Rotary Club annual dinner at Doherty hosts guests
Clare Rotary Club held its annual dinner dance at Hotel Doherty with about 100 attendees. Professor Richard Wysong spoke on the United Nations, while the Haines Orchestra provided music.
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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1946
Page
1
Clare Rotary Club held its annual dinner dance at Hotel Doherty with about 100 attendees. Professor Richard Wysong spoke on the United Nations, while the Haines Orchestra provided music.
The Clare Community Council met Thursday evening January 24 at the Clare City Library with Chairman Jesse Hampton presiding. Fifteen city organizations were represented as L. C. Garthe of the Clare Rotary Club urged cooperation and a paid supervisor for the Youth Center, followed by a general discussion. The next council meeting is scheduled for February 21.
The Temple Standard Service under Bruce Temple started Clare Cab offering taxi rides to and from all city points, surrounding countryside, and nearby circles at reasonable rates. Residents may phone 56 Clare to hire service.
A community rummage sale is set for Friday and Saturday with doors open near Woodward Motor Sales. Residents are invited to browse items listed at 401 McMillan Street, south of the dealership, featuring household goods and miscellaneous merchandise.
Clare sportsmen and the community are invited to a fox hunt next Sunday February 8 starting at 9:00 am. Hunters meet at Harrison Hardware and disperse through the county, then reconvene for lunch in the V F W rooms in Harrison courthouse basement. Emil Bucholz is chairman.
Clare Pioneers held off Harrison 40 to 27 as Joslin and Kane both scored 11 points to lead their team. The Green and White led 27 10 at halftime and stretched the lead before Harrison narrowed it in the third. The Pioneers next host Reed City and then Shepherd in February.
About seventy men served a dinner at St. Cecilia's Church parlors for the Ladies of the Altar Society. Leo OGrady led the kitchen as commander in chief while Bob Drew impressed with a bill board apron. Fr. Daniel Brophy thanked the organizers and Miss Ethel Gleason was elected president of the Altar Society.
Large stock of building materials including lumber pipe nails lath plumbing and electrical supplies will be released by the Army and Navy at depots in Joliet Illinois Columbus Sharonville Marion Ohio and Granite City Illinois through a process monitored by RFC and FHA. Purchases are limited to low cost housing under $10000 with 30 percent reserved for government and agency buyers and a ten day priority period for veterans housing projects.
Washington says $25 million in new funds plus $175 million unspent plus Michigan's $853,000 left from earlier allotments can be used to reimburse contractors. State highway head Ziegler seeks PRA authorization to let contracts for the first postwar year while ensuring 50 50 matching. Officials say Michigan could begin contracting with assurances of future appropriations, including possible use of funds for right of way on major projects like Detroit Crosstown and John Lodge.
Clare Kiwanis Club hosts a testimonial dinner for Dr F C Sanford a longtime physician. The event is set for next Wednesday February 6 at St George's Church parish hall with tickets sold February 2 at local businesses. Theo G Bowler Albert Haley and Leo Brown lead arrangements. guests from Clare area invited.
Daniel J. McPhee 60 of 144 South Warner Saginaw died after a Plymouth sedan skidded on ice one half mile east of Farwell on US 10. He was alone, died en route to Clare Hospital from skull fracture and crushed chest. Coroner G. Lamb attributed the cause. Remains sent to Saginaw for funeral arrangements. An unrelated crash south of Clare on US 27 injured no one.
The Farmers Co-operative Company held its annual meeting Thursday night in the Clare I O C F hall. President Fred Turbush was re elected for three years as president, Alfred Loomis and Earl Beatty re elected as directors. Guest speaker Jack Yager discussed co operatives and tax exemption, followed by lunch and dancing.
Pettit Kaup plinger Post No 6878 VFW held a special meeting at Barnes Cafe with Commander Bud Anderson presiding. They planned the February 11 installation at Clare High School and voted against uniforms. a brief meeting is set for February 3 at Baines Cafe to accept more charter members.
Omer Parent, longtime director of the Clare Chamber of Commerce, was elected president of the Clare Business Group at a special meeting in the Citizens State Bank directors room. He fills the vacancy left by Ben Burdo, who declined the post due to other business commitments.
Highway Commissioner Charles M. Ziegler says Michigan will return 1 589 316 41 in gas and weight tax vouchers to counties and cities for local roads. 1945 weight tax totaled 21 418 642 44 and gas tax 6 750 000. detailed county allocations follow for second half 1945 gas tax and fourth quarter 1945 weight tax.
Mr and Mrs Hugh Barnes celebrated fifty years of marriage with an open house at the Barnes Hotel in Tawas City on January 28 attended by more than two hundred friends from Clare and nearby areas. A three piece orchestra, buffet luncheon, and a five tier cake marked the anniversary. Their son Kenneth divides time between the Tawas City hotel and the Barnes Cafe in Clare.
The Clare Study Club plans a patriotic meeting next Tuesday at 8:00 PM at Mys. Andre’s residence. Members are urged to attend and participate in the community event.
A Tuesday dawn blaze leveled the Beale building in Clare, gutting the structure and endangering nearby Dr. Ballard property and the Midway Restaurant. Fire Chief and crews battled flames from 5:46 a.m. until 7:00 a.m., with origin unclear and the old landmark destroyed.
Palace Sandwich Shop opened Thursday with an open house offering free coffee and sandwiches. Cooper and Coulson run the business with a knotty pine interior and modern grill setup. A loop driveway will be completed in spring for curb service and ample parking already available.
Kenneth Barnes, famed restaurateur and Barnes Hotel owner at Tawas, elected secretary of the East Michigan Wister Sports Carnival held at Silver Valley north of Tawas City. The annual event resumes after wartime suspension and highlights Barnes’s ongoing civic work with Cornell-aligned sports committees.
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