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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1939
Page
2
Clare High, led by Coach Brown, expands visual education with a sound projector, camera, slide projector, microphone, and radio pickup funded by the Athletic Board and Student Council. A scheduled series of educational films is shown regularly in the school.
Vernon Stevens and Vern Stevens of Pontiac hosted guests including Mr and Mrs Ernest Stevens and relatives from Flint Mt Morris and Jackson. The gathering at Dr and Mrs Chas Stirling included Miss Mildred Stirling and Will Teale and family. Families from Roscommon Marion Coleman Toledo gathered, sharing ice cream and cake at times. Funeral attendance drew Wm Apel and Oren Agle from Toledo for their uncle John Hawkey, with Mrs Susan Walker visiting them afterward.
The page lists numerous visits and gatherings as families from Flint, Ithaca, Clare, Harrison, Gladwin, and nearby areas spend Mother's Day with relatives. Attendees include the Arrand and Hamilton families, Norman Jackson, Mrs. G Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Mer A Hamilton, and many others visiting homes in Darwell, Harrigan, Mt Pleasant, Farwell, and Clare.
Rural society highlights a busy weekend with farm talk and birthday anniversaries. Neighbors stop by for meals and visits as families like Rogers Wilson Bentley and Halstead share time at homes in Maple Grove Flint Lansing Pottersville and Stanton. Sick relatives Neal Wilson and Pearl Tryon recover while a string of kinship calls unfolds on Sunday.
Hinkleville Ma and Mrs Henry Hinkle of Surrey visited Fay Hinkle. Mr and Mrs Gordon McIntosh with Kittie McIntosh accompanied by A Sharland traveled to Mason then Jackson to fetch Mamie Chappel returning to Farwell. Hinkleville school kids staged a Mother's Day program with a potluck lunch and carnation gifts. The McIntosh group and daughter Alva Leg drove to Burt for a reunion and visited relatives near Burt Rim. Mrs John Sparbel returned from a two week visit in Big Rapids. The Sparbel party from Lausing joined later in the weekend.
Ferrell Corners residents Dr and Mrs R H Strange relocate to their summer home at Fowler Ore shards in Beason. Budd Stotler and daughter Luella traveled to Clare on business. Albert Kleiner visited family in Farwell. H G Kleekamp and Mike Forster paused weekend at Stump Hill Farm. W C Hay and James Kleekamp visited Clare. Pearl Myers and Bobby of Mt Pleasant spent time with Mr and Mrs Charles Gerber. Alex Strange stayed with James Kleekamp. sympathy sent to Mrs Earl Cradit on the death of her mother Mrs Allen. Callers at the Kleekamp home included Robert Carter and daughter Carolyn Nate Bicknell and Mt Pleasant visitors Mr and Mrs John Hartman and daughter.
Services at Gilmore Center Gilmore Church of Christ include song devotion communion sermon and Bible school led by James A. Stanley and Alvin Wood. No evening service due to Farwell baccalaureate. Baby girl welcomed by Arlie Renner. John Bankey dies at home. Local residents attend Central District convention in Shepherd with Ali Jarman Joe Pennick and Wayne Pitts.
Mrs Alice Ware and two daughters from Renisalier Ind visited last week at Mrs Jessie Daviss home along with Truman and daughter Marie. Numerous relatives gathered for Sunday dinner and other weekend visits including Delbert Sanders and Hazel, Genevieve Fancon and daughters, Willis Strange and family, Harold Mann and family, Walter Coley and Perry Daviss family. The Ladies Aid met with Martha Geiger and thirty five attended. School picnics closed Hardwood and Bush College terms with large crowds and bountiful dinners. Jesse Newman and Josie visited Glen Newman, while Eugene Walker Alvna and Bart Sanders hosted breakfast and later dinner with Sanders families.
A pastor urges readers to resist liquor and worldly pleasure, citing Jeremiah and Ephesians. He highlights three factors for a happy home: loyalty to family standards through the Rechabites, accuracy in daily living with Spirit guidance, and unity in the home under Christ, warning against alcohol’s ruinous impact and urging parental nurture.
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