Clare High School Band Concert Lights Up Auditorium
The 20th annual spring concert at Clare High School tonight features the Junior Band with 23 members and the Senior Band of 42 under Harold Collins. Senior performances include Bach and Strauss works, the Evangeline Overture, Pastel Moods, and the Star Spangled Banner, with the bands earning high sight reading and concert ratings in recent contests.
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Clare High School
Harold Collins
Ann Arbor
West
Jay Seiter
Rosalie Ahac
Laurene Woodward
Jack Mair
Beverly Brazie
Jim Finch
Connie Kappler
Helen Akins
Priscilla Tennant
Della Wilson
Larry Stanley
Jane Cotton
Jim Seiter
Glen Born
David Hughes
Vic Finch
Frank Brown
Virgina Haddox
Bruce Delamarter
Clay Hardman
Dick Roe Bells
Viola Middleton
Dana Collins
Majorette Twirl
Idell Urquhart
Margie Tomaski
Gloria Milholin
Sandra Young
Dinah Ruark
Eunice Demarest
Phyllis Hoover
Marilyn Seiter
Joyes Archambault
Bach
Buchtel
Tearkovsky
Valse Lynette
Vienna
Walters
Booster March
Betty, Bellows
Carol Wieferich
Emma Wilson
Nancy Bellows
Mary Hoersch
la Rae Dull
John Akins
Joyce Delamarter
4 H Exhibits Achievement Day Feature May 10
One hundred members of the Home Economics Extension groups heard Durward B. Warner of Michigan State College speak during the afternoon session of the annual Home Economics Achievement Day on Thursday May 10. Community singing was led by Mrs. Howard Morton. Offi cers of the county executive committee were installed by county chairman Mrs. Thomas Hecker. The Harrison High School Glee Club directed by Leonard Klassee closed the program with four numbers. Table decorations depicting the months of the year were arranged by local groups. Exhibits of work by members were on display.
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Durward B. Warner
Agricultural Economics Dept
Michigan State College
Howard Morton
Thomas Hecker
Harrison High School Glee Club
Leonard Klassee
Clare High Glee Club Sings at State Festival and Vesper Service
The Clare High School Glee Club directed by Miss Marilyn Rossetti earned an excellent rating at the District Music Festival in West Branch, earning a spot at the state festival in Mt. Pleasant. They performed solo and in massed choirs, then joined Vesper Services for the Class of 1951 with a May 25 awards program to follow.
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Clare High School Glee Club
Marilyn Rossetti
West Branch
Mt. Pleasant
Farwell Rural School Holds Sixty-First Commencement
Thirty-one seniors graduate from Farwell Rural Agricultural School in a May 18 ceremony at eight o'clock marking the institution’s sixty first commencement anniversary. Speaker Stephen Nisbet of the State Board of Education delivers Channel Lights. Valedictory by Sharon Hulin, salutatory by Thelma Penny, diplomas presented by principal P. S. Killoran. prior events included Baccalaureate and Class Night.
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Farwell Rural Agricultural School
Stephen §. Nisbet
State Board of Education
Gerber Foods
Sharon Hulin
Thelma Penny
Richard Bogan
P. S. Killoran
Former Rural School Pupils Honored Here
The Clare High School auditorium hosted a packed eighth grade graduation ceremony as the County Schools celebrated a milestone. Certificates of Achievement went to Junior Malosh and Mrs Coloma Leitner for outstanding work in education and nursing respectively. fifty seven students earned certificates enabling entry to Michigan ninth grades. The Farwell Glee Club performed with Mrs. Graham and Emil Pfister providing musical elements. A committee including Irene Clute and Margaret Mickle handled arrangements. Rev Hiza Beery delivered the invocation and benediction as the County School Board praised the event.
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Clare High School
Thea County School Board
Robert Carter
Leonard Jackson
Vic
Arthur Lower
Howard Hradleys
Junior Malosh
Lake
Coloma Leitner
State of
Michigan
Farwell
Graham
Twila Beery
Hagie
Emil Pfister
Central College
Irene Clute
Margaret Mickle
Freda Wistler
Clarice Bellows
Jessica Thomas
Hiza Beery
Nagle
Heng and West plead guilty in circuit court
Sarah Ellen Heng and George West both of Clare pleaded guilty to lewd and lascivious cohabitation before Judge Donald E. Holbrook in circuit court Monday. The case was referred to a probation officer for investigation before sentence. The People vs. Sarah Bien Heng was dismissed after the complainant withdrew. Myrtle Shumway, charged with assault with intent to commit murder, was granted counsel. examination held, she bound over on $2,000 bond. Forrest Strong of Lake arraigned on statutory rape. Armand Hagen arraigned on forgery and to take polygraph tests next week. John Flowers restitution made for check issue. Clifton Blackledge arrested for non-support, bond set at $200.
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Sarah Ellen Heng
George West
Clare
Donald E. Holbrook
Morris W. Shaw
the People
Sarah Bien Heng
The
People
Myrtle Shumway
Glenn Sherman
Donald Richardson
Atty
Robert Campbell
Forrest Strong
Lake
Armand Hagen
Harrison
Holbrook
Edmund J. Sujkowski
Lansing
John Flowers
Gladwin
Clifton Blackledge
Auburn Heights
Seaver Amble
Donna Updyke
Wm. B. Dunlop
Clare County Softball League Prepares Season Opener
Clare County Softball Association officials met at the Clare Public School to organize the summer program at the athletic field. Three committees were formed to hire a manager and set rosters. Teams expected include Brown and Brookhart, Clare Manufacturing Co, DeMolay, Farwell, Dover, and Dana McDonald.
