Traverse Young Man Dies In Wreck On Saturday
Dan Wayne Hardy 27 of Traverse City died when his 1950 Plymouth ran off M-116 near Windover Lake Road. He was ejected and suffered likely fatal neck or skull injuries. the wreck required heavy salvage work. State Police investigated. funeral arrangements later noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Wayne Hardy
Traverse City
Doc
Tom Creek
Windover Lake Road
Creek Bridge
Wm. B. Dunlop
Hardy
Thurston Mortuary
Brown & Bruckart
Clare
Mt. Pleasant
Allen Henderson
Russell Roth
Harrison
Snowsnake Mountain
Henderson
Spike Horn
Bear Dens
Sarette Sain
Alma
Harold Stockwell
Allen
Seaver Amble
Blue Cross Opens Direct Enrollment for Clare County Residents
Blue Cross membership by direct mail is offered to Clare county residents in February 1950. Dr S C G McArthur announces non-group plan open to anyone under 65, with coupons printed in the Sentinel and available at Blue Cross hospitals and physician offices. This marks Clare county’s second community enrollment for the Blue Cross program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare County
S. CG. McArthur
Clare Hospital
Blue Cross Hospital
Blue Cross
McArthur
Sentinel
Clare County Medical Society
Michigan Hospital Service
Michigan Medical Service
Clare Chamber elects officers as bowling tourney opens
Clare business leaders gathered at Hotel Doherty with 59 members for the annual meeting led by President Dr. G C Born. Bud Anderson was elected president with a slate including Jennings Archambault and Conrad Walker. The Clare Bowling Association opened its eighth annual tournament at Gateway Lanes, with top scores led by Tom Sheredy and Clarence Kuehn in doubles and singles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie J. Nevins
Clare Chamber of Commerce
Wedgewood
Hotel Doherty
G. C. Born
Clare
Oscar Chapin
Oscar's Super Service
Theron Luft
Kroger Store Senager
Carl Stephenson
Stephi
Belgium
Netherlands
Canada
Leo Brown
Elmer
Bud" Anderson
Jennings Archambault
Conrad Walker
Fowler Noble
Wm. Maxwell
John W. Dunlop
Thomas McConica
Dick Groves
James Wood
Harold Hughes
Arthur Damoth
8. C. McArthur
Lawrence Jackson, Jr
Kenneth Hendrie
Marvin Witbeck
John E. Doherty
Chamber of Commerce
Born
Anderson
Doc Born
Bud
John Schell
Kraft Foods Company
Clare Bowling Association
Gateway Lanes
Bryant
Sport Shop
Wally’s
Tom Sheredy
Clarence Kuehn
Are ‘Fuse
Ed Wolfe
Raoul Couts
Earl Baumgarth
Bill Krapohl
Wayne Perkins
Peter Porte
Pete Port
Earl Morgan
Andred DeDolph
Mason No
Pure Oils
Mason
North Bradley
Barnes Cafe
EK of C
Corsant’s Radio Loomis Welders
Dutch's Tavern
Hendrie Brothers
K of C No
Harrison Cleaners
Dale Stough
Harrison City League
Merchants League
Gateway Lanes League
City Library invites public meeting on reorganizing association
All responsible adult citizens are invited to an open meeting at the city library on February 28, 1950 at 8 00 PM to discuss reorganizing the Library Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Library Association
City 1
Children’s Hour Resumes At Library Saturday
The library announces Children’s Hour will restart this Saturday February 11 with storyteller Mrs Pat Pinnaire. Parents are urged to bring young children to hear the best stories and to consider sharing favorite records with the group. The note also mentions a full attendance goal of 49 and an advertisement for buying a refrigerator at Household Appliances Inc on McEwan Street in Clare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat Pinnaire
John Foss Ends Long City Business Career in Clare
John Ernest Foss, aged eighty five, longtime Clare bakery founder and operator, died after a paralytic stroke. Born in Bayfield Canada, he moved to Clare in 1896 with Jennie Johnston, building a local business that became the Clare City Bakery. Funeral services were held at Thurston Funeral Home with burial in Cherry Grove cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Ernest Foss
Clare
K. Hammerberg
McEwan Street
Clare City
Ulrich Nursing Home
Bayfield
Ontario
Canada
Theodore
Pauline Foss
Jennie Johnston
Port Arthur
Harl
Ernest
Mamie Schofield
Lansing
David Foss
Toronto
Sarah Knuckle
Godrich
Thurston
L.J. Neving
Cherry Grove
W. Be, Hall
Thomas Spear
Port Hope
Neil Garruthers
Douglas Randall
Neil
Jean
Cobourg
Clare Young Ladies Present Program in Worship Services
Martha Jean McKinnon and Jane Bicknell headline a February music series at Congregational Church. Each Sunday features a serious instrumental work with organ by Harold Collins. McKinnon and Bicknell, pupils of Collins, perform Salute d Amour, Ave Maria, and Romance in flutes and clarinet with organ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Jean McKinnon
