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Established 1878
CLARE MICHIGAN, FRIDAY MORNtNG, NOVEMBER 2, 1934
New Series Vol. 43, No. 3
EDUCATION WEEK
OBSERVED HERE
NOVEMBER 5-11
Local  Organizations  Have
Arranged for Mass Meeting at H. S. Auditorium Wednesday
American Education Week1* Is sponsored by the National Educational
Association, the American Legion,
and "the public schools.
Plans have been completed for observance in Clare by a committee o!|
teachers, Legion members, Auxiliary
members, and members of the Clare
Good Literature Club.
The public is invited to visit the
schools during the week and to attend the Mass meeting to be held In
the school auditorium, 8:00 p. m,
Wednesday, November 7. The following program has been prepared fo»
the occasion:
Music by various organizations and
individuals.
"Planning for Tomorrow," Supt. B.
D. Kennedy.
"Developing New Types of Schooling", Mrs. Averyl Clute, Principal of
Freshman College
"Improving Rural Schools", Princ
ipal, W. -33. Tichenov and the Future
Farmers Club.
"Financing Our Schools," George
White, Sec'y of Board of Education.
"Quickening Our Sense of Civic Responsibility,", Edward Johnston,
member of American Legion.
"Preparing for New Kinds of Service", Mayor Jesse Hampton.
Recitation, Miss Betty Walker.
"Enriching Character Through Ed
ucatton", Reverend Telder of the.
Baptist church.
The schools will observe the week
with the following program:
Open house all week. Interested
citizens and parents are urged to
visit the school on Monday afternoon,
November 12, and then stay for the
Legion program.
Special articles in the school news
of the county paper.
Issue a school paper (in charge of
the Com'l Department.) a. Hand out
copieB of "The Code of the Good
School Citizen".
Display posters to be made by the
Art Classes.
Special lessons In Social Science
and Economics classes.
Special sermons and Sunday
School lessons in all churches, Sunday, November 11.
Armistice Day program in high
school auditorium, 2:30 p. m., Monday, November 12.
Cooperation,   in   the   dedication
the new city hall.
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INTERESTING SPEAKER COMING
TO HIGH SCHOOL MONDAY
W. D. Henderson, extension director of the University of Mchigan, will
npeak in the high school auditorium
at 2:45 Monday, November 5th. His
address will be of interest to all par-"
ents and friends of education. Plan
to be present. Dr. Henderson will
be remembered as the man who delivered the address at the dedication
of our high' school building. )
There is no charge for the address.
Celebrate Golden Wedding
BATES FOR SHERIFF.     Adv.
Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Hampton cele $>
hrated their fiftieth anniversary Friday, October 26, by going to Twin
Elm Golf course and playing 23 holes
of golf. In the afternoon their entire
family joined them for 9 holes and
on their return home that evening
they were met with a surprise to find
that the family had aken possession
of their home while they were away
and had prepared the table set with
a beautiful golden wedding cake in
the center surrounded by golden flowers After retiring from a bountifu".
six-thirty dinner, the house was
thrown open to their many friends
who came- to congratulate them, and
wish them many happy days. Mrs.
Nora J. Barnes and Miss Gladys Pearl
Hampton served the guests with wedding cake and tea and the balance of
the evening was spent in visiting.
Mr. and Mrs. Hampton, who are 72
and 68 years, respectively, were married by Rev. W. N. Younglove in the
Old Alger House, Clare's popular hotel fifty years ago. They made their
home in ghGi'SuW township "until
1913, where they reared a family c
seven children, four sons are living,
namely, Frank, of Aurora, Col., B. F..
of Harrison, Jesse and Leo, of this
city,
One year before leaving the farm
Mr. Hampton took the Ford Sale
agency which he still operates in the
new brick building erected in 1924
When coming to Clare he occupied
the building on the site of J. Clute's
garage, and in 191G they moved to the
Davis block now included in their
present location.
Mr. and Mrs. Hampton enjoy the
best of health and their greatest delight is to have low score when playing golf with their members of their
family.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Richard Emerson, republican candidate for county Road Commissioner of Clare county, at the Novembeu
6th election. If I am elected I promise to give the affairs of the office a
fair  and     impartial     administration.
Your support will be greatly appreciated.
Richard Emerson
American Education Week Will
Be Observed Here November 5-11
The fourteenth annual American
Education Week will be observed November 5-11, 1934. The occasion is
celebrated each year during the week
that includes Armistice Day, beginning Monday in the schools and closing Sunday with appropriate exercises in the churches.
