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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
5
Miss Edna Allen begins at University of Michigan while Alma community posts theater nights, socials, and church events. Reports on health, repairs, travel, shop promos, and school entertainments mix with family news, baptisms, marriages, and local business ads.
The Grocers inform customers they stop retailing poultry butter and edge items with immediate effect. Brookfield butter is now in pil stores and offers filed from Utem Wf Central Michigan Produce Co. Recent local mentions include Melcher in St John Cronin and wife in Wthaca Whitacre and wife in Clare and a Women’s Club meeting with Mrs Wilcox on Plate Street Monday evening in October.
John Parrish and John D. Spinney traveled to Ithaca on business while Mrs. Byron H. Sawyer hosted in Ithaca. The Union Telephone Co issued its regular quarterly dividend of two percent on October 1. In town, workmen relayed a sewer at James G. Kress’s premises as James G. Kress, John G. Lewis now of Seattle and state treasurer candidate on the Republican ticket, is connected as his nephew. Otis H. Sprague bought Walter Caple’s Woodward Avenue house and will move in with his parents after selling their Park Street home. Delevan & Co mark a third century in business, remaining a trusted dry goods, shoes and groceries firm. Hay remains plentiful and price stable at about six dollars per ton due to a strong regional crop, especially in eastern states and neighboring southern markets. The Alma Elevator Co expanded Perrinton operations, purchasing the Perriton grain elevator a year ago and growing profits under new Perrington manager G. W. Demery as the plant’s head.
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