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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1946
Page
9
The Clare Sentinel announces weekly Friday publication details with post office handling and mail rates for subscribers. Advertising rates are shown on request while local liners cost ten cents per line and fillers five cents per line.
At a regular Harrison Chapter 408 OHS meeting forty six attended with the Worthy Matron presiding. Grand Chapter session dates set for Oct 8 9 10 at Grand Rapids. Members invited to attend White Clover Chapter 84 Gladwin Sept 25 for degree exemplifications. Sunday Sept 29 congregational church service at 11 00 am. Rev H Watson to speak.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Bowerman received word from the War Department that their son Flight Officer George W. Bowerman aged twenty who was reported missing in March 1944 was killed on February 10 1944 and is buried in the U S Military Cemetery Marzanello Nuovo plot B row 1 grave 10 Italy.
A Congregational church invites members and friends to a pot luck Family Fellowship supper on Friday September 20 at 6 30 p m in the church parlors. New member candidacies will be presented. Sixty two slides with recordings on postwar emergency program of the Congregational Christian Churches will be shown titled In His Name and For Their Sake highlighting missionary work.
Mrs. Clarence Kuehn and Rev. and Mrs. Harold Watson attended the sixty sixth annual meeting of the Central Association of Michigan Congregational Christian Churches in Bay City at the First Congregational Church. The program included registrations, a 10:15 address The Long Pull by Dr Harold N Skidmore and a 10:45 talk The Glorious Hundred Years by Dr Oscar Maurer, plus workshops and multiple fellowship sessions.
Mr and Mrs Geo Bates visited Mr and Mrs Wm Bowler in Clare on Monday. The Mueller sisters Ida and Rose returned from Chicago with stories of relatives and a nephew’s wedding Floyd Stanley of Lansing attended a Pifer wedding celebration. Nearby visits included Hugh Harvey of Alma at a cottage and fair, McKenna and Butcher households hosting guests, and Beevert on Bea verton. Crete and Owosso callers were noted along with Hampton and Wall family visits. Vertner spent weekend with her mother Emily Shavy in Gladwin.
Mrs. Jean Istuckman Demerest wed Mr. Bernard Davis on Thursday September 12 at 8 p m in the Methodist Church Ann Arbor. About thirty guests attended the ceremony and reception later at the bride's parents home. Cousins Mrs Hilda Brief Mrs Ethel Lyons and Mrs Leonord Hughes were among the attendees. A sewing bee gathered at the home of Mrs Jas Schneider with Mesdames Hunie Roth Russell Allen Don Seelinger and Chas Kuehn. cake and coffee followed.
Arden Light was guest of honor at a Sunday reception hosted by the J. Raspot family. Refreshments included ice cream and birthday cake served on the lawn. Immediate family members attended.
Mrs J M VanDuesen entertained at the Surrey House on Monday with guests Mrs Wm Titus Mrs Neil Kinney and Mrs Leon Hamp. They later traveled to the Titus cottage for an afternoon of bridge.
The Pilgrim Youth Fellowship met Sunday at 6:30 in the church parlors. Rev. Watson led a business meeting and organized a wiener roast for September 29. Next week is election week and members are urged to attend. Two movies were shown and ice cream and cookies served.
Mrs Lotus Moon and Mrs Wi Titus hosted a Saturday bridge luncheon at the Titus cottage Oak Crest. Prizes went to Mrs Donald Dakin Mrs Geo Gosma and Mrs G Butterfield of Mt Pleasant. Other winners included Mrs Howard Matsson and Mrs Harry Wakefield and Mrs R H Strange.
New York reports show highway bandits cashing in on shortages by looting trucks with textiles ice cream and other goods. Analysts estimate 2.5 million dollars stolen in one year represent only a fraction of nationwide losses as hijackings shift to stealthy jumps in urban centers. Police urge better protection and alarms as truck thefts rise.
