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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1940
Page
15
Harrison and Clare residents are listed visiting churches, calling on neighbors, and attending family events. Names include Helena Vander Woude, Verona Bowers, J A Burns, Wyrick family, and Reed City visitors. Several illnesses with flu reported. wedding bells anticipated in coming weeks.
Bertha Lake residents report a softball practice with visiting opposing teams. Local families visit cottages, move furnishings from Clinton Dunkie, and return home. The Good Luck Club at Eight Point Lake meets at Lew McKinzie’s home April 10, organises quilts and a bazaar, and supports fire victims with quilts and items.
Mrs Wallace Wheaton Jr of Wat spent Sunday with Claud Wheaton and family. Bert Marvin and family visited Maple Rapids from Saturday to Sunday. Hol Mealing and Frances Hall joined the trip home to Flint. S C Vinton spent a week in Jackson visiting his ailing mother before returning home Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Pord Brown and baby moved into the Dwight Wolcott house near Crooked Lake. Ewart and wife were callers Saturday. Madeline Hunt and Bonnie of Flint spent the week with Don Brown's family. Howard Brown and two children and Lloyd Hunt visited over the weekend. Wm Feuchter and Claud Wheaton hosted Saturday evening. Alice and Avis Sturgis and Junior Carson called at Claud Wheaton's Sunday. Jim Williams of Flint visited his sister Alfred Sturgis Sunday. Don Brown and three sons plus Howard Ward and Dale called on the Claud Wheaton family Saturday. Mrs Clarence Phelps of Alma visited her parents and daughter in the Brown household on Wednesday.
The girl scout play The Doo Fun ny Family will be presented at the community building Friday evening April 26. Local notice urges everyone to attend as the girls promise a treat.
Double action doors link kitchen pantry and dining spaces and may replace regular doors in older houses. Concealed door closers go above the door with hold open features standard. Easy to install and adjust, the mechanism stays hidden and requires no floor cutting.
An ad promotes RuBx Compound as a cheap home remedy for rheumatic arthritis and neuritis. It advises mixing the compound with water and lemon juice, taking two tablespoons twice daily, promising relief within 48 hours or overnight. If no improvement, money back guarantee. Sold by Heonomy Drug Store.
Washington adds nearly 200000 acres to Olympic National Park in a 1940 expansion, boosting its total to 835411 acres. The new lands include rain forests with towering firs and spruces, hot springs, waterfalls, lakes, and camp grounds. Indigenous legends link Olympic Hot Springs to dragons tears as Mount Olympus anchors the park’s rugged peak chain.
Lawrence Kansas coeds at the University of Kansas favor tall dark and handsome men but admit looser standards than in the past. In a poll on the ideal man several described looks as less important. one would accept a short fat man if he was her man. Many favor professional husbands with a farmer option also mentioned.
A hen from Daniel H Mahar's Cranbury poultry farm has tied the national record by laying 1 000 eggs in five years. The bird named Her Majesty R VP 318 stands as a remarkable achievement in Trenton New Jersey.
In Charlestown West Virginia two 93 year old women stood in line before the deadline to obtain birth certificates. They aimed to register under the old law requiring a physician or attendants statement rather than the new rule asking for baptismal records.
The Seb Pfannes family visited relatives in Greenville Sunday and Mr and Mrs Ployd Squires of West Grant visited relatives Friday. The Wm Hileman family visited Carl Brin ferd home in Greenwood Sunday. Flocks of wild geese were seen flying north Monday. Eleanor Reynolds attended the doll parade at Farmers' Produce Monday afternoon. Townsend meeting tonight welcomes all.
Southeast Sheridan reports an Elm Grove Extension club gathering with attendees including Mrs. John Densmore Ivora Sowle and other area residents. Birthday and farewell gatherings surround the T. Schaar and Macklem families as relatives visit Clare area homes. A infant death is noted with sympathy extended to Prank and wife.
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