The sponsors of American Education Week are the National Education Association, the American Legion, and the United States Offce of
Education. Invitations to cooperate
are extended by the three sponsoring
organizations each • year to other
groups interested in the welfare of
children and the preservation of a
democratic form of government based upon the ability of the people to
govern themselves.
The National Congress of Parents
and Teachers, with a million and a
half members, emphasizes the American Education. Week observance in
its own program. Hundreds of newspapers publish articles about the
schools, and radio broadcasts take
American Education Week programs
into millions of homes. There are a
million teachers to take the lead and
thirty million young people to arouse
the Interest of fathers and mothers,
and other citizens.
*The purpose of the American Education Week observance is to give
the public an opportunity to participate in selecting educational objectives and appraising the work of tho
"^schools. It is estimated that about1
eight million adult citizens visited
the schools of the nation for this purpose last year. In New York City
alone 546,403 people met in conference and took part in exercises in the
city schools.
The plan of observance is nation
wide. Between three and four thousand communities celebrated the occasion last year. Thirty-four governors helped to make the occasion a
success in their states by issuing
special proclamations calling the attention of all citizens to AmericaD
Education Week as an appropriate
time to study and help their schools.
The theme of the fourteenth annual American Education Week is Educating for Tomorrow. Special
topics have been selected for discus
sion each day.
Recent critical developments in
national life make participation in
the observance of American Education Week 1934 a paramount duty of
good citizenship. The observance will
include a study of the social and
economic, goals toward which our
nation is moving.
In line with this objective, Monday,
November 5, will be devoted to the
topic Planning for Tomorrow. Every
community and school is urged ti
ask itself this question "What kind
of a life do we desire for ourselves in
our homes, our schools, our Churches,
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SHEPHERD TEAM
HERE TODAY FOR
LAST ME GAME
Lake City Wins Honors in
"C" Conference Football Championship
The Shepherd high school football
team comes to Clare this afternoon to
bring to a close the local's home season. One more game will be played/
by the Clare boys and that at Gladwin November 9th.
The Shepherd team looms as a real
threat although not an unsurmount-
able one. St. Louis won from Shepherd by a one-point margin and previously St, Louis had defeated Clare
by three touch downs. But the Clare
team has improved a great deal since
that St. Louis defeat and Clare followers are looking for a close game
and perhaps a victory. The gamq
starts at 3:30 and will be your last
chance to see this year's football
team in action.
Lake City wins "C" Conference-
championship.
The newly admitted member to the
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GROUP OF BOYS AND
GIRLS ENTERTAIN AT
GOOD LITERATURE CLUB
Musical Numbers and Paper by-
Mrs. Holden Complete Interesting Program at Mrs.
Callihan's Home
The Clare Good Literature Club
met ac the comfortable home of Mrs.
Maude -Cailihan Tuesday evening,
October 23rd. The date was unfortunate as many of the members desired to attend the Republican ralljj
and banquet, but the attendance did
not detract from the interesting pro'
gram prepared.
In the absence of our president, the
vice president, Miss Marjorie Sanford
conducted the business session. The
plans for American Education1
were discussed and Mrs. Foell was
chosen to act with Misses Reynolds
and Kelderhouse to assist with a program at the high school auditorium
on Wednesday night, November 7th.
Further announcement is made else
where of the mass meeting.
Mrs. Nelda Jones presented and accompanied her sister, Miss Betty Cailihan, who announced her solo number, "Indian Love Call."
Mrs. Mildred Hochstetler played a
piano solo, "Camille." Both of these
numbers were very much enjoyed.    |
Mrs. Estella Holden who had charge of the evening's program, presented
a group of ten first grade youngsters
who sang a group ol autumn 'songs
and dramatized several poems which
they had learned in school this fall.
This was very pleasing and the little-
folks received a hearty applause.
Miss Glerum also presented four
children in song. They too were
heartily received.
Mrs. Holden -gave four short story
reviews of Guy de Maupassant's writings. She chose, A Coward, Joseph
Schnaff's Adventure, The Necklace,
and The Cripple." This paper was
of unusual Interest and Mrs. Holden's
splendid manner gave her hearers a
clear picture of tho writer's thoughts
and his mood when writing each
story which was of a different type,
Remember the change for next
meeting Which will be on Wednesday,,
FARWELL COUPLE
CELEBRATE 65TH
WEDDING EVENT
Elder and Mrs.  S. LeGran
Randall Observe Unusual
Occasion Sunday.
