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Newspaper
Mount Pleasant Times
Location
Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1926
Page
12
Community calendar and visits as residents and families travel to nearby towns. Mentions include Heaton and Nurse Keidel at a Mt. Pleasant clinic, Charlie Fish and family visiting Coleman, Fred Baumgart and family at Houghton Lake, Harrison’s baby improving, and various visits in Clare Coleman Detroit Lansing and Saginaw areas.
Jim Moyes and family spent Sunday at Lake George. Visitors to Perry Clifton on Monday included John Campbell and family, Clara Hendee White and family, Owosso, and Harold Austin. Miss Martha McMillen of Remus visited John Roethlesberger and Perry Clifton last week. Whitmore family spent the Fourth at Pale and Crystal. Emanual Moyes of Howell visits relatives including Jim. Alton Fleming and family visited Floyd Burgess. Frank and Roethlesberger welcome a baby daughter. Frank Desess and Roy Quick visiting nearby.
Mrs L B Cohoon hosted a welcome from her North Dakota sister on Monday. Ray Sponseller drives a new coupe. Several families including Sponsellers Bowen Van Horn Goffnett Leeter Walter and Duncan spent the Fourth at Crystal Lake and Big Norway near Sleepy Hollow. Lee Van Horn and family from Lansing spent the weekend.
O H Eldred and family host Indiana relatives as David Walcutt sells a calf on Tuesday. Visitors arrive from Kalamazoo Grand Rapids Blanchard Belding New Lothrop Owosso Lakeview and Big Rapids. Farrand family hosts Bowles Potter Potter Schuppler Taylor and others. Lester Walcutt attends Big Rapids school.
Long list of family vis its from Vernon Hill and neighboring towns notes visits by Mr. and Mrs. John Douglas of Birmingham and Ed House of Chesaning, with many relatives from Detroit Pontiac Alma and Flint spending time at homes of S quirrel families and others during a holiday weekend.
Sydney reports a nine year old in a Victorian township had the lower half of his face blown away by a shotgun accident. Adelaide surgeon Dr. Simpson Newland performed six operations over four years to build a new foundation and bring back facial form. The final plan includes rib bone grafting to replace the lower jaw and complete future revisions.
A local notice directs renters in Mount Pleasant to present a rent receipt from the prior owner to avoid misunderstandings with landlords. The policy aims to curb the idea that moving is cheaper than paying rent and advises contacting the renter's league secretary in extreme cases.
Card of Thanks thanks friends for kindness and floral offerings after sorrow. Mentions Stinson Daniels Howarth Jennings Archambault families. Light remarks on speed forty and thirty mph, quiet recreation spots, trying new shoes, home life, and money as costly.
City commission meetings on June 29 and July 6 1926 approved Hood supervision of a playground on a three week trial with up to 25 dollars for equipment. Minutes show adjournment motions and authorizations to buy cemetery power mower curb material for Chippewa Street pavement payroll adjustments and a Filtite Station installation at 1022 West Broadway. Mayors Pearce Kenney Brownsen sign off on actions.
A fragment notes the difficulty of loafing and buying on credit. It mentions Coolidge owning a set of golf clubs and wondering if he pays a penalty when missing a short putt.
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