THE SENTINEL-LEADER
Ccgal Notice
ORDER FOB PUBLICATION
Notice of Hearing Probate of Will with Codicil •
Determination of Heirs
STATE OF MICHIGAN
The Probate Oonrt for the
Oonafty of K r a i
At a senion of said court, held
a t the Probate Office In the d t y
of Grand Rapids in said County,
on the 24th day of March, A.D.
1961.
Present: HON. A. DALE STOPPELS, Judge of Probate.
In the Blatter of the b t a t e of
Schuyler I. Brlggs, Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN.
That the petition of Richard C.
Kirk having been filed, praying
that the tnstrumenV filed In said
Court be admitted to probate as
the Last Will and Testament of
said deceased, that administration
of said estate be granted to Richard C. Kirk, the executor named
in the Codicil to the Last Will and
Testament of said deceased, or
to some other suitable person; and
that the heirs of said deceased be
determined, will be heard a t the
Probate Court on the 28th day ol
April. A. D., 1961. at 10:00 A.M.
It Is Ordered, That notice hereof be given by publication of a
copy hereof for three weeks consecutively previous to said day
of hearing, in the Sentinel-Leader,
and that the petitioner cause a
copy of this notice to be served
upon each known party In Interest
at his last known address by registered mall, return receipt demanded. at least fourteen (14)
Saturday, April 15, 1961
1 Mile West of Kent City and l-Nile North of Kent City
at t4325 FRUIT RIDGE ROAD
—12:30 P. M.
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Farm & Dairy Equipment, Tools, Feed, etc.
2 CASE TRACTORS
CASE HAMMER MILL (8-inch)
2-ROW CASE CULTIVATOR
MILK COOLER
CASE MOWER
4 CANS (10-gaIIon)
CASE FORAGE HARVESTER (Corn and Hay Head)
DINING ROOM SUITE
WOOD BROS. 1-ROW CORN PICKER
208.8 BUSHELS OATS
CASE 3-SECTION SPRING HARROW
300 CRATES CORN, 2 years old
JOHN DEERE DISK (8)
5 TONS CHOPPED HAY
CASE 2-ROW PLANTER
MANURE LOADER
II Head Guernsey Cattle
McCORMICK-DEERING GRAIN BINDER
CASE SPREADER
(TB and B a n ^ s tested)
RUBBER TIRE FARM & CHOPPER WAGON
CASE GRAIN DRILL, 11 Disks and Fertilizer
CASE FORAGE BLOWER
GRAIN CLEANER
CORN SHELLER
28"X46" CASE GRAIN THRESHER
6 COWS — 2 3-YEAR-OLD HEIFERS
(3 fresh cows, 5 to freshen in July)
1 YEARLING HEIFER
1 YEARLING BULL
4-YEAR-OLD BULL
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TERMS: CASH OR BANKABLE NOTES
EDWARD JACKSON, owner
R. L. Mclntyre, Auctioneer
R. J. Kriger, Clerk
KENT CITY STATE HANK
SPARTA, MIOfflOAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1961
days prior to such hearing, or by
personal service at least flye (5)
days prior to such hearing.
A. DALE STOPPELS
Judge of Probate,
Kent County, Michigan
A True Copy
ROLAND R. ROBEY,
Register of 1'tobate.
Philip L. Hogan. Atty.
4-12
Mrs. Wiiliam Nyblad and family
and other relatives.
ORDER FOR PUBLICATION
— General
STATE OF MICHIGAN
The Probate Court for the
County of Kent
At a session of said court, held
at the probate office, in the city
of Grand Rapids, in said County
on the 28th day of March, A.D.
1961.
Present: HON. A. DALE-STOPPELS, Judge of Probate.
IN THE MATTER OF Alexander Warschauer, et al, Change of
Name.
Alexander Warschauer and Ludwika Warschauer having filed In
said court their petition praying
that their names and the name ot
their child, Joyce Bernlce Norma
Warschauer, be changed to Alex
Warschauer
Warner,
Ludwika
Warner and Joyce Bernlce Norma
Warner.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Anderson,
attended the 25th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Bull on Sunday afternoon.
Philip. Bryan and Mark Brott
are spending some time with their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell
Anderson as their mother, Mrs.
Robert Brott. is quite ill.
Douglas Grossman and daughter.
Becky, had their tonsils removed
at St. Mary's hospital on Monday.
Philip Brott spent Saturday with
his cousin. John Wagner.
