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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1935
Page
5
The Clare Sentinel lists annual and per copy rates for Michigan and Canada. It notes Friday issue timing, post office second class entry, display ad rates on request, and 10c per line for locals plus 5c for poetry and resolutions.
Sunday services at the usual hour with Sunday school at 10 30 and a special sermon at 1130. Mid week prayer service noted. Pastor Chas Kleinhardt extends a cordial invitation to all. Community notices list numerous local residents visiting, traveling, or ill.
Mr and Mrs Jerone Caner of Greenwood Township celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at home Sunday with relatives including Rev and Mrs A F Light Mr and Mrs Guy Light and three children Mr and Mrs Frank Stuckman and two children and Mr and Mrs Charles Burnett A boun teous chicken dinner was served with a pink and white wedding cake The couple received many silver gifts
The Moravians arrived in North America in 1784 and settled in Georgia. They sought sanctuary in Pennsylvania as resistance grew to armed service against Spanish forces.
Watson Smith born August 7 1883 in Greenwood Township Clare County Michigan died November 21 1935 at Clare Hospital aged 52. He married Clare Payne December 24 1911 and had four sons Walter Wallace Rudolph Glen and three daughters Anna Genevive Virginia with Walter predeceasing him. Survived by wife Clara his parents one sister six nieces and a great aunt. He worked as a blacksmith and carpenter and for eleven years was substitute mail carrier from Harrison Office. He was fatally injured November 20 at Clarence Crossing by an Ann Arbor passenger train. Funeral Sunday at UD B Church Harrison with Rev Charles Kleinhardt officiating. Out of town relatives listed.
Mrs. Lester McLacklin from St. Ignace visited her parents the Campbells. A quilting bee at Oscar Wiley’s drew a large crowd. Several residents were noted ill including Steve McCarran with scarlet fever and Miss Rose Mary Lynch who sprained her ankle. Community gatherings included oyster dinners at L. S. Stickle’s and 4-H and W.G. meetings.
A Belgian village near Napoleon’s final defeat shaped the idiom to meet one’s Waterloo. The town’s quiet status became linked with an infamous historical turning point.
A jumble of visits and family events from Farwell and Midland areas. Families such as Kleiner and Brown hosted relatives, Hartmans visited grandparents, Williams bought and plans to rebuild property, Gordon hosted friends, Cradit family deer hunting notes, and local nurse and doctor visited Balsley School with Brita Green visiting Wade Cradit home.
Mrs Robert Dent of Mt Pleasant visited Mrs Harl Acker. families traveled to friends, shoppers and visitors noted. The Meet A While Club quilted at Ruth Allen and will meet with Harold Kile on December 3 with a pot luck dinner. members urged to attend.
Rev M Van Brocklin presides at Maple Grove U B with Sunday School at 430 and preaching at 230. Miss Cora Smedley visited Clare as staff. Leroy Hilyard injured in a Camp accident, badly broken shoulder, treated in Mt Pleasant hospital. Howard Smedley brought him home. Residents Joe Hudson and Baldwin Moore reside on Lape place. Several townsfolk report health and household routine updates and a dangerous ditch crash near Farwell with no serious injuries.
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