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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1903
Page
2
Ithaca area residents and visitors are noted in a bustling roundup. Many names travel to Alma North Star and Emerson, with Monroe county and nearby towns featured. Frequent trips to Clare, St. Johns, and Battle Creek appear alongside academic attendees and family visits during the season.
N E Lafayette reports Miss Kuma Gilkey home from illness. Lois A Glinkey buys four windmifs. Lily Moullmeyer spends Saturday in St Louis. Meyers visits Alina Wednesday. Mrs Seth Benjamin weak with fever and fatigue. Win Sheily and family visited Friday. Mrs Youry and daughter Edoa visited Mrs Borought Friday. Mr Batley improving from typhoid fever.
Sumner J D West in Crystal Sunday boasts a first class soda fountain. Misses Harvey and Decker return from Belding for vacation. Bert Ferquer and wife from Lake City visit relatives. Children Day exercises yield over 12 RK in offerings. Forquer now co runs Fimch's store after buying an interest. A J Vance orders 1h square feet of blackboard at Cedar Corners last Monday. Sumner district No 3 school board retains Miss Anna Harvey as primary teacher with a salary advance.
N Wheeler reports an open air concert Saturday night drawing a large crowd. G W Sibley of Wheeler bought a fine span of horses. Gay at CU church attracted many attendees. Grandpa and grandma White visited Mrs Will White in town. Mrs Robert Clark and children from Emerson spent a week with Sibley family.
Mr and Mrs Groves visited in Alma Saturday. Fred Turner and wife visited near Mt Pleasant last week. Miss Gertrude Thomas visited Miss Jeanie Gibbins Saturday. Touie Richardson and wife spent Sunday at the home of Monroe Bauers. Floyd Taylor home from Mt Pleasant for a few days. Palmer spent Sunday with sister Mrs Anna Eagon near Wheeler. Ice cream social at Forest Hill well attended. Mrs Barbara Plowman visiting in Middleton and Carson City returned home. Marguerite Judd daughter of Thos Judd died at her home Saturday. Funeral held at Catholic church Monday morning.
West Pine River residents share weekends with relatives and visitors. Alex Sirown traveled to Kay City on business last Friday. Miss Smith of St. Louis visited the area last Saturday. Lew Mitta and family spent Sunday at FL Wright's home. Dudley Hoyt hosted her father and nephew Sunday. D Wood and daughter from Alam visited this week. Bert Kyes and family of Summerton spent Sunday with IM Kyes. Gould passed through with a new threshing outfit. Several attended the ice cream social hosted by the Forest Hill baseball team Saturday evening. Ed Fleming's friends surprised her Sunday night and dancing followed. All report a good time.
Mr Brenenstahl remains in very poor health. Mrs Brenenstahl enjoys a granddaughter visit. George Goodall recovered from illness. Hives trouble children and some adults, Dean's Ointment cited as a permanent cure, available at drug stores for cents.
Fifty years of popularity for Dr Humphreys remedies claim to cure diseases from diarrhea to rheumatism. The manual lists numerous conditions and appeals to buyers to obtain by mail or through Webb in Alabama and Michigan, with New York publishers.
Breckenridge residents visit kin in various towns including Frank Staley and J R Williams family. Miss Vera Fleagle entertains guests. George’s sister hosts a family gathering. Ringle school house ice cream social raises about seven dollars for classroom needs. Mort Freeman campaigns for C E Rockwell. The Judds mourn the death of daughter Marguerite Saturday night.
Maud Mull returns from Belding while Miss Mabie Hanes visits Ypsilanti. Rust damages some wheat, and Miss Mabie Haley visits her sister Mrs Jas Gargett. Large Sunday school attendance noted. Ed Gee buys a new side delivery hay rake and loader. Art Kress, of Taylor & Co., home for the weekend. W B Buck from Grand Rapids soldiers’ home staying with Frank Gee. Mrs A Gee and Niece Sarah Gee visit Mair and Jonta. A young man from Center loses his hat while riding. Albert Johnson returns from Big Rapids for summer vacation. Road improvements near Lafayette Peters underway, with the current road work nearing completion.
Mrs J W Doan has been quite sick. W Doane and C Owen visited relatives, with Doane in Detroit and Owen at Nessen City. Dr Kapp and family from Ann Arbor visit Mr and Mrs J W Doane. Iman Packard and wife from Alma spent weekend with his mother Mrs Mary Packard. Grace Childs returned to Shepherd after visiting Miss Wilsons. T Wilson left for Portsmouth Ohio after hay and potatoes work. Lennabel Camfield returned from Detroit where she studied. Marion Scharnweber accompanying for several weeks.
A Burlington, Iowa locomotive fireman C W Bellamy describes a near collapse from illness yet recovers after using Electric Bitters. He says the medicine restored strength, appetite, and energy, praising the product and its guarantee from Sharrar and Mulholland at 59 cents.
A reader describes stomach catarrh from overeating and improper digestion. Doctors and medicines failed until a remedy named Rodot figae pepsia Cure was advertised by Hivins & Rhodes of Coppell, advertised in the issue.
Two weeks of tent meetings conducted by Rev Geo Ro Jack at Beebe featuring the Emerson and Ashley charge singing evangelist. Despite weather 120 attended last Sunday. Laula DeLamarter presiding elder administered baptism to 140. Choirs, Flora Baker at organ, and about fifty conversions noted with pastors Reed Maynard Killeen among attendees.
Sunday visits fill Elm Hall as Mrs Judge Fookes spends time in Alma. Mrs Mattie Maxham visits Belding while Claud Davis returns from Alma. Logan Sly works at the Wright house in Alma. Mil and Fern Romine plan a Fourth feed barn. Bertha Downs of Alma visits her brother W S Iverson. The band entertains the village Saturday. Mrs Jon Belille visits near Riverdale. An Armenian missionary to preach at the M E church Sunday. Mrs Emma Matthews of Texas visits her parents Mr and Mrs Baron Blanchard.
Mrs Whitford in poor health again. The dredge nears completion on the creek. Mr and Mrs S Hoffer visited Mr and Mrs O Dodge. Mrs Ethel Rhynard visited her aunt Mrs Ella Dodge. Mr Sleichsf son returned to Germany. his grandson stayed here. Mrs Addie Bowen spent a week with her Newark sister. Mrs Flora Rhynard of Perrinton visited relatives nearby.
Dan McCall requests his house on Watson's addition. railroad and relief agents change posts. Alma Sugar Co begins grading for a weighing station southwest of town. Terry Eldred dies after a month illness. funeral held. Miss Laura Melooal dated, funeral held at Baptist church. School meeting votes adding one room to current building. schoolhouse painter remarks on its grandeur fading.
A promotional notice asserts value of Scott's Emulsion, citing a thin young woman who gains weight after using the product and paying five to eight cents per pound for twelve pounds of flesh. The ad touts regular doses, offers a free sample, and lists Scott & Bowne chemists in New York with pricing at five percent and one dollar.
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