Community Notes Full of Mother's Day Visits and Travel
Residents and visitors fill pages with family gatherings and trips. The list includes Mrs. Dorothy Jean Carey en route to Nashville, Supt. Chas. Amble at a Reed City meeting, and many relatives visiting and dining in Clare, Marion, St Louis, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jas. Whitmer
Patricia Carey
Dorothy Jean Carey
Lansing
Nashville
Tenn
Dorothy Jean
Ann Arbor
Sam Morrison
Supt
Chas. Amble
Northland
Carl Lindstrom
Albert Bruce
Cadillac
Marion
Wm. Dilloway
Delma Miller
Richard Larvie
Roscommon
Henry Weiber
Bayonne
N. J
Ida Tooley
Albert Whitmer
Anna Gens
Barbara Holcomb
Reed City
Nellie Sharp
Kalamazoo
Ehner Ampble
Edgar Bringman
Bert I. Landers
Milton Bringman
Frost Township
EB. G. Oliver
Montrose
Lee J. Bowerman
Kathleen Ashcraft
Chas. Ashcraft
Temple
Robert Brown
Max Carey
Newaygo
Patricia
Clare
Mt. Pleasant
Virgil Oman
Detroit
Peter Oman
Herman Dyke
Waverly
Ohio
John Cook
von Cook
Harrison High Band at Northwestern Michigan Festival
Harrison High School band journeyed to Big Rapids on May 8 for the Northwestern Michigan Band Festival with about 400 students across eleven bands. They rehearsed, marched through Big Rapids, and performed in a mass rehearsal and evening concert under Mark Hindsley of the University of Illinois Band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison High School
Big Rapids
Mark Hindsley
University of Illinois
Henri Fillmore
Paul Yoder
Detroit baseball clinic draws thirty boys and Tigers players
About thirty boys traveled to Detroit Saturday for the annual baseball clinic sponsored by the Detroit Baseball Club. They enjoyed talking with Tiger players and in the afternoon attended the Detroit Chicago game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Detroit Baseball Club
Tiger
Kindergarten First Grade Work Toward Year End
The First Grade reads Good Stories and The Wishing Well and Down the River Road as work books near completion. Students made Mother’s Day cards and some girls attended a Mother and Daughter Banquet. Kindergarten dramatizations and personal Mother’s Day books are also noted. Third graders begin studying division.
Spring Art Day and Tap Dance Mentioned at School
Students drew pictures of spring and made Mother's Day cards in art class. Kay Pardue and Martha Burkhalter performed a tap dance for the class. Kenny Cook has chickenpox and will miss days. Wayne Wright left for Deys Valley Pennsylvania, and classmates miss him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kay Pardue
Martha Burkhalter
Kenny Cook
Wayne Wright
Dey's Valley
Pennsylvania
Fifth and Sixth Grades Band Meet and Poetry Count
The sixth grade has learning 85 poems for a poem book contest. Bob Amble and Joan Clapp attended the Big Rapids band meet Wednesday with George Seelinger as spectator. Superintendent Mrs Amble and Karoyn joined the evening section. The class finished electricity study Friday and studies barn swallow in Audubon Club. Mary Fanning gave a Guam geography talk Friday. The grade has five pages left in arithmetic and wonders about finishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Rapids
Bob Amble
Joan Clapp
George Seelinger
Guam
Eighth Grade Study Focuses On Math Civics and Reading
The class reviews arithmetic formulas and English needs while outlining civics units. They study school districts towns counties and states and begin a U S unit. Autobiographies and book reports are being handed in as history and civics notebooks near due dates for final tests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Freshmen Night Social Held May 3 At Arnold Laks
A Wilda Hecker led group hosted a wienie toast for the freshmen class on Friday night May 3 at Arnold Laks. After a large share of wieners the group played games and continued the evening's fun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilda Hecker
Arnold Laks
School Picnic Plans and Return to Classes
