Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-09-13

Mrs. Earl CLARK, the nrst Oh the
week.
E. Z. Bartholomew of Hillsdale has
oeen visiting his sister, Mrs. Z. Osborn,
his week.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Sharp left Tues
lay for an extended tour through the
Northwest.
Mrs. George NJ. Hutchinson, who has
been seriously sick for some time, is
Mrs. n. Church and Miss Church
spent last Friday and Saturday with
friends in Saginaw.
George Clark will leave the first of
next week for Muncie, Ind, where he
has position in glass factory.
The annual reception of the Chris
tian associations of the college will be
given in Ladies' Hall this evening.
Alonzo Keyes, a pioneer living two
and one.half miles west of Alma, died
Wednesday evening aged about TO
years.
ID. Coleman, living a mile west and a
mile north of Alma, has an apple tree
in full blossom, for the second time this
season.
Philetus and Robert Lewis Of Liberty,
jackson county, were called to Alma
last week by the death of their sister,
Mrs. Rachel M. Adams.
Freddie Vermeulen, while playing,
came in contact with some poisonous
vine, and has been suffering from
severe attack of Rhus poisoning.
The Ladies Guild of the st. Johns
church met with Mrs. w. X. Reed
Yesterday afternoon. Hereafter regu-
Lar meetings will be held on Thursday
afternoon.
Business at the Alma creamery Is
brisk. Last Tuesday Mr.. Hutchinson
churned 1850 pounds of butter, double
the amount churned on the same date
year ago.
The farm barn with pair OF horses,
farm implements and grain, belonging
to $. GRAY northwest of Summerton
was burned to the ground last Tuesday.
No insurance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bart Miller attended
the state fair in Grand Rapids this
week. Mr.. Miller had fine display OF
the agricultural implements for which
he is agent, at the fair.
Frank Irish of Spring Lake has been
engaged as day clerk at the Wright
House, in place of Alva Caple, who
goes TO Ann Arbor to enter the law de
partment of the university.
Homer Ward, for some time con-
nected with the Wright House laundry
has gone to Orchard Lake, TO accept
the position of foreman in the Laundry
connected with the Michigan Military
Academy.
Two Alma young ladies and their Is
corts went up the river Monday for
boat ride. They embarked, and were
in mid. stream before they discovered
that the oars had been left behind ant
that they were in leaky boat. Th'
boat filled with water SO rapidly tina
the young ladies could not heed the in
functions of those on shore to Isl
down." A friend went TO the rescue o
the half-submerged ladies and gentle
men and brought them ashore. Tn
ladies were obliged to walk home II
garments "clinging like cerements,
refusing to be comforted by their de
voted but forgetful escorts.
To one not familiar with the book
keeping necessary to successfully con
duct large and rapidly increasin
business the book keeping at the Aim
roller mills would be surprise.
regular banking system is followed, il
volying a vast amount of labor. AZ
counts are kept with each deposition
grain, and beside the monthly state
ments two trial balances are taken o
each month. So admirably is the wor
planned and executed, that this mont
both trial balances were completed 1
four o'clock in the afternoon of MOI
day, September 2. In addition to tn
regular books, there is in use at u
mill an analysis book invented by M
: Reed, and by its use the business is
systematiged that if all the other boob
) were destroyed the business is so vel
; plainly shown that there would he 4
trouble In collecting the insurance.