Community Notes From Ferris and Vicinity Recall New Year Events
Local notes report Mrs. Margaret Dewese improving after illness while relatives visit in Ferris. Detroit visitor Seymour Artis makes a business trip through Stanton Belding and Elm Hall. The Gleaners held a box social for Andrew Lewis whose house burned, netting about nine dollars. Elm Hall residents share New Year meals with Otto Blair and the Blair family. Landis stock sale drew a large crowd with high prices under auctioneer S. Parks. Miss LeBar, a returned missionary from Africa, lectured at Free Methodist Church and plans to attend Mt. Pleasant State Normal School. Julius Sabin and others visit Vestaburg. Miss Labar, seven years in Africa, prepares for future work. Ferris people discuss electric lighting for homes and barns. Brown’s Bazaar advertises a holiday sale. Elm Hall and surrounding towns note factory interests, including Elm Mall cheese factory oversight and peppermint industry plans, with several acreage allocations by local farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Artis
Detroit
Stanton, Belding
Elm Hall
Geo
Wilson
Ferris
Parks
LeBar
Africa
Free Methodist Church
Labar
Mt. Pleasant State Normal School
Julius Sabin
Vestaburg
Percy Tissue
the Townsend
Marshall M. Smith
Bim Hall
Brown's Bazaar Co
Pearl
Sue
Eva Bolinger
H. Earles
Cheese County
Lansing
Mich
Elm Mall
John Sabin
John Bronto
Mr. Hawn
Ithaca Local Items End of year notes from Ithaca area
Short notices from Ithaca include visits by Cornwell Porter and Mrs. Hornbeck, Grand Rapids visitors Bertrand and Copperwell, and a Dingwell residence fire call. Lodge installation by I O O F and Rebekah, family travels to Detroit and St Louis, infant deaths and interments, Ohio to Florida trip, and Elvira White’s passing with North Star burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dingwell
Rebekah
Verne Beasley
W. H. Beasley
Detroit
Local visits and family news from vestaburg and nearby areas
Southeast Coe lbert Cline visited Redstone on Sunday while John Cline lost a work horse Monday morning. Alma visitors spent New Year at Avard's home. Archie Leonard heads to Mt Pleasant for school after two weeks off. Lu Church and family from Vestaburg visited Mrs Church's parents, and Mable Cook from near St Charles stayed with Morgan Leonard Friday to Sunday. Albert Cline returned from Vestaburg after a short visit with Dora Church. Archie Leonard's sister Mrs. Leonard returned from Elder Cook's near Chesaning. Y P S C EB to host cake and coffee at Atta Leonard’s Friday. Nettie Woodmansee won a piano at Messinger's St Louis contest ending New Year's Eve. Viva Leonard sick with lung cold, improving after Dr Wheeler's care. Elder Thornquist of Minneapolis to begin meetings at schoolhouse next Sunday Jan 11. Mr. and Mrs. Church of Vestaburg and John Cline and wife visited Gilmore. Cline recalls living there years ago, first return in fourteen years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lbert Cline
Redstone
John Cline
Chris
Alma
Avard
Archie Leonard
Mt. Pleasant
Lu Church
Vestaburg
Dora Church
R. R. Cook
Chesaning
Nettie Woodmansee
Ithaca Area Showed Many Visitors for Holidays
Long list of visitors and residents traveling to or from Ithaca and nearby towns including Miss Nora Brader, Mrs A I Orser, Ralph Long, Raymond Oster, Andrew Norris, J G Sutton, Porter Patridge, Miss Genevieve Hopkins, Walter and Cox, William Davison, Mrs A A Symonds, A Salter, William Norris, Omar Norris, Mrs R J Miller, Miss Clelia Clark, N M Vernon, Nelson Saleno, Miss Hazel Miller, Joyce Wight, Ethel and Edna Miller, Alva Brader, A E Lewis, Misses Anna Pauline Johnson, Mrs FE C Farrington, Mrs Sarah B Rounds, Miss Mildred Sweatland, Miss Jean McCreadie, Edward Cummings, Ralph Cox, and others. plus holiday sales at Brown's Bazaar and local club events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nora Brader
Ashley
A. I. Orser
Ithaca
Ralph Long
Detroit
Raymond Oster
Sidney
Ohio
Andrew Norris
Loomis
K. Shierly
J. G. Sutton
Columbiaville
Porter Patridge
Flint
A. E. Lewis
Genevieve Hopkins
M. DePont
Nelson Johnson
William Norris
Bowling Green
Frank Walter
Emerson
Omar Norris
Sunfield
R. J. Miller
F. H. McKay
Clelia Clark
Grayling
N. M. Vernon
Owosso
John Nelson
Nelson Saleno
Battle Creek
Saleno
Hazel Miller
Anna Johnson
Joyce Wight
Port Huron
Ethel
Edna Miller
Yale
Myers
Alva Brader
Grand Rapids
Mint
Anna
Pauline Johnson
FE. C. Farrington
Saginaw
Victor Morse
Sarah B. Rounds
Loyde Cornell
St. Louis
E. A. Myers
Mildred Sweatland
A. Haskill
Jean McCreadie
Albion
Edward Cummings
Alma
Dan Weaver
Ralph Cox
Cincinnati
Charlotte Moore
Brown's Bazaar
Fred Howard
Helen
William H. Beasley
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John D. Spinney
Pollasky Block
E. Suydam
Jolie
Woodworth Ave
Superior St! Alma
F.R. McNabb, V.S
B.v.sc
Vibber's Feed and
C. A. Lawkins the Piano Man
St. Louis, Mich
Sullivan
Opera
R. F. Erwin
Schick
E. G. Sluyter
McGall
Wright House Livery
W. H. Parr
Bell
Union
R. F. Erwin Alma, Mich
Bard
Humphreys
Humphreys’ Homeo, Medicine CO
Comer ,William and Ann Streets
New York
Margaret Dewese
Mrs. Jones
Joe Wilson
Lloyd Willoughby
Grand Lodge
Mrs
William Willoughby
Lawrence Monroe
Maple Rapids Cemetery
A. Overmier
Florida
Elvira
Milo White
North Star Cemetery
Zayda
Ray
Lottie (Allmaugher) Putnam
Hamilton Township
Hamilton Cemetery
County
C. R. Robertson
Milwaukee
FH. McKay
Grace Rogers
Ypsilanti
Chester Rogers
Marshall Becker
Ann Arbor
A. Becker
Hughes
Bobby
King Solomon
Richard
Alzina Peet
Columbia
Webster Peet
Martin Clark
H. Jensen
C.T. Rogers, Jr
Blue Lodge
Masonic Fraternity
Charles Deeter
Omaha
J. B. Wella
Charles Bates
Marie Fallina
John W. Hawkins
Sumner Township
Maggie Williams
Cedar Springs
Ashher Kock
Wheeler
Bertha Briggs
Roy
Raycraft
Pine River
Aretha Bower
Elwell
G. B. Wells
Bernice
Buffalo
E. B. Wells
Mr. Wells
Minerva
Arthur Stead
Perrinton
M. E
Fulton Center
J. Gidley
Bert Stacy
Mary Spear
George Gidley
Lois
Beebe
Lyle Francis
Grace
Levi
Charlevoix
Gome
Mion
Cravenette
Nubuck
A. R. Smith
Alma, Mich
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