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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
8
Poem addressed to the new year eighteen ninety ten era invites courage and renewal. It contrasts burying the past with facing tomorrow and speaks of wisdom, reckoning, and boldness as the year unfolds. The author Edgar E Webb signs the piece.
Reported activities include Parr and Erwin sale events, D Cameron callers, K Carter transacting bunjees in Edmore, Crandell and Scott receiving mattresses, L J Rainaburg departing for Atgress, Father Mulvey visiting Midland, Whiter Caple and wife visiting Detrait, Ley Avery traveling to Coorse, and A B Aid Society meeting January 27 at Mrs KR Purvis. Riverside Farm hosts a surprise for Mrs Rose with games, music by Walthers and Roy Miller, and a salad fork gift. members praise Mrs Rose’s hospitality.
The county road institute for Gratiot and Isabella counties will meet at Alma City Hall on January 27 at 10:00 am. A state highway department representative and other speakers may attend to assist in road building plans. Per diem and expenses are provided for county and township highway commissioners under state law. All interested in good roads are urged to attend.
A seasonal family note offers playful guidance to Papa Mama Miss Belle Little Willy and Baby with humor about gifts and etiquette. The piece then shifts to a banking view noting hundreds of thousands of dollars shipped to Europe for Christmas as wages rise and banks handle more exchange drafts, mainly to England and Ireland, with servants sending funds home.
Severe storm last week crippled rail traffic with Pere Marquette service delayed to Friday while snow and ice halted Greenville tracks. Passengers sought lodging as trains from Grand Rapids to Alma faced long waits. By Saturday conditions eased and schedules returned toward normal.
In 1909 the county seat saw seventy divorce filings and three hundred marriage licenses issued by the county clerk. Of the divorces, fifty-five were granted, two refused, and the rest pending, suggesting many marriages faced trouble rather than lasting happiness.
A ledger of land transfers lists buyers and parcels across Pine River and nearby towns including G Lud, B Hippo lite, and M Won nacott. The entries cover various sections and townships with sums ranging from 1 000 to 12 000 in local currency.
Weekly market update lists corrected Thursday quotes for grain hay clover seed live stock and dressed meats. Prices cover wheat oats corn rye timothy hay clover straw hogs beef cattle sheep lambs veal calves poultry hides and produce with per unit details and ranges.
Church notes list Hirst Church of Christ, Presbyterian, St Marys St Johns and Methodist updates with service times, reading rooms, and catechesis. It notes a shared pattern of a final bell two rings and three tolls to cue eight minutes before services.
Items of special interest include farms horses and city property for rent or sale. Notices invite inquiries to Joseph Drew and Lincoln Oil Co. Also offers a near new fur coat size 42, and a large furnished parlor for rent. Promises of timber land sales and woodlot opportunities near Windsor and Richmond alongside cheap Woodworth Ave residence with easy terms.
Sumner W Murphy of Carson City called on business here on Monday. Joen Slater toured Alma and Ithaca on Monday and Tuesday. Allen Stafford bought a horse from Phillip Hicks. Bert Markham and wife of Forest Hill visited Samuel Story's last week. Miss Smith returned home after visiting her brother Fred Smith and family. John Robson and wife were in Ithaca on Tuesday. Allegro Music Club met Henry Seaman's Tuesday evening with a program enjoyed by all. Lew Forquer visited Ithaca on Wednesday for business. Jesse Mulford and wife now occupy rooms over Mrs. C A Mulford's millinery store. Hattie Monks of Farwell visited her mother Mary Elmer. Wesley Parr of Alma came for a business call Thursday. Paul Walker of Farwell visited friends on Wednesday. John Craham went to Pontiac Thursday for work. E Paige and wife drove to St Louis Friday for Teachers' Institute. Mike Wiltse and Mrs Hoxie went to Riverdale Friday morning aiming for St Louis but trains were delayed by storm and they returned that evening. G A Button and wife were in Bim Hall Saturday. The L O T M installed officers Saturday. Dick and Tom Lang were in Riverdale Saturday evening.
Mrs Will Wright and Mr Joe La Ranger attended the Gleaner ball hosted by Mrs Andrew Alexander Sungay. A fatal hunting accident in Forest Bradley’s woods claimed the life of 12 year old Frank Wiltshire and injured Herbert Evans, with funeral services held at Seville Center church. Interment followed at Beaver Creek cemetery.
A French doctor proposes doctors wear a badge in their buttonhole to identify practicing physicians when rushing between houses in urgent cases. He argues the plan would aid those struggling to build a medical practice and ensure quicker recognition by the public.
East Coe J L Burlingame Clifford Burlingame and S J Eddy were in Sanford Monday Willis Smock bought the Ab B Austin farm replacing Wm Murray farm as reported last week R Converse plans three or four tile hauling teams from Mt Pleasant Thursday to aid drainage Mrs W Collier visiting sister in Lenton and Willard now dish washer Mrs Collier celebrated her birthday with neighbors bringing oysters and gifts Arthur Baldwin and wife of Midland visited last week they own a fine farm near Jasper John Dupree ill but improving M P Davis on sick list then recovering Lizzie Schaltheiss and daughter Lula visited relatives near St Louis Sunday
A. L. Converse traveled to St Louis Morday while W. T. Ross and his son George visited Shepherd.
Frankie Monroe of Ithaca spent Sunday with his brother Fred Monroe. John Baker attended a bi annual Gleaners meeting in Saginaw. Jonnie Crozier Hertha Weller and Frances Howell joined the Teachers Association in St Louis Friday. Mr Thompson of Alma stays with daughter Mrs Wm Houser. Wm Holiday and family visited Henry Fuller Sunday. Friends surprised Mr. and Mrs. Orson Brooks last Friday with dancing and refreshments.
Little Hattie Payne is under a doctor's care. Floyd Hyatt is home from Vickerville where he worked. Wilbur Husted of Middleton and Beott Payne of this place are drafting beer contracts for Michigan Sugar at Vickeryville Butter nut and this place. Melvin North and Erma of North Shade visited Mrs. Minnie Lake. Miss Margaret Jackson is recovering from illness. Mrs. S A Ritter and Emma and Lawrence Willett with family visited Henry Wells to meet the bay girl arriving Saturday. Revival Meeting at New Haven draws attendees. Elder Bush conducts. No school Friday due to Thursday blizzard. S S Teed traded farms with Albert Payne and will surrender possession soon.
An advertisement asserts deafness is only curable by constitutional remedies and blames inflammation of the Eustachian tube for hearing loss. It offers $100 for any catarrh deafness case cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure and promotes Hall’s Family Pills for constipation, with Toledo, Ohio as the company location.
The Melbourne Parliament House, built at a cost of a million, remains incomplete after Federation. Critics call it the softest legislative palace in Greater Britain as the unemployed protest in the capital, noting the building now serves as the meeting place for Victoria’s parliament while the wealth parliament owners move to the exhibition building.
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