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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1928
Page
3
Frye and Company present a program of midair birds disappearing rings mystic slates and other stage illusions. The show questions spirits and mediumship while exposing fakery in a lively entertainment slated for next Monday evening February 27 at the high school auditorium.
The Lyceum Course number four debuts Monday February 27 with Frye and Company offering a magic and music program for 25 and 50 cent admissions. Sophomores and Freshmen deliver orations this week. finalists will be chosen from 10th and 9th grade English classes for a March 2 chapel contest leading to an April district contest. Community Civics notes James Maloney’s plan as best. In Manual Training, 7th grade finishes a pen tray and plans a book rack drawing. 5th and 8th grade projects progress with joints and beveling. Upper grades show notable woodwork and furniture projects. Junior class led chapel on February 18 with ukulele chorus and a magic act. Washington’s Birthday celebrated. Third Grade Fairies read aloud and dramatized a story. New Sociology themes cover marriage, poverty, labor, immigration, crime. library materials from Lansing state library used for English 12. Bernadine Hutchinson moved to Ponting this week.
The piece condemns William Edward Hickman for banditry kidnapping and murder of Marion Parker. It argues Hickman yielded to evil, laments failed defense, notes public opinion would not support clemency, and urges youths to stampede evil with noble ideals and discipline.
Toledo Blade notes Night Watchman George Matthew Adams advises living the first hour of the day aright to guide the rest, though a milkman questions the theory. The remark appears in a local column reflecting on daily routines.
White ants of Indo China cultivate gardens tending pumpkin patch like fungi. They produce micro scople pellets resembling pumpkins from moldy bread by chewing plant fragments and forming beds that host fungal germs.
Earl Brockway sought work in Pontiac and returned home. Sylvia Burton visited Mrs. Wm. Hileman. Viola Brown and Myrtle Rodabaugh from Clare stayed with Viola to help her mother. Shirley Adell Brockway was born to Lewis and Mrs. Brown. Weather shifted from ice to deep snow. Norm Burton visited Ralph Brown on Sunday afternoon.
Report of sone cold weather with a 10 below mention. Neighbors and relatives from Flint Clare Beaverton Pontiac and Milo Robinett homes visit and travel for seed house sales and family gatherings. Local residents Busy with visits at Grimason Williams Burd Sutton Utley and Squires homes amid community updates.
The column describes a recent February blizzard then a bright morning in Brown Corners. The writer notes an unusually mild winter overall and mentions Mrs H C Mickie traveling to Detroit on Monday to visit her daughter.
Ben Rieinhardt 4H and Glen Gordon with others stayed at ITS while chores were attended. Detroit trip by Glenn Gordon to observe employment opportunities. John Coulter called on old neighbors. Frank Newman hosted a birthday visit. A wood bee for Jack Jerred produced a good amount of timber.
Hinkville reports several locals attended the Dodge sale in Vernon on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Edw Hawkins of Clare spent Saturdays with their son William and family. Mrs Roy Feighner helped sister Mrs A Oliver celebrate a birthday last week. Elmer Lackie Jr has been absent from school two weeks due to a head fracture from a fall.
On Wednesday afternoon a twofold school event combined a birthday tribute to George Washington and a surprise for Ruth Funte. Mrs Dan Lockwood fractured her wrist after an ice accident and was rushed to Bronstetter hospital, then staying with the Palmers at Far Well.
Capper's Weekly notes a Shanghai eatery that employs a Japanese proprietor, Chinese waiters, a Portuguese cook, a Scandinavian bouncer, a husky Russian waitress, and customers from French English Spanish and Italian backgrounds. The piece highlights the cosmopolitan dining experience and lack of monotony in the menu.
A fragment notes a 1608 Anglican canon requiring a bidding prayer before all sermons and homilies. It describes the prayer as seeking God's help for the church the sovereign and various social groups and as a thanksgiving for the faithful departed, with echoes in modern services.
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