Local Happenings in Alma and Nearby Towns
Ralph Miller and wife spent the first of the week in Detroit. Hats at your own price at Mrs. Emsley's 209 Lincoln Ave. Ray Wells and wife left Sunday for their future home in Dundee. E. A. Moore of Coldwater visited C. J. Brown and family. Mrs. A. A. Palmer and Ruth went to Detroit Thursday. Miss Gertrude Johnson spent the day in Riverdale. Mr. and Mrs. Pottyjotin spent Sunday with son Elmer at Ann Arbor. Mrs. Murray Kellogg guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Scattergood. Miss Harriett Farrell attended her sister's wedding in Elk Rapids Thursday. Alma teachers left for Bay City for the state teachers' occupation. The W. R. thimble club meets Tuesday Nov 1 with Mrs. Ollie Fuller. Mr. and Mrs. EB. Parte left Tuesday for Ovid to make their future home. Dr. Shumway of Ann Arbor Dr A A Wheeler and Dr. Pettitt of St. Louis visited Alma Wednesday. Rev. W. E. Doty attended County Sunday School convention at Thack Tuesday and Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young
Ithaca
Harriett Farrell
Elk Rapids
Alma
Bay City
W. R. ©. Thimbe Club
Ollie Fuller
Mechanic Street
EB. Parte
Ovid
Dr. Shumway
Ann Arbor
A. A. Wheeler
Dr. Pettitt
St. Louis
W. E. Doty
County
Hell
N. G. Naldrett
Dorothy Bessie
Mra. Win
L. Baker
Midland
L. N. Baker
Alma Benevolent Circle
FG. Bennitt
Third Ave
Ray Swigart
Teachers
Civic Improvement League
Woman's Club
Alma Art Club
Francis King
M.L.F.C
League
Mary A. Bahlke
Cor. Seay
Wm. Adams
Shephard
C. H. Estee
Gratiot
Adama
Michigan
O. L. Convis
Box Elder
Montana
E. N. Chadwick
Convie
Convis
Church Announcements and Services List
Local church notices list Sunday and midweek worship times for Wirst Church of Christ Scientist Disciples of Christ St. Joan's Lutheran and Baptist congregations. Also notes readings, Sunday schools, youth groups, and a Reformational festival sermon by Pastor Adolf Sauer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. B
Local Wappening Social Notes From Alma Area
Local brief. residents travel visit relatives, reunions and social calls. Mentions Mrs F A Gill and Cleo visiting Perry. W W Medler returning from Manchester. several Alma residents hosting meetings and hosting clubs. outcomes include clover seed sale and mortgage note remarks. a Montana letter clears up rumors about a distant farmer.
Local Notes From Southwest Pine River Community
Mrs H B Currence returned from Ithaca on Saturday. School began Monday. Mr and Mrs E Church entertained friends on Sunday. Mrs Lottie Moulton and Mrs C R Moulton visited Mrs D Childs in Shephard on Tuesday. Mr Wise's little boy broke his leg Monday. Dr Lamb attended him. Walter Bagnell of Flint, a known local friend, faces trouble as his eldest Morris suffers typhoid fever for eighteen weeks. many friends extend sympathy. Mrs Lottie Moulton returned to Grand Rapids after summer with K Moulton. Mrs Matt Johnson and children went to Kalkaska to visit her parents for two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lottie Moulton
C. R. Moulton
Walter Bagnell
Flint
Morris
Grand Rapids
K Moulton
Matt Johnson
Kalkaska
Alma Council Proceedings Report in Regular Session
Regular meeting of Alma city council in council rooms with quorum. President pro tem Glass presided. Aldermen Soule Russell Glass Palfrey Bansill Fullerton Fraker present. Items include weed tax assessments on specific parcels and a list of payroll and supplier payments approved for footing and issuance of orders. The council adjourned after routine motions.
