Local Newspaper Staff Roll Call and Roles
A list of newsroom personnel appears with editor names and staff positions. Merle Samborn is editor in chief with Frank Reger as assistant editor and John Watson as business manager. Readers get a snapshot of reporters, department heads, and featured contributors across sections.
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Wditern
Merle Samborn
Frank Reger
John “Watson
Ntierbert
Hilmer Anderson
Matine Sowle
Alice Liechti
Marjorie Nowlin
Regina Krell
Ardis Hales Seb
Oh Po
John Dunlop Alger
Christmas Spirit and pep program at the high school
A column reflecting on the Christmas season’s meaning and generosity. It describes a pep program featuring the unveiling of the Goat, student speakers, and yells led by Miss Wright Brownie Thelma and Stanley, ending with a faculty composed song to thank the faculty for an entertaining event.
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Max Bates
Miss Wright
Brownie
Thelma
Stanley
Clare High Pep Program Preps Team for St Louis Game
The Teachers elected to stage a high school pep program at Clare High to rally players and students for Friday night game in St Louis. It opened with the Clare Hi song and featured a coach and players presenting a live scene.
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St. Louis
Big Rapids High School Student Council Runs School
The Big Rapids high school with about five hundred students is governed by a student council of around fifty members led by a Mayor. An alderman presides in each study room, elected yearly, and offenses lead to student court penalties or time in the Jr. high study room.
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Big Rapids High School
Big Rapids
City Traffic: Driving with Space and Time Margins
Observers view city traffic from above noting jams occur from wrong turns and pedestrians. Experts advise maintaining both space and time margins to avoid rear end collisions and multi car pileups while staying alert and focused.
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Hwe
The Old Home Back to Our Michigan
A nostalgic poem recalling parents who settled fifty two years ago in the woods. The speaker visits and describes a loving family scene with a brave mother and hardworking father, a radio for evening company, and adult children returning home with tears. The piece closes with blessings and prayers for the parents in their twilight years.
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Michigan
Christmas Program Delights with School Choirs and Message
The junior band opened with two pieces followed by the Grade Glee Club singing five carols led by six high school glee girls. The boys chorus performed We Three Kings of Orient Are. Junior Hi girls sang two carols, then the girls glee club, followed by Father Morrison's Christmas Message. Junior Hi Girls closed with Wassail.
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Glee Club
King of Orient
Father Morrison
Mock National section ballot drive by Mr Kitchin class
The American Government Class sponsored a Mock National section sending ballots home for return. Questions cover vote choice if national election were held tomorrow and voters father party, plus reasons and profession. Registration day Wednesday and voting Thursday with five minute home room speeches. Results expected to be interesting.
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Mr. Kitchin
Dem
Christmas in the Home Rooms Brightens High School Day
Students enjoyed a festive home room program with lighted trees and wreaths. Gifts were distributed from pre drawn names and helpers filled in for Santa. Treats like popcorn apples candy and popcorn balls were shared as rooms closed with carols and songs.
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Santa Claus
Art Club undertakes high school annual project
The Art Club under Mr. Lowrey and Miss Wright work with staff to produce the high school annual. They will illustrate the all high theme for the yearbook.
Christmas Week in First Grade Classroom
A busy happy week describes creating a Christmas tree with toys and popcorn chains. Students drew a Christmas picture for Mr Lowery and wrote stories about Santa Claus, the Wisemen, and their room’s program. Josephine read a story, and Mrs Holden’s class wishes readers a merry Christmas and bright New Year.
Christmas Party At School Celebrates Students And Gifts
Students shared verses at the Christmas party, enjoyed popcorn and candy, and exchanged gifts after a festive feast. The third and seventh grades reported top performers in arithmetic and tests, with several students earning high marks.
One Minute to New Year Promises Dress and a Proposal
In a ballroom scene Corinne Mumford contends with possible engagement to Bruce MacQueen as New Year bells swirl. Bruce declares a wish for a wife and life, while Corinne fears commitment and inwardly ponders if their friendship will become marriage before Bruce departs for South America tomorrow.
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Bruce
Corinne Mumford
Bruce MacQueen
Corinne
South America
New Year Cheer Sparks Readers of 1936 Start
Do you know how to begin the New Year right Sure to begin the New Year 1936 readers share upbeat tips and hopeful notes for a fresh start with community spirit and optimism.
Garfield Grange Meeting Sees Members Absent for Christmas
Garfield Grange No.1106 met at Lake hall on Saturday night with 11 members present. Members shared Christmas verses during lecture hour. Several were absent due to travel or illness, including Sturgis, Bentley, and Smith. Sam Brown suffered a slight stroke but was improving. Mathew Scott is bedridden with Dr. Wood attending. Meetings will shift to daytime starting January 4, 1936, as Ida Clark hosts visiting children for Christmas.
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Garfield Grange No.1106
Lake
Bro
Sturgis
Flnt
Grange
Bentley
Smith
Sam Brown
Mathew Scott
Wood of
Clare
Local Holiday Visits and Ice Accidents Reported
Temple Mr Arther Gallery visits relatives in Saginaw. Mrs Freda Davis spends holidays with her sister in Mt Pleasant. Roy Squire family travels to Hillsdale for the holidays. Louis Kohn slips on ice breaking several ribs. Dr Carrow of Marion treats him. Frank Pruden recovering after ice fall injuries on a road job near Farwell. John Baluss hosts over weekend Mr and Mrs Frank Luderman and daughter Royal Oak and Mr and Mrs Clyde Wyatt Hazel Park attend.
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Arther Gallery
Saginaw
Freda Davis
Mt. Pleassant
Roy Squire
Hillsdale
Louis Kohn
Dr. Carrow
Marion
Frank Pruden
Farwell
John Baluss
Frank Luderman and
Royal Oak
Clyde Wyatt
Hazel Park
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Daddy
Mayme Ruth Bruckert
Mary Jane Kane
Eugene Roberts
Frederick Schneider
Mary Lou Wyman
Carl Gore
Donna Mae Bugbee
Richard van Orden
Mother
Dorothy Schaffer
Beverly Sowle
Mary Lou Sutton
Billy Archambault
James Kane
Wayne Brown
Uncle Toms Cabin
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Chester Richard
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Spain
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Hari the
Jungle Lad
Donald Sprague
Seventeen
Betty Sutton
Tom Sawyer
George Parent
Rebecca
Arlene Hunt
Lance
Kansas
Mary Clyde Sarver
Phyllis Ann Sherwood
Martha
Thomas
Western Newspaper Union
Clare Drug Company
Garfield Grange
Ida Clark
Flint
Adrain
Leen
Kathleen Norris
W.N.U. Service
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