Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-09-04


Fred Ellicot attended the State Fail
in Detroit the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ross of Stanton
were Alma visitors last Friday.
John Parish left this afternoon fol
Detroit, accompanying two cars of
cattle.
Special prices given on ladies and child
rens oxfords and low shoes at the Variety
Store.
Mesdames Seayers and Opdyke are
spending the week at the State Fair at
Detroit.
A. Hotellen spent the first three days
of the present week at the Adventist
camp meeting at Pontiac.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Switzer of Shep-
herd arrived this afternoon as guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. III. Carl.
Miss Wells of Glare was in Alma last
Monday and called on friends here while
on her way to her school in Lowell.
Miss Mable Brainerd left last Monday
for Monroe, Mich, where she will attend
st. Marys Academy during the coming
year.
Messrs Carpenter and Rogers of the
Manufacturing Co., left last Saturday
for a few days at the State Fair at
Detroit.
Station Agent Winchell states that
there were 90 tickets sold on the Saginaw
excursion last Sunday and 10 North on
the Ann Arbor.
Miss Bert Hays gives a reception TO
the ladies of Alma at her home on
Michigan Avenue tomorrow afternoon
at three O'Clock.
Fred Won Thgrn left the first of the
week for pleasure trip to Buffalo and
the Falls, and will visit the State Fair
at Detroit on his way.
Miss Mary Pringle leaves tomorrow
for her school in Hartford CRY, Ind,
and will teach Music and Drawing
there the coming year
The r. f. ID. carriers attended the
the County Association meeting in
North star last Monday, the day being
holiday for all r. +. ID. carriers III the
county.
Mrs. Boughton, daughter, Blanch and
son, Stanley, left last Thursday
for a trip to Niagara Falls and Buffalo.
it was also their intention TO spend a
few days at the State Fair in Detroit.
The two thousand dollar buss, prop
erty of the Wright House Livery. has
recently received.a new coat of paint
and varnish and now bears the name of
Wright House and Springs Hotel.
A meeting of the Civic Improvement
League will be held Friday, September
18th. Place of meeting 10 be announced
later. A report from the Library Com
mittee will be given and other matters
Of great interest brought up for discus
sion. A full attendance is desired.
Marcus Pollasky says that Friday
there will be a meeting in this city of
the old settlers and pioneers of Gratiot
county, especially those of this vicinity.
Mr.. Pollasky states that the netting
will be held in Turks Grove providing
the day is pleasant. If not the meeting
will be held in the X. of F. hall and
supper served. One hundred pioneers
are expected. Mr.. Pollasky also imparts
the news that the Stanton Marine Band
will arrive on the evening train Friday
and will furnish the music in the
evening.
There has been a goodly.number of
arrivals at the Alma.Springs Hotel dur
ing the past week Homer Davidson,
Ypsiianti; Owen f. Turnbell, .Owosso;
Horace Page, Washington G. H.; NJ. l..
Wright, Saginaw Florence Ferno.
Battle Creek; Miss HELEN Hall, Bay
City; Mrs G. Hons, Saginaw; Mrs. E.
Trowbridge. Detroit; w. II. Meyers.
Chicago; J. w. Culbertson Indianapolis:
Il. NJ. Turner, Nashville, Tenn, W.
O'Brien. Bay City; +. T. Foster,
Chicago; Jas G. Clyde aud wife,
Portland, Ore, r. S Clinton, Sylvania.
Ohio; J. Lee, Dayton, Ohio; Mrs. II. F..
Buck and daughter, Bay City; W. S.
Cravens. Les Cheneaux, Ind Glennis
Young, Grand Rapids, jay + Heberling,
Detroit.
All of the nurses Of this years
graduating class of the Alma Springs
Hotel have secured positions and are
leaving for the following hospitals;
Miss Iris Neidhardt left yesterday for
three weeks vacation at her home, and
from there she goes to the L. b. A.
hospital at Grand Rapids. Miss Ger
trude Marsh leaves today for Detroit
where she will take up her duties on
the nursing staff in the Womans'
Hospital. Miss Bertha Iutzi leaves soon
for Detroit to enter the Detroit Hospital
Miss Thompson is at present visiting
friends in the southern part Of the state
and goes to Mercy Hospital at Bay City
on the tenth of this month. Miss Nance
also enters Mercy Hospital, Bay City
Miss Parker leaves the first of the week
week for Chicago to enter hospital in
that city.
In the midst of a terrific thunderstorm
the Pan-American flyer on the Grand
Trunk railway crashed into seven freight