Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-01-12
The Banking System, Now Over a
Year Old, a Success
NEW ORG ANIzATI MS
The Basket Ball Team Lost the FirSt Big Game
Of the Season to Grand Rapids

started the second term of the school |
year in good shape The banking sys
tenn introduced here shortly over a
year ago is running smoothly. There
has been but little absence during tn
past term, except on account of the
smallpox scare. The basketball team
of the high school is making a good
showing, and there are two new organ
izations actively engaged in their
work besides a general revival of the
old organizations.
Last December, a traveller for one
OF the Detroit supply houses told the
superintendent and school board at
Greenville that the Alma Public
schools had the best banking system
of any school of the state There
upon the superintendent of the Green
vile schools and a member of the
school board a banker in Greenville
came here and visited our schools
making a thorough investigation of
the system. The result was that the
Greenvile schools already have estab-
lished a banking system in their pub
lie schools modelled after that in our
schools
This month of January sees the first
anniversary of the installation of the
plan and it has proved to be an un-
qualified success. Nothing whatever
can be said in detriment to it. or if
there can, such criticism has failed TO
reach headquarters The average de-
posits per month last year were six
teen dollars and thirty-seven cents
week for total of forty weeks. max
ing total amount of deposits of near
ly seven hundred dollars. This was
all deposited by about three hundred
seventy-hve students mostly of the
lower grades The bookkeeping de-
partment is getting excellent expert
ence out of the work The students
take charge of all the banks books and
the actual experience OF bank clerks is
met when they have TO remain after
working hours TO find few cents that
is off in their report 1t has been
found that if student is careless the
first month and is obliged to put in
several hours OF real work hunting
through his books for two cents. the
next months report will balance when
first made out The teachers have not
found the system TO be burdensome
to them. Supt Ellsworth has yet to
receive the first complaint on the part
OF the teachers.
The high school basket ball squad
is putting in good work, practicing two
nights of the week in the college gym
nasium. The team is practically the
same as il was last year in personnel,
but is stronger in that the men have
had more experience. Last Thurs
day evening they were defeated by
Grand Rapids high school team This
is one of the strongest teams of the
state and among the top-notch con
tenders for the championship. Be
sides being away from home the local
boys were at disadvantage in that
the court upon which they were play
ing was some four times the size Of
the one they were used to.
A Grand Rapids paper in reporting
the game said:
THE Alma five fought all the way
through the contest and outplayed the
local quintet in the second half but
was unable to overcome the big lead
which had been piled up in the initial
period Central's basket ball men
started the game with a rush and had
they kept up the same sort of work all
the way the score would have been
doubled but they slowed down toward
the close of the first half and substitu-
ties were given a chance in the second
period
The game was the cleanest of the
season, only nine fouls being called by
Referee DeKrief. The Alma players
lacked in team work and had Central :
guards not let up i'm the second half.
they would not have counted a dozen
points. Central high seemed weaker
on defensive than offensive and Coach
White will undoubtedly endeavor TO
strengthen this department before the
next game. For Alma. Wood, for
ward, put up the best exhibition and
in the last period. scored three goals
from the field" Summary:
Field goals-Fowle 3. Stander I
Speelman 8. Eble. Wood 4. Kress
Montigel Foul goals-Stander out
OF 3; Kress. out of O. Referee-De-
Krief.
Another game is scheduled with the
Ithaca high school FIVE for next Fri
day evening on the college court This
has been recently refoored and new
Dleachers put in place so that the
games can be watched with much more
comfort than formerly.
A new girls literary society ha:
been formed and is already in a -four.