Harrison Lyceum Course closes with Imperial Singers
The 1940 Harrison Lyceum Course wrapped up on Thursday night April 18 with a musical program by the Imperial singers led by head Bill Lybenstricker. Hugh Hines Miss Jane Snyder and Patch Hines performed in solos duets and tap numbers. Bob Hanscom accompanied the troupe spoke brief ly about next year’s offerings and read Joyce Kilmer and Edgar Guest poems to conclude.
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Harrison High School
Imperial Singers
Bill Lybenstricker
Hugh Hines
Jane Snyder
Patch Hines
Troup
Ben Lybenstvicker
Bob Hanscom
Harrison
Lyceum
Harrison Ladies Study Club
Mr. Hanscom
Joyce Kilmer
Edgar A. Guest
Program Ends With Song and Reading on Americanism
The closing program featured western selections sung by Hines and Lybenstricker, followed by a reading on Americanism by Miss Snyder. The trio then joined in singing God Bless America.
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Hines
Lybenstricker
Miss Snyder
Harrison C. E. S Chapter Initiates Four Members
Harrison Chapter No. 408 of the Order of Eastern Star initiated four candidates on Monday evening April 22. The new members were Mrs. Lodge Bednarick of Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. Marion Roth, Mrs. David Harper, and Mrs. Stella White, with guests from Clare and Temple and about fifty members in attendance. Refreshments of homemade ice cream, cakes, and coffee followed.
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Harrison Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
Lodge Bednarick
Marion Roth
David Harper
Stella White
Clare
Temple
Joan Gibson Celebrates Tenth Birthday With Friends
The home of Mr and Mrs Paul Gibson hosted eleven girl chums for Joans tenth birthday party from four to six. They played games and contests and enjoyed birthday cake and jello at the end. Joan received many pretty gifts and appeared very happy.
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Paul Gibson
Joan
Halmond Woods
John Woods Sr
Walter Knight
Flint
Ruby Sears
Clawson
Don Malcomson
Glen Hodges
Larry
Alvin Budd
Leo Grunda
John Woods
Frank Brooks
Tom Tomilson
Harrison and Vicinity
Irene
John Sears
Harrison
Birthday Dinner Honors Miss Jean on Sixteenth Birthday
Mr and Mrs Gibson and family traveled to Perry to visit Miss Jean Price for her sixteenth birthday. A birthday dinner honored the guest of honor with a centerpiece cake and festive decorations.
Birthday party marks Frank Van Blarcoms tenth year
Frank Van Blarcom celebrated his tenth birthday with a spring themed party at his parents home in Greenwood township. About thirty children joined games and a baseball contest then enjoyed sandwiches cake and jello as gifts were exchanged.
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Frank van Blarcom
Charles van Blarcom
Greenwood Township
Harrison and
van Blarcom
Frank
Women's Missionary Society Meets at U B Parsonage
The Women’s Missionary Association of the United Brothers church met at the church parsonage on Thursday afternoon, April 18, with seven members present. Delegates Mrs. Clara Smith and Mrs. Mary White reported on the North Michigan Women’s Missionary Association convention at Ashley. After the business session, attendees pieced quilt blocks.
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Women's Missionary Association of the United Brothers Church
Church Parsonage
Clara Smith
Mary White
North Michigan
Women’s Missionary Association of United Brothel Churches
Ashley
Altar Guild formed at Congregational church pot luck
The Young People’s Bible class at the Congregational church held a Friday supper with about fifteen members. The group voted to rename the class the Altar Guild and appointed Mrs. Frank Bush to oversee altar decorations for the month. The rostrum has been widened and carpeting and drapery were planned. Harrison United Brothers to hold quarterly meeting April 27-28 led by Rev. Leon Cook. Latter Day Saints sponsor a pie social at Hayes town hall on May 3.
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Young People’s Bible Class
Congregational Church
Charles Amble
Altar Guild
Frank Bush
Young Women’s Auxiliary
Harrison United Brothers Church
Leon Cook
North Star
The
Latter Day Saints Church of Harrison
Hayes Town Hall
Basso Edward Lankow Dies After Summer Acquaintance
In Old Greenwich a deep voiced basso who sang with Metropolitan Chicago and Boston opera companies befriended a writer during a hushed summer. the obituary notes Lankow's death the night before. The column then sketches Broadway life, a circus clown, a pig kept by Russ Morgan, and a New York troupe’s antics.
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L. L. Stevenson
Old
Greenwich
Metropolitan
Chicago
Boston
Annie Laurie
Edward Lankow
Sick Man Writes His Own Epitaph
Orion E. Kirkpatrick, ill in Leesburg Idaho, supervised engraving of his tombstone claiming 44 years mining in Lembi county and a pledge to follow the golden rule, but he later recovered.
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Leesburg
Idaho
Orion E. Kirkpatrick
Lembi
Kirkpatrick
Teeth in a tree stump puzzle Avon man finds set of false teeth
William P. Lorch found a set of false teeth embedded in a tree stump he was cutting near Avon Massachusetts. Except for two missing molars, the teeth were in good condition.
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William P. Lorch
Avon
Mass
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RIS & Hirts
Red Devil
Marion Johnson
A. D. Matteson
Bruce Lowell
Mary Wither
Cadillac
Harrison Eastern Star Chapter
Clair Stanley
Pedro
Percy Alkire
Fred Schaaf
Karl Skinner
Fred Weatherhead
Floyd Stanley
Olive Weidner
Paul &. Beals
Tip Top Inn
Hart Wilson
Diana
Malcolm
Audra
Margaret McArthur
William Hibbard
L. S. Leonard
Henry Gardiner
Anna Rhodes
Roy Rhodes
M. M. van Every
Phillip
J. M. van Dusen
Lansing
Women’s Missionary Society
U. B. Parsonage
Church News
Gotham
Broadway
Felix Adler
Georgia Sothern
Miss Sothern
Central Park
Washington
Russ Morgan
Lenhartsville
Morgan
New York
Capitol
Astor Theaters
Iso Briselli
Moppet
Briselli
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Sealright
Schaeffer’s
Mammoth
Timothy Alsike
Armour
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