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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1921
Page
9
Vestaburg locals share Sunday visits with Blanch Manley and kin and report school events. Fire damage prompts Dewitt Murtaugh to rebuild and relocate in a new central office. Vestaburg teams win at Mt Pleasant while eighth graders conclude the year. Several residents travel to Howell St. Louis and Sumner for health, family, and church activities.
SETHTON residents John Jarvis and brother Joseph left Monday for an extended visit with relatives in New York state. Mrs Glenn Wilcox cares for her ailing mother. Mrs Hattie Hyatt and son Earle returned home after two months at Verne Gardner's. Miss Bernice Bellinger and a friend returned to Ionia after staying with Mr and Mrs Leo Bellinger. Emeil Van Heek and Scott Payne work near Battle Creek. Three eighth graders in the district passed exams. Beet threshing has begun locally. Mr and Mrs John Jarvis accompanied Mr and Mrs Joe Jarvis of Brice to Alma on business and to visit relatives. Harvey Humphrey and children of Portland and Mrs Ray Hurd and daughters of Tonia visited. Nell family moved to Detroit. Dr and Mrs Wilbert McNeill and daughters from Albion visited parents Mr and Mrs M C Morse. Mildred Morse of Lansing schools returned to school. Thirty-two attended community betterment club meetings with Verne Gardner. Clayton Cook spoke in John T Mathews’s absence. Esylocke sang and Iris Gardner played piano. Next meeting with Mr and Mrs Harry Hyde the last Tuesday in June. A wrecking bee is planned Wednesday. L A S will provide dinner and church sheds will be moved. Mrs Ralph Roles has been ill but is improving. The Record notes it offers Job Printing.
Morse Gore visits grandparents in St Johns. Ice cream social at Gleaner church well attended. Mrs. A Rench and children visit Shepherd family. Alfred and Kenneth Peters visit Alma sister. Wilfred Soules family at Clay Soules home. Lloyd and Ophir Mann and Roy Griffith at Houghton Lake. Aid Society met with Mrs Healey in St Louis. Children’s day exercises planned for Sunday June 12. Ray Loudenslanger family at Blanchard with parents.
Southeast Coe mm Elly Leonard assists at Morgan Leonard home while barn work continues. Mr and Mrs Packingham welcome a baby boy. 3M mat Piine cares for mother and child. Will Vorman and wife from Alma visit church with children. Livi Burge and Mrs Beals host in Alma. Roy Boyers and family visit Tom Pethtel in Alma. Dora Hineman and son from Romulus spend summer with father C Alexander. Mrs Hugh Byers and children from Alma visit Charles Byers.
Will Beard and wife of St Louis repented Sunday here. Harry Good and family of Breckinridge visited with his parents here. Mason Wood returned to the home of his daughter A Leonard of Forest Hill last week.
Eline Whitcraft has spent six months in Dixon Ohio and returned home Thursday evening. Her daughter Alyan Simon and Mildred joined her for a brief visit with relatives, while Forest Hill residents Ed O’Bryant and family hosted others. Various neighbors including Leslie Hoyt and Ethyl O’Heyant spent time with relatives in Forest Hill and East Alma.
Poole plans to leave soon for Mt Clemens for rheumatism treatment. Mrs L Mends of Baan Creek visited her son Carl Hill for a couple of days. Several locals including C Dickinson EB Loomia G J Poole and others spent time at Houghton Lake and Lake District outings. Jobe Robbins and family from Lanvir visited V Dickinson home over Sunday. Alva Decker visited friends in a City from Friday to Sunday. Ella Freed, living near Riverdale, spent the weekend with sister Mra Freed.
A fisherman rows a three- loge catamaran lashed together, riding surf and storm. The unsinkable craft defies danger while natives watch, prepared for a possible ducking in rough seas.
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