100 YEARS AGO . . .
tern from 47 batteries trained on
Mrs. Rausy Matthews. Mrs. Sumter, and the war was on.
Amos Leatherman, Erwin Stouten
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and sons and Kathleen and Tim
Crowds Cheer
Cumlngs were Easter Sunday
Anderson's men, approximately
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Ny- 100 facing an opponent of some
blad and family.
6,000, answered the fire at dawn.
o
When they did, they received loud
AND I QUOTE . . .
cheers from hundreds of Charles"Two of the biggest highway tonians who had thronged the wamenaces are drivers under 25 go- terfront to watch and applaud good
ing over 65 and drivers over 65 shooting—by either side. All day
going under 25."—L. S. McCandies. and all night the guns thundered
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on. Then, about 8:30 a.m., on
AND I QUOTE . . .
the 13th, the fort caught fire.
"The only thing more disturbing
than a neighbor with a noisy old
Major Anderson s men, unable to
car is one with a quiet new one." control the blaze, closed their
—Pep Mealiffe.
powder magazine, dumped 50 barrels of powder into the sea. then
crawled into the embrasures and
lay flat, wet handkerchiefs over
their mouths to breathe. By 1
p.m.. the battle was over. The
ships of Fox's expedition, unable
to enter the port, waited outside
as the surrender took place.
Civil War Breaks Out
Sumter Bombarded
By Lon K. Savage
Captain G. V. Fox of the United
States Navy surveyed his small
fleet and give the signal to cast
off. Then, as his seven ships put
out of New York harbor that Tuesday morning, April 9, 100 years
ago this week, he again considered
IT IS ORDERED. That the Ist his objective.
day of May. A.D. 1961, at ten
He would attempt, his orders
o'clock In the forenoon, at said
Probate Office, be and Is hereby said, to deliver supplies to the
appointed for hearing said peti- United States troops at Fort Sumter, located on an island at Chartion;
leston
harbor in the Confederate
It is Further Ordered, That public notice thereof be given by pub- state of South Carolina. Should
lication of a copy of this order, the Confederates try to stop him.
for three successive weeks previ- his orders read, "you will. If possious to said day of hearing, in ble, effect an entrance and place
both troops and supplies in Fort
the Sentinel-Leader, a • newsi»per
Sumter."
printed and circulated in said
county.
Thus It was that decades of bitA. DALE STOPPELS ter differences between the NorthJudge of Probate, ern and Southern states had led to
Kent County, Michigan war, just as they had led in DeA true copy.
cember. January and early February to the secession from the
ROLAND R. ROBEY,
Register of Probate.
Union of seven states which bound
Alexander S. Jarosz, Att-y.
themselves together into a new
716 Keeler BIdg.
4-19 nation—the Confederate States of
America.
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CLARK SCHOOL NEWS
Confederate Demands
(Delayed News)
Resistance could well be anticiMr. and Mrs. Fred Cadwell have
pated, Fox knew. The Confederreturned home after spending the
ates had demanded that the fedwinter at their trailer home at
eral troops at Sumter be withWinter Haven, Florida.
drawn. since the fort, they said,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stream
was no longer within the United
spent Wednesday afternoon with
States.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Burnett and
sons.
As Fox's fleet sailed southward
next day. Confederate General PiMr. and Mrs. William Nyblad
erre Gustave Toutant Beauregard,
and family were Thursday evethe famous Louisiana Creole, rening callers at Lowell Anderson's. ceived an important order at his
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Holmgren office in Charleston.
Because of the attempt to suparrived home Friday evening after
spending the winter at their trail- ply Sumter. Beauregard would deer home near Bradenton, Florida. mand immediate evacuation of the
fort. And, said the order from
Susan Nyblad spent the Easter Jefferson Davis/ president of the
vacation with her parents, Mr. and Confederacy, if the demand were
Mrs. Irving Nyblad and family.
refused, Beauregard would open
Arnold Nyblade, who came from fire.
New Jersey to attend the funeral
The demand was delivered at 2
of his mother, Mrs. Hilda Nyblade p.m. next day, April 11. Major
—and Mr. and Mrs. Russell Nyblade, spent Wednesday evening
with Mr. and Mrs. Irving Nyblad
and family.
Robert Anderson, federal commander at Sumter and a former West
Point teacher of Beauregard's,
•turned it down. There was considerable discussion, exchanging of
notes, bowing and handshaking
that night until Beauregard's aides
announced early next morning
that firing on Sumter would begin
In one hour.
