Arcada township voters to decide on town hall plan
A petition signed by 37 electors prompts Arcada township to place a $1200 town hall purchase and construction proposal on the spring ballot. If approved, land purchase at $100 and building cost at $1200 would fund a township hall for public use, election booths, and safekeeping of town property, with work starting in early spring.
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Arcada
Alma
Nxt
Gratiot
Gration County
Michigan
Union Telephone Company Elects New Board of Directors
The Union Telephone Company held its annual meeting at the Wright House with harmony. Sec J L Coon reported a strong year. New directors include C T Babcock, E S Wagar, J H Milden, F Q Thiers and others. Babcock re elected president Wagar vice president Aldrich treasurer Conn secretary Melchers GM. The company remains Michigan's strongest independent carrier with growing patronage and improved service.
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Union Telephone Company
Wright House
Sec
J. L. Coon
Uscal
C. T. Babcock
St. Johns
E. S Wagar
Edmore
J. H. Milden
F. Q. Thiers
E. S. Wagar
GS. Aldrich
L. L. Conn
W. J. Melchers
Michigan
Masonic Field Day Draws Hundreds Across Lodges
Mason Fraternity event brings nearly three hundred members from St. Louis Alma Ashley Breckenridge Midlothian Gratiot and North Star lodges to Ithaca for the annual Field Day. Alma chartered a special train carrying over a hundred and fifty members from town to the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tthaca Lodge
St. Louis
Alma
Ashley
Breckenridge
Middleton
Gratiog
North Star
Alma Lodge
Gleaner Farmers Elevator plans meeting on March 30
Attention subscribers in Ithaca Michigan. A recent meeting adjourned to Saturday March 30 with a committee to draft organization by laws. Stock subscriptions are well in hand and subscribers should attend to pay the first 10 percent and subscribe. Meeting held at the courthouse will explain all aspects and answer questions. Bert Mellinger Jr Miller Luther Carter committee. William Guild Riverdale spent Saturday in Alma on business.
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Ithaca
Court House
Bert Mellinger, Jr. Miller
Luther Carter
Masons Prepare Welcome For Grand Lodge Visit
The Masonic Home hosts a March 29 program with Grand Lodge officers arriving by train. Alma City Band escorts them to the home on North State Street for 2 pm exercises led by Frank T. Lodge of Detroit. Dinner and supper for 1000 visitors arranged, access limited to members of the order.
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Masonic
Grand Lodge
Alma City
North State Street
Perrott
Saginaw
Frank T. Lodge
Detroit
Montague
George Fink
Order
Royally Gingri Hosts Simon Messinger Friends at State Street
Forty or more of Simon Messinger s gentle men friends gathered at his home on State Street last Monday evening for social conversation and cards. Ten tables were in use as refreshments were served by James Kline Done Evans and Frank Polasky. Afterward, more card games continued until near midnight with all guests enjoying the hospitality of host Messinger.
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Simon Messinger
State Street
Ames
James Kline
Done Evans
Frank Polasky
Pedro
Messinger
Alma City Council Proceedings March 96 12 Regular session
Alma Michigan regular council meeting notes list attendance Mayor Montigel appointments of election officials and inspectors, bond amounts for treasurer clerk and constable, a tabled catch basin request, construction permit for Berman Bros moved to block 19, and a water surface drainage matter on east side of the city.
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Alma
Mich
J. M. Montigel
Alds
Fuller
Pulfrey
Cook
Fullerton
Fraker
Ald
Losey
Mentigel
John D. Smur L. Delevan
John S. Cuple
John Innis
J. F. Schwartz
J.?. Ewing
Frank G. Bennett
E. Superior Street
Euclid Avenue
Constable
Yeas
Palfrey
Wright
Ald. Fuller
Berman Bros
Prospect Avenue
Sini
Change of Time On The Ann Arbor Railroad
The Ann Arbor railroad will change time Sunday March 1 when motor car service between Owosso and Cadillac will be resumed. The morning northbound car and the afternoon southbound car will run about an hour earlier than when service was discontinued. Trains Nos 57 and an oil run between Frankfort and Mt Pleasant instead of between Frankfort and Owosso.
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Ann Arbor
Owosso
Cadillac
Frankfort
Mt Pleasant
Mudge to Take Charge of Ashley World In June
The St. Louis Independent reports E. H. Mudge, longtime editor and publisher, has sold the Ashley World and will assume leadership of the Independent at the start of June. Mudge aims to uphold the paper’s strong Gratiot county reputation as a top news source. Dr. B Wilcox and family plan June departure for Decatur Indiana where he will be secretary of the Holland St Louis Sugar Company plant. D A Botsford of Vestaberg visited last Saturday.
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St. Louis
Decatur
Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company
Alma Garage Co. formed by Allen and Mead in Alma
The Alma Garage Co. formed by Orville A. Allen and Frank Mead began Feb 11, with Allen to manage and Mead continuing at Central Michigan Produce Co. The shop offers overhauling and repair by experienced staff Bart Youngs and Mervin Stuyter. Firestone tires and Natural White Rome oil are featured. Auto livery continues. Rates: 50 cents per hour until April 5, then 60 cents. Bicycle repair added under O W Slayton.
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Alma Garage Co
Alma
Orville A. Allen
Frank Mead
Atene
Simonton
Alma Manfacturing Co
Miller Saw Trimmer Co
Mead
Mt. Pleasant
Central Michigan Produce Co
My. Mead
The
Produce Co
Mr. Allen
Bart Youngs
Mervin Stuyter
Youngs
Huick
Sluyter
Forquer
Messrs. Allen & Mead
O. W. Slayton
Slayton
Alfalfa Club Organized at City Hall
A score of farmers gathered at City Hall to form the Alfalfa Club. C F Brown was elected president and Henry Soule secretary and treasurer. Membership is fifty cents, with each member pledging to sow at least one acre of alfalfa. Experimental station staff from M A C will assist growers, and soil samples will be analyzed at the agricultural college.
