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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1899
Page
2
Local notes from Breckenridge and vicinity detail health issues, visits, and small town happenings. Reports mention Mrs. Darlington, Mrs. Weeks, and Frank Tomas with travel to Mt Pleasant for visits. many neighbors suffer grippe or tonsillitis while others prepare for spring farming. A district school term begins April 24 as teachers plan next year’s corps. several residents move, build, or lease land and houses.
The widow Taren has been seriously ill for some time with no improvement. Her daughter Mrs Ervin Rice of Chicago helps care for her, and Matie Wolfe is also gravely ill at her grandfather's. Will Beverly visits from Jackson. Ray Wheaton moved to Brewlaker farm south of Wolfe bridge. Last Sunday Mrs Lessee Emsley surprised on her birthday. Eugene Taylor and wife take up residence with father Gethers for summer farming. The former Reid home now houses a family named Win. Arcada Farmers Club plans April meeting with John Murphy hosts including Singing and Prayer, dinner, music, and readings by Minnie Peck and Arthur Murphy.
The Hynes brothers moved onto new property formerly owned by Lyvere and the housekeeper duties were taken. Boys near town reported sport in the ditch with some goats found. School resumes at Center Ling School after a shorter vacation. Wm Barns returns to teaching. Samuel Moose has left town for the sea. Lead Woyt celebrated a 20th birthday with a party on the 15th and some young ladies visited Bert sitley on the 13th.
Scarce news notes detail Melvin Sanders raising a tran for a new barn last Saturday. Robert Gamble began cedar work for his pew store last Monday with brick on the round. Simeon Sanders lays timber at Main Street northeast corner for a residence, possibly for a Catholic church. The Rev. John Sweet sells farm part to Ira Shaw and 40 more acres to Herbert Strong. he and Mrs. Sweet plan a visit to Ohio then California. Walter Cook of Ithaca moves to the John Elehorn farm. Ladies Aid Society to meet with Mrs. Wm. Cook on Thursday. Charley Coleman sells farm to Bert Failing. Methodist Sabbath school members buy new singing books.
Mrs W T Prattla presided as Fraok Russell and wife led the Alma Monday gathering. The April 12th meeting at Mr New Wilkow’s pleasant home drew strong attendance despite poor roads. After opening prayers and minutes, eight new families joined the original twenty, Bechler’s remarks stressed farming’s primacy. N Wilson spoke on warm welcomes, Mrs Hirsh read on borrowing and lending, and Jessie Lewis Beller played a duet. Ground preparation discussed, favoring sowing oats after corn with coat ploughing. Dalois raised the Torrens land transfer issue. members voted to oppose related legislation and the county salaries bill. Select reading The Returned Soldier followed by a humorous skit. The meeting adjourned to meet May second Wednesday at Henry Gould’s home, Isabella.
An elderly Detroit veteran at the G A R reunion recalls hardships from the Civil War and warns about wartime illnesses. He speaks of kidney troubles common among veterans and endorses Down's Kidney Pills as a remedy, urging readers to seek the product from Milburn Co. and its Buffalo agents.
A transformed government steamship named Grant-bore sails up the North river to salute Gen. Grant’s tomb before departing on a long voyage to the Mediterranean. It carries about 1,800 soldiers and crew, with Gen. Lawton and staff aboard, flanked by two other model transports, the Sherman and Sheridan, each bearing nearly 2,000 U.S. troops and heavy guns.
The New York press notes a fad of displaying photographs on a bicycle wheel in a boudoir. Women, married or single, choose wheels with different histories to show two to forty six pictures, highlighting beard status and facial hair in the chosen portraits.
The article traces early Christian bans on incense and holy water as heathen practices, notes the rise of relics and offerings in late antiquity, and mentions the conversion of the holy table into an altar for relics. It also references wax tapers in Mithraic sites and a 307 A.D. decoration by Paulinus of Nola, before shifting to notes about Sitting Bull’s grave marker and depictions of Jerusalem’s decline.
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