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GLARE, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, X944
New Series Vol. 52, No. 36
RMER BUSINESS
MAN PASSES AWAY
AT EVART HOME
Otto S. Derby Laid at Rest
in Clare Cemetery
Wednesday
Otto S. Derby, a prominent and well
known Clare businessman of fifty
years ago, passed away at his home in
Evart Sunday morning, following a
year and a half of failing health which
culminated in a paralytic stroke Friday
of last week.
Otto Selleck Derby, the eldest son
of a family of five boys and one girl,
•was born, the son of Alfred P. and
Josephine Derby at Norwalk, Ohio,
October 10, 1862, and passed away at
Evart, Michigan, June 4, 1944, at the
age of eighty-one years, seven months
and twenty-five days.
He moved -with his parents to Tepin,
Wisconsin, in 1S63, to southern Michigan in 1865, to Petisville, Ohio, in 1867
and returned to Michigan in 1878, settling at Portland.
In 1882 he came to Harrison, Michi-'
gan, and "became engaged in the furniture business with a Mr. Fagan.
He was united in marriage with
Miss Etta A. Comstock, of Evart, iu
1886, and lived there until moving to
■Clare in October, 18S7.
Mr. Derby -was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business in
Clare for a number of years, when he
sold the undertaking business to Albert Thurston, the grandfather of Russell Thurston, and Mr. Derby contin-
ued in the furniture business here until 1912. He then began construction
-work with the Consumers Power Company and was engaged in this
■work until going to the Michigan
Home and Training School, at Lapeer,
in 1935, to do general repair work,
where he was engaged until retiring
in 193S.
He was a kind and loving husband
and father and a great lover of the
woods and out of doors and led a quiet
life.
He was preceded in death by a
daughter, Cora Lee, who died in infancy in 190S; and three brothers, Oscar,
Ralph and Victor. Victor passed away
only last Saturday and was laid at
rest Monday, at Otsego.
Otto S. Derby leaves to mourn their
loss, the bereaved widow; two sons,
Oise, of Clare, and Frank, of Saginaw;
one daughter, Lucille, at home; four
grandchildren, five great grandchildren, other relatives and many friends.
Funeral services were held from the
home,in Evart at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, with Rev. Chas.
Kleinhardt officiating, and interment
in Cherry Grove Cemetery, at Clare.
Arrangements were- in charge of
Thurston & Son.
Those attending the services from
here were Mr. and Mrs. Oise Derby
and Mrs. Mildred Wentworth and son,
Donald.
Extends Brake
Safety Campaign
Two More Weeks
Reporting "very significant" success
in a state-wide brake safety campaign
the state safety commission has extended the drive for another two
Weeks.
Maxwell Halsey, executive secretary, declared Sunday that road tests
of motorists' brakes had shown an im-
' provement from one unsafe set of
brakes in seven a month ago to one
in 23 during the past week.
CLARE-ISABELLA
SCOUT CAMPOREE
HELD JUNE 34
Local  Scouts Advanced
Rank at Court of
Honor
m
The Clare-Isabella District Boy
Scout annual Camporee was held at
Island Park, Mt. Pleasant, June 3-4,
He said 1083 cars not involved in'with 103 scouts and scouters camping
accidents out of the 15,508 inspected out and cooking their meals for the
on the highway by state police had de-| two days in true scout fashion. At
fective brakes, while 37 out of 336 in- the camp fire Saturday evening, stunts
volved in accidents had poor brakes, I were given by patrols, and a Court of
Violations tickets were issued to 756  Honor was held, with Stuart McDon-
persons during the month, he said.
CLARE HI SENIORS
GRADUATE FRIDAY
EVENING, JUNE 2
Dr. Guy Hill, of Michigan
State, Addresses
Senior Class
Water Safety
Program Needed
in Community
aid, Advancement Chairman of Clare-
Isabella District, presiding.
Thirty-two Scouts received advancements, and the Bronze Palm was
awarded to Ralph Lirones, of Troop
140, Mt. Pleasant. During the Camporee, the sixteen patrols present were
judged in how they packed and carried
food and equipment to camp,
making a camp site, how they
cooked, their leadership, conduct,
health and safety, camp craft, nature
hunt, and entertainment program.
Some of the judges of the various
events were Dr. R. H. Strange, E. B.
Clark, Elmer Graham, Arnold Koch.
