Former resident hurt when cars crash near Clare
A crash four miles south of Clare on US 27 left Tim Graves and four others injured. Graves, his wife and grandchildren sustained multiple injuries and were treated at Clare area hospitals. Kenneth Blades was involved in the opposing vehicle. Police ticketed Graves for speeding and investigated two more accidents at nearby intersections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tim Graves
Clare
Hast Lansing
Kenneth C. Blades
Beaverton
Graves
Cidére Hospital
Hrma
Victory Peckinpaugh
St. Louis
Joyce Peckinpaugh
Bernard F. Brécht
R-1
Brecht
Frederick O. Hansen
Greenville
Hansen
McEwan
Fourth Sts
Beverly J. Sande
Benton Harbor
Fourth St
Donald Thayer
Beverly Sande
Thayer
Beverly
Stay Alive Obey Stop Signs August Traffic Slogan
Clare police chief warns that full stops at stop signs prevent crashes and urges drivers to look both ways. Officials partner with state safety groups to promote Stay Alive Obey Stop Signs and reduce Michigan and national traffic deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dacker
Clare
Michigan State Safety Commission
Michigan Highway Department
Charles M. Ziegler
United States
Michigan
Mrs. Mulder Burned Moving Paraffin Fire Injures Arm
Mrs A E Mulder suffered first degree facial burns and first and second degree burns to her right arm when a pan of flaming paraffin spilled during kitchen fire control Saturday at 10 30 in her home on West State Street. Neighbour Mrs Srecko Kajser assisted. she was hospitalized at Clare Hospital in satisfactory condition after treatment for burns and shock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.D. Mulder
West State St
Dr. Mulder
Srecko Kajser
Mrs. Mulder
Tan
Clare Hospital
Beal City Breaks Jinx To Narrow Central League Race
Beal City defeated Seaton 3 0 to tighten the Central Michigan Baseball League standings as Rosebush crushed Clare 14 1 to tie Idle Farwell for second place. Mt Pleasant stayed within one game of first as Coleman beat Harrison 9 2. Denslow starred for Beal City with a two hit performance in a pitching duel against Keebaugh who struck out 17 but saw Seaton commit six errors. Rosebush and Clare each piled up 14 hits led by Connors Cowden and Schults. Coleman 18 hit attack featured Acker and Lentz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beal City
Central Michigan
Seaton
Rosebush
Clare
Idle Farwell
Beaton
Mt. Pleasant
Coleman
Harrison
Denslow
Jeaton
John Keebaugh
Keebaugh
Heintz
Strauss
Frank Connors
Ken Cowden
Bob Schults
Grove
McConnell
Wallace
Lucy
Duane Acker
Werner Lentz
Schneider
Bruce
Dennis
Acker
Rotary Club to Sponsor Amateur Boxing Events
The Clare Rotary Club will sponsor amateur boxing exhibitions at the Clare Public School athletic field this fall. Ten three round bouts per show in Golden Gloves style under amateur rules. Proceeds fund Boy Scout activities and Botany’s programs for underprivileged children. Boxers from Bay City and Saginaw. local amateurs will be developed for future events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare Rotary Club
Clare Public School
Botany
State Boxing Commission
Rotary Club
Bay City
Saginaw
Clare
Mrs John Roe Passes Away At Home Near Clare
Mrs John Roe former Clare County resident of 69 years died at her home east of Clare at 10 am Sunday. Alice May Teale born January 7 1875 in Norfolk Ontario died August 6 1950 in Clare Michigan aged 75 6 29. She moved to Clare County as a child and married John A Roe November 28 1899. They reared five children on farms in Clare Isabella counties with winters in St Petersburg Florida. They lived one mile east of Clare the last 30 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Roe
Clare
Alice May Teale
George Samual
Mary Margarit Teale
Norfolk County
Windon Township
Ontario
Canada
Michigan
Clare County
James Teale
Lionel Fetters
John A. Roe
Mary Roe
Sheridan Township
Ethel Mary
Agnes Blanche
Edna Pearl
Arthur Earl
Alice Lucille
Isabella
St. Petersburg
Florida
Claré
Clare City Audits Shows Resources Up From Last Year
The Clare City Commission approved the annual audit by M. E. Deurloo. Total city resources reached 88177.67 as of June 30 1950 with 49757.82 in general funds 18605.69 sewer fund 420.75 First Ward sewer fund 14213.41 in cemetery care and 5180 in War Bonds. Building permits for the school and Mel Farley were approved. The commission discussed a new police car and authorized a street light on Ald W Wheaton Ave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare City Commission
M. E. Deurloo
Certified Public Accountant
Big Rapids
First Ward
Sentinel
Mel Farley
Hub Oil Co
City Planning Commission
City Commission
Consumers Power Co
Ald W
Well Baby Clinic Dates Set in Clare County
Clare County schedules well baby clinics in August at Farwell Methodist Church on the 16th from 9 to 11 AM Clare Methodist Church on the 16th from 1 to 3 PM and Harrison Court House on the 18th from 9 to 11 AM No appointment is needed for these sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare County
