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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1956
Page
7
The Colonville Sunday School held a masquerade party Saturday night at the home of Mr and Mrs Carl Kistler with thirty seven attendees. Hostesses Mrs Carla Kistler and Mrs Frie da Kistler organized games and refreshments.
Mr and Mrs Richard Loucks from Pontiac and Mr and Mrs John Gaskill visited Muskegon over the weekend. Mrs Wilfred Landers sick with flu and joined the VFW Auxiliary. Henry Nichols and Bert Landers visited, with Sunday dinner at Mrs Ruby Wyman's for Bert Landers 45th wedding anniversary. Sam Landers injured his arm at school and was out a week. Mrs Ruby Wyman laid off from Marion factory.
Mrs Sarah Cluley and others attended a wedding reception for Mr and Mrs Gynn Hamlin in the Christian Church basement at Shepherds Friday evening. The Leaton Ladies Aid plans a dinner at the Denver township hall on election day. Mrs Clarend Methner is a patient at CMC Hospital Mt Pleasant. Minnie MacDonall of Geneva township cares for the children.
Ray and Hilda Lewis Rutter visit Mr and Mrs Jim Pitts in Gilmore Monday afternoon. Russell Davis returns home from Clare General Hospital improved. Mrs T G Mcleod of Detroit returns home after weeks with Mr and Mrs J D Clute.
Waterfowl hunters in Michigan report a slow start to the season due to warm conditions and prolonged duck dispersal. At Pointe Mouilice, 14 days into the October 1-December 9 period yielded 1425 ducks versus 2650 last year, while Lake Erie sites stayed similar to 1955. Goose hunting begins slowly, with Swan Creek and Fennville showing modest early totals, and peak activity expected in late October to November.
Delwin Grangé held its election on Tuesday electing Master LaVern Rockett Overseer Clare McTaggart Lecturer Leita Rockett Steward Aller McDonald Assistant Steward Alvin Walton Chaplain Ruths Moore Treasurer Mary McTaggart Secretary Anna Calkins Gatekeeper Murray Magate Ceres Clara Jones Pomona Maude McDonald Flora Mary Morrison Executive Committee George Dixon Earl Walker Lysle Calkins Finance Cecil Epple Bernise Moore George Prout Flower Girls Mac Heyer Bonnie Mogg Blue Cross Secretary Cecil Eppe.
The record lists lectures, trips, social visits, cider tasting, and get-togethers in Mt Pleasant and nearby towns. Attendees include Frazee, Louis Mackenzie, Mac Heyer, Ben Thering, the Doren and Jones families, Rocketts, Heyers, Bucklets, Pohl family, and others. Many visits occur at Midland, Coleman, Broomfield, and Sanford Lake venues.
Mr and Mrs Robert Heber announce the birth of a baby boy Timothy Lee on October 19 at Community Hospital. Various relatives and friends visited or joined in celebrations as the community notes fall events and weekend gatherings across local homes and farms.
Heifer Project plans to ship a herd of cattle to the Soviet Union as a first of its kind gesture by American farmers. The Soviet government will cover transport and return passage for three volunteers, with cattle kept on a government farm and milk prioritized for hospitals and schools. Cows are donated by groups across eight states, reflecting interfaith relief efforts.
Pheasants, Michigan's popular game bird, first arrived in the United States from China in 1881. The birds were released in Oregon's Willamette Valley and now occupy a range that extends through most northern states.
Herrick Mennonite Church to host an 8 p.m. Singspiration service on Sunday November 4 featuring Bontrager brothers Male Quartet Ottis Eureka Mich Eric Vesterburg Charles Midland and the Herrick pastor. Local members will also perform. All are invited to attend.
A Drew Theological Seminary survey of 454 Negro pastors, led by Dr Ralph Felton, shows trained pastors average through ninth grade, yet they impact by guiding voting education, land ownership for members, health clinics, library branches, and college paths. The typical trained pastor serves three churches with about 749 members.
Twelve Methodist ministers from ten states travel on a month long evangelistic mission in Brazil and Latin America. Sponsored by the Methodist Board of Missions and Evangelism in New York and Nashville the group will preach in Brazilian churches meet lay leaders and discuss evangelistic techniques led by Rev. George H Jones.
A National Council of Churches survey ranks Rhode Island Louisiana South Carolina and Mississippi highest in religious affiliation. Nevada Oregon Washington and West Virginia have the lowest church and synagogue membership. The study finds 38 states predominantly Protestant and 12 with Roman Catholic majorities, with the South and Utah as the most Protestant regions.
Revival at Clare Church of God starts Monday at 7 30 PM and runs through November 11 with Evangelist L J Beaver of LaGrange Indiana as speaker each evening. Prayer services occur mornings in the parsonage, and youth midweek and leadership classes are suspended during the revival. Mrs Sickal outlined year work at the missionary society meeting.
The article notes Bishop Ge Bromley Oxnam of Washington DC calling Mahatma Gandhi a baffling figure for Christians to consider. It quotes his praise of Gandhi’s nonviolence, love, and mass influence, questioning whether Western gospel teaching could reproduce such reform through similar methods.
The Isabella County CROP Board, formed October 25 at Mt. Pleasant Methodist Church, will direct the county wide campaign. Officers elected include Preston Johnson as chairman and Dean Rohrer as vice chairman with Bill Childs as treasurer and Harold Tabor as secretary. Members include Ray Hoyle, Charles Spencer, John Heron, Mrs Ida Johnson, Mrs Clifford Rich, and Helen Hartman, with Farm Bureau FFA 4 H and church groups represented.
The Rev Clement E Hubbard, a Methodist missionary from Rockmart Georgia, becomes the first Protestant honored as an honorary citizen in Ling in Brazil. The ceremony, conducted by the mayor, notes Hubbard as the sole Protestant and the only honoree not native to Brazil.
The text portrays a figure devoted to a sovereign principle of truth and nonviolence. It contrasts moments of imprisonment with roles as a teacher father and husband, framing truth and nonviolence as the only terms for realization of a cause.
Reverend Robert A Harper argues against urban temptation citing Lot and Sodom to urge rural churches to anchor their communities in right living and church principles while noting University of Michigan as a model and Michigan State enrollment figures.
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