Locey District News Highlights Local Happenings
Miss Cleta Erskine and Doris Vanlenvan are on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Anna spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fiske. Henry Fiske recently moved onto his farm east of Locey school. Bert Fiske family business trip to Alma and St Louis. Ladies Aid met at Wm. T. Fiske home with good attendance and a fine time. Fire at Ferguson Catholic church extinguished by Father J. J. Godfrey from the roof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleta Erskine
Doris Vanlen- van
Alfred Anna
Arthur Fiske
Henry Fiske
Locey School
Bert Fiske
Alma
St. Louis
J. J. Godfrey
Ferguson Catholic Church
Vestaburg Social Notes From A Busy Week
Levi Taylor visits relatives while David Brown buys Geo Crawford’s residence. Alma’s P W Creasee on town business and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Peck host Eaton Rapids relatives. Birthday parties. visits to Tecumseh and Me Bride. Anti saloon League lecture planned. Vestaburg crowd hosts dances and Saint Patrick party. Seventy-five locals join birthdays and anniversaries. families entertain and travel to Grand Rapids and Big Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi Taylor
David Brown
Bougst
Geo. Crawford
P. W. Creasee
Alma
Arthur Peck
Eaton Rapids
Harry Horton
Ralph Snook
Greenville
Siday
Sidney Snook
John Horton
Tecumseh
Satunday
Harvey Hart
Toledo
Snell
Edmore
Geo. Peasley
Win. Caris
Ed Mathison
Elwell
M. W. Hall
Price We
Jack Brown
Grand Rapids
Brown
Stella Ball
Chicago
Ellen Nevills
Chris
Karl Vance
Ithaca
Chas
Marlin
Fred Mack
Vestaburg High School
Saint Patrick
Silas Mack
Fred Peek
Elvin
Big Rapids
Mrs. Peck
Bertha Sherwood
Geo
I Gorsuch
Wheeler News Items and Local Visits Reported
Numerous in-town residents and visitors are noted from Friday to Sunday across Mima Sto Lenis Menlick Alma and nearby towns. Names include Annie Justin Marie Justin Vivege Attlive Tyleworth Lawrence Wilton St Laws Mere Win Pilcork Drevkenridge Homer Weel Breckenridge Homer Weel and Jo Steele. social visits, farm duties, and a Grand Rapids poultry show are mentioned alongside a Thimble club gathering in St Louis with a dinner and music event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vea Wotansky
Sto Lenis
Chun Kine
Menlick
H. L. Werner Iy
Alma
Tyleworth
Lawrence Wilton
St. Laws
Mere Win Pilcork
Drevkenridge
Walter Hawkins
Atkitet Gurely
Flint
Street
Ower
Saginaw
Homer Weel
Breckenridge
Jos
Kipp
Singiman
Bradford
Smith Clark
Grand Rapids
DN. Wilson
St. Louis
Wil
Mix Winnon Firet Elise
Wheeler School Notes Reports Absences And School Activities
Ethel Dancer editor in chief Gladys Coleman Edmund Wolfgang and Like Rich assistant editors Nelson Charles and Willie Hillock have moved away The high school room gains a new vaulting pole Mamie Baint absent with chickenpox Emin Phelps and Bertha Rich absent Monday Earle Kanine Blanche Kanineg and Clarence Hall also absent The fourth and fifth grades study dramatic readers in play form Some intermediate room absences due to chickenpox Alfreda Barnes and Frankie Woodcock are about Drawings by Harry Robbins from the primary noon were shown at the Wheeler Brotherhood class The high school play was successful net proceeds 37 20 with half to the Heys for athletic games and the rest for the tenth grade commencement
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Dancer
Gladys Coleman
Edmund Wolfgang
Rich
Nelson Charles
Willie Hillock
Mamie Baint
Emin Phelps
Bertha Rich
Earle Kanine
Blanche Kanineg
Clarence Hall
Alfreda Barnes
Frankie Woodcock
Harry Robbins
Wheeler Brotherhood
Sudden Death Saddens North County Community
The North County community mourns the sudden death of James Dex mond reported last Wednesday evening. Mike Wilson baled hay for Tham ue Murray and Michael Miller as neighbors recalled his daily routines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Wilson
Tham
Ue Murray
Michael Miller
James Dexmond
Man Found Breathing After Barn Visit Funeral Held at St Patrick
Fragmentary report notes a man went to a barn to tend a horse and was found breathing his last. His son Frank arrived about twenty minutes later as the funeral occurred Saturday at St Patrick's Church. The Hoy family and others moved from the Leotrange area earlier, with additional moves mentioned to Sherman City and a farm near Ale, as Perry and Moening families were reported relocating near Levee and Troert.
