Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-08-18
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

Miss MABEL STRONG was WITH Irlenus
in Riverdale last week
Ransom Fraker and family are SIP nd.
ing the week at Bass Lake.
Mrs. l.. f. Hopkins and daughter
Lucille left Monday for Cortland, N. Y.
Harry Cohen spent Sunday in Grand
Rapids.
James Kline and Michael Pollasky
left Sunday for Chicago.
Miss Esther Sadeck of Milwaukee
spent Wednesday with Mrs. II. A.
Cohen.
Bolts Levinson of Endicctt, New York
is the guest of his uncle Harry Cohen
of this city.
DR.. Hale of the L. of NJ. was the
guest of l.. A. Sharp and family last
Friday and Saturday.
Eleven tickets were sold at this
station Sunday for the Ann Arbor ex-
cursion north.
John Marchmont left last week on a
combined business and pleasure trip to
Exeter, Canada
Miss Bessie Kellogg leaves Friday
morning for visit with friends at
Petoskey and Bay View.
Mrs. Marguerite Mcnamara returned
Tuesday from Peekskill, N. W where
she has been visiting for the past two
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Miller and chill
dren returned home Tuesday from
Battle Greek after spending couple of
weeks there.
Miss Edwards, who has been visiting
the Misses Sharp for the past two weeks
returned TO her home i'll Chicago last
Thursday
Royal Hyde left Tuesday evening for
Dillonville, Ohio, where he was called
by the death of his aunt, Mrs. A. @.
Gardner, daughter of John Durham
of Pine River.
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of Mr.. and Mrs Fred Thornton, who
has been visiting at their home for
about four week went to Ithaca, Tuesday
fer few days visit.
w. j. Melchers accompanied by Mrs.
Melchers and children spent Saturday
in Saginaw and Sunday took the steamer
State of New York, for a lake ride to
Detroit.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
river is low picnics are still in order, as
was evidenced Wednesday evening
when ten couples started for Turck's
woods with well filled baskets. The
picnic was given by class No. l6 of the
NJ. E. Sunday school. The weather
was ideal and the crowd good natured.
Soon after arrival bright fire could be
seen burning and all were hunting for
sticks on which to roast corn and beef,
after which games were played and a
good time enjoyed.
Last Wednesday evening friends and
neighbors to the number sixty or more
surprised Deputy Sheriff Lou Convis at
his home on Downey street. Lou ex-
poets to leave for the far west and this
fact together with the day following
being his birthday was taken advantage
Of by his friends to give him a farewell
surprise. Lou was certainly all i'll when
he faced the three score or more guests
and received from the spokesman a
esteem. Every one present had a good
time and all hope Lou will make a
success of his western venture.
Mr.. c. Q. Field of Shepherd says the
explosion i'll separators over the county
recently is due to the presence of smut
i'll the wheat. He says smut stored i'll
the barn with wheat passing through
the sweating" porcess generates a
highly combustibe gas, and if any of
this gas is present when spark is made
by nail or stone passing through the
cylinder teeth in the separator ignition
will occur in magnitude proportionate
to the amount of gas and dust present.
He says that farmers in Kent and
Ingham counties met with many losses
from similar causes eight or ten years
ago.
Receivers in bankruptcy have been
appointed for the American Farm
Products Co. The company claims a
capacity for making 10000, 900 pounds
of butter annually. 1t has plants at
Chicago, Elgin aud Rockford, ILL.,,
Kenton and Forest, o., and Bad Axe,
Owosso, Mich. The plants have book
value OF $4,000, 900, but the petition sets
forth that they are worth not more
than half that sum. The property is
subject To mortgage for $3.50 600