County Seat Newspaper
of Clare County
Harrison, MIFair, 63°
Wind: 8.1 mph, S
Harrison, MI
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Back in the Day-1963
57 Years Ago
“The Patio” a teen-age center, open-air-style, will hold their opening weekend this Friday night, June 28, and will also be open for teen dancing …
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7/6/20
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A postcard of the Shell service station at the Parkview Tourist Cabins on the corner of Townline Lake Road and US-27. In recent memory the property was a known for many years as a weekend flea …
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6/24/20
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Knowledge of local history can go a long way in finding and identifying photos. I found this photo in an online auction several years ago.
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by Angela Kellogg,
Cleaver Managing Editor
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5/11/20
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The year was eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and it was the early part of April. It had been a winter of deep snowfall, but a sudden rise in temperature and a warm southwest wind had first settled …
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4/24/20
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We only have a handful of newspapers that are pre-1930 and I often wonder why that particular paper was kept.
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by Angela Kellogg
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3/19/20
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As early as December of 1948 the Clare Sentinel and the Clare County Cleaver were reporting the development of Snowsnake Mountain by James D’Arcy, local real estate …
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by Angela Kellogg
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2/6/20
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A collection of three photos were recently shared with the Cleaver from the Welty Family, long time seasonal residents of Lake George. At times old photos have no back story and we are left to …
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by Angela Kellogg
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11/7/19
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History often presents seemingly impossible to answer questions. W. J., a reporter for the Detroit Free Press, visited the logging camp of Winfield Scott Gerrish in 1878 and his report was …
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Jon H. Ringelberg, member of the Clare County Historical Society
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10/31/19
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A MAJOR COUNTY HISTORIC FIND
The Clare County Historical Society announces a unique donation. A log mark of Ammi W. Wright believed to be from about the 1870’s. Following contact …
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10/10/19
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It's been sixty years since John "Spikehorn" Meyer passed away in the Gladwin Nursing home. He claimed to be in his 80 the last 30 years of his life and was 89 when he died on September 19, …
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9/20/19
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Linen postcards from the 1930s and 1940s wa something I had largely overlooked in collecting and researching Clare County. So many are available and at an expensive price they didn't seem …
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by Angela Kellogg
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9/3/19
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Clare County’s first township was not Grant, Sheridan, nor Surrey Township, it was Three Lakes Township. According to Forrest Meek in Michigan’s Timber Battleground (1976) in “January of …
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11/15/18
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Ernest Merrill may be the most photographed man in early Harrison history. Viewing so many photos of Harrison it became easy to spot Ernest Merrill in each photograph. The same jaunty …
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by Angela Kellogg
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11/15/18
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