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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1960
Page
9
Harrison residents hosted and visited relatives across Midland Saginaw Rose City and Beaverton. The piece lists multiple weekend visits birthdays anniversaries and family gatherings including Greg Whitmer Mrs. Grace Allison and the Roth and Cartney families with numerous kin from Sanford Cass City Standish and Lansing.
Detroit residents visited Harrison and Holt relatives while Grand Rapids and Lansing guests joined local families. Rock town bound Robert Larson attended a Michigan high school athletic meeting in Marquette, with multiple trips and dinners noted among Harrison residents and neighboring towns.
Local social items recount visits and family events. Names include the Bennetts, Randall, Roller, Krocker, Shipman, Brockway, Wilcox, Gantz, Pfannes, Hileman, Tessman, VanBlarcom, and Be Louis area residents with mentions of a funeral in Durham and a baby birth at Clare Hospital.
State Highway Commissioner John C. Mackie told the Michigan Natural Areas Council at Michigan State University that the completed freeway system will boost tourism and recreation, projecting 50 percent more travel in the first full year and tourism expenditures near 800 million dollars with billion-dollar levels soon after. He said 40 million Americans could be within a day’s drive of the Mackinac Bridge, and noted cooperation with the Conservation Department to protect natural resources as right of way reaches about 40 000 acres in the current five year program.
Mrs Ella Neville spent Friday night in Midland with her son James Neville then visited Detroit for the weekend before returning Sunday. Her brother Wesley Elliott accompanied her home. Mr and Mrs Charles Strouse and family visited Lansing relatives. Leona Cooper returned from two weeks in Arizona noting no rain. Helen town joined Lester Cotton and others to Mt Pleasant and helped transfer Wazel Bodkins from hospital to Ardis Rest Home Farwell. J D Clute and Ruby Thompson had supper with Pearl Clute Harrison. Lewis Rutter Harrison guests at Edward Magnus Jr home Sunday.
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