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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1911
Page
5
Local events note Miss Mabel Strong and Miss Edna Abbott visiting Breckenridge and Ash ley, with town highlights from Detroit to Grand Rapids. A bridge completion, newspaper socials, and a bustling Methodist Fair feature fruit pies, hats, rummage sale, and a Serve Yourself Lamellcon at the M E Church Friday evening.
Prof J E Mitchell studied Tuesday in Saginaw while Fred Wright and other residents spent weekends with family. Visitors arrive from Flint Alma Grand Rapids and Champaign Illinois. Pythian sisters restart meetings Sept 12. Ground broken for Tirewer Block. plans for fall completion. Violations of game laws rise with foreign offenders among offenders, lawmen report.
Centred on Alma, a three day Fall and Winter millinery opening invites local ladies to view image style hats. A ten percent cash discount applies on all trimmed hats during the event set for September 12 to 14. Mrs Sylvia Gaffney oversees the display and promotion. For Sale a purebred Guerency bull calf born July 2 1911, suitable for any first class herd. inquire Fred Bradford Alma Mich. For Sale or Rent a hotel business and two new small stores in Alma Mich, offered by Geo W Palfrey as part of retirement plan with 30 day window.
Various community briefings include talks at Church of Christ by Herman L. Swift of Beulah Home for Boys and a W R C Thimble Club meeting with Mary Allen. Plans note September 12 events, Mansfield visitors Ed Ruckman family, Creaser building renovations, county fair crowds, and Masonic Home progress. Also aWanted ad for a subscription representative for Good Housekeeping Magazine in Alma.
Sunday services planned at St Johns Church on September 10 with morning and evening prayers and sermons led by Rector J Frank Jackson. Morning Sunday school at 10 00 and the day closes with evening service and sermon.
The record notes August observations with measures of precipitation and cloud cover. Reported figures include minimum 80 degrees, total precipitation 1.85 inches, greatest 24 hour amount 1.08 inches, and the number of days with 0.01 inch precipitation. Sky conditions listed as clear, partly cloudy, and cloudy with thunder storms implied.
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