Santa Claus Visits Clare for Holiday Letters and Gatherings
Clare residents can mail letters to Santa through December 14 in a chamber container on McEwan Street near Michigan Consolidated Gas. Santa will pick up letters December 14 at 1 30 p.m. and again December 21, with a second container between Bicknell's and Northland Hardware. Clare Fire Department members packed candy and gift certificates for prizes as Santa plans visits December 14 and 21, and private visits can be arranged through December 21 by calling 412 Clare.
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Santa Claus
McEwan Street
Clare Chamber of Commerce
Santa
Michigan Consolidated Gas Company
Bicknell’s
Northland Hardware
Clare
Consumers Power opens new Clare Service Center in $90,000 building
C J Fritz Aven marks twenty five years with Consumers Power as the Clare center hosts its grand opening in a new $90,000 building at McEwan and Third Streets. Visitors tour the sales floor and service area while demonstrations from Frigidaire Ironrite and Eureka reps unfold. Grand prize drawings Friday December 13.
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Clare
Consumers Power
C.J
Fritz) Aven
Allen
McEwan
Third Streets
Consumers Service Center
Consumers Area
Persormel
Alma
Hah. Ziegenbein
Mr. Ziegenbein
Larry Wilcox to be Installed Lodge Master in Open Ceremony
Larry Wilcox a former Clare high school faculty member will be installed as Worshipful Master of John Q Look Lodge 404 F and AM at ceremonies Tuesday evening in the newly remodeled Masonic Temple The installing officer will be Howard Everts deputy district instructor with an open meeting The public is invited Other officers named include Thomas Mickle Eugene Campbell Burke Collins John Roda baugh Courtney Bauer Holly Merritt and Chaplain Earl Beatty plus Marshal Ken Roe Also appointed for future installation are Warren White Earl Ruby Larry Everts Marlin Alexander Frans Kuula Ernest Stark and Past W. M. Charles Cooper
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Larry Wilcox
Clare High School
John Q. Look
F & AM
Masonic Temple
Howard Everts
Thomas Mickle
Eugene Campbell
Burke Collins
John Rodabaugh
Courtney Bauer
Holly Merritt
Everts
Earl Beatty
Ken Roe
Warren White
Earl Ruby
Larry Everts
Marlin Alexander
Frans Kuula
Ernest Stark
W. M. Charles Cooper
Tyler
Harper Meets Recent Grads At Conference
Michigan high school and community college officials spoke with over 3,000 former students at Michigan State University December 3 4 for the 21st annual High School Junior College Follow Up Conference. Dr Max S Smith MSU official outlined closer collaboration between MSU and junior community colleges.
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Michigan High School
Michigan State University
Clare
William Harper
Jean Bowler
Sharon, Gaspeny
John Holbrook
Sharon Lang
Lois Pudway
CHS
Max S. Smith
MSU
Office of
Christmas Tea Planned by Clare County Home Demonstration
The Clare County Home Demonstration women announce their annual Christmas Tea for Thursday night December 12 at 8 pm in the Courthouse basement Harrison. Four new groups will be introduced along with a short program and Christmas ideas from each group. Refreshments will be served as about 100 women are expected. countywide invites go to every member.
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Clare County
Wayne Trowbridge
Harrison
Loomis Shop Cited For Bond Buying Achievement
Loomis Machine Co employees in Clare received a United States Treasury citation for high participation in the Payroll Savings Plan for United States Savings Bonds. President Martin Loomis accepted the award, presented by Circuit Judge Don ald E. Holbrook, noting an 80 percent participation through 1957. County residents invested $105 258 in series EH and H bonds in ten months, reaching 82.8 percent of the year’s $127 000 goal.
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Lee’ Sowlephoto
Loomis Machine Co
Clare
United States Treasury
United States Savings
Martin Loomis
Donald E. Holbrook
Clare County Savings Bonds Committee
Iwo -Dima
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
Michigan Savings Bond
Henry S. Maentz
Loomis
Holbrook
Clare County
County 4 H Christmas Party Set for Saturday
The first annual county wide 4 H Christmas party will be held this Saturday night December 14 at 7 30 p m in the VFW Hall Harrison. All 4 H members and leaders from Clare County are invited. The event is organized by the 4 H Service Club with committees handling reception decorations program and more.
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VFW
Harrison
Clare County
Brush College
Greenwood
Colonville
East Grant
Doctors Rush Infant To Life Saving Transfusion
An 18 hour old infant Virginia Reed, daughter of Mr and Mrs Orval Reed of Remus, was rushed to a Grand Rapids osteopathic hospital by Clare General Hospital doctors for a blood replacement due to RH factor complication. Doctors E J Gershon Melvin Wisby and Elmer Sharlow supervised a four hour transfusion with Michigan State Police escort part of the way.
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Orval Reed
Remus
Grand Rapids, Osteopathic
Clare General Hospital
Virginia Reed
E. J. Gershon
Melvin Wisby
Elmer Sharlow
Michigan State Police
Virginia
Honor Roll Students Named at Clare High
Clare High announces honor roll for past marking period with lists by grade and performance. 12th grade A averages include Kay Blystone Sharon Grimason Ann Jackson Mary Maloney Gail Samborn. 11th grade A averages list George Davis Bonnie Lloyd James Seiter and others. 10th grade A averages include Joyce Dunkle Jim Norcutt Robert Walter. 9th grade A averages include Karla Cooper Judy Fetter Joe Graves Janet Hart and others.