A double wedding anniversary took
place at the homo of Elder S. LeGran
Randalls' Sunday, October 28, when
he and Mrs. Randall observed the anniversary of their sixty-fifth-* year "o|j
w,edded life together,"also a grandson
William Randall, of Ralimazoo, married one year ago by his grandfather
on October 28, 1933. There were 28
people gathered from Chicago, Detroit, Flint, Mt, Pleasant; Kalamazpo,
besides one family from Nottawa,
township, Isabella county. A very
enjoyable programme .prepared by
Paul Randall, of Kalamazoo, Eldeij
and Mrs, Randalls eldest, grandson,
included a brief history of the aged
couple, written by their youngest
daughter, Mrs. Burgess of Mt. Pleasant, and read by Mrs. Homer Randall, of Flint. But one of the mos'j
interesting features of the prcgram
was when the aged couple's son*
Elder Ernest Randall, of Kalamazoo,
tied the sixty-fifth wedding knot foij
his father aud mother, also for hia
son William's one year's anniversary.
A beautiful three layer cake, the
main one intended as a bride's cake
was made by Mrs. Burgess and decorated by her daughter, Phyllis, another beautiful and fine cake came
from one cutside the family, Mrs.
Ervin an old acquaintance and friend.
There were two great grand children present, Homer and Mabel Randall's little year-old boy, Harold, and
Paul and Helen's Ruth, a sweet little namesake of the faithful Ruth of
the Bible, Those two little lambs of
the flock compelled as much attention by their sweetness, as the elder
ones of the company.
The old people greatly appreciated
the lovely flowers and plants contributing to the occasion furnished by
Mrs. William' Randall's father,;. Mr.
Biddlecomb, of Kalamazoo.
This aged couple sincerely thank
each and every one who contributed
in any way, to their., ejijoyment and.
needs,
THIEVES ROB SHERIDAN FARM HOME
LATE TUES. NIGHT
Charles Armentrout Loses
Savings of $88.00. County Officials Investigating
The farm home of Charles Armentrout, near Elm Grove In Sheridan
township was entered sometime-
Tuesday night and his savings of
$88.00 were taken.
It is thought by county officials
working on the case that the thieves
are of local talent and some person
who was close enough associated with
Mr. Armentrout to know that he had
the money and where he had It iq
hiding.
COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER
ALDRiCH REPORTED AS GAINING
Asa H. Aldrich, Clare county school
commissioner, was stricken by illness last Saturday at his home at
Harrison. On Monday Jesse Allen;
took him to the home of his neice/
in Mt. Pleasant, where he Is convalescing. He is able to be about the home
and is reported as gaining nicely.
TO THE VOTERS OF CLARE COUNTY
August 14, 1934
To whom it may concern:
Herschel Reiss was employed af
patrolman in the Grand Rapids,
Michigan Police Department in the
years 1926 and 1927, working out of
the Third Precinct Police Station. Hd
did his work in a .--faithful manner,
and proved himself to be efficient
and reliable, and I am glad to recommend him for those qualities.
Lieut.   Clarence   Stoppels
C.  O., Third Prec.  police Station.
NOTICE
The four fellows who last Friday
came to my farm with a car and four
wheel trailer and on the way out
'stopped and took a shock of corn and
then went north from my place, were
seen by three of us and known so
better come and Bettle for same or 1
will turn you. over to the sheriff. ; I
live right on the corner east of my
farm. John Rudy
Mr. and Mrs. Edw.
Hawkins Ma rried
SO Years Oct. 14
On Sunday, October 14, Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Hawkins -celebrated
their fiftieth wedding anniversary by
taking dinner at the home of their
son, William, 1 3-4 miles west of the
city.
Altho their other two .children,
Olney, of Gladstone,. Ore., and Mrs,
Carl Dorsey, of Detroit, could not be
present, they remembered their parents with a liberal purse of money.
They were also the recipients of several nice  presents  from  friends.
Mr, and Mrs, Hawkins are both
pioneers of Clare, having came here
when it was only a small hamlet and
have since watched it grow aria re-,
ceive the many permanent improvements. During this time they have
Willingly endured the hardships sub
jected to the pioneer and built the
comfortable home In which they
have resided for many years.
DR. SCHILLING DISCUSSES HOME RULE
AMENDMENT MON.
Speaker States Both  Nominees for Governor are in
Favor of Amendment
On Monday evening a meeting fou
the purpose of informing the citizens
as to the .details of the County Home
Ri^le Amendment which will be voted
on next Tuesday was held at the new
City Hall. This is amendment No. 4,
Dr. Schilling, nead of the political
science department of Western State
Teachers College, was the speaker.