And just as promised, at 4:30
a.m., April 12. the first shot of
the Civil War flashed out from one
of the
surrounding batteries,
arched across the dark sky and
burst spectacularly on the fort's
parapet. Then howitzers and mortars let loose In pre-arranged pat-
If there was any doubt of war
after the bombardment, it was resolved Monday morning, April' 15.
when the people read In their
newspapers that President Lincoln
had called for 75,000 troops to fight
the seceded states.
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NEXT WEEK: Wild enthusiasm
greets the war.
ATTENTION FARMERS
and FRUIT GROWERS
I AM NOW CUSTOM SI'READIMi
DOLOMITE LIMESTONE
Phone EM 1-9518 or TU 8-0341
—FOR PROMIT SERVICE—
JIM MOMBER
The children of Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Anderson, spent Tuesday
with their grandmother. Mrs. Lowell Anderson.
Kathleen Cumlngs. spent part of
her Easter vacation with Mr. and
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There were no deaths from the
battle. But next day. during a
ceremony in which cannon were
fired, the flag lowered and Anderson's men marched to beating
drums from the fort, a cannon
accidentally exploded, killing the
first man of the half million who
were to die in the war.
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THE SENTINEL-LEADER
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1961
COMSTOCK PARK CUBS
AWARDED BLUE RIBBON
FOR SALE
The Comstock Park Cub Scout
Troop No. 3223 won a blue ribbon
for construction of a cub scout
stool at the semi-annual ScoutlngExposition In the Civic Auditorium
April 7 and 8. Bernard Kremer.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE a scoutmaster for the troop, said
that it was the first time t h a t the
FOR SALE-New 3-bedroom home. troop won a blue ribbon at the exGas heat, sewer, water, conven- position.
ient location. $15,000. Phone
TU 7-9453.
4-l2p
FOR SALE—Plows. John Deere
2-12, rope lift, $35. John Deere
2-14, rope lift, $45. John Deere
2-14, 3 pt. hitch, $125. Ferguson
2-12, $75. Massey Ferguson 3-14
FOR SALE—House in Kervt City.
for 3 pt. hitch, nearly new, $135.
5 rooms and bath. Write P.O.
International corn planter, 2-row
Box 27, Kent City.
4-12p
new fertilizer attachment, $50.
2 set Spade lug extension rims
for Ford or Ferguson tractor,
FOR SALE
$20. 2-sectIon drag, $15. 3-section drag, $35. John Deere disk,
Two beautiful homesites Ms
6 ft., 3 pt. hitch, like new, $135.
mile from Sparta on blacktop.
John Deere 7 ft. disk, $150. PulOne with spring, creek, maley for Ford tractor, $50. 3 John
ple, beech, and pine.
Deere cultivators to fit A-fy50One with lovely white pine
60, $75. CARL KRUEGER, Congrove.
klin, Michigan. Vz-mWe east of
These lots equal to any
Conklin.
4-12p
park. Shallow wells, good water, restricted. Terms avail- .f
FOR SALE—Farm 140 acres. Clay
able.
Phone TU 7-9135.
loam, 3 barns, 1 hen house and
pig pen; brooder house, garage
4-26-c
and house. Excellent for feeder
farm. 19-Mile road.. Phone TU7-9118. Will take house In Spar- FOR SALE—90 acres. No buildings. Excellent fruit land. 2
ta vicinity for down payment.
miles
north of Casnovia. Phone
4-19-p
OS 5-2372, Virgil Freeland.
4-12p
FOR SALE—Green baled hay at
Irving Ryder barn. 25c bale.
10461 Fruit Ridge, iiw.
4-19c FOR S A L E - 3 0 acres. Has some
excellent timber.
Located at
Herrington
and
House
St., north
FOR SALE—Blue and white balof Belmont. Call VO 6-2922.
lerina length formal, size 11,
4-19-p
worn once. Phone TU 79411.
4-19p
LOST
FOR SALE— 3/4 ton Chevrolet
pick-up with tool boxes on sides.
LOST—Large sum of money in
$200. Phone TU 7-9167 or TUbills. In Sparta on Friday. Re7-4272.
4-19p
ward. Phone TU 7-1563 after
4 p.m.
4-5p
HOUNDS—Walker, Bluotlck, Beagle and Cooker. Sell or trade.
TU 7-7222.
4-12c
FOR RENT
FOR SALE—Small herd of Guernsey and Holsteln cows, including FOR RENT—Comfortable 3-room
unfurnished apartment. Steamone to freshen April 10 and all
heated. Private bath and enlater on. Phone EM 1-2301.
trance.
