Red Cross War Relief Funds Campaign Opens in Clare County
Clare County Red Cross prepared for a war relief drive with a county chairman Paul Gibson Harris on the scene and a parade plan led by the Clare High School band. The campaign aims a minimum fifty million dollars nationally with Clare’s quota set at 1600 dollars and local groups to supply 15 percent for local relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare County Red Cross
Madge Lamb
National Red Cross
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Norman FH. Davis
Dunlop Cafe
War Fund
Paul Gibson
Harrison
Red Cross War Relief Committee
Harold Fleming
Austin F. Bates
Chester A. Richard
Clare County
Clare High School
American Legion Organization
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Kiwanis Club
Chamber of Commerce
Emil Pfister
Farwell
Ladies Guild
War Relief Fund
Atlantic Patrol
Clare County Farmers Target Strong 1942 Milk and Meat Output
1942 defense canvass shows 985% farm coverage in Clare county with 60 703 cropland acres. Milk cows rise from 5 387 to 6 021, eggs up over 40 percent, hogs slaughter from 4 886 to 6 013, beef cattle from 4 592 to 4 885. Soybeans up 50 percent as gardens expand to feed families amid labor shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Triple
Clare County
Clare School Holiday Concert on December 22
Clare Public School presents its Annual Christmas Concert on Monday December 22 at 8:00 PM in the High School auditorium. Elementary Chorus Junior High Girls and Boys Choruses High School Girls Glee Club Junior and Senior Band perform. Admission is free to the public. The full program will be printed next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare Public School
Del Kump Dies in Saginaw Following December 3
Adelpha Howard Kemp known as Del Kump dies at his daughter's home in Saginaw in the early morning of December 3 1941. Born October 14 1861 in Parkville Michigan he lived in Missouri Michigan Clare Ithaca and later Clare barbering forty nine years. Survived by daughter Hallie Wilson granddaughter Bette Garder a sister in Omaha and several nieces and nephews. Funeral held December 7 at Congregational church with interment in Cherry Grove cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelpha Howard Kemp
Saginaw
Del
Parkville
St. Joseph County
Michigan
Zachariah and
Permelia Kump
Missouri
Cambria
Hillsdale
Ithaca
Clare
Caroline Orth
Donald E
Hallie Wilson
Bette Gordamer
Nittie Ashbaugh
Omaha
Nebraska
Friz Undertaking
Congregational Church
Albert Dawe
Cherry Crove Cemetery
Robert Brown
Laporte
Grace Beent
Webb Beem
Freeland
Alys
James AL Morrison
A. d. Smith
BE. J. Winkier
Rode
Wilson
Joseph Wilson
Bernard Lanetvery
Frank Campbell
Convention Go Hang to Be Staged by Clare Seniors
The Clare High School senior class presents Convention Go Hang in the school auditorium on December 16. The comedy centers on the Blair family and son Donald returning from college with revolutionary ideas about conventions, sparking family and romantic turmoil, with Betty, Buddy, Ruth, and Regis among the cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare High School
Blair
Donald
Ruth
Regis
Betty
Buddy
Betty Blair
Merne Shull
Buddy Jenkins
Fudge Calihan
Marybelle Ford
Junior Samborn
Donald Blair
Douglas Paxton
Ruth Jenkins
Eveleen Smith
Sidney Court
Norma Fisher
Hang
American Legion Organizes For National Defense
A December 8 1941 telegram from the American Legion to Michigan Governor Murray VanWagoner and Michigan Council of Defense director Harold A Furlong outlines the Legion's offer of service for the common good. It calls for a joint Post and Auxiliary meeting within 48 hours and maximum attendance of public officials and community leaders to plan duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conrad Walker
Ot Clare
Murray D. VanWagoner
Michigan
American Legion
Michigan Council of Defense
Harold A. Furlong
Knitting Drive Urges Helpers for North Atlantic Patrol
County Red Cross chairwoman Mrs G E Lamb received an urgent national request for knitted items for sailors on ships and destroyers. Needed are sleeved sweaters socks helmets and watch-caps. Contact local chairman to volunteer at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Red Cross
G. E. Lamb
National Headquarters
North Atlantic
Clare Study Club to Sponsor Fingerprinting Campaign
The Clare Study Club will sponsor a fingerprinting campaign at city hall starting Tuesday December 22 open to residents of the community. More details will be published in The Sentinel next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare Study Club
the Sentinel
William N. Cole Dies at Clare Home After Stroke
William N. Cole longtime Clare merchant died at his west Wheaton avenue home Sunday after a stroke. Born July 5 1867 in Ma haska county Iowa he was 74 years 4 months 2 days. He married Carrie Whitmore in November 1898 and is survived by nephew Horton Case and Dorothy Trummner. Funeral held at Thurston Funeral Home with Rev. Albert Dawe directing burial in Vernon Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Cole
