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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1934
Page
11
The community hosts Auld Lang Syne programs at the M E church with sermon by Rev Lockyer and special music directed by Mrs Madge Lamb. Auld Lang Syne banquet follows, and reports urge closing church accounts by September 10 for the Petosky conference on September 12. Local notices list travels, visits, and social gatherings across residents and nearby towns.
A gathering of Stinchcombe relatives and friends from St Louis and nearby towns featured fish trips, church visits, and homecomings. Residents attended a Gilmore church homecoming, a Weidman celebration, and a K P hall dance slated for next Saturday.
The notice lists church activities for the Church of God and Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. It includes Sunday School at 10:30 or 11:30 a.m., preaching services at 9:30 or 11:30 p.m., Young People's meetings, cottage prayer, and Women’s Department gatherings with times and cadence. Everyone is welcome.
Mr and Mrs J C Coats and Mr and Mrs John Rockey spend the week at the Coats cottage Hubbard Lake. John Leitner returns to Pontiac after three weeks with relatives. Hazel Sanders breaks her arm Sunday morning. Edith and Helen Sanders visit relatives in Pontiac and Rex LeiNER joins them home for a week. Local visits include Calhoun and Ankney families from Lansing Coleman. Sunday dinner at Warl Sanders with Maude Barber, Kenneth Roller, and Lorin Leitner family.
Pleasant Valley residents provided weekly updates with visits and travel. Kenneth Rackey helped his brother, visitors included Harnest Penrose and Blystone, families from Eagle and Midland called on Bates and Hemstreet, and trips to Ohio Cranberry Lake and family reunions were noted.
The 5 000 Michigan residents seek public office, with ballot nonappearance for unopposed candidates under new election law. Residency requirements shift to 20 days in city or township and election day registration transfers allowed. Campaign finance reports are due after primaries and novembers. Drivers licenses renewals total 559 851 this year, licenses issued since May 1934 at 177 279. Corporate filings show over 200 000 more privilege taxes collected by Aug 15 versus 1933, with Sept 1 deadline for annual reports for all corporations.
State law lacks religious festival provision as Sep 11 falls on a holiday. Sun sets at 6 49 p m allowing participants 1 hour 41 minutes to reach polling places before closing. Law permits those waiting outside at closing hour to vote.
Mrs. Cora L. McKinnon former president of the Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs issues a letter to Michigan club women endorsing Judge Lacy for governor on a nonpolitical basis. Prominent supporters include Mrs. Emme A. Fox and Mrs. Williams BR. Alvord. Political advertising.
In a Riverside County court session Judge Hart presided over multiple actions including The People versus Henry Kenny where Kenny faced rape and assault counts. jurors seated and the case ended with a not guilty verdict as the witness weakened the prosecution. Other matters included an assumpsit suit The Citizens State Bank vs The State Mutual Fire Insurance Company with no jury verdict yet. Chicago Paint Works vs Fred Bingham default judgment for damages. a Chancery suit William C. Smith vs Earl and Myrtle Spitler granting specific performance. Dexter versus Bernier with judgment by consent. and a divorce Mayme Barnes vs W Ray Barnes granted to the plaintiff with requested provisions.
M Bruff of Madison and this city acquired a rare ambrotype of Abraham Lincoln as a young man. The glass plate photo shows lights in silver and dark shading. Ambrotypes, rarer than daguerreotypes and tintypes, were encountered while Bruff visited a junk dealer near Vincennes Indiana.
In Mays Landing New Jersey historical societies plan to clear debris from Shore Road cemetery the first slave burying ground in the state. The only marker is a marble slab for Angelina Taylor died September 5 1833 aged eighty three. Early Quaker settlers slowed slave numbers though at one time 12000 slaves lived mostly in the north.
American apple sales totaled over 8 million dollars worldwide in 1933 while U S gross farm income rose to about 6 383 billion dollars up from 1932 The North Carolina State College agricultural extension promotes rural home improvements The Magie hog originator David W Magie from Butler County Ohio developed the Poland China by crossing four breeds in 1840
The document reports that Ohio crafted a criminal code authorized by congress and promulgated September 6 1788. It listed 20 offenses with penalties, and singled out murder as the sole crime punishable by death, believed to be the first code worldwide to limit capital punishment to one offense.
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