04 Jan 1912
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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1912
Page
1
A Michigan commission report to Gov. Osborn proposes a compulsory workers compensation scheme. It sets damages at 150 percent of wages for various disabilities, establishes an industrial accident board, and nullifies key defenses in civil damage suits.
The commission reports average attorney fees at about 40 percent of judgments. Of 22 cases asked for damages in 1908, 44 percent recovered. The average recovery for partial disability was $1,540. fatal accidents averaged higher. The measure Roosevelt advocated would place the burden on the jury.
The commission reports 1900s state accidents total 19000 with 220 fatalities and recommends an optional compensation statute. It proposes costs be borne by consumers as part of production, not by employees, with exemptions for self negligence and domestic or agricultural work. Members named include Mal Ho Smith Detroit chair and Charles R. Smith Grand Rapids.
A letter urges council to prohibit driving in the city park to preserve the donor A W Wrights gift for recreation. Civic League members argue heavy traffic endangers the park, threatens its quiet beauty, and request city action before further damage. They praise local education and industry and ask residents to support the ordinance to keep the park safe and pleasant for all ages.
John Grover, a registered pharmacist with strong ties to Alma and Gratiot County, has acquired the Bell Drug Stock and wallpaper business at Elsie. The sale makes him owner of one of the oldest shops in Clinton County and he is already in possession of the enterprise.
The Farmers' Institute at Arcadia Grange will be held Friday January 12, 1912. Morning session at 10 o'clock features remarks by Allen Tubbell, readings by Laimont Wood, a talk on Pillage and Rotation of Crops by A B Cook Oworse, and music by the Grange Orchestra. An afternoon session at 1 o'clock includes A B Cook on increasing farm productiveness without live stock, a question box run by A A West, recitations by Mre Song Earl Kuhlman and Floyd Smith, plus more readings and music. Bring June baskets. the Grange will provide coffee at noon.
Mrs Gaffney announces an annual January sale offering a 25 percent discount on all stamped fancy work items across the nest ter days. The notice appears in a local period style with promotional language.
An Alma Common Council meeting discusses a proposed bond issue of thirty thousand seven hundred dollars to finance paving and street improvements. The plan includes widening Superior Street, grading and graveling sections, and installing water mains and sewers, funded by a mix of city cost and a 15 percent frontage share, with the city at large covering the remainder.
A resolution lists plans for widening and grading streets including Superior State and Center from Superior to Pere Marquette rail, grading and graveling Wade Worth Avenue, and Gratiot Avenue work. It covers iron posts for horse hitching, surface water drainage, walls and railings, water mains on Superior State and Elwell streets, and extensions west of Wright to Grant as part of a street improvement program.
Farmers rely on the Record to reach crowds and bidders as W E Medler advertises a sale on January 1 starting at ten o clock a.m. Free Smith at noon Auctioneer LD Helman, clerk EAL Potter. Medler farms three miles west and one mile south of Alma. Miller Stock sale January 12 three miles west and four miles south of Alma. Miller offers Durham cows from a listed herd.
J. B. Mallory advertises a large sale of stock and farm implements two miles north of Elwell on Friday January 4. Arrangements to attend are advised.
George Duncan will offer for sale Saturday January 18 at his farm five miles west and 241 miles south of Alma or two and a half miles south and one mile west of Biwell. The sale includes stock farming implements and other items. J D Melman acts as auctioneer.
The Standard PoWtry Manufacturing Company opened their foundry on December 26 and reports full capacity for weeks. First castings were for Detroit parcels, totaling five tons shipped last week. Messrs Waehalac & Young will handle contract work and custom orders from light to heavy gray iron for brass, located opposite the Union depot at State and Mechanic Streets.
James G. Kress and John M. Durham launch the firm Kress & Dunham with offices in suite 44 Opera House Block. Kress, long city attorney and railroad diversion attorney, pairs with Alma native Dunham, son of Judge H. M. Dunham, to build a prominent Gratiot county practice.
Grandfather served as a longtime justice. Mr Dunham graduated from the local High School and Alma College where he was a standout debater and speaker. He studied law at the University of Michigan and has shown notable early success. The firm is well regarded for honesty and ability and is expected to attract substantial local legal business.
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