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Clare Public School
Clare County Softball Association
Jeff Willey
Fowler Noble
Leo Brown
Brown & Bru¢kart
Clare Manufacturing Company
DeMolay, Farwell, Dover
Dana McDoniald
Isabella County Pioneer Mrs Fame Finch Dies at Home
Mrs. Mary Finch longtime Isabella county resident died Sunday morning at her daughter Hattie Porter's home on West Fifth Street after eight months in ill health. She was 93 and survived by daughter granddaughter and husband C D Bayes, grandson and wife Raymond Bluebaker and others. Funeral services were held at Stephenson Funeral Home with Rev. Oscar W Olson, burial Salt River Cemetery, Shepherd.
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Mary Finch
Isabella County
Hattie Porter
West Fifth St
Finch
Mary MacCumber
Daniel MacCumber
Napanee
Ontario
Clare
Michigan
Isabela County
Shepherd
C. D. Bayes
Raymond Bluebaker
Toledo
Ohio
Stephenson Funeral Home
Oscar W. Olson
Salt River Cemetery
Paving Projects Advance Amid Bridge Work And Utilities
The Harold Parsons bridge crew finished reinforcing steel and tunnel form erection for Little Tobacco Creek and prepared to pour concrete. Storm sewers near finished. curb forms laid on West Fifth Street. gravel hauled to a Cour Street central plant. West Fifth Street paving to start. water and sewer lines upgraded, detours in place as South McEwan Street paving approaches.
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Harold Parsons
Little Tobacco Creek
L. W. Edison
West Fifth St
Cour St
South McEwan St
North
McEwan St
Beautiful Painting To Be Unveiled At Methodist Church
A 54 by 37 inch oil reproduction of Hoffman’s Christ Preaching From a Boat will be unveiled at Clare Methodist Church on Sunday May 20 at 8:00 p m by the High School Hustler's Class. The painting will hang in the church parlor after the ceremony and a 40 minute film In His Name will be shown with music by the church choir. Rev Leslie J Nevins and Courtney Bauer arranged transport from Detroit. the painting will arrive by truck in time for the service.
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Hoffman
Christ
Clare Methodist Church
Jesus
Sea of Galilee
Harry Dice
Leslie J. Nevins
Courtney Bauer
Clare
Dan Moon
Mt. Pleasant
Detroit
Stinson
New School Dedication Open House Marks Bond Completion
Clare residents and nearby neighbors may tour the modern school addition Monday at eight after a dedication program in the auditorium. A bond burning ceremony will retire the old building debt as former board members and superintendents are recognized. Clare High School bands and guests will attend as the public views six new classrooms, a cafeteria, band and shop spaces, and agriculture and vocational rooms.
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Clare
Clare School Board
Clare School
Clair Taylor
Lansing
Clare High School
Harold Collins
Carleton Garthe
Collins
Saginaw Pastor To Speak Here Sunday
Rev. A. C. Howards of Grace Baptist Church Saginaw will deliver sermons at Clare Baptist Church next Sunday both morning and evening. Visitors and tourists welcome.
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Saginaw
A. C. Howards
Grace Baptist Church of
Clare Baptist Church
Lorraine Schultz Wins Scholarship at Adrian College Honors Convocation
Lorraine Schultz, a sophomore at Adrian College, received the Illinois Conference Memorial Scholarship at the Honors Convocation. She also helped her quartet win a special award at the All College Sing night.
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Lorraine Schultz
Adrian College
Lorraine
4-H Club Scrap Paper Drive Planned for May 26
The 4 H Club calls on members to collect scrap paper next Saturday May 26. Notify your local committee or leader if you have paper for the drive.
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4-H Club
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Janet Bradley
Barbara Schunk
Betty Gallager
Barbara Thatcher
Wayne Cotton
Ann Lynn Bayes
Marilyn Masten
Irvin Ruby
Darlene Lear
Laureen Seiter
Leon Dull
Dick Haynak
Robert Ivers
Mary Murphy
Joleen Wallace
Barbara Heineke
Myrna Bergey
Marilyn Brewer
Ronald Chapman
Sally Gillespie
Jean Hall
Janice Jackson
Janet Shaver
Jane Bicknell
Gala Hochstetler
John Bicknell
Patsy Cox
Joyce Thayer
Sandra Schultz
Bob Haynak
Nancy Neff
Janet Schaeffer
Donna Smith
Larry Price
Bonnie Witback
High School Glee Club
Mr. Garthe
Bill Schug
Ron Cook
Heng
Methodist Church
Merle J. Samborn
Jimmy Norcutt
Billy Legge
Delbert Nolan
Ruth Janet Schroeder
Linda Blystone
Ann Kay Hiden
Lee Sowle
O. D. Bayes
Stuart Bicknell
Earl Ruby
Dr. C. B. Neff
Harrison Poe
Rosebush
Josephine Brighenti
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