Brooks Corners Socials and Road Plows Highlight Week
Stanley Struble of Brooks Corners visited his sister and husband Cecil and Mig Gaffney. Elinor Lee and Ruth Ann Gaffney visited midweek. Snow plows cleared drifts on Thursday and Saturday. A sequence of visits followed among locals including the Darnells, the Lees, the Hickoks and the Smiths with extended family gatherings at various households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Struble
Brooks Corners
Mig
Cecil Gaffney
Elinor Lee
Ruth Ann
Gaffney
Cecil Darnell
Barryton
Albert Lee
Herbert Middleton
Weekend visits span Farwell to Lansing and Houghton Lake
West Grant reports Mr and Mrs Ben Agle and baby of Farwell visited Seeley Johnson family. Mrs Steve Benic visited her Lansing daughter from Wednesday to Sunday. Walter Redge visited Harry Cohee’s family at Houghton Lake Thursday and Friday. Unsworth the milk hauler on sick list. Seeley Johnson dined with sister James Detoy Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben. Agle
Baby
Farwell
Steve Benic
Seeley Johnson
Joel Paniucki
Lansing
Walter Redge
Harry Cohee
Houghton Lake
Unsworth
James Detoy
School bus returns to routes after storms
The school bus resumes service this week after more than two weeks of storm-related absence. Weekend visitors arrive at multiple homes including Glen Newman, Virgil Newman, and the Horns. Mrs Hifie Myers mourns, and travel remains limited as roads stay blocked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Newman
Glen Newman
Virgil
Glen
John Horn
Mary Lou
Pontiac
Harl Sanders
John
Brubaker
Lorin
Leitner
Hart Sanders
Hifie Myers
Pleasant Valley Social News Notes Visitors and Weekend Gatherings
Mr and Mrs Robert Greer of Pontiac called at the Kleiner and Randall homes. The Klingan family hosted Beaver ton visitors. Laurence Bates of Midland spent the weekend here. Forrest Leeth traveled to Saginaw for business. Archie Tryon of Pontiac visited Maynie Bunyan. Henry Kleiner and Barton guests were Sunday visitors. A birthday dinner at Burton Bay honored Ethard Walters with family guests including Von Watters Shirley Etcard Watters Clarence Bay and Glen Bay with his boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Greer
Pontiac
Otto Kleiner
Tom Randall
Famly
K. I. Klingan
Beaverton
Laurence Bates
Midland
Forrest Leeth
Saginaw
Archie Tryon
Maynie Bunyan
Henry Kleiner
Barton
Burton Bay
Ethard Walters
von Watters
Shirley
Etcard Watters
Clarence Bay
Glen Bay
Gilmore Center and Church Announce Services
Gilmore Center and Gilmore Church of Christ list services led by Howard L. Krause with song devotion at 10 06 a m communion and preaching at 10 16 and Bible school at 11 00 all welcome. News notes include Merry Go Round meeting with Mrs Wm Tanner sewing and visiting about fifteen attendees next gathering March 13. Community updates mention families visiting relatives in Petoskey a new grandson born February 5 and various dinner visits and illnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard L. Krause
Wm. Tanner
Paul Cale
M. L. McAlvey
K. Dale McAlvey
Petoskey
Michael Kermit
Dover Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Celebrations
Mrs John Bauer and daughter visited Saginaw for shopping while Rev Earl Gilmore visited family in Wayne. Sympathy extended to Hein and Oman families for losses. Attendees from Dover at Mrs John Oman funeral in Clare. Milton Unger visiting Chicago relatives. Delmar Allen hosted relatives for a birthday dinner. Tom White and Cleo Raymond family events noted. Dover store ownership changes hands to Tom and Mrs White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bauer
Harold Schaeffer
Saginaw
Earl Gilmore
Wayne
Herb Gilmore
Hein
Oman
John Oman
Clare
Emily Lamb
Jim Thompson
Evérette Allen
Roger Kleinhardt
Milton Unger
Chicago
Bruce Pelch
Farwell
Helen Miller
Cheryl
Everette Allen
Pete Hanes
Courtney Bauer
Delmar. Allen
Bus Raymond
Cleo
Tom White
Talen
Dover General
Dorothy Owens
Carl Bauer
Dale Mountey
Riverdale
Weekend Visit Notes Amid Illness In The Community
