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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1914
Page
7
Local column reports visits and family gatherings across Alma and nearby towns. Residents like Mrs. Frank Clow, Miss Ethel Welch, John Carter, and Mrs. Joe Welch are listed with relatives in Elwell, Alina, Shepherd, Greenville, and Lansing. multiple trips to see kin and health updates are noted along with summer work plans and estate sale preparations.
George M Delavan retires from the firm CL and GM Delavan at 115 East Superior Alma Michigan disposing of his interest to partner Charles J Delavan who assumes all debts and will continue the business at the same location dated January 10 1914 in Alma Michigan by Charles J Delavan and George M Delavan
Southeast Coe Items reports ongoing illness recoveries and visits among residents. Mrs. Mary Myers improves while Mrs. Zylpha Higgins shows progress after illness. Local travel includes visits from Mrs. Ila Leonard, Mrs. Alice Hart nursing homebound, and visitors from Mt Pleasant, St. Louis, and Roscommon. Church plans hint at a new building as lumber and stone arrive. school meetings continue, with Sunday services and guest visits throughout the period.
Seville Center notes list Mrs Wim and Humphrey ill with rheamotris while Dan White was last Tuesday. Alma residents Ernest Wonders and the Wonders family are referenced. Zelma Miller and George Strong hosted events with Alma High School students. Flo French Sr receives treatment at Elwell Sanitar ium and visits from relatives occur through the week.
Jessie Maxham spends weekend at home while Bert Jones visits his uncle Frank Wiles in Bullermi. Marshall Smith shows off a new team on the streets. Dyer and A M Dewphise head to Stanton on jury duty. Residents attend Mason's Corner sale and Elm Hall Aid Society hosts a chicken pie dinner. Frank Wiles may open a cheese box factory as he haws lumber, Clare agent visits the vicinity for tanks, and two feed mills operate near N E Ferris by George Andrews and DL Woodward.
Roy Curtiss visited Saginaw on Thursday while Will Pidcock spent Sunday there. Charles Jessup of Alma visited Tuesday. Mrs. Dell Tiles rode to Saginaw Friday. Will Fox attended a Detroit auto show last week. Fred Smythe made a business trip to Jamaica Wednesday. Mrs. C. Faber visited friends in Wheeler Wednesday. A small crowd gathered, with Mrs. W. Carr shopping in St Louis Saturday. Crawford of Ithaca in Breckenridge on business Wednesday. Mrs. Emma Vonner returned home in Marlette Thursday. Seth Pome was in Saginaw on business Tuesday and Wednesday. Miss Ke Ina Van Duesen enjoyed a trip to Wheeler Wednesday. AL Emery and wife hosted a farm gathering one mile from town. Snow Sunday night improved sleighing. Mrs. Ali Crawford hosted a small ladies party Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Charles Potter of Montrose visited Mrs. A. G. Moore last week. Mrs. C. W. Fea hosted the Thimble Club Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Watson moved into a newly purchased house. Frank Bodtish and Edna Pearce noted. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wierman attended the funeral of a niece, Mrs. Pratt, in Wheeler Tuesday. A crowd of young people enjoyed Sylia Muscott’s home last Friday.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a gentle natural laxative option for bowel troubles. It claims the pills stimulate and regulate the bowels and tone the entire system, with price unspecified and agents named C. G. Rhodes J. E. Mitchell and PF O. Grover.
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