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CLARE,  MICHIGAN^ FRIDAY   MORNING,   JULY 4. 1947
New Series Vol. 55, No. 40
CITY OFFICERS
REPORT SPILLS,
THRILLS, CHILLS
Hit Run Driver Fined and Car
Recovered for Canadian
s   Car Dealer
Considerable excitement prevailed
in the vicinity of Lone Pine Cabins,
on North McEwan Street, early Sunday morning, with five cars' involved
in an unusual series of accidents.
Clifford Stringer, of Dearborn, drove
out of Lone Pine Restaurant onto the
highway and into the path of a car.
driven by Floyd Darnell, of R-l Remus
and a collision ensued.
While city police were checking this
accident they stopped a car driven
■south by Phil Bolinger, of Clare; and
Andrew Morris, of R-3 Reed City, who
was talking to another person in his
car failed'to notice that Bolinger was
stopping, struck his car in the rear.
When Richard L. Brown, of Clare,
was driving south at 4:00 a. m. in the
same vicinity, Robert J. Burschback,
of Mt. Pleasant, who admitted to city
police that he had fallen asleep,
crashed into the back of the Brown
car.
Burschback was issued a summons
for not having his car under control
and on Monday plead guilty in the
court of Justice Sam Wilkinson and
was fined $13.35 including costs.
Fined On Hit Run Charge
Evelyn Parr, of Hemlock, whom
John Doe proceedings were instituted
against last week with the charge of
passing a ear driven by Loven Deed,
of Laingsburg, on the * wrong side,
striking the car, and leaving the scene
of the accident Sunday night, June 22,
appeared in the court of Justice Sam
Wilkinson Saturday of last week,
plead guilty, was" fined $25.00 and $3.35
costs, paid and was released.
Another Car Stolen?
•Frank Novlan, of Paradise, Saskatchewan, Canada, came into city police
headquarters at 4:30 p. m. June 26,
apparently quite excited, and related
his plight to the officer in charge.
He said he was a car dealer at Paradise, had been to the Ford Motor
Company in Detroit to purchase a
new Mercury, and on his way out
stopped at Mack and Conners to buy
gas and while he was"'" at the station
became confused as to how to get out
of town so he offered a boy in a fruit
store next door $2.00 to drive him out
of town.
,During their conversation he mentioned that he wanted someone to
drive him to Duluth, Minnesota, and
the boy agreed to do this if he could
take another boy with him.
They got into the car about 8:00
a. m. June 26th and drove to Clare,
where Novlan stopped to get a bottle
of beer, and" when he came out his
car was gone, so he had come to report the stolen car to the police.
Within an hour city police located
the car on McEwan Street, with the
boys sitting in it apparently waiting
for Novlan. Enroute from Detroit
here, conversation in the car had lead
Novlan to believe the boys were wanted by Detroit police, so the local officers arrested the boys for investigation and they gave their names as
Sam Fauazza and Frank Donley, both
of Detroit.
The boys claimed they had merely
taken the car for a joyride while
waiting for the owner/and the Glare
police checked with the Detroit police
and finding the boys were not wanted
there, released them next day.
In the meantime, Novlan had driven
on towards his home in the Canadian
Northwest, happy that he had recovered his new Mercury, despite the
"chills" he had suffered because of the
boys' "cock and bull story" and the
temporary loss of his new Mercury.
Legion Installs
Officers June 23
for Coming Year
The following officers of Walter H.
Larman Post No. 128, American Le;
gion, were installed by Lear J. Doherty
of Coleman, in a ceremony held in
the city hall auditorium Monday evening, June 23.
Commander—Mickey   McDonald.
Senior Vice President—-Con radWal
Senior Vice Commander—Conrad
Walker.
• Junior-   Vice   Commander—Charles
Williams.
Adjutant—Merle Archambault.
Finance Officer—Calvin' Foss.
Chaplain—Donald Holbrook.
Sergeant at Arms—Wm, Harger,
Historian—Jay Bellinger.
LEONARD ORDERS
HEAVIER PATROLS
OVERJVEEK END
State Police Commissioner Asks
Drivers and Pedestrians
To Be Cautious
FORMER RESIDENT OF
GREENWOOD TOWNSHIP-
DIES AT CLEVELAND
TOM COLLINS, JR.,
BOTTLING COMPANY
OPENSJfl CLARE
Clare's  New   Soft  Drink  Firm
Has Franchise for State
of Michigan
The recently organized Tom Collins,
Jr., Bottling Company of Clare is now
operating in their new forty by eighty
foot concrete and steel building on
the north side of West Fifth Street
near the city limits and have three
two-ton especially equipped trucks delivering their product throughout
Michigan.
