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GLARE, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1942
New Series Vol. 50, No, IS
CITIZENS STATE
BANK COMPLETES
SUCCESSFUL YEAR
Leo Brown Tells
Kiwanis Club of
Lansing Meeting
The   Clare  Kiwanis   Club held  its
regular  6:30  dinner meeting at the
1040 ru«„_».-r, nr.A n5ror.tftr«lHoM   Doherty   "Wednesday  evening
1942 Ofhcers and Directors wltti me m.ofcram in c]iarge of Leo
Elected at Annual
Meeting Tuesday \
The stockholders of the Citizens
State Bank of Clare met in the directors room of the hank Tuesday afternoon to elect directors and officers for
the thirty-third year of the banking
institution.
■with tlie program in charge
Brown.
Leo gave an interesting report on
the mid-winter meeting of officers and
commitee chairmen of the Michigan
Kiwanis, held at the Hotel Olds in
Lansing all day Friday, January 9.
The meeting was. in charge of
Kiwanian Governor Archie Mayotte
and Governor of Michigan Murray D.
VanWagoner was the principal speaker.    The theme of the meeting was
C. H. S. DEBATERS
DEFEAT GLADWIN
FORENSIC TEAM
Ends Series of League Contests With Excellent
Record
James S. Bicknell, Mark H. Bicknell,
J. Stuart Bicknell, Wm   H. Bicknell, ~&tiQ—{ ^nse, "^itn"program" plan-
Mrs. A. E, Mussell and Dr. A. E. Mul- (nlQg fQr tte year &n important feature.
Mussell and Dr. A,
der were reelected directors
James S. Bicknell, who has been a
stockholder and director of the bank
since May 18, 1911, and president for
the past fourteen years, was reelected
to this, office.
Other officers elected are:
Dr. A. E. Mulder—Chairman of the
Board.
J. Stuart Bicknell—Executive Vice
President.
Mark H. Bicknell—Vice President.
Theo Wallington—Cashier.
Frank LaGoe — First Assistant
Cashier.
Dorothy Schlafley—Second Assistant Cashier.
The Bicknells, Mrs. Mussell and Dr.
Mulder have been prominently associated in local banking circles for many
years and are very well and favorably
known throughout Central Michigan.
Mr. Wallington has been employed
in the local bank since July 15, 1936,
except for for five months when he
was cashier of the State Bank of
Augusta. Previous to this he had had
fourteen years of banking experience
in the Lake City State Bank, and is
still a director of that bank.
Mr. LaGoe came to the local bank
June 1st of this year, from the Exchange Savings Bank at Mt. Pleasant,
where he had been for two years, having been employed in the Marion State
Bank two years previous to this.
Miss Schlafley has been employed in
the local bank for the past five years.
The Misses Donna Tubbs and
Dorothy Shaver will continue with the
bank as bookkeepers.
Through the conscientious and efficient efforts of the officers, directors
and'^ entire staff, the bank has ^nstj
completed its-most successful year,
since the organization of the institution, continuing its usual progressive
growth. During the year deposits
have increased over $100,000.00 and
assets have increased to a total of
more than ?1,400,000.00.
At this date the cash balance and
marketable securities of the bank
totaled ?678,000.00. Federal banking
laws require that for each ?10.00 deposited the bank must have ?1.00
capital. The ratio in the local bank is
considerably above this requirement.
The success of the bank is due in no
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PIONEERS RETAIN
CASPER BY 31-28
VICTORY FRIDAY
To Play Remus and Gladwin Here Tonight and
Tuesday
GLENN POET HERD Or BROWN
SWISS COWS COMPLETFS TFST
WITH SEVF.w HEAD IN MILK
The' Poet Brown Swiss herd at Clare
has completed its first year on Herd
Test, according to Fred S. Idtse, Secretary of the Brown Swiss Cattle
Breeders Association, Beloit, Wisconsin. There were seven cows in milk
during the year, six ol them produced
over 400 lbs. B. F. in Class C. The
seventh cow was a yenrl'ng heifer who
produced 307.44 lbs. B. F.
