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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1909
Page
3
Keep streets clean stable manure-breeding place for flies in a vault or enclosed area and sprinkle with chloride of lime. Quickly cover food after meals bury or burn waste. Keep dump cloths near meat dishes and milk. Use pyrethum powder. it kills flies or stuns them for sweeping. Sticky trap paper helps. Relent refuse exposure near dwellings to stop breeding.
Buying your clothes is important. You can't afford a mistake. Why take a chance when in Cuorackart Clothes at your own price you are sure of each good thing you want. Sure of wool wear and style. The guarantee covers pure wool from ten to twenty five dollars.
Train will depart Alma at 4 0 a m and return from Grand Rapids at 6 15 p m Meypely of Oil Supply mentions bergamot oil sourced entirely from a Calabrian region near Messing.
William Fay phase out of Richmond shipyards and a juror on Jefferson Davis's treason trial died in Muskegon after two decades in retreat from Confederate sympathizers. He once aided Grant, faced prison over gunboat work, then served as a Union scout. He died of heart failure while repairing his Muskegon cottage.
State Highway Commissioner Ely is busy instructing township highway commissioners about the new road law. About 60 percent of township officials are newly elected farmers unfamiliar with the law, set to take effect in September. Ely arranges a condensed printed form to mail to supervisors.
Surprising their friends, Carolyn Hamtings daughter of Mrs F W Hamtings and W E Brown wed in Pueblo Colorado. Brown met his bride there and they went home to the groom s ranch at Olathe Colorado. Brown a graduate of Alma College and St Louis High School. Hamtings taught at Harbor Springs and Yale after graduation. Brown is a native of the county near Ithaca and has been west four years since Alma College graduation.
Regular Alma council meeting notes July 20 1900 record mayor N F McClinton Aldermen in attendance and a quorum. The body referred a petition on Pollaky warehouse to health, debated water main extension, and passed a resolution for a special election August 7 1909 to approve an ordinance granting the Chippewa River Power Company electric rights for thirty years with franchise terms, rates, construction rules, and safeguards. The vote on the resolution was unanimous. meeting adjourned to July 21.
Major James W. Long was struck by a touring car in Washington on a July morning and died soon after at Emergency hospital. He was interred with military honors at Arlington. Born June 20 1840 in Hillsborough NC he served in the Civil War and received a Brevet Major. He later held posts as Indian agent and adjutant at Grand Rapids before retirement. His death drew sorrow from Isabella County and Michigan societies in the capital.
Mrs Frank Meyers of Col awakened by a would be intruder hurled a lit lamp at him. he fled. Pontiac learns from the military board that an armory appropriation this year to ten thousand dollars remains, while two fifteen thousand dollar grants already allocated are spent. Mrs Etta Saxon sues William Gregory of Fife Lake for five thousand damages claiming he sold liquor to her husband who died after a moving train incident on November 26 1908. Charles Burch dies aged 63 at the Ingham county poor farm, survived by a widow and daughter. once wealthy he declined after racing losses and is buried in potter’s field. Neighbors rescue Miss Anna Schmidt in Muskegon who was hanging on a clothes line. authorities deem her actions peculiar and suspect insanity. Zeppirth’s airship voyage lasts 37 hours covering 850 miles. A storm damages an airship near Goep pingem. rider vows to fly again for the Kaiser.
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