Clare County Draft Board No. 1 bids farewell after six and a half years
History was made in Clare as the last meeting of Clare County Selective Service Board No. 1 was held with the three members who composed the board during its entire tenure. Chairman Art Damoth Vice Chairman Ed Johnston and Secretary Wm. B. Dunlop served with integrity while clerks Donald Pelch Kyle McKinnon and Mary Nichols supported the office.
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Clare
Donald Pelch
Citizens State Bank
Doherty
Kyle McKinnon
Mary Nichols
The
Sentinel
Fire Tower Flags Go Up Again For Summer Season
Michigan agencies raise flags on 138 fire towers signaling a watch on dry woods across 20 million acres. Towermen refurbish quarters and prepare for swift response as thaw progresses, inviting traffic to visit towers with precautions for height and safety.
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Fire Tower
Conservation Department
Michigan Forest
Michigan
Methodist Conference Set for Mt. Pleasant First Methodist
The Big Rapids district of the Methodist church will hold a conference at the First Methodist church in Mt. Pleasant on Tuesday April 8. Meetings begin in the morning luncheon is served at noon and the program of business and discussion ends in the afternoon.
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Big Rapids
The
Methodist Church
First Methodist Church
Mt. Pleasant
Good Friday and Easter Services in Clare Churches
The program covers St. Cecilia's Church Maundy Thursday Holy Hour and Masses, Good Friday Mass of the Presanctified and Sorrowful Mother Novena, Holy Saturday Baptismal rites, Confessions, and Easter Sunday masses. Clare Methodist Church schedules a Good Friday service with regional ministers, infant baptism at 9 30, public worship at 10, church school at 11 15, and Youth Fellowship at 6 30.
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Clare and
ST. Cecilia's Church
Maundy
Clare Methodist Church
Mass of the Resurrection at St Henry's Church
Easter Mass at St Henry's Church Rose Bush US 27 begins at nine o'clock with organ and choir music and a sermon. Good Friday last hour service from two to three is also open to the public.
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St. Henry's Church
Rosebush
Us-27
Mrs William Gilson Dies After Illness in Michigan
Mrs Hilda Florence McFarlane Gilson of Sheridan township Michigan died March 31 1947 in St Josephs Hospital Ann Arbor after three years of ill health She was 49 years 5 months and 18 days She leaves husband William son Albert Owen Gilson mother Mary Smith two brothers Joe and Albert with funeral set for Friday at Thurston Funeral Home and burial Cherry Grove cemetery
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William Gilson
Sheridan Township
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Ann Arbor
Hilda Florence McFarlane
John and
Mary McFarlane
Clare E Ciunty
Michigan
Colonville
Sheidan Township
Colonville Church of God
William
Albert Owen Gilson
Ypsilanti
Mary Smith
Not Too Late to Share Your Easter Joy
Easter Sunday marks the close of the 1947 Easter Seal Sale in Clare county. Mrs. Donald Richardson, chairman, thanks contributors and urges late donations to aid crippled children.
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Donald Richardson
Clare County
Clare
Clare Girl Scout Council Plans April Meeting in Church Parlor
The Clare Girl Scout Council will meet next Tuesday evening April 8 in the Methodist Church parlors. A pot luck supper at 6 30 will precede a Troop II program directed by Mrs. Jack Cook.
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Clare Girl Scout Council
Methodist Church
Troop II
Mra
Jack Cook
Easter Services At Clare Church Of God
The pastor to deliver the Easter message at 11:00 a m morning service with a candlelighting session Sunday evening at 7 45. Participants include Angel Gloria Acre Peter Glenn Hardy John Earl Acre The Vested Girls Helen Tice Betty Ruth House Florence House Jo Ann Davis Marilyn Acre soloists Ella Cleveland Elly Tice and the choir with ushers John Acre St B L Dyer Jack Van Sicksen John Acre Jr Organ Prelude Processional Call to Worship Choir Selection Angel's Message and more order of service.
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Angel
Gloria Acre
Peter
Glenn Hardy
John
Earl Acre
Helen Tice
Betty Ruth House
Florence House
Jo Ann Davis
Marilyn Acre
Ella Cleveland Elly Tice
John Acre
St. B. L. Dyer
Jack van Sicksen
John Acre, Jr
Ken Kimball to Speaks at Annual Dinner
Detroit News outdoors editor Ken Kimball will headline the Clare Rod and Gun Club annual banquet at St. Cecilia's Church social hall at 7:00 PM next Wednesday April 9. Speaker Frenchy Paquin will present wildlife motion pictures and Mt. Pleasant's Friendly City Quartet will sing.
