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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1938
Page
8
A long list of visitors and local events fills a Clare paper page. Residents from Owosso Oxford Detroit Flint and other towns visited relatives and attended church meetings and lectures. A Nazarene Church speaker family gatherings and Legion Auxiliary sewing plans are noted along with several minor mishaps and hospital visits.
Mr and Mrs Fred Smalley spent Monday night with their daughter and husband Mr and Mrs George Scott at Lake and left Tuesday morning for Baldwin where they were joined by Mr Scott's parents his sister and husband Florida is their destination and their vacation will extend over three weeks Mr and Mrs Smalley are experiencing their first real vacation.
The Michigan Tuberculosis Association and Health District No. 7 will hold a chest X ray clinic for Clare county contacts of active tuberculosis on Tuesday February 15 at Clare public school at 1 PM. Portable X rays will be read by specialists and care recommended. The event is funded in part by Christmas seal funds.
Mrs Marvin Witbeck hosts Methodist Auxiliary next Wednesday February 16 for a Valentine meeting. Clare Study Club plans a Gay Nineties Valentine party at Art Damoth's home February 14 with an old fashioned box social and a 90s themed program. Tuesday Night Bridge Club met with Mrs Neva Stanley. attendees included Doris Gerow Mabel Reynolds Effie Roach Helen Roach Lillian Barber Dorothy Bernier Estella Holden Fern Falconer Mabel Parker and guests Nellie Parker and B H Miller. Prizes went to Mrs Miller and Mrs Helen Roach. The club meets February 22 with Miss Gerow.
A lyric fragment about wanting to become a cowboy under western skies. The speaker imagines roaming prairies with a pony, cattle, wind in willows, and a saddle as a pillow, dreaming of leaving the eastern states for the frontier.
Friends of The Sentinel report social and personal items. updates include Mussell’s neat balcony, Redson moving to St Louis, Feighner selling farm for a brick residence, Brown named circulating manager at Fort Smith Times Sun, and a lost five dollar bill found near Harris’ grocery. Market prices and local tidbits conclude.
Mr and Mrs John Rudy recount a cross country journey from Los Angeles to Tampa Florida in February 1938. They describe orange groves in California, deserts, Yuma AZ, Imperial Valley crops, Old Mexico markets, San Antonio, Louisiana sugar plants, Gulf fishing, plant city lodging, and a stop at a state fair with a long parade.
A quirky historic note states that governors of the Bank of England held a right since 1604 to brew and sell beer at their discretion, reflecting early privileges tied to governance.
Lewis Hales, longtime Vernon township resident and youngest surviving member of his generation, died early Wednesday February 2 at St Lawrence Hospital Lansing after an operation and prolonged complications. Born in Coventry England March 29 1860 he came to the United States at age seven. He lived in Saginaw and Bay City before moving to Vernon in 1892 with his wife Minnette Hodkinson who preceded him in death. Surviving are two sons Ray and Walter and two daughters Effie of Clare and Myra of Mt. Pleasant plus grandchildren and many friends. Funeral services were conducted by Rev Albert Dawe Friday at 2 pm with Doris Gerow as soloist and Anna May Smalley at the piano. interment followed at Cherry Grove cemetery.
A cheerful temper joined with innocence makes beauty attractive knowledge delightful and wit good natured. It lightens illness poverty and affliction converts ignorance into amiable simplicity and renders deformity agreeable.
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