The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1917-07-06
Sl.O0 A Year in Advanc.

| Mrs. Z. Campbell and Jessie La
Marsh, of Saginaw, spent the week
end with Mrs. James l.. Beckwith.
Mrs. George Jewell has returned to
her home after spending few weeks
at the home of Mrs. A. l.. Jewell.
Born, Friday, June 20, 1917, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Fiske Brown, a daugh-
ter. Congratulations and best wishes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Rich, of
Flint, spent Sunday with the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Lembach.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Fisher, of Clar-
ence, New York, were here to attend
the funeral of his uncle, Mr.. George
Seib.
Henry Clark and wife, of Flint,
visited at the home of their daughter,
Mrs. Sylvester Pound the first of the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Wirth, Mr. and Mrs.
H. Loomis and family and Miss Anna
Ulrey spent the Fourth at Potter's
Lake.
Mrs. E. S. Routson has returned
to her home in Toledo after ten
days visit with her sister, Mrs. John
| Hurd.
Mrs. C. Needham and her mother,
Mrs. r. Parish, Of Swartz Creek,
spent the week end with Mr.. and Mrs.
E. X. Warner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Taylor left on
the Fourth to spend their vacation at
Long Lake. Mrs. NJ. Butler is-keep-'
ing their store.
:. j. K. Frost and Ernest Montague
have returned from Albion after at
tending the Epworth League institute
FOR the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Douglas visited
their nephew, Earl Douglas, and wife,
Sunday. Mr. Douglas has a ginseng
farm near Birch Run.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Young, who
have been occupying Mrs. N. w.
Mann's house, have moved to their
former home at Algonac.
c. Robertson's drug store was
broken into Wednesday night. The
store has been examined and $1.75
is all that has been found to be miss
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Eccles, of
Saginaw county, were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Don Beeston, last week, as
was also Mrs. Almo eer, of West
Vienna.
Mr. and Mrs. John Nelson and
daughter, of New Lathrop, and Mrs.
Chas. Leach and daughter, of st.
Charles, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. E. Leach.
Mrs. F. Houghton, Mrs. P. Doyle
and Mrs. George DAILY attended the
recital given by pupils of Miss Ola
Russell, in Mt. Morris, Wednesday
evening. The program consisted of
% numbers and was thoroughly de-
lightful.
Mrs. Mercen G. Robinson has re-
turned to her home in Rochester, N.
Y, after months visit at the home
of her brother, j. J. Parsons. Mrs.
Parsons and daughter, Frances, ac-
companied her. They will remain in
New York for several weeks.
Mrs. L. L. Davis was called to Flint,
Monday, to care for her daughter,
Mrs. John Scherping, who was struck
by an auto Sunday evening. The
auto threw her four or five feet,
breaking her arm and cutting her face
very seriously.
The Chautauqua will be held in
Clio from July 81 to August a. 1t
will be splendidly pleasurable and in
structive. 1t will provide Junior
Chautauqua that will be great for the
kids. Let other amusements slide. if
necessary, and plan to attend the Clio
Chautauqua.
Thos. H. Steele, who has for the
last five years been soldier in the
u. S. Coast Artillery and stationed in
Florida, visited his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Steele, Sunday and Mon
| day. On Monday evening he went to
Fort Wayne, being accompanied by
his parents. He expects to go to
France in the near future.
Any boy or girl who attends school
whole year without being either alb
sent or tardy is deserving of whole
lot of praise, especially if it be a town
boy or girl. Country boys and girls
! clS SApNNteu W StN up early, Htip w
! the chores, walk mile or so to school
and be there on time, but with town
kids it's different. And so we regard
it pleasure and duty to add the
name of Lloyd Mccormick to the
honor roll of scholars of Clio schools
who were neither absent nor tardy
during the past school year. Lloyd's
name was omitted from the orig
inal list by mistake, which shows that
we are not ION to our job" quite as
well as he is on to his.
About twenty-five years ago Michi-
gan experienced a great drouth dur.
ing which all kinds of crops suffered
extremely and thousands of acres
yielded absolutely nothing. SO far
as the writer is able to judge the out
look for crops this year in this section
/ nf fha cfat af1 .c