Scio

The supervisor of Scio is jubilant over a boy. Carrie Klager begins her third term of school in this town next Monday. Chris. Klager has set out 200 quince bushes add 300 pear tree this spring. Orders have been received from Mr. Porter for his old hands to be ready for work by the first of next month. Mr. Porter is the boss stone mason on the M. C. R. R. The late Miss Abbott, who died suddenly at the Palmer House, in Chicago, is said to be worth over $20,000. She has no near relatives except a Dr. Abbott, of Chicago, who is a nephew, and also' a Mr. Crane, of Kalamazoo, is a relative. Her brother, Charles Abbott, was cilled at Scio some years ago. They were both single people. Scio property is booming. Land sells all the way from one to two ïundred dollars per acre. M. J. EJaylow has sold his property to Chance Crytes for five hundred dollars. Mrs. Gaffney sold her }roperty to John Steel for six hundred dollars. One year ago the riaggerty property was sold to Peter VicGin for nearly fifteen hundred dollars. All those pieces of land sold for nearly $200 per acre. Many iersons ask the reason why property sells so high in a place 'like Scio. The people of Scio are a christian God-fearing people, and although there is neither a church or a school in Scio village, and they are forcee to travel a long distance to both school and church, many attend. The village is located on an elevatec ground,drained by the Huron river, and being a gravelly loam, adapted o raise good crops of wheat and orn. The streets and roads in and near the village are clean and pleasnt to travel. There are no public offices under pay, consequently taxtion is light. Most of the people own property and are more or less ndependent. There are no paupers n Scio, and in the last twenty years here has not been a single case where a citizen of Scio had to go to the poor house, or applied to the poor-master for relief. For the population, it is a good business center. A good flouring mili with a good wheat market, two good stores, postoffice with two mails a day, railroad accommodation of two trains each way each day. Scio is a healthy place, not one case of sickness in it at present, nor one idle man who wants to work. The very poorest man in the village has good credit where he is known for at least the amount of one month's wages. All these things combined make this village one of the most desirable places in the State of Michigan to live in. There is still room for more populotion ; more lots and blocks for sale on reasonable terms.