Off-street
parking.
4-19p
Available now. Phone TU 7-0141
tfn
FOR SALE— State tested June
clover. Pure seed, 99.34, germination, 91%. Phone TU 7- FOR RENT- Barn and 55 acres o?
land for oats and corn and 10
1838.
4-12c
acres of hay. Cash or share, or
shares. Merrtt Phelps, TU 8FOR SALE—New and used pumps.
Deep or shallow well work. Rob0251.
4-26c
ert R. Wagner, phone OS 5-2475
Casnovia.
3-19-c-tfn FOR RENT— 5-room apartment.
Good location. Phone TU 7-5201
•'OR S A L E - F i l l dirt, black dirt,
after 3:30.
4-12c
road gravel, cement feravel, peat,
Phone TU 7-5092, Sparta.
FOR RENT— Furnished upstairs
5-18-tfnp apartment.
45 S. Union.
3
rooms with private bath. ModBABY CHICKS -Order Ball's Faern kitchen. Call TU 7-3541 or
mous Strain Leghorns.
Won
TU 7-0171.
4-12c
First, Fourth and Fifth place al
Western New York Random
WORK WANTED
•
Test. High three-year average. •
Pullets thirty dollars a hundred.
Why pay more? Also Harco WORK WANTED — Experienced
Strain
Rhode
Island
Rods,
woman will work by the hour,
and White Rocks.
Browne's
Ironing, housework, baby sitting.
Hatchery, Coopersville, Michigan
Phone TU 7-1729 Sparta, tfnp
Phone 177.
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WANTED
?IRE EXTINGUISHERS — A l l
makes for homes, farms, autos,
tractors ,boat8 and trailers. Sales ANTIQUES— Marble Top Furnitfn and service. TU 7-7001
ture, Old Dolls, Glass, China,
and Other Collectors' Items, EsLOSE WEIGHT SAFELY with
tate.
Call or write— Henry
Dex-A-Dlet Tablets. Full week's
Smith Floral & Gift Shop, 74
supply only 98c, at Momber's
Ionia Ave., N.W., Grand Rapids,
Rexall Drugs, Sparta.
4-19p
Michigan.
4-26c
FOR SALE—Flbei glass pontoon
boats, bumper pool tables and
SERVICES
some six pockets. Ph. TU 7-9717
or write L. W. Bodell, Sparta.
YOUR FRIENDLY Electrolux man
tfnc
has world's only fully automatic
vacuum cleaner t o show you.
Call
mo, Gerald Wanamaker, al
Be popular—give a minimum of
OS 5-4039, Kent City, for free
advice and a maximum of apno obligation demonstration.
plause.
5-3c
INCOME TAX SERVICE for
Farmers, Small Businesses and
Wage Earners. File the correct way and save. E. G. Mutchler, 209 Alma St., Phone TU 79529.
3-8-ctfn
SPEECH and Hearing Therapist
available to give private speech
or lipreading lessons to children
and adults. Call TU 7-1321.
4-12p
HAULING—While picking up your
garbage. Let us haul your tin
cans, etc. (in containers), at a
nominal fee of only 50c per
month. F. Schwab, your garbage collector. Phone TU 7-5092
10c
15c
25c
• BOWLS . .
• AQUARIUMS . .
• FISH FOOD
Ben Franklin
Store
SPARTA, MICH.
OPEN FRIDAY AND
SATURDAY NIGHTS
'IT PAYS TO BELONG"—Over
50,000 Michigan dairymen, who
are members of M.A.B.C. think
so. Why don't you? Phone:
Kent City OR 8-5495 or Ravenna
UL 3-2442 for service.
5-25-c-tfn
FOR T-V SERVICE, call Pierson
Radio & Television Sales and
Service. Phone TU 7-9175.
ARTIFICIAL B R E E D I N G - CURTISS offers a line-breeding program featuring proven sires, cow
lines. For prompt, efficient service, call: Curtlss Improved Stud
Service. Inc., represented In this
area by: Andrew J. Landheer.
Phone VE 4-5584 or OS 5-4800.
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YWCA Week
Kent county residents will join
in the observance of National
YWCA Week April 23-29.
The
theme for the week Is "Look Ahead
with the YWCA In the 1960'8."
Seven Sparta Cob
Scouts Receive
WeBeLos Badges
Thirty-three Cub Scouts were
honored at a recent Sparta Cub
Scout Pack 3280 meeting held In
the Civic Center with Cubmaster
Melvin Barclay and Advancement
Officer John Anderson making the
presentations.