Nora's Forest Boy of Osciola 22510
had four daughters in milk in the herd
that, produced from 428.01 lbs. B. F. to
474.54 lbs. B. F.
Janie of Clay Crest 60937, a 4 year
old daughter of Linden Ruben 32610,
was the high cow of the herd, producing in 321 days 12,661.5 lbs. of
3.81% milk, 482.29 lbs. B. F.
"Casper," a native of the Clare High
School campus, has been assured of
a home in the local school, at least
until next fo6tba.ll season, by virtue
of a win over St. Louis High School's
basketball squad by the Clare Pioneer
basketeers last Friday evening. The
game was played in the local gym and
the final score was 31-2S.
All too often in recent years "Casper" has been brought home by the
football team, retained by the basketball squad in the first game of the
season and then lost again in the final
basketball tilt, but things have sort
of reversed themselves during the past
year.
This time Casper's custody was won
in the early 1941 basketball game, lost
in the football season," won by back by
the Pioneer basketball squad last December 9th, and all "priority rights"
cinched Friday evening.
The Pioneers will meet two basketball aggregations during the coming
week who will "be out for blood" because of the defeats suffered at the
hands of the locals last season.
Remus, who lost both of last
season's games to the locals, will play
here this Friday evening; and Gladwin
who lost both regular season games
and one tournament game to the
Pioneers a year ago, will come here
next Tuesday evening.
Both games will commence at 7:30
and the visitors will be here with "a
will to win." Your attendance aid
loyal support will be appreciated by
the lads who are going to do their
level best for our school.
Barbara Caple, Douglas Paxton, and
John Hall, representing Glare High
School, on the decision over Gladwin
High debaters in the. local high, school
auditorium last Friday afternoon.
Clare High had the negative and
Gladwin High the affirmative of the
Michigan, High School Forensic Association proposition: "Resolved: That
every able-bodied male citizen in the
United States should be required to
have one year of full time military
training before attaining the present
draft age."
The contest was judged by Dr. Wilbur E. Moore, Head of the Speech Department of Central Michigan College
of Education at Mt. Pleasant. He gave
the decision to the Clare team on all
five points of case analysis, evidence,
argument, refutation, and delivery.
Danny Burdo was the chairman and
Sidney Court and Floyd Callihan were
timekeepers.
This win over Gladwin in the Central Michigan Debate League and a
forfeit to the affirmative by East
Tawas in the general schedule this
week, gives the local speakers a
record of only one defeat (Pincon-
ning) in eight league debates.
This will entitle Clare High to its
second consecutive honorary plaque
from the University of Michigan for
excellence in debating.
Clare High will also be among those
schools in Michigan permitted to
enter the State Elimination Debate
Tournament some time the last week
of this month. Only schools who have
won three-fourths or more of their
league debates may enter this contest.
Last Wednesday afternoon, January
14, Bay City Central's affirmative team
came to Clare for a practice skirmish
with the Clare High negative. They
used the new style cross-examination
type which proved very interesting
and entertaining for both participants
and audience.
Auto Tax Stamp
Sales Expected
to Open Monday
Post-office officials ....have announced
that Federal automobile tax stamps
will go on, sale Monday in post offices
throughout the state. The initial $2.09
tax is payable not latef than February
1 and the stickers will be good until
July 1, when new ones will he sold at
the rate of $5,00 a year. Every car
must display one.
Guy T. Helvering, commissioner of
internal revenue, had announced in
Washington that the stamps would go
on sale immediately to avoid congestion at ■ the sales points, but stamps
had not been received at the local
post office late Thursday and it was
expected they would, not be available
here before Monday.
Local motorists are urged to purchase their stamps as soon as possible,
upon their arrival, to facilitate their
distribution and make it -possible for
post-office employees to serve them
promptly.
County Defense
Council to Meet
Monday Evening
A meeting of the Clare County Defense Council will be held in the
Council's recently established headquarters on the second floor of the L.
