Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-06-08
VESTABURG

at the nome Oh HeT DIothcIS, T<aii anu
James Miller.
Mrs. Mushrush and daughter, Mrs.
Pearl Mckinney, of Alma were here
Tuesday decorating the graves Of
their departed relatives and visiting
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Piffer.
Mrs. Fay!or and SON Frank have
gone to Detroit to visit her son,
George.
Roy Davis who has ben boarding at
Lawrence Tuppers during the past
several months while attending the
Vestaburg high school, returned to
his home Friday after the picnic end
ing the school.
The new building which Emry
Howard had erected on the thirty by
seventy foundation where his store
building burned, which he bought Of
w. Carts, has been completed and
will be known as the New Colonial
Theatre Of Vestaburg. 1t will be for
mally opened on Friday evening, June
9, by dance given as the grand
opening.
Mrs. Blanche Manley and Mrs.
Herman linn will leave here Friday
morning, the former to go to Salt
Creek, Wyoming, to visit at the home
of her son, Claude Manley and the
latter to visit at the home Of her
son, Roy Zinn, in Denver, Colorado.
Mrs. Manley and Mrs. Zinn will trav-
el together to Omaha, Nebraska,
where they will part company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Upper and
daughter Mable, Mrs. Jennie Greer
and daughter Charlitte and Mrs. Tup-
per's brothers, Earl Sanders and fam
lily of Vestaburg and Ford Sanders
and family Of st. Louis went in a
party to spend the day ut Crystal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Murphy left in
their new Ford coupe Tuesday to
auto to Dearborn, Mich, to see the
formers mother, Mrs. Frank Cum
mings who is i'll in a hospital at that
place and from there went to Toledo,
Ohio, to see the latter's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Hartman.
Frank Cummings spent the first Of
the week in Dearborn where his wife
is i'll in the hospital.
Harry Owen of Pontiac was here
Tuesday to decorate the grave Of his
father and mother and sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank McDole and
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ell
lott entertained relatives from Lam
sing Tuesday.
Word has been received in Vesta-
burg that Mrs. Frank Cummings
passed away at the hospital in Dear
born, Michigan, Monday evening and
her remains will be brought to her
home in Vestaburg on Tuesday even
ing, June 9th. No particulars are
known as to the funeral arrange
ments as Mr.. Cummings and son and
his wife were at Dearborn on account
Of her critical illness and will an
nounce arrangements on their ar
rival with the remains.
Fred b. Harris, a prominent Rich
land township farmer died at his
farm home near Vestaburg on Mon
day evening, May 20, after having
had stroke of paralysis on Saturday
evening, May 7th, while walking
along the streets of Vestaburg. The
deceased was SO years of age. He
leaves to mourn their loss his wife,
sons Lester and Chester, and daugh-
ters, Gladys and Margaret Harris of
I'll. l.
daughters Rosemary and Mrs. Edna
Jones Of Lansing, beside many other
relatives and friends. He was preced-
ed in death during the influenza cpl
demic by his son Fred and daughters
Mrs. Laura Johnson and Erma Har-
ris. The funeral was held Wednes-
day, May 3lst, at 2 p. m. Interment
was made in Richland cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Elliott and son
Lauren have returned from a two
weeks visit with relatives and
friends in Lansing, Hillsdale and
Eastern Indiana.
The commencement exercises for
the six girls and five boys Of Vesta-
burg who graduated from the twelfth
grade in the Vestaburg high school
were held at the Church of Christ
Thursday evening June list. The
church was prettily decorated with
the class colors, green and gold, in
crepe paper, and with plants and cut
flowers.
The class motto was Success
comes in cans" Il cam you can,
He cam" Class flower wa the
"Ophelia Rose" All the seats and
standing room in the church was Ia
ken up when at eight o'clock Miss
Doris Nickerson began playing the
march and the line Of march which
had been formed outside of the
church came in, in the following man.
ner first in line by twos were the
ushers, Flossie Coston and Audley
Carts, Clara Eggleston and Merton
Wilson Of the Junior class, who halt
ed when they reached the rostum
and formed in order and then the line
Of march began in single file to pass
through to the seats arranged upon
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