Michigan Traffic Gains 24 Percent In April Travel Totals
Michigan highway travel rose 24 percent in April to 3.94 billion miles with 9.6 percent on Interstates and 2.2 percent on county roads. Northern Lower Michigan led gains while U S 31 and the Mackinac Bridge showed large increases.
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Michigan
State Highway Commission
Clare
Lower Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Monroe
Traverse City
Mackinac Bridge
Standish
Commission
Community News Roundup of Local Visits and Attendances
Mrs Mary Hemstreet suffered a painful hand injury requiring twelve stitches with no bone damage. Sympathy extends to Hazel Garver's family who died July 22. Revs Eliza and Lou Beery visited family in Mansfield Ohio and attended a Mich Church of God camp in Carson City. Local social and church events include graduations, a General Motors Institute degree, Parent Teacher award, and Navy service sending off Robert David with well wishes.
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Mary Hemstreet
Hazel Garver
Eliza
Lou Beery
Kermit Hainley
Church of God
Carson City
Mansfield
Ohio
Ernest Kleiner
August Gephardt
Saginaw
Neckargartach
Germany
Donald Kleiner
Roger
Fort Wayne Indiana
Kenneth Turner
Lake Four Gladwin Co
Inez Prather
Bay City Hospital
Russel Armentrout
Glenda
Bertha Smith
Alton David
Arthur Center
Elza Beery
Everett Carncross
Gordon
Everet Carncross
Walter Kleiner
Lauerence Carncross
Dannie
Eaths Penrose
Gordon Carncross
General Motors Institute
Sharon Bay
Russell Armentrout
Robert Kleiner
David Wade
Lynn David
Lois Denno
Carson Cuty
Robert
San Francisco
U.S. Navy
Bob
French Pioneers Shaped Michigan’s Early History, Says WSU Historian
A Wayne State University historian highlights Michigan’s French roots in the state’s past. He notes Etienne Brule as the first European in the region and Father Jacques Marquette founding St. Ignace in 1671. Other key figures include Champlain, Nicolet, Joliet, La Salle, and Cadillac shaping early exploration and forts.
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Detroit
Michigan
Sault Ste. Marie
Two-Peninsula
Philip P. Mason
Wayne State University
England
Mason
Etienne Brule
Lake Superior
Brule
Upper Peninsula
Wisconsin
New France
Samuel de Champlain
Lake Huron
Champlain
Jacques Marquette
Dr. Mason
St. Ignace
Jean Nicolet
Straits of Mackinac
Orient
Adrien Jolliet
Louis
Lower Peninsula
Francois St. Lusson
Louis XIV
Mississippi River
Robert Cavelier
Sieur de la Salle
Miami
City of
St. Joseph
Sieur Antoine ‘de la Mothe Cadillac
Bete Grise
Pt. Aux Chenes
Au Gres
Grosse Pointe
Father Marquette
Senior Citizens of Clare hold July meeting
The Senior Citizens of Clare met Tuesday July 16 at the Clare I O C F Hall for a pot luck lunch. Lucius Fuller presided, Iliam Hendrie gave grace, and July birthdays were honored with a song. A discussion on fund raising followed and August 6 was set for the next gathering.
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Clare
Clare I
Ruth Cook
Clare County Community Aid
Six Cap
John Stough
Fuller
Iva Fisher
Agnes Champley
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Ack Ske
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Clare Sentinel
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Aed
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U.S.10
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Buds Used Furniture
Ludington Drive
Catterfield Drug and Hardware
Saginaw, Mich
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Toledo
Fairbanks Morse
Hobart Electric
Lewyt
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Jack Rodabaugh
Jim Sykora
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