Local Family Visits and Summer Trips Noted
Don Currence visited cousin Edd Wolf in Canada last week. Frances Waldo returns home from Belding for summer vacation, arriving last Wednesday. Mrs. E Church traveled Saturday to visit daughter Mrs. Harry Haggard in Pontiac. Clyde Waldo spent Sunday with mother Mrs. B McKinney. Mrs. A F Wood of Alma visited Monday with Miss Floral Waldo. Mrs. Will Sloan spends weeks with daughter Mrs. Rogers. Mrs. H B Currence visited Wednesday.
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Don Currence
Edd Wolf
Canada
Frances Waldo
Belding
E. Church
Harry Haggard
Pontiac
Clyde Waldo
B. McKinney
A. F. Wood
Alma
Miss Floral Waldo
Will Sloan
Rogers
H. B. Currence
Community News From Ithaca And Nearby Towns
Mrs Mildred Wiley and Edna Wiley spent Sunday with Mrs Tom Ray craft near Forest Hill. Mrs Edd Curerace, returning from Canada, visits relatives for weeks. daughter Ida will accompany her home. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Charles Purnall last week. High water damages local bridges including the red barn crossing and one by F Church’s farm. School closed last Friday with ice cream and cake as eighth grade work nears completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances
Flint
Frances Waldo
L. E. Dunham
Grand Rapids
H. J. Hyde
Albert Bender
Julius Mieur
Detroit
C. L. Bamberoough
George Webb
Chas
Purnall
Regal Hyde
J. Kinney
David Dephen
Seymour Couch
Dan Currence
Herman Currence
F. Church
Partee
Alma council debates sidewalks and depot plans in May 1912
Alma Michigan May 20 1912 council session adjourned regular meeting. Mayor Montigel presided as aldermen Caple Willard Fuller Fraker Kehn attended. Motion granted Farmers' Club use of City Park for July 25 picnic. Street committee recommended sidewalks on Grafton Ave and Park Place East. Plans for a new depot criticized as unsatisfactory. Clerk authorized to issue order to Rigas & Sherman Co for 274 dollars. For sale notice follows: Deering binder mower horse rake and other farm tools plus one cow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ald Caple
Ald. Willard
Farmers’ Club
Committee On
Grafton Avenue
Park Place East
Swly
Ald
Faller
Fraker
Yeas
Willard
Caple
A. A. Ror
Ely Street
Park Place
Ald. Cook
Ald. Fuller
Rigas & Sherman Co
Colmenade
Irate Father Tries To Stop Elopement At Union Station
In Pittsburg a determined father C Bilby Merckles chased his daughter Anna Merckles and her fiancé Calvin A Boecker over 150 miles. He rode from Cameron to Wheeling then to Pittsburg, arriving as the New York Night Express doors closed at Union Station. The couple boarded the train to New York with no priest letters for matrimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ittsburg
di Iter
Union Station
C. Bilby Merckles
Cameron
W. Va
Merckles
Misa Anna Regine Merckles
Calvin A. Boecker
New York City
New York Night Express
Miss Merckles
Roecker
New York
Wheeling
Pittsburg
Boecker
Elopers
Bride's Tears Win Officers Hearts in Oregon Hotel Arrests
Detec tives Litherland and Van Overn arrest M. B. Anderson and his wife at the Rowland hotel after they allegedly decamped from Cody Apartments with unpaid $25 room bill. Couple claimed elopement from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, then Portland. Mrs Anderson cried and was jailed alongside her husband as they guardedly faced charges of evading payment and a small robbery linked to a gas meter theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rowland Hotel
Cody Apartments
East Taylor Street
Anderson
Litherland
van Overn
San Francisco
Santa Cruez
Cal
Portland
Rowland
Detective Headquarters
Litherland and
Hunter's License to Slay Sparks Illinois Misunderstanding
Chicago man Joseph Tessa armed with a so called hunting license and a razor set out for revenge in Hammond Indiana. He attacked three fellow Italians in New York Central yards, two were seriously injured and he was arrested. The license confusion led to a change of charges to assault and a small fine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hicago
Joseph Tessa
Chicago
Hammond
Ind
Tessa
New York Central
Tesso
Prest Tesso
Indecan
Mlinois
Indiana
Blue Chalk Mark on Trunk Marks a Tightfisted Drummer
Indianapolis tale reveals hotel baggage men use blue chalk marks to flag travelers who shortchange tips. A head porter explains the system to punish cheapskates by delaying service and rubbing or lengthening the mark, while tipping travelers receive smoother handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ndianapolis
Hens from Pa and N Y lead in Connecticut egg contest
Report of the twelfth week of the Eastern Egg Laying Contest at Connecticut Agricultural College lists top hens from Pennsylvania and New York. John A. Fretchery of Harrisburg led with 24 eggs in Rhode Island Reds. Howard Steele of Philadelphia had 23. Notch farm Walter Mills of Long Island 21. Scoville of East Haven 23 and 20. Woodside Poultry Farm Philadelphia 18. Arnold Francis Oak 18. F G Yost Sayre 18 with multiple Rhode Island Reds and White Leghorns among entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sayre
Electric incubator giant built for New Orleans poultry raiser
One of the largest electric incubators in use worldwide was built for a New Orleans poultry raiser. The 40 by 5 foot device has 40 compartments each holding 160 eggs and can be controlled per compartment or as a group. Thermostats avoid full heater contact by adding a high resistance to prevent parking at contacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Poultry Advice Promotes Health and Breeding Practices
The article urges careful management of poultry including avoiding fat breeders, providing water shade and grit for ducks, and using green cut bone for nourishment. It cites early mating of turkeys, selective breeding for egg production, and warns against inbreeding, while promoting thoroughbred stock and bone cutters as profitable, with benefits to hens and land.
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Wright House
Erwin
R. F. Erwin
George Sandell Ellwell
Michigan
John D. Spinney
Pollasky Block
SWIGART @ SULLIVAN REAL
Opera
John M. Everden
Scott Block
Ithaca
Kress & Dunham
U.S
Otticw
Opere
Phane
Uuon
J. E. Suydam, M. D
Woodworth Ave
Superior St
Churchill
Alsayslile’ Powers’ Theatre Building
Council Proceedings
BD. W. Adams
J. M. Montigel
Tho Morsgan
N. Court Avenue
Cupid
Bride
Hunter
Rhode Island Reds
Pennsylvania Poultry Baker
Connecticut Agricultural College
England
Rhode Island
Union 197
Bell
Bermad Bros
Alma Roller Mills
Crandell & Scott
Kers
Aimu Mich
J. E. Wise
Piayues Pyroilicis
Cadillac Higan
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