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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1940
Page
7
The Sentinel announces subscription rates of 1.50 per year in Michigan and 2.00 elsewhere, with single copies and display ad rates on application. Local liners 10c per line, ag fillers 5c, heading 1c, cards of thanks 5c per ten lines, overage 5c per line. requests probate notices be published by Judge Wylie.
July 4 social highlights include the Brooks-Deforest gathering with 52 attendees from Michigan cities and Harrison. The eldest, Mrs. N. W. Deforest, aged 89, attended along with five generations. A Woodward reunion is planned for July 14 and Central State Teachers college hosts an July 18 picnic at the state park.
Eberhart family reunion held Sunday at Wilson State Park with twenty five members and guests attending. Picnic dinner followed by social afternoon. Guests included Ed and Ed wife Eberhart Ray Eberhart Maude Kentner John Eberhart Maggie Mostchals Caro Collins Bertha Schaaf and Fred Schaaf plus families from Tilint Saginaw Detroit Harrison.
Mr and Mrs Edgar Briligman and daughter Ava Jean spent the Fourth of July camping and fishing at Manuskong Bay in the Upper Peninsula. Albert Payne and the Cosgrove boys visited the Upper Peninsula to spend the holiday with Charles Carpenter who moved to a new home near Pickford.
Mr. and Mrs. Francis McKenna and Mrs. Don Schaaf vacationed Wednesday through Sunday with the Griffen family at Bar beau. The Schaaf remained for the summer while Theodore Butcher and Max Carey spent the holiday near Ozark camping and fishing the Carp River, and they visited Charles Carpenter at Pickford.
Sixteen year old Mary Dingman suffered severe burns on her right side when her dress caught fire while filling a kerosene range at her parents home. She received initial care from Dr. Harl Wilson and was later taken to a Flint hospital for further treatment.
Harrison Mission Rev. E. E. leads services with Dream and Pastor. Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. Bernard Fischer, superintendent. Church service at 11:00 a.m. Evening service at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday prayer 7:30 p.m. All welcome to all services.
John Sersaw was placed on ninety days probation after a Justice court hearing at the Clara County Jail offices before Newton Kress and Prosecutor Donald Holbrook. Defense was by Maurice Black. He faced charges of assault and battery and drunk and disorderly conduct.
Local sheriff reports no accidents or arrests in Clare County during the holiday week. The column lists numerous visits, family gatherings, and travels of residents from Clare, Saginaw, Detroit, and beyond through Harrison and surrounding towns, with names such as O Neil Hoff Mead Hallgren Yoder Clute and many others.
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