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The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
A Comprehensive Order.

Bill Pinkerton of the Chicago detec-
tive force was accosted on State street
by an sex" from Joliet, to whom he had
shown some favors in former years.
The ex, being temporarily flush with
money, invited Bill to have lunch with
him at one of the fashionable restaur-
ants.
The ex offered the bill of fare to
Bill, and the waiter, having taken his
order handed the French menu card
to the eX. He looked ut it moment,
puzzled at the strange hieroglyphics,
and then turned to the waiter:
"Where are the pork and beans on
this card?'
The waiter indicated the item.
well, bring me everything above
and below that line"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
TO EQUIP MILITIA
IN Event OF WAR
LEGISLATURE WOULD GUARD
MEN AGAINST SHORTAGE
OF NECESSITIES.
RESOLUTION IS ADOPTED
Federal Government should Provide
Equipment but Solons Want Men
to Have Every Comfort.
(From Our Special Correspondent

(From Our Special Correspondent
Lansing.
IL there Is danger of war and Mich
igan troops are to be called into SER
vice, the house of representatives
wishes to save them from the conse-
quences OF equipment shortages and
other lacks that have occurred ON
previous occasions when the federal
government was supposed TO have pro-
vded for the comfort and safety of
the men.
The note took the form of reso-
which the adjutant general of the
state troops, Major Bersey, is asked
for information Of the troops.
Major Bersey, however, is not in
position to give much information
because the Michigan brigade is
split between the home stations and
the border. The companies that have
returned from the border have not yet
completed their accounts, and the gov
eminent has now on hand some sup
plies that would be distributed imme-
diately If the troops were needed.
Moreover the state, under the new
militia act, has nothing to do with the
personal equipment of the men. Ev-
erything is. supposed to be furnished
by the federal government. Represen-
tative Lemire's idea is that IL such
conditions as prevailed at Grayling
part Of the time, could be known in
advance, the state could take steps
TO see that the men were saved from
any suffering. Such work by the state,
however, would be unofficial as far
as the federal government is concern
ed.
The resolution was adopted unani-
mously and without word of debate.
Members declared freely that IL Mich
igan's soldiers were to be called again,
they should &C with every comfort pos
sible.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
New Bills introduced.

Rep. Wood has introduced a bill to
abolish the Office Of state oil inspec-
tor.
Rep. Lewis has introduced a bill to
extend the time for the payment of
state taxes to Feb. 20 of each year.
Bills have appeared in the house
and senate for the creation of the
position of Public Relief officer, to
work under the state board of chari-
ties and correction and keep tab on all
public charities, getting annual re-
ports on what each has done and is
doing.
Senator Damon would change the
title of county poor commissioners to
Commissioners OF Public Relief and
pay them 81 a day instead of So.
~ Rep. Croll has bill to divide the
expense between counties when a
trunk line road runs along their
boundaries and 1t 10 necessary to
condemn land for 1t.
Rep. Macarthur has introduced bill
to make incurable insanity grounds for
The insane person would
sE,. be at least five years in an
q ,efore the divorce could be
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
House Opposes Pensions.

The house has gone on record as
opposed to pensions. 1t voted S3 TO
3 for the Evans bill prohibiting pen.
sions to retired state employees. while
its committees have killed the pronos.
ed pensioning of circuit judges after
25 years service, and other pension
proposals. Efforts to obtain sala-y
raises for numerous state employees
also are having hard shedding. The
department OF labor bill sought in.
creases all along the line for its force,
starting with $4,000 salary for the
commissioner and grading down on
the others The senate committee
has reduced the commissioners pro-
posed salary to $4,000 and his deputys
proposed salary to $500.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
State Fuel Commissioner Proposed.

