One Thousand Alma Juniors for Canary
Alma's factories run full scale in late 1911 with the Alma Junior engine leading plans for 1000 units in January 1912 and a 12 month target of 15000 engines plus continued attention to McVickers engines and Cameron Auto Trucks as orders rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma Manufacturing Company
Cameron Trucks
McVicker and
Alma
Traverse City
Vermont Farm Co
Evans
Alma Junior
McVickers
Cameron Auto
Alma Junior Engine Brings Lightweight Power to City
The Alma factory, under Superintendent Ruggles, produced a one half horsepower engine light enough for two men to lift by its skids in full motion. Sales Manager Donn C Evans reports strong demand while a water cooled auto truck is in early production. General Manager H C Richardson and team expand product popularity, signaling hoped prosperity for Alma and its manufacturing base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma
Central Michigan Produce Co
Alma Manufacturing Co
Ruggles
Donn C. Evans
Evans
H.C. Richardson
Miss Mills Hosts Christmas Class Evening at East Downie
Miss Hattie Mills of the college senior class entertained classmates last Thursday at her East Downie Street home. The decorated house featured holly and ground pine, a five course dinner by Mrs. Henry Frosch, and games music and a mock wedding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Mills
East Downie Street
Henry Frosch
Teachers Christmas Plans Across Michigan Towns
Miss Blanch Leisenring and several teachers will spend Christmas at home or with relatives in Hudson, Ewart, Hart, Benzonia, Cass City, and Shawne. Jessie and Lena Potter host Percy Potter in Longe r during holidays while others, including Mesere Ward Maxwell and Luchman, prepare for vacations in Mt. Pleasant Mt Clemens Owosso and Alma areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanch Leisenring
Hudson
Mt. Pleasant
Mr. Luchman
Mt. Clemens
Lena Gould
Owosso
Pes Harritt Fi
Almasia Ie
Santa receives wish list and Alma windows delight readers
A six year old Ruth Nelson asks Santa for dresses shoes a mirror and gifts for dollies and parents. Alma merchants stage an appealing Miller Bros display with a Puritan living room scene amid stockings and a playful chimney Santa. News notes report George M Delevan selling Elwell Street house to Henry Landis for 2900 and other December property sales, plus Union Telephone Co. manager leaving for Chicago.
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Alma
Santa Claus
Miller Bros. Grocery
Ralph Miller
G. H. Carl
George M. Delevan
Elwell Street
Henry Landis
Ferris
Mr. Landis
Carl
Nebraska
W. J.areca
Union Telephone Co
Pepe Tay Moines
Chicago
Ing
Oratorical Contest Set for College Chapel on January 15
The annual men s Oratorical Contest will be held in the college chapel on the evening of January 1912. Four contestants are named from Phi Phi Alpha and Zeta Sigma, with Claude Satterlee and Joseph Kennedy among them. Kennedy placed second in Chicago last spring, delivering well.
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Phi Phi Alpha
Zeta Sigma
Claude Satterlee
Chicago
Joseph Kennedy
Times
Hat
Edward Brehm
Sareake
Cadillac
Asti Wall Board Co to Close LMA Plant
Asti Wall Board Plant will close this month and remain shut temporarily with plans to resume about April 1. George Bishopric, the superintendent, has improved the business since reorganizing two years ago. The firm sold rights to use refuse lime to T. C. Judkins of California who, with Fred Bader of Fresno, has purchased the machinery and leased the drying plant. Bishopric will move to Cincinnati to head a new factory, and he has designed a roofing and wall board suited product with patents and aims to form a new company. Bishopric and family will depart Alma for a winter home this month.
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Asphalt
Mastic Wall Board Company
George Bishopric
T. C. Judkins
California
Bader
Alma
Cincinatti
Bishopric
Christmas events and contests described across local churches and schools
Two youths with school and state competition history are highlighted. Harold Wilcox, 14, has broader high school experience and represented his college in the State Intercollegiate contest at Ypsilanti last March. The article notes upcoming Christmas programs at Methodist and St John’s churches, including trees, carols, lessons, and gifts for children, plus Christmas services at St John’s on Saturday and Sunday. Alma public schools close for the holiday with room programs and gifts from the children.
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Chicago
Zeta Sigma
Harold Wilcox
Ypsilanti
St John’s Church
St. John’s Church
Alma’s
New Michigan Masonic Home Board Named at Alma
The Grand Rapids News reports the old board of managers held a final meeting with Lucien E Wood and Mrs Clara C Eldridge the sole continuing members. The new board to control the Alma home includes Arthur M Hume Roscoe Swift Lucien Wood Grand Master James Dillon Deputy Grand Master James Thompson and Mrs Lizzie Hanson alongside Mrs Clara Eldridge.
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Grand Rapids
Michigan
Lucien E. Wood
Niles
Clara C. Eldridge
Adrian
W. E. Jewett
J. H. Kingsley
Manistee
M. M. Reed
Ypsilanti
Arthur M. Hume
Christmas Cantata at Presbyterian Church
A Christmas cantata Santa Claus in Japan will be performed Saturday at seven p.m. at the Presbyterian church set in a Japanese schoolroom with 18 roles and a choir. Sunday services feature Christmas music. Baptist church uses Christmas Bells with pupil recitations and a tree, offering aiding Missionaries Chatdten in Morgan Park, Illinois.
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Santa Claus
Japan
Presbyterian Church
Santa
Baptist Church
Chatdten. Ia
Morgan Park
Til
Alma Post Office Hours Set for Holiday Week
Alma Mich December 19 1921 post office announces extended hours to handle heavy mail. Carrier window will stay open 7 00 to 8 00 Saturday evening while General Delivery and Register windows on Sunday 9 00 to 10 00 and Christmas Day December 25 10 30 to 11 20 am. City carriers will do one morning delivery and rural routes operate as usual. Mail clerks will ride Ann Arbor trains 51 and mail dispatched from Alma P to these trains.
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Alma
Mich
Postal Dept
Ann Arbor
Alma P
C. F. Brown, P
Alma Vau rdette Theatre Announces Holiday Program
The Alma Vau rdette management thanks its porters and patrons. The policy remains to deliver clean up-to-date performances and the best film service. After January 4 tyres will be run alone the first of the week. Three new reels of film and song slides will be shown. Wishing everyone a Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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Alma Juniors
Canary
Alma Mfg. CO
Ruth Nelson
Cushing & Benedict's
Cushing & Benedict
College Chapel
Asti Wall Board
The
Church of Christ
Aulo
Masonic Home
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