Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-06-16
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

| freddie" Anderson OF Omena is IN
the city.
Henry Soule spent yesterday in Grand
Rapids,
Prepare to spend the Fourth of July
in Alma.
Mrs. J. w. Thorne is confined to her
home with scarlet fever.
The college and city schools have
closed for the summer vacation.
Rev. Geo. w. Bates of Stanton was in
the city the first of the week.
| Hon. Charles h. Townsend will make
the Fourth of July Grafton in this city.
Read Sanderhoff's Nv. this week and
see what he offers you. Bargains for
all.
Mrs. c. w. Sidebotham of Brooklyn
is visiting her parents and friends in
Alma.
T.. n, Chadwick and wife are spend
ing the week with friends i'll Livings
ton and Ineham counties.
Miss Vive Perrin of Saginaw is the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. George Hutchin-
son of this city.
| Miss Edith Cook of Cleveland is the
guest of her parents and friends in this
city.
Maynard Cook of the Caro- schools
arrived in the city Tuesday and is enjoy
ing the closing festivities of the college
year
The Ladies Aid society of the Presby-
terrain church will meet with Mrs.
Miller, 507 Park ave-, on Tuesday after
noon, June 81.
Ed Qundell and wife, Clayton
Knowles and Mrs, Warren Hurd of
Jackson and Mr.. and Mrs. John Edmon-
son of Saginaw were in the city last
week attending the funeral sermon of
ID. Cameron.
The grade promotion exercises i'll the
park last Friday drew large crowd of
our citizens, all of whom thoroughly
enjoyed the program. Credit is due the
various grade teachers for the excellent
manner in which the program was
carried out.
Last week, Tuesday, the frame barn
being raised on the Adam Johns tone
place one mile north of Wheeler col
lapsed injurlng nine persons. The
frame was up and the rafters were being
put in place when some portion of the
foundation gave way aud the structure
fell burying the workmeu in the ruins.
badly bruised. Clarence yelling, the
carpenter who built the structure, was
badly hurt. Mr.. JohnstCne, the owner,
had his face seriously bruised and Jas.
Hillock, Frank Swope, Beno Huffmeyer,
Harry Bremen. Bernard Capes and
Horace Rosa all sustained injuries.
The Grand Rapids correspondent of
the Grand Rapids Evening Press had
the following in Tuesdays issue of that
paper: For the first time in twelve
years the Gratiot county Jail is empty.
During that period the number of
prisoners has ranged from three to
twenty-five. Believing that his services
were no longer needed owing to the
downward trend of crime Under Sheriff
Ennis has resigned and Sheriff Convis
has gene to work in the beet fields. The
services of three deputies. it is said, will
be dispensed with in short time.
Gratiot county was annexed to the dry
column four years ago."
Last fall six of Alma's popular school
teachers viz. Miss Jessie Potter OF
Thompsville. science teacher; Miss
Cora Hearn of Benzonia, music and
drawing; Miss Eta Hearn, Miss Pear
Turner of Evart, Miss Shaw of Luding.
ton, grade teachers and Miss Harrie,
Farrell of Elk Rapids, kindergarten,
rented the 7. A. Ely house on Superior
street for the year, chaperoned by Mrs.
Turner, who assisted them in their
house work. The venture proved q
success both financially and socially
Next year Miss Alleene Brown of Hart
will join them and they will take the
Stanard home on State street standing
all expenses. Mrs. Stadard taking Mrs.
Turner's place. The girls Of Linger
Longer Lodge all unite in crying
There's nothing like it, to which
Alma young people and citizens
generally who have been entertained
at their hospitable home say, amen.
Vern Aldrich, the popular and hust.
ing Young manager of the local Union
Telephone Co., has resigned his position.
He expects to leave st. Louis early in
July for Burns, Oregon. Vern has had
charge of the Union business for five