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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1940
Page
4
The Sentinel announces annual rates of 1.59 dollars for Michigan mail, 2.00 dollars elsewhere, with 5 cents per single copy and 10 cents per line for liners and reading notices. Display ads priced on application. fillers and headings cost 5 to 10 cents, cards of thanks at 25 cents per ten lines.
Students across Hayes Agricultural Unit School staged Christmas programs and gift exchanges in each room. The kindergarten performed When Santa Lost His Pack, with party treats and decorations, while upper grades offered recitations and carols. The Freshmen led high school entertainment with band music and a party, as parents attended to close the first four months of the school year.
A New Year meditation urges rang out the old and ring in the new while noting a year of injustice and sorrow. It contrasts religious devotion with festive excess and cites a 1912 Titanic editorial about ignored warnings as a critique of contemporary American attention to danger.
Harrison residents enjoy festive decorations as businesses showcase window displays and lighted trees. The municipal Christmas tree at the Fanning store corner of M-61 and First Street gleams with many electric lights, while the Board of Commerce offers prizes for the best outdoor Christmas tree displays at homes throughout the season.
The Harrison Study club members place small milk bottles in local business places to collect funds for the Hayes Agricultural Unit school milk fund. The program supplies a half pint of milk daily to kindergarten through third grade pupils, with bottles served at school via straws for convenience. Many children contribute ten cents weekly, others add a dime for another child, and other donations come from the Congregational Auxiliary Bible Class and Study Club.
More than 100 Bible school members and friends attended the Harrison Congregational church Christmas program and party on a Sunday evening. The program featured Christmas greetings recitations by Doris Anne McCartney and Patty Lee Carey, a Junior Choir carol group, and a playlette Why the Chimes Rang. Afterward, children received gifts and treats in social rooms with ice cream and cake refreshments.
The Latter Day Saints church and Bible School held a Christmas program Sunday evening December 22 at eight o'clock. About 110 guests attended and received treats from the school and church. A large Christmas tree provided gifts for the school children.
A Friday afternoon special meeting at the VFW hall near the courthouse gathered Home and Garden club members who filled colorful net bags. The bags were distributed as Christmas treats to local children by the Harrison City Council, with about attendees involved.
The text notes 350 bags filled and meeting plans for a club abandoned until after New Years. The Latter Day Saints Women’s Department schedule a family social day January 2 at Harley Stockwell’s home in Hayes township with a pot luck dinner.
Mrs Seaver Amble and families visit Clarkston relatives. Miss Fern Bailey vacationing in Kansas with her parents Elder and Mrs David Bailey. Many locals host and visit kin across Midland Alma Clare Saginaw and Bay City with Christmas gatherings and illness updates.
In Oakland California the memory of Joaquin Miller the Sierra poet is kept alive by his daughter Juanita. A life size effigy lies in his bed at the Abby on Joaquin Miller Heights. The shrine, visited yearly, preserves details of the poet and his writing space including a quill pen.
The trumpeter swan, once believed extinct, is staging a comeback. The Interior Department wildlife service reports at least 212 of the birds exist in the United States, including 128 counted at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in Montana.
Sacramento reports Nick Schwall receives 50 dollars a month as a bridge tender on a Feather River bridge no longer operating since the river is shallow and the channel has shifted making the span over dry land despite the war department designation of navigable status.
Endowment funds of American colleges and universities in 1935 36 totaled about 1.6 billion dollars. Income from endowments and private gifts supplied roughly 100 million dollars in operating revenues.
New York reports amuse and inform about the cricket frog whose croaks align with radio programs. Experts note the frog’s chirps accompany broadcasts. frogs also provide a nutritious food source and aid agriculture by eating pests like the sugar beet webworm.
Electricity is gaining popularity in both rural and urban homes for cooking. Women in farms and cities discover faster, cleaner meals with electric stoves and ovens, improving domestic routines and efficiency.
Last Monday the Grange held a Christmas party with candy and peanuts. Next Monday a covered dish supper will honor December birthdays followed by a family dance. Horton Case and Ray Archbold families visited locally. George Ackerman and Henry Ackerman traveled to Houghton Lake and J D Coffman. Mildred Smith visits from Beaverton. Mary returns from Central State Teachers College. Wesley Oliver, Jennings Archambault and J Archambault families hosted Christmas dinner for relatives.
The Lone Star mine once among the nation’s richest zinc producers in wartime is to be reopened after years of idleness. Zinc demand had fallen, causing the ore mill to collapse, but revival plans aim to resume operations and restart production.
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