Byron E. Hetrick of Glenford Ohio died at his home after 11 years in a liquid diet following a coma at age two. His parents Mr and Mrs Cloyd G Hetrick said his illness began with sleeping sickness in 1935 during whooping cough and pneumonia. Bronchial pneumonia was cited as the cause of death.
In Heidelberg a U S Army provost marshal said an American trooper shot and killed a Russian sentry near the American Soviet border zone after a Soviet bayoneted a German woman on the U S side. Officials ruled the firing in self defense as the Russian charged with a fixed bayonet.
In Knoxville Tennessee a sailor aged 18 marries a 38 year old Knoxville grandmother. Walter A. Hall Jr. of Brooklyn and the former Mrs Neomia Baldwin are honeymooning in the bride's house after a romance sparked during the sailor's visit with her son.
The Sentinel requests league secretaries or reporters bring their scores after each game to keep the bowling column as up to date as possible.
On Monday September 16 in City League action Rotary No 1 tied North Bradley No 1 3 3 and Kiwanis No 1 edged Kiwanis No 3 2 while Farwell Lumber Co and Big Five Construction Co each posted 2 2. Clare Hardware OCo and Rotary No 2 earned 1 and 2 respectively with high series led by Walt Hales 529 Robert Kelsey 486 and Harold Jones 476. Top single game marks were Tharp 190 Leo Russell 187 and Ken Ritter 184.
City Clerk announces registration for qualified electors of Clare Michigan under the Michigan Election Law. Registration available on days except Sundays and holidays, with a limit period before elections. The clerk will review and register actual residents who will vote next election. Alex McKinnon City Clerk.
Harold Warner Gilmore Township Clerk announces registration for qualified electors. Registration will be at Gilmore Town Hall on October 1 1946 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm and at home on October 16 1946 from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. Voters not registering since May 1 1946 must register by October 16 to vote in the November election.
Garfield Township voters must re register at the Garfield Town Hall on October 16 from 8:00 a m to 3:00 p m to vote in the November 5 election. Marguerite Shilling, clerk, warns those who have not registered since May 1 cannot vote.
Clerk J. Newman announces voters may register in person at Arthur Town Hall on Wednesday October 16 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Those not registered since May 1, 1946 must register by October 16 to be eligible for the November election.
The text notes golf was forbidden in Scotland in 1497 because players neglected archery. It mentions Mary Queen of Scots playing golf when news of her husband's murder arrived, and James I of England appointing a clubmaker and a ball maker. It cites leather balls stuffed with feathers before the gutta percha ball of 1848.
A pound cake gains fragrance and depth by adding a half teaspoon of mace. The spice enhances aroma and flavor, creating a richer finish in classic pound cake preparation.
St Athanasius parish led by Fr J Sruba holds Mass on the first and third Sundays at 10 30 am and on the second, fourth and fifth Sundays at 9 am in Harrison Michigan. Latter Day Saints church in Harrison conducts services at 10 30 am with Sunday School at 11 15 am and evening meetings at 8 pm led by Elder Hubert Beavers and Halmond Dunham.
United Brethren Church Harrison announces Sunday School at 10 00 Preaching Service at 11 60 Evening worship at 8 00 Prayer meeting Thursday at 8 00 led by Pastor Gerald Brady
Pastor Clinton Hilton leads Sunday School at 10 00 a m and church services at 11 15 a m Mrs Harold Yost announces evening services at 7 30 p m with special midweek services Wednesday at 7 30 Young People meet weekly Monday evening at Highway Tabernacle church activities outlined in local notices.
The Congregational Church invites members and friends to a reception next Sunday at 11:00 a m following the worship service led by Rev Harold Watson who will speak on I believe in the Holy Catholic Church James Mead is superintendent and Sunday School begins at 10:00 a m
Poultry meat provides comparable protein to other meats and yields rich iron and vitamin A in giblets. Except for giblets, poultry has less iron than red meats. vitamin B1 varies, with chicken near beef but below lamb, veal, and pork. Dark meat has more riboflavin iron and flavor substances.
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