Cross Only at Garners Prize Poster Warns Pedestrians
Detroit high school student Bob Donald of Cass Technical High School won the 1949 AAA National Safety Poster Contest with a poster urging crossing only at corners. The Automobile Club of Michigan distributed over 9 000 posters and 26 000 safety lessons to Michigan schools during January amid icy street conditions and mid block crossing dangers.
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Bob Donald
Detroit
Cass Technical High School
Garners
Michigan
Automobile Club of Michigan
Riverside Grange Christmas Party Highlights
Riverside Grange held its annual Christmas party on Tuesday evening with 31 attendees. The program included a fine lecture and gifts for all plus bubble gum for children. A pot luck supper followed the event.
Christmas Day Visits Reported in Local Homes
Mr and Mrs Bryan Milley and Mr and Mrs Bryan Miller with their son Jake visited Lloyd Athey on Tuesday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Bernard Allen and children attended the Brown church Christmas program on Christmas Eve. Mr and Mrs Norman Myers and family spent Christmas Day with her sister and family. Mr and Mrs Robert Kionks visited in Flint.
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Bryan 0. Milley
Bryan Miller
Jake
Lloyd Athey
Bernard Allen
Brown Church
Norman Myers
Robert Kionks
Flint
Fordyce 30th Wedding Anniversary Attended by Sixty-five Guests
Gilmore Grange reports about sixty five people attended the thirtieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Fordyce on Christmas night. Christmas dinner guests included Lloyd and Betty Bailey of Lansing and other families from Gilmore Manistee Harrison Clare and Lansing. Several relatives visited and other families hosted holiday gatherings at nearby homes.
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Claude Fordyce
Arden Somers
Lloyd Bailey
Betty Bailey
Lansing
Wayne Pitts
George Pitts
Harold Sherman
Glaude Brasington
Carl Martin
Tony Martin
O. M. Somers
Robert Somers
Manistee
Gilmore
Wm. Hileman
Bud
Wm. Hileman, Jr
Harrison
Mt. Pleasant
C. Freeman
Kenneth Rawson
Layle Smith
Ann Rawson
Mr. Pleasant
Wim. Phillips
Frank Freeman
O. M
Christmas Visits and Family News From The Freeman Home
Monday visitors included Mr and Mrs Walter May of Detroit and Mr and Mrs Cecil Helmbaugh of Hadley. Fordyces drove their new Pontiac to Florida. Frank Freeman's family shared Christmas dinner with Mrs Freeman's relatives in Farwell and surprised by Calvin Harvey arriving from the southwestern states. Sympathy extended to Mr and Mrs Wendel Cookin on their loss. Rose Harvey and Emerson Burton called Monday evening. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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Walter. May
Detroit
Cecil Helmbaugh
Hadley
Frank Freeman
Wm. Phillips
Clade Fordyce
Florida
Fordyce
Frank ‘Freeman
Markets and Livestock Prices Feature Weekly Grain and Hogs
Grain prices show wheat oats rye barley and beans with small mixed changes and livestock quotes list dressed hogs beef veal and lamb values. Clare Livestock Auction reports good butcher cattle cows and bulls with ranges from 9.00 to 22.00 for stockers calves and feeders prices vary by class and quality.
Livestock Price Ranges For Calves Hogs Sheep and Lambs
Calves priced 29.00 to 81.00 with cull common and seconds 18.00 to 28.50. Deacon calves 10.00 to 25.00. Good and choice calves 176 lb to 290 lb. Hogs bid 14.00 to 16.56 for heavy straight hogs. Light sows 15.50 to 16.75. Slaughter lambs 22.00 to 23.00, medium lambs 20.60 to 22.00, cull common lambs 15.00 to 20.00. Feeding lambs 18.00 to 24.00. Sheep 12.00 to 9.00 for bucks and heavy fat. Cull common slaughter sheep 5.00 to 7.00.
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Neeneneens
Praying Mantis Noted for Vicious Hunting Tactics
A historical passage describes the praying mantis as having hooked front legs that snap shut on prey like traps. It contrasts its peaceful stance when at rest with its reputation as one of the most voracious and greedy insects.
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Marotzke
Gus Marotzke
Rudy Burdt
Bert Albert
Carmen Newman
Harold Rockey
Forest Ruby
J. G. Newman
Melvin Haines
N. Myers
John Alpertson
Gilmore Grange
Patucker
L. W. Jackson
Enoom
Nn Mackobee Petseneteie
Clare
iGood
del Monte
New Florida
California
Swift
Carton
Rinso
Silverdust
Camay
Oxydol
MT. Vernon Grange
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