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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1937
Page
6
Local residents report visits and travel including Miss Jean Groves from Boyne City and Vaughn Lewis of Flint. Detroit baseball attendance, Legion Auxiliary meeting Sept 7 and school news mix with births, marriages, and accidents around Clare, Michigan, featuring Johnston and Hampton families, Canfield and Ogle households, and nursing students Marie Bourke and others.
The National Safety Count notes about 15 percent of motor vehicle fatalities involve a mechanical defect. Sixty percent of cars on streets are five years old or older, raising questions about upkeep and safety. Maintain engines brakes steering tires and joints or replace a neglected vehicle.
The Kings Daughter will meet next Thursday with Mrs. D. W. Osborn for special business and all members are asked to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz and son Clifton from Grand Rapids visited her parents the Grovers and sister Hampton Sunday. They joined the Weidman Weidman celebration Saturday. Jennings Archambault and family and Alice O Fell attended the State Farm picnic at Higgins Lake. An account appears in the Mt. Vernon Grange activities column.
Annual Bread Day in Italy features Fascist girls selling small loaves for a lira and distributing pamphlets and posters urging citizens to eat more bread as part of national propaganda.
An old produce listing shows prices for wheat rye oats barley and beans. Entries mention Samborn Produce and Jackson with dated August 7 and reference to hogs and beets.
Clare Folks Vacationing includes Junior Schlafley visiting Chicago and Kalamazoo. Mr and Mrs Bob Gardner to leave for a weekend trip to West Virginia. Al Young and daughter Jane Ann return from Cleveland and eastern trips. Murl Houghton of Clare Drug Co visits Mackinac Island and northern Michigan. George and Leland Grover with son camp at Loon Lake. Rose Marie Jackson visits Owosso and Moore cottage at McKane Lake with group from Owosso. Jackson to return to Michigan State College in September.
The Carbonado coal mine near Seattle, once a major producer linked to Huntington Hopkins Stanford Crocker, was sealed on April 1 ending a 50 year operation. The town, once home to about 2000 residents, is now a ghost town with only a few miners keeping small workings for fuel amid a flooded main slope and dismantled tunnels.
The Scotland Yard reports that amateur foreign spies are the hardest to detect as they attend parties and semi official events to collect information. British agents have led to many visiting permits being terminated in major London hotels.
The University of Kansas entomological museum receives a Belgian Congo collection featuring a praying mantis with eye like wing spots and a large motile winged adult ant lion.
Dorothy Coulter returned to Flint after a week with her parents Mr and Mrs Ada Cutler. The S Vander Woude family were at Grand Rapids last week. Mrs Clinton Foster and family returned home after a visit with her father. Several from here attended the Harrison fair and reported a fine time. C J Delts visited Frank Davis's home on Sunday. School started Monday with Miss Helena Vander Woude as teacher. Mrs Martin Sheen and family visited her sister Mrs Frank Davis and family Sunday.
The material comes from Sarawak in distant Borneo and the same country provides birds nests used in a soup loving world.
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