A bill to create a state fuel com.
missioner, who will wath the coal
situation in behalf of the whole state
and be prepared to expedite ship
ments to all parts OF Michigan. has
been introduced by Rep. Andrew F.
Toepel, OF Detroit. The Soldiers
Home at Grand Rapids is seeking an
extra appropriation of $4,000 to build
a coal house for the storage of fuel,
so that it will not again be in danger
of freezing up in the winter months.
Joint resolutions have been introduc.
ed in the senate and In the house
calling for constitutional amend
ment 10 allow cities to own and one
rate municipal fuel yards.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09

Charging five times, the Russians at
tempted To recapture heights taken by
the Germans north of the Valputno
road on the northern Roumanian front.
but were repulsed with considerable
losses, says the Berlin war office.
What may be termed the first stage
Of the German retirement plan on the
Arras-Somme sector seems TO have
been about completed, says a dispatch
from London, and the Germans are
making definite stand. Their line
runs from Essarts through Achiet-le-
Petit TO about 1000 yards southeast of
Bapaume. The Germans are not eN-
pected TO yield this line until further
pressure is brought to bear against
them.
Germany has a fleet of 100 battle
ship submarines, heavily armed and
capable of bombarding seacoast cities
and Notifications. 1t is said that the
disclosure was made by Admiral De-
gouy of the French navy at Paris.
The Germans have already fallen
back behind Bapaume and the fall of
that town is imminent, according 10
information from the front received by
military circles at Paris, France. The
new German line is said to run along
the road from Bapaume to Peronne
and some distance in the rear of the
former town.
A German air raid was made on the
seaside resort of Broadstairs on the
Kentist coast, the London war Office
announced. One woman was injured
by bomb dropped from a German
airplGne.
A Berlin dispatch says the German
army headquarters announces n vol
untary and systematic withdrawal of
on both banks of the Ancre, on the
FrancoBelgian front.
Strenuous attacks, carried out by
German troops in the Carpathians, re-
suited in the capture of several Rus
sian positions on the heights, II Off
GERS and more than 1900 men, it was
officially announced at Berlin. Sew
eral counter-attacks were repulsed.
The war Office at London announced
that British troops occupied the impor-
tant village of Gommecourt and cap
tured the villages of Thilloy and Puie-
sieux-Au-Mont MS well, advancing their
line more than half mile to the north
east of Gommecourt.
Turkish troops taken prisoner by the
British at Kut-el-Amara now number
several thousands, Earl Curzon, menu
Der of the war council, stated in the
house of lords at London.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
What the Doctor Knows
KIDNEYS MUST BE RIGHT TO
INSURE HEALTH.

Few people reanas 20 what extent their
health depends upon the condition of the
kidneys.
The physician in nearly all cases of
serious illness, makes a chemical analy-
sis of the patients urine. He knows that
unless the kidneys are doing their work
properly, the other organs cannot readily
be brought back to health and strength.
When the kidneys are neglected or
abused in any way, serious results are
sure to follow. According to health sta
tistics, Bright's Disease, which is really
an advanced form of kidney trouble,
caused nearly ten thousand deaths in one
year, in the State of New York alone.
Therefore, il is particularly necessary to
pay more attention to the health of these
important organs.
An ideal herbal compound that has had
remarkable success as a kidney remedy
is DIR. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great
kidney, liver and bladder remedy.
The mild and healing influence of this
preparation, in most cases, is soon real
lied, according to sworn statements and
verified testimony of those who have used
the remedy.
When your kidneys require attention,
get Swamp Root at once from any phar-
macy. It is sold by every druggist in
bottles of two sizes-50c and $l.0O.
However, il you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DIR.
kilmer 4 Co, Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper. Adv.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Customary Adjournment Talk.

With the coming of the month of
March the usual talk among the legis-
lators at this stage of legislative
session in relation to determining on
a date for adjournment of the session.
has begun. house resolution has
been offered and led on the table that
seeks adjournment of regular business
sessions on March 80. No one be-
lieves that this can be accomplished,
but all are operating on the theory
that the presence OF such a resolution
will help to speed up legislative work.
In the senate Lieut.. Gov. Dickinson
has asked the senators to get busy
with their committee work and so
facilitate work on the floor of the sen.
ate.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Railroads Seek Fare increase.

