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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1945
Page
8
The Sentinel requires all overseas armed forces members to request new subscriptions or renewals in writing signed by the addressee. Requests will be filed in the Sentinel office for postal inspection.
Fragmentary note appears to reference Fut 160 and a unit at Camp Blanding Florida with numeric codes and a weapon or equipment descriptor. Details are illegible. no clear event or persons can be identified from the text.
Mr and Mrs Meth Brown learn their son Pfe Ronald D Brown arrived in the South Pacific Theater. Arthur Johnson QM 2/c receives a promotion certificate to Quartermaster Second Class, same rating as Petty Officer Second Class, recounting service in Okinawa waters.
Lt. Louis C. Wasson 88 of Clare Michigan has reached Army Air Forces Redistribution Station No 2 in Miami Beach for reassignment after a North Africa Sicily China tour. He served as a propeller mechanic and is the son of Mrs Alta Wasson. He is married to Viola Decker Wasson of Clare Michigan. He will stay about two weeks for medical exams and classification interviews with rest and recreation at the post.
Prices from May 22 1945 show wheat at 1.64 oats around 1.68 rye 1.10 barley 2.50 beans 6.00 to 7.25. Livestock includes year old stags leghorn springers white ducks geese rabbits and beef hides with hogs veal and broilers also listed. Market tiers note extra large large and medium egg prices and general price stability.
Pleas ant Valley residents hosted and visited over a weekend. Otto Kleiner and Phoebe Rosenberger joined Mr and Mrs Glen Bay for Sunday dinner. Gerald Campbell of the Navy spent Sunday with the Spinks and Runyans. Several families hosted relatives at Elk Lake and in the area, including visits by the Albina Gerow and Hemstreet households and other local guests.
Clare Hospital reports numerous patients admitted for medical conditions and injuries from autos and accidents. Residents including Kenneth McClatchey Saginaw Pauline Grise Darwell George Stebins Jr Mt Pleasant Clara Hess Clare Mary Grinzinger Mt Pleasant and Paul Zell Jackson receive ongoing care. Baby born Sidney Roy Pascoe Jr and Keith Duane Jackson noted with families in service.
A tiny spotted Shetland colt born at the Frank Casper farm on Herrick road delights children. Dorothy Duncan received a spotted saddle mare as a birthday gift from her husband. Ted Hoersch trains a two year old buckskin colt named Special. Katherine presented Hoersch with a colt on V E Day. Victor H overheard at the rodeo remarks about politics during the women’s bending race.
A brief note touts a ten minute test for athlete feet and promotes a penetrating solution with full strength alcohol as the only effective treatment. It mentions powders ointments and gels as alternatives and notes the product is available at Houghton Drug Store.
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