W. Jackson building in Clare, Monday
evening, January 19, to coordinate defense activities in the county.
Organization for home defense is
well underway in the county and the
board expects to malce further appointments at the meeting.
The public is urgently requested to
cooperate with the defense council in
their important work during our national emergency, and those appointed
to special duties should perform them
willingly.
IMPORTANT MEETING
OF FOOD DEALERS TO
BE HELD AT HARRISON
Methods   of   Increasing   Food
Stamp Business to be
Discussed
COUNTY RED CROSS
CHAPTER MEETS AT
FARWEUMONDAY
Knitting Glasses Organized
to Meet Demands for
Warm Garments
Have you anything to SELL—Try
a Clare Sentinel liner next week.
Curtailment of Automobiles and
Tires to he Followed by Limiting
Use of Other Defense Materials
The President gave the signal and, primarily a matter of cars and tires.
America's war production machinery, But already other changes are on
already   rolling,   switched   into   high  their way, changes which will be re-
gear. Today we are moving at constantly quickening speed along the
only sure highway to victory—the
hard tand rocky road of self sacrifice.
There's not a one of the whole 131,-
000,000 of us, probably—nian, woman
or child—who won't have carried
some part of the burden of this war
before it ,is oyer, before the Japanese
are flapped back onto their own
islands and disarmed, befbre Hitler
and his stooge Mussolini and their
followers —willing and * .unwilling —
have.been made harmless. ''Expressed
in terms of cold cash, th'e',huge"l942'
program pf ,tanks 'and. guns and pian.es
and ships.;wiil.cbst ihQre;lthaV$40'd Jtoir
every,jfiitieh. of thesVlp'nitea-Siiie'p/ ''
So, j fori the, ,c»isis.4n, materna^s'/need^
e<* jj(MtatM»; v4^;.prod^ie^6r^1',,3pro^ni,
haa .,j?een y^egecte^-v^fiijepyj^ln";'^
nation's, auto   salesrooms   aud """~Jj
supply   stores.    So   far   it's   been
ilected in the products displayed on
the shelves of tradesmen in thousands
of towns and villages when 'present
stocks are exhaiisted.
Take clothes, for one thing. Clothe3
are going to change. They are going
to look different, and they are going
to be different, too. That's because
we are cut off from sources of wool in
Australia and New Zealand, and because so much wool is needed for
military uniforms. There's from 40
to 50 per cent lesB wool available for
civilian use "this year and it's going'
to'mean-that overcoats made probably
will be made out of a mixture- of
Virgin -wool and re-used wool, and that
coats will be shorter and pants-
jErougers'BklnjplerVaTid'an end, for the
'{Itir^tidiil'-'of We Hvo panitfl suit.''"'
^'TJi'e' vitaPnetea foFmore and. more
alcohol Wtaake explosives-is going-to
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Orvil T. Vanderwalker, of Clare,
Chairman of the Food Industry Committee of Clare County, announced
today that there will be a general
meeting of all retailers of food, who
are participating in the Department
of Agriculture's Food Stamp Plan, on
Wednesday, January 21, at 2:00 o'clock
in the afternoon in the Court House
at Harrison.
John W. Piercey, Area Supervisor of
the Surplus Marketing Administration
of Cadillac, Michigan, will lead the
discussion.
"Many questions about how to
accept food stamps have arisen since
the inauguration of the plan in November, and this is a chance for every
merchant to have his problems
solved," said Mr. Vandewarker. "This
is very important as all merchants are
held responsible for the way they
handle food stamps by the Federal
Government. Methods of increasing
the Food Stamp business in Clare
county will also be discussed," he
added.
All merchants, who have not yet
registered to accept food stamps, and
wish to do so, must attend this meeting in order to have their applications
approved.
Interest and enthusiasm were manifest in the regular monthly meeting of
Clare County Red Cross Chapter in
the Farwell library monday evening.
Plans for future work, were discussed and election of officers completed.   The officers are:
Chairman—Mrs. G. E. Lamb, Far-
well.
