has been attracted to our country club models on ac-
 count of the big gasoline mileage figures which have been obtained with them.
 But now, when a prospective pur- chaser asks me if country club will
 always produce big gasoline mileage figures, I simply tell him it should do
 so under certain circumstances. An inexperienced driver or densely crowd ed streets, however, might reduce those figures considerably. What we want the prospective pur- | chaser to do is to witness a demon
 stration of the country club; satisfy himself that it has unusual fuel econ- i onny merits, and then compare it's per | fOrmance with that of other cars of l similar class We feel positive, in our
 minds, that this comparison will mean
 q sale for the country club.
 That is why fuel economy claims 1 are significant. They indicate in a l forceful way what can be expected of the car from the standpoint of per i fOrmance"
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02
FUEL ECONOMY |S IMPORTANT
 TO PURCHASER

Manager H. H. Hotchkiss of the Overland Arizona company, local Willys- Overland dealers. insists tha' gasoline mileage reports should be re- garded seriously and investigated be- fore the prospective purchaser decides which automobile he will buy. Re ports on fuel economy can furnish an indication of the merits of the car. h. declares
 Now that the motor car has fount Its way into the utility classification and the public has become educate concerning it, the average person has learned to take definite figures con corning gasoline mileage with a grain of salt" said MT Hotchkiss. He knows that the amount of gasoline used for each mile of travel in an au- tomobile depends largely on the ex- perience of the driver, the roads. trar fife conditions and the grade of fuel which is used.
 Nevertheless, those figures should not be ignored. If they are so exces- slve as to attract attention, there must be some unusual merit attached to the performance of the car, or the claims are absolutely fraudulent.
 Tn order to determine just how much confidence should be placed in those figures, the prospective pur- chaser should demand a demonstration of the car under the same conditions that existed when the big gasoline
 mileage was obtained. If the demon stration bears out the claims made ir behalf of the car, he can then do the same thing with other makes of car
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02

Bonn, commandant of Fort Lawton, Washington, to the commandant of Fort Rosecranz at San Diego, Califor- nia according to Manager George Reu- ben of the Kissel Auto company.
 One hundred and forty and one half gallons of gasoline were consumed, giving an average of 14H miles per gallon. The car was a regular hundred point six stock model. No trouble wa. experienced and it finished in perfect condition.
 By crossing the state of Washington a distance of AT miles in two hours and twelve minutes it won the Wash ington state trophy cup and by finish I ing the entire distance from Blaine i Washington, on the Canadian bound ary line to Tijuana, Mexico, in sever 1 hours and fifty minutes short of tn hundred hours allotted, won the dafen 1 league trophy.
 1 Hal Stone, former Vanderbilt cup 1 contender six years ago, drove the car k. W. Emerson, secretary of the de- 1 fense league and G. L. Stone, officiai i observer, accompanied him. MT ! Emerson stated on his arrival that the car could have easily made the tril 1 if they had not 1 had to contend with over six hundred and fifty miles of bad mountain roads l Also considerable time was spent il gathering data for the military defense | highway plans.
 | The trip was made to secure infor- i nation regarding the possibility oi l establishing a military highway alons | the Pacific coast than can be used the year around. The defense league wa. 1 xvit hn ha. l of getting the government interested in a great Pacific coast defense highway 1 which shall connect in one great line all the stragetic points of the Pacific coast so that in time of danger com munication with all these points would be the quickest possible.
 Prominent bu9lness and professiona men of Seattle, Portland and Sar Francisco are on the board of tht league. In speaking about the trip one of the members said: "The history Of the present war shows the par which the automobile has played Take the case of Paris and Verdun-it is { historical fact that the mobilization o 12,000 automobiles saved Paris iron :he foe and won the battle of Verduh But in addition to the automobiles. rh, roads played an important part carry ing the tons of supplies needed every minute and the mobility which the. afforded for the transportation O troops.
 This car coming through in such wonderful manner shows that we c6ti!t mobilize any number of men anywher
 on the Pacific in less than 100 hour and with good roads all the way, i could be done in 72 hours easily. Witt about 100000 automobiles in the west ern states, it would be possible t
 transport any body of men imaginabl
 to any point if the roads were sucl
 that traffic over them would not b
 hindered by winter weather"
 Every town on the route gave tn car on this mission of defense 'cart , blanche" as far as speed was con , cerned and at various points the fir
 or police chiefs met the speeder an helped it through the cities, at fit
 miles an hour.
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02
FRENCH FLAG FILES OVER THE PALACE OF
 GERMAN EMPEROR

