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The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-02-05

his pocket and went on with the pc
rusai Of Judgment transcript
That evening he said to his wife:
"Parkins wires me to sell that South
American railroad stock, but ! guess
there II no hurry about IT."
Well, what John did make on that
stock was over $500. 900. and he owns
most Of the town now. he quit gam
bling In stockA
It's disgusting the luck some people
have. ~
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-02-05
OBITUARY
FORD

Clio suffered the loss of a yerv
worthy citizen, Sunday, February /.
1870, when, after a very brief i'll
ness, Henry Ford was called to the
great beyond. He was born in Erie
County, New York, August z, 1845.
coming to Michigan and settling in
Jackson County, with his parents.
in childhood. His age was "a years.
9 months and "a days. He was
united in marriage to Miss Clarinda
Powell, October 6, 1878, soon after
which they removed to the vicinity
of Chesaning and Brant, Mich.
where they underwent the arduous
labor of reclaiming farm and home
from the wilderness. Advancing age
and i'll health made it necessary for
them to relinquish farming and about
seven years ago they became residents
Of Clio. Mr.. Ford was very highly
regarded here for his .friendliness
and unimpeachable integrity. Eleven
children were born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Ford. one of whom died in infancy,
while another, Pearl, died at the age
of IA. The surviving members of
the family are the widow and nine
children, the latter being as follows:
John r. Ford, Zada S. Ford, Mrs.
Flossie Lafferty, H. P. Ford, and
Glenn Ford, all of Flint; Mrs E. r.
White, of Chesaning; A. j. Ford, Of
Detroit; and A. d. and Ray d. Ford,
of Clio. There are also surviving,
29 grandchildren and two sisters, the
latter being: Mrs. Nancy Briggs, of
Ithaca, and Mrs. Elmira Horning, Of
Fremont. Funeral services were held
from the home on Wednesday after
noon, Rev. A. t. Camburn officiating,
and the remains were laid at rest in
Woodlawn cemetery.
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-02-05
The Kind.

II see where music has been
recommended as medical treatment to
the doctors"
"But suppose one were called to
cure brainstorm"
"He might try jazz band"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-02-05

"Pa, what Is elastic currencyr
"The kind that would come In very
handy just now to stretch over the
holiday season"
The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-02-05
JEWELL

The many friends of the family,
who reside in this section, will be
deeply saddened to know of the death
of Geo L. Jewell, of Rogersville, who
passed away at Hurley Hospital,
Flint, Sunday, February /, 1920
following few days illness of pneu-
monia. MIR. Jewell was for a consid-
cradle period the agent of the p. M.
Railway, in Clio, and as such became
well and favorably known to many
of our citizens. Later, he engaged
in farming at Rogersville and for
the past year or more had been an
employee of the Buick Motor Com
pany at Flint. He was highly es-
teemed in all of the places where he
had worked and resided and his un-
timely and sudden death will bring
a sense of deep sadness to all who
knew him. Mr. Jewell was born in
the Township of Ash, Monroe County
Mich, May a, 1878, having, at the
time of his death, reached the age
of al years, months and 27 days.
lie is survived by his widow, Mrs
Alta Jewell, and one little daughter,
Jane Joyce, two years of age; also
by his father. Robert M. Jewell, of
Flint, one sister, Mrs. Joseph Nc
Cormick, of Elkhart, Ind, and three
brothers, Arthur and Robert, of Clio,
and Floyd, Of Pittsburgh, Pa. Fun
eral services were held from the fam
lily home in Rogersville. Burial be-
ing in the cemetery at the same place.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
UNABLE TO IDENTIFY MUMMY
London Officials in Something of a
Quandary as to Disposition of
"OId Jimmy"

One Of LOndon's problems at the
present hour is what to do with a
mummy that lies at the back of the
Mansion house in one of the oldest
churches Of that ancient city, No one
knows where it came from, and the
jocuIar element around the Mansion
house describe it as "Old Jimmy-a
former lord mayor of London" The
rector is in a quandary over it's dis
poSal. The figure is perfectly pre-
served: eyes, hair, nose. teeth, nails
and ribs.
Inside the door of the mummy's box
is a glass lid, which was removed u
few days ago for the first time for
many years. The mummy was cover
ed with cObwebs. but was still in good
condition. at feels like leather" said
an OnlOOker as he touched "Old jim
my's" elastic ribs. The rector invites
suggestions from the public as what to
do with the mummy. The mystery as
to its identity arises from the fact
that during the great London fire in
1866, it was hurriedly removed from
another church, and placed where it
now lies 50 as to escape the ravages
of the cOnflagratiOn.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
QUEUE IS SIGN OF BONDAGE
Remarkable That Chinese Have coms
to Look Upon 1t With a De-
gree of Pride.

