Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1912-04-18

Farmers Buy your seeds OF the
Alma Elevator Co. Timothy, Alsyke,
Medium and Mammoth Clover, seed
beans, etc X
Frank Hurst, until recently field
secretary for the college and now
travelling representative for the Mu-
tual Benefit Insurance company, was
in Alma the last half of the past
week. Mr.. Hurst recently moved his
family to Ann Arbor where they will
make their future home.
Mrs David Bishop, who underwent
an operation for appendicitis last Fri
day night at Brainerd hospital, came
through successful operation in ex.
! cellent condition and is well on the
road to recovery. Mrs. Bishops case
was desperate one and at the time
as to her recovery.
Monday afternoon at the close of
school the seventh and eighth grades
baseball teams competed in lively
little struggle on the high school
diamond. The game was close one,
victory seeming to be first on one
side then on the other, until the final
| inning when the seventh graders
brought their score up to eight, leav-
ing the eighth grade just one behind.
Last Thursday the college team
went over to st. Louis to play the
| high school team of that city in a
practice game. The final score was
16 to /, the long end of the score go
ing to the college. Bailey and Lyle
made up the battery for the high
schools lads. Myers, McCloy, Wood,
Hyde and Vought did the heavy work
for the college.
Harry Willard has bought Seigle
Wilson's interest in the Willard &
| Wilson barber shop on Woodwork
avenue. Peter Guthrie has been Sc
cured by Mr. Willard to take the
chair vacated by Mr. Wilson Ill
health compelled Seigel to get out of
doors and he expects to depart for
| Conneaut, Ohio, in the near future.
| Mr.. Willard will maintain the high
standard of workmanship for which
the shop has long been noted.
At 5:45 Tuesday morning the fire
| department was called to the Arcadia
hotel, where a fire had broken out in
I the second story. Before the company
| had time to arrive Proprietor Thomas
Mayes, aided by some travelling men,
had extinguished the fire. Mr.. Mayes
| is unable to account for the exact
cause of the fire but believes it started
in some way from a drum" in the
stove pipe. While a good sized hole
was burned through partition be-
tween the hall and a bedroom the
greatest damage done was from the
chemicals and water The loss is esti.
mated to be around 5000
AS soon as the building is put into
condition the City Dairy and Brecken.
ridge Creamery Co will move from the
! Pulfrey block on West Superior street
to the building formerly occupied by
| the Wright House laundry Nj. B.
! Ewers, proprietor of the company's
store, expects to be able to move
either the last Of this week or the first
of next week The rooms are being
reprinted and decorated. The con
| veniences of the new establishment
will make the place thoroughly up-to-
date. There will be separate rooms
! for receiving, washing and storing, be-
sides a salesroom. This will make
the place perfectly sanitary and give
Alma a first-class dairy.
Arcadia grange No. 500 met in regu-
lar session Saturday evening, April 13,
with w. NJ. Allen Hubbel in the chair.
Opening song No. %. Bills of Mrs.
Titus and janitor presented and al
lowed No further business coming
before the grange the meeting was
turned over to Lecturer and the fol.
lowing program given; Opening song
No 1885; roll call, the response being
an anecdote, current event or quo
tation; song by Bertha Hubbel; in
response to an encore Sister Bertha
gave another song; recitation "A
Court Lady Florence Wood paper,
Should Deserted and Widowed
Mothers Be Pensioned," by Mrs Titus,
followed by discussion, the Master
Lecturer and Mrs. Keefer taking part.
The concensus of opinion seemed to
be that in the interest Of good citi-
zenship it would be desirable Read
ing by Mrs Wood, Penny March"
orange closed in form after which
taffy was served The next meeting