Leo Cahoons, and A. E. McNeil. Emil
Pfister. of Clare, was in charge of the
The Clare High School closed its Camporee.
doors Friday, June 2nd, for vacation,, 'Clare T;.00p No 125 were repi.es€nt.
and the Commencement exercises for efl by Jack Rodabaugh) Junl0P Assist-
the Senior Class of 1944 were held ant Scout Ma8tar. Douglas Fleming,
that evening. The stage was attrac-l Senior Patvol Leadel.; Herb Byers,
tively decorated with baskets of sea-, Scrlbe. and scouts Tom Rodabaugh,
soual  flowers,  which  were  arranged'
The lives of a number of young peo- j
pie have been saved in this commun-!
ity by Boy and Cub Scouts and others Chairmen
trained in lifesaving and water safety.
The  parents  of children thus  saved
from drowning really appreciate the
value of such training,
The tragedy at Windover Lake Sunday evening undoubtedly would have
been averted had the little girl victim
been instructed in water safety. This
fact Is of little consolation to the bereaved parents, relatives and friends,
but a county-wide water safety program in this and other counties may
save lives in the future,
Think this over folks and encourage
such  an activity here before    other1
tragedies occur in this vicinity.
FIFTH WAR LOAN
QUOTAS SET FOR
THE TOWNSHIPS
and  Gallants
Meet in Clare This
Evening
to
Holiness Ass'n
to Hold Meetings
in Mt. Pleasant
Your nation calls on you again
support the vitally important War Finance Program. The Fifth War Loan
Drive, greatest to be launched by any
nation in the world's history, has set
a quota of more than half a billion
dollars on Michigan, $526,000,000, to be
exact. It will require the all-out efforts of everyone to reach this tremendous goal.
The Isabella County Holiness Association will meet in the Evangelical
Church in Mt. Pleasant, Friday, June
9, with Rev. F. A. Branson, of Midland, as the speaker. The services
will begin at 2:00 and 7:45.
The annual camp meeting of the
Holiness Association will be held in,
to Mt, Pleasaut, July 13 to 23, with the
Rev. S. Gr. Jennings, of Anderson, In
diana, as guest speaker of the camp.
The music will be furnished by the
Faculty. Quartet from the Kentucky
Mountain Bible  School.
Ample space is provided for camping and house trailers.
D-DAY SUCCESS
GIVES COURAGE TO
ALLIED NATION
Local   Pilot   Among   First
to Land Paratroopers
in France
DUFF McKINNON
PASSES TO GREAT
BEYOND JUNE 1
Last   Rites   Held   Sunday
With Burial at Cherry
Grove
BAPTIST SUNDAY
SCHOOL OBSERVES
CHILDREN'S DAY
Interesting    and    Inspirational
Program^ Presented by
Children
The Baptist Sunday School held
their Children's Day Program Sunday,
June 4th. Mrs. Harry Foss was chairman and was ably assisted by her
committee.
The program opened with the Sunday School singing, "Jesus Loves Me,"
and Iva Lee Foss and Barbara Siel
sang the chorus in Spanish; "A Child's'
Prayer," was given by Iva Lee; The
Children's Day offering was taken by
Jimmy Hendershot and Alfred Walworth.
Recitations -, were given by Clark
Kinsey, Bobby Redman, Shirley Horr,
Billie Siel, Dean Loomis; the playlet,
"Children of the Bible," was given by
Verna Jean Nash, Reine Reeder, Ruby
Foss, Jerry Redman, Alfred Walworth
an<l Jimmy Hendershot; Recitations—
Carla Mae Chaplin, Lavina White;
Playlet, "A Cake for Mother," Reine
Reeder, Ruby Foss, Barbara Paxton,
Dolores Jackson, Nancy Pyle; Recita-
■ "tions, Billy Redman, Clara Mae Horr,
Clara Jean Worstell; Mrs. Robert
Ryan, representing the children of yesterday, gave two very interesting
readings; Carla Mae Chaplin, Jean
and Janet Walworth, Kay Loomis and
Iva Lee Foss, of the Primary Department, gave the playlet, ''Everyone
should go to Sunday School;" "Dad's
Rheumatism," Jimmy Hendershot; Re-,
citations, Lucille Horr, Barbara Siel,
The group sang two choruses, "The
Love of Jesus" and "My Cup's Running Over," and the farewell was given by Barbara Paxton, The program
concluded with prayer by Emerson
Hampton.
which
by Mrs. John Nelson.
Thirty-eight members of the class
were led to their places by Douglas
Masten and Doris Maxwell, as. Miss
Doris Gerow played the prelude. The
audience sang, "America," led by Mrs.
