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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1953
Page
16
Community notices from Lake detail church services at Lake Baptist Church with Reverend Kenneth Mack and various weekday events. The column also covers numerous personal visits, family travel, illness improvements, school farewells, and local travel anecdotes across Saginaw and nearby towns.
Frank McCreavy suffered severe injuries when his car left US 10 and rolled into a ditch 134 miles west of Lake on Monday evening. He avoided a collision with an oncoming car crowding the center line, then hit an embankment and rolled twice breaking four ribs and a shoulder blade.
The Lake Rod and Gun Club held a Friday evening supper and card party at their club house. Weekend visitors varied including families from Lansing, Freeland, Midland, Flint, Dewitt, Grand Blanc, Reese, Sears, and more, with many attendees sharing meals and visiting relatives. Several trips and social visits documented include theatre outings and cottage weekends at Hight Point Lake.
A Penny Supper will be held at Lake school on Friday October 9 from 6 30 to 8 30 pm The event is sponsored by the Wight graders to raise funds for a movie projector.
Beverly Gross reports classroom updates from Elle school. Two students Gary Colosky and Nita Youmyans are lost while Nina Inwin joins from Farwell. Second graders begin new number workbooks and reading materials. third graders advance in penmanship and cursive writing.
Mr and Mrs James Bivens of Glare visited the Lewis Rutter home Saturday evening. Mr and Mrs Rolfetti Chute and family attended Mortis birth day dinner at Clear Lake. Mrs Bila Rutter spent the weekend with relatives in Flint. Mrs Irene Clure Blanche Geible and Freda Kistler attended a teachers institute at Mr Pleasant. Mr and Mrs August Ulrich of Clare called on Lewis Rutter Tuesday evening. J D Clute and family spent Sunday with Alfred Roe Elk Lake. Hugh Allen returned home after a week with the Roes.
The sale of yellow margarine was approved last year in New York State, ending a 69 year struggle between margarine advocates and the farm bloc, as noted in the American Peoples Encyclopedia 1958 Yearbook.
Carl H. Gruno now appears as Carl H. Grune HM3 4332980 on the USS Gen. T. C. Brackenridge TAP-176 to correction address at c/o FPO San Francisco California.
Pfc. Eugene J. Simons 21 son of James R Simons Route 2 Harrison participates in intense post-truce training with the 45th Infantry Division in Korea He arrived last May and serves as radio operator in Company TH 179th Regiment The Thunderbird division keeps up drills to sustain the ready status and efficiency of the unit born from the Oklahoma National Guard during the Korean fighting.
Michigan traffic reports show 5 528 injured in 14 920 accidents in August, up 20 percent from last year and 13 percent from the prior year. Deaths were 180, four fewer than 1953 but above the postwar average. First eight months tally 1 168 killed, 36 806 injured, 116 783 accidents with mileage at 15 1 billion.
Dr C L Anspach of Central Michigan College named temporary chairman of a citizen committee to study establishing an educational television station in Bay City. The panel includes Midland Bay City and Saginaw representatives with Dr Ernest Britton Midland superintendent noted, station to transmit on Channel 73 with Central Michigan College assisting in development and operation.
Delwin Grange activity lists Sunday calls and visits among Apple Morrison Walker and Hubble families. The piece notes a Grange gathering Tuesday night and an officer election planned for October 13, with multiple visits between Alma Mis Pleasant Coleman Gladwin and Houghton Lake.
Report notes an officers meeting planned at Mit Vernon Grange on October 10 and urges attendance. Curt Spickerman called at Norman Rockett’s home on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Harl Walker visited Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Epple Monday night. Lorena Honeychurch spent the weekend with her parents, Earl and Mrs. Henderson. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lennox had Sunday dinner with Earl Neff and family.
Local notice lists Bob's Sales and Service offering tires tubes batteries and accessories in De Soto and Plymouth with phone contact 342 Clare.
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