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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1923
Page
5
State of Michigan Clare County Probate Court notices four months from June 29 1923 for creditors to present claims against the estate of Ema ine Robart. Claims due by October 22 1928. Hearing set October 29 1923 at 10 a.m. at Harrison probate office. Judge Dorsey dated June 26 1923.
The Circuit Court for Clare County Michigan orders John Sinkovietz to appear in the chancy case against Minnie Sinkovietz. Defendant, a resident of Ohio, must answer within three months, with publication of this order in The Clare Sentinel weekly for six consecutive weeks. Attorney Jos F Bowler represents the plaintiff.
Default on a 1921 mortgage by Burt J Hess and Lucy Hess to The Citizens State Bank Clare Michigan. Notice of public sale September 24 1923 at 2 PM at the courthouse Harrison Michigan to pay the due amount plus costs. Property includes specified parcels in Clare County Michigan. Mortgagor’s attorney is Carlos A Reading Clare Michigan 35113.
Catania reports a lull in Mount Etna’s violent eruption. Though lava and rocks still threaten nearby towns, the number of new craters is down and experts foresee a move toward normal conditions soon. No human fatalities. injuries are rare despite extensive property loss.
President Harding commuted 24 of 48 political prisoners held for wartime obstruction. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick laid the cornerstone of a new American hospital at Neuilly with 100 beds, replacing a 30 bed establishment.
Otis Hicks of Flint spent a week with his father in law Tom Cook. A Saturday night gathering at Harry Boucher's was well attended with games. A humming sound and an aeroplane sighting were noted near four pm. Windover Grange plans next meeting for the second Saturday in August.
Explorer Roald Amundsen abandons planned pole flight and sails back to the United States on the schooner Holmes, per a Nome Alaska dispatch.
London politician Arthur Ponstby former Queen Victoria page of honor introduces a Commons bill to abolish hereditary titles. The measure wins enthusiasm from labor members and receives hisses from Tory MPs.
Victoria reports the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Canada established a new trans-Pacific record with a voyage of 8 days 10 hours 53 minutes arriving from the Orient. The previous record of 8 days 16 hours 31 minutes was held by the Empress of Rusala since 1914.
In Duluth Minnesota nine men fighting a riverbank brush fire near Echo lake were saved from death by a heavy rainfall, the state ranger station at Orr reports. In Ermfold Saskatchewan a tornado leaves 18 dead mass of wreckage, and a nine year old Ruud girl survives a buggy ejection near Uren.
Cambridge mass the great elm where George Washington once took command is dying experts say the aged tree near Harvard University has been tended for years in attempts to save it professor Charles E Sargeant a noted botanist says it is beyond saving.
The United States Government obtained an injunction restricting the sanitary district of Chicago to no more than 4 167 cubic feet per second from Lake Michigan through the Drainage Canal. The order becomes effective after six months to permit appeal to the U S Supreme Court.
Oyster Bay public ceremonies and exercises at Theodore Roosevelt's grave will be buried in future. Directors say the ruling meets Roosevelt family approval. The cemetery will stay open for friends and admirers to pay silent tribute at the grave.
New direct freight service by water between New York City and Duluth via the Great Lakes and New York State Barge Canal is announced. Two steam motorships of 2600 tons with refriger ator holds near completion and to begin service soon. Bi monthly sailings with nine day trips are planned.
The last mile of track on the Alaska Railroad was laid, enabling immediate through passenger and freight traffic from Seward to Fairbanks without car changes. The 470 mile line took nine years, eight months, and six days to build, per a Department of the Interior announcement.
Twelve Londoners locked in a St Saviour’s Cathedral belfry rang bells for nine hours and forty eight minutes without food or drink. They achieved twelve thousand six hundred seventy five changes on twelve bells but failed to beat Birmingham’s 1111 changes record set in December 1901. The 200 year old bells weigh about 4122 tons with the tenor bell weighing 212 tons.
Congratulations go to Mr. and Mrs Forest Garver on a joyful life journey. Mr and Mrs Myrle Haines of Grand Rapid s visited with Vern and relatives then departed with household goods. Families of Lautzenheiser Miller and Turner shared Sunday calls and visits. Bryan and Ira Miller visited from Flint and Lansing, with relatives Elmer and Mrs Lantzenheiser. Blystone shows improvement while Daggett remains ill and hopes for recovery.
Local items note community travel schedules, sightings, visits and social happenings in Farwell and surrounding towns. The period column mentions travel times, hospital visits, camping trips, school enrollments, family news, and ongoing road work with a focus on residents and nearby places.
Mrs. W. C. Fuller and Mrs James Stinchcombe hosted Farwell ladies at Pioneer cottage on Lake last Thursday. They arrived by car and train for a full day of picnic dining on the porch. boating, fishing, and bathing kept children busy in the water. The Pioneer cottage, rebuilt from Farwell’s first log dwelling by Hitchcock and Fuller families, traces its roots to January 1871.
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