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GLARE. MICHIGAN. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1SS8
Ne^v Series Vol. 46, No. 34
MEMORIAL DAY
APPROPRIATELY
OBSERVED HERE
Two Local Bands, Appear-
ing in  New Uniforms,
Present Pretty Sight
in Parade
Thirty-three to Graduate at Fifty-first Annual Commencement
Memorial Day exercises weye held
in Clare last Monday with hundreds
of people observing the day and in at-
tSjidance at Memorial Day exercises
at Cherry Grove Cemetery.
The parade was formed at the Clare
City Hall led by the American Legion
colors and color guard, the firing
squad, American Legion Drum and
Bugle Corps, Veterans of the Spanish-
American and "World War, Sons of
the American Legion, Boy Scouts and
Clare High School Band.
Upon arriving at the Cemetery N.
Ii. Tibbils, Chairman of the Memorial
Day I3xercis.es, took charge of the program: and introduced the various numbers.
The first number of the program
*\*wa8 the Star Spangled Banner, played, by the Clare High School band.
After the Invocation Had been pronounced by Rev. George P, Stanford,
- Pastor of the Clare M. E. Church, and
Chaplain of the Clare American Legion Post, a short address was given
by John W. Dunlop, Mayor of Clare
and President of the Walter" H. Larman Post Drum and Bugle Corps.
Mayor Dunlop's Address is given in
full below:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen; friends and comrades:
"This, our Country's Memorial Day,
we observe with solemnity, to pay
homage to the soldier dead, to place
upon their graves the floral tributes
of love and loyalty in memory of them
all.
"Throughout this broad land today
the church bells chime to call the
people .to their places of worship for
solemn services in remembrance of
the men who have answered their last-
earthly roll call.
"Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war." We are at peace
with all the world. We do not hear
the martial tread of armed hosts, the
music of military bands, the blare ot
war toned" trumpets, the. rtimble of
the wheels-'of giant guns, as vast lines
of unifornited men sweep through the
streets of our cities on the way to
war.
"We waht peace. When the last act
of that terrible drama, the Civil War,
had been performed, General Grant
said, "Letf'us have peace."
"War brings in its devastating wake,
•death, destruction, broken hearts, the
shadows of misery upon' our homes.
Peace brings to all the contentment
that comes when we can engage in
our daily'avocations and enjoy to the
full the pursuits of trade, commerce
and consequent happiness. Let us
hope and pray that war's wrinkled
front will*-long be banished from our
land; that our children may grow to
their matured years with the love of
peace in their hearts, and the desire
that our skies may long be free of the
darkening shadows of the clouds of
war.
(Continued on Page Twelve)
Clare High
School
Class of
1938
*—-Alton
Arnold
IfeJ-
Phillip
Bradway
Seth
Butler
Francis
Cappaert
Norma
Carrow
Bernie
Cleveland
Clara
Dawson
Edwin
Foss
Lprena
Henderson
■ Dorothy
He*schele
Lawrence
Jackson
Jarvis
Kapplinger
Russell
.Koch
Regina
Krell
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Dorothy
,   Lansing
Gertrude
. MacAIonan
Claire
Maxwell
Rose
McFarland
Belle ■
Murphy
Lyman
Perkins
Wayne
Perkins
Harriet
Phinisey
Mervin
Robinette
Jo
Rosendahl
Warren
Sharp
Charles
Smith
Hilda
Smith
Neil
Sowle
Wi'l-am
Tryon
Jean
Wasson
June
White
Mary Ellen
White
CLARE LIBRARY
ASSOCIATION MAKE
SPLENDTO REPORT
Mrs. Ethel Allen Chosen as
President for Coming
Year
WINDOVER LAKE HOTEL
AM RESORT OPERATED
BY NEW MANAGEMENT
Leasees   Plan   Get-Acquainted
Piarty in Near Future With
Special Entertainment
The Annual meeting of the Clare
Library Association was held at the
City Library Friday evening.
The President, Mrs. L, W. Jackson
had charge of tp.e business meeting.'
The reports of the Sec, Mrs. Theodore Bowler, the Treasurer, Mrs. F.
Hochstetler, and the Librarian, Mrs.
A. Artibee, showed that, with the assistance of the President nothing had
been left undone to make it one of the
most successful years in the history
of the Association.