Betty Williams.
Supt. Austin Bates, with a few remarks about commencement, announced the guest speaker, Dr. Guy
Hill. Director of Teacher Training,
Michigan State College, who used as
his subject, "Those Habits You Have
Built." He said, "We ourselves are a
bundle of habits, and are known by
our actions, habits mean personality
and character."
He stressed the fact that we make
our habits and urged the young people to learn the habit of wanting for
others all we want ourselves, and also
to learn the habit of self control. He
concluded his talk by saying, "Build
in Yourself, Habits which will make
for peace."
Garry Coveart presented the Class
Memorial, which was a gift of money
to be used on payment of new stage
curtains, and this was received by J.
Stuart Bicknell, a member of the
School Board. Two selections, "Lift
Up Thine Eyes" and "Springtime,"
were given by a Girls Double Quartette, with Mrs. Williams'directing.
Supt. Bates spoke of the National
Honor Society and told how students
were selected for it, after which Alumni members of the Clare Chapter initiated the new members into the
chapter. The new honor students this
year are: Ardeth Cleveland. Lois
Hartshorn, Barbara Murphy, Beverly
Sowle, Mary Lou Sutton and Rosemary Wright.
Scholarships were presented as follows: Supt. Bates presented the Cen .
tral Michigan College Scholarship to
Miss Barbara Murphy; Mrs. Harold
Schaeffer presented the Good Literature Club Scholarship to Miss Ardeth
Cleveland; *Rev. Charles B. Hahn
presented three Clare Methodist
Church Scholarships to Beverly Sowle
Lois Hartshorn and Kay Clute.
Principal ©mil Pfister presented the
class for their diplomas which were
given out by'Dr. A. E. Mulder, President of the School Board. Mr. Archbold received his son Paul's diploma,
as he is in service. Miss Gerow played
the postlude, as the Seniors retired.
Earl Bellows, Carlyle Coveart, Robert
Larmon, Jack Stewart, Jim Reeder,
Chuck Wright, Jim Woodwoyth, Jack
Wood worth, Lynn Hahn, and Joe Johnston. All received Camporee awards
and excelled in cooking.
Joe Johnston was advanced to 2nd
Class; Douglas Fleming, Life Scout;
Herb Byers, 1st Class and two merit
badges. Tenderfoots are Robert Larmon, Lynn Hahn, Tom Rodabaugh and
Carlyle Coveart.
The troop was transported to and
from Mt, Pleasant by the kindness of
Mrs. J. A. Reeder and C. M, Wright,
for which the Scouts were grateful.
FUNDS AVAILABLE
TO COUNTIES FOR
R0AD_PLANNING
Counties   to   Match   State
Appropriations for
Post War Work
FIGHTING FACTS
FIGHTING  5TH   VOLUNTEERS
OF CLARE  COUNTY
4th   Loan   Quota—$315,000
You Backed the Attack — $463,372
5th   Loan   Quota—$370,000
.Let's Fight For — $500,000
All chairmen and gallants are urgently requested to attend a rally at
War Loan Headquarters in the Burdo
Building in Clare, Friday June 9 at
7:30 o'clock.
Following are township quotas:
"Duff" McKinnon, who came here in
the lumbering days and has been well
known in this community since,
passed away Thursday, June 1, at
Traverse City, where he has made his
home for the past six months, and the
remains were brought to Clare Friday
afternoon,
Duffern Bismark McKinnon was
born the son of Alexander aud Ellen
McKinnon in Halton county, Ontario,
Canada, March 18, 1871, and passed
away at Traverse City, Michigan, June
1, 1944, at the age of seventy-three
years, two months and fourteen days,
the last of the family of nine sons.
He came to Michigan in 1880 to
cook in the lumbering camps and followed this vocation practically all of
his life, moving from this vicinity to
other localities and other states as
lumbering  activities  were  developed.
He was united in lharriage to Miss
Margaret Lowery, of Owosso, at Mt.
Pleasant, in 1891, and she passed
away in 1911.
As there were no children born to
this union, the only survivors are
nieces and nephews, several of whom
live in Clare and vicinity, and more
distant relatives and many friends.
Funeral services were held at the
Thurston Funeral Home at 2:00 o'clock Sunday afternoon, with Rev.
Harold Watson officiating, and interment in Cherry Grove Cemetery.