The highest award attainable in
Cub Scouting, the WeBeLoS badge
was presented to a record number
of seven Cubs: Clifford Anderson,
Douglas Babcock, Rex Bartlett,
Douglas Berdan, Gerard Heyt, Paul
Johnson and Richard Slegel. The
youths, all 11 years old have been
In Cubbing since they were 8, although only Babcock, Bartlett,
Heyt, Johnson and Siegel completed the full three years and were
eligible for 3-year service pins.
Anderson and Berdan received 2year service pins.
An impressive graduation ceremony was held for the WeBeLoS
Cubs and their parents and the
seven were officially welcomed into
Scouting by Scoutmaster Ralph
Barnum of the local Scout troop
280. Arthur Kent and Millard Belcher have worked with the group
as WeBeLoS leaders.
Two new Cubs, Rex Bremmer
and Lloyd Ingersoll, were initiated
into Scouting as Bobcats. Their
mothers placed their pins on upside
down until after they have performed their first Good Deed. They
also received Wolf books.
A group of 12 boys earned awtfrds
in the Wolf rank. Badge—Tom
Cooper; Badge with gold arrow
point—David McCracken, William
Waite, Michael Alitor and Rodney
Kutzli; Badge with gold and silver
arrow points; Mark Dean, Charles
Blaauw, Scott Siegel; Silver arrow
Wayne Wheeler, Dwight Anderson, and Dan Batchelder (2). Bear
books were given to Clifford Nielson, Cooper, McCracken, Dean,
Antor and Batchelder.
Ten Bears were accorded honors.
Badge with gold arrow—Jim Wolt'lnski, David Franks, David Eynon; Gold arrow—Terry Hyslop,
Mike Manciu; Gold and silver arrows—Carl Ingersoll; Silver arrow
—Tommy Tomson, Gordon Preston
(2>, Larry Belcher. Books were
presented to Preston, Tomson, Eynon, Belcher and Bobby Buege.
10-year-old Cubs Merrill Peck
and Jim Crofoot were each presented Lion badges with gold and
silver arrow points.
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OBITUARIES
FRANCE:
Services will he held at 1 p.m.
Saturday in Hessel Funeral home
for Charles H. France who passed
away on Wednesday, April 5, foliowing a long illness. He was 82.
A resident of this area for 34 years,
Mr. France lived at 7707 Vinton
Ave. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Alice Andrews of New
York, several nieces and nephews.
PARMETER:
Services will be held at 10 a.m.
Saturday in Hessel Funeral home
for Baby Girl Parmeter who passed
on shortly after her birth Thursday, April 6, in Butterworth hospital, The Infant is survived by
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas
Parmeter of Grand Rapids; two
sisters and two brothers; paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Parmeter of Sparta, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
William Berry of Grandville.
SPARTA, MICHIGAN
Allendale To Be Site of New
Grand Valley State College
A new four-year college will rise
near Allendale in Ottawa county
approximately 22 miles southwest
of Sparta and 11 miles from downtown Grand Rapids.
The Grand Valley State College
Is expected to enroll its first freshmen class In the fall of 1963, serving students from an eight-county radius.
These counties are Kent, Ottawa, Muskegon, Newaygo, Montcalm, Ionia, Allegan and Barry.
The college particularly will boost
northern Kent county by providing
students with an opportunity to
obtain inexpensively a college degree by commuting daily to classes.
Selection of the Allendale site
A Neighborhood meeting of all
Girl Scout and Brownie leaders
will be held Monday afternoon,
April 17, at 1:30 p.m. in the Civic
Center. Neighborhood leader, Mrs.
Jack Ryan urges all leaders, coleaders and troop committee mothers to attend.
The date for the vote on the
$500,000 elementary school bond
issue, originally scheduled for June
1, has been changed to June 12
to coincide with the annual election, according to the Comstock
Park School board.
The added expense and level of
voter interest that would result
from two elections so close together were the main factors leading
the board to decide to combine the
elections.
In addition to the bond Issue,
the June 12 vote will consist of
the election of two school board
members.
was announced Saturday following
FIRE NOTICE
a meeting In Grand Rapids of the
College Board of Control. From
All people using paper or
some 20 possible college locations
trash burners should be sure
originally under consideration, the
there Is no wind and keep a
board had narrowed Its choice
close watch at the time of
down to Allendale and Marne by
burning.
