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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1903
Page
2
Ithaca news notes multiple social visits and travels across villages including Lansing Bannister Alma Shepherd Owosso and Elkton area residents visiting relatives and attending events. Several brief mentions of homecomings visits with family and friends plus a short medical ad for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
Mien Hazelton buys a horse from John Murphy. Mies Pearl Hazelton will attend Almna high school next year. Mies Mina Bowman completed schooling. Mré Ployd Nevins spent a day with Mr. and Mrs. Robertson. Chris Sartor sold his farm on section 17 to Mrs. Harding of Alan. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Anderson visited Pred Bradford’s. Frank Davis sold his twenty acre farm on section Bion Hy to parties in Louis. Mrs. David Bist has shingles but improving. Mr. and Mrs. John Day enjoyed riding as their son-in-law Mr. Keith Coleman gave them a horse as a gift.
West Hamilton and neighbors share Sunday visits while Mrs Geo Reval recovers from illness. Mary Campbell visits Mrs Geo Kesting as Wart Wilkerson and family travel to Chwossu. Henry Schwan sells his farm and plans departure after harvest. Webber family visits son Grant near Sickles as Howard Crofford visits Usceon County friends and relatives.
Matt Lente builds four stove cellars as Mrs Jotdos visit Mocusta county. Jol Lanshaw Jr loses a valuable horse last Saturday. Matt Sullivan attends Ali high school. Eleanor Fleming attends school in St Louis. Miss McFall teaches at West district Nu 4. Mrs John Wilson shows improvement after illness. District Nu 4 reports love filling their tool well and plans a new one soon.
Community notes report numerous residents visiting relatives and townspeople moving, selling homes, or attending events in Ithaca Carson City Mulligan and Ashley. Births include a daughter to Frank Herdid and a son to A Gi Naldrett. schooling opens with M Otterbein as principal and Lottie Gunthler as teacher. A medicinal plug for Burdock Blood Bitters rounds out the column.
Lucy Rich Wheeler visits friends in Chesaning while several locals attend street fairs in St Louis and Breckenridge. Frank Murphy and others travel through town. multiple visits to relatives noted. The Alma Sugar Company switch grading finishes. fourth quarter church conference and library program held. funeral of Cly Var Ness Sunday at 2 p.m. with many mourners remaining.
In St Louis ailing Will Louver faces typhoid fears while Miss Dolly Browns departs homebound. Socials fill the week with receptions and pedro parties hosted by Mrs Giddings and Miss Burgess. Laura Thurmas of Saginaw attends. Invitations run high as Yerington’s orchestra provides music.
The Clarion editor reports cement walk damage in front of his building. Thiesell is painting the new Breckenridge school house, with W E B Swope as principal for a third year. The Breckenridge M E church quarterly conference invites Rev J S Valentina back for a fourth year. On a barn job for Chas A Scholtz last Thursday a scaffold gave way. Irving Wood fell onto shingles but was bruised and returned to work after brief layoff. It emerged that one tenpenny nail and unsecured planks held the weight.
Dr King s New dife Puls promises relief for millions who work night and day. It claims to cure biliousness constipation sick headache and all stomach liver and bowel troubles with easy pleasant safe and sure relief. Available for 25 cents at Sharrar Mulholland s drug store.
An old advertisement extols Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery claiming powerful digestion and nutrition benefits. It features testimonials from Mr. Welle of Wisconsin and a note offering free medical adviser book with stamps. The copy touts digestion as the source of true strength and health.
Numerous residents report illnesses and visits to relatives in nearby cities. John Meyers and his wife settled into a new home while James Toy expands his chair making business. A new millinery shop opens, and a range of social visits and travel to Alma Detroit and Duluth are noted amid school openings and upcoming teachers.
The ad claims Kodol Dyspepsia Cure helps indigestion and dyspepsia by digesting food, sweetening the stomach, and aiding absorption into blood and tissues. It notes taste improvement and states the product is sold by Charles Rhodes.
Jobo Wildalan hosts Jon Bacrett and wife as they discuss a sap incident. Grant Vanderliet and wife visit Isaac Vanderavil and family in Dakota. Henry Isham and Winnie Howell wed at Maple Rapids with Rev Ryker officiating. John Gallagher and Helen Dickerman are married at the bride’s parents’ home. Sunday school events recount gatherings at Mary Jolls and Miss Laura Eldred’s homes. A sudden croup danger prompts a Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil appeal.
Mrs Mary Millard is sick. The canning factory will start September. Miss Sarah Isannan was in West Philadelphia Sunday. A son was born September 7 to Mr and Mrs Pred Keister. The presiding elder will preach at the M E church next Sunday. Dr May and wife are vacationing in Canada. Mrs Harry Spyder visits her brother in Hontiao this week. Miss Bes Is Teliis begins a fete three miles west of Lyons in September.
Mrs. Watkins of Pleasant City Ohio praises Dr Kings New Discovery after a ter riffe cough and consumption nearly claimed a boy. Doctors failed, but the remedy restored health, and she urges its use for coughs colds and lung diseases amid claims of a free trial offer and a $100 guarantee.
George Springer visited Asia last week while the thrashing season winds down. Waluis Todd and wife welcome a baby boy. Miss Shirley Tanssey visits Mr Emery Dobson. L F Guernsey moves from Battle Creek to Gratiot. Wm Mertz travels to Detroit with cattle and hogs. A B Guernsey visits Elk Rapids to see his brother Dr Geo. Bliss and wife drive a new two seater. School resumes second Monday in September at the Dobson schoolhouse with Miss Kellogg teaching.
Mack and family spent the past week with Mrs Mack's parents near Middleth. Mrs Seeley and Mrs Willer returned from the north after berrying. Work has begun on the new school house with foundation stones laid, described as a much needed improvement.
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