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Clare High
Kay Blystone
Sharon Grimason
Ann Jackson
Mary Maloney
Gail Samborn
B Averages
Vivain Armentrou
Carol Bauder
Louis Belle
Marilyn Brown
Kay Cook
Phillip Cooper
Pat Davis
Joyce Delamarter
Betty Gordon
Arlene Hogue
Beatrice Kennedy
Ruth Miller
Sandie Russell
Karen Smith
Freddie Strasser
Katheleen Thayer
Mary Walter
Judy Hubel
Lois White
Jean Wood
George Davis
Bonnie Lloyd
James Seiter
Gloria Sickal
Silva Ames
Ralph Baumgarth
Edith Colmus
Becky Groves
Marlene Haddox
John Hardman
Sharon Jackson
Donna Kegey
Elaine Letson
Linda McQuiston
Donald Moore
Shirley Moore
Raymond Neff
Neil Nevill
Beth
Gloria Olson
Carren Randall
Ruth Schroeder
Carolyn Seibt
Shirley Tice
Judy Ulrich
Wesley Waddington
Sandy Wentworth
Julie Wood
Karen Worstell
Karla Cooper
Judy Fetter
Joe Graves
Janet Hart
Catherine Haring
Joyce Horn
Shirley Leposkey
Virginia Northon
Judy Presley
Elaine Wilson
Carol Baumgarth
Bonna Bell
Joe Bowler
Lawrence Carncross
Gary Cole
Clifton Cooper
Vicky Cook
Kathleen Cooper
Karen Crittenden
Joyce Dawson
Kathleen Doherty
Marietta Gordon
Janet Garver
Joy Groves
Barbara Gulette
Jean Hart
Veronica Haynak
Mary Hogue
Arvinla Kirkpatrick
Teal Leonard
New School Proposal Wins By 139 Majority
The Clare district approved a $795 000 school bond plan by 503 to 364 votes enabling a new high school, remodeling the current building for a grade school, and securing sites for future growth. Officials begin bond advertising as architects prepare work for approval. Funeral notices and a local death inquiry are also reported in this issue.
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Lansing
Archiitect
Clark Ackley
Clare CHS music groups present annual Yule concert
Clare High School Chorus and High School Band offer a free Christmas program at 8 00 p m December 18 in the school auditorium. Directed by Mrs Pearl Howe and Lloyd Conley the concert features two chorus groups two girls vocal quartets and quintets and performances by the band with senior Franklin Piper directing some numbers. The audience will join in three classic carols at the end.
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Clare
Clare High School
Lloyd Conley
Pearl Howe
Conley
Franklin Piper
Central Michigan College
Claré
Community notes from Clare and surrounding towns
Little Rodney Waldron is named as the infant son of Memia and Edgar Waldron of Flint with two sets of great grandparents in Irving Temple and Temple. Valerie Joy Strong, Miss Michigan, autographed in Clare and played piano for Mrs. Joanne Wilcox's Mt. Pleasant dance class. Traverse City hospital appeals for Christmas gifts to boxed unwrapped items with wrapping materials due by December 20 to C. J. Curtiss. William H. Bicknell Company employees held their Christmas dinner at Hotel Doherty and exchanges gifts with the Bicknells. A bright 130 foot oil derrick on the Smock farm near Clare displays the highest Christmas tree in Michigan. Teens at Teen Town seek toy donations for less fortunate children. call 78 in Clare or leave toys at the Clare post office. The Northernaires quartet entertained Clare Kiwanis and performed for the Holly Carburetor 20 Year Club in Detroit earlier in the week.
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Clare County
Carr
Stephenson
James S. Bicknell Tit
Moe- James
McJames
Elmer Gingery
Johnston Elevator
Keith Jackson
Clare
William Cook
James Darling
Bicknell
Michigan State Police
Mt. Pleadsant Post
MecJames
McEwan Street
Lorence Acker
Acker
Cherry Grove
William McJames
Rodney
Edgar Waldron
Memia
Francis Waldron
Flint
Irving
Ed Waldron
Ralph Goodrich
Temple
William H. Bicknell Company
Doherty
Willard Bicknell
Michigan
Teen Town
Clare Post
M Northernaires
Clare Kiwanis
Holly Carburetor
Detroit
Two Harrison Men Die In Highway 1 Crash
Two Harrison men died in a crash on US 27 north of Clare when their pickup skid and struck a county truck. Leon Hosler 44 died at the scene and Francis O Corey 54 died later at Clare General Hospital. Emil Foell 62 of Farwell drove the county truck and was uninjured. Funeral services set for Friday at the United Brethren Church Harrison with burial planned for Greenwood Township Cemetery and Reed City.
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Harrison
Clare
Leon Hosler
Carl Stephenson
Francis O. Corey
Clare General Hospital
Polio Shots Planned at Clare Public School
Polio vaccination will be given Monday December 16 at Clare Public School. Permission slips will be sent home. Students over fifteen who did not start the clinic series will be charged $1. Seniors from last year may come in for their shot. Rural school students in Clare County will receive vaccines at their schools.
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Clare
Clare County
Clare Public School to Offer Adult Education Courses
Adult education classes planned at Clare Public School with enrollment the week of January 6. Prospective students may call 138 or visit to register or attend the first class meeting. Courses include Typing, Sewing, Art, Silk Screening, Jewelry making, Ceramics, Water Colors, Girl Scout Leadership, Cake Decorating, Child Psychology, Photography, Driver Training, and First Aid. Further notices will be in the Sentinel.
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