The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1919-05-01
LOCAL NEWS

Miss Iva Hawley spent the week
end at her home in Thetford.
H Mrs. d. M. Smith has been confined
to her home by illness this week.
The Misses Ivah Hunt and Ruth
Robson spent Saturday in Flint.
Special for Saturday-Good, un-
bleached cotton, tic yard. Meeks
& Wirth.
Mrs. E. E. Huyck is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. E. r. May, in Flint,
this week.
Remember our =. furniture polish.
You will swear by it if you once use
it-Reid Bros.
Miss Bernice Hymen spent Sunday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. G. w.
Smith, in Birch Run.
Mrs. Chas. LaDue and daughter,
Pauline, and Miss Eleanor Acheson
spent Saturday in Flint.
Lloyd, Leona and Frances Miller
spent the week end in Flint, visiting
their sister, Mrs. Ed. Roth.
Miss Ruth Pound spent the week
end with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Pound, in Thetford.
Miss Nell McGinnis, of Saginaw,
spent Sunday visiting at the home Of
her sister, Mrs. d. ]. Murphy.
Miss Annie Allen, of Flint, spent
the week end at the home Of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. William Allen.
The Misses Dorothy Hymen, Beat
rice Carl, Anna Doyle and Henrietta
Kuehl spent Sunday afternoon in Mt.
Morris.
We have a package of exception
ally fine grade writing paper that
sells for soc. Look it over before
buying.-Reid Bros.
Pvt. Fred Randall, who served IL
months with the American Field Ar
tillery in France, is guest of Mr..
and Mrs. A. j. Littlefeld
| Mrs. Henry Newton went to Owes
so, Monday, to attend the funeral of
her brother, Charles Brockway, who
had been i'll for long time.
Mrs. Fred Tinker is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Joseph Wardle, in
Mt. Clemens, and also taking the
baths for rheumatic trouble.
Remember that Brennan's Big
Dramatic Company is showing under
canvas in Clio tonight and to-mor-
row night Friday and Saturday,.
Ed l.. Beeman has bought the
frame store on the northwest corner
} of Vienna and Mill Sts., and will have
it reprinted and put in frst-class
} repair as soon as the work can be
done.
The athletics of Clio High School
} are looking up some. On Friday
the boys walloped the Flushing High
} nine to the tune of 20 to 6. On the
same day the basket ball contest went
to Gaines by score of IL to 3.
} Mrs. Rob Daily left, Monday, for
Petrolia, Ont, to visit her brother,
Fred Douglas, who served the last
three years with the 10th Reg't in
France and who has accepted a po-
sition with the American Oil Co., and
will leave this month for Swansea,
} Wales.
]. j. Jones, who is perhaps as close
an observer of conditions affecting
the local fruit crop as anyone in this
locality, tells us that contrary to his
expectation he has been unable to
see that the recent freezing weather
did any damage to berries or other
fruits commonly grown in this sec
ton.
The many friends Of Mrs Charles
Monte will be glad to know that she
has returned from Detroit much
benefited by the treatment for cam
Ger of the tongue which she received
while there. The pain attendant up
on this terrible disease was entirely
removed and the members of her fam
lily are quite confident that she will
fully recover and all who know the
aged lady will unite in the hope that
such may be the case.
Frank Rockafellow, referring to
the story of the old ballots, as printed
in the last issue of The Messenger,
recalled that the election in which
they were used was held just 81
years ago. Uncle Porter Greenfield
came into the office to see the old
ballot box, which he said he remem-
bered very well, and having been a
wrestler in his youth, he recalled
that many a contest of that sort used
to be staged on election day, and
that B. S. Jennings, then young
school teacher, used to be able to
dunn most of the rrapnlers in this