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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1889
Page
8
Reprint notes mail transmission at Alma post office for second class matter. Marriage licenses list Chas. M. Easterly aged 53 of North Star, Hannah Whitmore aged 42 of North Star, Leroy D. Allen aged 88 of Wheeler, Mary L. King aged 36 of Wheeler.
West Arcada reports Miss Lillie Reid teaching in Isa bella county and Miss Lizzie Rice studying in Alma. Several farm updates: corn planting nearly finished, Earl back to duties after pneumonia, William Lanshaw recovering from a boil, Matthew Johnson hurt by a horse. Community events include a social at George Moorty’s, Children’s Day prep, and an Aid Society gathering with fundraisers for Revs McGlade and Marcalm.
Riverdale reports rapid railroad progress with a steam shovel raising the grade and a bridge due in about thirty days. A Spirit ualists convention is planned at Elwell for Saturday night and Sunday. Local life notes mention visits, timber work, and telegraph pole production. The Fourth of July plans gain momentum with Alma Band support. An ice cream social for Elder Hugh’s benefit raises over thirty five dollars despite poor weather, featuring a Johnny cake with onions baked by T Ellsworth. W Ay headlines the crowd.
Mrs Moble heads to Toronto for a two month visit. Alma officials fill in as station agent Taylor and wife are away. A long list of June term jurors is printed. A Detroit Tribune excerpt urges flax as a profitable alternative to wheat, detailing seed, straw yields and potential markets for flax fiber and seed, with US production strategies and farm advisories.
Alma Michigan village council in regular May session orders stopping ball games on the main sheet area. It also closes saloons at ten o clock, assigns drains on Center street and an alley, notes tax receipts, and confirms a special assessor, bond interest, and payment provisions.
A colonial ethnographic note describes Kabinda marriage customs where the bride and groom are confined in a hut for three months after wedlock. Each midnight the village elders escort them to a fetid man for children, while the couple are fed. A final feast ends the confinement, then the hut is burned. The process includes recruitment of a bride from another town, palms, rum, and a palaver house. The groom pays the bride price in beads, rum, and cloth, about ten dollars, after negotiations with the bride’s kin and town elders, and the ceremony ends with a public reception and celebrations.
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