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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1945
Page
5
Local column reports on church notices and social visits in Clare Michigan and nearby areas. Readers include families of Sharpe Krehmar Bruce and Bates with gatherings, dinners, and weekend trips. A military address change for Pfc. Leo Skinner is noted along with several Midland and Sanford trips.
Eight members attend Red ross work session led by Marguerite Newell and Valera Ferguson with plans for January 24 pot luck at 12:30 to fund kit bags for overseas service. Numerous visits, travels, and family news from Harrison and nearby towns highlight a packed social calendar.
Mrs H M Buchholz hosted Wayne Hol ward's twelfth birthday with a dinner and a Clare versus Harrison game. Harrison Study Club's Home and Garden Division plans a January 25 meeting on Road Beautification with Bible verse roll call. Harrison Chapter 0.7.8. reports a January 15 meeting with practice and an initiation planned for January 29 followed by cake and coffee prepared by O'Dale McKenna and Lillian Alkire.
A fragment notes a scora held by Gertrude Gardiner and Koran Morrison and a traveler by Frances WitzGerald. The text is incomplete but preserves these named individuals and actions.
The listing details church activities including St. Athanasius Catholic Church Mass at 10 30 a m Pastor Rev Chas D Brophy Congregational Church Bible School at 10 a m with Paul D Gibson Superintendent and services at 11 00 a m Junior Endeavor 6 00 p m Senior Endeavor 7 00 p m Latter Day Saints Church services 10 30 a m Sunday School 11 15 a m Oriole and Bluebird groups 7 31 p m H Hyening Services 8 00 p m.
Rev Clinton Hilton pastor leads Sunday School at 10 00 a m Mrs Harold Yost at 11 15 a m church services at 7 20 p m evening services and Wednesday 7 30 p m special services. Young people meet every Monday evening.
Harrison Mission details Sunday School 10:00 AM Preaching Service 11:00 AM Evening worship 7:30 PM Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 PM The quotation warns against aiding intoxication and notes liquor selling as a wrongdoing.
Notices of letters from servicemen Bill Case in Assam India and Lewis Irwin in the Mediterranean to Ontario area families, with details on farming, monsoon life, health and hopes for home, plus local social visits, greetings, and Christmas box thanks.
Miss Anne Wellington and Mrs Ivah Emery of Clare hosted Saturday at Gleason's Tea Room for a chicken dinner and bridge. Guests included Mrs Maude Harper Mrs Thora Morrison Miss Anna Gets Mrs Gertrude Gardiner Mrs Laura Van Stery and Mesdames Piz Gerald. High
Mrs Jas Bradley of Harrison R4 receives wartime missive from her son Pfc Willard L Phillips in Germany dated December 25 1944 He writes of gladness at letters and packages from home hunting notes and warm wishes plus thanks to grandma church of God and Rev Zollers He asks about the horses and neighbors and signs off as Buck hoping for a later reply
Mrs Margaret Briggs returned home Thursday from Vellego California with her daughter husband William Benchley and family after a trip that included a stop in Mexico to mend a broken axle on their trailer house. She preferred Michigan with its snow to rain and mud in California. Mr and Mrs Merle Davis plus Dickie of Fruitport spent the weekend with sisters and their husbands Otis McPhail and others.
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