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The Alma Record in Alma, Michigan

12 Apr 1917

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The Alma Record

Location

Alma, Michigan, United States of America

Date

Apr 12, 1917

Page

6

Alma Area News Highlights And Events

Alma area notices show residents visiting Kalamazoo Big Rapids and Detroit while local officials and businesses announce deliveries and new trucks. Bank officials, teachers, and students attend meetings and vacations as civic groups plan fund drives and campaigns. Local residents relocate. road and park improvements underway. military and public service efforts linked to wartime campaigns and patriotism.

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Giod Mabel Rhaney Sparta Miax Lola Adkins Exeter Big Rapids Wirt Adking Flint Miex Tom Adkine DeWitt Vought WH. Snell Muhn Sweet & Hayden Carson By Alma Lloyd Osborn Riverdale Margaret Smith Belding W. H. Snell W. A. Medler Hass Wayne County Savings Bank J. A. Mann Ithaca Almo City Mise Elizabeth Lovette Kalamazoo Mise Bernita Courtney Port Huron Emery W. Clarke Rae National Bank of Detroit Emily Fryekholm Ferrie Institute J. Fryekholm Snell B.C. Osborn Archie Mabee Morenci Roy Perry Alma Record Navy RE. Hughes Itheen Ithaes GS. Meisch Virginia Je Rock Coal Company O.im Pasadena California Zeta Sigma Society Alma College Fink Columbus Ohio Republic Motor Truck Company, Inc Tir F. A. Gill Cleo Detroit Gill State Dental Association W. RK. C. Thimble Club M. J. Freaker Grover Avenue William Thompson South Court Street Gorge Bennetts Chicago Voice Culture Phone Union sHedte _ Kenneth Univers of Michigan J. M. Montonel Theodore Kress Marine Paul James Albion Oak Pringte Josephing Dioctor State Dentists Association Ralph E. Raycraft Wayne Michigan Vincent M. EB. Ladies’ Aid Society Charles Crease Woodworth Ave A. Dondineau Grand Haven Eadie Johnston McAuley Beverly Ladies’ Aid Society Church of Christ Pine Avenue The Aid Society J. A. Wilkinson Columbia Gratiot County Will Isenhath Seville Crooks Alme College Ada
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Alma High School Meet Relocated to Breckenridge

Gratiot County athletic directors voted at a Saturday meeting to move the annual track meet from Alma to Breckenridge for this year. Local representative Kimball favored Alma, but was outvoted. The event is scheduled for Friday June 1, with concerns about enlistments and potential Ithaca participation possibly delaying or canceling the meet.

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Alma St. Louis Prin Breckenridge Ithaca
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No Married Men Discharged National Guard Units

Secretary Baker orders discharge of all married men in the National Guard with dependents. The war department directive applies whether or not the men wish to be discharged from federal service. The order also authorizes discharge of enlisted women in the National Guard with dependent families.

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Baker War Department Secretary of War National Guard
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Real estate firm Crapo and Shepard forming partnership

Mt Pleasant’s Crapo moves to city joining W H Shepard to form Crapo and Shepard offering general real estate, loan, insurance, and electrical goods services. Office at Shepard residence South Woodworth Ave. Walpole Mass celebrates first town forest planting with schoolchildren and civic leaders planning future recreation and forest revenues. Alma Record want ads.

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Crapo Mt Pleasant W. H. Shepard Crapo & Shepard Shepard Woodworth Avenue State Forestry Department Walpole Massachusetts Brookline Sharon New England jJournal
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Officers Sign Pledge Amid Wartime Rhetoric

The Fiat Aros infantry officers led by Col A M L Tuthill signed a pledge on November 28 to abstain during the period of their service. Governor Frank Willis of Ohio voiced a call for national strength and measured judgment to face foreign threats and ensure readiness.

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Advertised Letters for Week Ending April 9 1917

List of names including Patric Causley Walfred Fredrickson Clarence Frandel Mary Frasch Guy Garwood Leland Griffith W Johnstone Will Kennedy Anna Foehn John Maxwell David McGundigan Hugh Spink Lair Shuster Edna Terry. If not called for, items will be sent to the Proud Letter office April 3 1917. Postmaster V. P. Cash.

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Patric Causley Walfred Fredrickson Clarency Frandel Mary Frasch Guy” Garwood Leland Griffith W. Johnstone Will Kennedy Anna Foehn John Maxwell David McGundigan Hugh Spink Lair Shuster Edna Terry
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Boston Draft Calls and Local Recruiting Fray

Private Boston, resident recruiting officer, awaits at Bartley dock to recruit for the army. Alma has one enlistee since war began. question if more will respond to the national call or await congressional draft. Also note a February communication about the constitutionality of a destruction of noxious weeds law, with Deputy Attorney General Dougherty stating no supreme court ruling yet and that circuit judges have varied interpretations.

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Alma Boston Walt Congren Alphonse F Wood Elwell Michigan Tut Supreme Court Dougherty
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Mal Goodie de Luxe Candy Co Alma, Michigan K. J. Hubbard the Universal University U.S. A Alaska Mexico Canada Scranton Alma Roller Mills Pearl of the Army Joan Iciehour the Record America Vietrala Victrala A. Sawkins Piano Company Mdlehour Theatre Mr Pleasant Man Ho Shepard G. B. Porter RaGretes Optometrist State Street Ellison Grovery V. P. Cash Bartley Dock D. W. Robinson Brunner Economy Shoe Store Good Shoes J. M. Montigel Bob Sleighs Peerless Bte Oliver Chilled Syracuse Deere Bryan and Greenville Steel
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