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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1936
Page
5
Feighner and Parish publish rates for display advertising and reading notices. Locals cost 10c per line, fillers 5c per line, with heading 10c extra. Cards of thanks 25c per ten words, probate notices via Judge Dorsey, and job printing offered.
The Harrison community notes Sunday services at the United Brethren Church. Charles Kleinhardt, pastor, leads a 10:30 Sunday school and an 11:30 sermon with midweek prayer service announced. Several local families and residents are listed visiting, traveling, and sharing news of travel, attendance, and leisure across Harrison and nearby townships.
A roundup of visiting kin and hometown trips from Mt Pleasant and surrounding towns. Families including Vreeland Horn Horning Whitmer Banfield Sheffield Tiedeman and Hecker are mentioned with weekend visits and extended journeys. a late note reports Herman Stuermer hosting a surprise visit from Langenbach and plans for a church sale with proceeds for the pastor and church expenses.
The Walter L Main Circus, praised as improved this season, will perform in Clare on August 17 with shows at 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. Two exhibitions drew excellent patronage in Cumberland, featuring LaMars on the flying trapeze, the Cune-Grant trio, Mitzy and Harry, trained animals, the educated pony Cupid, and the Wild Cargo film act.
Officers for the United Brethren church were elected for the year. Finance and Church Secretary: Mrs. Gerald Reigle. Class Leader: Roy Maton. Treasurer: Mrs. Nettie Chase. Group Leaders: Mrs. Clara Smith and Mrs. Louie Hecker and Mrs. John Hill. Louise Hecker was named delegate to Camp Grounds Carson City August 12 to 23 but could not attend. Nettie Chase filled her place and attends business meetings August 19 to 28. Sunday August elections for the United Brethren Sunday School officers are planned.
The Helping Hand Society met at Mrs. Nettie Chase home with ten members. They adopted an agency with an extract company to fund church redecorating and chimney rebuilding. Plans for a Saturday sale at Hughes Brothers Store August 38 were set, with Mrs Bernice Lautsenheiser chairing the solicitation. An ice cream social is also planned.
Michigan State College professor R S Hudson offers nineteen tips for keeping work horses cool and healthy in heat. Practical guidance covers feeding water access daily and avoiding grain when tired, alongside proper gear fit and gradual feed changes.
Mrs Billa Myers Corners and siblings Jacob and Hazel Dillenbach visited Mr and Mrs Ivan Smith Sunday. Ralph and Asa Carey of Frost Township shared dinner with Geo Dillenbach. Meals were hosted by F M Myers with many relatives from Mt. Pleasant and surrounding areas attending.
Midland residents Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hutchinson called on Mrs. and Mrs. F. M. Myers. Mrs. H. E. Magnus and two children visited Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Myers. Mrs. Norman Myers of Arthur Township called on her parents Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Myers Saturday.
Mr and Mrs Harry Fritz and two sons of Elgin Illinois visited at John Halsteads home last week. Sunday callers at A O Wilds included Ray Belledger Raymond and Gerald Perch, Earl Halstead and Norman Jean, and other relatives spent the weekend at Halsteads. Ben Baxter and C A Wilds families visited at the start of the week. They joined Mrs B s parents in Hesperia and toured nearby cherry orchards. John Andrews returned from Hart with a load of cherries. Walter Laubengayer daughter Signa and guest Mrs James Morse with Warren Stephens and guests Miss Reta Birch of Ann Arbor were weekend guests of Simon Utley, while Signa Laubengayer visited Wilds girls with Violet and Hulda Wilds en route to the Powell home Sunday.
AMONG THE GRANGES Gilmore Grange meets Thursday night of each week. All Grangers cordially invited to attend. We will meet with a smile. Entertain you for a while Then dismiss, you with good cheer. And you'll want to come back many times a year. John Laverty has had a very sick horse. ME and Mrs. John Wood entertain ed their children from Lansing over the weekend. Ruth. Perry is home again for a few days. Her mother remains about the same. Mrs. Margaret Mapes of Alma is visiting her uncle Wm Ingraham. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard VanBuskirk will be at home after August 15 at the Glass farm purchased by the Groom's mother east of Woods store. They invite their many friends to come and see them. From the noise we heard about 11 o'clock Tuesday night I think the sleepers at the N. A. Trumble home surely were disturbed. But they all wished Shirley and Bernice a happy future.
The Grange box social drew a large crowd last Thursday with receipts totaling 8.90. Local residents N. A. Trumble Mrs Lillie Warner Viola Agle and Roy Glass from Farwell were mentioned in weekend travels to Jackson.
Michigan members of Production Credit Associations issued 815 loans totaling $265000 in June, lifting six month totals to 4899 loans and $1557000 borrowed. The Alma region covers Gratiot, Montcalm, Mecosta, Isabella and Clare counties with offices and reps to assist members. The nationwide six month rise reached 21 percent, marking the third straight year of growth since 1933 34.
The passage notes settlers named a bee as bee line origins, with a claim that the term bee line to mean a straight path is uniquely American while becoming familiar in England. It contrasts unknown Bee and Antroduced terms and references an Englishman's fly naming.
A study notes antelopes resemble cattle in horn structure but differ by shedding the horn’s outer sheath annually. The finding highlights distinct horn development between species.
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