Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-06-02

Arbor.
l., ]. Gardner was Saginaw visitor
Monday.
O. III. Washburn was an Iouia visitor
Monday.
Miss Helen Parr was OH the sick list
the first of the week.
Miss Hazel DuLong spent Sunday in
Stanton and vicinity.
w. w. Stopple was in Chicago the
latter part of last week,
Remember the concert at the Metho-
dist church tomorrow evening.
Ruth Homringhaus of Detroit visited
Miss Broderick of Wright Hall over
Sunday.
The 3lst of May 1910 the thermometer
registered within four degrees of the
freezing point,
The exterior of the Wright House has
been greatly improved by a generous
application Of paint.
Mrs. CLANCY Wellwan left Sunday for
couple of weeks visit with friends and
relatives in Howell.
Claude Watson of Grand Rapids
shook hands with old friends in Alma
the first of the week.
The grade promotion exercises of the
Alma Public schools will be held in the
city park Friday, June 10th.
The Greenville high school baseball
team will play the local high school team
at Alma, Saturday, June 4th.
Roy Anderson entertained a number
of his friends at trout supper at
Wright House last Tuesday evening.
Misses Brown, Springer and Morrison
of Tecumaeh, who were at college last
year, witnessed the Olivet game Satur-
Gay.
Paul Robins of Detroit, a student i'll
the college during 05.07 visited Stanley
Graves aud other friends Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. Bert Hicks and Mrs. Frank
Barnes entertained at dinner yesterday
afternoon and at 500 this Thursday
afternoon.
Mrs. A. J. Hall entertained at 500 last
Saturday afternoon at her home on State
street. A most enjoyable time was had
by all present.
The members of Meyer Post G. A. r.
attended services at the Presbyterian
church last Sunday morning, Rev. H.
l.. Grain addressed The veterans.
VIM. Norton, who resided near Elwell,
died Sunday aged 90 years. Funeral
services are being held today and burial
will take place at Brady cemetery.
There were probably mre alumni on
the campus last Saturday to see the
Olivet game than have been brought
together here for any one athletic contest.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Turck who re-
turned last week from Dunedin, Florida
spent sometime on their heneward trip
with friends in Jacksonville, Florida
and Toledo Ohio.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Pres.
byterian church will meet with Mrs.
King, 10 Orchard street Tuesday after
noon, June Z. A cordial invitation is
extended to all ladies to be present.
The Economy Shoe store is noted for
its beautiful window displays. But the
one o last week, commemorative of
Memorial day, attracted more than usual
attention. The stars and stripes draped
for back ground and stack of guns
in the foreground formed the basis of
as neat window display as one can
usually see outside Of the larger cities.
Last weeks Central Michigan Times
had the following: "A young man
from near Sheppard drove to town Sun
day with horse bleeding profusely at
the mouth. The humane society inves-
tigated and found he had tied the
Eorse's tongue TO its jaw with a string
and slip knot in an attempt to break the
animal of the habit of extending it's
tongue. The knot permitted the string
to tighten until il cut down into the
flesh. The young man was given a
warning not to repeat his methods and
the horse was relieved of torture" In
stead of a warning the young man"
should have had the experiment tried
on himself
The Pere Marquette has inaugurated
a new plan this season for preserving
order upon their Sunday excursions,
says the Glare Courier. The sheriff of
the county from which the train is
started accompanies it, ostensibly on
pleasure bound but really to calm the
joyous ones aboard Last Sunday the
Saginaw excursion was accompanied by