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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1905
Page
7
Readout lists morning and evening services for Alma churches including KEVTERIAS CHURCH and CHU ROU with Sunday school times and rector names. Also enumerates fraternal lodge meetings such as LMA, M W P and O.T.M, with schedule notes and officer titles for various dates and locations.
County News reports a string of short items: residents visiting, traveling, or staying with relatives in Derrat and nearby towns. Dr Mire Johnson and Mrs. Hart host guests. Mrs. Money Norman Cat and spouse head to Windsor. Pearl Freeland and Mr. Abbott visit Bannister friends. Dr Ray Smith visits Crystal. Will Pierce and Mrs. Pratt Franklin Ramenny host and guest relationships noted. W A Herron writes praising Voley's Riley Cure for kidney and bladder trouble.
Forest Hill notes mention Mary Tavis of Martin and others visiting relatives in Portland and Detroit this week. The piece also cites Mrs Mitchell and TecK Catfield with weekend and midweek travel details, plus a Bathing recital and a vague reference to a medical or household remedy.
Mrs Daniel Clulds and daughter Addie visited near Alma at Mrs Ellison’s last Friday and Saturday. John Melville is building a large addition to his residence. Mr Proper returned home from Mr Pleasant. The cement walk at the M E church is nearly finished. Mrs Sargent returned to Alma after two days with R D Lemon and family. Mr and Mrs Bassett came home from Gratiot county. Joseph Moore and wife were in Alma Friday. & Saulisherry has rebuilt his barn. George Brinningstall is ill. Mrs Frank Taylor hosted a reception for her mother Mrs Peterson bound for Jackson for the summer. On June 2 Rev Blanchett joined Gus Lyons and Miss McGee in matrimony. they will keep house in a new southwest town home.
Mrs. David Biliotti visits Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Allis and Miss Susie Edwards. The school closed Friday with a picnic in Harlan Woods ard's woods. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Salisbury visited at 7.11 Allin' Monday.
A special meeting of the Ladies organization was held last Friday at Mrs Chambers' Howie afjour. They plan to meet again in two weeks with Mrs Jaki Anthony and others expected. Several members are arranging barn gatherings and travel to Saginaw and Arbor Greenville for upcoming events.
Local notes recount Litthe Mervin Pheniding spending a week with his grandmother Mrs Fleming. Mrs D Hoyt hosted a friend from Alma. Kerwin Fleming visited cousin Norman Flemning, while Mrs Fleming hosted Detewit visitors. May day events at Chareh lawn drew attendees including Atlas family and others for Mr Pike remarks.
In Grange Heights small items note the passing of Dudley McPherson with funeral details pending burial settings. E H Hodges visits family, Mrs Bara Smith of Alma is mentioned, Marenee Clack travels to Elwell, and Alvin Miller with spouse visit Sumner residents. Local social and domestic notes conclude the section.
Five snippets from Pine River and nearby towns recount visits and guests. Mrs. Cluff Nelson hosts, families gather at Haggan and Haggard homes, Detroit and Indiana visitors depart, and Dr Thomas Electric Oil ads close the page with a burn or cut remedy.
Langport residents share family visits as Mrs. Julia Hayner and her children from Tonia stay with her parents for two weeks. The Ladies' Aid Society raised 1.70 at Mr. Theodore Snyder’s home. Miss Jessie Hudson of St. Louis spent Sunday with her parents while Mrs. Fred Biddlecombe visited her sister, Mrs. Wim. Youngs. Langport Sunday school plans Children’s Day exercises on June 11 with a fine program in preparation. Frances Hudson has returned home after closing her school near Ithaca. Rev. Chas Seelloff of Laporte, a former pastor, preached here Sunday. Mrs. Crason and Mrs. Dora Allen of Alma visited their sister, Mrs. Charles Myers, last week. Chas. Lowe spent several days in Owosso last week.
The session grapples with a proposed tax and fare limits for rails, funding cuts, and a new state highway department. Governor backs appointments, while lawmakers face adjournment with bills awaiting final votes. Memorial events and society meetings adjust to the legislative schedule as Dyspepsin-bane is advertised.
A note urges correspondents to sign and return their name and address on stationery requests. It warns slips often detach from envelopes, making sender identification difficult, and asks readers to send a card if stationery is delayed.
A medical advertisement extols Boschee's German Syrup as a reliable home remedy for cold and grippe, claiming quick relief for adults and children. It asserts rapid cure, supports home treatment, notes trial and regular bottle prices, and lists George E. Sharrar as the seller.
Western Michigan faced a devastating rainstorm that flooded Grand Rapids and surrounding towns. An estimated million dollars in property and business losses, with 400 families displaced on the city’s west side. Rail lines and bridges were washed out, halting service to Hart Cedar Springs Montague Muskegon Grand Haven Whitehall Portland and Traverse City. Several towns report widespread destruction as authorities mobilize to move families to higher ground. A 13 year old boy Ira Kahn drowned after being swept from a raft during the flood.
A devastating cyclone struck Tuscola and Sanilac counties on Monday afternoon. Five people are confirmed dead with six gravely injured and about thirty others hurt. Homes, farms, and vast woodlands suffered heavy destruction, with thousands in property losses. In Novesta township two children of Joseph Pentfeld died from storm injuries as he and his wife remained hospitalized.
Chicago on June 7 reported shifting atmospheric conditions causing a series of tidal waves along the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. Each wave reached about three and a half feet, with the first surge pausing for thirty five minutes and the second rising again to the same height before receding after thirty minutes.
In Adrian Michigan on June 7, after fifty five minutes of deliberation, the jury found Dr. Irving E. Sanders of Detroit guilty of larceny by conversion in a case brought by Mrs. Rowe Jones of Tecumseh. The doctor remained quiet, and the defense announced an appeal.
Heavy rain in Menominee Michigan swells the Menominee river and tributaries to flood levels. Much livestock perishes and crops suffer serious damage while train service is crippled by washouts setting back transportation.
Four men on a Grand Trunk construction train died near Pewamo Michigan after the train derailed Tuesday afternoon about five o blocks from Pewamo. The victims were W C Everett Detroit engineer Albert Carl St Johns foreman W Crankow Detroit pile driver engineer and J B Graham Grand Rapids bridge foreman, all killed or fatally injured.
In Battle Creek Michigan Alvin M Downs was arrested at the insistence of his father J W Downs manager of the Battle Creek sanitarium tree houses on larceny charges. The youth admitted stealing a shawl and small items. He faced a fifteen day county jail sentence but was released after his father paid the bail.
A work train derailed due to a washout north of the Tonla prison injuring two crewmen and killing Engineer Will Alvord and Fireman Georges Fayne. Brakeman Coffea and Neally were slightly hurt.
June 7 reports say Metiag Holmes, son of Mr and Mrs Holmes, disappeared after leaving home Monday afternoon. Police still puzzle over his fate as river or lake theories fail to explain his absence. Authorities fear a drowning while residents search nearby areas for clues.
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