Farwell Methodist Church
Clare Methodist Church
Harrison Court House
CAIN AND GROVE NEW CHAMPS IN COUNTY LEAGUE
Cain and Grove clinched the Clare County Softball League title after Harrison forfeited their last game Tuesday night. Clare Mfg. beat Cain and Grove for a league tie earlier. DeMolay surged to threaten W.E.V.W. while Dover and Clare Mfg. won key matches. Final standings list Cain and Grove as champions with two exhibition games scheduled Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grove New
Clare High School class of 1947 reunion planned
The Clare High School graduating class of 1947 plans a reunion on Sunday August 12 at the VFW hall in Clare. Husbands wives and children are invited with assembly at 12 00 noon for a pot luck dinner. Bring own table service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare High School
V.F.W. Hall
Clare
Reading Rosebush News Classifieds and Lake News Highlights
A multi-page notice brief lists sections in Rosebush papers including Reading Rosebush News pages 13 to 17 Classifieds Lake News page 3 Harrison News pages 2 to 16 Farwell Gilmore News page 8 Farm News page 19. It references upcoming column and local notices across sections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosebush
Lake
Harrison
Farwell-Gilmore
Farm
Largest Enrollment Expected At School Opening Sept. 6th
Clare Public Schools reopen on September 6 for grades K through 9 at 9 00 am with 10 12 reporting the next day. Freshmen will be absent that day. Changes in staff include Marilyn Rosselit teaching vocal music and Allan Tulk joining seventh grade. Mrs Wood also joins as seventh grade instructor due to growing enrollment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare Public Schools
Marilyn Rosselit
Shepherd
Lida Strong
Miss Rosselit
Central, Michigan College of Education
Allan Tulk
Detroit
Ralph Morrow
Mr. Tulk
Central Michigan College of Education
Tulk
Audrey Wild Wood
Wood
Clare County notes sold to Detroit firm at 2.375 percent
Clare County Road Commission awarded a $40 000 issue of notes to Jones B Shannon Co of Detroit as the lowest bidder at 2.375 percent interest The Citizens State Bank of Clare offered 3.5 percent The notes dated August 1 1950 mature 8000 each May 1 from 1961 to 1995 redeemable in order and payable from future motor vehicle weight taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare County Road Commission
Harrison
Clare County
Jones B. Shannon & Co
Detroit
Citizens State Bank of
Clare
Clare Public
Clare Sentinel
Clare High School Designates Special Guidance Day
August 31 selected as guidance day for new enrollees in Clare High School. Faculty will help with course selection and answer questions. Attendance optional. parents encouraged to accompany students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare High School
Michigan Center Schools Announces Faculty List
The district names teachers for 1955 56 including Bates Norcutt Garthe Richardson and others across subjects from mathematics to English. The first faculty meeting is Tuesday September 5 at 9 30 am to set plans and policies for the opening of school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan Center
Austin F. Bates
Floyd Norcutt
Carleton Garthe
Donald Richardson
Bernice Tulk
Betty Dorr
Richard Wheeler
Harold Collins
Louisa Bowler
Myrtie Bowerman
Lawrence Wilcox
Iyah Emery
H. S. Library
Olive Evans
Gwendolyn Sholty
William Harper
Dorothy Harper
Doris Gerow
Florence Kane
Elsie Delamarter
Helen Garthe
Sarah Morrow
Verona White
Kathryn Hroh
Erie Hales
Leota van Every
Local team places third in Ionia pulling contests
A Clare owned team led by Frank Grant placed third in lightweight horse pulling at the Ionia Free Fair on Tuesday. They pulled 3,150 pounds for 21 feet. Charles Roehl and Son of Smiths Creek won the lightweight championship with 3,150 pounds for 27% feet, and a Roehl team finished second with the same weight and distance but fewer points. The Grant and Roehl teams are familiar figures among local horsemen, having appeared here in the past three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Grant
Clare
Ionia Free Fair
Charles Roehl and Son
Smiths Creek
Roehl
Grant
Transportation to Red Cross swimming classes sought
Drivers are wanted to take loads of young people to Harrison on week days for the Red Cross water safety instruction program there. Anyone wishing to cooperate is requested to contact Rev. Leslie J. Nevins at the Clare Methodist Church parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
Red Cross
Leslie J. Nevins
Clare Methodist Church
Army Calls First Draftees From Clare County for Exams