A bill from railroad sources seek
ng an increase in passenger fare rates
from . cents mile to IL cents IL
the lower peninsula and cents in the
upper peninsula has been offered and
Is sure to start battle royal, the
same as it did two years ago. Now
the roads state they are making an
appeal to the people for justice; that
they have nothing to sell except trans
portation and are held down to low
rate on that which is not subject to
change, while everything they need
to conduct their business has sky,
rocketed price.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09

and 1t has helped me in every way. !
am not nearly so nervous, no headache
or pain. ! must say that Lydia q.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Is the
best remedy any sick woman can take. :
Mrs. MARGARET QUINN, Rear 259
Worthen St., Lowell, Mass.
Other warning symptoms are q sense
of suffocation, hot flashes, headaches.
backaches, dread of impending evil,
timidity, sounds in the ears, palpitation
of the heart, sparks before the eyes,
irregularities, constipation, variable
appetite, weakness, inauietude, and
dizziness.
If you need special advice, write to
the Lydia f. Pinkhem Medicine Co.
(confidentiaD, Lynn. Mass.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Change in Game Law.

The first battle over the game laws
wound up in the passage by both the
senate and the house OF the zone bill
for closed seasons at different times
in various parts of the state. Under
this BILL if one or more counties want
certain game protected, the game de-
partment, on petition of the ~supervis-
ors of the counties concerned, can
hold hearing and afterwards. IL the
situation warrants and the public do
main commission approves, can order
closed season in the district desiring
it.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Protected.

Donald was troubled with indiges-
ton, which made necessary n careful
supervision of his diet. One night at
dinner he asked for second helping
of dessert.
mo, Donald" said his aunt. Don't
you remember the last time you ate so
much pudding, how 1t made you dream
about lions and bears and tigers and
all sorts of wild animals?"
swell, / don't care" he whispered
aft made me dream that / had a great
big gun there, too 20
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
YOU MAY TRY cUTIcURA FREE
That's the RuIe--Free Samples to Any.
one Anywhere.

We have so much confidence in the
ties of Cuticura Ointment for all skin
troubles supplemented by hot baths
with Cuticura Soap that we are ready
TO send samples on request. They are
ideal for the toilet.
F4shFrnpie each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. l.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Quite a Difference.

Politics in this country seems to
have undergone a radical change"
''In what PARTICULAR
"Time was when big business die
tated who was to be the successful
candidate"
"And now?"
'sThe successful candidate lends an
ear to the common people while big
business sits glowering in an ante
room waiting to get an audience"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Quickly lnsnired.

"Dubbs has lively imagination"
"Tve noticed that. Dubbs can glance
over pamphlet issued by some west
ern railroad and then rave about the
scenic wonders of Arizona as If he had
just been there"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Personal

Representative Michael r. Conry OF
New York city. Democratic member
elected for fifth, died at Washing
ton hospital after long illness from
kidney trouble. He was forty-seveD
years old.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Sporting

Sam Wiliston, University Of Chi
cago freshman, broke the worlds rec
ord for underwater swimming at Chi
cago. His mark was 324 feet I'm
! 10 40. He tainted when he came to
the surface and was rescued.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09

Change OF Lie ana
the bad feelings
common at th a T.
time. / was 10 q
very nervous condi-
ton, with headaches
and pain a good
deal of the time 80 I
was unfit to do my
work. A friend
asked me to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's
" g & 9 t a b lie Com
nn,,nd xth;ch Il did
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Warrington

Provision for 500. 900 for the federal
trade commissions investigation of the
food crisis was stricken from the sun
dry civil bill by the senate appropri-
atoms committee at Washington. AS
ordered reported the bill carries $780,
02S,513.
The sundry civil bill carrying apprO-
priations totaling S13S000,000 and pro-
the high cost Of living by the federal
trade commission, passed the house at
Washington without record vote.
-
The administration revenue bill, de-
signed to raise $350,000000 through
special taxes and bond issues. was
passed by the senate Mt Washington
by strict party vote. AZ TO 33.
II have done, am now doing and will
continue TO do everything In my power
to keep the United States at peace"
This was the assurance given II group
of pacifists by President Wilson at
Washington.
Bids were opened by the navy de-
partment at Washington for 2.400 one
pound guns and mounts, $50 three-inch
guns and mounts and several four and
five-inch mounts. These guns are the
type most effective against submarines.
William Jennings Bryan is ready 20
support Isesident Wilson in his re-
quest TO congress for enlarged powers
70 protect American lives and property
on the seas and for the maintenance
of armed neutrality He made this
statement at Washington.
A unanimous report saying that no
one save two Washington newspaper
men-F. Fred Essary and w. w. Price
were responsible for whatever leak"
there was on President Wilson's peace
note. was presented to the house at
Washington.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Foreign

