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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1911
Page
4
A city report favors illuminated concrete pavement and vitrified brick for Alma streets. Details compare mixes from Ann Arbor and Mt. Pleasant, noting cost and durability, with recommendations for state street upgrades, sewer works, and a $7 415 cost estimate.
A special committee reports on necessary changes to water mains and sewers along Superior and State Streets as a prerequisite to paving. It notes the Superior Street main from Race Bridge to Wright Avenue is ready for paving but seventy-one service connections should be relaid with lead pipe. If paving continues beyond Wright Avenue, the wooden main should be replaced with cast iron, with fittings and hydrants as specified.
This law requires an entirely new enrollment for primary voting. Electors may enroll with a party on the first Monday in April before the August primary or on the last Saturday in January each year. Qualified electors may enroll by written request with an affidavit declaring eligibility and intent to align with the chosen party. Enrollment within two months of enrollment date is required.
The text explains that qualified electors enrolled under prior acts must enroll anew when the act takes effect. Voters should act now to avoid confusion at elections. General enrollment occurs in January, with a second chance at the spring election in April. Primary enrollment books are open at all elections for new voters and those who changed residences.
Hubert Moblo and Miss Hattie M Hudson married at St John s Episcopal church in Detroit on November 2. Dr Fiber officiated as relatives witnessed the ceremony. The couple, with Moblo employed as a traveling representative for Rosewick Brann Hardware, plan a short wedding trip then reside in Penn Link. Riverdale friends extend best wishes.
Mr F Cook presents Where are the Dead at Realty Opera House with Mr Earnest Whelpton of New York speaking on The Resurrection of the Dead both of the Just and the Uninet. The event is at the home of Mrs Frances Ray 117 Rockingham Avenue Sumlay on December 10 at 4 o clock pm.
The Riverdale intermediate room reports for the month ending November 24 with 20 teaching days, 98.8 percent average daily attendance. Pupils never absent or tardy include Walter Kellicut, Tella Van Alstine, Mable King, Fred Looker, Carrie Wolfgang, Hsie Barnhard, Melen Van Alstine, Harley Schnepp, Bernice Osborn, Richard Seitz, Bertha Hilsinger, Eugene Vallance, Vera Vallance, Mary Wyeth, Glen Schnepp, Dorothea Swope, Leta Carmer, Hazel Donley, Selah Vandemark, Hazel Parks. Tardy but not absent are John Smith, Frank Hyde, Justin Cash, Mary A. Wynne, and teacher.
Strubles restaurant lists four packages light hand brand mince for twenty five cents three pounds rice and a decorative silver spoon for twenty five cents Malaga grapes ten cents a pound plus fruits candies and nuts all at the establishment.
The Ladies of St John’s Episcopal church host their annual bazaar with aprons dolls slippers towels bags and Christmas baked goods at the Parish house on Thursday December 14. An excellent dinner is served and a cordial invitation is extended to all.
Corrected market quotations list prices for grain hay clover seed and animals. Entries cover Wheat oats corn and beans. hogs beef cattle sheep lambs veal calves and dressed meats. poultry hides tallow butter and produce. Prices shown per unit with regional values and unit types.
Mr and Mrs Henry Brewbaker reveal a card for the engagement of their nephew Fred Royce to Miss Elizabeth Stella Wall of Chicago. Fred, known in Alma, is a Calumet and Hecla Mines engineer, a 1903 Alma High School alumnus who studied at Hloughton mining school and taught there. The couple will reside in Calumet.
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