Local Happenings Round Alma Saginaw and Nearby Towns
Friday visits in Saginaw and Cadillac plus Alma guests are noted as residents travel for relatives and leisure. School opens September 1 as city life continues with social visits to Chicago Petosky Crystal Lake and Niawara Falls. A new baby arrives, repairs at Pioneer Hall proceed, and street work replaces wooden mains on West Downie Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pioneer Hall
Ralph Wheaton
Rexall Drug Store
West Downie Street
Alma city social notes and regional visits
Miss Helen Cook visits Detroit and Hudson Ohio for two weeks with friends. Many locals, including families of Ruddick, Cohoon, Rea, and Smith, host and travel to Car son City, Detroit, Cadillac, Beulah, and Crystal Lake. Excursions to Frankfort and Eaton Rapids, hospital stays, liturgical services, civic meetings, and numerous trips to Alma area locales are reported alongside weathered updates on beets, sugar plants, and local schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Cook
Detroit
Hudson
Ohio
Frank Ruddick
Crystal Lake
Paul Kernen
Wheeler Monhe
Lyman Cohoon
Brainerd Hospital
W. S. Rea
Grand Rapids
D. W.dams
Presbyterian Church
E. A. Briggs
St. Louis
David Kleinahans
P. M. Smith
Oliver Smith
F. Ruddick
Carson City
T. Beck
Harold
Cadillac
Chas
Gipe
Frank Parker
N. Saad
Beulah
Cincinnati
Nibblack
Reading
Louise Hood
East
Cora Thomas
Reese
A. F. Wood
Ely Street
Mary Owen
Milwaukee
W. R. Owens
N. F. McClinton
St. Luke’s Hospital
Chicago
Alma
G. N. Notestein
Wooster
Miss McMurtrie
Lottie Karr
Saginaw
Edna Campbell
Ann Arbor
Doan's Kidney Pills Backed By Local User Testimony
A local notice urges attention to early kidney trouble and endorses Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs. H. Cooper of Wheeler Michigan reports relief from back pain dizziness and nervousness after using the remedy. The ad states the product is sold by dealers for 50 cents with Foster Milburn Co. as U S agents and cautions to remember the name Doan's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bright
Dean
H. Cooper
Wheeler, Mich
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doar
Local Notes From Forest Township and Nearby Areas
Mrs Bertha Couter is sick Otis Capon and family visit Wheeler Thurman Sprague of Owosso visits parents Mrs L E Camfield calls on Ithaca friends Ladies Aid Society to meet at church Thursday P M Miss Gladys Failing visiting Emerson Miss Edna Sias entertaining Miss Ethel Bailor of St Louis Miss Clara Hamilton hosts Misses Nena and Ina Wright of Coe Rev Bridwell Alma preaches at Christian church Sunday Mrs Nettie Goodwin of Pittsburg visiting friends Thomas Post and granddaughter Dorothy of Vernon visiting friends Fred Vandermark leaves for Boone employed at school there for year Mrs Hugh Byers returns home in Ling Clara Hamilton visits Cap City J E Camfield's aunt Mrs Pegg Toronto Dan and Mrs Smith M L Osterhout of Belding visit Saturday to Monday FOR SALE One seven room house cheap for cash or contract Enquire at this office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Scattergood
Saginaw
R. H. Wilcox
J. W. Wright
Nina Mourer
Ithaca
Alma
R. J. Fraker
Cass City
Cedar Lake
H. B. Stuckey
Cadillac
G. Archie Brown
Ray Swigart
Snell
Fulton Township
Iva Amsbury
Bert Palfrey
C. F. Hainline
Ewart
Adelbert Thumb
Union City
E. M. Shrodes
Toledo
Tiffin
J. M. Montigel
Mina
Chicago
Bert Sager
Galesburg
Michigan Sugar Company
George Allen
Tom Gladstone
Bernice Sweet
Mina Montigel
Merrill
George Sharrar
T. A. Johnston
Beri Hayes
Crystal Lake
William Nicholson
John Todd
Detroit
Mildred Bilson
W. H. Parr