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Ken Kimball
Detroit News
Clare Rod and Gun Club
St. Cecilia’s Church
Frenchy Paquin
Department of Conservation
Friendly City
Mt. Pleasant
St. Cecilia's Lawier
Rod and Gun Club
Frank Madison dies at daughter's home in Temple
Frank Madison aged 88 died at his daughter Mrs Emma Hilden’s Temple home at 4 14 pm Sunday after a long illness. Born March 21 1869 in Eaton county Michigan he later lived in Temple and Saginaw returning to Temple a year ago. Surviving are two sons Frank and Gordon one daughter Mrs Hilden two stepsons Teuben and Arthur Gallery twenty five grandchildren and twenty four great grandchildren. Funeral at Temple Nazarene Church at 2 30 Sunday Rev Roy J Hastman officiating burial in Pernwood Cemetery. Pallbearers were old friends. The body rested at Fosnaught Funeral Chapel in Marion until noon Sunday.
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Frank Madison
Emma Hilden
Temple
Mr. Madison
Samuel and
Marietta Madison
Eaton County
Michigan
Madison
Clara Payne Gallery
Eaton Rapids
Saginaw
Frank
Alabama
Gordon
Traverse City
Hilden
Teuben
Arthur Gallery
Temple Nazarene Church
Roy J. Bhastman
Pernwood
Pansy Haught
Pauline Mumy
R. A. Buckmaster
Fosnaught Funeral
Marion
Mrs Belle Dowd Death Notice Funeral Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs Belle Dowd, who died Wednesday morning, will be held Saturday at 2:00 PM at Thurston Funeral Home. The obituary will be published next week.
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Belle Dowd
Thurston Funeral Home
Clare Study Club Sponsors Save Paper Drive
The Clare Study Club sponsors a community Save Paper drive encouraging residents to recycle waste paper and conserve resources through designated drop off locations at town hall and local schools.
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Clare Study Club
Monument Works Erected On McEwan Street In Clare
M Nuernberg of Detroit who ran a monument business with his father and later solo for ten years comes to Clare to open the Clare Memorial Shop. A 20 by 36 foot concrete brick building is under construction just north of the Michigan Consolidated Gas storage tanks on McEwan Street. Manufacturing will begin when ready. Nuernberg will carve, manufacture and sell gravestones and monuments locally. The last monument shop in Clare was Thos S Dorsey. Residents expect a strong opening for the new business as Clare has no current independent monument works. Nuernberg will move his wife Evelyn and daughter Lorraine to Clare. elder daughter June is married.
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M. Nuernberg
Monument
Detroit
Clare
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company
Mce-Ewan Street
Nuernberg
Thos. S. Dorsey
Mt. Pleasant
Midland
Cadillac
Lansing
County Pioneer Thomas Bolen 83 Dies in Vernon City
Thomas Bolen born July 1, 1863 in Thomas town Ontario died March 23, 1947 at his Vernon City home after three weeks illness. Survived by widow Nettie Bowen two or three children and many grandchildren with funeral at Clare Baptist Church.
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Thomas Bolen
Thomastown
Ontario
Vernon City
Michigan
Farwell
Mary E. Branch
Jesse Ray
Margaret J. Irwin
Vernon
Cecil Cordelia Davis
Flint
Thomas Albert Bolen
Saginaw
Vernon Township
Orange Lodge
Clare Townsend Club
Clare
James
Charles
Will
Robert
Gladstone
Dave
Joseph Hendrie
Clayre
Clare Baptist Church
Rex D. Phillips
Church of the Nazarene
Earl Redman
Cherry Grove Cemetery
Albert Bolen
Alfred Davis
Virgil Sellers
Harold Innman
Norman Davis
William Bolen
Charles Bolen
Manly Brokaw
Hemlock
Tommy Bolen
Lansing
James Bowen
Vance Crane
Muskegon
Frank Bowen
Don Shumway
Gladwin
James Crane
Bay City
J. Johnson
Andrew Owens
North Bradley
Archie Fordlyce
Election Luncheon at Clave Congregational Church Menu Quoted
A church luncheon will be served at Clave Congregational Church with serving beginning at 4:00 o clock. Menu includes meat pie, vegetable galad, biscuits, individual pies and coffee. Adults 75 cents, Children 50 cents.
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Clave Congrégational Church
Saginaw Valley Water Control To Be Discussed
Saginaw Valley Planning Commission members will join the Clare Chamber of Commerce at Barnes Cafe for dinner at 6 30 next Tuesday to explain water control plans for the Saginaw River waterfall and its tributaries including the Tobacco River. About one hundred seats available in the private dining room. tickets should be secured early.
