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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1939
Page
8
The opening of the 1939 deer season draws 175 000 hunters into northern Michigan with expectations of rising to about 176 600 by November 30. State deer numbers top 1 050 000, about a third of U S deer, while starvation pressures fuel debate on herd thinning to prevent mass mortality.
Gladwin's eleven defeated Clare 12 6 in a hard fought game. Ernie Bryant opened scoring for Gladwin on a 65 yard march from their 35. Redman added a long kickoff return and a late 25 yard pass to Farrell set the final margin as Gladwin held on.
Pine Lodge notes invite all to the pie social at Redner school house Friday evening. Mr and Mrs Wade Cradit travel north by Tuesday for hunting and Violet La Voy visits Harrison. Shull family trips to Chicago and home. LaVoy family hosts birthday dinner at Cornwell Ranch. News of Wm LaVoy's ill father in Cadillac and hopes for recovery.
A fragmented note states about four million enslaved people were freed by the emancipation amendment adopted in 1865, reflecting a key milestone in the abolition era.
The Armistice Day program at Clare High School included music by the band directed by Mr Greenfield and a speech by Commander Dunlop marking the twenty first anniversary of the end of World War I. He praised democracy, freedom, and vigilance against internal and external enemies. A bouquet was donated by Charles Strange.
A speaker honors fallen heroes and urges rededication to democracy and citizenship. He calls for pride in American birthright, responsibility to nation state and neighbors, and a relentless fight against enemies of true Americanism including Communists. He concludes with a plea to keep faith with the honored, living bravely and dying nobly.
BRAND Mr and Mrs Ronald Chatterton and Kay Jean stay with her grandmother Holtsberry in Bard while Mr Holtsberry hunts. Grace Blystone and sister Gertie Gregg visit Coleman to see aunt Carrie Neal. Laurence Robinett and Thurman head for deer woods to join Jim Robinetts.
Weill notes deer hunting season in Dover with a list of hunters including Carl Bauer Floyd Walters Courtney Bauer Billie Bauer Jack Grover Robert Bauer Chas Fitzpatrick Ray Houghton Ray Smith Ford Harpster and two sons Herb Gilmore. Community updates mention visits, travel, illnesses, school events and local shuffling of residents as names recur among neighbors.
Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Beutler announce a baby girl Jean Marguerite born November 9 at Community Hospital Mt. Pleasant. Mrs. H. O. Walker visits Ann Arbor to see daughter Madalyn at University Hospital. Marvin Fisher Jr. broke an arm in a wood pile accident. Henry Sibley joins Claude Bacon in Beaverton for deer hunting trip north. Miss Marguerite Morrison of Mt. Pleasant stays at home here. Miss Mary Johnston returns from Dearborn after two months at her mother’s and a stay in Canada. Edwin Bader involved in a US 27 auto crash north of Rosebush, car wrecked. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Clevenger and daughters Shirley and Joyce spend Friday in Ann Arbor with relatives.
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