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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1957
Page
11
Numerous visitors and family gatherings span Mt. Pleasant and surrounding towns. The record notes dinners and weekend stays with the Frys, Kennedys, Simpsons, Abbotts, and other residents, with travels to Lansing Jackson Saginaw and Temple for weddings and anniversaries.
Mrs. Donald Holbrook Sr Spiritual Life Chairman for Big Rapids District spoke at the WSCS Circle in St. Louis Methodist Church with Mrs. Leon Dull Sr assisting in a devotional talk and Scene-o-Felt illustrations. Also notes rummage sale pickup contacts Mrs Sue Holmes and Mrs Ina Hammond.
A 45 member gathering at the Reuben Tigner home near Farwell on Sunday sent Mr. and Mrs. Tigner off to Florida with a big roast dinner and a day of visiting and photos. They received a money purse and a daughter Rosella Owens poem titled To Parents Dear and Your Children.
Judy Ulrich presided over a Theta Rho Girls Club meeting to finalize plans for a Halloween and hayride party set for Saturday October 19. About thirty members and guests attended as Legion Auxiliary rooms were decorated by Sandra Wentworth with help from Wilma Cook Sharron Mussell and Janet Bouchey. After the hayride refreshments cider and doughnuts followed by recorded music capped the evening with Mrs James Yeoman and her husband supervising.
Dr. Glenn F. Sanford urges urban and rural churches to host a Harvest Festival service this autumn. He says harvest times honor God from planting to gleaning and stress the farmer's role in society within a strong Biblical tradition.
Dorothea Wyatt, a women's counselor at Flint College of the University of Michigan, recalls a time when parents feared college would harm a daughter's health and brain. She notes the era's belief that educated women were rare and framing schooling as a path to marriage.
Mr and Mrs Chester Dysinger announce daughter Sheila Marie born October 12 at Central Michigan Community Hospital Mt Pleasant weighing eight pounds six ounces. Mr and Mrs John Dillon Jr announce son John Earl born October 12 at Clare Hospital weighing seven pounds two ounces. Donald Earl Holbrook arrived October 18 at Community Hospital Mt Pleasant to live with Donald Holbrook Jr and Patsy Cox weight six pounds two ounces. Mr and Mrs Joseph Johnston announce daughter born October 22 in Pleasant weight seven and one half pounds.
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