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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1914
Page
4
Vestaburg social pages detail visits and events across Riverdale Alma Stanton Elm Hall and Grand Rapids. Local residents attended games, socials, and family gatherings while family ties and health updates appear amid notes of travel and spring activities.
The couple Porter and Bert Thorp married in a ceremony conducted by Elder Commer with relatives present. Out of town guests included Mrs. Kip of Grand Rapids and the Thorp family. Confusion in names and places appears in the excerpt.
Five years old item in good order weighs 135. Also rooms for rent furnished. Alma Garage listed for sale includes fifty bedsteads of oak ash and walnut. Buckeye ditching machine and cabbage cauliflower tomato plants available from South and Walston. Bell phone numbers and local contact details included.
The Arcada Farmers Club will meet at Mr and Mrs Fred Rockafellow’s home one mile west and four miles south of Alma on Thursday May 28. Attendees are urged to bring gospel and Pentecostal hymns, folding tables, and participate in readings, recitations, songs, and music led by club members and Mrs. A. Nestle.
The Detroit Free Press quotes Charles W. Hamilton of Tehacha in Gratiot County describing how both federals and rebels tax property and vilify foreigners. He recalls attacks in Tampico, rebels preferred to federals, and predicts united Mexican resistance against the United States if war comes. He reports harsh living costs and defiant anti gringo sentiment.
The notice lists names including Bob Blake and Mrs Herbert Harp and Paton's Garage as advertised letters. Unclaimed items will be sent to the Dead Letter Office on June 1 1914. V P Cash Postmaster Michigan Alia May 11 1914.
Among Alma people who attended the May Festival at Mt. Pleasant last week were Messrs. Reese Farrington Veatch and TAmel, also the Misses Fala Swikart, Gretta Bagley and Mr. and Mes. C. J. Brows.
The W C T U Francis Willard Union met May 9 with Mrs. S A Witch in attendance. Officers elected include President Mrs C L Wood Corresponding Secretary Mrs M Cummings Recording Secretary Mrs BE C Crandall Treasurer Miss Fannie Smith. District president Mrs N F Mudge spoke. light refreshments served.
Sumner area notices list multiple visits and travels including Clete Thompson of Saginaw at F J Tucker's, John Phillips and family joining Silver's show, Mr and Mrs Charles Booth with Lewis Ferquer at Riverdale, Amos Button's Toledo employment, Alfred Stearns and Ferris family, A Bennett and daughters at D Ayers', George Clow to Alma for Motor Track Company work. A Elm Hall vs Mt Pleasant Indians baseball game drew a large crowd with Mt Pleasant winning by one run. Mrs Bert Steadman funeral note. Riverdale Hive hosted Sumner and Alma Hives with dinner, program, and initiations by Alma ladies and Sumner drill.
Wess Webb has a new marriage. Mrs Allis visited Fred Dorkus last Tuesday. Al Beeson and Charley Goggin gear for a fishing trip. Mr Wail Mrs Bigelow welcomed another heir, making ten days and two girls. W Morrison of Mt Pleasant visited the Allis home and Fred Durkis. Guy Horton is very sick under a nurse for four weeks but improving. On Wednesday May 6 Mrs Allis reached her 77th birthday with Doane Mason Smith Osborn and Miss Jennie Smith visiting for a pot luck supper.
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