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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1912
Page
5
A compilation of residents visiting nearby cities and spending the Fourth of July with friends. Names include L A Sharp in Detroit C C Fields Alma trips by W T Naldreth Mt Pleasant, Miss Truda Evans, James G Kress Ithaca, and others. Several staycations and visits noted with Riverdale Saginaw Chelsea Chelsea and Grand Rapids listed among destinations.
Miss Edna Swigart guest in Detroit Burt Eckert at Bay City races Miss Sarah Berman guest in Grand Rapids Channing Parsons of Owosso in Alma Clinton Nelson on Bay City business M. A. Coleman Ithaca in Alma on business J. W. Holmes Lansing in Alma Tuesday O L Burdick Shephard Alma visitor Tuesday L A Sharp business trip to Detroit Irene Arndt Saginaw visiting Fred Story and family Pont t sea guests Charles Powers Ithaca business caller Prosecuting Attorney Charles Goggins in city on legal business Harold Reynolds Detroit visiting Alma friends A E Barstow Ithaca guest of Browns Misses Mabel Strong Bes sie Holmes Riverdale visitors Mrs E N Chadwick visiting son Claude Chadwick Ann Arbor visit Whipple George H Smith Greenville teachers Alma visit John R Clark Mt Pleasants summer law student in Alma Paul O Hara arrives for Greenville S C visit Miss Fannie Stitt Alma in Middleton Miss Elizabeth Cutler Andover Mass with Elizabeth King Orchard Street Francis King Grand Rapids auto trip Laura Crandell back from Cincinnati Mrs J W Glass Battle Creek visit Frank L Conviss elected to Ithaca school board Hagenbeck Wallace show Saginaw then Buffalo Bills in city George Ricketts family guest William Guyselman Fostoria Ohio visiting Alma Laura Crandall back from visiting Paul Crandall T A Burt Ur bana on business Alma Frank Ruddick Carson City visit Alma Mabelle Griffith vacation with First State Bank Alma Hotel reopened under Henry Vandermark Amsbury family Fourth of July reunion at Fred Amsbury home Alma fire damages kept minimal as balloon remnants ignite George Abbot home fire on Fourth. no major damage Alma College president change from Bruske to Blaisdell debate postponed on Sunday labor question.
The church announces German Lutheran services at the U B church on Sunday July 14 at two o'clock in the afternoon. Rev O Eckert of Zilwaukee Michigan will preach the sermon. Adolf Sauer is the pastor.
Temperature data for June 1912 shows mean 69 with highs 91 on the 29th and a low of 40 on the 7th. Precipitation totaled 1.27 inches with 4 days at or above .01 inch. 18 clear days, 11 partly cloudy, 15 thunderstorm days including the 11th and 24th. total snow not reported. Local observer C P M Smith. Hotel Arcada rooms offered at weekly rates by George W Pulfrey.
Real estate listing notes eighty acres with a nearly new house and basement barn on four and a half miles from a market town. Soil is clay loam and surface level. Buildings valued at 3500 dollars, asking price seven thousand dollars.
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