In the event the
mid-March.
fire should get out of control
The site, bounded by the Grand
call your fire department imRiver, M-50 and Pierce St., and
mediately. Anyone in the
48th Ave., on the fourth side, has
township desiring to burn
a 520-acre central area. A second
brush or lorge grass areas,
block of 220 acres is to the west
should obtain a permit from
of the central area and will be Inthe. Village Office.
cluded In the over-all college area.
—John Starn
This will provide a total of 740
Fire Chief.
acres of beautiful rolling countryside which can be developed Into Grand Opening
the educational institution with
The Alpine Avenue Floral, 4076
orderly planning.
DR C. H. BROMLEY
Alpine Ave., will hold a Grand
DENTIST
Opening for Hs Garden Center,
Sparta, Mich
April 28-29. Owners are Ralph, Phone TU-77871
Ivan and Ken Meyer.
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IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of our dear
mother and grandmother, Marie
Brott, who passed away April 15,
KEN'S ELECTRICAL
Sparta Gardeners
1960, one year ago.
SERVICE
The Sparta Garden club will
LICENSED CONTRACTOR
meet Monday evening at the home Beyond .the gate, our loved one
Specializing in commercial and
of Mrs. Jack Gerard. Donald J. Finds peace and perfect rest.
residential wiring and repairs.
Richards will speak on "Wild And there is comfort in the
Phone TU 7-9280
Flowers."
818 W. DIVISION
SPART/i
thought,
That a loving God knows best."
NOTICE OF TRANSFER
The Kent and Ottawa
County Boards of Education
will hold a hearing on April
17, 1961 at 8:00 P.M. at the
Board of Education offices,
316-318 Ottawa Ave., NW., to
contemplate the transfer of
the following property from
Boyd School (Alpine 10) to
Sparta Area School (Sparta
2 fr). Val. $5,600.
Kenneth Cranmer:
W % SE V* Sec. 9, T8N,
R12W - 80A.
—Lynn H. Clark, Secretary
Kent County Board of
Education
HELSEL ELECTRIC
State Licensed Electrician and
Electrical Contractor
Residential and Industrial
Wiring
165 StcbMns Ave. - Sparta
Phone TU 7-9885
Wed.Saturday In Conklin
Trinity Lutheran church of Conkiln was the scene Saturday for
the marriage of Miss Sharon Lee
Reister and Roger David Kik.
Parents of the couple are Mr.
and Mrs. Earl C. Reister and Mr.
and Mrs. John Kik, all of Sparta.
Miss Reister selected for her
wedding a floor length gown of
embroidered silk organza styled
with satin cummerbund and full
embroidered skirt. A Queen Ann
cap of Chantilly lace trimmed with
iridescent sequins and edged with
seed pearls secured her waistlength veil of French illusion. She
carried a cascade bouquet of phalaenopsis.
Miss Carol Reister attended her
sister as the maid of honor. Susan Reister served her sister as
flower girl. Bridesmaids were Miss
Jill Reister and Mrs. Tcrrance Van
Dyke, the bride's cousins.
John Kik was his brother's best
man. Ushers were Dale Trimble,
brother-in-law of the bridegroom;
Leon Kik, bridegroom's brother;
Carl Reister, jr., brother of the
bride and Terrance Van Dyke, the
bride's cousin.
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Sparta Pair Among
21 Gray Ladies
Capped by Red Cross
Miss Nancy Boros, daughter of
Mrs. LaVerne Norton, received her
Mercy Cap and the status of a 4-12c
sophomore at the St. Francis Xavier School auditorium. Nancy Is
student at the Mercy Central
School of Nursing at St. Mary's
hospital In Grand Rapids.
SPARTA CUBS TO VISIT
GRAND RAPIDS AIRPORT
—Bob and Lola Brott
Philip, Bryan and Mark
Kent City
Motor Sales
Two-Year-Old Injured
Little Debbie Calhoun, 2-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Owen
Calhoun, E. Averili st., fell out
of bed in her home and fractured
her collarbone.
ONE OF
KlfiNT COUNTY'S
OLDEST
FORD DEALERS
Phone OR 8-4631
First Aid Classes
Enrollments are still being accepted for first aid classes which
begin at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
April 19, in the Kent City Town
Hall.
Think before you speak and you
will have plenty of time to listen.
OR. J. T. DEAN
GPTOimmuT
RON and DOITS
APPLIANCE
Inspirational singing, special music and a message suited to the
needs of the hour will be featured
during a series of meetings scheduled April 16-23 in the Algoma
Baptist church.