If the Germans had won the war,
would they have made us wear pig
taiis-in order that they might have
something to yank us around by. And
would they have applied their eff.
cheney to new system of punishment,
perhaps with a different number of
yanks for each offense against our con.
quering masters? The zeal with which
patriotic Cinnamon cultivate the
queues that they consider q sort of ma
tional distinction, and the fact that
those Cinnamon in other countries who
discard them are forever considered
outcasts Is indeed paradoxical For
the pigtail Is a sign of bondage, the
earmark of a conquered race. Cen.
turtles ago ancient China had a civil.
cation all it's own. But on every side
she was surrounded by warrior hordes
that coveted the riches and luxuries of
the more advanced people and
harassed them continually. Finally
overcome by barbarian host. the
Chinese were reduced to a state of
servility. One of the eXactions of the
conquerors was that the men grow
long queues, by which, as they flew
by on their horses, they actually took
hold of the helpless creatures to swing
them before them to the saddle or to
cut off their heads.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
THOSE AWFUL HOLIDAY TIES
Question Has Arisen, Who ls tho De-
sioner Of the Monstroslties Seen
at. That Season7

Who designs the Christmas neck
ties?" Every man knows what il
meant by this phrase. Annually about
that time of year, they appear in the
stores and show windows, In boxes and
! out, in phalanxes, in festOons and
sheaves, and in single splendor like
"KohinOors."
They are no more like the neckties
of other seasons than Easter eggs are
like those obtained on the 1854 other
days of the year. In fact, they rather
resemble the article to which they
have been compared.
Strange swirlS of color transverse
them; they are not exactly futuristr
or cubist, or pre-Raphaelite. or post
impressionist, but partake of the ma
ture of all those schools of art, with a
decided leaning toward the general
color effect of a perfectly cooked and
partly opened Spanish Omelet, or of a
busy artists palette.
Gone, laid away on shelves and in
stOckroOms, at that time of year, are
substantial knitted sCarfs, the bows.
quiet or bright, even the usual loud"
patterns. Their substitutes must loom
up to Friend Wife. unused to tie-buy-
ing at all other seasons, as desirable
innovations, but one man can spot
another wearing a Christmas tie on
December 26 as far as he can see him
(and he can see him a dickens of a
ways, if wearing a "remembranceO
Question number two at once comes
to mind here-where do these Yule-
tide ties go? Few men sport them
after New Year. Ashmen would be
disinclined to wear them. Yet they
can't all be laid away, increased. until
another Christmas in order to be re.
donated, for the stores annual crop
comes as suddenly and as numerOusly
as the crocuSeS in the spring.
But the first question is the more
puzzling. Perhaps somewhere in a
high mountain range lies an almost
inaccessible hamlet whose simple. yet
skillful, inhabitants preserve the art
of Christmas-tie designing handed
down with canOns intact from father
to son, and from mother to daughter.
just rs the Navajos perpetuate the de-
signs of their we'll known, all-wOOl
blankets, or as the Swiss woOdcarverS
make the same bears, chamois and
stays as were popular in the time of
Wilhelm Tell.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
Where the Artist Failed.

. He was a well-known artist. and he
was standing near the offspring of his
brain in the picture gallery, when an
'Old gentleman, whose attire suggested
a country tailor suffering from neu-
ralgia, approached, inspected the pic
ture and burst into a paroxysm of
laughter.
Seems to amuse you, sir" said the
artist huffily.
1T do that"
at isn't meant to be funny"
"NO? Well, neverw
ave been offered $500 for that pic
ture. Probably you think you know
more about 1t than all the best crit
les, who have praised the work, eh?"
Don't know anything about art
mister" said the old fellow, wiping his
eyes, "but l be dead nuts on cows.
Where did you see that COW what
you've painted there getting up from
the ground fOrefeet first2 I've had
fifty years of farmin' and I never see
COW get up that way yet."-Argo-
naut.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
NOW for Real sinn Of Spring.