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Frank
St. Patrick’s Church
Hoy
Leotrange
Gette
Sherman City
Benjamin Moening
Bhoy
Lites Perry
Troert
Ale
Local Social Notes From Lincoln Area Office
A bustling page of daily calls visits and travels as residents of Lincoln area towns catch up. Names like Matilda Dover Regeluast Hawklie McMiller Perry Clifton and Hoover appear in visits to friends family gatherings and hometown events across a week ending with a Friday dance at Serone's. Families report exchanges and trips including Ohio stays and honeymoons plus local calls to neighbors across Mt Pleasant Lyde Ingersoll and Merrill households.
Coughs Cured by Dr King’s New Discovery
Mrs David Moor of Saginaw reports her husband and son were plagued by long hacking coughs for years. Dr King’s New Discovery stopped their coughs and throat and lung ailments. Money back if it fails. Available from all druggists at 50c and 1.00. Endorsed by local pharmacists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. G. Rhodes
F. O. Grover
Mitchell
Day's Experience on Skis in the Swiss Alps
A compact account of wintermountain travel in Switzerland detailing joys and tribulations on alpine slopes. The piece blends vivid scenery with personal challenges faced while skiing across high elevations and snowy trails.
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Alps
Switzerland
The Southern Alps Snow Adventure and Skiing Revelry
A vivid first person account of skiing in the Southern Alps. The narrator describes steep slopes, blazing sun, and the dizzy rush of speed, followed by crashes, injuries, and a humorous reflection on the sport’s valor. It ends with a note on the stubborn vigor needed to rise after a fall and master awkward knots in the snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Aki
Alps
Body snatching mystery linked to Aberdeen 1881 theft
London notes a death in Aberdeen of Charles Souttar at seventy three recalls the 1881 theft of the Earl of Crawford's body from Dunecht vault. Souttar was found guilty and sentenced to five years. Police hinted at multiple participants, but the secret died with the accused. Also mentions juveniles pawning school books to buy candy in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Aberdeen
Charles Souttar
Earl of Crawford
Dunecht
Aberdeenshire
Souttar
Man Buys Farm From Sale of Fox Pelt in L'Anse
Ignac Kaima of L Anse will buy a farm using money from the sale of a red fox pelt. The pelt is valued between 800 and 1000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L'Anse
Mich
Ignac Kaima
Boswell House on Great Queen Street faces destruction
London fears loss of a rare Inigo Jones era dwelling at 55 and 56 Great Queen Street. The plastered black house, next to the Free Masons, is linked to Boswell the biographer and possibly to Reynolds’s master Hudson. Built 1645 to 1660, it marks the surviving fragment of a grand 17th century street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Inigo Jones
Great Queen Street
The
Free Masons
New Yard
London County Corner
James Boswell
Johnson
Boswell
Webbe
Hudson
Joshua Reynolds
Rey
Famous Names Linked to the House Amid Guesses
The text notes many famous people are linked to the house with significant guesswork about several connections. It highlights uncertainty around which individuals truly visited or resided there and hints at broader reputational questions surrounding the property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan
Little Girl Kills Bear Near Everett City Limits
Fifteen year old Everett girl Ivy Thompson hunted with family and killed a black bear weighing about 200 pounds after it charged her. The girl fired twice, hitting the brain, as the bear retreated into a hollow tree and was smoked out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett, Waah
Ivy Thompson
Everett
Tenna Sporting Goods
Miss Thompson
Wicle
Pigeon Gulch
Gyp
Ilyy
Shae
Brain
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