Winterfield
10,920.00
Summerfield
21,996.00
Frost
7,332.00
Franklin
4,512.00
Redding
18,046.00
Greenwood
7,896.00
Hayes
5,640.00
Hamilton
11,280.00
Freeman
11,280:00
Lincoln
7,896.00
Hatton
9,024.00
Arthur
10,152.00
Garfield
20,304.00
Surrey
29,892.00
Grant
25,380.00
Sheridan
23,688.00
'■*■*'■    A .   .
231.23S.00
Clare
110,644.00
Harrison
28,200.00
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-   t.—
-,„.-«■* ~
370,082.00
THIRTEEN YEAR
OLD GIRL DROWN
SUNDAYJWINbi
Lucille  Wood  Wades  Out
Beyond Her Depth at
Windover Lake
FRED E. FLEMING
DIES SUDDENLY-
AT EVART HOME
Are you investing lO per cent of
your income in the jpurelxase of War
Bonds?
Bee Planned to
Clean McKay Park
Next Wednesday
Next Wednesday evening, June 14th
members and friends of the Clare Rod
and Gun Club will hold a bee to clean
the grounds of McKay Park at Perch
Lake.
A pot luck lunch will be served, with
the club furnishing wieners, buns and
coffee, and the ladies may bring any
thing to eat they wish. All are requested to bring their own cups and
knives and forks.
Men, women and children will be
welcome and they are urged to be at
the park as soon as possible after 6:00
o'clock, fo reach the park, drive
three miles north of Clare to the Randall school, one and a half miles west
to the park road sign, and into the
park.
Those planning on attending are
asked to notify club Secretary Harold
Loomis, President Henry Doll, Rich
Amounts the various counties of
Michigan may obtain from the $1,000,-
000 postwar road planning fund set
up under Section 2, Public Act No. 57,
adopted by the 1944 special session of
the, legislature were announced today
by Highway Commissioner Charles M.
Ziegler. The counties may apply for
all or part of the money to which they
are entitled under the formula for
distribution of the money as set up by
the act. The formula is based on
population, area and road mileage.
_ | The counties are required to match
the state grants on a 50-50 basis.
The Highway Department today notified the counties on the maximum
amounts they may receive under the
postwar planning law and mailed a
sample of forms to be used in. making
applications for the money and instructions on procedure. In event a
county does not obligate all its money
by application before November 1,
1944, the rest of the amount will be
turned back to the fund for redistribution to other counties.
In applying for funds, counties are
required to list specific projects on
separate applications and. submit
them for approval to both the State
Highway Commissioner and the State
Administrative Board. After their approvals, the counties are then required
to prepare their plans and submit
them with a statement of expense.
After approval of the plans by the
Highway Commissioner and the Administrative Board the latter will authorize payment of half of the expense
of making the plans up to the limit
of the amounts for which the counties
may apply.
Following are the amounts available
to the counties under the postwar
planning act:
Clare ' 7,353.70
Gladwin 6,324.97
Isabella '■ 9,483.03
Mecosta 8,772.53
Midland " 8,242.93
Missaukee 7,53?.60
Osceola 7,679.73
Roscommon 6,342.60
SOFTBALL MEET
AT SCHOOL FIELD
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Recreation Program  Starts
Here Next Monday
Afternoon
Conducted   Shoe   Store
Clare Past Twenty
Years
in
D-Day, long awaited by an anxious,
world,- has come—apparently at aa
ideal time—as hundreds of thousands
of American, British and Canadian airborne and seaborne forces landed in
northwestern France early Tuesday
morning, establishing beachheads and
plunging inland in the greatest invasion in history.
Landings took place from 6:00 to
8:25 a. m. British time (Midnight to
2:25' a. m. E.W.T.) with 4,000 ships
and several thousand smaller craffc
transporting the troops.
The first radio reports of the invasion reached here several hours later
and it was not until about S;30 Tuesday morning that Clare County Civilian Defense Chairman Laurence Jackson received official uotice from Governor Kelly that the invasion had commenced and 10:00 o'clock was the time
i set for the blowing of whistles, sound-
  j ing of sirens and ringing of bells, to
Tragedy befell the Windover Lake be followed by a moment of cessation
community Sunday evening when Miss | of all activities and prayer for the
Lucille Wood, the thirteen year old I success of the invasion,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles! County Civilian Defense Commander
Wood was drowned in the lake be-, Conrad Walker was immediately not>
tween 5:00 and 6:00 o'clock. j fled and the word passed on to all pos-
Lmcille, unbeknown to her mother, j sible communities in the county. A£
who is ill and had warned the child,! 10:00 o'clock the din of local fire slr-
who was not able to swim and not ens, the old steam fire whistle which
familiar with the dangers of the deep j had been installed at the cheese fas-
water, not to go into the lake, went I tory as a civilian defense warning sig-
in bathing with other children. Shejnal, and the church bells of the city,
waded out to the drop-off of about j announced that D-Day had arrived and
twenty-five feet and finding herself j as the noise subsided the citizens o£
beyond her depth, called for help. the community joined the world wife.