The class plans a picnic at Arnold Lake on Thursday May 16. We are glad Bert Lindsey is home and hope to see him up and around soon. Kathryn Wright returns to school after a week’s absence while students work on five perfect English compositions this term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lila, Pifer
Wilda Hecker
Helena Bowerman
Bob Brown
Howard Charette
Bonna Kay Mason
Doris Trowbridge
Helen Bowerman
Irene Brandon
Delma Miller
Detroit
Arnold Lake
Bert
Lindsey
Kathryn Wright
Mother's Day Guests Spread Across Vernon Area
Vernon city and surrounding communities welcomed multiple visitors and family gatherings on Mother's Day weekend. Residents hosted relatives from Gladwin Central Lake Detroit Pontiac Clare and Mason while trips carried arrivals from Lansing Green ville and New Straitsville Ohio to Vernon and Rosebush areas for family time and weekend hosting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Becker
Thomas
Marshall Lynk
Gladwin
Emron Jones
Amy Jones
Central Lake
Bonnie Jean
Don Swindlehurst
Mt. Pleasant
Margaret Funnell
George Snider
Frank Snider
Lake Marerethe
Grayling
Detroit
Frank Pringle
Donna Mae Siel
Sheridan
Mary Herron
Norman Eddy
Mason
Thomas Bolen
William Archambault
Clare
Martin Heiser
Randy
Lansing
C. A. Heiser
C. Jd. Goffirett
Pontiac
Eli Fisher
George Bryant
Ernie Cleveland
Joyce
Shirley Randall
Eola McDonel
Clarence Randall
Vernon
Edward Underwood
John Underwood
Clifford Gottke
New Straitsville
Ohio
Jackson
Howard Folkler
Ernest Aiey
Raymond Pryor
Edgar Park
Beaverton
Asa Park
Weekend Visits Across Towns Highlight Local Socials
Standish and Flint residents joined local families over the weekend in extended visits. Detailing callers and hosts, the notes recount gatherings at Pontiac Clare Rosebush Farwell and LeRoy, with travel to Sparta and Long Beach, California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standish
William Park
Flint
Donald Bryant
Little
Pontiac
George Bryant
Ivan Smith
Farwell
Wilford Siel
Vernon
Eola McDonel
Clifford Powlison
Lake
Margaret Briggs
Arthur Ginn
Byron
Clare
John Schultz
Blake Marlin
Detroit
Fred Smith
Eugene
Dave Teale
Frank Bowen
Bob
Bariene
Gladwin
Thomas Bolen
Alice Erter
Erwin Fuller
Mt. Pleasant
Warren Heiser
C. A. Heiser
Edward Underwood
Rosebush
Nova West
Frank Nevins
Joyce Ann
Alya McReynolds
Colonville
Margaret Funnell
Peggy
Vern Funnell
Forest Lieckert
Jim Blackmore
Georgia
LeRoy
Schultz
Paul B. Hall
Long Beach
California
Hall
Finest Rhododendrons Named by Nature Magazine
In the northern Allegheny region the finest rhododendron is the American rhododendron or rose bay. The best southern species is the California rhododendron, praised for its color and vigor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allegheny
Rose Bay
Nature Magazine
California
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Myrtle Smith
Cedar Springs
al. ¥. Simmonds
Grand Rapids
Bill Allen
Breckenridge
Wallace Peckinpaugh
Gail Brooks
St. Louis
Tim Graves
Forest Ruby
Anna Wells
Mary Omah
Lewis Oman
Roy Eaton
Fred Jones
Summerfield Township
Dale Giles
Roy Preston
Ewart
Pearl Pidd
Leota Green
Pearl Heisman
Midland
Maud Harper
Pearl Clute
Mur
David Harper
Ann Wellington
Irah Emery
Belding
Sterling
Frank Hochstetler
Wm. Henderson
Mary Joyner
Gordon McIntosh
John Axtell
Mt. Treasant
Hayes Township
Jay Clute
Geo. Balmer
Columbus Grove
Susie Lugibill
A. C. Lugibill
Mary Balmer
Bluffton
Lugibill
Ellis H. Flughes
Carl Mavis
Long Lake
Garfield Light
Traer
Iowa
Basil Manley
Great Lakes
Wesley Skinner
Hills H. Hughes
Ethel Lyons
Lillian Alkire
Donna Hawley
Bay City
Leo Skinner
Marie Skinner
David Bailey
Nelson Provoast
Whittemore
Guy Light
Whilden Hughes
Arden Light
John Raspot
Saginaw
Earl Thomas
Ronald Langworthy
Leslie Gardner
Norman Gardner
Eldon Head
Dwart
Edith Russell
Brice Russell
Frank Totten
Fred Phelipp
Ben. Carpenter
Dan McDonald
Michigan
Undertakers
Vernon City
Isabella-Clare
London
Clare County
Republican
Uly Gifis
Fifth Street
H. M. Everts
Dunlop
Clare, Michigan
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