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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1914
Page
7
Riverdale community activity spans visits among Alma Vestaburg and Lakeview, basketball with Vestaburg ends 20 10, with Meddick and Osborn starring. Students travel to Vestaburg, box social funds primary and intermediate rooms, and a Albion College lab fundraiser noted.
Ferris Center reports illnesses with Mrs Geo Douglas and Mrs Jonas Martin on the sick list. Several local visitors and callers, including C L Dyer at Alma and J P Throop with wife, are noted. A snow storm arrives as spring arrives and Otis Eggleston seen driving the first bus wagon. A church meeting confirms Mr Wheeler will return for an indefinite period. Thomas Russell Snook and mother Elsie are welcomed locally.
Last Tuesday evening at the home of Dr. and Mrs. EB Highfield the Men's Bible Class won a spelling contest over the Women's class with 35 attendees. Helen Williams led the judging, Clair Read spelled longest and won on Surety. ice cream and cake followed. Eugene Valence visited Alma while Riverdale attendees Charley Horton and others went to the Gra Viet County Boys Conference in Ithaca.
All Saints Services led by Mrs. Wallie Fry at Grange hall Sunday evening. George Wilson owns a registered Holstein heifer calf from M. A. C. farm. Mrs. Lydia Collins and Mrs. Ella Scott visited their niece Mrs. Will Lenhart. Mr. and Mrs. C. Goodrich visited near Tonia with their grandson Bruce Keith. A play “All in the Pay Streak” will be at Maple Grove Schoolhouse Friday March 27, admission 10 and 15 cents, proceeds to the school. Sympathy to the family of Mrs. Jolly Hare after illness and death. services were held at the house, interment Westville cemetery at McBride. De Forest Wallington lost two fingers cutting wood. brother Lew G. died, and father injured in a boiler explosion at Lake City.
John Valiant meets Katharine Shirley in a lantern lit garden at Damory Court in Virginia. He declares love, they share a kiss, and happiness blooms as the couple embrace a fated union in the old estate’s moonlit setting. The scene blends memory, longing, and a fortuitous fate as their romance deepens.
A fevered confession unfolds as a girl and a man cling to a sudden, perilous romance. She whispers that six weeks ago he had never seen her, while he claims to have always known her and to have dreamt of her across distant lands. A luminous, dreamlike moment follows, with intense emotion and a promise of fated union.
Advert reads Dr Hobsons Ecrema Ointment for skin blemishes and eczema relief with money back guarantee. Mentions druggists Wheaton & Sons Rhodes Drug Rexall Drug stores. Includes note of J C Foster delivering cigars in Wheeler and Breckenridge Monday.
CW Blunt transfers his share of the Arcada Barber shop to Mr. Bellow of Saginaw formerly of Merrill. Blunt has been with Ed, Davis for better than a year.
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