He said, "Beth Fitzgerald and Lacy
have expressed the- desire that this
amendment be passed.
There are 3,000 counties in the United States. County government is
close government. National government Is a long way from us.
There are two types of county government; 1—The large board type
Sttch as we haye in this county, _ EacH
township is represented equally regardless of population or valuation ot
property. II—The commission or
small boafa^type. It la composed oil
3, 5, or 7 persons chosen from the
county at large or by the county divided into three divisions. Michigan,
Illinois, Wisconsin, New York and
Pennsylvania are the only states that
still have the antiquated large-board
type. This type Is distinguished by
its inefficiency and lack ot concentrated leadership. Neither type has a
head. This is the main criticism and
it holds for both. Technically there
is no county board. The members get
their offices by virtue of running for
office in a lower governmental unit.
(Continued on page seven)
WHERE JUDGE ARTHUR
J. UCY STANDS
Judge Arthur J. Lacy, Democratic;
candidate for Governor has been
credited with taking many straight
forward stands on public questions
during this campaign which are destined to go down in history as examples of fundamentals of good government, as emphasized by great
men.
Notably among them is his statement "I am not'interested in palavering, pussyfooting, promising politics."
This assertion is commented on
editorially by the Detroit News in its
issue of October 15.
The editorial says: "For pith and
directness, the following from Arthur
J. Lacy stands out:
I want State government reorganized along Rooseveltian lines.
But I want it clearly understood I
do not favor Btate borrowing to help
local communities, or imposition of
new taxesj unless absolutely necessary to maintain proper government,
I am opposed to mortgaging the
future. They tell me it is not good
politics to talk about new taxes or
borrowing money. But I am not interesting in palavering 'Pussyfooting,
Promising Politics. I am not afraid to
tell the people what I think. The
people usually have more sense than
the politicians.
That one sentence (capitals ours)
commends itself for the book which
preserves meaty political declara-'
tlons. Its i-ihg defines the speaker)
Its sense defies hordes of trlflers and
self-Servers who infest and corrupt
and generally dominate both campaigning and subsequent administration.
It was accurate, original and fairly comprehensive to tag them as
palaverers, pussyfootens -and promisors.
(Continued oh Page Eight)
BANDITS ROB, HOTEL   .
DOHERTY EARLY LAST
SATURDAY MORNING
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CITY HALL DEDICATION
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Clare's new City Hall and Memorial building dedication will taltti
place in the City Hall Auditorium-
Monday evening, November 12.
Program to begin at 7:30 which
consists of music by the Clare
High school band and Girls Glee
Club, and a member of very able
speakers have been selected for
the occasion.
After the program is completed
the balance of the evening will be
spent with a dancing pary.
Under the auspices of the City
Council,
1 Clerk and Guest Forced on
Separate Rides; One Left
Bound in Road.
TEN PUPILS PRESENTED
IN RECITAL SUNDAY AT
MRS. DQBERTY'S STUDIO
One of the interesting events of the
past week was the recital given last
Sunday afternoon at the studio of
Helen Lucile Doherty.
Ten pupils entertained their mothers and fathers at this informal mus-
icale. All played with the greatest
of ease and several displayed Unusual
ability.
The following students took part
on the program: Erma Ott, Lois
Smock, Barbara Houghton, Frances
Morgan, Wallace Krell, Kathleen
Young, Regina Krell, Jean Caple,
Maxine Krell and Margaret Morgan
A social hour followed the reclta!
and light refreshments in keeping
with the Halloween season were
served by Patrice Doherty and Jean
Caple.
Mrs. Doherty announced that a
series of these informal musicales
would be given by different groups
of students during the winter.
SENIORS BUSY ON
THEIR ANNUAL PLAY
The ever-delightful story of Mrs.
Wlggs for a score of years has beec;
a favorite with all readers who enjoy
genuine American character and
humor. The.Senior class of our high
school is planning a stage presentation of this celebrated novel, Tuesday
night, November 27th. The play is
an eminently suitable one 'for high
Schools and colleges, with a large
cast of gracious parts. Every mem''
ber of the class is going to be busy in
the production outfits play during the
next threa weeks.
Members of tlie cast are eager to
see the movie version of Mrs. Wigga
which is coming next week to the
Ideal theatre. Plan to see both these
productions—stage and movie. You'll
enjoy comparing the work of your
own boys and girls with that of the
movie artists.
POLITICAL RALLY
A political rally will be held at the
Arthur townhall Friday evening, (tonight).     All are invited.
