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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1914
Page
8
Local notes report Edward Amherst Ott will give a lecture during Chautauqua Week. The item also lists community arrivals and events including a Breckenridge baseball win, a notable death, social gatherings, and various visits around Elwell, Alma, and Riverdale with multiple residents mentioned by name.
Breckenridge society notes cover local visitors and travels. Numerous residents visit Saginaw and other Michigan cities, including Miss Edna Watson, Miss Ella Parrish, and Mrs. Jay Sexton with Emma. Shoppers, cousins, and relatives are noted in brief visits to St Louis, Detroit, Chicago, and Crystal Lake as families enjoy summer outings and hospital checkups.
Elwell and surrounding area see several visitors this week. Longwood hosted Sunday activities while Elwell residents report regular business at the local garage. Ice cream sales at Taylors draw five cent treats amid a busy social week with Alma and Greenville callers.
Fred Wadle and son planned a trip to Crystal Sunday. Mrs Barlow and Eva visited Alma Friday. Tom Caris of Crystal spent Monday with his daughter in the neighborhood. Mrs Ernest Parrish of Carson visited her mother, Mrs Wardle. Clyde Tiewue and wife were in Crystal Sunday.
Frank Totker made a business trip to Saginaw Saturday. Laren Ruce and wife of Alma were Sumner callers Sunday. Gene Harvey and wife of Chicago are visiting friends here. A. E. Fowler and V. D. Staffs did not complete the sentence.
Seville Center News notes William Shong called on Henry Miller Sunday. C. C. Wonders was a Riverdale caller Thursday. A number from here spent Sunday at Rock Lake. Ted Crum was an Elwell caller Saturday. Several from here attended the circus at Alma Friday. A E Miller was a business caller in St. Louis Thursday.
Riverdale residents hosted and visited across towns including J W Mathews Vestaburg on Friday Ruth Forqner called on friends in Frank Duford Saginaw visitor Sunday L Gray Wheeler on business Tuesday Mary Billinga Alma Tuesday Wm Emery Edmore on business Thursday George Lapaugh two weeks at Rock Lake E C Harrison Cedar Lake Friday Sunday School organized Townsend School house Mrs F C Hyde at Ferris Center several Riverdale residents attended Vestaburg ball game Francis Rosa North Wheeler visiting sister Mrs Walter Swope F Reynolds and children spent Friday in Alma Dorothea Swope entertained friends from Grand Rapids Mrs A E B Johnson Winn visiting north of Riverdale.
Alva Hopkins rests from telephone work after Monday return. Dell Demery and wife visit from near Sumner ton. Ella Leonard ill two weeks with heart and stomach troubles. Mrs. Bryan hosts brother and wife from Miles City Montana. Avillas Hopkins finishes work near St Johns and goes home. Harter children ill with throat trouble, Dr Barstow of St Louis attends. Archie Leonard home from Ithaca aiding farm until books arrive. Perrine hired man sidelined, farm work suffers. Clark Conklin brings household goods from Mt Pleasant for Mason Wilber. Worms feared by farmers near here. Kirby and Leonard report finds. Martha Beean and children visit mother, Blanche returns to Owosso, Delos stays with grandmother until school starts. Maggie Hopkins given one and a half bushels of huckleberries from sister near Houghton. Jesse Nelson of Houghton visits aunt Willis Hopkins. Farmers near finish hay and salvage wheat and oats. storms damaged crops. Local old German saying about rain on Monday matching three days holds true.
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