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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1913
Page
2
Ali Wiley and wife visited near Forest Hill while many neighbors visited Alma, Elwell, Ithaca, and Saginaw on business, calls, or events. The column records travel, house moves, hospital stays, illnesses, deaths, and a flood district telegraph work, naming numerous families and places across Alma Forest Hill and surrounding towns.
A ledger of land transfers lists buyers and sellers including W. E. Gilet to G. A. Miller, Brown to W. J. Baird, A. Thum to A. Dever, J. D. People to J. E. Adamek, and J. T. McCallum to J. W. Debolt, detailing fractional and section descriptions with prices ranging from 250 to 15,000 dollars across Wheeler, Washington, North Shade, Ithaca, and surrounding townships. The entries show multiple parcels such as ne and se fractions and lots in various plats, reflecting a busy real estate transfer period.
Elwell notes a busy week with sick lists, visits from Alma and Grand Rapids residents, and church activities. The Alma Sugar Co plans and local farm transitions are reported, alongside Rebekah lodge gathering, silo sales, and community events. District residents attend, travel, and work on spring farm preparations and sugar factory interests.
Forest Hill items report visits by Musa Owen and the Lanshaws, an A. J. Mey call on F E Creech, and a Christian church address by Dean and Frank Green. A social by 11th and Math grades netted nearly $7.00. hay stack loss, fishing trip yields 117 fish. Lord knows—vet remedies advertise Humphrey’s Veterinary Specifics from New York.
Allen District reports Henry and family visited Will Gallagher's. Joseph Shellhaas spent Sunday in North Star.
Thomas Gallagher visits his daughters Mrs J Conley and Mrs A O Boyle in Alma. Free Methodist church to host preaching next Sunday evening. Miss Westfall returns to school after a week of illness. Measles and whooping cough reported in Brady school. Carlyle Gallagher spends weekend in Sumner. Deward and Zelma Diverbiss absent from school with whooping cough. Mrs Matthew Doepher went to Ann Arbor Sunday. Hazel Robins ill last week. Tom Grover and John O Boyle have sold a horse recently. Mrs Joli Clemens visits parents Will and Thomas for a few days.
Amos Button and family left for Edmore while H Church traveled to Crystal on business. Florian Hoxie of Ann Arbor visited District No 9 school last Tuesday. L Forquer moved on the Amos Button farm. D Mulford was in Riverdale on business Saturday. Jeff Hoxie was in Elm Hall Saturday. Mrs Anna Loucks recovering from illness. Richard Eastman son Stanley and Alfred McParland were in Crystal Saturday. Robert Boardman of Elm Hall visited G M Easterday Friday. Arthur Mulford of Sumner visited Emory Mulford last Sunday. G M Easterday in Ithaca Friday on business. Mrs F J Tucker of Ithaca called on Mrs D Mulford Tuesday. Ed McKinstry in Carson on business Monday. Emory Mulford in Ithaca on business Tuesday. Floyd Price in Riverdale Tuesday on business.
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