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City of
Alma
Glass
Alds
Soule
Russell
Palfrey
Bansill
Fullerton
Fraker
Ald
Fuller
Ald. Fuller
Hall & Shurrar Riverside
Hall & Riverside
Cor
Buckingham Place
Ald. Bonsill
E. M. Wood
W. Wright
J. W. Glass
D. W. Adame
Pomona Grange Meeting With Newark Grange 1910
Pomona Grange meets Newark Grange on November 12 1910 with a full program starting at 10 a m Open in 5th degree business session and 4th degree reports One minute statements of needs General discussion Noon meeting includes music talks recitations and readings by Newark and host granges A 6:80 pm Conferring 5th degree at 8:00 pm program by Newark and Leg Matters talk by J K Cambell with Liberty orchestra tuned to local custom
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Pomona Grange
Newark
Grange
Ham
Newark Grange
Hostess Grange
Jesse Walker
Liberty
Mrs. French
Kate Cowdry
Bert Muscott
Europe
J. K. Cambell
Jennie Crozier
J K. Cambell
Laberty
Orchestra
Sanne
We Desire to Close Out No 2 and 3 Cream Separators
OTTO SANDERHOFF, the Ossh Hardware Man, offers to sell No 2 and No 3 lows cream separators at first cost to clear stock. This opportunity promises no better separator at the offered price as part of a closeout sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Sanderhoff
Ossh
Notice to public on property transactions in Alma
To the public. All persons are advised against bargaining for or buying any property belonging to me or in my name without my personal knowledge as any such transaction will be void. Also I shall pay no debt contracted by others. Alma, Oct. 4, 1910. Mrs. Carrie A. Brown.
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Alma
Carrie A. Brown
Walter A Spooner Prohibition Candidate for Sheriff
A local endorsement urges Gratiot County voters to vote for Walter A Spooner of Ithaca in the November 8 election. The letter stresses lawfulness, duty, and firm action against violators, urging citizens to support Spooner as a clean, conscientious sheriff candidate and to influence others to vote accordingly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gratiot
Walter A. Spooner
Ithaca
Elysis
Mr. Spooner
B. J. Younga
Hemans Speaks in Than Athens? Gubernatorial Candidate Addresses Crowd
Democratic candidate Lawton T. Hemans spoke to townspeople from the Wright house steps on Wednesday evening. He arrived with his party from Shephard after 4 40, but lengthy remarks were limited by weather and prior speeches. Several local residents and supporters were in attendance, with others noted as visiting Ithaca and Shepherd on the same day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton T. Hemans
Wright House
Hemans
Shephard
Collage Boys
Eproch
Homans
W. C. DeGrofft
Melia Delong
Ithaca
Clara
Edwin Forster
Gault
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Francish, Dodds
Mt. Pleasant
11Th District
Opera House
Ralph Miller
Detroit
Mrs. Murray Kellogg
Mrs
A. B. Scattergood
Messinger's
Ogee
Wirst Church OF Christ, Scientist
Knights of Pythias
Epworth League
Disciples of Christ
G. A. R. Hall
Lords Day
ST. Joan's Churote
J. Frank Jackson
Wa. H. Coox
ST. Mary's Church
Father Mulvey
Adolf Sauer
Logal Wappenings
F. A. Gill
Cleo
Perry
Berman Bros
W. W. Medler
Manchester
J. H. Lancashire
Pine River
H. B. Currence
Sohool
Mrs. E. Church
Council Proceedings
Alma Grain & Lumber Co
Onts
Young Straw
L. Hotlenbeck
Dent Richards Sp
Dudley Hoyt
J. H. Rowley
August Arndt
R. J. Praker
Fitzgeralds Bros. Stone
National Meter Co, Meter Cemetery Fund
Lars
Fes
Gratiot County
Mich
Gushing
Benedict
Cole
E. D. Bent of
City
Smith & Carr
Etta Hudderson
Lottie Sheldon
Joe Sidel
War. B. Smith
Anna Steimel
Ruth Thomson
J. R. Thorne
John L. Whirrel
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