Jane Bicknell
Congregational
Harold Collins
Elgar
Miss McKinnon
Collins
Prof
Stone
Central Michigan College
Boy Hurt After Car Door Flies Open
Three and a half year old Bobby Shelander suffered facial injuries and a broken collar bone when a rear car door opened while en route to Cadillac. He fell from the moving vehicle and is under observation in Mercy Hospital's pediatric ward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby Shelander
Mercy Hospital
Cadillac
Larry Shelander
Clare
Clare County Winter Festival Queen Selected
Barbara Schug won the 1960 Clara County Snow Queen title at Snowsnake Mountain amid thirteen contestants. Alma Lee Seiter crowned her at the Coronation Ball, with Dr. Stewart C. McArthur as master of ceremonies. The winner will seek state honors in Grayling on February 12. The festival is postponed to February 17–19 with outdoor events, ski races, and dances planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara County
Snowsnake Mountain
Donald EB. Holbrook
Arthur Damoth
George Beck
Barbara Schug
Alma Lee Seiter
Clare County
Doherty
Stewart C. McArthur
Brownie
Grayling
Clare
Dr. McArthur
Bank Closed Monday In Observance Of Lincoln's Birthday
The Citizens State Bank will be closed Monday February 13 in observance of Lincoln's Birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizen’s State Bank
Lincoln
Clare Junior Play to Be Presented in School Auditorium
The Junior Class presents its annual class play, a three act farce "Brides, to Burn!" by Jay Tobias, February 16 and 17 at 8:00 PM in the high school auditorium. Cast includes Clarice Borland Betty Gallagher and Trudi portrayed by Sally Bitknell and Marjorie Kleiner, with Don Urquhart as Hap Hazard and Dick Thayer as Gilroy Gundy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clare
Jay Tobias
T. $. Denison & Company
Clarice Borland
Betty Gallagher
Trudi
Sally Bitknell
Gilroy Gundy
Dick Thayer
Nglo
Lee Sowle
Letitia Gundy
Janie Bicknell
Miss Tish
Gil
Clarice
Madame Gasparilla
Marjorie Kleiner
Tish
Hap” Hazard
Don Urquhart
Four Cadillac Men Jailed After Bar Fight Near Farwell
William Wertz Frank Rosenberry Carl Bigger and Charles Bigger all from Cadillac area were arrested by State Police after a fight at Sportsmen's Bar northwest of Farwell on M 115. Wertz pleaded guilty to assault and battery and received ninety days in county jail a $100 fine and costs. Rosenberry and the Biggers pleaded guilty to drunken and disorderly conduct and each drew thirty days in jail. Wertz reportedly struck a woman in the face and another man with a beer bottle, breaking teeth and a facial laceration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam Wertz
Frank Rosenberry
Carl Bigger
Charles Bigger
Cadillac
Harrison
Sportsmen’s Bar
Farwell
Wa .B. Dunlop
Wertz
Rosenberry
Biggers
Dulop
Marion Hall
Bert Head
Jeff Willey
Hall
Carrie Irwin
Mary Ellen
Holbrooks Sponsor Displaced Latvian Musician
Judge and Mrs. Donald B. Holbrook have learned that Miss Olga Ozals, a Latvian Master of Music, will sail from Germany on February Sth aboard the General Sturgis headed to New York then Grand Rapids to live with her sponsors. Ozals taught piano at the Riga State Music School and gave many concerts before leaving Latvia in 1944. She has spent the last six years in a displaced persons camp in Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald B. Holbrook
Olga Ozals
Germany
General Sturgis
New York City
Grand Rapids
Holbrooks
Holbrook
Miss Ozals
Latviam Conservatory of Music
Riga
Latvia
March of Dimes Basketball Game Set at Clare High
Mt. Pleasant’s Leo Beards and Clare DeMolay Independents clash in a March of Dimes charity game at Clare High School gym on Monday evening. A Clare Public Schools sixth/seventh grade prelim starts at 7:60 PM, followed by the main game at 8:30 PM with all proceeds to the March of Dimes fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Beards
Mt. Pleasant
Clare DeMolay Independents
March of Dimes
Clare High School
Clare Public Schools
March of Dimes Fund
Also Mentioned on This Page
Traverse
Howard Six
Forest H. Ames
Ames
Bud” Anderson
Officers of Dimes Fund
City Library
Household Appliances, Inc
McEwan St. Clare
John Foss
City
Baker
Clare Young Ladies
Miss Barbara
Schug
Miss Schug
Marilyn Masten
Colette Barnes
Peggy Ruby
Barbara Hearns
Roberta Creguer
Ann Lynn Bayes
Reine Reeder
Phyliss
Gaylord Nancy Wild
Ruby Foss
Carol Graham
Isabella D.A.R
Good Citizens
Daughters of the American Revolution
Isabella Chapter
Mount Pleasant
Harry Gaver
C. Beck
Good Citizens Committee
Ballo
Robert June
Detroit
State of
Michigan
U.S
Clare Rotary Club
McEwan
D. E. Holbrooks
Olga Oxzals
Latvian Conservatory
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