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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1941
Page
5
Publication details from Clare listing weekly Friday issue and post office classifications. Rates include $1.50 yearly to Michigan, $2.00 to other U S points, 6c per single copy, 10c per line for locals, 25c per ten lines for cards of thanks, and 6c per line for resolutions.
Fred Weatherhead cashier of State Savings Bank of Harrison and William Hibbard attended the Eastern Michigan Bank Auditors and Comptrollers meeting at Clarebank Thursday evening. Hibbard was guest speaker on the subject Intangible Tax.
Youthful hunters Howard Waton and Henry Shimmell led with buck kills before 8:00 AM on opening day. Henry posted a 7:30 AM buck, Howard completed his deer and returned to his stand by eight. Several others, including Cline who also bucked, are listed among Harrison’s weekend hunters with more names on a later page.
Harrison High School coach R J Keller announces the Hornets season opener a Saturday night game at the school gym against an alumni quintet led by Jim Schneider from the 1941 graduating class. The varsity squad features twelve returning players and eighteen newcomers.
Harrison's Gardiner's Grocery on First and Beech streets shuts its doors after Henry Gardiner retires due to ill health. Gardiner began as a clerk in 1890s, later managed the Harrison Elevator, then owned Short and Gardiner before renaming to Gardiner's Grocery. The stock was sold to Vandewarker Grocery of Clare.
Harrigan Chapter OES No 408 held its election of officers at the Masonic Hall on November 17. New officers include Mrs Robert Brown as Worthy Matron, Fred Weatherhad as Worthy Patron, Mrs Emily Vertner as Associate, Maurice Black as Associate Patron, Mrs Fred Jones as Conductress, Mrs Edgar Bringman as Associate Conductress, Mrs Jessie Gleason as Secretary, and Mrs Fred Schaaf as Secretary. Appointive officers to be named this week by the Worthy Matron.
Harrison Chapter C.E.S. No. 408 held a deer hunter chicken supper at the Congregational church social rooms drawing over two hundred guests with about 80 dollars net. The Buck Hunters Ball at the school gym drew over two hundred paid admissions and about 60 dollars profit.
The local school district closed at noon for a Thanksgiving break with faculty scattered across Michigan and beyond. Superintendent Amble, Paul Bennett, Principal Ronald Keller, and several teachers spend time with deer hunting and family visits in places including Alma Mt Pleasant Shepherd Mil waukee Coleman Belding St Louis Carson City and Detroit. High school seniors hold a dancing party led by Oleta Pacholka while Mrs Amble recovers from flu and Mrs VanEvery returns to duties after managing her father’s store.
New York Citys La Guardia Field is slowly sinking in key areas. Maj Elmer Haslett and engineer Joseph A Meehan say the $1 5 million administration building sits on filled Flush ing Bay and is being stabilized. Some runways are now 1 inch lower than at the 1939 opening.
A Mobile Alabama landowner Joseph J Joves sent a letter and a $142.22 check to the county board of roads and revenues. He claimed roads through his land turned 10 acres into a rich plot and credited the county with unearned increment taxes, expressing appreciation for road and bridge services.
San Antonio police Investigator Cc A Dotson arrested Sergt John Chambers after an on duty car crash. Dotson also booked the other involved driver for negligent collision, showing no fear of senior officers during the incident.
The text notes that shelled peanuts yield about 35 percent oil and 65 percent meal. It states the meal is used mainly as a high protein livestock feed.
Over twenty years, the number of automobiles rose from nine to 30 million and drivers from 10 to 45 million. Traffic fatalities more than doubled in that period.
In dark London vaults workers and civilians endured an artificial air raid, with sirens, bombs, and flames echoed from a real wartime raid. Officials hope repeated exposure will harden populations to future raids, while a Nazi film purports to desensitize through fear.
In San Francisco a nine year old boy, David Henry Antolini, dies from gunshot wounds after Barbara Ortega, also nine, retrieves a double barreled shotgun to frighten him and his friends. Barbara claimed she did not know it was loaded and said she wanted to scare them.
Philadelphia report says Raymond Nutter passed a street car on the wrong side and twelve patrolmen intervened. They halted traffic at a busy intersection and took him to the station house where he was pronounced drunk—and unlucky.
Community items list Sunday services at 8 PM and midweek prayers on Thursdays, along with hunting notes from opening deer season. Local families share visits and gatherings at various homes in Sheridan County and nearby towns, updates from Extension Club meetings, and a California address for a distant relative.
Maple Grove Union hosts Sunday School at 2 00 pm and preaching at 3 00 pm each Sunday. Thursday prayer meetings. Visitors include Rex Shade family. Deer hunting reports note Harley Bentley and Lawrence Finch as successful. Local visits involve the Timp, Schofield, Peterson and Lace families with oil well near Harwell and Farwell attendance around 300 reported.
Mr and Mrs Tigner celebrate three new babies born within a week. Phyllis Ann from the Zimmers comes at their home, another girl to the Timpe's in Lansing, and a daughter to Ada and her husband. Jesse Hilyard left for Battle Creek due to the illness of daughter Myrtle.
The note records local visitors and hunting trips in Michigan over a weekend. John Shanasel from Flint visited Rex Shade's. Mrs. C. Rogers and Mrs. B. Wilson visited Edith Reynolds of West Grant. Several relatives joined Glenn Powell for a weekend visit and hunting. Harley Bentley shot a buck. Roy Halstead deer hunted with Pottersville and Lansing visitors.
Petroleum oils are used as insulation in high voltage underground cables and as heat transfer media in power transformers enhancing reliability and efficiency of electrical systems.
Germany experiments with synthetic fodder for horses and cattle using wood pulp mixed with egg white oats molasses and calcium. The project aims to supplement traditional feeds amid supply concerns and seeks scalable production methods.
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