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Newspaper

The Alma Record

Location

Alma, Michigan, United States of America

Date

Mar 17, 1921

Page

12

Home Rule for Counties Fails in Michigan Senate

Lansing reports that the county commission form of government failed to win the required two thirds majority in the Michigan Senate as 19 votes backed the Phillips resolution and 10 voted no with 3 absent, delaying a constitutional amendment move to let counties choose a commission plan at the November 1922 election.

Lansing County Commission Senate Philips Alent McNaughton Kent Baker Bolt Brower Condon Eldred Engel Forrester Ite

Wheel ERK School Notes Reflect Local Activities

Wild Rhetoricals opened the program with a prep pils Friday afternoon inviting primary and intermediate rooms. The 7th grade challenged the 8th grade to a Friday debate on whether Indians were treated more cruelly than Negroes. Hazel Rhodes, recently ill, is recovering. pupils presented her with a jonquil. Minnie Holsinger is out sick and not expected back. The play production continues as part of the lecture course. Intermediate room teachers returned after a week’s absence due to sickness. Gladys and Luella Gray visited Monday. Primary pupils learn spring songs and Cecile Wright spelled arcs with grades down Friday. Mrs. A. VanHock and son Ray visited the Peter Salsbury home on Egypt street. Hattie Hyattie returns from Carson City after nursing at the Stanley Horn home. The Roses’ twins have chickenpox. Irie Gardner visited Mine Myrna Kirschner. Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Gardner visited the Allert Joslyn home in the Wermuth district. A large crowd attended the Republican caucus Friday afternoon. The Record offers job printing services.

Hazel Rhodes Jonquil Minnie Holsinger Kueo Gladys Luella Gray Cecile Wright

Sethton Woman Ill in Past Week Report

Mes. HL HL McWillams has been ivory in the past week. Her daughters are caring for her, James Leonard spent the first of the week visiting friends at Maple Frye has moved from the J. Chambers farm.

McWillams James Leonard Maple Frye J. Chambers Farm

How Peanuts Grow in a Humorous Seed Idea

The piece describes the peanut plant growing with fruit at the end of a stem that bends to push the fruit underground. It notes pigs’ fondness for peanuts and jokes that the plant hides its fruit to avoid a piglinguine investigations.

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