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Saginaw Valley
Central
Michigan
Barnes
Clare Community Choral Society Debuts With Pleasing Triumph
More than 250 music lovers attended the Palm Sunday performance of the Bagster Cantata The Victorious King by the Clare Community Choral Society. Directors were Walter Broh and Doris Gerow. soloists included Helen Attaquin Doris Gerow Agnes Pierson Robert Krell and others. The two part cantata depicted the Easter story The Last Days and Crucifixion and The New Dawn and Resurrection. An offering was taken with prayers by Rev Rex Phillips. the ensemble comprises over sixty singers from Clare and nearby areas. Plans call for further concerts this year as weather and illnesses permit additional members to join.
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Bagster
Clare Community Choral Society
Walter Broh
Doris Gerow
Martha Jean McKinnon
Harold Collins
Helen Attaquin
Agnes Pierson
Robert Krell
William Harger
Earl Redman
Ellen Robinette
George Teeter
N. C. Davis
Bila Cleveland Ruth Rank
Shirley Lehr
David Mair
Walter Hroh
Farwell
Gerow
Pierson
Rex Phillips
Clare
Bis
Bert Chapman passes away at home in Grant township
Bert Chapman longtime Grant township resident died suddenly Sunday about midnight. He was born May 26, 1870 in Rol land Isabella County Michigan and lived in Clare county since 1913. He married Lena Densmore in 1895 and Emma Cohoon in 1939. seven sons, two stepsons, eighteen grandchildren and many relatives survive. Funeral services were held at Thurston Funeral home with Rev. Charles B. Hahn officiating and burial in Surrey Township Cemetery.
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Bert Chapman
Grant Township
Hig
Grant
Peter
Lodema
Chapman
Rolland Township
Isabella
Michigan
Clare County
Lena. Densmore
Loyd
Findlay
Ohio
Milo
Shepherd
Everett
Pigot Clark
Muskegon Heights
Laurence
Merril
Isabella County
Alba
Emma Cohoon
Ben
Sam Cohoon
Lansing
Thurston Funeral Home
Chas. B. Hahn
Surrey Township
Alden Dow Delivers Rotary Talk With Planning Film
Alden Dow, famed architect of the Lansing governor's mansion proposal, spoke at the Rotary noon luncheon at Barnes Cafe. He presented colored moving pictures on modern planning for comfortable living, including a whole town project and an advanced livable house for a family with children.
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Alden Dow
Lansing
Michigan
Rotary
Barnes Cafe
Dow
Clare Public School Folk Festival Rescheduled for April 25
The Clare Public School Folk Festival, postponed by weather and illness, will be held in the school gym Friday evening April 25. Ticket holders from the original date will be honored. The event welcomes visitors to Clare with hospitality beginning at the venue.
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Clare Public School
Clare
Spring Election Set For Monday April Seventh In Michigan
The upcoming spring election will choose officers affecting education courts and local governments in Michigan on Monday April 7. Voters will decide two constitutional amendments and select candidates for state, county and local offices across Clare Isabella and Birdland counties with multiple party tickets and a nonpartisan judicial primary measure on the ballot.
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Great
Commonwealth of Michigan
21St Judicial Circuit
Clare
Isabella
Birdland
Two men sentenced in Clare justice court for drinking and vandalism
Clarenes Smith 32 of Mt Pleasant was arrested Friday on a drunk driving charge and jailed. He pled guilty before Justice Wilkinson in Clare Saturday, fined 350 and court costs, and placed on one year probation. Donald Winters and John Heim of Bay City were arrested Monday for destruction of property at Lone Pine Cabins. Winters exonerated Heinz, pleaded guilty to breaking a pane, paid 75 to cabin owner C A Cox, and was released after costs.
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Clarenes’ Smith
Mt. Pleasant
Heinz
Lone Pine Cabins
C. A. Wicox
Canett
PTA Night Planned to Replenish Treasury
Parents teachers and friends are invited to a PTA night on Monday evening April 21. The Finance committee will host a special entertainment to replenish the treasury. There is no admission charge but a free will offering will be taken. Remember the date and plan to attend.
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Finance Committee
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Plymouth
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Rotary Meet
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J. Joseph Herbert
Kenneth M. Stevens
John L. Brumm
George DB. Shermerhorn
Harold Lindahl
Clarice & Nelson
Eugene B. Elliott
George I. Montgomery
H. E. Edwards
Board of Educatiom
Louisa I. Durham
Victor Targonski
Oscar C. Griswold
State Board of Agri—culture
Clark L. Brody
Ensworth B. Moore
William S. Lamoreaux
George D. Stevens
Perry Hayden
Lester W. Kliné
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