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C. F. Brown
Henry Soule
Agricultural College
Easter Sunday Excursion to Toledo from Alma
On Sunday April 7 the Ann Arbor Railroad offers a special excursion to Toledo leaving Alma at 42 A.M. Round trip fare is 1.50 dollars. The return train departs Toledo at 6:00 P.M. giving excursionists six and a half hours in the city.
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Ann Arbor Railroad
Toledo
Alma
Demonstration in Spraying and Pruning at Kennedy Farm
Mr. O K White state Field Agent of the Department of Horticulture will give a public demonstration in spraying and pruning at the Kennedy fruit farm on Friday April 5th. The event aims to help orchardists in Gratiot county and others learn to produce fruit demanded by trade. All farmers and fruit growers are invited to attend at the Kennedy fruit farm one fourth mile west of St Louis.
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O. K. White
Department of Horticulture
The
Agricultural College
Kennedy Fruit Farm
Gratiot
Chis
Kennedy Rest Farm
St Louie
Philay
Free Bible Lecture at Alma on The Great Hereafter
Prof Johnson of New York City under the International Bible Students Association will lecture at the I O O F Temple 213 State Street Alma next Sunday at 3 pm. The talk explores future fate of the dead and how one name offers salvation. Seats are free, no collection ever taken, and the venue is expected to fill.
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Alma
Johnson
New York City
International Bible Students Association
State Street
Spm
Lec
Ture
I. O. O. F Temple
Alma Teachers Banquet Honors Board of Education
Teachers and spouses, superintendent, and Mrs F E Ellsworth attended a banquet in Alma highlighting harmony between the Board of Education and teachers. Principal Harold B Ward acted as toastmaster as Ezra Smith and Supt Ellsworth gave remarks praising the school system built with mutual respect and appreciation.
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Alma Public Schools
Board of Education
F. E. Ellsworth
Quet
The
Presbyterian Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
Harold B. Ward
Ezra Smith
Ellsworth
Alma
County Convention Adopts Tariff Stance and Declares State Delegates
The Republican County Convention met in Ithaca and elected delegates to the State and 11th District conventions to Bay City and Reedy. Resolutions urged mutual support for Francis King’s State Senate bid, opposed tariff reductions on sugar, and warned against tariff tinkering that harms domestic agriculture.
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Ithaca
Aqsapso
M. R. Salter
Giddings
Tony and
E. . McCall
Folowing
Faves G Kress
Alnva Chase
Watson
Breck
D. Leute
Bannister Enyidge
Orem Orequeation and
Muthalland
Newark
Wesley Parr
Alia Y W. Griswold
Ithinos
Keatis
Metall
Tito Webster
Breckenridge
F. Crench
Forest Hill
Wehshite
Bialiets
Macchigan
Guertin Te
Michigan
Senate
Francis King
Bay City
C W. Giddings
St. Louis
Alma Newell Bradford
Wheeler J. N. McCall
Clt Chambers
A. Vandeventer
Emerson GR. Aldrich
Lafayette
Jee Townsend
New Haven
Melvin Sharrar
Arcada Chas
Merrill
T W Mullholland
T. A. Ely
Alma
Jotham Allen
Emerson
W. ©. Watson
P.W, Griswold
R. E Hughes
A.B. Darragh
L. G. Hull
Hamilton
Chas
Keiser
Percy Allen
Rhodes
E. S. Owen
Wheeler
A. F. Ryder
Elba
John McIntyre
Creech
Pine River
A. J. Chambers
Mrs John W Myers Dead in Ithaca
Mrs. John W Myers of Ithaca died last Friday morning from uremic poisoning. Her maiden name was Josephine Cooper she married John W Myers on June 29 1911 less than a year ago. She was sister to Mrs J Q Durfey of Ithaca. Mr Myers has the sympathy of many Alma friends in his bereavement. A E Miller of Elwell visited friends last week.
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Myers
John W. Myers
Ithaca
Josephine Cooper
J. Q. Durfey
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Arcada Township
Ross
Gratiot County
Almay
Howard Potter
Robert J. Russell
Charles Todd
Rex Howe
Harry F. Churchill
Samuel Cass
Ithaca Lodge
Pythian Hall
Eastern Star Ladies of Myrtle
J. T. Mathews
Stevan L. Bennet
Bent
Bennett
Day
Gumurg
Imam
Ann
FE. Erwin
Grand Lodge of the Easter Star of
Wisconsin
Eastern Star
Erwin
Fistern Star
M. Pollasky
May
St Lews
SN. Salsby
Mathews
Simon Messenger
Messenger
Pine River Township
Edward Creech
Leo H. Wood
George A. Fruchey
tIs H. Church
Calvin P. Best
of the Peace
Wm. C. Baker
John T. Pitt
Constablese
E. D. O'Briant
Jeremiah Myers
Jacob Bauer
Hichcal Kirby
Mason
Gleaner- Farmers’ Elevator Company
Ithaca, Michigan
William Guild
Riverdale
Mason Hone
FRAY
Cabage Wrmet Cows
Cie
Thie Mayer Afl Civitine Council
Eliy Ot Mita Cromelenien Venwe Subtity
DW. Adams
Ea Water Fund
Evin
D. Penn
Inbar
Alina + in& Lomb. Co
Wool
Fred Vernier
Willabor
Council Proceedings
Independent
E. H. Mudge of
D. A. Botsford
Vestaberg
Messrs. Allen & Mead Hustling
Alfalfa Club
P. 8. L. Johnson
New York
Seaghers Entertain
Thursos
A. E. Miller
Elwell
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