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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1939
Page
11
Local notes report mail and train times for Ann Arbor and Pere Marquette lines. Community entries note social visits, family events, and a busy weekend with dances, church services, and gatherings. The annual ice harvest starts with workers hired from Saginaw to fit the big ice house.
Methodist and Reorganized Church ministers announce services with Sunday School and evening preaching schedules. Town residents and families are mentioned in visits and gatherings at homes, with anecdotes on weather, travel, birthdays, sick list, and a pot luck bridge night where the women won the prize.
Fragmentary listing shows prices for beef at 10.00 to 16.50, prime veal at 15.00, spring lambs 18, fowls and hides mentioned. Details are incomplete but indicate a midweek market price roundup with multiple meat categories.
Farwell F F A team placed second in the grain judging and seed identification contest at Beaverton. Clare F F A won with 1245 points. Farwell totaled 1225. Standish, Gladwin, and Coleman followed. Eighteen Farwell boys competed. Francis Varney led Farwell with 430 points and was second high overall.
The notice lists community happenings from February through March including a pancake supper in February, Marion and Coleman events, a personnel banquet on February 22, and McBain’s last game of the season on February 24. March features a Lyceum with artist J Franklin Caveny and a Senior Play on the 28th.
The three volleys over a grave trace to Roman rites of casting earth and naming the dead thrice. Vale, meaning farewell in Latin, is spoken as the final farewell.
The text explains that water vapor forms drops that fall due to gravity. Very small drops create fog mist or cloud, while large drops descend at 15 to 25 feet per second and smaller ones around 5 feet per second.
Mr. and Mrs. Leland Favreau of Big Rapids visited the Buy ton family in town over the weekend. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Cash Bailey of Hayes township and Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Gould of Greenville. Sunday dinner guests were the Chas Heber family at the Bringold home in Greenwood. Elmer Amble and family of Harrigan stopped by Emerson Burton’s home Sunday.
Brown Corners reports visitors including Mrs Violet Sunday and others at Trav erse City State Hospital. Betty Kleinhardt spent weekend with parents Mr and Mrs Ben Kleinhardt bringing young Douglas Fleming. Donna Leitner visited Marguerite and Arlene Lower. Lola Hartman joined Bernice Black for Sunday dinner. Forest Dysinger and family seen in town. Rev Elmer Town and wife traveled to North Star for business. Revival meetings at United Baptist church attract attendees. Mrs Chas Ott recovering from illness.
Mr and Mrs Archie Tryon of Pontiac spent the weekend in Pleasant Valley. Mrs Mayme Runyan returned home for a few weeks visit. Several locals hosted visitors including Mrs Dee Storms Binny Louise Jackson and family. Social calls came from Geo Bates Harrison Lawrence Bates Mt Pleasant and others. The Farmers week program in Lansing attracted attendance and the Aid met at Mrs Bryan Miller with plans for February 16 hosted by Mrs Robert Hutchinson.
Sunday School at 2 00 p m and preaching at 3 00 p m were led by Rev BE R Town with Rev Wyrick at a revival from Brown Corners. Numerous local visits and a Merry go round party at Ruben Tigner’s yielded reports of a good time with Johnny cake milk and pancakes.
Emil Bucholz of Harrison deputy instructor for the Thirty-First District of the Grand Lodge FP and A M of Michigan conducted a School of Instruction at Big Rapids Chapter 171 Friday evening February 3. Three lodges attended including Big Rapids Wyatt and Hersey. He serves fourteen lodges in his district: Clare Harrison Farwell Shepherd Mt Pleasant Weidman Coleman Remus Winn Blanchard Reed City Hersey Ewart and Big Rapids. He received a letter from the Big Rapids Lodge commending his work.
Hayes township hosts include Mr. and Mrs. Clair Stanley hosting Sunday dinner for Reynold Ambrosier Eugene Stanley James Stanley and B I Hampton. A Cong Bible School all day meeting with Mrs. Bruce and Mrs. Briggs planned weathered breaks. Family dinners celebrate Pearl Clute birthday Ephraim Briggs kin at Briggs home. Hecker party features midnight supper and pink green birthday cake.
Friday night after a Tustin high school game, friends gathered at the Ladd home to celebrate Leslie Ford's twentieth birthday. Guests included Misses Ethel Light Lillian Welsh Martha Welsh Rosalie Mitchell and Ernest Roth Arden Light Eugene Carpenter Kenneth Ladd Burdette Reigle Clifford Bucholz and Blilie Bruce. The party featured dancing games refreshments and a pink candle decorated cake.
The Eagle Group met with Mrs. Ronald Chatterton on Monday evening February 6 with twelve members and three visitors. They discussed posture and foundation garments with samples on display and noted slight posture improvements. A lunch was served and the group planned the next meeting with Mrs. Zoreah Penrose and Mrs. Glenn Poet.
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