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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1906
Page
8
Local residents and visitors are listed with travel plans and gatherings. Moves include Lloyd Campbells to Lansing and Geo Ward leasing a Vestaburg farm. Several trips to Saginaw Detroit Ithaca and Cleveland are noted alongside social visits, entertainments and club meetings in Alma and nearby towns.
Church notices list weekly order of services including prayer meetings preaching Sunday School junior C E and evening service. Also reports W R C Thimble Club meeting at Mrs Mary Thomas with dinner served and next gathering planned with Mrs Jennie Reid. Initiation and banquet of O B follows. St Agnes Guild prepares a stocking social at K of K hall with program and refreshments.
Tomorrow evening the Watanna college chapel hosts a senior class play of 1004 students. A parade is announced for Saturday afternoon. Examination week is underway on Picty Hill. The second presemester starts next week. The Classical Club met at Wright Mall. Prof. Roth spoke to forest and biology students. Various faculty and students attended events in St. Louis and at local churches.
Mr Longcare is very rich. Dr Street ill with pneumonia but improving. Thaddeus Perry returns from extended visit in Grand Rapids. Rudolph Glinke of Rathbone visited with uncle Milaud Young. Rev Clark active in revival meetings near Carlson City. Albert Kipp with parents, returned to Saginaw. Mr Batley guest of George Young. Mrs Welling back from Fowlerville. Wm Watson and wife in Saginaw on Saturday. Mrs Cristman and Mrs Parker visited Frank Lockwood family. Mrs A J Ervey visiting on Jackson street. Alice Barry from North Wheeler called Tuesday. Foley's Honey and Tar praised for croup and whooping cough. Careful mothers keep it at home. Geo Sharrar.
Mr. Snyder of Indiana visits his sister in town then returns home. Merrill resident A Swartont visits Edmond Ashworth Sr. in Ashley. Miss Croola Stilgenbauer spends Sunday with Tease Elliott. F H Bellenger and daughter Martha visit Clare earlier in the week. Mr. and Mrs. J N Shepherd travel to Detroit to see their son. Will Youngs and a friend visit from Alma. Mrs. J C Pulver returns from Newark New York. Hollenbeck brothers and Mrs Mills head to Seattle with Klondyke after. Mills settles in Seattle. Mathews at county seat. Pineules advertised for backache kidney relief. DeWitt s Witch Hazel Salve promoted for piles and minor wounds. Old papers sold at Record office.
Notes from Tubbs District report Miss Bessie Swope visiting relatives in Wheeler and several locals attending the Gleaner installation in Breckenridge and a joint R N A and M W A ceremony.Items include trips to St Louis and Jackson, a marriage in Saginaw, a fire near Orvil Blandous’s home, and a health ad for Deans Regulets.
Opening for a good living in Southwest New Haven invites applicants to write for stationery envelopes and to join a subscriber list. An illness relief claim promotes Pine-ules by Geo H. Sharrar for kidney pains backache bladder trouble and rheumatism with a promise of morning relief after use at night.
A local ad notes a large number of orders for magazines with paid in advance subscriptions. The offer includes Woman's Home Companion, Review of Reviews, and Cosmopolitan for four dollars. The Record urges prompt ordering before withdrawal of the limited-time deal.
JA Baker announces weekly Friday visits to City Hall through March 4 1906 to collect city taxes. Also notes a Liver Pills tonic claim and a Geo B E Sharrar sales pitch for Dr Dade’s Little Liver Pills, highlighting claimed satisfaction and digestive benefits.
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