150 Adult books and 100 junior
books were added for distribution,
bringing our total number of books
up to 2882. 500 books have been
mended thro the W. P. A. mending
project.
We have furnished books for reading tables in 4 rural schools, the
teachers making the selections and
taking the responsibility of the books.
By means of our clippings on file,
in these days when history is in the
making, we've been able to give better service to students.
For future use we've started a
scrap book, composed pf articles of interest concerning our own city, clipped from the Clare Sentinel.
. Our average circulation Is 1000
.books per month.
The treasurer reported a balance on
hand of $589.00.
Mrs.  J.  Green,  chairman    of    the
nominating committee, presented the
following,   who    were    unaminously
elected:
Mrs. Ethel I. Allen, President.
Mrs. F. Hochstetler, Vice President.
Miss Francis Anderson, Secretary.
Mrs. Irwin Schlegel, Treasurer.
With this splendid board of Direc-
ors the coming year promises, to be
out-standing.
i W. J. Hale, one *of the tnree leases
^*\ who have t^ken over the Windover
Lake Hotel, called at The Sentinel office Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Hales states that he has had
eighteen years experience in this line
and his partners also are very capable
ladies, assuring the public the best
of service at this modern and comfortable hotel. They will cater to
special partieSi Sunday dinners, featuring steak and fish dinners, Frankenmuth style. There are cabins and
boats available on this beautiful lake
site that attract scores of vacationists
each season.
An opening date and party is being
planned and the public is invited to
come and. get acquainted and familiar*
ize themselves with the advantages offered at this Garfield township resort.
Watch fo?. further announcement.
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Perkins turned
the management of this popular resort
hotel over last Saturday "after spending two years in charge. The latter's
health is< very poor and they have returned to: their home in Alma.
RUMMAGE SALE
The St.' Cecilia Society "will continue
their rummage sale in the JDuUCan
building this Friday and Saturday^
RURAL FIRE TRUCK
SAVES URGE AREA FROM
BURNING LAST WEEK
James A. Clute as driver, and two
assistants, answered a call for the
rural fire truck last week Thursday!
afternoon to a field nine miles north
of Clare. Here they found a grass
fire threatening hundreds of acres of,
undergrowth timber and fields.
'The blaze had spread over an acre
of field, being whipped by a strong
wind,   but in spite of this men found lit-1
tie difficulty in mastering it as the'
truck carries 185 gallons of water to a'
load and has a forced pressure. |
Witnesses at the field state that had
the truck been twenty minutes later,
it would have taken several hundred
men to prace the fire under control.
COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES BEGIN
TONIGHT 1AT 8:00
ACTIVITIES IN HOME
ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
IN CLARE HIGH SCHOOL
THREE ACCIDENTS
OCCUR IN COUNTY
DURINGWEEK END
Three  People   Treated   at
Local Hospital and
Released
UPPER MARSHALL
OIL WELL DEVELOPED
IN CURE COUNTY
The only well in the state to be
producing oil from the upper Marshall
formation or at a depth of 1316 feet,
was developed in Clare County this
week by drillers Nels Berhier and
Clarence Tucker on the Loveless farm
just north of Cherry Grove cemetery,
Sunday, May _2nd, when the
gas test was being drilled, oil was
struck in the Marshall sand and-filled the casing several hundred feet,- As
soon as a gas head had formed in'the
casing the well flowed several barrels
into the tank.
Monday the well was acidized and
this increased the flow to the extent
that It is now declared to be a good
producer. '
Drillers on the Char tier's Currie No,
4 oil test near'the center of section
8, Vernon townahip, have ma-naged to
fiSh the last tools from the casing at
a depth of 400 feet and tbe bit is now-
working its way downward toward
tne liquid gold.
When returning to his home in Arthur township at 12:30 Sunday morning John Rhodes had his car struck
from the rear by another car driven by
Edgar West, of Grand Ledge, and considerably damaged. Bernie Mitchell
a passenger in the West car, had his
knee badly cut and was treated at the
Clare County General hospital.
While driving his car on US-27,
fifteen miles north of Harrison early
Monday morning, Dr. F. G. Slattery
suffered a deep cut on the right arm
when his car went out of control and
ran into a swamp.
