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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1915
Page
7
Local correspondence details guardianship appointments for Lilah Abbott and Carl Abbott, estate shares awarded to multiple relatives, and travel notes about Mrs Robet Forbush. A buggy accident near Alma injures two women, and Mrs Clara Humphrey and Mrs Wm Webb visit Riverdale. Various residents travel to Grand Rapids, Alma, and the Upper Peninsula for family, health, and business matters.
Alma residents and visitors populate a lively Sumner items list. Mrs Jennie Woodard of Alma visited friends here while Dr. Graham shows a new Ford. Emory Mulford moves near Maple Rapids to work for Foger Bros. and Mr and Mrs Wills Plank welcome a baby boy. Mrs F J Tucker returns from a three week stay in Belding and Saranac. George Harvey and others relocate or visit, with typhoid recovery noted for Miss Raby Cleverdon.
New Haven notes record Mild week with residents in Cripsell Brecketeldge and Sire. Harriet Du Munt of Detrash testifies on Gapuires aunt Min Lee Townsevil. Neier Tetinge Yee sees items at We Gaetan Gedree Mystyy store pencise. Brick schoolhouse opens with new teacher Miss Buckingham. Walter Lepley to assist Lee Townsend through summer. Mrs P L Blanchard home ill with bronchitis and grippe. Mrs Jake Siefert ill with bronchial pneumonia. Harry Barnes rents fields from Jax Crisspell Robi Strouse Leon Harris attend Ithaca dance. Mr Herman Meyer family moves to Alma. Mrs Tos Harrie visiting Dotroft mother.
Ada Delo visited Maplegrover School on Monday while seventh graders finished their agriculture work. Ida Clara and Lola Doloff visited on Thursday. Miss Vern Doloff hosted her teacher Miss Pearl Race on Tuesday. Alvin L. Eggleston and parents visited grandparents, L. Tissue.
Duncan Kirby Wheeler visited Saginaw while P H Kennedy of Mt. Pleasant spent several days in town last week. Miss Lulu Blackman appeared in Alma on Wednesday, and R J Lowery traveled to St Louis Wednesday evening. Mrs B Arnold of St Louis and FE McCloud of Breckenridge were in town midweek. Mr and Mrs Newell Bradford called on Mrs Foland’s mother. Eve Wotansky returns home from Mt Pleasant for a week’s vacation. W C T U held an enthusiastic meeting with district president Mrs Mudge in attendance.
Local social and visiting notes from Riverdale and surrounding towns recount Mrs. Smith's serious condition, residents moving to Alma, return from trips to Bay City and Grand Rapids, school breaks, church events, revival meetings, and numerous visits among families in Elm Hall, Ithaca, Vestaburg, and Maple Rapids.
Southeast Ferris Union Aid to meet at Oswaldts home Ferrie on April 7. Local residents report visitors, employment changes, and health updates including Maud Ball's slow recovery and Eli Andrews birthday celebration. Postmaster Burns of St Louis visited Ferris Record office amid a busy small-town week.
The Ames-Combs Realty Co Ltd offers to register farm properties in Michigan Indiana Ohio and Minnesota for a fee of 3 cents per acre plus charges for abstracts tax history and advertising. They advertise nonexclusive sales with all papers handled and commissions paid by the agency, urging owners to register now and remit by express order.
Frank Medler aged about sixty died at his Lewiston Idaho home Sunday from Brights disease. Funeral was Tuesday at his home with interment in Lewiston. A longtime Alma resident, he worked for Pollasky and Vermulen, later partnered with C W Rogers. He is survived by his wife, two children, and many friends in Alma.
Theodore Gates is reported to have returned to his residence near Cedar Lake on Monday morning. The brief note confirms his homegoing arrival in the Cedar Lake area.
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