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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1944
Page
8
Flint and nearby communities recount weekend and weekday social calls. Residents like Sylvia Stanwick and Eunice Robinette visit relatives. various trips include hospitals, Atlantic City, and Minnesota. Family gatherings, hosting guests, and travel to Saginaw Grant Township and Midland mark a bustling social week.
Mrs Ethel Hendrie reports her son Kenneth Hendrie and wife in Walled Lake adopted a baby boy on February 17 weighing eight pounds named Gerald Kenneth Set. Mrs William Mater’s family welcomes a baby girl born February 18 at Healdton Oklahoma weighing five and a half pounds named Marilyn Janice. Theo Wallington and family announce a daughter born February 28 at Central Michigan Community Hospital Mt Pleasant weighing six pounds five ounces named Karen Ann Set. Bernard Grant and wife welcome a daughter born February 19 at Central Michigan Community Hospital weighing five pounds thirteen ounces named Sharon Sue Set. Grant on a fifteen day furlough from Las Vegas NM with family. William Gordon Jn reports birth of daughter Alice Gail six pounds fifteen ounces to American Vice Counsel Alonzo Stanford and wife in Santiago Chile on December 21 1943.
Weekend guests include Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Lewis and son from Flint visiting M. R. Howletts in town. Mrs. Alex McKinnon spent Wednesday with Ralph and family in Saginaw. Clayton Hardman and two children toured Midland with mutual hosts. Gladwin residents visited Clair Stanley’s sister family Sunday. Mrs. Chris Weber and Mrs. John Jackson helped celebrate a birthday at a relative's home. Mrs. Sproat underwent major surgery at Mayo Clinic St Marys Hospital on February 10 and is recovering. her husband Joe returned home and resumed work at North Star Grocery.
Hogs dressed and beef and veal prices listed. Extra Large to Medium sizes priced for Hogs Cattle and Poultry by L. W. Jackson. Poultry grades include Pullet, Leghorn hens and broilers. Brown and white pullets noted with price ranges.
South Gilmore Red Cross Unit will meet at Mrs. Jim Pedgrift home on March 2 with a pot luck lunch. The Surgical Dressing Unit reports 677 dressings made at the John Stough home after a stormy Tuesday afternoon and invites volunteers to help each Tuesday afternoon.
The Lincoln Red Cross Unit meets on the first and third Thursdays. Members are urged to volunteer time to aid fighters on the front. At the February 17 meeting they completed five fracture pillows, five chair cushions, five pair slippers, and five pa jama jackets.
The Elm Grove Red Cross Unit met at Mrs. John Klingelhofer's home on February 17 with sixteen members present. Sixteen bedside bags, fourteen fracture pillows, six pairs of bed socks and a sweater were finished, and dues totaled 1.85 dollars. The next meeting will be hosted by Mrs. Carl Cotton on March 2 with lunch for several birthdays. Mrs. Chas. Russell, Secretary.
The Elm Grove Extension group met with Mrs Horace Fancon and nine members attended. They presented the lesson pack a punch in every lunch and prepared several good sandwich fillings served at noon. Each lunch box should contain one third of the total daily food supply with wax paper and paper napkins for packing. The lesson proved helpful to all lunch packers. Secretary
The Clare chapter of the Future Farmers of America initiated four members for the Chapter Farmer degree on February 21. Mt Pleasant attended. basketball followed with the second team losing 26 to 4 and the first team beating Mt Pleasant 21 to 20. Refreshements ended the evening. The IVP A plans future visits to neighboring chapters including Mt Pleasant Coleman and Farwell, with visitors cards issued by the FFA advisor.
Mrs Ray Hales escorted her granddaughter Carolyn Sue Carr to Madison Wisconsin to see Pvt Benny Carr in the Army Air Corps. He hopes for a move soon and had not seen his daughter for nearly a year. Carolyn enjoyed Lake Michigan boat ride and a train trip with Florence Carr before returning home with her mother.
In the seventh round at Hotel Doherty on Wednesday evenings the Haley Bayes team led the evening scores while the Comes Jackson pair won grand slam honors. Anderson Kaiser lead accumulative totals with 4800 more than the second team and one round remains as contestants remain keen.
Mrs Vi Holt announces Mt Pleasant lodge will meet Friday at one o clock for Red Cross work with Mrs McIntosh as project chair. The March committee includes Mrs Mae Brown and others. A fish supper with the Odd Fellows is planned for early March.
School notes describe an outdoor Bond Rally with selections by Emil Leis Ray Dorothy and Doris Spicer and a Monday Valentine party attended by Mrs Garcow Mrs Schiafley Mrs Rolland Krell Mrs Chris Krell and Miss Regina Krell. About eight younger siblings joined in and five hundred pounds of scrap paper were collected.
More than twenty five Clare Odd Fellows attended in Midland for nine candidates who received the Camp Degree. Names listed include Ernest Green and Art Damoth among others. A later gathering in Weidman conferred the second degree on thirty Clare Farwell and Weidman candidates with Grand Herald Thompson presenting.
Twenty two members met in their hall Tuesday evening with Mrs. Mary Mussel presiding. At nine o clock the Soldiers Prayer ceremony was given, committee chairmen reported on past week activities, and Mrs Crystal Walter announced both hospital beds were fine.
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