The German emperor Is suffering
from Il severe chill. says dispatch
from Berlin. II is stated that the EN-
peror is com q He'd to remain indoors,
hut receives the ministers and aommu-
nicates daily with headquarters.
The French minister and the Belgian
charge d'affaires. representing the en-
tente allies mt Peklng have invited
Ifhit., tn s4eN
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
u. S.-TeutOnic Break

The American hospital unit from
Naumburg. including Doctors Sauer
of III Paso, Frick of New York and
Nurses Bertha Becht. Mary Cunnarl
and Aida Meyer are on their way
home, says a Copenhagen dispatch.
Paul Dreher, German subject,
known as an intimate friend of Jose
Miguel Gomez, was arrested ut Ha-
vana on federal order and was held
without bail.
New York manufacturers and mer-
chants are rushing to supply the gov
eminent with war equipment. They
are working under II committee of the
chamber of commerce Of the United
States, headeIin that city by Edward
ID. Page.
A sensation has been caused i'm Lon
don by the news that tile American
consular agent at Malmoe, Sweden.
Joseph Westenberg has been fined
$4,000 for exporting forbidden goods
to Germany. Suit was brought by the
Forenade Dampskibe Selskab of Co.
penhagen.
Coastwise steamers of the Mallory
and Southern Pacific lines are pre-
pared TO be converted into scout cruis-
ers ut short notice, it was learned at
Houston, Tex. The Mallory liner
Concho has just been measured by the
government TO carry large caliber
guns.
Approximately $4,000 Indians in vari-
Gus parts of the country would be will
Ing to serve In the military forces Of
the United States In the event OF war,
according to a statement made at Den
yer, Colo.
Berlin reports that German subma-
rines which have Just returned 10 heir
bnse report the sinking Of II ships.
Eleven were steamers, two were snlI-
Ing ships and eight were trnwlers.
Among the steamers sunk was a Brit
ish transport, A-19.
bill 70 empower the president TO
arm merchant ships, but not extending
the authority he requested To use
'othcr instruDentalitles. In defending
American rights npninet ti,n s...i..-.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09

1nlTty tnOuSNnu regular ana NaIlOnal
Guard troops stationed at lei Paso,
Tex, have been quarantined in their
camps there because of an epidemic of
pneumonia among the troops.
Legislation granting women limited
suffrage was killed so far as the pres
ent session of the Tennessee legislature
is concerned when the state senate
voted Is TO 10, To table motion TO re-
consider bill for that purpose.
More than 200 employees of the Rock
Island shops at Cedar Rapids, Ia, tele-
graphed to Congressman Good reso-
luton supporting the stand of Presi-
dent Wilson on the rupture with Ger
many. petition favoring peace had
been circulated in the shops and TO
this the 200 men object.
Twenty thousand men Mt work on
building trades in Cleveland. o., We're
called out on strike by Business Agent
Smith of the Building Trades Council
following the locking out of 1,175 men.
Twenty-Five homeward bound en-
ployees of the Ohio Steel foundry were
hurled through the air and then
crushed beneath train wheels when a
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton freight
struck their auto-bus ut Lima, D..
Seven were killed and twelve hurt.
Governor Whitman directed the
state athletic commission mt Albany,
N Y, 10 prohibit the boxing bout at
New York between Les Darcy and
Jack Dillon. on the ground that Darcy
is Stacker"
The federal grand jury Mt New
York. which spent five days probing
the alleged spy plot by which Ameri-
can newspaper correspondents were
sent to England as observers" indict-
ed Albert A. Sander, George Vaux Ba'
con and Charles W. Wunenburg.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Business Troubles.