Clare
West
West Wheaton Avenue
William N. Cole
Mahaska County
Iowa
Michigan
Carrie Whitmore
Horton Case
Dorothy Trummner
Sebewaing
Thurston Funeral Home
Albert Dawe
Belle Mair
Dorothy Duncan
Vernon Cemetery
Vernon
Shiawasse County
Clare Parent Teachers Club meets December 15
The Clare Parent Teachers Club will gather in the Clare school kindergarten room on Monday afternoon December 15 at 2 30 o'clock. All interested are welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare
Knights of Columbus Wabbit Supper in Mt Pleasant
Annual K of C Wabbit Supper brings 15 members and Clare guests to Sacred Heart Church social parlors in Mt Pleasant. Judge James R. McNamara acts as toastmaster while Ivo Carey’s team wins with 41 rabbits, Ferdinand Seibts’ team close behind. event doubles as farewell for Fr Charles Steves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Columbus
Clare
Sacred Heart Church
Mt. Pleasant
Leo J. Farquharson
Sacred Heart Parish
Grace
Voisin
Isabella County
James R. McNamara
Tim Temple
Traverse City
Michigan
Grand Traverse
Ivo Carey
Ferdinand Seibts
Carey
Christmas Tree Inspection Post Run By Three Men
Harold BR Burt of Bellevue and Harry W. Dey of Jackson join Clare residents in a state agriculture inspection post. For three weeks they have watched shipments of Christmas trees and evergreens move through Clare under Public Act No. 124 Perry Bill, guarding landowner consent rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Br, Burt
Bellevue
Harry W. Dey
Jackson
Clare
State Department of Agriculture
Injuries in Three Michigan Road Crashes
Floyd Olney 31 of Clare, wire chief for Michigan Bell, injured when his Plymouth skidded on US 27 in a snowstorm and hit a tree. Bailey and Merkle suffer minor injuries in a head on crash on US 10 near Clare. Three cars collide near the Chive Isabella county line on US 27 with no serious injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Olney
Clare
Michigan Bell Telephone Company
Us-27
Telephone
Olney
Clare County General Hospital
Emil Merkle
R-4
Clarence Bailey
Detroit
Merkle
Bailey
Samuel Hindman
Pontiac
Frances Duncan
Chive-Isabella County Line
US 27
Hindman
Duncan
Waive of petty thievery stopped here by officers
Police questioned seven youths after complaints of night-time entries. Two freed for lack of evidence, three minors paroled, one minor in detention, and an eighteen year old bound over to circuit court. They confessed to breaking into Farmers Independent Produce on December 1 and 3 and taking candy and cigarettes, and to entering Schofield Brothers pool room on McEwan Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Dunlop
Kyle MoeKinn
Farmers Independent Produce Company
West 4Th Street
Schofield Brothers
McEwan Street
Clare Youth at Pearl Harbor and Local War News
Clare residents report Albert Anderson Jr and other locals in military service amid rumors of casualties. U S S West Virginia rumored sunk at Pearl Harbor. Royal Kleinhardt returns furlough from Fort Diving. Draft notices list Clare men inducted at Fort Custer and others moving supplies and postings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Anderson, Jr
Mia
Luella Voige
Ralph Stevens
U.S.S. West Virginia
Pearl Flatbor
Hawaii
Albert
Sentinel
Royal Kleinhardt
Charles Kleinhardt
U. S. Infantry
Ft. Diving
Boston
Mass
North Carolina
Royal
Ralph Ackermuh
Henry Ackerman
Seth Q. M
Edward Archey
54Nd
Selfridge Field
N. A. Elden
Neil
Jackson
Mississippi
Raymond E. Calkins
Dth Chemical Company
McChord Field
Washington
U.S. Army
Pfc
Calkins
Irvin Calkins
Clare
Saginaw
Chester
Norman Hicks
Nick Lasazen
Sears
Navy
Clare County Draft Board
C. &. Army
Glenn Updyke
Toledo
Ohio
Temple
Ronald E. Langworthy
David W. Liddell
Flint
David W. Eichhorn
Farwell
Semerson F. Schieber
Fort Custer
Foster Bus Line Driver Receives 20 Year No-Accident Award
Dalton S. Foster of Lansing, operator of Foster Bus Lines between Clare and Lansing, was honored with a gold watch for twenty years of accident free driving. The award was presented at the East Lansing State Police Post by the Safe Drivers League with Roy H. Olson and Captain C J Scavarda in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton S. Foster
Lansing
Foster Bus Lines
East Lansing
Safe Drivers’ League
Michigan Mutual Liability Company
Foster
Roy H. Olson
Michigan Liability
C. J. Scavarda
Michigan State Police
Clare
Ferdinand Wieferich
Bert Mizer
Jack Foster
Michigan Bus Association
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Clare School
del Komp
Clare Home Sun
Vernon Michigan
Parent-Teachers Club
K. OF C. Wabbit
Chas. Steves
Dept. of Agriculture
West Virginia
Pearl Harbor
Foster Bus Line
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