Thirty five Clare county young men are scheduled to leave August 29 for pre induction physical exams in Detroit. Five will be chosen for final induction in September with the oldest 1-A selected first. About twenty more may be called for pre induction exams in September. Names will be announced in The Sentinel after final induction. James Corsaut of Cisre, a member of the Army Reserves previously sent to Scott Field, Illinois, was not called due to his marital status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare County
Detroit
The
Sentinel
James Corsaut
Cisre
Army Reserves
Scott Field
Illinois
Michigan Oil Co Purchases Clare County Producers
Michigan Oil Co the crude oil subsidiary of Bay Refining Co announced the purchase of all outstanding stock of Talbot Oil Co of Saginaw and Bay City The deal covers 35 oil and gas wells in Beaver Creek Crawford county Freeman Redding Clare Isabella and Kawkawlin Bay counties and gas wells in the Canton Ohio field The purchase price was not disclosed Acreage in the Freeman Redding Field originally developed by Freeman Oil of Glare was sold to Talbot Oil in a prior transaction
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talbot Oil Co
Saginaw
Bay City
Michigan Oil Co
Bay Refining Co
W. Rolland Stewart
Stewart
Beaver Creek
Crawford County
Freeman-Redding
Clare County
Rosebush
Wise
Greendale
Isabella County
Kawkawlin
Bay County
Canton
Ohio
Fire damages lumber yard. kids suspected source
The Clare fire department responded to a blaze at the old Dassert and Brown lumber yards on Hast Second St now Seiter Brothers property. Fire at 8:30 last Friday evening destroyed a pile of two by fours, with estimated loss between 100 and 150 dollars. Children playing in the yards are suspected to have started the fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare
Dassert & Brown
Hast Second St
Seiter Brothers
Charles Strangé Returns Home After South Visit
Charles Strangé greets friends on Main Street in Clare upon his return to his home Friday evening. He spent a year and fifteen days in Texas tending to a ill sister who died, and other relatives suffered illness. He is glad to be home after a long sojourn south.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Strangé
Clare
Texas
Chas Barnett Case Continued In Municipal Court
The hearing for Charles Wright Barnett 69 of Maumee Ohio charged with negligent homicide in Municipal Court was continued until Tuesday August 15 at 2 00 pm. Also noted were minor court actions involving Lyle Daggett Sportsmines Bar sale of alcohol to minors, DUI pleas and license suspensions for several individuals, a stolen car report, and a DeSoto sedan taken to Walkerton Indiana by a 14 year old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Wright Barnett
Maumee
Ohio
Lyle Daggett
Sportsmines Bar
Farwell
Lyle M. Farrow
R-3
Gladwin
Mamassinal Court
Gail Arts
Arthur H. Thompson
Danial Hoover
Sam Kascheck
Coleman
John
Midland
al Nystrom
Clare Country Club
Guy
Dunlop’s
West Fiftie St
Charles Prather
Walkerton
Indiana
Prather
David
Northland Drive-in Theatre Opens Near Clare
Charlies and Emery Bonham announce the grand opening of the Northland drive in theater located three and three quarter miles south of Clare on US 27. The debut Wednesday August 16 features David Bruce and Christine Miller in Young Daniel Boone with Monogram technicolor shorts. Ground cleared for full screen visibility and a steel screen tower described as modern and unique. Projection and sound equipment are state of the art with parking for 280 cars and a concession building managed by Leslie Bonstelle plus modern rest rooms. The ad appears on page twelve of this week’s Sentinel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlies
Emery Bonham
Clare
Us-27
David Bruce
Christine Miller
Daniel Boone
Leslie Bonstelle
Sestinel
Fair dates for county and state events listed
Dates of fairs of interest to CM readers include Jonia Free Fair August 7 12 Gladwin County August 9 12 Midland County August 15 15 Isabella County Farm and Youth Fair August 22 26 Osceola County Attge September Michigan State September Saginaw County September 10 4 Clare County September 19 16
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonia
Gladwin County
Midland County
Isabella County
Osceola County
Michigan State
Saginaw County
Clare County
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. E. Mulder
Seaton Rosebush
Bear City
Cherry Grove
V.F.W
Clare Mfg
Calin & Grove
Clare County Softball League
Clare Manufacturing
Johnny Musser
Cain & Grove
W.F.W. Krauss
Willey
Cowles
Krauss
Haggart
Musser
Allen
Pitchford
Dover
Vere Shull
Bud Langston
Shull
Armentrout
Bringold
Langston
John Brinkerhoff
Stanley
Brinkerhoff
Thayers
Jack Hemstreet
DePew
Fairly
Potter
Rilett
DeMolay
W.F.W
Pulcifer
Joe Willey
Ernie Bryant
Bellows
Spencer
Hendershot
Richter
Ray’s Refinery of
Lansing
Road Commission
Ionia
Army
Main
Chas. Barnett
Northland
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