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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1915
Page
4
A local retailer advertises a major July sale featuring bargains across dry goods ready to wear and hats. The notice emphasizes discount pricing and special offers to attract shoppers.
Partial OCR read from The Alma Record shows publication line with editor C. F. Brown and office details possibly misspelled. content includes stray phrases about mail and class mail service, lacking coherent news events or dates.
County correspondence records many social visits and travels across Alma, Sumner, Riverdale, and Elwell in late June 1915. People such as Miss Etta Fisk, Miss Esther Shong, and Miss Zelma Miller are noted with friends and relatives from Dennis Welch, Anna Covell, J. D. Sibley, and others visiting homes in Elm Hall, Riverdale, and surrounding towns. The column also lists illnesses, road and mail route updates, and an advertiser notice for uncollected mail.
The Alma City Council will meet at City Hall July 30 1915 at 9 30 am to receive sealed bids for sewer work on Rockingham Woodworth Ave and Gratiot Ave. Plans and specs on file with City Clerk. Certified checks of 5 percent for Rockingham and 10 percent for other bids required, with contract surety. Council may reject any bid.
The Civic League held a Wednesday afternoon bridge and five hundred party at the Masonic Home with over eighty attendees. Sixteen tables were in play. Mrs Wheeler of St Louis won first in bridge, Mrs McCullough of Alma won first in five hundred. Guests came from Ithaca, St Louis, and Breckenridge. More than twenty five dollars was raised to wipe out a deficit.
A note of gratitude expresses thanks to neighbors friends minister and those who provided music and flowers during bereavement. It urges service to others as the path to lasting joy and notes the value of helping children to do what they can.
A sequence of union church services is listed with dates and pastors for Church of Christ Baptist Episcopal Presbyterian congregations from July 11 to August 29. It promises good music, inspirational preaching, and a warm welcome. Grand Rapids singer Mrs. T. L. Gillette performed at the Presbyterian church last Sunday.
Al Davie relocates his barber shop to the west half of the building that housed his cigar store for years. The cigar store shifts to the east half which the barber shop formerly occupied. He believes the swap will yield better results with refreshed interiors and an added show window.
Local notes list Urbana Urbana Jd C Nicolett visiting Alma friends and several Saginaw and Ann Arbor visitors. Alma Tigers host Mt Pleasant Normals at Davis Field while July 5th game tied to Pleasant Normal and old car trades in Detroit. Also mentions Eastern Star event and various residents attending events and games.
Pastor J W Priest at residence 502 Gratiot invites all to Sunday service at 10:00 with sermon on Influence of Christian Character and observance of the Lord's Supper. Sunday School at 11:30, B P U at 6:50 with Nationals Ideals topic led by Anna Anzell. Union services at Church of Christ 7:30 pm with prayer meeting at 7:90 pm.
Methodist Church invites worship at Sunday morning and evening services led by Rev. Thomas G. R. Brownlow. Bible School at 11:30 a.m. Epworth League at 4:30 p.m. Sermon lecture titled Martin Luther and The Protestant Reformation at 7:20 p.m. Parsonage address and Union phone listed. Also includes earth diameter note from a scientific figure.
A desk officer questions a woman who complains a man promised to fetch a marriage license for 78 cents to go to the court house and never returned. The officer offers congratulations as the case ends with a quip about the day.
The Willard and Lott barbers received council approval Tuesday to construct a stairway from Superior Street to their shop below the Wright House. The new entrance will replace the current roundabout access via State Street, with work starting immediately. The stairway will border the street eight inches and extend from the building corner to the Wright House steps.
On April 28 1915 an application was filed with Drain Commissioner Erva R Layee for locating a drain across sections 23 24 Sumner Township Gratiot County Michigan The Sumner township board will meet July 7 1915 at 10 am at E Enterlines residence to decide if the proposed drain is necessary for public health convenience and welfare Landowners liable to assessments or whose lands will be crossed may appear. Saul Cleverdon Sumner Township Clerk.
The text argues the ideal man is a reversible battery whose charge renews after exertion. It suggests muscular tonicity shifts occur when one area weakens while another strengthens, tied to apathy or parental laziness. It claims laziness stems from physiological conditions and that a "born lazy" person lacks sufficiency to a high degree.
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