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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1916
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR shows land parcels and names including Albert Colthorp John Parkhouse Nevins Morrow Sexton Phelps Barnhill and many others. The text lists sections, tracts, and owners across multiple townships with numerous initials and partial descriptions, resembling a late 19th or early 20th property record.
Legal notice from Gratiot and Midland counties calls for bids on the construction of Drain No 3. It lists described lands, owners and jurisdictions, sets the time place for bid opening, and informs landowners of assessments and rights to appear for review. Officials named include county commissioners and highway authorities. The notice requires interested parties to attend and present objections or bids at the specified location and time.
An examination for clerk and carrier positions will be held at the post office in this city on March 25, 1916. The age limit is 18 to 45. Married women are not admitted, but divorced women may apply as clerks. Applicants must be physically sound. male applicants must be at least 5 feet 4 inches tall and weigh at least 125 pounds without overcoat or hat. For applications and full information contact Frank Parker, Secretary, Board of Civil Service Examiners, Post Office, Alma, Mich.
Public notice lists office hours from 1 to 4 30 p m and 7 to 8 p m on Sundays by appointment.
Sharrar and Wheeler list two modern houses in a fine location on easy terms. Three farms available for exchange for stocks of goods. An eighty acre farm with stock and tools for sale or exchange. Two stock ranches of 300 acres each to swap for city property. Forty acres two miles from Ithaca for sale or exchange. TY acres in New Haven town for sale or exchange with cows and other property plus cash difference. Fifteen building lots one block from Republic Truck Co for sale cheap on easy terms. Two fine resident properties near Pontoffice and two blocks from Wright House with three new houses near Republic Truck Co for sale on easy terms. Restaurant, grocery, and bakery business in Gratiot County town will exchange for farm or new land, eighty acres near Ithaca for Alma or Ithaca property. Bakery in Gratiot town doing good business will exchange. Twelve acre chicken farm near tent for sale or exchange. several other land pieces available.
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