Guinea fowl a profitable adjunct to Michigan farms
Central Michigan Produce Co notes guinea fowl as a viable farm addition for Michigan. The birds are hardy, forage on insects, require modest feeding, and can be bred, hatched under hens, and marketed as city broilers or table birds with growing demand both locally and for export. Breeding guidance and market prices are provided.
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Michigan
G. EH. Peery
Central Michigan Produce Co
Gratiot
Africa
Hen
Neleagorie
Neleager
Neleagori
Guinea
Europe
Jamaica
Cuba
West Indies
England
United States
Middle West
Turkey
Facada Graneeno Armada Grange 500 Meets in Jan Session
Armada Grange No. 500 met Saturday evening January 19 with Overseer Carl Titus presiding in the master’s absence. Lamont Wood and Edward Titus won janitor bids. A dialect recitation by Allen Hubbel and a new paper The Spectacles were featured with editor Carl Titus and staff Florence Wood Edma and Hazel Kuhlman.
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Armada Grange
Carl Titus
Allen Hubbel
Grange Melodies
Lamont Wood
Edward Titus
Florence Wood
Edma
Hazel Kuhlman
Annual Praise Service at Presbyterian Fortnightly
The Presbyterian Fortnightly society hosts a Sunday January 26 service at 7 pm in the church. Professor Veatch will lecture What I Saw in Japan about his two years teaching in Japanese institutions. He will present experiences in the Sunrise Land in Japanese costume with song and language demonstrations. Special music will be provided and the public is invited.
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Presbyterian Fortnightly Society
Veatch
Ims
Japan
Dancing School Assembly and Sunday Meeting Notes
An article notes a dancing school assembly every Wednesday at Moose Hall with class at 7 30 and assembly from 9 to 12. A children's class at 4 pm is led by Mrs Fe A Wright. It also references a Sunday School Workers meeting at a Presbyterian church with thirty five attendees and plans for a teacher training class led by Miss Olive Smith and Sep Fi Elmworth.
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Moose Hall
Vandette
FE. A. Wright
Cain
W. BH. Mason
H. E. Walton
Helen Doane
Allene Brown
County Institute at Ithaca Probes Good Roads and Crop Practices
The Gratiot County Farmers Institute held in Ithaca Monday and Tuesday drew a packed crowd. Talks covered good roads in Michigan, horse breeding, teaching agriculture, efficient farm homes, silage methods, corn culture, and crop rotation, with debates on soil tillage, fertilizers, and a county road system. Officers were re-elected as attendees swelled from 47 to near 100 in afternoon sessions.
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Farmers’ Institute
Gratiot County
Ithaca
Michigan
Townsend A. Ely
A. B. Cook
Ely
Cook
M. A. Cobb
Mt. Pleasant
Dora Stockman
Lansing
F. R. Baylis
Silas
L. €. Hull
W. C Plummer
Indiana
Institute
A. J. Dicken
J. D. Helman
J. B. Mills
Emerson Township
C. A. Vanderventer
L. Carter
L C. Hull
Helen Chambers
Irene McCall
Messrs
Cowdry
Lake
Voust
Matform
Percy Allen
Joseph Foster
Mr. Cool
Allen
W. C. Plummer
Fortnightly Society Prayers and Sermons At Local Churches
The Fortnightly Society at the Presbyterian church hosts a Thursday 7 pm prayer meeting on The ways of the heart with Miss Marion Trartness speaking and Miss Pagel Matilke singing. Next Sunday features Prof. Reese Veatch in Japanese costume with special music and missions offering. Earlier, Rev. W Mason preached on The Three Facts of Sin and Salvation, while Pastor Mudge at Church of Christ spoke on common excuses, and Rev. Doty and Rev. Priest addressed righteousness and martyrdom themes across local churches.
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Presbyterian Church
Marion Trartness
Mise Pagel Matilke
Presbyterian Bhurgh
Reese F. Veatch
Japan
W. HL. Mason
W. E. Doty
Methodist Church
Hezekiah
Baptist Church
J. W. Priest
Hell
Sabbath School Workers Meet at First Presbyterian Alma
The Sabbath school workers and teachers of Alma are urged to attend weekly meetings at 8 15 PM on Thursdays in the First Presbyterian church to improve teaching. A 5 15 PM premeeting is set to allow prayer attendees to arrive. The program includes teacher training, lessons on sin and redemption, mission teaching, and discussion led by local leaders.
