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Newspaper
Mount Pleasant Times
Location
Mount Pleasant, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1926
Page
4
Blanchard community reports a fire started by a freight train near town causing rapid spread due to dry conditions and wind. Bucket brigade efforts contained the blaze with little damage. Local visits include Fern Thompson from Marion and Geo Fellows at Ed Marston’s home.
Riverdale locals and relatives gathered as Kenneth Leach and family visited his parents. Dozens of visitors from Lansing Saginaw Detroit Albion and Elk communities spent weekends with friends and relatives. Mrs Bradley hosted thirty guests for family birthdays with Ellison and Tallon kin in attendance.
Millbrook Daniel Fahie and family spent Sunday in Flint. Jean Pattison Aldrich and son Irene Sanderson visited relatives in Stanton on Wednesday. Hugh Fountain family spent a week in Grand Rapids. Rebekah sisters visited Remus for lunch and surprised Sister Gingrich. Glen Swisher and friend drove from Rockford for a weekend with relatives. Dr. Thad Smith and his mother visited in Detroit to see his wife and children. Marie Nadeau returned from Belding Saturday. Tower relatives visited from Big Rapids. Robert Reichert family, Bert Nadeau and children spent Sunday in Paris. Jennie and Maris Nadeau spent Teeny night with Phyllis Butler. Mrs. Guy Tower and Harold Tower visited Big Rapids. Services at the M. E. church Sunday evening conducted by Rev J. Rayle of Remus with the Brotherhood class providing music assisted by Dr. T. Smith of Detroit.
The Rev Joyce Caplyn, newly noted as the first woman assistant pastor in London, scorns frumpy attire and designs her own chic dress and cassock. In New York, students reportedly used Grant's Tomb as a handball court in a curiosity of urban life.
Real estate transfers list Winifred Ayris Edith Houghton and Wilma Packett to Ann Wall for part of Blanchard village Lots 1 2 8 4 Block 88 for 1000 Hugh Vahey and wife to C H Macomber trustee east half of southwest quarter of section 22 Denver township for one dollar. Marriage licenses Loyce Bissell 25 Shepherd Iva Cluley 21 Denver Raymond Fernandez 21 Shepherd Leipe Murano 22 Shepherd.
Probate notices record orders for sale of real estate and estates of Vernon A. Tricker Harold Bruner Moses Rand John Fetters Mara Loubenthal Emma Fox James Freeman John Wiley Alwilda Baker John A Wiley Mary Swayd Samuel Williams Ray MecGillip John Damon Anna McQueen Joseph Allen Albert Taggart Horace Hunter. Final accounts, proofs of publication, and letters testamentary filed.
Mr and Mrs Garfield Merrill hosted her brother Lucius and family from Dewitt for the weekend. Mr and Mrs C E Davis and Mr and Mrs Floyd Gifford drove to Evans Lake on Sunday. N K Hunt returned Monday from a week at Houghton.
Mr and Mrs Henry Smith visited Mt Pleasant on Saturday. Mrs Arnold Kent and brother George Lowe of Houghton Heights drove to Lansing Monday. Mr and Mrs Paul Binkley and children spent the weekend at Evans Lake. Herman Jones bought a threshing outfit from John Lowe. John Lowe traveled to Houghton Lake Saturday. Mr and Mrs Thomas Croskery and son spent Sunday at Croton Dam. W N Pierpont spent Sunday at Higgins Lake. Mrs Hazel Groves visited cousin Ben Root Tuesday and Wednesday. Miss Tiny Root went with her to Flint for a few days. Mrs Thomas Croskery and son Days spent Tuesday and Wednesday with Mrs John Curtiss northwest of town. Mr and Mrs David Pierpont and children were Bass Lake visitors Friday evening. Elmer Jones and Freeman Curtiss, returning from New York, came home Saturday. Miss Bernice Jones returned from a summer in Lansing earlier this week. Elton Hunt and sister Francis drove here from Lansing Saturday. Young people from town attended a party Wednesday afternoon at the Starkweather cottage on Crystal Lake in honor of Hiloe Starkweather fourteenth birthday.
Mr and Mrs Andrew Gernek and family spent Sunday at Chaney home in Forest Hill. Mrs Henry Murphy and daughter Helen from Summerton called on Mr and Mrs Fred Miller and Mr and Mrs Rendel Kniffen. Fred Miller and son Cecil visited with his sister C H Johnson in Gladwin. Saddler family of Shepherd visited Cerneck. Kendel Kniffen of Lansing stayed with parents. Families including Knowlton Earwins Vaughn and Wright Park Alma reunion group attended. Detroit visitors Charlie Whiffle visited Geo McGarry. Orley Chamberlin and John Knowlton hosted Sunday at Knowlton home. Will Lendner and family and John Noss family from South East Shepherd area visited Vaughn home. John Walker entertained guests from Illinois.
A Pittsburgh coal man's wife asks for a divorce and quips she may marry an ice man. The remark is brief and light, with no further details provided beyond local lines from South Mt. Pleasant.
West Broomfield and Alma residents share holiday visits with kin in Elwell Flint and Lansing. Evarts and Zumbrink plan Alma return. Clarence Baughn and Lillian Fitzpatrick wedding plans noted. Floyd Miller Mike Starika at Wm Sharp home while family visits continue. Hugh Blackner dines with Mrs Winter Monday.
Lester Yeager served as a Sunday caller at the Lester Gundell residence.
Mrs Roy Miller returned home Sunday after a week’s visit with friends and relatives at Middleton and Ithaca. Mrs Will Pease came home from two sneaks visits with her sister and family. Mr Pease motored here Saturday evening. Ed Decker and sons visited relatives in Alma Sunday. Paul La Frormboise and L McQueen hosted Sunday evening guests. Effie Varick returned home Saturday evening after a week with the Raymond McNamara family. Clyde Jennings spent Friday afternoon with his uncle L McQueen.
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