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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1903
Page
4
A fragment from Alma Record notes staff names and post office framing, while the item cites nationwide floods in Kansas and cyclones in Georgia. It discusses Emmergent labor debates, union power, and politics, referencing Hore Smith and President Cleveland era views on farming prosperity.
School year closes with events from June 7 sermon in Presbyterian Church to June 12 alumni banquet at Wright House. Eighth grade exercises at opera house, senior reception, and class distribution list show sixteen graduates with nine in Latin, five in English, two in general. Several students leave or return. exams begin Monday. typhoid absences noted.
The Mount Pleasant Driving Club, member of the Northern Michigan Trotting Association, fixed races for June 17, 18 and 19 with a purse of 1500 dollars. The Mt Pleasant half mile track hosts an initial meeting of the series, with events touted as among the finest in central Michigan. The series includes Mt Pleasant Reed City Traverse City Lake City Cheboygan Cadillac East Jordan Hig Rapids Howard City Bellaire and Petoskey.
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Alma College unveils the sixteenth annual commencement plan from June 14 to 18. Programs include fare well communion at Presbyterian church, baccalaureate sermon by Dr A F Brooke, class day exams, readings for commercial school, kindergarten graduation, music recital, annual concert, alumni events, and a final president’s reception.
Pupils from the music kahoo! departments performed in a Tuesday recital to a good sized audience. Misses Messinger and DeLong praised, Lester Sharp violin solo noted, and a bullet crash disrupted a piano piece. Other solos and the string orchestra received applause as Henry Soule and Earl Webber performed. Local notices mention Jimmie McBride’s captaincy, Mrs. Adama of Chicago visiting, and upcoming Classical Club and time-keeper appointments for Michigan Intercollegiate events. Athletes from Albion, Hillsdale, Alma, and Kalamazoo advance to contests with Alma aiming for wrestling and field events.
Justice Chadwick disposed of Tuesday’s batch of cases swiftly. J Taylor released on larceny then re-arrested for forgery, bound over to circuit court. Myron Traver’s exam adjourned three weeks. Chas Mann freed for lack of evidence. Undersheriff Batton arrested a lodging-house debtor in Thompsonville. jailed man pleaded guilty, sentenced to thirty days.
The organizing committee reports full preparations for next week's State Firemen’s convention with a busy two day program. A special south train will run on Thursday from Durand and Alma, a Durand band and Clare visitors will accompany crowds from the north, and a ball game between the college team and a picked ring is planned for Wednesday. Memorial services for ex President Thomas Hogan of Detroit and Chief Kanters of Holland will be held Wednesday as part of the program. Wednesday night features a banquet with F. K. Hathaway as toastmaster and expected attendees from Ithaca and St. Louis. Thursday morning will showcase fire fighting apparatus exhibitions followed by the dedication of the village hall, with L. L. Thompson delivering the address and local speakers taking part. A parade with three bands will precede the exercises, culminating in a dedicatory address and exhibitions by teams from Mt Pleasant, Ithaca, and St. Louis. A silver cup awaits the best exhibition. Citizens are urged to decorate their establishments and extend a welcome to visitors during the two day event.
Sermons at St John’s will cover The Trinity in the morning and Personal Righteousness in the evening on Trinity Sunday. The Baptist church morning sermon will be The Altar at the Entrance, with Putting on Christ in the evening and Communion after the morning service. St John’s Sunday School picnic is planned for Saturday June 20 with games and an experience social about earning funds for the new hymnals. A quilt drawing at Mr and Mrs John Day Sr home was won by jeweler A B Scattergood. Alma Lodge No 2a, A M, holds a regular meeting next Tuesday with two candidates to be initiated.
A reflective piece recalls Civil War memory from Fort Sumter to Shiloh, honoring veterans and fallen soldiers. It laments faded era unity, celebrates national sacrifice, and urges reverence at country churchyards and battlefields as Memorial Day grows dim in aging survivors.
The event featured Miss Boughton’s essay, remarks by Mr W A Bahlke and FR Hathaway delivering a historical address on our nation from its beginnings to the Civil War. Firemen sang The Little Bronze Baton, and Rev W K Spencer gave benediction. A parade to Riverside cemetery followed with G A R rites and graves decorated by the Knights of Mythians.
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