Local Alma items mix theater ads and community brief notices
Local notes from Alma report theater ads for Burke cigar and bread brands, film showings at Idlehour and Genesta, and upcoming Pathe serials. Nearby notable visits include Harry Anderson’s trip home to Big Rapids and President H. M. Crooks’s return from Chicago. Public instruction tags arrive for Save Coal Day, plus local clergy updates and a Saginaw arrest and release of Rev. Wirth. A Seville Sumner Farmers club vow to limit sugar and meat use during the war is noted, with a benefit Genesta screening for a Sunday school fundraiser featuring Lyman Howe pictures at Morrill and Genesta Theatre.
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Burke
Marguerite Clark
Idlehour
Madge Kennedy
Model Bakery
Chicago
M. A. Holmes
Republic Motor Truck Company
Carl Lanshaw
Wheeler
Alma
A. F. Shultz
Supt. of Public Instruction
Keeler
Fr. O'Toole
Saginaw
Elizabeth O'Toole
Morrill
Seville
Sumner Farmers’ Club
America
Rev
C. H. Wirth
Aptain McCoy
Merchants' Building Company Elects Officers and Directors
The Merchants' Building Company elected directors Francis King C G Rhodes C H Washburn J A Sharp and P M Smith for the coming year. Francis King was named president C G Rhodes vice president and C H Washburn secretary and treasurer. The article notes the firm’s role in developing the business district and its recent construction including a four storey concrete frame building on South Street opposite the post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merchants’ Building Company
Francis King
C. G. Rhodes
C. H. Washburn
J. A. Sharp
P. M. Smith
Pollasky
First State Bank
West Superior Street
Stute Street
Western Union Telegraph Company
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Well Known Ithaca Resident A J Brown Civil War Veteran Dies
A J Brown seventy five Civil War veteran and Gratiot county pioneer died Friday at his Ithaca home where he had lived fifty years He was born in Michigan moved from a North Star farm to Ithaca married in 1869 to Mary E Barstow Survived by six children Claude Jennie Archie Della Jessie Walter and eleven grandchildren Funeral held Sunday Local food administration to send an instructor to Ithaca February 16 to teach wartime economy cooking classes at the high school same fee to cover costs Also reported are 600 births and 306 deaths in Gratiot county in 1917 and local moves and reporting assistance in court examinations
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A. J. Brown
Gratiot County
Ithaca
Michigan
North Star
Mary E. Barstow
Claude
Toledo
Jennie Carter
Grass Lake
Archie
Detroit
Della Cline
Qwesno
Jessie Murphy
Jackson
Walter
Camp Custer
Bront
State Food Administration
Gratiot
Willard Rowe
Alma
L. G. Caldwell
Lyon Caldwell
Richora, Brennan and
Johnsen
List of Men Who Failed to Return Questionnaires
A follow up lists men who did not return their questionnaires on time and have been turned over to officers. Names include Richard McKay Jones Aaron Militon Hopkins Edward John Graham Karl Mistwich Gliso Ceklis John Poliyosh George Sishko Harry Smith William Francis Smith Clyde Byron Cross James Wertz Mike Limonovic Ford Seymour John Skerl Dwight Whittemore Guy Lee Ferry Pete Muskin Lorenez Szanati Stanley Digak Benjamin Radford James Edward Dennis Sustouf Von Echaut James Ward Yount Howard H. Green John EB Letts Joe Nixmanckis Julius V. Viascik Charles Martin James Orville Howe Paul Klimek Joe Zarsivh James Clifford John Frank Parvis Frank Tony Barone Joseph Franklin Butler Herbert Irving Bond John Doctor Harold Narrance Charles Carol John Polakovich Robert Christelon Davies Walter Dorman Frederick Graber Edwin Finch Winko Laush Oney A. Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard McKay Jones
Aaron Militon Hopkins
Edward John Graham
Karl, Mistwich
Gliso Ceklis
John Poliyosh
George Sishko
Harry Smith
William Francis Smith
Clyde Byron Cross
James Wertz
Mike Limonovic
Ford Seymour
John Skerl
Dewight
Whittemore
Guy Lee Ferry
Pete Muskin
Lorenez S
Old Resident Dead at 65 in Alma College Community
Robert Fredericks longtime Alma college janitor died at his West Superior Street home after a long illness at 65. A beloved Presbyterian institution figure, he rang the chapel bell, mowed campus lawns, shoveled sidewalks, and shared in student life and victories. Funeral Tuesday featured college student musicians, with interment at Riverside cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Fredericks
West Superior Street
Fredericks
Alma College
Presbyterian Institution
Bob
William H. Mason
Riverside Cemetery
Federal curtailment shuts overtime hours nationwide
Federal Fuel Administrator Pradden orders curtailment of hours for business, churches, and amusements. Wholesale and retail stores and offices may stay open nine hours daily except Saturday, twelve hours Saturday. Churches face six hours weekly and must close Monday and Tuesday, with other days limited and late closing. Lights restricted to safety use. heat must stay below 63 degrees. Names Wm. H. Hart and Louise Glaum appear in the document.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W K. Pradden
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Ruth
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Jack and Jill
Seven Pearls
Wm. S. Hart
Marjorie Wilson
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Banking Department
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Savings
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Nata
William A. Bahlke
Daniel L. Sharrar
Geo. C. Parsons
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Paskitchen
Roll Door Hoosier Beauty
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