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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1903
Page
5
Jack Rogers, a carpenter, fell from a scaffold while working on a barn on W. 8 Hollenbeck property south of the river last Tuesday. He sustained a fractured rib and was rendered unconscious, then taken home where Dr. G S Browning reduced the fracture. No serious results are expected.
Local column highlights visitors residents and travels across Alma Saginaw and nearby towns. Names like Bland Howd Bright Wilbur Davis Pollasky and Lam bor n appear with errands markets visits and social happenings. Community weathered by sewer talks clock tune and new business ventures as Wool sale updates and theater notices pepper the page.
Alma’s kid band played open air music in front of local businesses Tuesday. Citizens praised director Palfrey for bringing the group up to a high standard. Ed Ascher left Detroit by train Tuesday morning for Jackson prison to serve a life sentence.
Contractors on the cold storage plant and wagon works face delays due to the failure of the Pere Marquette to construct sidetracks. Materials must be moved by wagon from care to grounds, despite surveys done before work began. There is pressure from railroad plans and a possible Ann Arbor line rebuild that could allow a northern sidetrack into Alma to capture business.
Members of the Alma Lodge, C. Fy and D. fof R., met at the K of P hall and marched to the opera house for the 84th anniversary observance. Rev. W. K. Spencer opened with prayer, then v. Gh. W. Cline spoke in four parts on the four degrees. Many nonmembers attended but the event was not clearly publicized.
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