One 1944 Michigan license plate issued for cars
1944 license plates go on sale at Secretary of State branches in Clare and Harrison. Only one plate is used this year, attach to rear. front plates not displayed. Michigan requires new plates for residents or those establishing residence, with a 90 day exemption misinterpreted by some.
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Secretary of State
Art Damoth Insurance Agency
Clare
Harrison
Lansing
Michigan
Herman H. Dignan
Dignan
Missouri
Department of State
Clare Cubs Meet at Clare High School
The Clare Cub Scouts resumed meetings at Clare High School on Wednesday evening with H A Garen as the new Cub Master and Donald Richardson as assistant. Twenty eight boys attended as the group formed three dens led by Den Chiefs Chick Burdo Douglas Fleming and Herbert Byers. A pledge of allegiance opened the gathering and plans for the year were outlined. Regular pack meetings will be the first Wednesday each month with weekly den meetings in the afternoons.
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Cub Scouts of
Clare
Clare High School
H. A. Garen
Donald Richardson
John Rodabaugh
Chick Burdo
Douglas Fleming
Herbert Byers
Mr. Garen
Den
Dens
Bates Attends National Athletic Event
Superintendent Austin F. Bates, Michigan High School Athletic Association Representative Council member, was elected to represent the group at the National Federation of Athletic Associations meeting in Chicago January 6 and 7. He has represented northern Michigan class G and D schools for eight years and left Wednesday with State Director Julian Smith for the national meeting.
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Austin F. Bates
Michigan High School Athletic Association
National Federation of Athletic Associations
Chicago
Bates
Michigan
Julian Smith
Lansing
Farmers Week at Michigan State February 1 3
The 28th annual Farmers Week at Michigan State College runs February 1 to 4 with 104 events. About 3,000 soldiers and 3,000 students are on campus as state associations meet. Highlights include lectures by Floyd Reeves and Lewis Bromfield, plus various breed, farm, and extension sessions focused on wartime production and postwar plans.
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Michigan
State College
E.L. Anthony
R. W. Tenny
Floyd W. Reeves
U. of Chicago
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Lewis Bromfield
Lucas
Ohio
State Crop Improvement Association
Michigan Dairy Goat Association
Michigan State Grange
H. P. Rusk
U. of Mino
Demaree Bess
Michigan Essential Oil Growers’ Association
Poultry Meeting at Colonville Next Monday Evening
Colonville school hosts a poultry meeting Monday evening January 10 at 8 00 to discuss poultry production issues. County Agent Paul Gibson and Otto W Pino of Clare High School will lead questions on profitability chick sources best grade stock laying flock culling and future meetings.
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Colonville School
Paul Gibson
Otto W. Pino
Clare High School Agricultural Department
City Tax Exchange Notice for Clare City Taxes
City tax collection announced by Mildred Wentworth Deputy City Treasurer. She will be at The Citizens State Bank on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays after noon until further notice to collect Clare city taxes.
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State Bank
Clare
Fourth War Loan Mass Meeting at Clare City Hall
Clare county residents urged to attend a mass meeting at Clare City Hall Auditorium at 8:00 PM Friday to plan the Fourth War Loan kickoff on Tuesday January 18. Superintendent Eugene B. Hillett backs schools in Clare County efforts and students at Clare High School aim to raise 15000 dollars in War Savings Bonds to finance a PT 19B Fairchild trainer.
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Clare City Hall
Clare County
Eugene B. Hillett
Michigan
Clare High School
Clare Public Schools
Burdo
McEwan Street
Special Dairy Feed Payments Authorized for 1943 October–December
Dairy feed payments are being issued to milk and cream producers at the AAA Office in Harrison. The November and December checks accompany the October total of 2445.92 dollars to 490 Clare county farmers. Farmers may still apply for October payments with November and December claims by presenting November and December cream and milk statements.
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AAA
Zubler
Harrison
Clare County
Red Cross Young Ladies Unit Meets Weekly
The Young Ladies Red Cross Unit will continue to meet on Wednesdays at 7 20 in the American Legion room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Ladies Red Cross
Clare Chamber of Commerce 1944 Annual Meeting Notice
The Clare Chamber of Commerce will hold its 18th annual meeting at Hotel Doherty on Tuesday evening January 18 with a 6 30 dinner before the business meeting and officer director elections. Vice President Murl Houghton will oversee the meeting and dinner tickets go on sale late next week. attendance is urged to support the civic group and elect leaders for 1944.
