Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-06-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Francis of
Mt Pleasant spent Sunday here with
friends.
Miss Barbara McVeigh went to
Ithaca Saturday to spend a few days
with friends.
Messrs. McNutt and Hendee Of
Riverdale were Alma visitors Tuesday
of this week.
Ms. Pomroy of Chicago, is the
guest of her brother, Mr.. Francis
King OF this city.
Joseph Sartar, Jr., of the Alma
Journal spent Monday and Tuesday
in the city of Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hastings of Ithaca
was here Friday and Saturday as the
guest of Mrs. B. Rollin,
Mrs. Vera Champion Of Flint visit
ed in Alma ! st week the guest Of her
sister Miss Harriet Farrell
The Record office building is recei-
wing a coat of paint. George Mills
and men are doing the work.
Miss Lila Nestle OF ST. Louis spent
the latter part of last week here as
the guest of Mrs. L. Campbell.
Mrs. Thomas Goble returned to her
home in Flint, Saturday after spend
ing two weeks here with her par
ents.
The Christian Endeavor Society
held its annual picnic on the banks OF
the Pine last Friday evening. While
wood was being consumed for the
preparation of good things to eat the
society held its regular meeting and
discussed business affairs, thus kill
ing two birds with one stone After
theeatables had been we'll stored away
the young people spent the remainder
of the evening in the way so charac-
teristic of such a gathering, that is to
say everyone had very delightful
time.
To clear a room of flies. heat a
! shovel or any similar article and drop
thereon 20 drops of carbolic acid; the
vapor kills the flies A better and
cheaper plan is to put a spoonful Of
formaln in a gill of water and expose
! it in the room Another is to dis
solve one drachm OF bichromate Of
potash in two ounces OF Svater, add
little sugar and place the solution
in shallow dishes about the rooms. A
campaign conducted on these lines
will do much to rid a household Of
this insufferable and dangerous pest
H. E. Wright and Elmer Wilbur
were testing out new $1,100 launch
OF the auto type on Baldwin lake near
| Greenville, had a narrow escape from
both burning to death and drowning
when the engine exploded, setting
thei- clothing on fire. Robert Corn
elius, who was in a boat fishing near
by the scene of the accident, rescued
the men when they jumped into the
water to extinguish their burning gar
ments. The launch which was beau
tiful one and had been sold to an east
ern man, is total ruin. II was ca
pable of lraking 21 miles an hour.
Henry R. Pattengill holds what is
probably nearly a worlds record for
commencement addresses During the
school commemorate this year, that
is between April 28 and June 81, he
will deliver % addresses. He started
April 20 at Hamilton, Ind The sec
ond was given May 10 al Hickory
Corners and the third he will deliver
next Friday evening at Riga The re-
naming 81 will come thick and fast
sometimes two or three day and
ending June "a at Dryden. Seven OF
the addresses will be given in the up
per peninsula.
Indications are that the day is not
distant when purchasers who request
and pay for a quart or a pound OF any
given commodity in market will re-
ceive the equivalent of their money;
that is to say, that they will receive
the quantity of goods understood to
be given in exchange for specified
price In time past the public has
accepted with unwarranted patience
gradual encroachments upon its rights
in matters of weights and measures.
That it has no intention of submitting
to further imposition in that respect is
apparent. The appearance in the mu-
nicipal court of Chicago Of eight deal
ers at one time, and the payment by
each of SIS fine for selling strawber-
ries in boxes which were from to 10
per cent short of the required capac-
ity. illustrates the trend of the times.
Elk