Ford families attended to the illness of Mrs. Pete Hanes while Mrs. Courtney Bauer and Wayne Freisner visited the Everett Allen home. Roger Garver and his wife and Jim Whitmer and his wife were supper guests at Jim Wilson's home. Irwin Walrod of Flint and Mr and Mrs Jim Thompson hosted weekend guests, and Everett Allen called on his mother Dorothy Allen and Louise Bauer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim’ Thompson
Everette Allen
Sumday
Dorothy Allen
Louise Bauer
Surprise Birthday Party for Mr and Mrs Chas Heber
Friends and relatives held a surprise party last Saturday night with visiting, card tables, photo reels from the Wim Case marriage trip to Colorado, many gifts, a pot luck lunch, and well wishes for a memorable evening. Sunday visitors included Mr and Mrs Harold Heber and his mother at Floyd Squires home in West Grant. Herbert Pfannes leaves for Ann Arbor for a checkup with hopes of full recovery. The local election turnout was light with 47 votes cast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Heber
Wim
Case
Colorado
Dad
Harold Heber
Floyd Squires
West Grant
Herbert Pfannes
Ann Arbor
Mt Vernon Grange Meeting Echoes Snow Storm Attendance
Twenty five members attended the Mt Vernon Grange despite a threatening snow storm and bad roads. The lecturer delivered an exciting hour and birthdays were celebrated. Members visited relatives and friends in nearby towns including Kawkawlin Ithaca and Mt Pleasant with several weekend calls and dinners at local homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grange
Grorge
Richard Brooks
Paul Heberlein
Kawkawlin
Donald Brooks
Walter White
Cecil Allen
Mt. Pleasant
Harold White
Lavond White
Ernest Hawley
Ithaca
Otis Northon
Archie Ackerman
Snow plows bring relief and church reopens in Loomis
Loomis residents welcomed Saturday snow removal and open roads. Sunday School and church services resumed in Loomis with 389 attendees, first since late January. Community shares sympathies for Lewis Nevins and reports various visits, gatherings, and neighborly mentions through the week.
Church Notes and Local Social Updates
Church notes report a growing Sunday attendance and plans for a March meeting. Rev Rex Dy Phillips and family attended a Saginaw zone preachers meeting and revival progress at Midland Church of the Nazarene. Local residents share visits, calls, and news including a resignation in Lan sing, a stroke in Mt. Pleasant, and the death of Lewis Nevins with sympathy extended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rex Dy. Phillips
Saginaw Zone
Hemlock
Edmund Lux
Midland Church of the Nazarene
Harold
Phillips
Rodger
Charlotte
Nashville
Kenneth Gerren
Lansing
Etta. Howard
Robert. Allen
Clare
Virgil White
Bay City
Alva White
Roy Walters
West Grant
Ward Boody
George Bryant
Marjory
Billie Gardner
St. Johns
Cynthia Emery
Billie Lee Gardner
Charles Forsyth
Grand Rapids
Clara Stone
Frank
Darlene Lear
Sandra Schultz
Perry VanSickle
John Goodenough
VanSickle
Mt. Pleasant
Howard Randaull
Farwell
Lewis Nevins
Pioneer dairy farmer ships first exclusive Illinois dairy batch
In 1852 P. H. Smith of Elgin UL sent 17 gallons of milk to Chicago marking the first attempt at exclusive dairy farming in Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. H. Smith
Elgin
Chicago
Illinois
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Stanley
Carol
Dean
Alm, Struble
Jimmie Jackson
Sears
Jerry Anderson
Higia Hickok
Hendrie Brothers Market
Ken and
Jay
Corsant
Duro
Wayne Crane
Duro Water
Lennox
E. Doherty & Sons Company Plumbing & Heating Contractor
Pleasant Valley
Gilmore Center
Bible School
Vanesse
Bert Glass
Gordon Glass
Kenneth Renner
Joanne
Cleland
Robert Smith
Donald Seymour
Ed McAlvey
Elizabeth Welsh
David Wilson
Paul Brown
Bill Whood
Dover News
MT. Vernon Grange
Loomis
Nevins
Lewis ‘Nevins
Edwin Wichert
Mildred Faber
Wichert
Robert Rube
Gilbert Waddington
Warren Tice
Waddington
Ruth McReynolds
Parsonage
Hinkleville
Warren Willette
Bert Bergey
William. McCreary
Hy F
C.O.D
Francis Rupff
Evenkail
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Michigan
Saginaw Rd
Midland, Michigan
Slavory Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer's
Pfeiffer Brawing Company
Détroit
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