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Clare Chamber of Commerce
Doherty
Murl Houghton
Chamber of Commerce
William J Northon laid to rest in Clare Cemetery
Funeral services for William J Northon were held at Thurston Funeral Home with Rev. Harold Watson officiating. He died December 28, 1948 at age 74, leaving three brothers, two sisters, and several relatives. Northon had lived in Vernon township and spent years in California before returning to the old farm.
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William J. Northon
Old Homestead
Vernon Township
Thurston
Harold Watson
Clare Congregational Church
Cherry Grove Cemetery
Charles and
Hmily Northon
Mt. Brydges
Ontario
Isabella County
Michigan
California
Northon
Wiso
John
Clare
Edward
Oscar
Lena Brewer
Charlotte Kapplinger
Grant Township
James
Jarvis
Funeral services for Doyle Teel in Clare
Doyle Teel died after a brief illness in Ford Hospital Detroit. His remains arrive Saturday morning by Pere Marquette and lie in state at Doherty Funeral Home until 11 30. Services at St Cecilia's Church with Fr Chas D Brophy. Interment in Cherry Grove Cemetery. Survived by wife Helen and daughter Tressa Novella. Life story to be published next week.
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Doyle Teel
Ford Hospital
Detroit
Pere Marquette
Doherty
St. Cecilia’s Church
Chas, D. Brophy
Cherry Grove Cemetery
Helen
Helen Hartman
Clare
Tressa Novella
Notice to pay accounts at Farwell Bank
Having gone south for the winter, people who wish to pay on their accounts can pay Bernard Schofield at the Farwell Bank. 1412 James A. Stanley.
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Bernard Schofield
Farwell Bank
James A. Stanley
New Year Call to Michigan on War Bond Effort
Governor Harry F. Kelly urges Michigan residents to unite in a 1944 home-front push. He stresses end of European war depends on home effort and asks weekly purchases of War Savings Bonds and Stamps to the full financial ability of citizens.
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Michigan
Harry F. Kelly
Clare business leader Lyle W. Chapman dies at 46
Lyle Western Chapman a Clare Michigan auto parts dealer and businessman died suddenly of a heart attack New Year’s Day at his home on West Seventh Street He was born September 28 1897 at Akron Michigan married Josephine Haynak December 24 1921 and had two sons Robert and James He moved to Clare in 1935 and built a local auto parts enterprise with his brother in law Funeral services were held at Clare Methodist Church with interment at Cherry Grove Cemetery.
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Lyle W. Chapman
Clare
West Seventh Street
Lyle Western Chapman
Charles and
Anna Chapman
Akron
Michigan
Josephine Haynak
Lansing
Robert
James
Mr. Chapman
Clare Auto Parts
County Road Commission
West Us-10
Frank Haynak
Chapman
McEwan Street
North McEwan Street
Methodist Church
Clare Kiwanis Club
Josephine
Atta Hutchinson
Caro
Kenneth Bender
Detroit
Fred
Vassar
Fort Brady
Clare Methodist Church
Chas. B. Hahn
Cherry Grove Cemetery
Mt Pleasant Fire Destroys Second Floor in Historic Building
Fire in Mt Pleasant on North College street destroys the second floor of the McArthur Strange building. Origin of the blaze unknown, damage estimated at 100000 dollars. Firemen battled the flames from 5 a.m. until noon. Ohio Oil Company offices and state and county agricultural divisions occupied the building, with doctors R H Strange and R H Strange Jr. affected by water and smoke in their offices.
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McArthur- Strange
North College Street
Mt. Pleasant
Ohio Oil Company
R. H. Strange
R. H. Strange, Jr
Clare Red Cross Unit Resumes Sewing Sessions
The Clare Unit of the American Red Cross resumes sewing sessions at the Legion Rdéoms in the city each Thursday from 10:30 a m to 4:30 p m. New work will start, and all who can spare time weekly are urged to attend with their shears.