Another accident occurred Sunday
afternoon when Lawrence Acker, of
Coleman, was towing another machine
near the east village limits of Far-
well. Two boys, aged 12 and 15
years were riding in the rear car, the
latter stearing same. In some way he
lost control of the machine, it going
to the ditch and striking a tree. Both
were painfully hurt and were brought
to the local hospital for treatment.
Stage Is Set for Glass Night;
Rev. Dawe Will Speak
at Vesper Services
Sunday June 5
This issue of the Sentinel carries
pictures of the member^ ol the 1938
graduating class who will receive their
diplomas from Clare high next week
Friday night. The class is not as
large as usual but we "jvill Youc^ for
them in knowledge and good looks a_i
we have had the privilege et working
with several members, the -.past year
as they edited The Pioneer.
The class night program will be
held tonight at the school auditorium,
commencing promptly at 8:00 o'clock.
The stage will have the appearance
of a school room with Neil Sowle acting as teacher, and the following numbers will be rendered:
Opening song, "School Days."
Class history, Regina Krell
Class will, Mary Ellen White
Class poem,, original,1 Clara Dawson
Piano solo, Regina Krell
Boys quartet, selection, "I've Been
Working in the School Room", Mervin
Robinette, Kenneth Haines, Seth Butler, Bernie Cleveland.
Closing  song,  original,  class   song.
The Boys Home Economics classes
served a luncheon Thursday at 12:00.
The boys divided themselves into
family sized groups and each member
helped in the preparing of the food
needed* for their family.
The tenth grade Home Economics
class served a dinner Thursday at
4:30. They did the marketing, food
preparation and serving. The cost of
the meal was divided between the
girls as they served several meals during the year.
Ten girls of the Home Economics
classes served a luncheon furnished
by the city, to the visiting bands on
Saturday, May 27 at noon.
JUNIOR-SENIOR
BANQUET SERVED
AT BARNES CAFE
After the Program All Returned to School Gym
for the Formal Dance
The annual Senior Vesper service
will be held Sunday night, June 5th at
8:00 o'clock.
The following program has been
prepared:
Processional, Doris Gerow.
Music, "I Come to Thee"
Gertrude MacAIonan
Mervin Robinette
Message to graduates, Building permanent-Attitudes", Rev. Albert Dawe.
Class motto, The door to success is
labeled, "Push."
'     Class colors, gold and white
!    Class flowers, yellow roses.
|    Seniors chosen as members of the
National Honor Society:    Neil Sowle,
I Kenneth Haines, Regina Krell, Hilda
Smith.
GRANT RESIDENT
DEPARTS THIS LIFE
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
At his home in Grant township last
Friday occurred the death of Fred C.
Waltz, 71, following an illness of
many months, rie is survived by his
widow, Mrs. __va Waltz."and a sister in
Aurora, 111.
Funeral services were held from
the Church of God Tuesday afternoon,
H. L. Cleveland officiating and interment made in Cherry Grove cemetery.
LARGE VOLUME OF
TRAFFIC HANDLED
DEVOID OFACCIDENT
Tourist. Booth Kept  Busy
Over Week End Answering Inquiries
of Motorists
RUSSELL THURSTON
ENTERTAINS C. M.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
If you want a lot for your money
try a classifiedlitter in The Clare
Sentinel and get results.
CURE SCOUTS END
CAMP DRIVE SATURDAY
Clare Boy Scouts will be out in
force Saturday morning to sell Salt
Water Taffy, This will be the filial
drive to obtain money for camp.
Seventeen Scouts are to attend camp
Kepayshowink this summer from
troop 125. '    '
At the present time $35.00 lias been
made - toward the camp fund. ■ It is
hoped that the sale Saturday may
make it possible to pay at leant $4.00
on each scouts camp fee.
July Meeting Will Be at Crystal
and  Ladies Will  Be
Guests
The Central Michigan Funeral Directors association met last week
Thursday evening with Russell Thurston who is secretary and treasurer of
the organization. The sixteen members present enjoyed a chicken dinner served at the Durilop Cafe at 7:00
o'clock. Returning to the Thurston
home the regular business session
was conducted by the president, Ralph.
Chisholm, of Breckenridge. This was
followed by a social hour.
The next meeting will be held June
30th with L. W. Marcy of Crystal.