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Alma
First Presbyterian Church
Michigan U. S. Association
J. E. Mitchell
Olive Smith
F. EB
Ellsworth
G. H. Carl
Louise Hood
CARD OF THANKS FOR HYDORN RELATIVE CARE
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness during Mr. Hydorn illness and death and the various orders and organizations for the beautiful Moral offerings. A. E. Whiton spent Wednesday and Thursday at Greenville.
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Hydorn
A. E. Whiton
Greenville
Alma City Council Proceedings January meeting minutes
Alma Michigan regular council session outlined attendance and clerkette actions. Health officer reports premises at local milk dealers with notes on stock feed sanitation water and stables. Funding items include telephones and bank charges, council approves health report and settlements, adjournment follows.
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Mich
City of
Alma
J. M. Montigel
Fuller
Caple
Palfrey
Cook
Kehn
Fraker
Pulfrey
Alterman Fuller
Midroy
E. J. Ross
W. R. Cooper
S. W. Peck
Alma R. F. D
J. E. Booth
Alderman Cook
General Fund
Union Telephone Co
Michigan State Telephone Co
Vines
Y. M. C. A. County Plan Outlined For Reach
A county plan outlines the YMCA approach highlighting county wide reach over local pockets, with a simple office enough to operate and no reliance on new buildings. It stresses nonselfish volunteer leadership, ongoing Bible study, and training of young men to lead county programs, noting men’s Work to Win Bible class drew 27 attendees and will feature William Mason speaking on “A Man in the Making” next Sunday.
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Bibteclaw Ree
Wm. Mason
The
Presbyterian Church
Alma college bride Mary Dykes weds Herbert Judge
Fr Mulvey conducts wedding at St Marys church Alma Michigan. Bride Jean M Dykes daughter of Mr and Mrs Mitchell Dykes of Iron Mountain Michigan and groom Herbert C Judge son of Mr and Mrs Thos Judge of Alma. They plan a southern trip by train after a breakfast with family.
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St. Mary's Church
Sivery
Alma
Herbert C. Judge
Jean M. Dykes
Father Mulvey
Mises Rose Judge
Frank Judge
Thos
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Iron Mountain
Judge
Mitchell Dykes
Michigan
Alma College
Mr. Pleasant
Pharmacy
Ferris Institute
Y M C A Notes North Star Group Sees Growth
The North Star Y M C A group held its second meeting last Monday night. The first lesson in Men who Cared, a course on Old Testament hero studies, was studied. The constitution was adopted and officers elected. A room is being prepared in the school basement for future meetings. Plans include organizing two rural groups. executives met in Alma and praise progress.
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North Star
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Farners
Dancing School Assembly
County Institute
Board of Supervisors
Dairy ‘and Food Commissioners
Luther Carter
Chas. A. Vandervente
C. Bull
Margaret Granger
McCurdy
C. W. Granger
West Superior Street
New York State
Hillsdale County
Wry. Granger
Geo, Gringer
Grand Rapids
Jennie Raney
Bethany
Riverside
K. S. Svarl
Clinton County
St. John's
OF the Fortnightly Society
Sabbath School Workers’ Meeting
Council Proceedings
First State Bank Bis
Water O Parker
Rhodes
Hill
D. W. Adams
Y. M. C. A. County Plan
Fr. Mulvey
Herbert
Bride Alma College Grad
Mt. Pleasant Normal
Lola Sipe
Fred van Dyne
Owosso
Owosso Casket Co
Bess van Dyne
Anna Seafred
Owosse
van Dyne
Durand
Homer Burns
Union Telephone Company
Lila Scott
Pontiac
Lester Meade
Calla Burns
Dorand
Charles E. Barnes
Mechanic Street
Chadwick
Sarah Abbott
Coe Township
Isabella County
Lester McMullen
McMillan
Harold Wood
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