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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1921
Page
6
The Mt Pleasant Normal School closes its six week term with final exercises planned for Friday morning August 5. Supt Thomas J Johnson of Lansing will deliver the commencement address. Enrolment reached 1,383 the largest in the school’s history amid hot weather and strong student performance.
The 1920 Saginaw kite contest drew wide interest from youths and adults, with plans to repeat at the 1021 Saginaw Fair. Will J. Craig leads the event with a large program including 10 features and multiple prize categories, plus a model aeroplane contest and air kite battles. Entry details and schedules available from Craig at 315 South Third Street, Saginaw, K.S.
Lester Dean of Meccata county visited at his brother C Dean's home to start the week. Sherd Witherell and mother, plus Mr and Mrs Orlin Fletcher, spent Sunday at Rock Lake. Barnes and father went to Lansing last Friday. Crosier family from Detroit visited over Sunday with Mr and Mrs Ray Palmer and Mrs Hy Crozier. Lone Aetell and family left last week for Detroit to visit relatives. John Duker and wife left Sunday for an overland trip to Indiana to visit relatives.
Eph Bingham, renowned for humorous tales, will headline Redpath Shantana at Chautauqua. He is a versatile performer, skilled pianist and violinist, impersonator, and storyteller. His lively stage presence and uplifting material promise an entertaining program for attendees.
Nathan King youngest son of Mrs. Nathan King died at Ford Hospital Detroit after weeks of blood poisoning. Body returned to Breckenridge for Saturday funeral at sister Mrs. William Harris home with Rev. John Clemens officiating. interment in Breckenridge cemetery. Nearby notes report scouts at Crystal Lake, visitors from Pasadena, moves to Alma, and local legal and social items. Reverend Stillman and family plan a three week motor trip. Mrs Agnes Crawford becomes Chicago supplier firm staff. Local car theft incident leads to arrests. township convention attendance totals about three hundred.
An old notice mix includes RAT-SNAP killing rats and mice with no odor, made in cakes, safe for pets, sold by C. R. Murphy and Winslow Bros. Drug Stores. It also carries a humor item about Trick the Editor and a promotion for Denman Thompson’s Old Homestead with New York cast and a general classifieds nudge to place notices.
A resident of Arends Township Gratiot County Michigan reports taking up a stray yearling steer red and white found at large. The owner may recover by paying compensation fees costs and expenses as provided by law. Dated June 30 1921 Abe Eckert Alma Michigan.
Readers are advised of upcoming changes to state bounty laws effective August 18. Bounties for woodchucks will drop from 50 to 25 cents. crows keep 25 cents. Weasels hawks and owls lose all state bounty after August 18, though local authorities may issue their own. The state will pay half the bounty on certain species if killed before the date, and will pay half on crows woodchucks hawks owls and weasels prior to August 18.
A fragmented column notes travel and visits by residents including Leonard and family journeying to Lan 'sing and Diarwondale, Sunday gatherings at Carson City and Emereon, and Professor Archie Levenard's upcoming talk at Coe church. Various locals, weather impacts on farms, and church attendance are mentioned along with a cured bowel illness in a Notary Public's child and an unrelated New York advertisement.
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