First Vice Chairman—Mrs. Harold
Fleming, Clare.
Second Vice Chairman—Mrs. William Hibbard, Harrison.
Secretary—Mrs. A. H. Horton, Clare.
Treasurer—Morrel Clute, Clare.
* Executive Committee— Mrs. E. S.
Chaffee, Clare;*Mrs. F. Bush, Harison;
Mrs. Ray Schofleld, Farwell.
Chairman of Sewing-tMrs. Stuart
Bicknell, Clare. **"-   •
Chairman of Knitting Instructions—
Mrs. Willard Bicknell, Clare.
Preparations are under way for
Home Nursing and First Aid instructions. The instructors will be announced later.
Some delay has been experienced in
the delivery of the yarn and not all
has yet arrived. As soon as available,
this yarn for the knitting of sweaters
and socks will be distributed.
In the meantime there is plenty of
other work to be done. Some of the
articles asked for are laprobes for use
in wheel chairs, etc., toe socks, property bags, cushion covers, stump
socks, hot water bottle covers, ice bag
covers, etc. Material for the above
articles must be furnished by home
units and through donations.
A call for workers has gone out.
Anyone willing to help in this work
can get information by inquiring of
any of the officers or chairmen.
The next meeting will be in the
County Nurses headquarters in the
Clare City Hall, February 9.
Anyone who bought a membership
in the annual Red Cross Roll call is a
member and will be wecomed at these
meetings.
Announce Knitting Class
Chairman Mrs. Willard Bicknell announces that a class in knitting will be
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LOCAL CHARACTER
EVICTS TENANT
AT POINT OF GUN
Car Theives Quickly Ap-.
prehended and Jailed      !
Tuesday j
J, E- '.'Spike Horn" Meyers, widely
known proprietor of the Spike Horn
Bear Ranch, between Clare and
Harrison on US-2?, was arrested Saturday, January 10, by Sheriff Seaver
Amble, on the charge of "threat
against the person," The complaint
was signed by William Messacar, who
has operated the popcorn and lunch
concessions at Spike Horn Ranch the
past few years. Accord'ng to repoi-ts,
Messa'car had leased the concessions
for another year, but through 'misunderstanding, Spike Horn is alleged
to have ordered him out of the business place at the point of a gun. j
Spike Horn was brought before Justice Kyle McK-'nnon at 11:00 o'clock
Wednesday morning and a jury selected. The case was called for trial at
1:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon
with Prosecuting Attorney Donald E.
Holbrook representing The People of
the State of Michigan and Spike Horn
pleading his own case by his own
preference.
The jury found the defendant guilty
and the following sentence was imposed: "He is required to enter into1
a recognizance to keep the peace with
the people of the State of Michigan
and particularly with William Messacar for the period of two years from
this date. Recognizance bond shall be
in the amount of $1,000 with two
sureties properly approved by the
Court,
"He was remanded to the custody of
the Sheriff of Clare county until such
time as the said bond shall be presented and duly approved or until such
time as he is otherwise released by
due rocess of law."
Eugene Wyman
County Chairman
Paralysis Drive
Abner E. Larned, active State Chairman of the Fight against Infantile
Paralysis Drive which opens in Michigan January 12, today announced the
appointment of Eugene Wyman, of
Clare as Clare County Chairman of the
dr've and arrangements for the President's Birthday Ball on January 30.
"Mr. Wyman, in accepting this responsibility," Larned said, "already is
planning the enlistment of civic leaders to help in the drive for funds and
assured a greater campaign than ever
before." • I ,
•Mr. Wyman, in accepting the appointment, s.aid all residents of Clare
county will be asked tp help through
direct donations to &'. collection of
dimes campaign, through greeting
cards to be sent to the President at
the White House" and by ticket pur-
cases to Birthday balls.
