Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-02-23

a. L. hardlnS OF NoluWaleri was an
Alma visitor Tuesday.
Large lot new muslin underwear in
early next week at Lee Mercantile Cos.
W. L. Tissera, of Colombo, Ceylon,
was guest at the Wright House this
week.
Miss Cora Burck, of Ithaca, was the
guest of Mrs. Jas. G.. Kress Sunday and
Monday of this week.
Mrs. Jas. G. Kress spent Wednesday of
this week at the Park House, St. Louis,
a guest of Mrs w. F. Thompson of Ith-
aca.
The w. R. c. Thimble Club will meet
with Mrs. John Greig next Tuesday.
This is to be an all day session. All menu
bers are urged to be present.
Fred c. Rohlan left Wednesday for
Wallaceburg, Canada. He will return by
way of Detroit and attend the K. of P.
Field Day meet in that city Thursday and
Friday.
Remember The Variety Store. A lot of
new Shirt Waists, Shirt Waist Patterns
Shirt Waist Suitings, Embroideries
Belts, Collars etc. just arrived and all are
good values.
The members of William Meyer Post
No. IS2 celebrated Washington's Birth
a N ,,,aat,pc, t,a1 Dot,
otto speeches by Rev. c. L. Hoag and At
torneys Jas. G.. Kress and Bert Hayes
and vocal and instrumental music inter
spersed through the evening caused
the time to pass only too quickly.
The election held at Ithaca last Friday
for the purpose of voting on the PROPOSE
ton of bonding the school district for
$4,000 to erect a school building, re-
suited in the proposition being turned
down, 1t lacking just twenty-seven of the
necessary two-thirds vote to carry There
were 325 votes cast, 100 being fo- bonding
and I35 against it. 1t would have re-
quired az votes to carry the proposition.
Miss Lillian Ross, for some time a
member of the RECORD force, left Mon
day for her home in Beaverton to spend
three weeks with her parents and will 90
from there to Howard City, where she
has position as ad and job compositor
on the Howard City Record. The REC
ORD is only one of the many friends who
wish Miss Ross all success and happiness
in her new field of labor.
School commenced Monday, February
Io, for the first time in the new school
building. The kindergarten room had
IS pupils, while Miss Coy in the SUBJ
primary grade had 81. Grade one, class
B, Miss Anderson teacher had 4I pupils.
The first grade, Miss Chase teacher, 20;
second grade, Miss McDaniels teacher,
3o third grade, Miss McLaren teacher,
IS; and Misses Baumgarten and Stitt,
teachers in the third and fourth grades
had 3S pupils each. This
makes total enrolment of zos.
An Alma dispatch to the Detroit Free
Press of last Sunday said: "The two
mems literary societies, Phi Phi Alpha
md Zeta Sigma, are in the midst of
light which bids fair to result in a sever
Ince of all intersociety relations. The
present trouble is over the annual inter-
ociety debate which was to have been
ield next Monday evening but has been
allied off. Phi Phi Alpha challenged
,eta Sigma at the specified time and the
was accepted. All went well
Until the time came Dor the debate. The.
wo societies could not agree as to the
ime each speaker should have. The
'hi's demanded short time for each
lebater and Zeta Sigma takes this as
ign of scare. They refuse to discuss the
ubject in what the latter regard reason
ble length of time. Zeta Sigma now
lolds the cup which was to have been
ought for again and claims it on forfeit,
S it was the challenged society. there
las always been bitter rivalry between
he societies, but it is now more intense
han ever