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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1923
Page
8
Community timetable trains mention Hartson and North routes with odd times. Social notes report meetings of the Good Literature Club Ladies Union Rebekahs and Maccabees with local hosts. Family news includes birth of Carrol Nann to Mr and Mrs Fred O McGuire and visits from Flint and Saginaw relatives.
The text notes Queen Victoria believed opals were beautiful and lucky, contrasting with France's Empress Eugenie who feared them. Victoria gifted opal and diamond parures for each daughter at wedding time, underscoring the royal association of opals with good fortune.
Inclement weather on Wednesday postpones the Geo Lumley auction sale to Monday February 198th. The list of goods remains excellent and buyers are advised not to miss the opportunity.
Probate Court in Clare County Michigan orders guardian appointment for John W Hampton mentally incompetent. Hearing set March 12 1923 at 10 am at Harrison probate office with notices by personal service and three weeks of publication in the Clare Sentinel.
Paris France and Belgium bar high German officials from the Ruhr region as the occupation expands. German Chancellor Cuno’s Ruhr visit sparks unrest while dispatches report French soldiers disarmed by crowds and stabbings. Americans coming from Paris describe Rhine Ruhr cities as dead and rail service severely disrupted with long delays.
Paris notes the Ruhr situation largely unchanged with local outbreaks of citizens. France seeks to reorganize Rhineland railways and integrate extensive German lines into the French system to detach territories economically and attach them to France and Belgium. A strike threat looms as French miners demand higher wages amid rising living costs.
The Civil Service Commission announces an examination on March 10 1923 in Clare Michigan to fill a rural carrier position at Lake and vacancies on rural routes from that post office. The salary on a standard 24 mile route is 1800 dollars annually plus 8 dollars per mile over 24 miles. The exam is open to citizens domiciled in the post office territory and meeting Form 1977 requirements. Women will not be considered for rural carrier appointments. Forms available from local offices or Washington. Applications should be sent to Washington at once.
The notice lists Catholic and Free Methodist schedules with Mass at 8:00 a.m. Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. and preaching at 7:00 p.m. at various churches. It notes Bible school at 11:30 a.m. and Bible study Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Also references a 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. schedule in Sheridan with preaching services.
Pastor Leonard OC Bernthal at Parsonages 1002 McEwan Street announces German services on February 18 at 10 60 a m with Sunday School following. Saturday February 17 at 2 00 p m features a school event.
Church of God led by Pastor Teeter holds 11 p m and 7 pm services in the chapel on South McEwan Street. Strangers invited and a Saturday children’s meeting at 3 o clock. Sunday School teachers meet next Tuesday at EB S Peterson’s home.
At 10 00 a m the Visible and the Invisible program is listed followed by 11 30 a m Sunday school 6 00 p m Epworth League C A Reading led by a designated leader 7 00 p m Rev H A Armstrong superintendent of the Biz Rapids District will deliver the address during the gathering.
Rev. C. A. Lohnes leads a 9:30 a.m. service at the Seventh Street Olare church. Olasa hosts a meeting with H. W. Burd as leader.
Fragmentary text notes butterflies are said to be prolific in Australia and subjected to mass suffocation and processing by aborigines, with wings pressed into cakes or other preparations. The passage is unclear and contains troubling imagery.
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