CORFU, Island of Corfu, Sept. l. Emperor Williams famous summer palace of Achillion, on a height over looking the bay of Corfu, had the French flag flying over it when we drove up for a visit recently. At the gateway the arms of the HOhenzol- ferns blaZed from the massive iron gates thrown back on either side Bul these proud arms were for the moment obscured by the solid ranks of French soldiers, native troops from French Senegal in the heart of Africa, black as coal, in the French grey uniform with red feZ They saluted the Frenct officers as we passed through the gate and their trumpeter sent a French bugle call echoing through the German emperor's gardens.
 All about were evidences that French had replaced German direction at this imperial establishment, and that in stead of being a summer plaything for majesty, it was now being put to some real use. The island itself is tem- porarily under a French military gov ernpr, French battleships and cruisers crowd the harbor and dominate the heights, and French soldiers and sail ors make up a considerable part of this medley of races emptied into Cor fu by the stress of war. Here at the palace grounds we passed French red cross nurses tending wounded French soldiers in the olive groves, and one of the high officers of the French medi- cal service came from the palace to greet the party as it arrived
 This palace of the emperor is one of the curiosities of the east and is typical in many ways of the eccentric genius which conceived it. There are palaces the world over but nothing quite like this exists anywhere. Only Emperor William could have developed such an idea. The whole scheme is imperial and heroic The palace is planted on the very spot where Ulysses came for his sojourns. and from the imperial chamber one looks out on the classic island of Ulysses where the great hero spent his leisure hours. Like Ulysses, Emperor WT- liam came here for his leisure. and every May until the war began the inn per1al wacht circled Europe from the North Sea to the eastern Mediterran- can in order that he might enjoy these classic and heroic surroundings drrins the Iovellest period of the year. Look Ing down the steep cliff one sees the
 --si -di -lilg l,sdce where the yacht vas moored during these visits. Here the emperor first set foot. reaching. tht. palace by flight of steps heva in t.lc.. L.lc rocE. lined with marble statues or
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02

Greek deities. Or if he did not wish the climb, an auto took him through the miles of drive in the olive grove making gradual ascent to the lofty palace.
 The palace dominates vast stretch of land and water--Albanla just across the strait, then Greek Epirus to the south, the mountains and valleys Corfu near at hand, Italy lying low ir the dim distance to the west, and the clear blue waters of the Adriatic reach ing in all directions through the tanSle of islands. It is suggestive of imper- ialsm, and one thinks of what Elm peror William had in mind when he looked out on this circle of many lands and their strategic waters.
 There is one definite clue to hi; thoughts, in the heroic statue ol Achilles which he built at the highes point dominating all this land and wa ter. The statue is of bronze, showln the hero armed from head to foot sword in hand and shield on his breast straining forward for the fight ane looking intently out on this empire O, foreign lands and waters spread at hii feet Perhaps William had in min something more than toy palace dedi- cated to Ulysses and Achilles, and that the old Trojan heroes revived dreams of universal conquest.
 The palace is of white marble, squarely and solidly built after the Greek classical design, with the suS gestion that a German hand had mod ernized the old classical lines. Along the middle front, facing the sea, runs
 lIa,. T, and similar wide galleries are at the eastern end where the entrance is To- cated. The building is three stories high, with a frontage of about five hundred feet, and has about one hun dred rooms, including ball rooms, state dining rooms, a royal chapel, and the suites of imperial chambers. The mar ble columns of the galleries the win dow cornices and friezes along the front, are all essentially Greek, and the whole place has the massiveness and majesty of a Greek temple.
 Entering the main hall it was not clear whether one was in palace, or temple, or museum. Immediately to the right was the royal chapel, with the large fresco of Munkacsy's Christ before Pilate" back of the altar. By
 
 flood of light could be turned on to the central figures of the frescO, giving them a sort of luminous and living ef- feet, almost as in cinema, though it seemed a queer cOntrivance for 6 chapel One could hear a murmur ot "boche" run among the visitors, indi- eating their view that vandai hand had put together this mass of frescC and effect.
 Elaborate frescos and mirrors GOV or. aili' and ''lde walls of the state dining room. The subjects were always drawn from Greek antiquity but the figures of dancing nymphs ant lawns looked rather heavy as thougf
 VI 'g-emcad people of the north instead of the fine and delicate creatures of legendary Greece.
 The grand stairway was of marble with black iron balustrade Wrougk
Arizona republican., 1917-09-02
KIsSEL RECEIVES
 MILITARY TRYOUT
 ALONG TIE COAST

After proving that with good roads it would be possible to mobilize huge army at any given point on the Pacific coast in 72 hours, and winning two trophies while doing it, the Pacific Coast Defense leagues military Kissel-
 kar delivered on Tuesday, the message of Mayor Todd of Victoria, B. C., to Governor Cantu of Tiajuana, Mexico. after going through a gruelling trip of 2023 miles straight down the Pacific coast in ninety-two hours and four minutes running time. In addition to the mayors message they also carried