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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1908
Page
6
Rain Friday night and Saturday revived crops across the area. Wheat harvest may suffer some damage but corn, sugar beets, late potatoes and other crops welcomed the moisture. Fruit crops also benefit with blackberries and huckleberries improving, pleasing city gardeners with saved cucumbers, cabbage and tomatoes.
Must be sold at once items include an extension dining table dining room chairs bookcase writing desk quarter-sawed oak bedstead large bevel plate mirror steel cooking range coal stove Brock beater kitchen cabinet ear beth rant all in good condition Hold at half price Call on FE Pollanky at his store to view them
Riverdale and Vestaburg teems with visits and social events as residents travel to Alma Stanton and Lansing area towns. A town dance, school additions, and a new basketball team highlight local life while Mrs Tallon and Mrs Hyde manage visits and land interests.
The Seville and Sumner Farmers Club invites all to attend their annual event in August at Elwell. Program includes songs, recitations, and addresses led by club president W. T. Pitt, Judge Searle, and Mrs. Clow with music by Medlar, Smith, and Fink.
J Weeks has repainted his house. A church reports men surveying a large bite through thin veil. Miston Mable and Nooma Unser of Ludington visit relatives. Johnnie Morton nurses a sore band. Mrs Wilson visits in St Louis. A family moves into Matt Lente’s tenant house. Mr and Mrs Kid Wood welcome a baby girl born July 17.
One of Mr Movers sons underwent an operation at Brainerd hospital for appendicitis William Coarter and his family of McHain attended his father's funeral Hayling is nearly finished in thin viet ciniy with fine quality
Farmer Darvin Valentine uncovered an iron box while plowing his Westphalia farm last Tuesday. About 200 gold Spanish coins dated 1815 and 1800 are believed valuable at around 200 dollars in American money. The coins will be sent to New York for exchange.
A testimonial extols Bucklaw’s Arnica salve as the best in the world. It claims to cure a felon on a thumb and to heal every sore or burn applied, with purchase from George Sharrar’s drugstore.
Mrs John Murphy left Thursday for St Clair county to visit her mother who is poorly. Jemm Ensley departed for Washington Thursday. Mrs Allen Hazelton went to Riverdale Monday to see her father Robert Carvanter. We ste and to know that he is on the gain. Job Mathews of Durand spent the Fourth with his parents. Charles Mangus left Monday for Pilot to work on white. Leal Wood is coming to the banks of Pine River to work in the beets for Sim Bigelow.
Advertised list includes Mire David Brown Mr Ed ward Curtance Mies Edna Davis Mr Tamnes Hedger W F Lange Mr dant Molsenen Mr FR Ray Mew Loniee Smith Nelson Taylor Mr N OD Tay lor The Torleya The shore not called for will be sent to the Dead Letter Office August 1 1908 F Brown P M Alma Record subscriber
Substantial houses cannot be built quickly. Character grows slowly through daily work on the farm. A neighbor’s estimate reflects reputation, but character is what a man really is. The farm shapes virtue, with plowing, sowing, reaping and storing as the core effort. A countywide notice invites participation in Montonge and Son's sale.
An old prospectus touts Golden Medical, a glycerine refined remedy by Dr. Plaros, claimed to cure digestive liver bile issues and bronchial throat illnesses. It promises free samples by postal request, asserts superiority over alcohol methods, and notes limited funding for consumption cures.
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