Rev. Robert Petersen, Pastor of
Faith Baptist church of Berkley,
will be guest speaker during the
series of meetings. Services will
be held nightly at 7:30, except
Saturday, and Sunday at 11 a.m.
and 7 p.m.
A cordial invitation to attend is
extended to the entire community.
THERE'S FRIENDSHIP
IN THE CtlP . . ,
Sparta
Bakery
RECEIVES MERCY CAP
A mother and daughter team
Contact
from Sparta were among twentyHours
9 to 12 • 2 to 6
one Red Cross Gray Ladies capped
Phone
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7-4061
- 88 N. Dnloo
al ceremonies in Butterworth hospital Tuesday evening. Mrs. Elsie
Slagel and her daughter Joan, of
101 Warbler Drive received their
training from the Kent County
Chapter of American Red Cross at
Butterworth and will continue to
serve in the Grand Rapids hospital
every Wednesday night
In addition to her weekly volWe specialize in all makes *
unteer duties Joan Slagel travels
of
refrigerators, h o m e *
to Battle Creek one day each
freezers, automatic wash-!
month with a group of Kent Counera, dryers and electric;
ty Gray Ladies to serve the veterranges.
ans at Fort Custer. Joan decided to
20 years* experience
Join her mother as a Gray Lady
when Mrs. Slagel's enthusiasm for
—Phone TU 7-9580—
the job excited her daughter's inNext to C & B Restaurant <
terest. Now the two Slagels receive double pleasure in the Red
Cross program dedicated to the
comfort and recovery of the sick,
the Injured and the handicapped.
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Capping
ceremonies Tuesday
night culminated twenty-two hours
DODGE &
minimum of Intensive on-the-job
training for the volunteer group
DODGE DARTS
which prepares them to serve in
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hospitals and Institutions which
free the professional staff for the
LANCERS
treatment procedures only they
DODGE TRUCKS
can carry out.
Mrs. Raymond L. Baxter, chairKALEH
HEKV1CE
man of volunteers for the Kent
County Chapter of American Red
SPARTA, MICH.
Cross, Mrs. Howard L. Gordon,
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chairman of supporting services,
and Mrs. Edgar L. Roberts, chairman of the Gray Ladies of Kent
County officiated ut the capping
Algoma HaptiHtN Feature
CueHt Speaker, Sinking:
Aubrey Van Hoff of Ceylon will And Music At MeetinKN
LEADERS TO MEET
Grval Emmorey returned home
Monday afternoon from St. Mary's
hospital after having surgery.
Miss Reister and Roger Kik
Ceylunc>Ni> To Conduit
Sparta Church ScrviceK
conduct the 10 a.m, and 7 p,m.
services at the Trinity Christian
Reformed Church of Sparta on
Sunday April 16. He will also
teach the adult Sunday School
class at 11:15 a.m.
Mr. Van Hoff was born in Ceylon and received his early education there.
He came to the
United States in 1955 to study at
Calvin College and Seminary and
is now a middler at the Theological
Seminary. He is u member of
the Reformed Church of Ceylon.
Trinity Church services will be
held in the Sparta American Legion Hall on S. State Street where
they have been held each Sunday
for the past 2% years.
Gerald Nyenhuls, pastor of the
church, will be guest minister of
the Trinity Christian Reformed
Church of Fremont on Sunday.
April 16.
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Comstock Vote on Bond
Issue and Board Members
Scheduled For June 12
QUALITY EQUIPMENT
John Deere Equipmeot
Bean Co. Hpeedaprs/en
BlnipUeity Garden Tractors
"Case" Indostrtal Bqutpmrnil
Morrissey
EQUIPMENT 0 0 .
Comstock Park - Cedar Springs
Now
Op en 1
G R A N D
TV AND APPLIANCE
Sales & Service
4006 W. River Rd.
Approximately 80 C u b ' Scouts
Phone EM 3-3148
and their leaders from the Bporta
COMSTOCK PARK
Cub Scout Pack 3280 will tour the
Grand Rapids Municipal Airport Low, low prices . . .
Tuesday afternoon. April 18, to
. . . All Reconditions
carry out the theme for the month
17-ln. TV — 884JS up
of April "Air Adventures."
Zl-ln. TV — 839.QS up
The youths must be in full dress
Many with new picture tube*
uniform. They will meet ot the
ha low am 883 00.
