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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1924
Page
2
Announcements span church groups and clubs in Clare with meetings at Hotel Doherty and various homes. Residents attend hospitals, travel to Lansing and Ann Arbor for medical care, and new births noted. Multiple short updates cover visits, entertainments, and local business changes including a new soda fountain installation and a large sheep birth report.
Notice to Republican electors of Clare County Michigan calls a county convention in Clare on April 28 1924 at 11 am to elect five delegates to the Republican State Convention in Grand Rapids May 7 1924 and conduct other business. Delegates elected by precinct caucuses and county committee members urged to attend. Apportionment lists numerous wards and names. Dated March 12 1924.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness during illmess and death of our father Wm. Emerson. Special thanks to Dover and Pratt neighbors who cleared the road, those who provided flowers, and committees who helped with singing. Also thanks to Rev. Eater and Roush for comforting words.
To friends and neighbors who helped during our hour of trouble we express thanks for acts of kindness floral offerings and Rev C A Lohnes words of comfort. Mrs Thos Brown Mrs Wm Smith
The family expresses deep gratitude to friends and neighbors for sympathy after the death of Mrs. Catherine Appott and for aid following a house fire. They thank the Hagle choir Rev Frank Bates Mr Doherty and others for rides comfort and kindness. Also thanks for comforting letters and prayers during hospitalization.
Clare Hay announces that Grain & Bean Co will operate on a strict cash basis with no credit allowed. The shift aims to offer lower prices and better service. 2012.
Rev. George Flanagan shepherds the parish with a 10:00 a.m. Catholic Mass at Church Mews. Liturgy announces the service and pastoral leadership for readers and worshippers.
The notice lists a Free Methodist service with Pastor J A Allen at 7 30 in the evening and morning worship at 10 followed by a sermon at 11 30. An 1 00 p m union service is planned at the Congregational church with a Wednesday evening prayer meeting. Rev C B Milberry is noted as another pastor.
Rev A B Johnson, pastor, urges all congregation members to attend Family Day at 10 15 a m with special music and the final sermon in the Lentep series on The organization and faith of the Christian Life Sunday School at 11 30 Mrs A H Horton leads the 5 30 p m Christian Endeavor and a 7 00 p m union service is planned
Leonard O Bernthal pastor at 1002 McEwan St lists the Easter week schedule with English and German services. Dates run from April 6 through April 20 including Maundy Thursday Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Services include confirmation, fifth Lenten, and Sunday English services.
The Church of God Saints holds Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. worship at 11:00 a.m. Evening service 7:00 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Training for service Saturday 7:30 p.m. at Mr and Mrs Geo Ripenburg home on South McEwan Street. Wilson School House offers Sunday School 1:30 and preaching at 2:30 with invites to all.
Rev D A Lohnes leads a week of special meetings at Clare district churches beginning with 9 30 a m class and 10 a m preaching. The program lists Sunday School Epworth League and a 7 00 p m Congregational union service with Olga Dixon president and Elmer Merrihew superintendent for Obras aiding asst superintendent.
O R Atkins travels from Fowlerville to return by car while Ruth Gardi Holland Vera Oili Mariette Irene Werder Sebewaing Winifred Wilson Vestabure Hazel Gatch Gladwill Lorene Cornell Vestabure Gert rude Nordbeck Thompsonville Kathryn Geer Charlevoix Supt W W Gumser outlines spring improvements at the school grounds including leveling seedling of land new flower beds baseball diamond tennis court athletic field and seeding to create grounds matching the handsome school building
A funeral verse memorializing Catharine Abbott. Children lament her passing with solemn prayers and hope for reunion in heaven. The poem speaks of peace in the grave and the mother's sainted memory.
The term bumdum derives from the town of Dumdum in British India where the bullets were made. Dumdum, a Bengal division town, housed the Bengal artillery in the early eighties. The Hague Conference banned their use by international agreement.
Auction style notice lists several cows soon fresh two broad sows bronze turkey on Dr Reeder’s farm four miles east of Clard good paper accepted 2312 Melvin Durham
Sealed proposals due April 21 1924 at 10 00 a m local time for improving 1749 miles of road in Clare including grading drainage and surfacing from Sta 0 00 to Sta 52 84 and 52 84 to 65 97 with concrete bituminous or sheet asphalt and dual gravel 18 feet width. Bids for wider work by City of Clare and required deposits and bid bonds specified. Frank F Rogers State Highway Commissioner documents at Clare County Board office Lansing and Clare City Clerk.
Local office notes many unsigned letters arrive for publication, with emphasis on source disclosure while allowing contributions by phone or mail. Readers are urged to send unsigned pieces. those without names may not appear. An advertisement offering Foley remedies accompanies the notice.
Sealed proposals are invited at Clare for paving over twenty feet in width in the City of Clare Clare County Michigan with plans and bid blanks available from the Clare City Clerk. Proposals close April 21 1924 at 10 am Central. A $200 certified check accompanies each proposal. George J White City Clerk.
Michigan doctors through the State Medical Society announce iodized salt to prevent goitre due to iodine deficiency in local waters. The salt will be sold with a society approval, guidance to consult physicians before using other iodine preparations, and aims to reduce goitre nationwide.
A Republican caucus will be held at the Vernon town hall on April 7 at 2:00 PM to elect five delegates to the County Convention. Vernon Township Committee.
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