• Members of the firm are Alton
Haight and Russell Otterbine, of Mt.
Pleasant, and Wendell Drallette, of
Clare, the latter assuming duties of
manager of the plant.
" The firm has the Tom Collins, Jr.,
franchise for the state of Michigan,
with distributors at Muskegon, Flint
and Lansing, and commenced distribution Monday of this week. Tom Collins, Jr., as a new lithiated lemon
drink that is pleasant to the taste
and cooling and refreshing, fulfilling
the product's slogan, "First for
Thirst."
The present capacity of .the plant is
sixty cases an hour and it is already
operating twelve hours a day with six
employees.
The mixing room is equipped with
a 166 gallon stainless steel mixing
tank where the syrup is thoroughly
mixed and pumped through stainless
steel tubing into a stainless steel
feeding tank and from there into the
bottling machine.
All bottles are run through a new
latest model sanitary bottle washer
and sterilizer, containing alkali sterilizing1 solution and hot and cold
sprays, and a large oil burning heating
system heats the solution and sprays
for the sterilizer. The capacity of this
unit is ninety cases per hour.
" The bottles are not touched by hand
from the time they are placed in the
washer until they are cleaned, filled
and capped and carried by conveyors
from the washer to the filler and "capper and to the accumulating table,
where they are inspected and placed
in cases.
The equipment also includes a new
latest type automatic machine that
fills the bottles with syrup and carbonated water and caps the bottles
without the aid of human hands; and
a carbonator - f or mixing carbonic gas
with   pure   water.
The concrete floor of the plant has
been laid to provide adequate drainage.
The bottling room includes space for
the storage of thousands of cases of
bottles and an office at the rear. Adjoining this room are separate furnace room and lavatories.
The members of the firm are congenial and active young men and with
their very desirable product and modern equipment, the success of the business is assured.
Extra duty traffic patrols throughout the state over the Fourth of July
holiday week end have been ordered,
by State Police Commissioner Donald
S. Leonard in an effort to hold down
highway accidents. They will be maintained from 3:00 p. m. July 3 to 3:00
a. m. July 7. *
The State Highway department estimates that.if fair weather prevails,
the Fourth of July traffic volume will
be 20 to 25 per cent higher than last
year and five to 10 per cent higher
than the last pre-war year of 1941.
State Police records show that 10
persons were killed in motor vehicle
crashes over the holiday last year,
the lowest number in the last nine
years, but 22 were killed in 1941, In
addition, as many as 500 personal injuries and 1,500 to 2,000 traffic accidents may be expected unless the public cooperates in enforcement efforts
by driving safely.
The records also reveal that one or
both drivers were violating in 13 of
the 16 fatal accidents which occurred
during the reecnt Memorial holiday
and resulted in the death of 19 persons. In two of the three accidents in
Avhich drivers were not reported at
fault, pedestrians failed to grant
right-of-way to motor vehicles, and
in the remaining accident the car left
the roadway at a curve because of excessive speed.
Leonard urged that drivers safeguard their lives and the lives of others by observing the following precautions :
Be sure your car is in safe operating condition.
Start your holiday trip in time to
reach ,your destination without driving too fast for conditions.
Drive with the normal flow of traffic.
Avoid passing any more than necessary and then only when safe.
Observe stop signs, traffic signal indicators and warnings.
Drive in the proper lane and signal
intention to turn well in advance of
any-:«hahgepip»eonrse of travel.
j> Be alert for pedestrians at all times
and avoid driving so fast at night
that you are unable to stop within
the distance of your headlight beams.
Don't drink and drive.
Show the same consideration for
other drivers that you would like to
have them show you.
1947 Graduates   *
Can Get Credits
UnderG. L Bill
Members of this; year'fc high, school
graduating classes still have an opportunity to get credits for a college
education under ."tJie/G. I. Bill of
Rights if they enlist ^ene day before
Congress declares' the war officially
over, according to. Sgt, Arland G.
Howe, of the Mt. Pleasant TJ. S. Army
Recruiting Station.     .'
"1947 graduates," Sgt. Howe said,
"will be the first since 1940 who have
not faced Selective Service. Their
attitude toward military service will
be entirely voluntary. But we believe
that a great many of them will decide to help their Army meet its world
wide obligations by.enlisting and getting the good pay( training, travel,
and the opportunity to! qualify for Officer Candidate School'now available."
