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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1914
Page
8
Riverdale hosts and visits fill a busy week with Miss Inez Reid and Master Harold Reid guests, many calls from Alma and Elm Hall, and a revival at Riverdale M E Church. The Gratiot Medical Society met in Alma, bowls and roller skating drew crowds, and births and visits to relatives marked daily life in Vestaburg Elm Hall and surrounding towns.
Mr. Carl Harry of Alma spent Sunday with his parents north-west. Ernest Ellison returned home after six weeks in St Louis. Miss Rhea Seaman visited Sumner. G. H. Bansil and Chas. Bivens were in Durand. H. A. Brown visited his son Archie Brown. Mr. and Mrs. H. Montague vacationed in Buttler Michigan. Laura Brown spent Sunday in Ann Arbor. C. W. Chadwick spent the weekend in Ann Arbor. R. J. Fraker was in Vestaburg Friday. Chas Burns learned his daughter Grace had appendicitis and was traveling via train to Alma. Iva Perrigo, student at Normal Mt. Pleasant, visited home. Hildreth Worthy of Elwell spent the weekend with Hazel Pritchard. Mrs. Ann Sonley hosted visitors and friend Rood, an esteemed elder. She leaves many relatives and friends.
The Riverdale M. E. church Ladies' Aid Society held a two day fair in the Horack Building on Main Street. Booths offered fancy work aprons candy and popcorn with several helpers and merchants donating items for a grab bag. Proceeds totaled about $50.
Mr William Yeager rents the Johnson farm west of Alma and will take possession in March. He signs a contract for cutting 200000 feet of lumber for Mr Daniel Acker and begins work the same day with Harold Allen of Shepherd assisting. Death claims Eu Bellinger at 39 near Mrs Etta Wood's home. funeral held Sunday in Greendale, Midland county, with services led by Elder Keech.
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