CLARE COUNTY TREASURER'S
REPORT CORRECT AS FILED
WITH CLARE COUNTY CLERK
A difference in the grand totals in
the County Treasurer's Annual Report to the Board of Supervisors appeared in the,.Supervisors' Proceedings published in last week's Clare
Sentinel. In both cases the grand
total should have been  $2,909,834.83.
The error was made in transcribing
the original report to the publishers'
copy and the original copy filed in the
County Clerk's office is correct in
every respect.
ANNUAL STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
The annual stockholders meeting of
the Farmers Independent Produce Co.
will be" held in the Clare City Hall,.
Wednesday evening,- January 21, 1942,
'With program; 6:00 to -8500 p. m„ pancake and sausage" supper,-. business
meeting,'* ele'etioa.'Jbt-,<Brector»,. book
report)" secretaryf."report; ••. speaker,
muBlc,"d'aricjng arid fcftxet.>..r iv"
:n -:*:•..   «,-< ^^.icdjijjijft^;,!,'   .-tr
Car Stolen Here
A 1937 Oldsmobile coach belonging
to Norman Maxwell, of this city, was
stolen from near the intersection of
Fourth and McEwan streets at about
11:30 a. m. Tuesday, January 13, by
Bobby Edwards, 17, of 5521 Third St.,
Detroit, and Nolan Steele, 18, of 993
(Continued on Page SiX»
Frank Holder
Arranging for
Highway Meet
Quoting from the January 7th issue
of the Fort Myers (Florida) News-
Press :
"Frank Holder of Cincinnati, Ohio,
executive vice president of the Taft
Highway Association, will leave tomorrow for Chattanooga, Tennessee,
after spending a month with friends
at s"an Carlos Lodge at Fort Myers
Beach. Mr, Holder, who has spent the
past eleven seasons in Fort Myers, is
going to Chattanooga to make arrangements for the Taft Highway winter
convention March 16-17.
'One of the speakers at the Taft
Highway convention will be Sergeant
Alvin York who is an officer of the
association.
"At present the route is better than
ninety-nine per cent paved and the
proper resolutions are ready for action
in Congress to give the highway a
federal designation. The plan is to
make the Taft route Federal highway
27. At present considerable of the
route is already designated No. 27
and it will be appropriate to give that
number to the entire highway because
William Howard Taft .was the 27th
president ofc;.tb»::UBited States/! ..-„■;.£;
It Is-exptct^^afcadeletAtioBitofli
ClartJirtH^ttaltad-th* wiait«E.nifietin*
.»tr Chattanooga.   ,   f      'Jty^vAzcJC.
FIRST DAIRY MEET
WELL ATTENDED AT
CLARE HIGH SCHOOL
Other Meetings to Follow With
Next Scheduled Monday,
January 19th
CLARE YOUNG MEN
LEAVE THIS WEEK
TO BEJNDUCTED
Local Young Men Voluntarily Enlist in Marines
and Navy
Delbert R. Hubbard, of Evart, formerly of Clare R-2, left here Wednesday; and Wilbur W. Sailer, of Mt.
Pleasant, formerly of Farwell, left Mt.
Pleasant Thursday, with credit to the
local board, for Fort Custer, for induction into the United States Army.
Both young men had previously passed
pre-induction physical examinations at
Saginaw:"
Join Marines and Navy
Russell Lane, of Beaverton, employed by the Michigan Bell Telephone Company here for the past several months, resigned his position
December 31st and has voluntarily
enlisted in the United States Marine
Corps.
Barney Scott, of Clare, has sold his
interest in the S. & J. Service Station
to his former partner, Lawrence Jackson, and went to Lansing Friday
morning of last week and enlisted in
the United States Navy.
Clare Lile Waite, who has made
his home with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Lyle Waite, northeast of Clare,
accompanied Barney to Lansing and
also enlisted in the United States
Navy. The boys will go to Detroit
Monday, where they will be assigned
to duty.