In order to maintain an Army of
1,070,000 men, according to a recent
statement by General Eisenhauer, the
Army must continue to get about
30,000 volunteers every month.
JUNIOR POLICE
SOFTBALL LEAGUE
F0RMEDJI0NDAY
Boys'  and  Girls'  Bath  Houses
Provided  r*6r- at  New
Swimming Hole
SEVERE ELECTRIC
STORM AT CLARE
FRIDAY iEVENING
Lightning  Damages Residences
And Consumers Power Lines.
and Transformers
George   W.   Crandall   Laid
Rest in Hillcresi
Cemetery
at
George W. Crandall, formerly of
Greenwood township, passed away at
Cleveland, Ohio, June 6, 1947, at the
age of sixty-three years, eleven months
and twenty days. He had been in ill
health since April, 1946.
He leaves to mourn their loss his
bereaved widow, Bertha, of Cleveland; step-grandson, Owen Hanning,
also of Cleveland; three half-brothers
Ray, David and Ira Vap Valkenburg,
of Greenwood township; and three
half-sisters, Mrs. Lillian LaRue, of
Montrose, Mrs. H. D. Carstens, of Sil-
verton, Oregon, and Ella Van Valkenburg, of Detroit; also many other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held in Cleveland on Sunday, June 8„ and lie was
laid at rest in Hillcrest Cemetery,
Greenwood township, on Tuesday,
June 10, 1947.
Frances Anderson
Presents Pupils in
Recital June 27th
Miss Frances Anderson presented
her pupils in a very pleasing piano
recital at her home on Pine Street
Friday, June 27th, with parents and
friends as guests.
Seventeen young folks skillfully
rendered a varied program of piano
and vocal numbers in an accomplished
manner to the delight of their guests,
with compositions of many of the
masters included ih^the repertoire.
NOTICE
HOMOGENIZED MILK
NOW OFFERED HERE
BY THAYERS' DAIRY
Local  Dairy  Now AJsing  New
Disposable Sanitary
Containers
Because many, patrons have expressed a desire for homogenized
milk, Thayers' Dairy commenced last
week the distribution of this soft curd
type of milk here.
The process of homogenization
breaks up Jthe particles of butterfat
and thoroughly diffuses the cream to
every portion of the milk. After milk
is homogenized the cream will not
come to the top again, and the curds
remain soft an<t easily digestible.
Homogenized milk is the nearest
to mother's milk that science has been
able to accomplish and for this reason
is ideal for infant feeding. Soft curd
milk forms a soft, flaky substance in
the i*omach and gives the infant an
opportuniy to digest it easily without
regurgitating.
Obviously homogenized milk is also
very desirable for invalids and elderly people and all enjoy its creamy
flavor.
Another recent innovation at Thayers' Dairy is the use of disposable
sanitary bottles which are formed,
waxed, filled and sealed in one machine and are not touched by human
hands until ready for distribution.
These new milk containers require
less space in the refrigerator than
even the recently used T-Square
bottles.
Although nearby communities apparently escaped its fury, Clare was
visited by a severe electrical storm
Friday eevning of last; week. During
the afternoon a heavy! thunder shower was^experienced here and early in
the evening the more formidable
storm struck the city, accompanied
by a vei'itable cloud burst that
brought water in the business section up over the curbs.
The fire department was called to
the Charles Ford home' on West Fifth
Street at the city limits to extinguish
a fire that was caused by lightning
running in on the electric service
wires and broke out at the electrical
entrance. ■ ">,
The fire damage was confined 'by
the firemen to the outside" "wall of the
house and burned through the wall
a little, but smoke aiM wateV damage
brought the estimated loss to approximately $1,000.
Lightning strujk and demolished
the chimney on the Bert McLaughlin
home on Maple Street and blew soot
throughout the house. Mrs. Albert
Tomaski, who lives with her family
in the upper apartment of the McLaughlin house, was slightly shocked
by the lightning.
Damage to Power Lines
The Consumers. Power Company
suffered considerable damage to distributing equipment during the storm.
Lightning struck .and splintered a
power pole at Maple Street and Whea-
ton Avenue and burned out a 50 KVA
transformer, burned out a 10 KVA
transformer at the tourist park and
burned fuses out of a number of other transformers, the latter being located mostly in rural areas.
