04 Jul 1906
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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1906
Page
1
The Alma Sugar Company article offers beet crop guidance for heavy weed control and cultivation. It emphasizes thinning timely, deep cultivation, and preparing land for next season while noting weather and labor constraints for June 1908. It also mentions a marshmallow roast planned by local youth and Rev A C Young’s visit and new pastor appointment.
A scaffold accident near Alta Manufacturing Co. injures Hh Sherman and H M Cross with serious injuries expected to delay work. Rev. Hitler from Wilmington Ohio delivers July sermons at the Septist Church, praising plain speech and a sermon on worry. Community notices include a bridal shower for Miss Schmidt, cheese and butter contest updates, a death by apoplexy, a local jail stay for disorderly conduct, and various social visits across town.
A battered account mentions a Saturday journey through Urckenridge and the town’s churchly scene. The prose alludes to travelers, roads, and local activity, hinting at civic life and a pleasant, worklike atmosphere.
The Traveler commends leading Breckenridge photographer JE HM for five years of business and quality work. A call and inspection show he makes good pictures and deserves patronage from residents. Local news segment closes with warm local regard.
Mt Pleasant plans a YMCA building after a recent meeting raised 16600 for the project with D Nelson donating a lot. City leaders say the facility will greatly aid moral advancement and provide a needed social space for young men, addressing lack beyond streets and saloons.
An Oregon travel letter recounts a June journey from Portland along the Willamette River by streetcar and boat, praising scenery from the Catan river to bridges and legends. The writer details meetings, timber talk, fire laws, and plans to visit Salem Dallas and Monmouth during commencement week at a state normal, with notes on hospitality and train companionship.
Miss Myra Carl and Miss Mary Sharp led thirteen Baptist Sunday school pupils to Turk's Grove for a pie and dainty refreshments. Morris Johnson, honored by the Baptist Young People's Society, enjoyed a farewell supper with about 25 friends before departing for Chicago to study linotype work. St Johns Sunday School held a Grassmere picnic with wagons departing from the church at dawn, a day of games and a noon dinner.
Dr Day's daughter Eua and two friends Charlotte Smith and Irene Arndt were riding Sunday evening when a passing car frightened the horse. The rig ran away, the girls were thrown and dragged a distance, but escaped serious injuries aside from fright. The carriage sustained heavy damage to a near-new vehicle.
Bernice Brainerd visits Saginaw while Miss Carson stops by Shepherd monthly. Mise Mule Brainard returns home after a year at Toledo. Miss Smith tends to Mr al Von De Mark at Men St Johns as he remains very low. Nineteen volumes of literary and medicine works added to the library.
Sunday, semitam Miss Annie Lindner, aged 41, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Lindner, of this city, had been ill for some time from organic heart trouble. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock and the body laid to rest in Riverside cemetery.
The Alma city desk reports Fourth of July closures and post office hours, noting free mail delivery plans and the opening of services. Local residents including Brown, Mrs Worthington, and Misses Bent and Scribner are referenced amid social visits, travels to Detroit, and short vacations.
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