This is the annual meeting and officers will be elected.. Ladies are in*-
vited to this meeting and special plans
are being, made lot their enter tain?
ment,
Clare and its traffic officials feel
very fortunate that no accidents occurred in the city over the week end
and Decoration day when hundreds of
visitors and motorists were in our
city, many bound for the northern
playground of our state. Every effort
was put forth by Mayor Dunlop and
Chief of Police Wm. B. Dunlop that
traffic be handled rapidly and Without delay as Clare is the state's intersection of US-27 and US-10.
The new Tourist, information booth
was open over this week end and
also played a very active part in caring for the needs of the traveling
public. Mrs. Mabel Horton who was
in charge, states that scores of inquiries were made as to eating places,
the Clare Trailer plant, city park,
tourist park ana its facilities, and
routes to nearby lakes and destinations north.
Mrs. Horton requests that local people having sleeping rooms available
for tourists during the season register same with her as the demand for
this accommodation becomes very popular and she will do all in her power
to please both the tourist and local
people.   Call phone 105.
The bootr will be open daily at the
close of school June 10th.
The annual Junior and Senior banquet was held in the private dining
room at the Barnes Cafe Wednesday
evening, June 1st*, After enjoying
the dinner, the program *was opened by
Frances Duncan, Junior class president. The entire program was worked
out under the airplane theme.
Frances welcomed the seniors and
presented the toastmaster, '*. falter
Kleiner. Walter introduced Betty
Walker who gave a toast to the Seniors. : The toast to the Juniors was
presented by. Ed Foss, President of the
Senior class.
Dorothy Telder and Leona Samborn
accompanied by Miss Donna Hornbeck
sang, "Let's Sail to Dreamland." John
Schaaf gave an interesting talk about
the class of '38 as freshman-in high
school. His speech was entitled
"The Take Off."
After getting the Senior class off
the ground he turned them over to
Clara Burdo who told of their flight
as sophomores and juniors.
Austin F. Bates was given the duty
of landing the class of '38 and he presented a very fine talE on the subject
of "The Landing". Mr. Bates stressed
the point of having enough altitude or
reserve when making a landing and
suggested that the altitude of the student be his good record in school.
Other musical numbers, during the
program were "Top O' The Morning",
a piona duet by Alyce Foell and Florence Ryan, and "Hills", by LaForge,
sung by Mrs. Hansen.   .
At the close of the program the Juniors and Seniors and guests went to
the high school for the formal dance.
Decoration of the gymnasium 'car
ried out the airplane theme in the
form of a hangar. The color scheme
was green and gold decorations with
red roses, the Senior class flower.
THIRTEEN BANDS
HOLD FESTIVAL IN
CLARFJATURDAY
McEwan Street Presents Inspiring Sight  as  537
Musicians Parade
BAYES BAKERY INSTALLS
NEW COOKIE MACHINE
The Bayes Bakery took another
forward step this week with the installation of a new cookie machine.
The machine was installed by W.
A. McKeag, of Charlotte, who remained here this week as a special demonstrator. The Bayes.Bakery is making a special introductory offer with
a sale of a variety' of delicious cookies this week. For full particulars
about this bargain sale see Mr. Bayes
advertisement in this issue of the
Sentinel.
"WILD BILL" WELCH ENTERTAINS LARGE CROWDS
AT RUDY'S FIELD SUNDAY
Thirteen bands from high schools
throughout central Michigan, composing of a total of 537 musicians, presented in Clare last Saturday a most
colorful and inspiring pageant of
marching and music.
Bands from Bay City, Edenville,
Elkton, Ithaca, Mt. Pleasant, Midland,
St. Johns, Alma, Shepherd, Reed
City, St. Louis, and Clare were represented at the Festival.
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, the
bands all assembled in'the City Park
to rehearse for the afternoon concert,
under the direction of George Amos
of Western State Teachers' College.
At 1:30 the parade formed on West
First "street and proceeded,-all bands
about one block apart, down McEwaia ..
to State street and to the school lawn.
Here they formed for the massed parade. In this over 500 musicians
marched, as one band playing Salutation March by Seitz, to the park. Here
they disbanded for the individual band
selections.
Each band then presented two numbers each, of its own choice, following which the massed band concert
took place, under the baton of Mr.