Her father, who was also unable to prayers on their lips or In their hearts
swim, came to her rescue but could j that loved ones and friends might be
not reach her. He tried to direct her spared and that this greatest crusade,
to keep afloat until he could get a \ Of all times might culminate success-
boat, and in the meantime a Goodrich fully. "*r
child playmate who could swim at-1 Following ninety-six hours of con-
tempted to keep her U_). Lucille, in the j stant heavy air bombardment, great
excitement,  put an  arm  around   the flotillas of minesweepers cleared the
Goodrich girl's neck and soon both
were going down, but the latter managed to Wreak loose and swim to safety, wjhile Lucille went down, saying,
"Daddy, I can't make it."
State Police and Conservation officers searched all night for the body
without success and resumed the
search Monday morning, with the as-
way to the beaches of Normandy :iu
the largest such operation in history-
Warships of the United States anfil
British navies, including tanttleships.
hurled shells from more than 640 naval guns, from four to sixteen inches
in size, into coastal defenses the Ger^
mans had been building for four years.,
with American naval losses in the op-
Fred E. Fleming, prominent Clare
and Evart merchant and life long resident of Evart died at his home there
at 9:30 o'clock Friday evening of coronary thrombosis. He had been ill
for the past year and several times
confined to his home for a ayhile. Death
came suddenly at the <close of a day
spent at his Evart place of business.
He was born September 3, 1887, the
son of Anna and Erastus Fleming,
He was married December 25, 1912,
in Evart, to Miss Pearl Mcllwain, who
with a daughter, Mrs. John Hesselink,
of  Marion;   a  son,    Aviation    Cadet
sistance of an airplane from the Civil | eration confined to two destroyers and
Air Patrol of Mt.  Pleasant, but the I one landing craft.
searchers  were   hampered  by  strong      The   invasion   was   screened   front
winds and gave up searching about
noon. The search was resumed that
evening and the body was finally located at 7:00 o'clock Monday night, by
men from the Temple oil field who
were dragging the lake with the officers, when a grappling hook handled
by Russell Kress, of Lake George,
contacted the child's body in about
twenty-five feet of water.
The family had moved from River-
dale to the Windover Lake community
where Mr. Wood operates a sawmill,
■ a year ago, but had moved into the
* store building south of Windover Hotel
but a short time ago.
Lucille Wood was born the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wood September  21st,  1930,  and  passed  away
above by an unprecedented fleet of
11,000 planes and more than 1,000
troop carrying aircraft ,participated in.
the airborne phase af .the gigantic operation with unexpected .success. Cajs-
ualties were much lower than'expected with air losses amounting to aboui
one per cent.
The masses of .sea and airborne
troops were landed with little opposition and are fighting their way inland
from beachheads which ;have been organized and are 'being consolidateil
along 100 miles of the Normandy
coast between Cherbourg and Le
(Continued on Page Twelve)
Frederick Fleming,  of Brooks  Field,. June 4, 1944, at the age of thirteen
San Antonio, Texas;  a brother, Wil-1 years, eight months and fourteen days.
BEE AT HERRICK CHURCH
A "Bee" for the purpose of cleaning; and; painting the church, will be
ard Woodcock or any other director.' held atthe Herrick churchnext Tues-
that sufficient eats may be arranged day afternoon, June 13. Everybody is
for. .:...imdted:'l^totne'{£bd.]iel_i.
League softball teams are being
lined up as part of the local summer
recreation project. Managers of prospective teams are requested to meet
at the Clare school athletic field next
Wednesday evening, June 14, at 7:30
o'clock (EWT), to organize the league
and if they wish to bring their teams
and they may practice that evening.
It is planned to pick an All-Star
team from the players in the local
league to play outside teams at least
once each week. Rosebush, Brown
Corners and Farwell teams have already asked for games with the locals.
The afternoon summer recreation
program for younger children Will
commence next Monday afternoon and
all boys who wish to go on the swimming excursions to Loon Lake are requested to report at the school athletic feld that afternoon. Geo. J. Lehr
has generously offered the services of
his truck to take the boys out to the
lake and local boy scouts will assist
Coach Donald Richardson with in
struction.
