MRS. FOBES' READING CLASS.

One of the earliest literary clubs in Flint or Genesee county was a reading club which met each Tuesday afternoon for many years in the eighties and early nineties, at the home of Mrs. R. J. Fobes, at the northwest corner of East and First streets. This club was said to be most enjoyable. It was organized first as a neighborhood affair, but several members from other parts of the city were afterward invited to join. It remained always most informal and never had constitution or by-laws, records or officers. The club never had probably at one time a larger number of members then twelve or fourteen, and eight or nine was an average attendance at the meetings. No papers were ever attempted, the aim of the class being recreation rather then dull study.