County Officials and State Police
Arrest   Three  Alma  Men.
Part of Loot Recovered
County officials and State police
arrested three Alma men Monday
night who they are certain are the
bandits that robbed the Hotel Doherty early Saturday morning of
¥80.00 in cash and radio, after kid-
hapirig the hotel clerk, Richard John?
son and guest, Lawrence Knapp, ana
taking them outside of town where
the two men were released unharmed.
According to the story related by
Johnson, he was called to the Fifth
street entrance of the hotel about
3:00 a. m. by the honking of an automobile horn. One of the two men in
the car directed him to remove the
luggage from the rear seat, and as
he opened the door to do so, he was
told to get in and at the same instant
felt a gun in his side. At the same
time a heavy sack was pulled over
his head and he was pushed info the
seat. He was taken three mil^s
north and two west of Clare, put out;
of the car, his hands bound behind
his back, Wiudfclded and his shoe;*
removed.
The bandits then returned to the
hotel where they found Mr. Knapp;
asleep on a lounge in the lobby. It
was while they were robbing the cash,
register and removing the radio that
Knapp was awakened, only to find a
revolver close to his face. He was*
given orders to get up and was con-,
ducted to the car, the bandit attempting to shield his own face with hise
hand as he moved to the street. He-
was taken five miles south and east
of Clare and released with ot-ders to>
walk in the opposite direction, but
was not hound.
Johnson freed  himself    and    thea
made his way back to the hotel barefooted, where he found the Open cash
register and Knapp gone. Mr. Knapxr"
returned within a short time.
The Alma men taken into custody"
were W. B. Shine, Delos Humphrey,
and Howard Thomps'on. The latter
two Were bound over to Circuit
Court after being given 'a hearing before Justice S. M. Cailihan. Shine will
be given a hearing today. All three
men are in the county jail at Harrison.
The greater portion of the money,
the radio and Johnson's shoes have
been recovered.
CREAMERY BUILDING ANNEX 'v'
20x20 TO CLARE PLANT
The Thayer Brothers Cfcealnery are-
again improving their place of business by the construction of a new"
20x20 concrete fireproof addition* to1
their present brick building located)
on west Fourth street. The new
space will be used to.house a portion^
of their deiry. Work is underway
now.
Explanation of Amendments to be
Voted at the November Election
(By Miles  M.  Callaghan)
During the last few weeks I have,&ue would prevent any further reduc-
been writing a series of articles on
the proposed amendments to the Constitution of the state o f Michigan to
be voted on at the election November
6th. The discussion of each amendment has been rather long, and I am
of the opinion now that your readers
are quite familiar with these proposals. I am therefore boiling down my
former articles on each amendment
so that the minds of the voters majj
be freshened and they will have the
information before them in concise
form and here they are:
Amendment No. One
This amendment provides for nonpartisan election of all judicial officers and means that justices of the
supreme court and judges of the circuit court, probate judges and circuit
court commissioners will run on the
ticket without party designations. If
you favor this amendment vote YES
( ); if opposed vote NO ( ).
Amendment No. Two
This is the so-called gas tax amendment and provides that the tax 6r,
gasoline' and other fuels used In motor vehicles on the public roads and
highways of this state shall not be
taxed at more than 2c per gallon and
provides ihat this 2c tax shall be In
lieu of all other taxes. . If adopted,
the manufacturers and users of motor fuel would escape on income tax,
and it is likely that the loss of reven-
tion in weight tax on automobiles
and other motor vehicles. If you
favor this amendment vote Yes, i£
opposed vote No.
Amendment No. Three
This is the" so-called weight ' tax
amendment and proposes that the
taxes imposed directly or indirectly
on motor vehicles in the state of
Michigan, not a commercial vehicle
or a motorcycle, shall not exceed 35c
per hundred pounds of weight per
year, and this iikewise is in lieu ot
'all other taxes which would include-
tho state sales tax, state or local taxes, and would prevent the collection
of income tax if imposed by the state
of Michigan, but the state could: con*
tinue to license operators and charge,
for transferring titles, etc: If yow
favor this amendment vote Yes, if opposed vote No.
Amendment No. Four
This is the socalled home-rule?
amendment and provides-that the legislature may set up a form, or forms*
of government for the consolidation
of counties and townships:. These
plans may be.,proposed' and submitted
to the people by a two-thirds vote of
the board of supervisors and would
place in the hands of the legislature-
the power to provide for numerous;
plans of county government If they so>
desire. If you favor this amendment
vote YES; if opposed vote NO.
(Continued on page seven).
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