The Hillsdale Daily News from Hillsdale, Michigan • Page 5

vmnma THROUGH OCT. 1UH OUR OWN Carolejoanne Homecoming This Week QUINCY- ities are very much in evidence at the Quincy Community Schools this week. On Thursday there will be a varsity game at Bronson at 4:30 p.m. students will gather at the village park and march back to the student lot for the annual snake danre and bonfire which precedes homecoming. The liomecominK King and queen are picked by the student hody.

Candidates for queen are Sue Perry, Laura McMillan, Roxanne Bellamy and Uxiise Worti. King candidates are Philip War- koczeski, Kim Brown, Dan Wentworth and Jerry Watson. Students will vote Friday for the queen and the king and the queen will be crowned at halftime of the homecoming game. The will be crowned at the homecoming dance. All week long students will be working on skits, floats, yell fests and posters which will be judged.

Students in grades 7 and will be competing for the pep can and grades 9 through 12 will be trying for the pep jug. The jug and can will both be awarded at game halftime. On Friday at 2 p.m. the annual homecoming pep assembly will be held with homecoming judging to be done and king and queen chosen. The yell fest will follow at 2:30 and at 2:45 the afternoon homecoming parade will march through the downtown area.

At 6:30 p.m. another homecoming parade will march through town and back to the athletic field for the game between Homer and Quincy. The homecoming dance for students and alumni will be held in the commons area from 10:30 to 12:30 with music by the Kings Telstars. Church Has Last Service CORNERS The Corners Methodist Church has held its last service. There was a good attendance to hear Wilfred Kock of Jonesville speak on the subject, taking the members back in years and recalling their affiliations with the church at such special moments as baptisms, weddings, communion services and even funerals.

Mrs. Wayne Mohr was the pianist for the service. Mrs. Willard Wilson played a special piano selection. The church could not keep operating financially and like many other smaller churches has had to close its doors.

Disposal of the property will be up to the people. They closed with no indebtedness to the United Methodist Conference. THE HILLSDALE DAILY NEWS, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1969 Si Is Grandfather Of Round-Up A Robison of Waldron picks at the double-necked guitar he made from a barn beam. Called the of the Country Music he will be seen and heard Friday and Saturday nights at Waldron High School.

Si plays and has made many instruments. Quincy Band Gets First QUINCY Quincy High School marching band, under the direction of Donald E. Sherman, participated in the district 11 marching festival at Battle l.akeview High School and came home with a first division rating. The band, in competition with 10 other district schools, was judged in marching, alignment of rank, file, diagonals, formation and step pace, alsong with carriage of instruments in the music and marching division. They were also judged in show design and this included originality, stability, showmanship of the individual member, precision of execution and audience impact.

Comment by all three judges in this division was that they were very impressed by the spirit of the Quincy band. The judges for this festival were Henry Nelson, inspection judge; and Carl Bjerregaard, Monty L. Sheedlo and Gerald L. Bartlett, contest judges. This is the second consecutive year that the Quincy band has received the first division rating at the festival.

This year they received straight ones from the judges. The Quincy band had participated last spring in the Michigan Week festivities at Sturgis and out of 14 bands received the highest rating. WSCS Circle Has Meeting NORTH ADAMS Election of officers was held at the October meeting of the WSCS Evening Circle. The new officers are president, Mrs. Marie Davis; vice president, Mrs.

Donald Caswell; secretary, Mrs. Leona Helmick; treasurer, Mrs. Burton Holcomb devotions, Mrs. Donald Zorn and recreation, Mrs. DeWitt Sawyer.

The new officers were installed by Mrs. Gordon Walworth. Twelve members were present at the meeting in the home of Mrs. Fred C. Foster.

Mrs. Marie Davis gave the devotions by reading a short item, I Go To The Bank of also used portions from Upper Mrs. Walworth gave the lesson, We (Jot Our by using the chapter entitled, of the She used John 10 to illustrate the beauty of the written language. Mrs. Walworth suggested reading the article, and the Mother from the October Readers Digest.

Grange Will Hold Meeting And Supper CORNERS The Corners Grange will hold regular meeting on Saturday, Oct. II at 8:30 p.m. For the lecture hour Mrs. ing of Waldron will show pictures of Alaska. A pot luck supper will follow the program.

Service Chief Named LANSING (A 10- Wilma Ray of Detroit has been named director of the community services division of the State Civil Rights Commission, one of the two top civil service positions in the commission. She first was employed in 1966 as district executive in the Pontiac office. By MAISIE BROWN WALDRON The of the Country Music they call him. He plays numerous instruments, lias taught many others to play ami takes part in every performance at the Round-Up, either doing a solo stint or working as back-up man for and instrumentalists. This is Sj Robison, 69, who is as young as the morning sunshine and every bit as happy.

And the Country Music Round-Up of which he is an integral part will put on Its 14th semi-annual whing ding this Friday and Saturday evenings at Waldron High School. Si and Mrs. Robison live on Lickley Road in a neat house I gutted when we moved In 22 years ago and The home is cozy with outbuildings and surrounding grounds that are manicured with tender loving care. The couple spends some of each winter in Florida. Born in Monroe County, Si moved to a home near Pioneer, Ohio, in 1910.

In 1934 he married Minnie M. Gearig, a Hillsdale County gal. Though childless, the sons have made all the neighbor children and those of their many friends their own big family. But the music in life is the harmony that has woven his happiness. I was six years old when I started on the pie-ana (sic.) Had jest four lessons in my life.

Well, I had to ride 14 mllfis there and back for the on a bicycle. Dad spare a horse right then. Had only was house square dances when I was took up the tenor banjo In the my brother had a hand. He played for fiances and needed a banjo so I taught myself and joined Then Si learned violin so he could play that for dances too. He began on guitar in 1947.

sure. I taught myself all the instruments. On the guitar I play concert tuning rather than standard or American tuning as most do. tuned to the chord. Standard is the The accordion is also a part of his musical life.

Si builds and rebuilds instruments. He loves fine wood and has built instruments of wood from the strangest places. He made the double-necked guitar in the picture, and a mandolin was carved from an eight by eight barn beam of black walnut that came from a place. The front is made an old piano sounding board I was throwing There is a ban jo Si plays that started out in life quite normally with its five strings. But now it has nine.

I get a double tone, you know. Everybody seems to like it. Sure, done quite a bit of lead and solo work with General repair on farm equipment kept Si Robison busy until he retired. He usedtoliavea shop of his own in Waldron. "I must liave re-formed thousands of plow points liave them a man with really a happy heart who plays for the great toe-tapping fun of others and thereby enjoys himself.

a gentleman to the core; quiet and methodical; he loves to fish; but mainly he likes to fiddle or pick for the sheer joy of it. Simple, honest pleasure Is what SJ Robison creates. And be doing it for all who want to listen for two ings this weekend at Waldron High School. pay for 3 the 4th one free! PRINTS FROM SLIDES easy to get color prints from your slides. Come in and prove it to yourself during our special and we ll give you free prints, too.

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