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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1939
Page
11
Train times listed for No 62 South and No 1 West from Marquette and East schedule with 10 30 AM and 3 36 PM arrivals. Local lodge meetings Thursday nights plus Pythian sisters. Notes mention several stores in town and visits by Cass City residents and Vernon visitors. Basketball teams defeated Weidman twice Friday. community hopes for more wins.
The Church of God announces Sunday schedule with Mary E House leading 10 30 Sunday school 11 30 morning worship and 7 00 p m preaching. A Young Peoples meeting is set at 8 00 p m and cottage prayer meets Wednesdays at 7 30 p m.
Pastor Rev Jas Rogers announces church school at 10 30 a m with Louie Finch as superintendent and morning worship at 12 o clock. Note time change. High School Boys Glee Club to provide music under Mrs Lamb. All welcome to fellowship.
Reorganized Church schedule Various church groups meet with Sunday services every other Sunday. Local residents, including Mr. and Mrs. Whitaker and daughter Barbara, visit relatives in Clare and Mt. Pleasant. A bake sale by the Home Economics class is planned for January 28 at the Fred Bingham store starting 10:00 a.m. Community members travel to Florida and Lansing for visits.
The Farwell Public School Health Unit reports tuberculosis testing results with 12 positives from 103 pupils tested on December 5 and 7, followed by optional x-rays on January 25 at the County Nurse’s office in Clare funded by TB seals. It also notes toxoid immunizations, Shick test follow ups, and smallpox vaccination. Dental services begin January 23 with Dr McConnell serving Farwell Lake and Lake George pupils, offering free brushes and teeth care education.
The Farwell Woman's Club met in the library Tuesday evening for a program on South America. Members shared facts on missions in South America, U S interests there, and schools in the Carolinas and Georgia. A bake sale was planned for next month.
Clara Shekell, born April 29, 1855 in Livingston County Michigan, died January 22 at her Farwell home aged 83. She taught in Clare and Isabella Counties and married Alonzo C. Shekell in 1879. Survived by sister Florence Dunwoodie and several nieces and nephews. Funeral January 24 at 2 p.m. in Farwell with J. S. Penick overseeing Gilmore Cemetery interment.
Farwell Townsend Club No 1 elected officers for the coming year at the Pythian Hall President Jud Brasington Vice President Dahne Raymond Secretary Lille Suylandt Treasurer Bernice Slingland. The meeting drew a large crowd despite bad weather.
The schedule lists games at Marion January 27 and February 14, Coleman January 31 and February 16, LeRoy February 3 and 5 at home, with McBain February 24 away. Details show locations and dates for each matchup.
A list shows Wheat Rye Oats Barley beans and beans prices per bushel or cwt. Livestock categories include Cream Hens Hogs beef hides and fowl prices with ranges from $4 to $17.00, reflecting a market report style.
A school inspector questions a class while a pupil cites a Burns poem and jokes about bicarbonate of soda as the best cure. The exchange showcases playful misunderstandings about the Scots poet Robert Burns.
The audience threw flowers as we performed our act in the South. The remark Yes cauliflowers was heard among the crowd.
A man courts a daughter and, after claiming he can marry if he has spent a year on candy and theater dates, faces his future father-in-law’s skeptical test of his finances. The exchange blends humor with prudence as old traditions weigh romance and practicality.
An elderly Scottish man, guided to a station by a friend, watches an express train vanish into a tunnel. He remarks it is wonderful yet fears a terrible mess if the train misses the tunnel hole.
Pilot recounts taking his wife’s urging to abandon their old cat. He carried it in a basket into the country for about eight miles before realizing and retracing to reach home. The story captures a curious rural anecdote from a Houston Chronicle clipping.
A magistrate questions a prisoner about deceit targeting trusting people. The prisoner replies his experience shows those people were the only ones he could swindle, highlighting a sharp courtroom exchange.
A playful exchange between a girl and a man highlights vanity and humility. The dialogue contrasts conceit with sincerity as the man refutes the notion of constant arrogance. The scene captures character dynamics in a lighthearted vignette.
A terse exchange questions a dramatic claim about a woman being struck in the street. The reply denies the accusation and calls it a no run down incident, leaving the details unclear.
A quoted exchange describes a wife as a systematic thinker who believes you can find what you want by looking where it would not be if you did want it. The line appears in Stray Stories magazine.
The dialogue portrays a guard taunting a fellow inmate about a life sentence and the harsh reality of prison labor. The exchange centers on the incredulity of breaking rocks as a form of rest.
In a short exchange the speaker — Joe Collitch — jokes about his role in shaping his father’s snowy hairstyle while affectionately noting the debt to Betty Coed for the look.
A classroom quip riffs on Longfellow's line Tell me not in mournful numbers as a student jokes the poet was riding in a taxi. The playful exchange blends literature with a modern urban image for a light note in learning.
At a Clare County session on January 26 1939 Judge Alexander H. Wylie presided over the matter of the estate of William N. Younglove. Allen H. Mulder petitions to admit a will and grant administration to Mulder and Leah Garcon with notice for a March 1 hearing at 10 a.m. Publication of the notice will run weekly for three weeks in Clare Sentinel.
A brief dialogue shows a boy offering help to a porter lifting a heavy trunk. The porter questions the boy and the boy offers to grunt alongside the effort, hinting at shared labor and humor in the exchange.
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