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Arenac County Independent, January 24, 1940, p.1
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CAR CRASHES INTO TREE KILLING MAN.

     Solomon LaClair, 51 was killed early Friday morning when the car which he was driving crashed into a tree near the vicinity of the roadhouse on the Bangor Road north of
Bay City.
     Workmen going to their daily labors at the roadhouse discovered the car against the tree at 7:00 o'clock in the morning and reported the accident & the finding of the body to the police. Upon investigation it was determined that the unfortunate man had been dead since about 4:00 o'clock in the morning. It appeared that the car had travelled
off the pavement for a distance of 255 feet before crashing into the tree. Officers were unable to state if he met instant death or died of exposure.
     LaClair was born February 2, 1889 at Saganing. Funeral services were held from the St. John the Baptist church Monday morning at 10:00 o'clock with internment taking place in the Pine River cemetery.
     Mr. LaClair is survived by his widow Florence Courtemanche LaClair, to whom he was married Janurary 9, 1911, also four children, Mrs. Drusilla Prell, Pontiac; Edmund, Pontiac; Mrs. Oscar Klenk, Standish; and Raymond, Standish, but who was in Florida at the time of his death. He is also survived by 3 sisters, Mrs. Joseph Bisonette, Mrs. Philip Cavanaugh, and Mrs. Henry Shannon and four grandchildren.