The lightning splintered two power
poles west of Clare near the Robert
Archambault farm, splintering! the
tops so badly that they had to be replaced, but service on the 11,000 volt
line carried by the poles was not disrupted.
Service was restored on the damaged lines as soon as possible, with
emergency crews working nearly all
night making temporary repairs and
replacements and finishing their work
on Saturday.
The Junior Police "recreation program is progressing very satisfactorily here and fifty-two boys met with
city officer Eugene Campbell in the
city hall auditorium Monday evening
to perfect plans for the organization
of a Junior Police Softball League
and four teams were formed to com
pete for the league championship.
Officer Campbell will be assisted
by Art Jerred and Douglas Paxton in
.supervision of the summer recreation
program and managers and captains
chosen for the Softball teams are,
respectively, Frank Powers and James
Hahn, Jay Kinsey and Bill Schaeffer,
Thomas Sheredy and Ken Schaeffer,
David Fleming and William Defoy.
The teams are quite evenly matched
and keen competition is expected.
Games will be played on the school
athletic field at 2:00 o'clock each
Tuesday and Thursday afternoon; and
swimming, tennis and other sports
will be included in the program.
The purpose of the organization is
to educate the boys in traffic, water
and general safety and for school
student patrol duty during the coming
school year, as well as for recreational purposes.
A field day for the boys is being
planned at the close of the summer
seasdn, when prizes will be awarded
and a treat by the police department
is in store. Any boy interested who
is between nine ahd sixteen years of
age, inclusive, is requested to phone
or call at police headquarters at the
city hall. About ten boys who wished
to join were not able to attend the
meeting Monday evening and others
are expected to join soon.
The boys installed two springboards
at the new swimming hole Tuesday,
with elm plank contributed by Paul
Manee. D. W. Osborn has contributed a five by six foot shed for the
boys bath house. Royal Akins has
furnished some lumber for the girls
bath house and the Sentinel is making
a contribution to complete it. Merchants, were solicited this week for
contributions to finance the softball
league.
The boys are working with a splendid spirit under capable leadership
and supervision in providing the conveniently located swimmin'g place and
healthful recreation ■ for themselves
and the girls and should be commended for their efforts.
Rotary Installs
New Officers at
Wednesday Meet
Rotai-y's regular meeting Wednesday noon was the occasion for an informal ceremony for the installation
of the club's new officers.
George White, new president in office for the comjng year, accepted the |
gavel from Retiring President S, C.
McArthur, and- other new office holders were present to accept their posts
in the following order: vice president,
Harold Hughes; secretary, Larry
Jackson; treasurer, Harold Schaeffer;
board members, S. C. McArthur, Earl
Ruby, G. C. Born and Kenneth Cox.
Committee chairmen will be an-:
nounced by the new president within
a few days.
MT. PLEASANT
MAN CONFESSES
46 ROBBERIES
Clare County Youth Implicated?
In Central Michigan
Crime Wave
POLLUTION MUST
BE CONTROLLED TO
PROTECT HEALTH
Polio Transmutable to Humans
By Pollution of
Streams
The Clarified Bakery name has been
changed to Galloway's Bakery. Look
for Galloway's in the phone book,
Phone No. 94.
Call 94 for wedding and birthday
Cakes. Our bake goods are sold fresh
daily. •"""" """"\
We will be closed July. 4th and Saturday, July 5th all day.    .
,..•-'   Galloway's BaSery--.. _^_
NOTICE OT PATRONS
During my six weeks absence from
|'the. city, The Sternaman Studio will
be open for Kodak work every day
except Thursday. Jack Sternaman
and Lee Lyman Sowle will take care
of the Studio and receive any collections coming in.
There Will be no sittings during that
time and I w^sh to express sincere appreciation to Donald Holbrook for his
assistance in the many wedding pictures during the past week.
I am closing out the business, when
a suitable person may be found to
carry on the photograph work.
Mrs. Earl.Sternaman
Homer E. Bork
Receives- Service
Pin From Kraft
A gold pin and a certificate- in
recognition of ten years service has
been awarded to Homer E. Borle,
Cheesemaker at the Kraft Foods •
Company's Clare plant. Mr. Borle
lives at Clare.
"It gives me great satisfaction to
present this pin and certificate to you."
John H. Kraft, president of the company, said in a letter accompanying
the award. "They are small things
in themselves but the' investment of
time, loyalty and talent which they
represent has always been our company's greatest single business asset."
