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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1934
Page
11
The note lists a Monday night meeting for the K of P lodge and Pythian Sisters, a Memorial Day program with basket lunch and coffee, and a noon park dinner. It also mentions multiple train schedules with west east north and south routes and various local visits and social events across Saginaw Clare and surrounding towns.
The Church of God schedules Sunday School at 10 80, preaching at 11 30 and a Young People's meeting at 7 30. June House hosts a 8 00 p m preaching service with cottage prayer meetings Wednesdays at 8 00. Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints lists Sunday School at 10 30 and prayer at 11 30 with Women's Department every other Thursday at 2 00 p m. Christian Legion details to be posted in local items. Everyone welcome.
Rev John Lockyer reports time adjustments for the next two Sundays with church school at 9 45 preaching at 10 45 and evening service at 7 30 Mrs Clapp from Reed City will share experiences from Palestine with a Syrian woman discussing New Testament passages and dress in Palestinian costume a gifted speaker See general program for more notices
Local column records Sunday visits and weekend travels. Names include Mr. and Mrs. Charles Graham at Lake with Forest Howell, Edith Stinchcombe returning from Big Rapids, and many others from Detroit Flint Clare and Gaylord visiting relatives and friends across towns.
A Farwell couple Mr and Mrs Frank Rawson hosted a family gathering last Sunday to mark their fortieth anniversary. Ten children and twenty one grandchildren attended along with relatives from Detroit Saginaw Vernon Flint Bannister and Gilmore. A noon pot luck dinner and homemade desserts followed by well wishes for many more happy years.
A large crowd at the M. H. church heard Dr Thrall of Big Rapids speak to the 1934 graduation class on The Breadth of the Narrow Way. He critiqued broad mindedness and urged open minds only toward better things for a happy useful life. The Glso Club directed by Mrs Madge Lamb sang two selections.
White sweet clover is a good variety to use for plowing under and yields ranker growth. It may be sown any time until mid summer. earlier sowing increases fall growth. Being biennial it needs two years to reach full vigor and seed production, so the heaviest growth occurs in the early part of the second season. The best time to plow it down is when plants stand eight to twenty inches high.
Workmen on Mt Horquera in Cordova uncover Visigothic burial grounds listing eighteen sepulchers with warrior relics and artifacts.
Farwell church members plan a Golden Jubilee May 27 to June 7 1934 to celebrate fifty years of service with a program including sermons Rev L E Holmes a Palestinian costume event by Mrs F C Clapp and a community concert. The history notes founders J L Littlefield Elisha White and others and lists past pastors and long serving leaders.
Local Clare Sentinel liner invites readers to place selling notices next week and promises quick results from the Sentinel classifieds.
Farwell Woman's Club met Tuesday for a pot supper at Dr and Mrs Lambs Lake cottage. Twenty one members attended with guests. Members read poems and papers on prominent women in politics while prizes were awarded and a year end financial report given. A picnic and dollar earning plan for auditorium funds were announced with adjournment until September.
Dr B F Phillips of Cornell says honey profits lure people to keep bees and pollination is essential for fruit growers. Last year 600 bee colonies were imported to Niagara county alone to aid fruit crops and farmers rent colonies elsewhere. Bees yield a $2,000,000 honey crop and pollinate more than one third of New York apple production.
The data note 1933 meat consumption exceeding 45 billion pounds. Utah sugar beet shipments rose 10 percent from 1932. Ohio electric service grew from 16 000 farms in 1923 to 48 000 in 1933. Barberry eradication occurred on 575 properties in 26 counties. Beef cattle marketing cautions warn against carrying beyond 1 000 to 1 100 pounds. Over 90 percent of flax was grown in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Montana.
Probate Court of Clare County Michigan sets four months from May 25 1934 for creditors to file claims against Frank Newsom deceased. Claims due by September 19 1934 and will be heard September 26 1934 at 10 a.m. at Harrison probate office. Judge Thos. Dorsey presiding.
A collage of short items reports deaths after a roof fall, farm chick losses from a fire, a Canadian inheritance hoax, a major oil truck wreck on M-21, and a large public works bond vote cost. Also noted are a double funeral in Petoskey, leukemia transfusion for a toddler, state tax allocations, unlicensed aircraft bans, a blind Mt. Clemens student’s toothy progress, a Kalamazoo wheel incident, a Harbor Beach drowning, a proposed $500000 gas pipeline, and a school fund reduction with tax-rate shifts.
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