March Term Circuit Court Opens with Criminal Calendar
The March term of the circuit court convenes Monday with a criminal calendar listing The People vs. Frank Gilliman for statutory rape The People vs. Willard Gillman The People vs. Marion Sanderson for trespass and timber theft The People vs. James Gerow for grand larceny and other civil issues including bank and insurance cases appeals and a condemnation petition for private property in Clare County Michigan Proceedings continue on Page Four
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the People
Frank Gilliman
Willard Gillman
Marion Sanderson
James Gerow
Floyd Squires
Next Friend
Joseph Squires
Ralph Eberhart
Citizens State Bank
State Mutual Rodded Fire Insurance, Co
Assumps It
Joseph K. Naumes
Heart Bowerman
Myrtie Terry
Justice Court
Grover C. Dillman
State of
Michigan
Clare
Grant and
Hat~ton Townships
Clare County
Glen Poet
James Allen
Glenn Amy
Mathew Scott
Clare County Savings Bank
Beatrice Lange
City of
Wallis Craig Smith
Kenneth O. Lord
Arthur O. Cook
Pinehurst Orchard Resort Association
Ideal Theatre Double Programmes Feature Ladies and Cowboys
The Ideal Theatre announces a double programme starting Thursday March 31 and Friday April 1 with His Woman starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert and The Cheat with Tallulah Bankhead. Nightly prices range 30c 20c 10c. Tonight is Family Night with Five Star Kinall featuring Edgar Robinson. Saturday highlights Ken Maynard in Arizona Terror. Sun Mon 27-28 Casair with Chester Morris. Web 29-30 The Guardsman with Lunt Fontain and Zazu Pitts. Coming 8-4 The Broken Lullaby with Maurice Chavannel in One Hour With You.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Cooper
Claudette Colburn
Talula Bankhead
Family Night
Kinal
Edgar G. Robinson
Ken Maynard
Arizona Terror
Sun
Mon
Casair
Chester Morris
the Guardsman
Lunt—Fontain
Zazu Pitts
Arsene Lupin
Maurice Chavenlier
Amateur Independent Basketball Championship Finals At Clare Gym
The Amateur Independent Basketball Tournament wraps tonight at Clare Gym with two top local teams contending. A consolation game starts at 7:00 p m featuring Reed City Trojans and Roosevelt Oil of Mt Pleasant alongside Clare Merchants and Edmore Independents. Wednesday results include Bay City Trojans 18 Hayden Parker Electrics 16 and Edmore 30 over __ overtime, Roosevelt 29 Bay City Merchants 16 and Midland Sweet Shop 18 Clare Merchants 22.
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Clare Gym
Reed City Trojans
Roosevelt Oil
Mt. Pleasant
Clare Merchants
Edmore Independents
Bay City Trojans
Hayden Parker Electrics
Midland
Edmore
Vart
Roosevelts
Bay City Merchants
Midland Sweet Shop
Easter Drama at School Auditorium Sunday Evening
Community churches invite attendance at the high school auditorium for a Passion Week drama presented without royalty fees. Charles Rann Kennedy’s play is published by the University of Chicago Press. Directed by Mrs. T. Carl Holbrook with Rev. J. B. Lockyer and others. opening service by Rev. Albert Dawe. Doors at 8:00 p.m. Prompt attendance requested. children under twelve not advised.
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Charles Rann Kennedy
University of Chicago Press
T. Carl Holbrook
J. B. Lockyer
Frank Nash
Doris Gerow
Albert Dawe
Clare Study Club Entertained at Schaeffer Home
The Clare Study Club met March 1 at Mrs. Sarah Schaeffer’s pleasant home with Mrs. Susan Hall assisting. The day’s topic was International Relations. Members recited events. music by Elizabeth Feigh and Wilma Hochstetler featured two solos each. The first paper by Mrs. Stella Lampman discussed The Europe of Our Day with a Europe map, noting European cities resemble American ones but their countryside remains ancient. Geneva's international conference on an island near France is highlighted, including a Red Cross–hosted building that housed arbitration conferences that helped prevent wars.
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Clare Study Club
Sarah Schaeffer
Susan Hall
Wylie
Elizabeth Feighher
Wilma Hochstetler
Picardy
Stella Lampman
Europe
America
Geneva
Switzerland
France
Red Cross Society
Good Friday Service Plans in Clare with Seven Words
Clare churches unite for a citywide Good Friday service in the Methodist church from 1 15 to 3 00 pm guided by a state proclamation. The program features seven fifteen minute meditations with speakers including Miss Brackart Rev L Whitney Rev A Dawe Rev J B Lockyer and others and special music by a joint choir. Public encouraged to attend and invite friends while stores close 12 to 8 pm to honor the day.
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Chamber of Commerce
Clare
United Church
Miss Brackart
J. B. Lockyer
Local garage owner attends tire conference in Detroit
Robt Archambault of this city returned from Detroit where he attended a tire dealers conference sponsored by The B F Goodrich Rubber Company. He notes tires with lower pressures and improved flexibility are gaining favor and cites new Goodrich products including low pressure tires for small cars and colored tires for larger cars. The event highlighted aggressive merchandising and higher newspaper advertising budgets.
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Robt. Archambault
Detroit
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company
Bob
Goodrich Company
Goodrich
Silvertown
Dance Postponed by Mt. Vernon Grange to April 8
The Mt. Vernon Grange dance scheduled for tonight is postponed until April 8 due to Good Friday. Clare Sentinel readers in the community are kept informed through the local liner notices.
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Mt. Vernon Grange
Clare Sentinel
State park rumors denied Harrison park closure assured
Letter from George R. Hogarth director of the Michigan Department of Conservation to Senator Ben Carpenter of Harrison, dated March 21, 1982, states there is no plan to close the Harrison State Park despite funding constraints. The department regards Harrison park as a key link in the park system and will not close any important parks.
