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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1914
Page
4
The Alma Record lists staff and county officials including Representative Newell Smith, Sheriff Newell Bradford, County Clerk B L Case, County Treasurer Wilbur Nelson, Register of Deeds Bird L Tucker, Prosecuting Attorney O L Smith, Drain Commissioner Erva R Laycock, Circuit Court Commissioners John M Everden and John J Spinney, Coroners B C Hall and W E Ludwig, and Surveyor Joseph W Harrod, with subscription at $1.00.
The Republican Electors of Gratiot County are called to meet at Ithaca court house on September 9, 1914, at 11 a.m. to elect eighteen delegates to the State Convention in Kalamazoo on September 30, 1914, and to choose a County Committee. Delegates are apportioned by township ward votes as fixed by a 1909 resolution, listing each area’s allotted number and wards for St Louis and Alma.
The National Progressive County Committee of Gratiot calls a county convention at Alma City Hall on Tuesday Sept 8th 1914 at 10:30 am to elect nine delegates to the State Convention and a County Committee. Delegates are apportioned by township and city, with further notices of related business and a courtesy social note about Miss Sarah McKenzie visiting from Chicago with Mrs Mary McKenzie.
Rev Thomas G R Brownlow leads a Labor Day service at 10 am at the Methodist Church with a sermon on The Church and the Working Man. Bible School at 11 30, Epworth League at 4 30, and evening preaching at 7 30 titled The Menace. A feature on uplifting Boosting with a creed praising church attendance.
Local guest Clella Godfrey of St. Louis visits Mrs. Harry Clark. A hot water heater project for Alma State Savings Bank by J E Page costs about two thousand dollars. Fred Slater travels to Chicago for men’s furnishings orders. College housing near full for prospective students. H F Allman moves Bell Telephone office to 210 E Center. Foreign pupil registrations surge. tuition up from 20 to 30. Isaac Fink leaves post office for Republic Motor Truck in Chicago. Minor repairs in new high school. new rugs and added radiation in offices. Russell Bateman ill with diphtheria. quarantines for playmates. Rev William Mason preaches. union services at Church of Christ with Rev T G R Brownlow. Good attendance at services.
Henry Soule signed a contract with Libby McNeil and Libby for a 13 000 dollar building in Coldwater Michigan. The 212 by 106 foot wooden structure will be partly two stories and partly one story high. Soule plans to start next Monday, bring Alma workers after finishing here, and complete the pickling kraut plant quickly amid Chicago and Grand Rapids bid competition.
A stream of Alma residents and visitors frequent Breckenridge St. Louis Saginaw and Flint for business, teaching posts, and family visits. Notables include Dan Best of McBane and Archie Maybee returning home, Miss Ina Hayward leaving for Stanton to teach, and L. Mapes traveling to Detroit to visit relatives. George Smith and Mrs. O. M. Yager are among those noted in regional movement.
Jacob Von Thurn builds a silo and promotes Lochini's Watermelons at 25 cents and up while Carl Finch of St. Louis visits the city. Harry Leonard returns to Flint after a week with his father. Albert Esvelstyn returns to Alma to work and study. George Hayward injures his thumb making butter crates for Swift & Company and will be out weeks. Arnold Robinson and Walter Vought travel toward Lake Orion for a house party with Ralph Chisholm and students. Leater Sharp, once at Louvain University, is noted as captured and the city burned by Germans. Louvain, with 60,000 residents, is described as a famed university town.
The Alma Michigan common council met September 1 1904 in council rooms with Mayor Albert P. Cook presiding. Aldermen Rowland McConkey Willard Race Ogden Ward and Fraker attended as a quorum and sessions were recorded. A water main petition on Bread Street east of River Avenue was referred to the Water Board. The resignation of Street Committee member F J Rowland was filed. Bills for River Bridge repairs on East Superior Street were rejected. The meeting adjourned.
The brief note indicates bargains at Luchini's with prices starting at twenty-five cents. It highlights affordable items and invites readers to view the selection.
Belgians employ dogs to haul artillery amid wartime strain as reports describe movement of people and resignations in Detroit journal circles. Lewis Millard travels from Gratiot Avenue to Breckenridge then Glas win and Ludington before returning to Appleton Wisconsin. Ralph Yonker resigns from Detroit Times to join Caro paper, succeeded by Harold V. Wilcox. John Bunny’s Love Luck and Gasoline at the Vaudette Tuesday evening delights patrons.
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