POST OFFICE CLOSED
The Clare Post Office will remain
closed all day Friday, July 4th, in
observance of Independence Day, and
there will be no window service or the
usual delivery service in the city or
on rural routes. However, all mail
deposited in the mail' box in front of
the postoffice will be dispatched and
all special delivery mail will be delivered in the city.
f    Francis Jackson, Postmaster
COUNTY SOFTBALL
LEAGUE SCHEDULE
ANNOUNCED HERE
Eagle and KC Teams Commence
League Competition
Monday Night
The Clare County Softball League
playoffs to determine the division the
teams will play in were completed on
the school athletic field this week and
the season schedule has been arranged. Games to be played at the
beginning of the season follow.
The first mentioned on each day will
be played at 7:30 p. m. and the second
at 9:00 p. m.
Tuesday,  July  1—
Eagle vs KC
Rosebush vs Church of God
Wednesday, July 2—
VFW vs Moline
-  Schaeffers vs Browns
Thursday.  July 3—
Clare Mfg. vs Eagle
Bauers vs Rosebush
Monday, July 7—
Farwell vs North Bradley
Moline vs Schaeffer
Tuesday, July 8—
Lake vs Church of God
Clare Mfg. vs KC
Wednesday, July 9—
Brown  vs  Moline
North Bradley vs VFW
Thursday, July 10—
Bauers vs Church of God
Lake vs Eagle
Friday, July 11—
Exhibition
Exhibition
The complete schedule will be published next week.
CLOSED JULY 4TH
Pollution is a problem that has
faced us for many years and was a
major topic of discussion at the recent meeting of the Michigan United
Conservation Clubs here. The writer
had the privilege of an interview with
G. E. Kistler, chairman of the M. U.
C. C. committee to eliminate pollution
and has had this problem in mind for
some time, but now that the danger
season for infantile paralysis is near
at hand, we believe this topic should
have some attention.
We feel that there are few, if any,
violators in this community, but this
vital problem should always be kept
in mind and every precaution should
be taken against pollution.   .
Quoting Mr. Kistler, for over eighty
years water polluters have been violating the laws of Michigan, the first
of which was enacted in 1865. The
Conservation Department was created
in 1921 and the Stream Control Commission in 1929, with several laws enacted during past years, but in all ofcl
those acts they have since tried, the
State Administration claims law
against pollution cannot be enforced.
Pollution goes in cycles. In the
early 1900's some action was taken in
Detroit, with little results, and finally
the war stopped it. Efforts were made
to control pollution following World
War I, with the depression again curtailing results, and World War II
again threw a damper on the solution
of the problem.
Mr. Kistler said that polluters depend on these cycles, demand research
to get by between cycles and have
many excuses for delaying ceasing of
pollution.
He stated that the Stream Control
Commission has had very little financial aid appropriated to it and that
the M. TJ. C. C. and sportsmen are
working for a $200,000 appropriation
for the commission, which submitted
a budget $144,000 only to have it cut
in two by the budget director.  ,
Many public hearings have been
held with little done to date, but Governor Sigler has appointed a Commission of Control of Stream Pollution and M.U.C.C. is depending on
Governor Sigler to refuse the acceptance of *a report from this commission
until such time as action is provided
to correct pollution.
M.U.C.C. is seeking sufficient funds
for activities of the Stream Control
Commission and to strengthen stream
pollution laws so they will have teeth
in them and simplify them so they
can be enforced.
Mr. Kistler said that water is the
only uncontrolled natural resource,
without it all is lost, and that rapidly
increasing pollution must " be controlled.
Polio is tied in with pollution and
this is another reason why pollution
control is a No. 1 must in the M. U.
C. C. program. In 1942 162 polio cases
were reported, with the number increasing to 1091 in 1946. Following
research, it is claimed that polio is
transmutable to humans by stream
pollution.
The Sentinel is cooperating with the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis by running a series of timely
panel cartoons depicting precautions
that should be observed during the
usual polio epidemic months—June
through September.
The majority of Clare business
places .will remain open Thursday afternoon of this week and closed all
day Friday, July 4th.
Clare Chamber of Commerce
BANK CLOSED JULY 4TH
The Citizens State Bank of Clare
will remain closed all day, Friday,
July 4th, in observance of Independence Day. j   39f2
According to State Police Gtiarletf
Vernon Davis, 21 a resident of ML
Pleasant for a short time and previously a resident of Lake and Corun-
na, confessed Saturday that he was
responsible for a several weeks crime
wave in Central Michigan, including;
the robbery of the James- Hoskin»
poolroom in Clare last month.
