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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1908
Page
2
The speaker urges Alma College to demand high ideals and honest work from graduates and faculty. He recalls sermons about integrity, condemns commercialism, and urges students to pursue excellence, duty, and character, aligning education with moral vision and national progress.
The Advertised Letters list for the week ending June includes Mrs James Dune Mr J E Dons Mr A J Gensel Mrs Minnie Graham Mr R M John wm Kila Scott Mrs Yohanns Tren kcamp. Unclaimed letters will be sent to the Dead Letter Office on Jane 2th. Subscribe for The Record now.
Auditor General Bradley led in most counties with 140 804 votes vs Governor Warner 288 790. Gogebic was the sole county where Warner led Bradley. Bradley 1 510 to Warner 1 902. Oakland Eaton Ingham Shiawassee Wayne Kent and other counties showed Bradley ahead or near parity, with Bradley carrying key counties including Oakland and Ingham, while Warner carried his home region and some areas in Wayne.
William Heisting, claiming Ithaca origin, was arrested by Marshal Gilmore Saturday evening at the Shepherd depot. He showed intoxication and disorderly conduct, was restrained, then briefly fled before being recaptured. He appeared before Justice Wellman Monday and was fined 2.0 with costs totaling 3.75 dollars.
A batch of property transfers records from various locales shows Jennie Slater selling to Edward Gould and wife a parcel in Arcade 500. Gould selling to Amanda Yarnell. Samuel B Taylor selling to Charles J Jordan a west side lot in Elba. Addie Killam selling to Hiram McKinpey. Nancy Matilda Dutcher selling to Richard A Dykeman. Alma property transfers including Arthur E Malholland to Rachel Wadley in Woodward sub-div. Andrew Lepley transferring to William Mertz. Tiffany and wife selling to Philip Woodhouse in Ashley. John W Chambers guardian selling to Daniel Dunch in New Haven. Edward L Carr selling to Jay P Saxton. Fink and wife selling to Amaif Wright in Park Place east. Alina Jame Holl selling to Frank Horr. Sigsby and wife selling to Joshua Miller. Arthur W Broek selling to James Jobneos in Perk Place east. Alma transfers noted.
Market report lists prices for wheat rye corn and other grains per ton with items like beans clover seed timothy seed honey and live farm products such as dressed pork beef mutton veal and poultry. The OCR text is fragmented but indicates a general commodity price roundup for agricultural goods.
Bradetreet's weekly New York trade review notes mixed weather and reports, with improved wholesale demand in the west and south but hotter conditions east of the Strasse river. Purchasers stay cautious as fall buying shows area improvement yet overall trade remains quiet to fair nationwide. In Copereh Mich, township treasurer Frank B. Bunting is found murdered four miles distant, shot through the head and crushed, with the sheriff investigating a possible ball.
The Shepard Republican criticizes local weekly tavern trips by county neighbors bringing back empty quarts and calls the practice morally offensive though not illegal. It urges swift action to incarcerate intoxicated offenders and to deter prospects of similar behavior beyond the town’s jurisdiction.
Francis Ford, 20, a substitute mail clerk, rifled the Big Rapids post office safe last Thursday night. Nearly 800 dollars in cash and money orders were hidden in the basement and at his home. He was arrested, confessed, and most of the funds were recovered after officers searched his residence and basement.
The Juniors hosted Seniors and teachers on Friday evening on the lawn at 214 State Street. Japanese lanterns decorated the grounds as outdoor games provided entertainment. Mr. Clare Upthegrove won a prize AHS banner in a guessing contest. Light refreshments of sherbet wafers and wine were served.
Michigan events include the grand lodge consent to lay a Battle Creek high school cornerstone, a Hastings student winning 200 for a Harvard essay, a Marquette mine accident fatality, a Ludington id refuses to stay, and a Flint inquiry into Burns’s death claim. Other items cover a Muskegon meeting, Saginaw bonuses plan, and a Flushing pioneer.
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