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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1940
Page
3
Mr Denham spoke to Clare students on narcotics using chalk talk and an experiment to show cigarette poison. He addressed youth, praising their responsive attitudes and urging prevention of smoking and drinking among high schoolers.
Last Wednesday the high school gym hosted The Senior Swing with red and white decorations and heart motifs. The Star Dusters with Mary Belle Ford performed while Ronnis Brown and Littla Low Ann Hampton sang hits. Martin Kennedy and Joy Groves led a grand march. Committee chairs included Audrey Des Willey for refreshments and Joy Groves for decorations.
A compact list of school events includes movies such as Bicycling With Complete Safety and The Mine With the Iron Door on February 27. February 22 and 27 feature boys intramural basketball and varsity club activities. Girls intramural games occur February 20 and 29, with roller skating on February 23 and classroom programs on February 28.
The Varsity Club presented The New Adventures of Tarzan at the African jungle set with a lost city treasure and a chimpanzee. The program also included The Last Mail and Ski Revels. The next day an educational film The River portrayed the Mississippi River before during and after the 1937 flood and how efforts protected homes and lands.
Grade school activity highlights cheerful events from kindergarten to sixth grade with Valentine parties skating outings and a sleigh ride. The junior high held its party earlier, while high school students are urged to follow good attendance. Officers elected for the second term include Ira Sutton and Virginia Perry among others.
The Home Ec and F F A clubs traveled to Harrison for a toboggan party on Tuesday evening in February. The Language club held a parity at Sidney Court's home on Monday February 6. A Stenog club assembly Friday February 2 delivered humor and interest. F T A members make tablecloths and napkins for sale. Pep Squad members voted Romayne Perry as another cheerleader. The Glee club practices songs for the operetta Enchanted Isle opening March 12.
Mr and Mrs John Hartman and family spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Stanley Schunk and family. Mr and Mrs Geo Williams took Sunday dinner with Mr and Mrs Bruce Williams. Jules Urbain and little daughter visited their uncle Mr and Mrs Harry Fancon. Mrs Lowell Penrose returned from the hospital Monday. Extension club met at the hall with twenty seven attendees. The Grange circle will meet February 29 at the hall. Hall to be wired this week. Pot luck dinner. Everybody welcome.
Chestnut chips once discarded by the tanning-extract industry are now used to manufacture corrugated board.
The Tri County Health Unit reports high infection rates among children based on tuberculin tests and X rays, noting 37 percent infected by age five and rising with age. Exposed families, cleanliness, crowding, and duration of exposure influence risk. vaccination and screening are urged.
Rosebush Methodist Church held preaching at 10 00 a m and Sunday school at 11 00 a m Epworth League at 7 30 p m At Center Methodist Church services began at 10 50 a m with Sunday school at 11 00 a m and Epworth League at 8 00 p m Movement of residents included Wm Hunter and Wm McArthur visiting in Lansing and others vacationing in Florida Mrs Pat Battle and family hosted by Mrs Bruce Morrison Henry Johnston and Mary Louise McConnell were among weekend visitors and a Catholic Women notice covered conservation at St Henry Mt Pleasant with attendance noted and Merrit Cheney of Alma visited Rosebush relatives.
The annual program aims to discover early pulmonary tuberculosis cases. BE. V. Thiehoft, M. D. Director Health District No. 7.
Temple Irwin Gallery and family spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Arthur Gallery. Local readers note attendance at Harrison high school carnival last week and social calls at the Roy Myers home including Mrs Vasie Van Buskirk and Mrs Roy Holford. William Morrow, working for Socony Vacuum in Grand Rapids, visited his parents Roy and Mrs Myers over the weekend.
A flurry of Sunday and midweek visits describes friends and relatives from Vernon Clare Loomis Farwell and Mt Pleasant calling on or visiting Mrs F G Allen Mrs Emma Fairbanks Mrs Ruth Herron and other residents The notes mention Betty Cunningham trip to California and several couples hosting dinners and tea events with names such as James McDonel Robert Myers and Vern Funnel among others.
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