Alma and Vicinity
Mr. Raymond Hardy, Montrose is enjoying a
month’s holiday visiting friends and relatives in Saskatchewan.
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Mr. and Mrs. Allen Clarke of Texas and Mr.
and Mrs. Wallace Clark of Chicago, motored to the Island recently. Last week the Clarke Brothers were in Alma,
and called on a number of their boyhood friends, who were delighted to see
them. They found many changes. Some of their “pals” of fifty years ago had
passed on, and there was nothing left of the old saw mill, where they had
worked with their father, the late Wm.
Clarke, so long ago.
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The Rev. Stephen and Mrs. Jeffery,
Lockeport, N.S., are vacationing in Alma, guests of Mr. and Mrs. David Jeffery.
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On Sunday, Mrs. Ralph Rennie returned from
the Western Hospital, where she has been receiving treatment for the past two
weeks.
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The farmers in this vicinity are busy
threshing and potato digging. The
Cobblers will likely all be dug by the end of the week.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dan Smallman and Mr. and Mrs.
Thos. Harris, Knutsford, were visitors to Alma on Sunday, guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Dunbar.
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Mrs. Harry Barbour is visiting in
Worcester, U.S.A., where she is the guest of her brother, Robert T. Hardy and Mrs.
Hardy.
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Mr. John Fitzgerald, Montrose, has
returned home from the Prince County Hospital where he spent the past six
weeks, recovering from a motor accident.
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Mr. R.T. Bowness, Montrose, spent the
weekend in Summerside visiting his brother, Mr. John Bowness and other
relatives.
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Miss Jennie Brookes, California and Mr.
Frank Brookes, Boston, were visitors to Alma last week, guest of Mrs. Nelson
Currie.
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The service in the Montrose United Church
on Sunday evening was under the auspices of the Alma and Montrose Auxiliaries
of the W.M.S. Rev. J.M. Fraser was the
guest speaker. Two solos by Mr. Roy
Phillips were much enjoyed.
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Miss S.G. Barbour, R.N. who has been
spending the summer in Alma, has returned to Brookline, Mass to resume her
work. – Alma.