Although Mr. Grounding crawled
back into his hole the other day, and
the Amalgamated Convention of AL
manac Editors has agreed for years
that the winter season doesn't end
until March 81, spring will out.
A crowd of boys was seen at Wash
ington and Rural streets Sunday on
roller skates, and an IrvingtOn mer-
chant has put a familiar-looking case
of marbles and "immies" in a show
window As many as two robins have
been sighted in this same suburb, and
Strawberries are offered for sale at
dairy lunches and on market, although
there are few buyers. And the whole
sale cOnfectiOner will explain to you
that sarsaparilla Ga sure prohibition
year cure for spring fever, gentlemen y
is being stocked up by every corner
drug store. Now has anybody found
q violet In bloom ?-IndianaDolis News
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
Naturally Made Him Peeved.

In a certain Los Angeles county
court recently case for divorce came
up, only to he dismissed by agreement
of the opposing CounSels Il seems
that the man instituted the suit, had
a row with his first lawyer and then
went to Lou Guernsey. "What are
your grounds for bringing this action
against your wife," asked Lou. "Well.'
said the man. II came home early
the other afternoon ana as | stepped
into the door l heard my wife talking
to an insurance man. I was just in
time to hear her say: 4 Won't pay
another cent. I've been paying this
policy on my husband for eight years
and I've had no luck yet"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
The Wise AGENT.

The agent for the Useless Dingps he
was selling was smart man. He rang
the doorbell and maid opened the
door.
"Good morning." smiled the agent
~ am trying to find a married lady
whose name can't remember just
now. | think this is her home She is
a woman easily described. Perhaps
you know her She is handsome
woman, with perfect complexion
beautiful hair and teeth, lovely eyes
and an ideal figure. ! thought"
MARY !" called voice from the tor
of the stairs, tell the gentleman | viii
be right down !"-Cinclnnati Enquirer
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
Lava Blanket conceals Gold

PrOspeCtorS arriving at Nome,
Alaska, recently told of a great valley
of placer gold ore believed buried be-
meath huge age-OId blanket of lava
which stretches for miles along the
right shore of the Inmachuk river in
the Kotzebue country near Nome. A
gold bearing gravel has been found by
miners who have attempted to tunnel
under the rim of the lava sheet. Drills
will not penetrate the lava, the pro-
spectOrs said. One "sOurdough" min.
er, H. L. Stull, said he tried to break
the lava with power drill last summer
but failed.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10

The stingieSt man l know lived In
suburban town. He called up his
nome lat his firms expense for toID
to have steak for dinner, as he was
bringing home a guest. The plans
of the guest were changed and he
couldn't go, so this man called up his
nome again shortly before dinner and
told them to take the steak back and
get some chops instead. He is con-
Sidered to be worth over half a mil
lion dollars and owns beautiful
hOme.-EXchange.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
Precise Private.

In one of our camps, just before our
entrance into the war, an officer was
making round of inspection when he
came upon big, round-eyed private
with red hair and a gun that he held
in anything but the approved fashion.
Don't you know better" demanded
the officer. than to point an empty
gun at me?''
"But it atn't empty. SIR" protested
the private. ITS loaded !'-Philadel.
phia Ledger.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
Nothinu in a Name

A little boy on the north side who
passed recently into a new room at
school was told by the teacher that
her name was Miss Crane. The other
day his mother thought she would
send Il note to the teacher, inquirnc
about the lads progress in his studies
She asked John the name Of his teach.
err, and he puzzled and suffered a m,n.
ute, and then replied: "Why. it is
Miss Chalk, MISUNDERSTANDING
News.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10

Former observation-disclosures
>success-businesS woman, Marion IT
OBrien of MCors Haven has been
elected president of the First Bank
of Moore Haven. While other Flor
franchised, she not only stepped out
of her chains. nut struck the shackles
of the wilderness off the richest area
in productive south Florida.-Tam-
pa Tribune.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
Move Large Building.