The first of a series of ten dairy
meetings, with the objective of increasing production, was held Monday
January 12, in the agriculture room
at Clare High School. The following
farmers Avere present: Russell Sharp,
Henry Sharp, Robert C. Kleiner, Jay
D. Clute, Dale C. Davis, Harry Wild.
Philip Ely" '^ohn Walworth, Jerome
FloOd, Walter Garchow, Norman
Schroeder, and K. Swanson, agriculture teacher, "of Farwell.
The value of alfalfa hay as a dairy
feed was discussed, and a few simple
rules such as: Regularity of milking,
stripping after the milking machine,
comfortable envh'oninent for the animals, and access to plenty of water,
were suggested. It was emphasized
that we should increase production
with the animals on hand ancl not go
out and buy expensive herd stock,
with the possibility of low prices after
the war. It was suggested to feed the
feeds which were at hand and not buy
expensive feeds. Rations were worked
out to fit the farmers' needs and to
include such crops as cull beans, pot-
tatoes, and soybeans.
The second meeting will be held
Monday, January 19, at Clare High
School, in the agriculture room. It's
not too late to join. Anyone interested
is invited to come.
METHODIST MINISTERIAL
MEETING HELD AT GARCHOW
HOME TUESDAY MORNING
Mr. and Mrs. William Garchow
opened their home Tuesday morning to
a ministerial meeting of the sub-district of Methodist Big Rapids district.
The meeting was called to order at
ten o'clock by Rev. Charles W, Mackenzie, of Mt.,Pleasant, chairman. He
was ably assisted by Dr. Jones, Supt.,
of the Big'Rapids District.
Dinner' Was served at noon and a
social hour followed. Ministers and
their wives were present .from Gladwin,
Sanford, Averill, Coleman, Clare, Rosebush,' Mt. Pleasant, and Shepherd.
Specials.; at\ Jackson's, Market—Lard
14c-lb., Ring Bologna .or Liver
;SausagQ i$c\lbv, Hamburg Steak 18c
lb.,; JPork Sausage;:18c lbv Bacon 19c
Ib.r'feeef Roast,$6c ilb,;. Porji rRoast
tfbeltf. Foo*rBtampr,Uken here. 14U
Doris Sparbel
Member of Clare
Sentinel Staff
Mrs. Rolland Witbeck, who has been
a member of the Sentinel- office staff
since September, 1940, has resigned
and will move with her husband and
baby daughter to Mt. Pleasant this
week end.'
Miss Doris Sparbel, who has been
employed as clerk and later bookkeeper at Davys' department store for the
past five years, will fill the vacancy
at the Sentinel office. Miss ' Sparbel
is an experienced and congenial young
lady and will be welcomed by the
Sentinel staff and patrons.
Mrs. Witbeck's happy disposition
"nd efficient manner will be missed by
staff and patrons alike, but her husband's business connections have
made it necessary for them to mpve
to Mt. Pleasant, where he is employed
at the Kroger store.
CIRCUIT CODRT
TO CONVENE MON.
JANUARY 26TH
Three Petitions for Naturalization .to Be Heard
by Judge Hart
Among the issues to be decided at
the January term'of Circuit Court convening at the'Court House in, Harrison Monday, January 26, are three
petitions for naturalization and four t
criminal cases. The bench will be
occupied by Judge Ray Hart.
The calendar follows:
Petitions for  Naturaliation
Louise Marie Hales.
Frank Irwin.
Greta Pearlie Masten.
Criminal Calendar
The People vs. Bob Stager, breaking and entering.
The People vs. Walter Hergenroe-
der, breaking without entering.
The People vs. Paul Oakley, removing mortgaged property.
The People vs. Lynes  Oakley, removing mortgaged property.
Issues of Fact
Richard I. Bonninghausen vs. Consumers Power Company, ejectment.
Edna Carptner, Frank Van Liew, et
al vs. Edwin E. Pen-in, ejectment
Farm Land, Inc. vs. Matthew W.
Schmid, ejectment.
Sarah Hajdler vs. City of Clare,
trespass on the case.
Doherty Hotel, etal vs. Detroit Zoological Society, attachment.
