60 Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 3, 1956
EVART USES VOTING
MACHINE FOR FIRST TIME
Just pull the handles, the machine does the rest.
Similar to the famous Kodak slogan that made millions of persons camera fans, the object of using voting machines is to make voting easier for millions of citizens.
The City of Evart has two new voting machines which will be used in Tuesday’s election. It is easier to use them than to vote by hand.
City Clerk Glen Hammond demonstrates then to interested persons who drop into his office to try them:
“You walk between the purple curtains into the booth and pull the red handle to the right. That shuts the curtains and unlocks the voting levers.
“Then press down a small lever in front of each candidate’s name you wish to vote for. Any candidate you don’t want to vote for, just leave his lever up.
“If you want to write in a candidate, loft up the little slide at the top of the machine over the proper office and write there.
“When you are finished, check your sections, Then [u;; the big red handle back to the left. The curtain will open and no one will know how you voted.”
The machines will be a big help to the election supervisors, too, Mr. Hammond said. Under a new state law all returns must be filed with the county clerk before the election crew goes home.
Using the old system this would take many hours. With machines the election supervisors merely register absent voters ballots.
80 Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 3, 1936
AROUND THE COUNTY
Middle Branch
Lowell Weller drove the home economics ladies to a meeting in Reed City Wednesday.
The Williams reunion was held at the Williams School Sunday with over 75 present. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Bell and family and Dortha Williams, of Lansing attended the reunion.
Gordon Truex and Julia Martinson and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Opper attended the Osceola County Fair.
Northwest Hartwick
Mrs. Lizzie Porter Gay is the mother of twin boys, born at Reed City hospital last week.
Robert Hood’s brother, who has been spending the summer her, has gone to visit his sister.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Davis spent the weekend in Battle Creek.
Willard Snowden and family were in Grand Rapids Sunday.
Avondale
Mr. and Mrs. Lovel Hudson visited relatives in Lansing over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Shadley and daughter, of Flint, are spending the week with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Shadley, and sisters, Mesdames Arndt and Yarhouse.
Mrs. Frank Lumbert visited her daughter at Onaway recently.
Jesse Mapes has reported for work with the Champion Development Co., at St. Louis.
100 Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 2, 1916
MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS
Fire damaged the Ashton building at Grand Rapids to the estimated extent of $75,000.
Guy Hall of Hillsdale County was killed when he jumped on a pitchfork in a load of hay.
Fifteen miles of state reward road will have been built in Wexford County before winter sets in.
Kalamazoo’s first case of infantile paralysis was reported to the Board of Health. A two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Firestone is the victim.
When an emery wheel broke, Jacob Rop’s lower jaw was terribly torn, at the Continental Motors Company plant at Muskegon.
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Bulk teas at 25 & 35 cents lb.
Tea siftings from 50 cent tea – 15 cents per lb. – 2 for 25 cents.
We Sell Eggs for – 22 cents doz.
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120 Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 4, 1896
PERSONAL and SOCIAL
Mr. C. G. Elmore, more familiarly known as “grandpa” Elmore, started on a visiting tour which may extend into Illinois before his return. His first visit will be made at Adrian, Mich. Grandpa says he intends to come home in time to cast a vote to save his country, next November. We infer from this that he intends to vote for McKinley and Hobart.
Democrat postmasters of the county are quaking in their boots. The removal of two of their number for a mysterious cause is sufficient to put them in constant dread as to their own standing with the powers that be.
OSCEOLA DIST. NO. 1
The order of the day here is putting in wheat, eating melons, plums, peaches, apples and drinking cider. We are right in the land of milk and honey this fall.
Chas. Marklund sent a barrel of fruit to his son, Frank, in Minnesota. He wrote that he had not seen any fruit this summer except wild plums.
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140 Years Ago
SEPTEMBER 1, 1876
ROUND-A-BOUT
Reed City
-A Hayes and Wheeler Club has been organized in Reed City with the following officers: President, J. Q. Patterson; Vice President, H. C. Stoddard; Rec. Secretary, R. B. Simpson; Cor. Secretary, W. H. Palmer; reader, Dr. A. W. Jenkins; Treasurer, D. M. McClellan.
Reed City has a Tilden and Hendricks Club.
A man by the name of Will Powers had a watch stolen from his vest pocket one day last week while it was hanging in a barroom of one of the Reed City hotels.
Big Rapids
-Postmaster Crandall has gone into the lathing business. His charges are reasonable, only forty dollars per day.
-Charles G. Hunt and wife were arrested on Tuesday last, and arraigned before Justice Nottingham on a charge of keeping a house of ill fame. They waived an examination and were held for trial at the next term of the circuit court, their bail being fixed at five hundred dollars each. Pioneer
Ludington
-Mr. Jacob Christenson, of Grant Township, recently killed a bear weighing between 300 and 400 pounds.
The Record claims that there are parties who are imposing themselves upon the charities of the good people of this place, that come from across the lake, and thinks that they ought to be cared for by the community in which they live.