A threestory reinforced concrete
and brick building measuring 60 by %
feet and weighing 1900 tons, mt De-
troit, was moved $50 feet at the rate
of so feet a day, being occupied mean,
while for its regular uses and with.
out interruption of telephone, light,
or power service.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
For Eastern Affair Routes,

The government Of India has sent
letters to various chambers of com.
merce suggesting that they find way
to maintain seven centers for aircraft
The cities proposed are Bombay, Cal
cutta, Madras, Karachi, Delhi. Nag
pur and RangOOn. The centers are
believed to be sufficient for Affair
routes In India and Burma.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
Putting L Over.

The servant girl had demanded more
money.
~ shan't pay It," replied the mis-
tress
every WELL" replied the servant
girl, 81 shall leave, and shall tell the
next people 7 work for that I left you
because you cOuldn't afford to keeT
me any longer"
And fearing that, the mistress de,
cided to do without few things her,
self rather than have her neighbors
think she couldn't pay as much money
to the maid as any one else.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
Black opaIs in Australia.

A find of black opal at Tintebar
near Balllna, New South Wales, has
caused much excitement at Melbourne,
reports Trade Commissioner A. w.
Ferrln. There has been a rush of ap-
plicants for miners rights and per-
mission to enter private lands. The
Melbourne Age states that nearly a
hundred claims have already been
pegged.
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
The SIackers,

An army officer said at a dinner:
''Some of our gallant young officers
are accused of having acquired the use
of face creams and powder over in
France. Be that as 1t may"
Here the officer winkcd his eye.
BE that as 1t may, know of some
young officers here at home who took
even greater care of their skins"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10
Sense Of 1umor.

HAS your wife a sense of humor?"
Eyes" replied Mr.. Growcher, "of a
kind. She thinks that everybody who
doesn't wear the same absurd fashions
she does is immensely funny"
The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1920-06-10

Such things as come to the man who
waits are seldom the things he has
oeen waiting for.-Implement Record.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-02
NOTED CASE IS
SET FOR TRIAL
WESTERN UNION AGAINST LOU.
ISVlLlE G. NASHVILLE CASE
TO BE TRIED JULY 7.

No further cases will be taken III
in circuit court until July 7'when the
famous case of the Western Unior
Telegraph Company against the Lou
isville & Nashville Railway Company
will be called.
This action seeks to condemn 8
right of way for the telegraph com
pany along the railroad right of way
Action has been brought in every
county in the state through which the
line of the defendant railroad compa
ny runs, and is being bitterly contest
ed. A brilliant array of legal talent
will fight the case out in the Maury
county courts. The Western Union is
represented by Charles 7. Gates. Jr.
formerly attorney general of the state
and JOB Garner, formerly attorney
general of this judicial circuit The
Aailfoan Company is represented by
John Bell Keeble and e. T. Seay, Jr
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-02
NON.PARTlSAN LEAGUE.

How the Chattanooga Times VIII CHI
loudly processes its allegiance to the
Jeffersonian theory of government,
has no use for fads and inns and is
anything but socialist, can extract
any comfort out of the non-partisan
league victory over Representative
Volstead, of Minnesota, is mystery.
Persaps the Times is so intensely
prejudiced against prohibition that it
would welcome state socialism If it
offered any chance for the open sale
Of liquor wv. !. :. Nv
Representative Volstead was not
beaten on his record as a prohibition
ist. His opponent has been consist
ent ppDhibitionist for twenty years.
There Is no significance in the result
so far as prohibition is concerned but
1t was victory for the non partisan
league, an organization of farmers
that has captured the state govern
ment of North Dakota and has en-
barked upon the most ambitious and
far reaching scheme Of state socialism
that any free people have ever en-
braced. This organization spreading
to the adjoining states, sought to cap.
ture Minnesota and give the people
there dose of its pet remedies. For
tunately for the republic the effort
failed and the candidate who defeated
yolstead is about the only non-parti-
san advocate who scored triumph.
Does the Times prefer a scheme of
state socialism, that will inevitably
destroy Anglo-Saxon individualism
and ultimately undermine the very
fabric of our institutions. to the prohi-
bition of the liquor traffic? At least
prohibition is not socialism. II is
nothing more than a law forbidding
the sale of dangerous and unneces-
sary drink and is in the same catego-
ry Of laws that for. the public good for
bid the sale of narcotics. poisons and
concealed weapons. 1t does not put
the state in business to throttle indi-
vidual enterprise and private initia-
tive. That is what the non-partisan
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-02
OBSERVE The DAY.