Civic Center Immediately after
school, where they will go by car We Take Trude-lns - Eaay Terma
to the airport. On their arrival
Open evenings 'til 9:00
they will be met by a security officer who will take them through
Saturday 'til 5:30
the airport executive administra3-2»c
tion tower.
R. H. Morton
Meats
Groceries
Phone OS 52231
CasnoTia
W e TIae O n l y T h e
FINEST
FOODS
C & B LUNCH ROOM
Preferred by People Who
Appreciate Good Food.
SPARTA
Prank Cnoeseo
Long-term HOME LOANS
are now available to rural
residents who can qualify for
Land Bank Loans.
RURAL home owners with
1 acre or more of land used
for gardening or other parttime farming operations now
can enjoy the benefits of
LONG TERM (up to 20 years)
LOW
INTEREST
RATE
mortgage loans.
See your Federal Land Bank
Association of Grand Rapids,
at 468 Kinney Road. N. W.,
Grand Rapids, Michigan for
FREE appraisal. Phone GL3-1905.
WELL DRILLING and
REPAIR
GEORGE WEBBER & SON
Electric Pressure Systems
882 10-MILE ROAD
Sparta, Mich.
Phone Tl)' 7-5111
SEE JACK F.
SODERSTROM
FOR; corrugated metal pipe,
driveway colverts, pipe arches,
structural plate for pipe and
pipe arches. Ail sizes available. Many sizes in .jitock.
Asphalt coated pipe available.
3560 13-Mile Road
Sparta — Ph. TU 7-6381
3-15-ctfn
EXPERT PLUMBING
New Installations
and Repairs
•
Guaranteed Work
•
..Phone TU 7-6141 days or
RI 2-1416 evenings
Ask for Orville
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Radio and
Television
SALES & SERVICE
Sparta TV Service
Free Estimates
116 N. Bute St. Sparu, Mich.
— Phono TU-77678 — .
GROCERIES • MEATS
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DRYGOODS
GENTS
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FURNISHINGS
A. H. S a u r
and Sons
— Batabilslied 1885 —
Kent City - Ph. OR 825:1
William A. Rogers and Company
To Participate in irha Hardware
Week, April 20-29
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one of 23,000 independent hardware stores UiroughSmu w
Participate in "irha" Hardware Week, opening Thursday, April
<20tn, Melvin Rogers announced today.
The annual promotion, which JH sponsored by the Independent Retail Hardwaremen of America, will feature selected Happy Home Values on famous brand merchandise for Wm. A. Rogers & Co. customers from the country's leading hardware
and housewares manufacturers, Mr. Rogers said.
"TJie outstanding new feature of this year's "irha" Hardware Week." Mr. Rogers said, u is the long and valuable list of prizes our customers have the chance to win.
THRKE Rambler American Sedans, leader in economy cars, will be given away to
some lucky Hardware Week shoppers . . . these Grand Prizes lead off a liHt of more
than 600 valuable merchandise prizes that will be awarded to Hardware Week shoppers.
"Residents of this area need only come in and register at our contest counter
. . . there are no jingles or g i n i m i c k H to write, nothing to buy . . . just sign an entry
btenk at our store. We invite all our friendH and customers to come in and register
for these prizes," Mr. Rogers said, "and winners will be announced following the national drawing on June 1.
Supporting the "irha" hardware stores in their huge Happy Home Values selling
event are 600 hardware wholesale distributors and leading manufacturers whose famous brand-name goods are featured in these independent stores
Here in North Kent County, Wm. A. Rogers & Co. has its shelves stocked with
this newest merchandise The latest in everything, including power and hand tools,
do-it-yourself and fix-it-yourself equipment, handyman materials and supplies,
housewares (and kitchenwares, and lawn and garden supplies, has been tagged and
made ready for local buyers.
"Hardware Week was planned and timed to coincide with the most appropriate
time of year . . . springtime, when folks traditionally start fixing things up around
the house," Mr. Rogers declared, "and we have done all we possibly can to make
Hardware Week the best time to serve the homeowner. We have selected as Happy Home Values only the finest seasonal merchandise at the thriftiest prices"
It will be "open house" during the entire celebration at William A. Rogers &
Co. A carnival atmosphere will prevail, accentuated with gaily decorated exhibits,
posters, pennants, and special window displays, all featuring the big Happy Home
Symbol of 1961 HARDWARE WEEK merchandise values. Everyone is urged to
drop in. ask «bout hardware needs, and shop the 10,000 items regularly carried in
stocks to serve community needs.