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Clare
American Red Cross
Legion
Annual Infantile Paralysis Drive Announced Here
Plans are underway for the eleventh annual campaign to raise funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis from January 14 to January 31. The President's Birthday Ball will be held January 29 at Clare city hall. Mrs. F. C. Ware is general chairman with Eugene Wyman and Omer Parent as co chairmen of the ball committee and Mrs. Harold Fleming as ticket chair.
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National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Clare City Hall
F. C., Ware
Eugene Wyman
Omer Parent
Harold Fleming
Mrs. Geo Gibis Dies at Home in Clare
Mrs. Geo Gibis longtime Grant township resident and club member died at her Clare home on Hast State Street following years of poor health. Born December 16 1871 in Zwolfhauser Bavaria she came to Michigan marrying George Gibis in 1889. Funeral at St Cecilia's Church Clare with Requiem Mass conducted by Rev Fr Charles D Brophy.
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George Gibis
Grant Township
Hast State Street
Ludwick
Mary Dank
Zwolfhauser
Bavaria
Clare
Michigan
St. Mary’s Church
Saginaw
Germany
Harrison
Mr. Gibis
Gibis
Catholic Church
St. Cecilia’s Altar Society
Gleaners
Ray “Lockwood
Mt. Pleasant
John Flood
Vernon Township
Lyle Mitchell
Laurence Gibis
Joseph Gibis
Frank Haynak
St. Cecilia’s Church
Charles D. Brophy
St. Cecilia’s Cemetery
Certificates of War Necessity Extended for 1944
Harold L. Frier of the Cadillac Office of Defense Transportation announced that existing Certificates of War Necessity will remain valid in 1944 unless suspended recalled cancelled or revoked. He said many inquiries prompted the clarification and advised operators to present their certificates to the local War Price and Rationing Board to obtain the first quarter gasoline allotment for 1944.
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Harold L. Frier
Cadillac Office of Defense Transportation
Cadillac
DDT
Frier
Naval Killed At Sea Loss Tells Christmas Eve Vigil
Mrs. Stuart Bicknell learns on Christmas Eve that her nephew Richard Nelson Fireman First Class U S Navy was lost at sea when his torpedoed ship sank. He is the son of Mr and Mrs L B Nekdob of Grand Ledge.
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Stuart Bicknell
Richard Nelson
U.S. Navy
Richard
L. B. Nekdob
Grand Ledge
Two Die in New Year’s Day Auto Crash Near Farwell
Joy Lea Gordon a seventeen year old Farwell resident died instantly when a car crashed two miles west of the US 10 intersection on Maple Grove Road at 1 49 AM January 1 1944. Samuel Liechti Jr aged seventeen died later at Clare Hospital from concussion and other injuries. Six other youths were injured and treated. driver Louch escaped with minor injuries. Coroner ruled accidental. state police investigated.
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Farwell
Maple Grove Road
Joy Lea Gordon
Forrest Gordon
Doris Laudin
Clyde Masten
Doherty Sons
Samuel Liechti
Clare Hospital
Clara Hospital
James B. Louch
Freeman Willey
Bill Ingraham
Roy Thrush
Theola Town
Louch
Maple Grove
Miss Gordon
Sammy’ Liechti
G. #. Lamb
Mt. Pleasant
Fire crews tame New Year’s attic blazes near Farwell and Vernon Hill
Clare Fire Department battled an attic fire at a Hol. Axf ord farm home northeast of Farwell at 8:00 New Year’s Eve, aided by Farwell firefighters. Flames confined to attic and walls with smoke damage totaling about 150 dollars. Another blaze at the Clair Schaaf house near Vernon Hill started near a stovepipe and was confined to the attic, with about 50 dollars in damage to the residence occupied by the Crane Randle family.
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Clare Fire Department
Axford
Farwell
Farwell Fire Department
Clair Schaaf
Clare
Vernon Hill
Simady
Fontaine
Cirernee Randle
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Pac
EF. Bates
Michigan State
Colonville
Red Cross
Young Ladies
WM. J. Northon
Clare Cemetery
Vernon Two
Clare Red Cross
Geo. Gibis
Joy Gordon
Samuel Liechti, Jr
Forrest and
Doris Gordon
Fach Intermediate
Southeastern High School
Fall
Reau- Chas. B. Hahn
Madge B. Lamb
Axford and
Clair Schaag
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