He allegedly admitted seven auto>
mobile thefts audi forty-six breaking-
and enterings in the following com'
munities: two in Mt. Pleasant, one"
north of Mt. Pleasant, one south of
Mt. Pleasant, two in Forest HilL-
eleven in Rosebush, two in Weidman/-
two in Remus, one in Delwjn, one in>
Clare, three in Middletoh, five in Per*
rinton, one in Lake, two in Co.'emaiv
seven in Evart, two in Brintcn, and
two in Barryton.
Davis was caught four and a half
miles south of Alma Friday night af-
ter a chase through the streets of that
city and a brief gun battle. Alms
police took up the chase when they"
saw him speeding through town and
he pulled a stolen car he was dx'iving
across the road and fired at the polica-
wlth a revolver he had stolen.
He was turned' over to State Policsf
and City Police at Mt. Pleasant Saturday morning and was arraigned Monday.
State Police searched his room in
Mt. Pleasant "Saturday and found ammunition and a money sack which was
taken in Rosebush.    Davis admitted
that he brbke and entered eight business places and a church in Rosebusli14-
in one night last week and two other?3'
places another time.
It is reported that State Police have"'
recovered, among other things, a 22
rifle, a P-38 revolver, a 25 automatic-'
revolver, two 38 revolvers, a 22 re-'"
volver, and a jeep, from Davis anS-
from a fifteen year old Clare county''*
junior high school boy who reportedly''
admitted being with Davis on at
least ten of ,the robberies. Police also"
have Tec^verea>most of the money'
taken by Davis last Friday night, re-*
ported to be $231.65.
The je"ep, stolen from Robert Wil-^
liams of Clare, was recovered when
the minor .'implicated in several of tb.0'
robberies led State Police to its hid-2'
in'g place where it had been left after*,
driving-it through two fences antf-
across fields and a small' stream into-*
the hills about two miles from Brin-
ton. A glass cutter, revolver holster,1-
22 shells and a box that ha'd held stolen candy was found- in the jeep.
The rifinor was held at the DeteiP
tion Home at Mt. Pleasant to be-turn--
ed over to the probate court.-
SPECIAL SPEAKER    t
AT LOOMIS CHURCH
Robert Schaley, pastor of the Methodist Church of Leaton, will be guest
speaker -at the Loomis Missionary
Church Sunday evening, July 6th. We
invite you to come and hear this
young minister and enjoy with, up the
evening services.
J. W. Teale, Pastor
ODD FELLOW AND
REBEKAH MEMORIAL
DAY OBSERVED HERE
Impressive   Services   in   Honoif
of Departed Members
>.    . Held Sunday
A very beautiful and impressive^
memorial service was held In the-
Clare I.O.O.F. hall Sunday^evening^
when members of the I.O.O.F. and Re*
bekah lodges and their friends gathered to pay tribute to departed mens-'
bers. '
The stage setting was a lovely gar1'
den, decorated with many baskets an^P
bouquets of seasonal flowers, and centered in the background with a whit®*
cross.
Bud Shepherd entered the garfie®-
and sang, "In the Garden," accompanied by Mrs. Shepherd. A memorial
poem, composed for the program fcy"
Mrs. Shepherd, was read by Mrs. Mar-'
tha Irwin.
The musical reading, "The Lastf
Hymn," was given by Mrs. Rosenss
Chaplin. Mrs. Grace Norwood playecS
piano accompaniment and Mr. Shepherd sang, "Jesus, Saviour Pilot Me."
In memory of departed' state members, kind words were spoken by Harrison Simmons, the I.O.O.F. noble
grand, and James Irwin and Mrs. Norwood, as they placed floral tribute*
on the altar. Mrs. Fannie Schult*
sang, "No Night There," and William
Harger offered prayer.
Mrs. Eva Schlafley gave a very ap--
propriate     talk,     centered     aroiuuf-
"Friendship,   Love   and   Truth,"   ths"
emblems, of Rebekah-Oddfellowship.
To close the program, a group of tfie '
women and men displayed their ability In floorwork, under the leadership-
of Mrl ■ Shepherd, with James Irwin-
at the piano, after which Mrs. Effle-
Harvey gave the benediction.
Mrs. Evelyn Shields, degree captaiss
of the Rebekahs, is to be commende#
for the arrangement of the program.