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Son
Carpenter
Harrison
Oil activity expands across Clare and Isabella counties
In Clare County farmers band together to lease 2000 acres to Wm. H. Caple for a well in 30 days. The Loverign well sits about 1000 feet from completion expected early this week. In Isabella County Mellon Pollock Co moves equipment to the Louis Thayer farm near Clare for well No. 2. Drillers at the Wilson well in Gilmore township reach 3500 feet in Traverse limestone.
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Sheridan
Wm. H. Caple
Loverign
Isabella County
Mellon Pollock Co
Louis Thayer
Clare
Wilson
Gilmore Township
Traverse
Auxiliary Ladies Sponsor Easter Breakfast for Members
The M. & Ladies Auxiliary hosted a nine o'clock Easter breakfast at the parsonage for members and guests. Under Mrs. Mabel Mulder’s direction tables featured orchid tulips and baby breath centerpieces with yellow dessert baskets. A brief program included solo by Mrs. Nina McGuire, a Easter poem by Mrs. Carl Holbrook, and Rev. Lockyer on extravagant love with handpainted crepe paper crosses by Mrs. Mulder.
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M. &. Ladies Auxiliary
Mabel Mulder
Nina McGuire
Carl Holbrook
Wbaster
Lockyer
Mulder
Haster
High School Students Prominent in Chamber March Program
Mrs. Thos W Brown longtime Vernon township resident died in Detroit after a long illness. Funeral services were held in Detroit and the body returned to Farwell for burial beside her husband at SURREY cemetery.
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Chamber OF Commerce
Thos. W. Brown
Vernon Township
A. Eschenbach
Detroit
Farwell
Surrey Cemetery
Clare Board names E D Kennedy as new city superintendent
At the Tuesday meeting Clare Board of Education selected E D Kennedy of Mt. Pleasant to lead the city schools next year. He succeeds G R Bagan whose resignation takes effect at year end. Kennedy, an educator and athletics supervisor, holds an A B from the C T C and will pursue a Masters. He led Remus Consolidated Schools with 350 pupils and eleven teachers. The Kennedys and their two children will move to Clare this summer.
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Clare Board of Education
E. D. Kennedy
Mt. Pleasant
G. R. Bagan
Kennedy
Clare
Remus
World War Vets Enjoy Banquet Monday Evening
Nearly one hundred World War Veterans from Clare Harrison Cole man gathered at the Masonic hall dining room Monday night for a fine banquet served by the Eastern Stars. Post Commander Omer Parent greeted guests warmly and praised committee chairmen for their work. George Sherwood led music with Geo Boyd and a high school band to break speeches, as the Walter H. Larman Post enjoyed a memorable evening.
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Clare
Harrison
Coleman
Masonic Hall
Omer Parent
Dr Clinton Furniss Opens Rosebush Practice
Dr Clinton C Furniss a Columbia University graduate opens a general practice at Rosebush after ten years in Plainfield New Jersey and also has worked in Pontiac Michigan He plans to focus on women and children's health and emergency cases and seeks patients across the north territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton C. Furniss
Columbia University
N. J
Rosebush
Plainfield
Pontiac
Michigan
Furniss
Lake City
Rosebush 8
Good Friday church service urged at Clare meeting
At the March Clare meeting held at Hotel Doherty forty seven members attended a supper. Nor ris Elden led community songs and Geo White presided. Members endorsed a request from Clare ministers asking local business men to close for about two hours on Good Friday afternoon to aid in interdenominational services at the M. E. and St Cecilia churches. The meeting also discussed sponsoring Boy Scouts work under Mr. Cont. Continued on Page Te.
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A.vvery
Doherty
Norris Elden
Geo. White
Clare
Boy Scouts
Cont.nued
Memorial tribute paid for Isabella County Bar
A memorial service was held in Mt. Pleasant in the Coit House courtroom at 1:30 p.m. for five deceased Isabella County attorneys Fred Russell Frank W Burwash Frank H Duesenbury Herbert Sanford and Francis McNarmara. Invited members from Clare Midland Mecosta and Gratiot counties attended along with relatives. Photographs of the five were unveiled and presented to court by Isabella bar members.
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Isabella County Barner
Coit
Clare
Midland
Mecosta
Gratiot
Isabella
Clare County
Pleasant
Ray Hart
Gerald J. Cotter
Isabella County
Isabella Bar
Jos, Schnitzer
Virgil McClintic
Jas. B. Ryan
Hugh A. Graham
Francis H. Dodds
Clare Mayor Nomination Acknowledgement by J. A. Wilson
The Democratic caucus of Clare nominates J A Wilson for mayor. He thanks supporters, notes time constraints, and pledges an economic business administration of city affairs. He urges voters to endorse the ticket for responsible leadership.
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Clare
J. AH. Wilson
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Circuit Court
Zenobia Chapter
Order of the Eastern Stars
Jesse Hampton
Harry Cudney
Charles Thurston
John Nelson
M. R. Howlett
L. B. McCulloch
Bb. W. Brown
May Shuniwney
Aphia Lewis
Matlie Kane
Mahel Horton
Ida McLeod
Alice B. Doherty
Ada Hochstetler
Myra <Asline
Caroline Kemp
Annabelle Hampton
Louisa Rogers
Virginia Koch
Wilma Hochster
THE
Ideal Theatre
Mrs
Schaeffer
Mesdames Lampman
Aldread
Tire CO
State Park
Recreation Center
State of Michigan Department of Conservation
Ben. Carpenter
Harrison, Mich
George R. Hogarth
Thos. Brown
Board OF Education
Leslie P. Kergen
Clare Attorneys
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