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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1937
Page
8
A page fragment lists arrivals and departures with No. 52 South and No. 51 North trains and local travel details. It also covers community news including visits, hospital updates, club meetings, a Rexall convention, a Dutch operetta, lodge activities, marriages, and local social events with numerous names and places such as Midland Lansing Flint Reed City Vernon Rosebush Shepherd Grand Rapids and Clare.
Foster Bus Line arrives in Clare at 11 40 a m from the south and returns at 4 15 p m for Mt Pleasant Alma St Johns Lansing. Buses connect with Great Lakes busses at Clare.
Great Lakes Motor Bus Co lists daily connections from Mt. Pleasant to Saginaw with stops at Clare Harrison Houghton Lake Prudenville and Clare via Mt. Pleasant. It notes Lansing connections morning and night and direct northward routes.
The Vernon Extension Club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Geiseler on February 25. Gladys Schug led singing and Delia Wild and Mildred Russell taught cane and rush chair making. New members Mrs. June Geiseler and Mrs. Elisebeth Flegel joined.
Eighteen North Vernon women met at Mrs. Clyde Marshall home on February 25 for the fourth lesson of the third year Home Furnishings project. Dorthy Denton led a brief business session and planning for achievement day.
A quirky county note recounts a neighbor's barn horses and manure act tied to a Dodge car, Elmer Schofield skating on a lawn, and a runaway county tractor and snow plow pursued toward Lake station. The commissioner and crowd chase ended with the plow captured.
Miss Maxine and Gail Sowle of Clare joined grandparents Mr and Mrs Fred Gee for dinner last week. Homer Livingston and John Livingston hosted Sunday din ner at the John Livingston home with visits to Mr and Mrs Donald Cobleigh. Mrs Bertha Randle spent time with sister Mrs Mary Randle in West Grant. Mark Sowle and family joined Harley Sowle in Clare. Chester Schaar of Flint dined with Roy Schaar and family. Carl Cotton and family visited Roy and Mrs Schaar Sunday. John Bell and Harley Randle bought a colt north of Coleman Monday. Edna Langin of Flint and Shirley Jennings of Royal Oak dined with Mr and Mrs Langin Sunday.
Mrs. Marie Allen returns to Pontiac after funeral for C. S. Bunyan. Visitors include Norman Allen, Audley Smith, and Rutledge families. Mrs. Rank has a bad cold. Sympathy extends to Runyan family. Mrs. Jeff Hartman recovering from a fall. Rev. Honderich and son Sylvian travel to Detroit for eye exam. Miller welcomes 12 lb Elmer Lewis.
Mt. Pleasant visitors and neighbors share updates as the Stuckmans host guests at H Stuckman home. Meantime Grover Updyke travels to Mt Pleasant for eye treatment and later learns of a road accident fatality in Frost. Leo Bruce secures Pontiac work. Clyde Pifer buys a new Plymouth. a yearling colt is killed on the road. a Lilly Lake oil well reaches 1985 feet.
William Roland awoke to a commotion among his geese and found a coyote fleeing with a goose. He pursued to within twenty feet before the animal bolted, confirming it was a coyote not a fog. The incident raises concern over livestock protection as farmers fear summer losses to predators.
Clare Oliver visits father and wife then tours Saginaw midweek. Hazel Hawking and two children visit Midland kin. Regional guests from Gladwin Pontiac Lansing and Battle Creek span weekend. School closed for furnace repair. new boiler installed.
Edith Maxwell presented a crazy quilt to Almyra Wedel on Thursday on behalf of the Meet-A-While club. Area families including Youmans, Maxwell, Wedel, Ramey, Kile, and Smith enjoyed visits, dinners, and weekend gatherings in Andersonville and nearby towns. A Farm Union mice quilt for Mrs. Wedel and a recreation instruction trip to Midland were noted, along with several relatives traveling for visits and business in Pontiac Detroit and Lansing.
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