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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1914
Page
5
Town line items report numerous visits and assignments across Alma, Elm Hall, Butternut, and nearby towns. Residents like Louie Lutz, Libbie Harter, Chas Courter, and Bert Hayes are mentioned with trips, farm rentals, and relocations amid a Riverside era rural community daily life.
Local notices recount illnesses and visits in Sumner including Berry and Mrs. Stearne, Ruth Graham hosting, Monks family visits, Arthur Milford and Emory at Pleasant Valley, Will Peck relocating for ice cutting, and Mrs. Anna Graham with others at a Chas Mulford Aid Society event. A lively gathering at Monks’ home featured card prizes and dancing. Various visits to Elwell, Riverdale, Clarksville, and Midland noted along with Grange events and a recent Blacksmith shop opening by Dalyrimple.
Mr and Mrs Brown of Alma visited at W B Brooks home Sunday. Mrs Howe near Shepherd visited Mrs Emma Leonard Thursday. Merit Leonard and wife visited Willie Brooks Friday. Mrs Mary Myers, previously ill, is now able to sit up. Etla Leonard and Lot tie of Elm Hall visited Ella Leonard last week. Mrs Fred A Hart, moved to Pontiac, is staying with her son Merrill and wife at Alma. Mrs Lewis Bigelow, former Coe resident, died Friday night and was buried beside her mother at Coe cemetery Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Henry Putnam and daughter Nita of near Mt Pleasant visited Ezekel Leonard Thursday. Mrs Mary Laudenstedger of Porter visiting her parents, Levi and Mrs Burge. Walter Burge not as well. Horace Leonard and wife moved their goods to S G Leonard's across from the store, improving store access.
People seeking to buy productive cows or useful horses at fair prices should call W. H. Parr at Union phone 27 or Bell phone 96 to discuss terms and complete a purchase. The ad targets practical buyers and promises profitable sales for bidders.
Breckenridge residents and friends are noted visiting Wheeler Saginaw Chicago and Jackson county. Waggoner Palor and many others made trips while Miss Beariss starts as Breckenridge high school assistant teacher and family visits and hospital updates wrap the week.
Dr Street visited Saginaw on Monday while Walter Clark achieved a high jump as a boy was born. Dora Bacon toured Flint over Sunday and Gleaner Debate drew over eleven dollars. Mrs. Ed Fenton remained under doctor care. Mr. and Mrs Otto Smith welcomed a son born last Wednesday.
Arcada Farmers Club met with Mr and Mrs G Irish. Seventy one members attended a bountiful dinner. February 26 meeting hosted by Mr and Mrs Lew Muha with program including songs prayers readings and recitations by multiple members. Schwartz Co offers heavy draught horses at Schick's feed barn February 1 at car load and low prices.
Conducted by Charles M. Gardner the National Grange editor, the piece cites a seed rye episode to illustrate price fluctuations and market distortions. Two nearby farmers, one selling at 80 cents and another buying at 1.50, live less than two miles apart, highlighting a systemic issue the Grange should address through cooperation and exchanges.
The Grange played a key role in Illinois approving equal suffrage, enabling more than 1.5 million women to register for the fall elections. The Grange also used its meetings to discuss the issue, a method shared across western states. Illinois thus becomes the first state east of the Mississippi to grant suffrage, edging Michigan where the vote narrowly failed despite strong Grange campaigning led by Mize Jonnie Buell of Ann Arbor.
Massachusetts, though small in area, expands Grange activity with fourteen new subordinate units from February to July, totaling 1,532 charter members in Reading 241 and Marblehead 42. The state now has 277 Granges and around 45,000 members, with year end projections nearing 200 Granges and over 24,000 members.
A string of conveyances and lot transfers across multiple townships and towns. Names include Crowell Mahar Parker Cummings Ludwick Holmes Medler Waters Kill Sherrie Lathrop Woodward Zoular Curtis Swinehart Drake and others with parcels in Alma Ithaca Seville Wheeler Wheeler Knickerbocker Newark and surrounding areas. Amounts and parcel references vary.
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