League standings based on total pins
The standings rank teams by total pins with ties broken by higher totals. The lead mentions “on ier 184” as a fragment, indicating a date or score note.
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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1947
Page
11
The standings rank teams by total pins with ties broken by higher totals. The lead mentions “on ier 184” as a fragment, indicating a date or score note.
On February 10 the American Legion Auxiliary held its regular meeting with President Blanche Walker presiding. Secretary Hilda Tibbits read the prior minutes, Alma Clute reported as Poppy chair, and an election for Girls State was held resulting in Roberta Creguer as delegate. Girls State runs June 17–24 in Ann Arbor. 216 girls will participate. The group publicized loanable items including a wheelchair and a bed and announced next meeting for February 24. Tea and cake followed, with Miss Bette Walker visiting.
The Baptist King's Daughters Society met at the home of Mrs. Frank Nash Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Earl Redman presided at the business meeting. The group sang, prayed, and shared devotions from Colossians 3 1 11. Sewing followed, with plans to meet next time at Mrs. Redman’s home.
A Valentine card party was held at the Lake George Community Building on Wednesday February 12. Prizes were awarded with first to Mrs Francis Koteskey for the ladies and Fred Schrader Jr for the gentlemen. Consolation winners were Mrs Clarence Rains and Max Howard. Decorations featured heart shapes crafted by Allen Howard. Freddy Schrader won a first prize razor on his first card party. Out of town guests included Mr and Mrs Clarence Rains and others. Lunch of cupcakes and coffee followed hosted by Mrs Russell Coon and Allen Howard. Card parties will continue every Wednesday with lunch served.
The Clare Lodge hosted district lodges Monday to confer the third degree on candidates Harold Hughes G Fullerton and W Hendricks for Clare and R D Potter Noel Miller for Shepherd. Harrison Simmons and Gordon McIntosh presided. Visitors from Midland Shepherd and Farwell attended. Lunch followed.
More than forty Rebekahs gathered Tuesday in their hall with Mrs. Eva Nowlen in charge. Eleven past noble grands answered roll call and Mrs. Evelyn Shields led degree practice. Plans were made for an initiation on March 11 and a proclamation read for Colfax birthday observance on Marely 3rd, honoring Colfax founder of Rebekah Odd Fellowship.
Radioactive carbon 14 produced at Army atomic laboratories is released to hospitals for tests in treating goiter diabetes cancer and other diseases.
Snow cling keeps skis essential at the airport as pilot trainees and private flyers plan summer tours and a landing strip quest. Locals, including Clair Maxwell, Ernest Irwin, and Merle Archambault, advance training while two crewmen hilariously topple a tree that lands on an axe near the airfield amid light fog.
In San Francisco a dismembered man’s body was found hidden in two shipping boxes and a milk can behind a movie theater. Four boys reported a foul odor and discovered a foot in one box. Police recovered a second foot, a calf, and a forearm from other parcels. The coroner identified the remains as a man, with head and neck missing.
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced a plan to import a specific monkey species for polio research. Dr. H M Weaver said a six month expedition will explore jungles in the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippine Islands to obtain the animals.
Halley's comet is tracked to 240 B C and its AD 1066 appearance appears on the Bayeux tapestry. It is named for Edmund Halley the first to establish the periodic return of comets.
The Junior Tournament at the Hotel Doherty Thursday evening saw Crigier-Hales top the four high teams with 4 920 and Sands-Spencer 7 350 for the evening. Accumulative totals list Crigier-Hales 22 420 Sands-Spencer 20 850 and Dunlop-Hall 20 530.
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