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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1915
Page
8
An excerpt from Jack London features Smoke Bellew and Joy Gastell in a frontier encounter. Bellew presses for coffee and a clash of wills unfolds as they discuss claims, status, and a possible future together amid a rugged travel sequence and harsh surroundings.
A rugged journey to the Chilkoot pass unfolds with Smoke Bellow aiding a mud covered rider after a tense ascent. Kit, Miss Gantel, and a host of winter travelers face peril as boats push off through frigid waters and a march toward a final winter crossing.
Mr and Mrs Bert Osborn and family stayed with Mr and Mrs William Snell of Alma on Saturday Others visited relatives near Elm Hall including Mr and Mrs Alfred Johnson and daughter southeast of Elm Hall Mr and Mrs George Brown and children visited Vestaburg Christmas with Mr and Mrs George of Vestaburg Several folks spent time with relatives near Elm Hall and Elwell Marion Conrad of Saginaw spent Christmas vacation with his parents east of Elm Hall Elton Andrews of Midland and Miss Hazel Chase of Yale visited relatives nearby The Swope family spent Christmas with Rosa near Wheeler Fleashe Hart and Earl Hart of Grand Rapids stayed with Jack Moble Brady Reynolds and family from Lansing visited Mrs R Shanks Harold and Carroll VanCle joined Alfred Johnson near Elm Hall Alma Mathews home for Christmas from Pleasant Normal
Christus of HS has come again as 1016 approaches. Carl Dickinson, recently in Alma, spent Christmas at home and returns Sunday. A sleigh load of Gee school scholars attended the ecuresses at Dunn school home Friday night. Florence Weller, Gee school teacher, visited home near Ashley for vacation. Reva Decker and sister Iva, teachers near Wheler, visited grandmother Mrs Irene Decker this week. Alpha Ingram and wife spent Christmas with the latter’s mother in Mt Pleasant. Mrs H Steele and daughter from Ladington and Mr and Mrs Ray Vandermark of Durand visited Mr and Mrs Jamies Steele over Christmas. Mrs EB Loomin spent Wednesday at Mrs Charles Bigns’s home.
A ten pound girl was born to Mr and Mrs Edd Winsleff in Dev 26. Arthur DeGroft visited part of the week at the home of Dess Hanford north of Alma. Mr and Mr Orlin Flutcher visited the with Fries at Shep red. Charles Neidhandt returned Thursday from a visit with relatives at Grand Rapid and Rockford. Mr Mrs Everett Barnhill fred Beard and family spent Christmas at the home of S Withcroft and mother Lin a oes. Mrs Ray Guerneey and daughter Petroit are spending the week with Mr and Mrs Somer Husted. Mr and Mrs Jesse Fuller of Alma, Mr and Mrs Frank Gladstone, Me and Mrs John Baker were Christmas one of their parents. Young and wife.
Local column records Clair Nelson illness in Saginaw area and multiple family visits. Residents Mrs Jormone Kinney, Raymond Barber, Mrs Edd Ferrin recoveries, and travel plans to Toledo and Florida are noted along with visits by Dell and Leon Wright, Nellie and Pern Nelson, and other area families.
George Williams of Marion Michigan writes that after one bottle of Tanlac his catarrh greatly improves with better health and less discomfort. The note cites persistent head catarrh and nasal throat mucus, coughing, offensive breath and headaches, praising Tanlac as notably effective in easing these symptoms.
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