Amos. They played the following nui_t-
bers:
Anchors Aweigh, by Zimmerman      i
Oificer of the Day, by Hall. !
Grandiore Overture, by Delmater
New   Colonial  March,  by  M.   Hall
The Star Spangled Banner.
The bands were resplendent in their,
colorful uniforms, and camera fans,
were able to secure many striking
shots of both the parade and th«
massed band* concert.
Two bands from Bay City took part.
They were T. L. Hardy Junior Higti,"
school and Eastern Junior Higk
School, directed by Andrew F. Schott
and Charles H. White, respectively.
Other directors were: Neil G. Keyer,
Edenville; Orville E. Jessup, Mktok;1
Wm. J. Coburn, Ithaca; Preston May*
hew, Mt. Pleasant; Ted Nicholson^
Midland; Harold Pixley, .St. Johns; R,
A. Yoder, Alma; A. Servoss, Shexy.
herd; Kenneth V. Kincheloe, Ree*4
City; Herbert Saylor, St. Louis; an4
Richard Greenfield, Clare.
The color guard of the America:*
Legion, Walter Larman Post, Clare^
led the parade.
Richard Greenfield, Clare, was th#
acting chairman for the Festival,
The band members were all guest*
at noon Saturday ■ of the Clare City
Council, at a luncheon served by Miss.
Ruby Ulrey and the members of th«
Home Economics Department of th*
high school in the City Hall. The di*r*
ectors were guests at a luncheon at
Barnes Cafe of the Chamber of Commerce. Speakers at this luncheon
were Harold Fleming, president of th*
Chamber of-Commerce, Mayor Joh»
W. Dunlop, and A. H. Wilford, from
he Michigan State Fair, who spoke om
"Bands and Business."
• Chairman Richard Greenfield and
he band wishes to express their \ap«
-ireciation to the Chamber of Commerce, the* City Council, and th$j
teachers and school officials for the!**;
cooperation and assistance in making
this festival a success. j
FORMER CLARE YOUNG    '
MAN ENTERS LIFE
INSURANCE BUSINESS
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T. F. Demarest Has Been in Set^
vice- of State Conservations
Dept. Several Years
CONSUMERS POWER USERS
For prompt ana courteous service
pay your light and power bills at the
Citizens State Bank. _ .
The Thrill show, sponsored by- Walt-»
er H. Larman Post Drum and Bugle
Corps last Sunday afternoon, on Jack
Rudy's field one-half mile west of the
city was well attended and the members of the Corps were successful in
raising a considerable 3um toward the
I payment of the new uniforms.
| The show presented was "Wild Bill"
I Welch and his Motor Maniacs and the
J thrilling- automobile and motorcycle
stunts done by Mr. Welch, and his assistants were well worth the price of
, admission.'
i Only one accident, and that a minor
one, marred -the day's sport; the
motorcyclist who crashed his machine
against a solid board flaming wall
lowered his head a trifle too much at
the time of the crash and cut a gash
in his forehead. After being treated
by one of our local physicians* he" returned to the field' but was excused
from further service for the day.
iSveryone seeing the show pronounced it a success and stated that it ex*
e'eeded their expectations.
Tom F. Demarest, 1932 CliftoS
Street, Lansing, Michigan, who i£
well known and has many friendji'
around Clare, resigned on May 15,
after two and one-half years servicaj
with the State Conservation Departi
ment located in the upper peninsula,
and also at St, Helens, to become a*
sociated with the Bankers Life Company of Des Moines, Iowa.
While Tom will spend a good por*
tion of his time in Clare County, h«(
will maintain his office with, his fath*
er, Ben Demarest, at 302 American*
State Savings Bank Building, Lans?
ing, Michigan. Father Ben is one of
the Company's best salesmen, holding
the position as sixth best producer itf
the United States to May 1, and so_|
.Tom shows promises of following itt
his Dad's footsteps, evidenced by tht)
fact that he signed his contract witl*.
the Bankers Lif8 Company on May 2flj
and up to J-ct^vist-iiad'produced oai
the written, "examined, and paid-fOij
basis a total of $20,000 of busmesS.
Hls'many friends in Clare, as We'd
as over the State of -Michigan wiq
wish him continued success. i
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