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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1887
Page
5
The Alma Record reports on voter engagement and calls from residents about polling stations and local measures. It notes legislative actions, survey hints, and community reactions as ballots approach.
A lengthy Lansing letter describes the Michigan Legislature's busy agenda with afternoon sessions and a long list of bills. It notes overwork, requests for attention, and mentions representatives, bans, licenses, suffrage, and a banquet in Lansing that evening, reflecting tense politics and public affairs.
The county W C T U notes steady support from the sheriff and his wife for temperance efforts. Services at the county house see limited success but weekly religious meetings continue. Christian men and women from the M. E. Church assist, with pastors joining occasionally, and the work links liquor trade to county pauperism.
Alma School lists monthly attendance figures by teacher and grade, noting average daily attendance, tardiness, and absences for primary and intermediate classes. The page also includes an editorial letter from Reed City Clarion and Nebraskan law printing remarks, plus oblique notices of local events and a funeral.
At a Wright House gathering of the Board of Trustees for a new Presbyterian College in this place, Rev. J. W. Wright and others were present. Rev. Geo. J. Hunting was elected president. faculty named includes J. W. Ewing, David Howell, Theo Nelson, and Miss Mary Ellston. The Normal School will open in September with a full faculty. endowments of 1400 and 3600 funded professorships. The school will operate three courses Propriety Normal and Collegiate, with new buildings planned.
For the month ending February 25 a notice lists letters remaining at the Alma Post Office. It includes a satirical line about a man who will not take a paper because he can borrow one and has invented a machine to cook his dinner with heat from a neighbor's chimney.
Estella community items include Ladies Art Society meetings at Mrs Chums next week, a family funeral last Tuesday, Elder Green preaching three evenings at Deciple church, and a new tending circle formed by some ladies. The election facility changes allow voting at Elin Hall or Estella, a building project by Trett Thacker, and Abram West buying the former S J Torr building for groceries.
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