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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
8
Community notes list Alderman John W Glass, J L Miller shoe ads, plant sales at Bitner's greenhouse, and visits from Simon Messinger and J P Case. Other items mention seed corn sale, training events, church suppers, and traveling residents including Mrs Emily Vermulen and G S Ward's Jackson auto purchase.
Ferris workers and residents are noted in a lively roundup. Local visits include John Bellinger of Sethton and Mrs. William Peet of Alto. Improvements appear with windmills painting barns and gravel roads. Pearl Osterhout attends Ferris Institute, Daisy Daffield visits Sumner, and a surprise party at Wm. Wilson’s. Commencement events stretch from Sumner and Pine Grove, with East Ferris Telephone Company discussing issues. Local churches host decorations while Spencer church plans exercises.
A series of Michigan notices: deaths from head injury and drowning, a minor liquor sale sentence served, theater Sunday show petition rejected, a Port Huron divorce case details three wives, a captain resigns over state removal, a woman ages 30 self-harm through razor, Bay City man poisons himself over Sunday drink, a miner's fracture from saloon stair accident, James H Wade honored by university friends, and Anna Christensen suffers another leg fracture after run away accident recovery.
Dr. Erwin, after weeks in Ann Arbor for appendicitis surgery, came home last Tuesday afternoon. Alma residents and friends are glad to hear his rapid recovery. Charlie Seavers, George Harrell and Porter Strable went spearing Wednesday night, catching four pickerel and redhorse averaging two to three pounds each, as witnessed by onlookers.
Mt Pleasant week shows T Blair away at Detroit buying goods while Lee Houck operates in Michigan. Farmers sow 17 acres of peas by Mr Sprague and 5 by J W Dean with others less. Local business shifts include S F Anderson selling grovery stock to A F Eayon then to Jas W Mcleod. Wrights Opera House Band opened season with praise. Mat Wixoms show arrives June 3. Elm Hall contractor Blanchard to supply fence posts and telegraph poles for T A A M road, timber sent down river to southern division. Assessor Palfrey notes Ahiggvane tax. Alma shows growth with real estate at 365,995.60, total 426,585.50. Frank & Pollasky now Palace laundry agent. E Brant sells livery business to Woodward and Ward. Toledo & Ann Arbor rail line to Alma in days ahead. Creamy carrier carts attract attention. Sanatorium elevator installed. Gen N Church near completing new store block.
The Pine River township Sunday School association holds its semi annual convention at Forest Hill Christian church on May 14 1900 with morning and evening sessions. Edgar Sias leads devotional exercises and a welcome by the president precedes songs and reports from Sunday schools. Readings by Mrs Henry Cohoon and Mrs Martha Holmes accompany solo and quartet performances. Local teachers and students including Nellie Sharlow Nora Partee Lenna Camfield Edna Lins and Hazel Thomas perform readings violin solos and duets. Silas Moody presides over the convention offering with Erma Thomas as secretary.
Circuit court will adjourn this week. Hert Forquer spends the day in Detroit. Will Young drives a new Reo roadster. M. J. Follett spent Sunday with friends near Marion. Work progresses on new homes for Messrs. Moore and Lamb on state street. No admission fee at freshman exhibit at the college chapel this evening. You are invited Miss Mable Strable of Middleton Mr. Gerald Corwin of Lansing and Mrs. Grace Wayne of Ithaca were Saturday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Porter Strable. M. J. Melchers. L. L. Convie and Miss Floy Eagon of the Union Telephone Co. are Muskegon In attendance at the semi annual convention of the Independent Telephone association.
Richard Hoy one of Isabella county's early settlers died recently and was mourned in Shepherd. Born in Ireland in 1827 he came to America as a child, worked in Vermont and New England mills, crossed to California during the gold fever, then settled in Coe township Isabella county. He served as county treasurer, probate judge, superintendent of the poor, township clerk, and supervisor. He was the last survivor of Isabella county's pioneer coterie.
Michigan woman credits Hyomei with curing catarrh including head and eye symptoms. Ad touts Hyomei as a dry antiseptic air and claims it relieves influenza and hay fever. Includes testimonial from Mrs. E Karberg and price of one complete kit at $1.00 from Cline Rhodes.
A wide collection of brief items: Stephenson depot fire with $400 in tickets burned, a four year old boy in Chapin consumed carbolic acid and may die, Holland fruit prospects rosy with buds on trees, first colored patrolman in Battle Creek begins duties, Port Huron boy John Mawrovitz linked to arson case and vanished, Ex Rep J H McCallum appointed to auditor general’s department in Lansing, Kalamazoo teen Brice Carl Decker missing, Thomas Wilson shot in Port Huron but not seriously hurt, Mrs Otto Ottersky found dead in Saginaw after mistaken drug bottle, Detroit child Paula perishes in fire sparked by gasoline stove, Ole Olson loses leg in a railroad accident, burglar demands silence from Kalamazoo woman, suit over death of Edward A Stewart in Jackson, Flint post office puzzled by letter to “The Leading Saloon,” Port Huron three men sentenced for crimes against young girls, Pere Marquette watchmen’ shooting incident, Rep John O Maxey praises reforestation bill, Muskegon boy Basil Cleveland shows calm after severing fingers, Ann Arbor tramp stabbing leaves one man seriously wounded, Ann Arbor Railway debate over grade separations and bridge costs, tragic coffin seen by Charles Bartlett, Anti-Saloon League seeks help from Congregational ministers at Muskegon.
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