Dessert & Brown Lumber Company
vs. Herbert Randall, assumpsit
Catherine M. Mitchell vs. J. B. De-
vitt, trespass on. the case.
Maryland Casualty Co. vs. John R.
Hall.   Trespass on the case.
Petition    of    Bonninghausen,
Petition to discharge mortgage.
Chancery Calendar
Richard  I.  Bonninghausen  vs.
celia Hansen and Edwin H.  Draper.
Bill to quiet title.
Gladys Wolven vs. Donald Wolven,
Divorce.
Homer Douglas vs. Mabel Davis,
Joseph Miller Davis, Harry E. Tope,
David Smith and Pure Oil Co. Bill to
quiet title.
John A. Struble vs. Lincoln Lowe
and Eva Lowe.   Bill to quiet title.
"Violet Ina Randle vs. Floyd Theodore Randle.   Divorce.
Albert C. Wolfe vs. Mildred Wolfe.
Divorce.
Ernest Hammond vs. Pearl Hammond,
Divorce.
Marie Fuseo vs. Joseph Fusco. Di-
vorce.
In the matter of the petition of Vernon J. Brown, Auditor General of the
State of Michigan for the sale of certain land for the taxes assessed thereon for the year 1939 and previous
years.
Fred L. Blaisdell vs. Leta Blaisdell.
Divorce.
(Continued on Page Seven)
Inc,r
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Skates Sharpened by factory method. Tit our new machine. Clare
Hardwai'e & Furniture Co. 14tf
CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY
SCHOOL ELECTS OFFICERS
LAST SUNDAY MORNING
The election of officers in the Congregational Sunday School last Sunday morning resulted as follows:
Superintendent — Mrs. CarletoQ
Garthe.
Assistant superintendent—Mrs. Mark
Bicknell.
Recording secretary — Kennetha
Barnes.
Financial secretary—Mrs". Edward
G. Johnston,
Supervisor of Primary Department
—Mrs. Stuart Bicknell.
.   Cradle   Roll   Superintendent—Pearl
Murdoch.
Organist and Director of Junior
Choir—Mrs. Harold Jones.
There are classes for all ages with
very devoted and competent teachers.
Tuesday, "13th/\Lucky Day for
Gordon Mowbray-When He Escapes
Injury in Explosion and Wreck
■ Gordon Mowbray, manager of the
Clare Road. Leveler Works here,
miraculously escaped serious injury in
an explosion at the road leveler works
at about 9:00 o'clock Tuesday morn-
•'ng, that shook buildings for more
than a block around the plant.
Gordon was about to weld the frame
of a truck with arc welding equipment
and had grounded the equipment on
the front bumper of the truck and
placed a baffle plate between the gasoline tank, attached to the frame of
the truck and the frame for protetion.
The instant he touched the electrode
of the welding equipment to the frame
of the truck the gasoline tank, which,
contained. only a small ■ amount of
gasoline, exploded, • ripping the tank
open its entire length,- and igniting the
gasoline. ..
I • He immediately opened the dpora^pf
j the building,, drove the'truck outside
and •■. extinguished   the   flames > Vith
snow, before they,could reach Another
gaaoUHe tank, under the dritet'i seat
of the truck.
Gordon was leaning over the gasoline tank at the time of the explosion
and it is a mystery how lhe escaped
serious injury. The force of the explosion blew fourteen wndow panes
out of the road leveler plant.
This would  be  enough excitement*
for most anyone for one day, but not
so with Gordon.    Following the ex--
plosion he drove  down town to get
window glasses to replace those blown
out in the .explosion, and as he was
crossing  McEwan   street  on  Fourth'5
street, a lady driving north on McEwan street is reported to have nia.
the red light at the intersection anSj
crashed-into the side of Gordon's car,.'
damaging it considerably..   ,\ ,
Gordon' .entirely. escaped ' injury iV
both accidents. To top the day" bff,.|iel
auslsted~tiis bowling team in wfartffig?
three    straight    games "from"' tS*j£
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