Wright House
Lilian Brown
Sadie Burk
Ferris Institute
A. F. Wood
East Dennie Street
Woodward Avenue
State Street
Colonel Stanton
East Tawas
John D. Carter
Olive Smith
Theo Amsbury
Alberta Dunham
Crystal
Civic Improvement League
Laurence Entison
West Branch
Marjorie Hatch
Wilmette
Blaisdell
Ralph Russell
Gertie V. Taylor
St. Louis
Justice J. A. Mann
Pearl Montgomery
Toronto
Ontario
Flint
Thibaudeau
Leontine Messinger
Chicago Art Institute
Simon Messinger
Ladies of the Modern Maccabees
Midland
Dow Chemical Works
J. H. Menning
Beulah Parr
Ruby Margaret Carl Non
Clifford Carle Garloch
Lansing
Marjorie Nilson
St. Johns
Lottie Karr
Woodward
Traverse City
Owosso
Bertha Couter
Otis Capon
Wheeler
Thurman Sprague
L. E. Camfield
Ladies Aid Society
Gladys Failing
Emerson
O. L. Pembroke
Harrison Wood
Carl
Christian Church
Edna Sias
Ethel Bailor
Clara Hamilton
Nena
Ina Wright
Coe
Bridwell
The
Nettie Goodwin
Pittsburg
Penn
Fred Vandermark
Boone
Vandermark
Hugh Byers
Ling
Capitol City
J. E. Camfield
Pegg
Dan
Smith
M. L. Osterhout
Belding
Alma area notes and local personnel movements
Dr J N Day of Houghton Lake spent the weekend in Alma and reports unusually strong business at the resort in 1918. Mr and Mrs Day plan to spend winter in Alma. Mr and Mrs Jotham Allen moved from Emerson to the Turck property on Woodworth Avenue and will make Alma their home. The attorney general mandates chauffeurs for hire and a $2 license fee in all state areas, enforced by police. Minnie Hansen, formerly with Home Fuel and Lumber Co, returns to Ludington. Earl Parker fills the vacant bookkeeping post. Peter C Johnson, visiting from the Masonic Home, will return early next week. Chummie receives a Masonic apron with Alma Lodge and Elk Rapids Lodge inscriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Wright Park
J. M. Montigel
Petosky
Miss Run Day
Northville
Alta Parr
Marion Chick
Crystal Lake
W. M. Shepherd
Juno
Chicago
George Peery
F. Parker
Edmore
Mr. Parker
Prof. Ellsworth
Alma
Michigan
Wm. H. Latimer
Detroit
Jay Clirke
Amherst
Mass
New York
Boston
T. A. Johnston
Oklahoma
Mr. Jonanos
Central WiNeanroduce Company
Antrim County News
Elk Rapids
J. N. Day
Houghton Lake
Day
Jotham Allen
Emerson
Turck
Woodworth Avenue
Allen
Minnie Hansen
Home Fuel & Lumber Co
Ludington
Miss Hansen
Earl Parker
Peter C. Johnson
Bro. C. P. Johnson
Alma Lodge
A. M. Alma
Mich
A. L
Mrs Stopple Catches Eight and Half Pound Pike at Stevenson Lake
Mrs Walter Stopple lands an eight and a half pound grass pike at Stevenson Lake, besting her husband, though Stopple is known as an expert fisherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Stopple
Stevenon Lake
Stopple
Also Mentioned on This Page
Stuckey’s Independent Cos Grocery
Wm. Demuth
Malcolm Smith
Alvin Austin
Monroe
Anna Montigel
Delia Corey
Coleman
Harry Orwig
Niawara Falls
W. H. H. Smith & Son
St. Louis, Mich
Pearl Decker
Ray Baker
Merlyn Emerson
Will Ewing
John Dunham
Indian River
Sandy” Duncanson
Dr. Foust
New York Sun
Andre Jaeger-Schmidt
Alfred Bruce
Willie Sherman
Charles Wierman
Breckenridge
John Hamilton
Wierman
Alf
Crawford
Charley Wierman
Saginaw Street
Drake
J. P. Losey
Optometrist
Superior
Alma, Mich
Thomas Post
Miss Dorothy
Vernon
G B. Porthr
E. Superior
F. J. Place
Maple Avenue
Mantcalin County
Grover Avenue
Union
Barney the Woodman
Superior St
PF. E. Pollasky
Grant Avenue
Geo. W. Palfrey
Arcada
X. Y
Record Office
R.L. Daickworth
Union Phone
West Superior Street
C. F. Brown
Elwell
Owens
First State Bank
G.S. Ward
L.a.sharp Francis King
P.m.smith Carl H. Washburn
O. Ward Chas
G. Rhodes
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