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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1937
Page
9
Rates for display advertising and local notices listed by line. Liners and readings in locals 10c per line, fillers 10c per line, with a heading extra. Cards of thanks 25c for ten lines, overage 5c per line. Probate notices urged to use The Sentinel for printing with Judge Wylie. Sentinel offers job printing.
Harrison News notes Charles Kleinhardt, pastor, leads Sunday services at the usual hour with Sunday school at 10 30 and a special sermon at 11 30 plus midweek prayers. Sheriff George Bates led a wildcat and coyotes hunt near Long Lake with Clarence Goodrich Paul Catron Theodore Bowler and James Chite present. Mr and Mrs Ronald Barnes of Saginaw visited their mother Mrs Clara Smith. Continued on Page Twelve.
In Harrison the mayoral race heats up with Fred W. Schuett, president of Harrison State Savings Bank, nominated at the caucus. Robert A. Burns, manager of the Harrison Elevator, is urged by supporters to oppose Schuett as a strong contender. The contest is expected to be close.
Caroline Welsh Curns of Houghton Lake died March 17 at 84. Born February 6 1853 in Continental Putnam County Ohio she left four sons James Robert Fred Mamley and two daughters Gert rude Kirchenoff and Dora Bingley and several grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted at Murphy Funeral Home Sunday morning March 21 by Rev. Frank Loose.
Arden Light was chosen by popular vote as the most valuable player on the high school varsity basketball team for the past season. His name is inscribed on a twenty one inch silver loving cup presented by newspaper editor Fred T. Wessels. Light played center. other awardees include Robert Burns Lloyd Stanley Berdet te Reigie Laslie Ford Eugene Carp enter Thomas Ritter Ernest Roth Willard Dancer Alvin Davis and Lawrence Meyers.
The Hayes Agricultural high school senior class in Harrison presented the three act rural comedy Deacon Dubbs at the community building on Tuesday evening March 30. Caroline Cline coached and chose roles. Willard Dancer played Deacon Dobbs and the cast included Lawrence Meyers Wanda Richardson Kenneth Coulter Tom Ritter Esther Robbins Ruth Zubler Florence Higgins and others. The plot centers on Deacon Dobbs courting Miss Philipena Popover amid a comical auction mishap and a jailed Rawden Crawley who returns to disrupt a wedding before all end happy with a honey moon planned in West Virginia.
Benjamin Carpenter a veteran gas station operator and Eix-State Senator has purchased the Shell filling station at the southeast corner of Main Street and US-27. He took over Monday from Frank Myers. Carpenter previously built Harrison’s first station in the early twenties at Broadway and the Main highway, selling Indian gasoline and oil. The current owners are Leonard and Lydell.
Six members traveled to Mt Pleasant to dine with Mrs Harry Merrill recently moved from Harrison. A pot luck dinner preceded an auction bridge session with Mrs Dean Gleason taking first prize and all enjoying the evening.
Mrs Estella Fosgett new manager of the Sinclair Restaurant formerly Cities Service. The Harrison cook is praised and the eatery reopens with updated interior and booths along the west dining room. The building and adjoining filling station were bought from Verne Shaffer by Ralph Shull of Gladwin, with Leon Stanley running the station.
M J Buschlen of the Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar Association emphasizes early spring work. He urges repairing beet drills and seed beds now, planning two seedings about ten days apart for large acreages, and aiming to plant sugar beets in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana between April 20 and May 10.
The Clare County Road Commissioners met March 3 1937 at Harrison Court House. Minutes approved payroll of 1008 10, discuss nine hour work day, arrange gasoline purchase from Harrison Gas Oil Co and loan cement mixer to Hayes Township Agricultural School. Various bills listed and approved pending proper OK. Adjourned after routines with remarks by Clerk and Chairman Sam Bruce.
A fragment discusses beliefs about the man or woman in the moon in Far East traditions, noting an alternative hare motif in lunar folklore and its cultural interpretations.
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