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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1938
Page
3
The Clare High Journalism class of 1937 publishes an inexpensive annual intended as a keepsake for all seniors and enrollees. The edition promises bigger pictures and a better overall format and stresses it should be kept as a final summary of the school year.
A May 9 assembly in the Auditorium featured a new sound motion picture unit bought by the Student Council and the Varsity Club. The film showed automobile manufacturing phases from proving grounds to factories and safety devices in today’s cars.
New additions include Front Page Story Rich Land Poor Land Stunts and Tumbling Youth at The Wheel Petticoat Vagabond Queen Elizabeth Complete Lord Peter Mysteries Three In A Trailer How They Started Gold of Ophir Animals of America The 1938 Americana Annual covers every major world event of 1937.
E D Kennedy born November 12 1900 near Shepherd Michigan. He taught in Isabella County and Rudyard Bannister Remus before becoming Clare superintendent in 1932. He earned a BA in 1931 and a MA in 1938 later loving reading pictures and basketball.
Mr. Frank Jankowski of Lake City Michigan spoke in the auditorium on the importance of milk. He urged sanitation and covered milk care including conditions cooling processes degree of heat and other details as a member of the State Department of Agriculture.
The Pioneers defeated Reed City 2-0 in doubles while losing all three singles 6-3. The margin suggests inexperience. with more practice the team may improve in future matches.
A joint French and Latin class assembly was staged in the auditorium on Friday May 13. The program explored how Latin contributed to other languages through entertaining presentations and demonstrations.
The fifth grade sewing and modeling clubs raised funds by selling candy to cover their class trip to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The group attended the show on the first day of its Clare run, Saturday May 7.
Sophomores held a class meeting and chose Dive and gray as colors. The class motto is Today we follow, tomorrow we lead. Snapdragons were chosen as the class flower.
On May 30 the Walter H. Larman Post of the American Legion will supervise a cemetery program honoring war veterans and the dead. The American Legion Drum and Bugle corps aided by the Clare High School band will lead a parade to the cemetery with a distinguished Michigan speaker as the main orator. Clare Public School students are asked to assist in the program’s success.
A large band festival will be held Saturday May 28 in Clare City Park. Twelve bands led by the Clare High Pioneer band will gather from Bay City Hastern Jr High Helenville Elkton Ithaca Mt Pleasant St Johns Midland Alma Mecosta Reed City and St Louis to be directed by George Amos of Western State Teachers College.
The Clare High faculty organized an April 28 assembly featuring two short plays The Unicorn and the Fish and Three's a Crowd. Characters included Mr Bates Miss Alrey Miss Hoyle Mr Hansen Mr Lowrey Eddie Clute Miss Hornbeck Miss Waite and Mr Greenfield. The performances impressed students who were unaware of the faculty's theatrical talent.
The first annual Music Festival of Clare County Rural Schools was held Tuesday evening May 10 at the Harrison Community Building. The Clare High School band performed K Merch Pomp and Chivalry and Day in the Cotton Field.
A school column warns that items in lockers could cause injury and urges students to clean out lockers. The piece jokes about a hypothetical stranger and suggests wearing helmets, stressing a clean hall improves safety and protects the school's name.
Tri County Health Unit warns no infantile paralysis cases in 1938 yet but anticipates summer activity. The article explains polio spread and symptoms, stresses bed rest and medical supervision, and urges schools to limit gatherings during epidemics. It also notes obituaries and local social updates for Rosebush and Vernon communities.
Paul Showerman oldest son of Mr and Mrs Court Showerman was killed in an automobile accident on May 7 in Colorado. He was born August 27 1917 in Jonfa Michigan and worked as assistant to the superintendent on the Santa Fe Railroad. Funeral at St Henrys Vernon with Fr Tomaszewski officiating and burial in St Henrys Cemetery. He is survived by his parents four brothers Gordon Harold Donald Joey and two sisters Ruth and Jane. one sister had died earlier.
The Houghton Lake Tree planting program advances with four crews in the field this past week under Emmett Sullivan Brady Clark Norman Billings and Tom Belt. Total trees planted reach 64580 including 2290 Norway pine and 32290 Jack Pine. Latrines at Lake City Park progressing smoothly under Emmett Sullivan and Ernest Hanna. Pipeline laid and building about two thirds complete, ready for touring public soon.
A fragmented text suggests scientists believe Africa and India were once connected in a supercontinent called Gondwanaland spanning parts of West Australia and Brazil. The note is incomplete but implies continental union in the distant past.
A robin at Crystal Falls returns to the courthouse grounds with three red youngsters from last summer. Grandville shifts to a Democratic supervisor for the first time in 50 years as H. J. Wierenga joins the township board. Harbor Springs reports a big ice fishing catch but the one that got away left some gear behind. Alden notes two meteor fragments near Torch Lake with authenticity yet to be proven. Dowagine mentions sleighs still in use after a collision injures Mrs. Guy Quimby near Coldwater. Clare covers John Rodabaugh nursing four unclaimed cub bears, teeth marks proving mischief. Harlem reports twelve residents living in a private Jackson railroad car. Manton firemen respond to a roof fire, first in over a year, while Take Wheels notes thieves removing four car wheels in Trenton.
The Michigan State Board of Registration for Architects Engineers and Land Surveyors announces the next examinations. Architects will be tested at the University of Michigan and University of Detroit. Engineers and Land Surveyors will be tested at University of Michigan University of Detroit Michigan State College and Michigan College of Mining and Technology on June 20 21 and 22 1938. Application blanks and full information are available from the Board at 306 Transportation Building Detroit.
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