Colville Community Notes and Visits Extend Summer Activities
Mrs Pearl Clute of Harrison visits Clure home this week. Belen Brossey operated for appendicitis at Clare Hospital and is recovering well. Ice cream social on July 19 netted about $20.00. Ladies Aid grateful for help. Dale Davis and Marvin Willets party returned from Grawn after cherry picking. Families from Lansing spent weekend with Clute and Engler households. Farmers welcome recent rains. Sympathy extended to Walters family. Local residents visited Clute home Sunday. Berry picking at Wilson farm involved several locals. Arthur Phillips family visited his mother near Rosebush. Phillips also saw Lloyd Spaulding. Colville and Carrow 4-H girls met Margaret Cotton on July 26. Margaret demonstrated quick breads. Next meeting August 9 with Annabelle Sehunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Clute
Harrison
Clure
Belen Brossey
Clare Hospital
Dale Davis
Marvin Willets
Flint
Grawn
Hattie Engler
Marie
Helen Saunders
Mary Dell
Lansing
Ruby Thompson
Jay Clute
Engler
Walters
Harold Clute
Clute
Wilson Farm
Arthur Phillips
Rosebush
Spicer Reunion Brings Neighbors To Fred Athey Farm
Spicer family and neighbors gathered at the Fred Athey farm on the Middle Branch of the Tobacco River for the annual Spicer Reunion. Geo Spicer of Beaverton was absent due to his wife’s illness. Floyd Spicer led the meeting. Attendees included Loris Orin the five week old son of Mr and Mrs Lee Reynolds and visitors from Vestaburg Coleman and other towns. Attendance totaled 65.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spicer
Little Grove
Tobacco River
Fred Athey
Geo. Spicer
Beaverton
Floyd Spicer
Loris Orin
Lee Reynolds
Longnecker
John Keeler
Vestaburg
Jode Carter
Coleman
Geo. Bates
LaVern
Alice Ann
Harrison
Shull
Lowell
Fioren Orvis
Arnold
B. Orvis
R. D. Shull
Detroit
Wood
Jean
West Groat
M. E. Church
Frank Sanders
F. M. Myers
Norman Myers
Rollers and Budd Families Visit and Travel Notes
Sunday afternoon callers the Rollers Mr and Mrs Orlin Budd and son Harley from Columbus Ohio spent a week with Mrs Anna Shull in Clare County. Stevie Hubel drove to Detroit to visit grandmother Mrs Elizabeth Hubel. they were joined by Mr and Mrs Cecil Hubel. Maude Roller and Kenneth visited the Bru baker home. Ronald Bru baker was present with Mr and Mrs Lee Reynolds on Thursday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karen
The
Rollers
Orlin Budd
Harley
Columbus
Ohio
Hattie Budd
Powell
Clare County
Anna Shull
Stevie Hubel
Detroit
Elizabeth Hubel
Cecil Hubel
Roller
Maude
Kenneth
John Brubaker
Ronald
Lee Reynolds
Farmers Skimp on Use of Fertilizer
CHICAGO- The United States uses only a fraction of available fertilizer to boost soil quality and crop yields. A Middle West Soil Improvement committee report notes Americans average five pounds per acre annually, versus 99 in Holland and 80 in Belgium, with Europe long tied to soil conservation practices. It highlights abundant nitrogen from the air and vast phosphate rock reserves that could last thousands of years, urging broader fertilizer use to combat erosion and poor yields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Europe
Middle West
Germany
Norway
Sweden
France
Italy
Great Britain
Water Tunnel Extends 13 Miles Under the Rockies
Colorado plans a 13.1 mile rock bore under the Continental Divide from Grand Lake to near Estes Park as part of the Colorado Big Thompson project. Bids are due June 7 at the Bureau of Reclamation in Denver. Project cost estimates start at 7 million dollars with four years needed to complete the tunnel and related reservoirs for western slope water delivery.
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Grand Lake
Colo
Colorado
Bureau of Reclamation
Denver
Rocky Mountain National Park
Estes ‘Park
Rocky Mountain
Colorado-Big Thompson
Bedloe Island Spelling Clarified for Statue Landmark
The national park service urges correct spelling of Bedloe Island the home of the Statue of Liberty. Bartholdi’s colossal statue is noted as a world famous landmark and the agency asks media and readers to spell the island as Bedloe Island without the apostrophe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedloe Island
Washington
National Park Service
Bartholdi
New York Harbor
Bedloe’s
Classifieds offer value in The Clare Sentinel
A brief note touts the paper’s classifieds as a way to maximize value for readers’ money, promising refined options and results through local listings in The Clare Sentinel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Clare ‘Sentinel
Fat’ Résulte
Local notices and social updates from Ver Non area
Community snippets record funerals visits illnesses and gatherings. Edward McDonald funeral at St Henry Ver Non follows car accident injuries. Rev Thos Jackson resigns due to illness. 4 H Rosebush trip to Budd Lake led by Delphine Balge with leader present. Local visits include Mrs Walter Parks Betty and Betty Jean House birthday party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Stutting
Mr. Pleasant
Joe Clevenger
Edward McDonald
St. Henry's Church
Vernon
Thos. Jackson
M. HB
Maurice McConnell
Hugh. Swindiehurst
Rosebush
South Rosebush
Budd Lake
Delphine Balge
Walter Parks
Betty
Deerfield
Frank Lynch
Otto House
Betty Jean
Alex Black
Chicago
Indiana
George Bott
John Vargo
Pony Creek
Rose Cosgrove
H. O. Beutler
Williams Formula Earns Rave Reviews in Local Pitch
Enthusiastic neighbors praise Williams Formula for relief from gas indigestion and related ailments. A Mt. Morris letter from Mrs. Bertha Speckman describes dizziness and pressure eased after using the herbal remedy. Sold at Andersons Drug Store in three sizes, it costs only a few cents daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Speckman
Morris Stead
Mt. Morris
Michigan
Williams Formula
Tle
Williams
Family trip through Wisconsin and Illinois ending in July
The party traveled from St Ignace to Milwaukee for a convention, then visited a relative in Wisconsin. They continued to Rockford and Keweenaw Peninsula before returning home Sunday July 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Ignace
Milwaukee
Atwood
Wisconsin
Rockford, Ill
Keweenaw Peninsula
Without humor, they lack hope in life
A reflective aphorism notes that humor sustains outlook and resilience, suggesting those who avoid humor miss a sense of possibility and optimism.
Housing Development Claims Cane Fiber Strength
Prof. W. J. Krefeld of Columbia University says synthetic building materials from sugar cane stalks after sugar extraction are 28 percent stronger than diagonal wood sheathing and 330 percent stronger than horizontal wooden boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Krefeld
Columbia University
Electricity costs decline since 1913 say Edison Institute
Light facts show average American household electricity expense now about half of what it was in 1913 according to the Edison Electric Institute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison Electric Institute
Ancient Footwear Sandal Records the Earliest Footwear
An ancient sandal stands as the oldest known form of footwear on record, reflecting early human use of hides and woven fibers for protection and comfort.
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Colonville
Arthur Center
Standard Oil
Thrifty
Fee Modern
Salisbury
Hotpoint
Clare Electric Co
W. Fifth St
U. S
Rockies
Ame
Andersons Drug Store
California
Red
Carton
Club Franks
Ring Bologna
Kix
General Mills New Corn
Ige. Okg
Emma
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