10Y, oy, such Il Freshness !"
"Vat's up, Cohenstein?"
I've soldt man II set Of teeth NIT
n gold plate for four tollars down and
two a week, und he hasn't made de
second payment"
Ivy don't you take de teeth away
from him?"
I'VE can't; he's got lockjaw."
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09

Prior to the sailing from Halifax. N.
s.. of the steamship Fdererik VIII,
with Count Won Bernstorif and his
party on board, $4,000 in gold was
taken from the Countess Manfred MAJ
tuschka. Gold is contrabund.
The American freighter Rochester
has arrived at Bordeaux. The ioches-
ter and the Orleans were the first
American vessels to leave the United
States for Europe after the breach Of
diplomatic relations with Germany.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09

It's impossible for one to buy friends
worth the price.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
PAIN? NOT A BIT!
LIFT YOUR C0RnS
OR CALLUSES OFF
No humbug! Apply few drops
then Just lift them away
with fingers.

This new drug is an ether compound
discovered by Cincinnati chemist. II
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
WOMEN OF
Middle AGE
Mrs. Quinn's Experience
Ought to Help You Over
the Critical Period.

Lowell, Mass. -''For the last three
wears I have been troubled with the
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09

Official acceptance of the monu-
ments that we're placed along the
Ohio-Michigan boundary by commits
sion from both states has been or
dered by the house OF representatives,
One OF the most important bills OF
the session, and which has strong
backing among farmers organizations.
was introduced in the house by Rep.
Thomas Read, of Oceana county. 1t
provides for the use of the Torrens
system of land transfers in Michigan,
but makes its use optional as COM
pared with the abstract system.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09

Paul Dreher, German subject,
known as an intimate friend of Jose
Miguel Gomez, was arrested ut Ha-
vana on federal order and was held
bail.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Domestic

Thirty thousand regular and National
Guard troops stationed at lei Paso,
Tex, have been quarantined in their
camps there because of an epidemic of
pneumonia among the troops.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
Pure Booze Bill.

Rep. Culver, for the state food de-
partment, has introduced bill to give
the food commissioner power to see
that no adulterated liquors are
brought into the state for medicinal,
sacramental, mechanical, scientific or
chemical purposes after the state goes
dry. This is the pure booze" bill
which former Food Commissioner
Jim" Helme says will be needed
more in a dry state than in wet
state.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09

Natural Result.
"BinkS and | had an alteration
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09
News of the
Week Cut
Down for
Busy Readers
European War News
IlIllIIIlIlIHlIlIIIlllIlllllllIIlIllllIlllll

Charging five times, the Russians at
tempted to recapture heights taken by
the Germans north of the Valputno
road on the northern Roumanian front.
but were repulsed with considerable
losses, says the Berlin war Office.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-03-09

A bill 70 empower the president 10
arm merchant ships, but not extending
the authority he requested to use
''othcr instruiDentalitles. in defending
American rights nCninst ti,o s...i..-.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1917-08-18
TRY III SUBSTITUTE
FOR NASTY CALOMEL
Starts your liver without making
you sick and can not
salivate.

Every druggist in town-your
druggist and eyerybody's druggist
has noticed great falling-off in the
sale of calomel. They all give the
same reason. Dodson's Liver Tone
is taking its place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know it, while Dodson's Liver Tone
is perfectly safe and gives better re-
SUITS" said prominent local drug
gist. Dodson's Liver Tone is per-
sonally guaranteed by every drug
gist who sells it. A large bottle
costs so cents, and if it fails to give
easy relief in every case of liver
sluggishness and constipation, you
have only to ask for your money
back.
Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant
tasting, purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults.
Take spoonful at night and wake
up feeling fine; no biliousness, sick
headache, acid stomach or consti-
pated bowels. It doesn't grippe or
cause inconvenience all the next
day like violent calomel.