Seven score and four years ago
next Sunday this nation was born
The day should be observed even If
it Is Sunday. The church services
should all be of patriotic nature.
National music and fitting references
to the significance of the day should
mark the sermons of the preachers
The pulpits should be adorned with
"Old Glory" With devout hearts
the people of America should as
semble and return thanks to Almighty
God for the blessings that he has
vouchsafed them during the hundred
and forty-four years of their separate
existence and they should fervently
pray that all assaults from without
and from within upon our free insti-
tutions should be repulsed,. that this
nation" under God should have a
new birth of freedom" and that gov
eminent of the people, by the people
and for the people should not perish
from earth"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-02


the nation In ancient channels than
they are about whether we have a
special session of the legislature or
whether a comparatively few women
who want the ballot are able to exer-
else 1t by paying or not paying poll
tax. Efforts of sensational and parti-
san newspapers to make an issue
over something about which men and
women are almost utterly Indifferent
should be discouraged.
Gov. Roberts acted hastily and fell
into trap deliberately set by politi-
cal enemies when he sent his me
too Shields" telegram. He should
avoid similar pitfall on the extra
session hullaballoo. 1t is a mighty
good idea for an official to go to dis
interested patriots and not to parti-
san politicians for advice.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-02
SOLICIT BIDS FOR
lAWRENcEBURG ROUTE
oNTRACT FOR FOUR YEARS WILL
BE AWARDED FROM THE FIRST
DAY OF AUGUST.

(From Wednesdays Daily .Herald)
Mrs. E. W. Carmack, postmaster is
in receipt of telegram stating that
sealed bids will be received by the
fourth assistant postmaster general
at Washington up to July 20 for carry
ing the mail from Columbia to Law
renceburg via Mt. Pleasant and Ether
idge from August /, next, to June So
1924. The distance is forty miles and
the mail will be carried one way only
The service will leave Columbia on
the arrival of the mail from Lewis
burg, but no later than Z o'clock and
the time limit to Lawrenceburg is two
hours, The service will be seven days
week and the mail will be limited
to that of the first and second class
and box delivery and collection will
not be required.
Although the department had hop
ed to make, "a temporary contract for
the service during the month of July
so far it has not been able to do so
and from present indications this ser
vice will not begin until August l.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1920-07-02
WATER SUPPLY.

1t should be exceedingly gratifying
to the people of Columbia to know
that the water supply here is again
safe. 1t is sincerely to be hoped that
it will be kept that way. Experts
have declared that Columbia is'espec-
tally fortunate in having one OF the
best equipped filtration plants to be
found at any small city and barring
accidents there is little reason why
the water here should not always be
pure and free from contamination.
1t has been exceedingly unpleasant
to publish to the world the fact that
Columbia's water supply was infected
or contained germs that were regard
ed as menace to good health, but
when the, state health. officer, became
SO thoroughly alarmed that he tele-
phoned the city health officer to go
at once to The Herald Office and pub
licly warn the people not to use the
water here for human consumption
without its having first been boiled"
there was but one thing fora public
journal to do. That was. Iof course
to follow the pathway of, duty and
give the people warning to the full ex
tent of its ability. Any other course
would have marked II as a mere ad-
vertising sheet willing to leopard re
the health and lives Of the people of
its community in order to court favor
with the few who always oppose pub
licity unless it is fulsome flattery.
Now that the health officers have
pronounced the water safe The Her
aid is just as anxious to give publ C.
ity to this information; it is much
more agreeable to do so. This paper
regrets to publish anything that re
fleets upon any institution or citizen
or business interest of the city or
county but if it had never done so
there would have been no progress in
Maufy county or in Columbia. If this
paper had insisted that our roads and
schools and officials were all perfect
and beyond criticism Maury county
would have been far behind in what
it has achievedl1ni5ths