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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1939
Page
4
The Clare Sentinel lists subscription rates and advertising charges including display, liners, and reading notices. It invites probate notice printing through Judge Wylie and notes periodical publication every Friday with postal entry as second class matter.
The Harrison Ladies Study Club held a lively Christmas party December 19 in the Congregational church social rooms with over forty members. Helen Hether chaired a bell-forfeiture contest, Santa Claus drawing, word building game, and a gift relay. Toys and gifts were collected for local needy children and luncheon was served by hostesses. The group plans to meet January 2 with new hostesses.
Mrs. Frank Stickman and her three children from Mt. Pleasant called on her parents Rev. and Mrs. A. F. Light Friday evening. Rev. A. F. Light made a business trip to Farwell Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Light of Greenwood township visited Rev. and Mrs. A. Fe Light for a Christmas dinner Sunday.
Hayes Agricultural Unit high school faculty spent Christmas with relatives. Supt. Amble and family here entertaining Flint relatives. Miss Anne Wellington and brother in Lewiston. Mrs Irah Ismery and brother in Belding. Elizabeth Schaaf convalescing at Harrison home. Paul Bennett with parents in Alma. Ronald Keller with parents in Mt Pleasant and Shepherd. Samuel Morrison with brother in Warren Indiana. Allegra Gager with parents in Carson City. Thedosia Alubowicz with brother in Syracuse. Leota Van Byery with family in Harrison.
The Young Women's Auxiliary of the Congregational Church held its annual meeting at Mrs. William Murphy's home on Wednesday evening December 20. President Mrs. Clyde Pifer led the business session with reports from the secretary treasurer and committee chairs. Officers elected included President Mrs. Charles Amble First Vice President Mrs. Clyde Pifer Second Vice President Mrs. Robert Brown Secretary Mrs. Bertha Hughes Treasurer Mrs. Jessie Gleason. Hosts served refreshments in cafaria style with a Christmas motif and Florida fruit centerpiece.
About sixty young people gathered Friday at the Congregational church for the annual Christmas party sponsored by the Bible school and teachers. They enjoyed carols led by Fred Weatherhead, a brief recitation program, games, and refreshments. Teachers presented gifts to pupils including mouth organs for the kindergarten group amid a lively, festive atmosphere.
The Out Door Girls club led by Mrs William Murphy met after school to wrap gifts and pack treats for thirty five kiddies and sixteen county farm residents. They organized a tag day sale to fund the welfare effort and planned further deliveries this week.
The Gift and Blower Shop will offer a 20 percent discount on every article starting Saturday December 30. Andy announces the sale event.
Harrison area pupils presented a Christmas story Thursday night in the gymnasium of Hayes Agricultural Unit School. More than two hundred youngsters acted amid lights, boughs, and crepe decorations under Mrs Ivah Emery. The high school orchestra and Glee club provided music throughout the performance. Eastern Star members held a Christmas party with Santa, tree, ice cream, cider, and popcorn, with Newton Kress in disguise delivering gifts.
Mr and Mrs James Whitmer and son Albert with his grandfather A A Whitmer left Saturday for Kansas City MO to visit relatives and attend a Whitmer family reunion on Christmas day They will travel to Wichita and Ava Murphysboro and back to Illinois before returning to Michigan Albert leaves the party in St Louis to visit Ava and Murphysboro Illinois Ray Whitmer and Verne Whitmer are later visited in Dakota City and Boone A A Whitmer will stay in Kansas City before visiting Iowa and expects to return to Harrison in spring
Dr and Mrs Earl Wilson hosted a family Christmas Day dinner with guests including Dr F C McArthur, Mr and Mrs John Bridenstein, Miss Edna Dickinson, William Woodman, and Miss Ruth Abbott. A Christmas Eve party at Henry Gardiner’s featured Mrs Paul Beals and others with meals shared at two sites.
A dozen relatives joined Mrs. Pearl Clute for a Christmas Monday afternoon roast turkey. The guests included Morrel Cluté and son Morrel of Clare, and Mr and Mrs Francis, among others.
Thomas family and relatives from Farwell Harrison and North ville joined Paul Lang for a large Christmas Day dinner. Bertha Hhes hosted a well attended event with Hughes and Baughman families and friends from Detroit Ann Arbor. Hecker Higgins Myers and Carey households held festive dinners with four generation attendance and guests from Arthur Frost Remus and Cornwellville.
The Sentinel records holiday visits and neighborhood activities. Teachers, callers, and families including Miss Helena Vander Woude, Miss Edith Laidlaw, and the Wyricks share Christmas gatherings. Community events at the Windover school and Pure camp at Temple draw large crowds, with trees, dances, and Sunday school exercises reflecting local holiday spirit.
Lawrence Smith and family of Detroit spent Christmas with his parents Mr and Mrs Harry Moyer in Lake George. Dewey Blosser and his brother returned to Ohio to visit their father while another brother drove from Grandville to pick him up. Carl Myers of Mount Pleasant was in Lake George.
Miss Mary Crockett of Springfield Ohio began first year at Wittenberg College paying tuition with 125 silver dollars. She had saved silver dollars as a hobby during high school.
A Windhoek high court in Southwest Africa sentences a nephew killer to punishment for chopping off his 17 year old relative's hands with an ax resulting in death.
The VF .W. Vewns post asks members to attend a special meeting Monday January 1 at 8:00 PM despite New Year’s Day to satisfy a district inspection and avoid charter loss. Commander V. F. W. stresses the importance of a quorum and warns of state action if turnout fails.
Roentgen, famed for discovering the X-ray, traced the breakthrough to observations of waves from a Crookes tube. Electrical charges he sent through the tube registered on photographic plates in his lab, guiding him to the epochal feat.
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