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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1914
Page
2
The Alma Record lists weekly Ithaca market figures corrected each Wednesday morning showing grain prices for Old White Wheat New Red Wheat New Oats Rye and corn shelling beans and produce items. Live stock prices include cattle calves hogs and dressed meats with pork and poultry values and assorted hides pelts and vegetables and fruits pricing such as butter lard and new potatoes.
Ithaca village notes recount tax reporting by township treasurers while residents make visits and hosts host gatherings. Frank Convis and family in Owosso and Loomis. social visits, travel to Alma and North Star. Brown’s Bazaar sale ongoing. marriage licenses issued for four couples. school meeting set for January 15 1914. Norris of Bowling Green staying with Frank Walter and Guy Walter.
Mrs Ida Mills visited friends in Alma last week. Methodists hold revival meetings at Parkinson. Musa Owen of Alma called on her mother Sunday. A group went to Coe to help timber the new church. Brewer's Sunday school class hosts a Dutch supper on January 2 in the church basement. 15 cents. Everyone welcome.
A crowded week on Town Line includes J Ross shipping a carload of voters to Toledo, numerous visits across Alma Sumner and Vernon, several neat moves and house calls by families such as the Wolfs and Wagners, and many residents seen at churches, farms, and local sales. Also reports illness and recoveries among neighbors.
Temperature details show mean 29 with a high of 57 on the 2nd and a low of 2 on the 21st. Precipitation total .84 inches with four days of at least .01 inch. There were 12 clear days, 6 partly cloudy and 13 cloudy. total snowfall recorded as none. Local observer P. M. Smith provided the data.
Mr and Mrs Fred Creech entertained a large crowd of young people on Wednesday evening in honor of their daughter Una s eighteenth birthday. Also note the next lecture course on January 20. Milton Brown and Mrs C Vandermark are mentioned with travel to Columbus Grove Ohio to visit a seriously ill mother.
We thank the minister singers and friends for kindness shown in the death of our daughter and sister and for the flowers sent from Mr and Mrs Gee eiliants Children.
Mrs M Sage of Ferris visits Mrs T J Blair this week while Richard Iman of New Haven is in town Monday. Rev Baker and family dine with Mrs Blair Thursday. Miss Gladys Carnahan of St Louis visits her aunt Mrs Corbley last M E prayer at Mes Long home Thursday. A sleigh party went to Alona last Wednesday for skating. Mrs Delbert Hicks and daughter Glee visit Ida Hill in Alma Friday. A boys basketball team forms and a game is planned for Thursday at Riverdale.
Leo Hill, Clay and Charley Romine of Alma visited relatives in town Sunday. Mrs. Alice Butcher and Mrs. G. Bailey of Elwell visited Rev. Haker and family in Riverdale, Thursday. Mat Wixon of Edmore is moving into the house east of the old hotel. Miss Ethel Eastman and Alford McFarland of New Haven visited Mrs. Effie Hoxie, Monday.
A flurry of visits and trips highlights the week with Seville Items I Pratt, C. B. Wiltshire, Dan Campbell, and A F Miller plus relatives traveling to Riverdale and Elwell. Mrs George Snefl and Misses Marie and Ella Dubois visit Wheeler and near Shepherd. Crum returns from Ohio.
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