All beginners who will swim on
Tuesdays and the older boys who will
swim on Thursdays must obtain per*
mission sheets and have them signed
by parents or guardians. These sheets
will be available Monday.
Softball games for the junior boys
are being arranged and the girls recreation program will be commenced
as soon as the girls report at the athletic field and make their desires
known to Coach Richardson, or Rev.
Harold Watson, who will be in charge
Tuesday afternoons.
RUMMAGE SALE
The Benefit Auxiliary will have a
liam Fleming, of Evart; and Miss
Margaret" Lothrop, survive.
He was a member of Blue Lodge F.
and A. M. No. 320 of Evart, and was
raised to a Master Mason April 26,
1918. He was also a member of ihe
Knight Templars, of Big Rapids, during the life of that organization, a
member of the Evart Chamber of
Commerce, served for several years
as a city councilman and was a member of the Community Methodist
Church.
From 1916 to 1919 he was in charge
of the shoe department of the Davy
& Co. store at Evart, the Fleming
Shoe Co. being formed and incorporated in 1919 and the Evart store
opened that year.
The Fleming Shoe Co. purchased
the shoe department of the Wilson-
Davy Co., in Clare,-Saturday, February 2, 1924, and continued the business under the Fleming firm's name.
The company opened their St. Louis
store three years later and Mr. Fleming has managed the three stores until the time of passing away.
During his management, the Fleming Shoe Co. has developed into one
of the largest retail shoe concerns in.
Central Michigan,,
Funeral services were held at the
home Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock, Rev.
Keith Avery oificiatinig, with„Masonic
Services at the grave. Burial was in
Forest Hill cemetery at Evart.
Those attending the services from
here were Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Davy,
Mrs. Ernest Chaffee and Mrs. Dewey
Paxton and daughter, Barbara. i
TO STOCKHOLDERS OF FARMERS'
INDEPENDENT PRODUCE CO.
All   members    who' have not sent
She attended school at Riverdale
and Windover, where she had made
many friends.
She leaves to mourn their loss, the
bereaved parents; nine brothers and
sisters, Mrs. Bud Drake, of Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. Harley Drake, of Lansing,
Charles, Jr., a twin brother Lewis,
Bettie Mae, Morris J., Robert L., William R. and Richard L., all at home;
her grandmothers, Mrs. Elribra Gilkes,
of Coleman, and Mrs. Bell Wright, of
East Jordan; a great uncle, William
Wright, of Riverdale; three uncles
and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. Fred M,
Wright, of East Jordan, and Mr. and
Mrs. Bert Miller and Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Tucker, of Midland; other relatives
and a host of friends.
Funeral services were held from the
home at 1:00 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, with Rev. Harold Watson of the
Clare Congregational Church officiating, and the remains taken to the
Riverdale cemetery for interment.
Among those attending the services
from a distance were Frank Salters,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mitter and Lawrence Geesey, of Detroit; and Mrs.
Carl Chapman and Mrs. Maidens, of
Midland.
CORRECTION
Donald A. Litwiller, RFD 2, Harri,
son, Michigan, will not, at this time,
be inducted into the United States
Armed Forces.
Mr. Litwiller is registered with another Board, which has instructed the.
Clare County Board to withhold his
induction.
CHILDREN RFfEIVE
HOLY COMMUNION AT
ST. CECILIA'S CHURCH
Largest   Class   of   First  Communicants in History
of Parish
NOTICE
Beginning Thursday, June 15,
Color, music, religions solemnity
and prayer provided a heavenly setting for the largest class of First
Communicants in the history of Si.
Cecilia parish.
Last Sunday a procession of seventeen little girls in bridal costume
and twenty-three boys was met at the
threshold of the church by the pastor,
Fr. Brophy, and a score of altar boys.
The Children's Choir sang the M&8&
of the Angels.
The climax of the solemn ceremony
was the entry of the children into the
Sanctuary led by the altar boys robed
in cardinal red vestaments and golde*
fringed capes. Enshrined in the memories of all, was the impressive scene
of the little children kneeling before
a candle-lit altar in a sanctuary banked with flowers to receive their First
Holy Communion,
The following are the names ©I the
members of the class: James Beltinck
Rita Beck, Alfred and Beverly ^Brazie^
Ronald Chapman, Paul Corneal, Stanley and Genevieve Dora, James _anf
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