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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1958
Page
1
The Tri-county Health Department opens a county wide TB skin testing clinic this month to screen hundreds of adults. The effort, begun in April in Clare County schools, aims to find early TB and prevent its spread with public cooperation.
Teen drivers from Clare Cole man Farwell and Harrison areas will line up at 1 p.m. on Saturday May 10 for the first Teenage Road-E-O test at the Clare school athletic field sponsored by the Clare Junior Chamber of Commerce. Twenty four contestants under 20 will compete for top honors and a possible expense paid trip to the Michigan finals.
The Bridge on the River Kwai stars William Holden Alec Guinness Jack Hawkins in Cinema Scope and Technicolor. A Sam Spiegel production shot in Ceylon and Malaya with James Donald Sessue Hayakawa Ann Sears Geoffrey Horne. based on Pierre Boulle novel. A $3,000,000 war drama directed by David Lean.
A surprise party honored retired railroad worker Emmit Holmes at his Lake Michigan home on May 2 with twenty three guests. Attendees included C. L. McGrain C and O Saginaw division superintendent Jake Walker and Roy Kinsey among rail workers from Saginaw to Scottville. Mr Holmes received a fifty dollar gift purse.
The Clare-Isabella District Nurses Association held a May 7 meeting at Embers in Mt Pleasant with 51 members. Special guests Miss Hazel Gabrielson and Miss Ella Trump spoke on district achievements and state association efforts.
Omitted items from the Filled Up Lotal area column and other news were crowded out by a late surge in space orders. What remains will be published in next week's issue.
The Men's Twin Elvis Monday Golf League starts regular match play on May 19 per an announcement by course owner Chris Demo. Don Richardson, secretary, seeks return of postcards with paired golfers and invites singles to leave names at the club to find partners.
St John’s Lutheran Church Clare hosts the Concert Choir of Michigan Lutheran Seminary Saginaw on Sunday May 11 at 9:00 a.m. under Prof Meilahn Zahn. The choir’s spring tour includes northern Michigan Canada and Wisconsin. Rev Voss will deliver the Mother Love sermon. the ladies aid provides breakfast after the service.
The Congregational Womens Fellowship met in church parlors with President Mrs. William Harper in charge. War brides Mrs. Elton Barber and Mrs. Ferguson spoke on Japanese customs and Scripture in Japanese. Plans included continuing nursery, revising state constitution notes, and June 2 meeting date.
Clare Chapter Blue Star Mothers visited Saginaw Veterans Hospital with Ruth Herron Winifred Reeder Bertha Cappaert Helen Cleveland Bessie DeFoy and Mildred Skolenda. They spent time with Kenneth Fmiiard a Clare veteran patient and donated lap robes magazines and books from the James Reeder Chapter while distributing cigarettes to patients in need.
Word reached family and friends that Clement LeRoy Coulter died Tuesday night in Flint. Last rites are scheduled for Friday afternoon at Grove Funeral Home in Flint.
Mayor Gerald Nivison announced appointments to key posts in Clare including City Manager Willard Wedge and City Attorney Harold Hughes while pending final selections for Police Chief, Fire Chief, Assessor, and City Clerk. Completion of Board and commission appointments remains forthcoming with zoning plans to be filled from Clare Chamber list.
A large audience attended the Methodist WSCS Mother Daughter banquet at Clare IOOF hall on April 30. Rebekahs hosted the event with Maypole decor, bluebirds, and pussy willows. Readings, toasts by Gail Samborn and Joyce Delamarter, and tributes to mothers and grandmothers highlighted the program.
An appeal to fathers and other sports minded men to volunteer for coaching umpiring and park support was made by Ray Owens and Jay Green Jr as the Clare and a tea boys program prepares to begin. Contact the organizers to lend a hand.
The Lake Michigan school will hold a kindergarten registration on Tuesday May 13 from 1 to 3 PM for next year’s entrants. Current kindergartners will not attend that day, per the principal.
A large Clare Chamber of Commerce banquet celebrated Art Damoth as Citizen of the Year and Postmaster Frank Jackson as Official of the Year. The event honored two Clare citizens, with remarks by Hon. George Teale of Marlette and entertainment by the Northernaires.
The Clare Study Club staged a dinner and fashion show at the Hotel Doherty Wedgewood room drawing 73 members and guests. Mrs. Mabel Mulder gave grace. corsages honored three members. Mrs. Walter Eroh announced gifts for two years of service. Mrs. George Beck presented the fashion program tracing outfits from 1875 to 1958 with piano by Harold Hughes.
Horace Fancon as noble grand led the Clare IOOF meeting on Tuesday night with the fish supper planned for Friday. Ernest Irwin Harley Holt Ernest Green and Jim Yeoman head the dining room committee while Joe Swain handles parking. Many members expect to attend the Chippewa Central Association event in Big Rapids Saturday with Mt. Pleasant lodge initiating fifty candidates and Grand Lodge officers attending.
Organization advances with a Pony League for boys aged 18 to 15. Chris Smith is president, Junior Eberhart vice president, Carl Gruno secretary treasurer. Membership cards available at the County Selective Service office, Green Clothing store, and Clare Hardware.
The Girl Scouts of Troop No 5 celebrate their second anniversary after a regular meeting on Wednesday April 30. Acting hostesses Karen Sue Day and Karen Schleichter served cupcakes with candles as Ruth Sutton Loomis was invested as a new charter member by Mrs Colie Dixon.
Clare Chamber of Commerce officers report the current campaign has 110 memberships sold with a large list of prospects. Dues in the 1958 drive total near $2,200, compared with last year’s record drive of 185 joiners and about $2,600.
The Zenobia Chapter CBS held its Thursday session with Mrs Faye Stephenson and Frank Poet as officers. Invitations from Coleman for Friends Night May and Alice L Seeley Chapter at Farwell were read. A May 15 initiation special meeting was announced.
Guy L. Haneckow 20 of Harrison confessed to stealing 728 dollars in cash and checks from the Feller store where he had worked until two weeks before. He passed a lie detector test at the Bay City State Police post and was ordered held for circuit court with bail set at 2000 dollars.
Clare VFW Auxiliary held an officer election on April 16 listing Flor ence Corsaut as president Ida Mary Loomis senior vice president Doris Tomaski junior vice president Hazel Gillis treasurer Yella Wisler secretary Ruth Herron chaplain Bertha Cappaert guard Clarice Bellows conductress Jean Cerny Helen Cleveland Mary Karash Frances Tomaski Ida Mary Loomis installation officer and refreshments by Isabel Cooper Ida Loomis and Clarice Bellows. May 4 Florence Cornut Clarice Bellows Hazel Gillis and Doris Tomaski attended a district meeting at Tawas where Clarice Bellows was chosen assistant conductress for the district.
The Clare County Republican Women’s Club met at Mrs. Harold Schaeffer’s home on Monday evening May 5. President Mrs. Erma Byers led the session with an invocation by Mrs. Mabel Mulder. Miss Jean Backus of Owasco spoke on upcoming August and November elections and the work ahead, also conducting a quiz contest. Mrs. Byers was chosen to represent the club at the Spring Conference in Port Huron June 11-12. The next meeting is June 9 at the Clare County Jail with Mrs. Esther Darting as hostess.
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