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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1921
Page
4
The notice markets a weekly Thursday afternoon edition in Alma Gratiot County. It lists subscription rates of two dollars for one year and other fractions, and notes postal entry in Alma Michigan for transmission.
Local churches list multiple worship times and programs across Alma Michigan. Saint Marys Catholic Church notes masses on the first and mid Sundays, plus a schedule for Holy Masses. Park Ave’s Church of Christ, ScientIst, invites all to services and its Reading Room on West Superior Street welcomes the public daily. Other congregations include Free Methodist at Went Center and Cedar, First Baptist on State Street, and East Superior’s Christian Church with sermons and Bible study. Also listed are Presbyterian and Reorganized Church services, with sermon themes and youth programs.
The piece urges a broad renewal as inventories rise in business and society. It warns of waste, profiteering, and false valuations postwar, urging honest labor, accountable management, and shedding the unnecessary to return to real values. It predicts job losses for the lazy and rewards for productive, trustworthy workers.
A reflective essay on how college changes freshmen into educated, world expanding adults. It follows two Upper Peninsula freshmen as they enter Wright Hall, learn from peers, and return home as college bred women whose influence and horizons expand.
A prudential farmer tends chickens pigs horses cattle and sheep each night to protect their commercial value. The piece contrasts farm prudence with concerns for children noting dangers of the night and urging vigilance to keep kids safe and properly cared for.
A blaze destroyed priceless records in a building praised as fireproof. Shavings piled in the basement and cigarette smoking by workers contributed to the disaster, causing about 2,000,000 in damage and prompting a call for a Federal Archives Building.
A committee hearing highlighted German made memorial windows for American soldiers. Witnesses cited German costs and high American prices, urging tariff relief to offset imports. The report contrasts $4.26 per foot in Germany with $12.72 in the U.S. and cites German wage and price gaps. Proponents argue for duty to balance competition. DAYLIGHT HOLDUP details a 13-person birthday aftermath at Mrs. Eli Brown’s North Court home. The intruders fled after a table of “concealed weapons” became a feast, leaving a bizarre scene and birthday wishes. Other notes cover Wright School illnesses, local visits, a Pompeii operation, and community events including a funeral and a party at the Weed home.
Ninth grade wrote a history test Friday while tenth grade reviews in history for an upcoming Friday test. Girls show rapid basketball progress. Several students Absent due to sickness Beulah and Rens Hulls visited today. Boys plan to attend the Ithaca boys conference this week. Seventh grade completed North America lessons. Mrs Wick and Mrs Salsberry visited the intermediate room. Floyd Allen visited Thursday. Some seventh grade girls excel in basketball.
Mrs Wm Vancleve of near Riverdale spent Friday night with her daughter in Alma. Alva Decker transacted business in Alma Friday. Mr and Mrs Lee Loomis visited S Veeder Pridey. Carl Hill was in Riverdale Saturday afternoon. Ed Tived called on V Dickinson Sunday. Loomis visited Alma Saturday. Arlha Ingram and son Arlie transacted business in Mt Pleasant Friday.
A fragment mentions Memorial Windows from Germany by W. Heigneke and United States glass manufacturers. The scripture cites 1 John 3:18 20 urging love in deed not words and states believers know they are of the truth, with references to commandments and confidence before God.
Ed O Bryant and O Bryant in Shepherd on business last week. Lew and Mrs Thompson and children visited relatives near Forest Hill. O Bryant family also near Forest Hill. George Whitcraft had chickenpox last week. Mrs Howe hosted her mother Mrs Brakins and daughters Beatrice and Wilma of Alma. Bert Jones visited his brother near Ithaca. Chamberlains Wot not a medical ad.
The Republican electors of Gratiot County are called to meet at the Ithaca Court House on Monday February 7 1921 at 11 am to elect thirteen delegates to the State Convention in Detroit and conduct other business. Delegates are apportioned by township ward votes from the last Secretary of State race plus partial moieties per the 1909 rule. C J Chambers chairman and O L Smith secretary.
Ward caucuses will be held in Alma through the five wards on Friday February 4 at 6:40 PM. First Ward meets City Hall, Second Ward at Alma Journal, Third Ward Arcada Hotel, Fourth Ward Wright House. County convention at Ithaca Court House on February 7. Comlog Mary Pickford in The Love Light.
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