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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1908
Page
8
Local notes list visits from Alma Ithaca Sheridan Fremont Elm Hall Sumner and Saginaw. Social at parsonage on August 5. Residents like Mrs Brink Mr. Throop and Miss Muriel Throop return from Canada after a pleasant trip.
Mrs. Fred Clark traveled to North Star returning Saturday. Farwell resident Mr. D ayrell visited his daughter Mrs. Alvin Milles. Florence Wood, guest of Miss Mertie Lewis, returned home Friday. Mrs. P.M. Smith and C. Clark called on Mrs. Michem Arcada Center Friday. The Legians August sent by Sugar Co to beet fields went to Chicago to pick cucumbers. Mrs. Will Rubiman and daughter Vivian visited Thomas Roycraft Pine River returning Sunny. Florence Keefer spent week with Miss Lang Sumner and returned Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Ward Alma called on Clarence Clark Saturday. Mite H.C Clark returned Monday from 51 Julius with her coast. Mrs. Bara Smith Alma. Roy Keefer visiting uncle Georgie Warther Mesick returned Friday. Ener Bowman released from tuberculosis care Monday at 2 pm burial in Riverside cemetery. Melvin Sharrer family visited Mrs. Sharrer’s parents Ma and Alt Thomas Grover Alma. Esther and Ethel Smith returned from Crystal Wednesday. Arcada Grange to meet Friday Aug 7. Pomona at Forest Hill Saturday. Lawrence Clark injured Monday building a wire fence Dr. McClinton Alma attends hopeful of recovery. Mrs. Rose Osborne Battle Creek formerly of this place visiting neighbors. Mr. Will Godfrey improving his place with a windmill.
The Arcada livery and feed barn announces readiness for business with accommodations for 100 horses and ten cent feed. Farmers are urged to receive courteous treatment and give the barn their patronage as reported by The Record.
Canada's Fraser Highlanders, a renowned Scottish music group, will visit the city on Monday in late August for two Wright Park concerts. The ensemble includes a concert band, bagpipers, Highland dancers and drummers in full traditional dress. This marks their first local visit and is eagerly awaited by Scottish music fans.
The forty piece concert band is carefully chosen and directed by B D Gilliland, renowned internationally. Fraser Highlanders bagpipe division includes six pipers five Highland dancers and three drummers under Pipe Major Angus McMillan Fraser who holds the American Highland dancing title. Fraser won the Cochrane trophy in Highland dancing at a Montreal event in August 1667 and has since claimed permanent possession of the cup. The dancers perform the Highland Fling Sailor's Hornpipe Sword Dance Scotch Reel and other dances for the ball.
J F White trainer of race horses at the county fair grounds aided John O Disso who was attacked in a stall by a Clare owned stallion. The animal bit and dragged him forcing teeth through the arm. White intervened by kicking the horse in the nose and Disso was treated by Dr I N Monfort for the arm lacerations.
Sergeant A M Root returns from furlough to Portland Maine. A H Dillon family moves to Lansing planning western settlement. Mina Bell Karr of Cass City visits Mt Pleasant Normal. Nelsons back from Saginaw after two weeks with Vliets. Rumor: Republican Leader sold to George Adams of Illinois. Rev A J Funnell offers all household goods for sale. Nor Wood joins E M Wood’s architectural office in the Lee Mercantile Block. Pearl Decker takes Central Drug Shop post replacing Pittwood. Ann Arbor railroad to run excursion to Michigan Agricultural College August 27 with guided tours and picnic options. Local commerce calls for cheerful townspeople to lift liveliness.
August 1 week end advertised letters for Alma Michigan include Mrs Mae Brown Mr James A Davis Gonmer Annie Finch Mr Ruben Halsey James Hoyt Harvey Hunt Louise Lau Lucy Magor Jay Scott Estelle Swan Lee Thomas Leah Wilder Melicent Woods. Uncalled letters sent to dead letter office August 17 1908 C F Brown P M
A famed entertainer, heading his own company this season, has played before the public for over a decade and is praised by press and managers for high esteem. He appears at Alma Opera House on Wednesday evening, August 12, as part of a noted program. Market report and corrected prices for grains, seeds, and livestock follow, listing rye, corn, beans, potatoes, butter, eggs, hides, pork, beef, mutton, veal, poultry, and various flours and meal items with updated figures.
Father Mulvay, the new assistant priest at St Marys Church, arrived in Alma Wednesday morning and begins work among parishioners. Regular services are planned for next Sunday. The Saginaw Presbytery met in Alma to dissolve the pastoral relation between Rev. A J Funell and the First Presbyterian Church of Alma with several clergy in attendance.
The Ann Arbor Ry will run its annual excursion to Niagara Falls Toronto Montreal Alexander Bay and Quebec on Thursday August 6. Special train leaves Alma at 7 32 a m. Round trip fare to Niagara Falls is 5 25. Fares to other destinations are listed with Niagara as the base price. Read every page of the Record.
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