Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-11-13

Thomas ]. Clark was in Lansing
Monday.
Walter Caple was a Shepherd bust
ness visitor Friday
Z. j. Christmas of Lansing was an
Alma visitor last Friday.
Alfred Crawford of Breckenridge
was in Alma the first of the week.
Henry Moran left Tuesday for
few days visit with friends in Flint
The Glow case is being retired in
the circuit court at Ithaca this week
w. Q. Watson of Breckenridge was
an Alma visitor Monday of this week
Margaret Florence, a seven-pound
little Miss, arrived at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Hubert Brainerd in Long
Beach, Cal, Sunday, November End.
Mr.. and Mrs. Masterman of Man
chester, Iowa, are the parents of a
little daughter. Mrs Masterman was
formerly Miss Edith Palmer of this
city
The w. r. c. Thimble club will
meet Tuesday, Nov. IS, with Mrs.
Fisher, on East Superior street. A
good attendance is desired Pot-luck
dinner.
George Robbins was called to Sag
inaw Thursday evening by the illness
Of a relative and will remain there
during the winter as he has secured
a position in that city.
Mrs. ]. w. Priest attends the Cen
trail District Meeting of the Baptist
Women's Foreign Missionary society
at Kalamazoo this week and from
there will visit friends in Chicago.
Mrs. b. r. Moore who has been
the guest of her daughter, Mrs. c. J..
Brown, for some time past left Sat-
urday to spend Sunday with Miss
Laura Brown in Ann Arbor and from
there went to Detroit to spend the
winter.
DR.. f. l.. Robertson of Lansing,
Michigan, specialist in all chronic dis
eases, will be at the Hotel Arcadia,
Alma, Saturday, November Is, all
day If in need of physician you
are invited to call and consult DR..
Robertson.
After the concert Tuesday evening
the members of the Euterpe society
were the guests of the president,
Miss Anna Montigel, at her home on
Woodwork avenue. Music, social
conversation and refreshments were
used by the hostess for entertain
ment
The State Sunday School conven-
tion is being held in Benton Harbor
this week, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday. AS far as possible groups of
delegates will report in platform
meetings making an entire evenings
program on the dongs Of the con-
ventiOn.
II. c. Clark, who lives two miles
south OF the sugar factory, left at
this office samples of corn raised on
his farm the past season The ears
measure eleven inches and the total
yield was PA bushels to one and one
quarter acres with an average eight
foot fodder
The following party of Vestaburg
hunters took the Tuesday morning
train for Code, Alcoma county: Geo.
+. Gorsuch and son. Charles D.;
Charles T. Gorsuch and son, Oral;
Thorp Throop, Seth and Leslie Wood
ward. Howard Nickerson will have
charge of Mr. Gorsuchs store during
his absence.
A play" party was given last Sat-
urday afternoon at the Presbyterian
Sunday school on Michigan avenue
for the children of the school. The
rooms were decorated for the occa-
sion; games were played under the
direction of some of the students of
the college kindergarten department
and refreshments were served.
Chas. Lindsey, Ann Arbor Railway
Inspector down from Cadillac Tues
day morning says there is over a
foot of snow at Cadillac and down to
Marion In many places drifted to
three or four feet deep. From Clare
to Rosebush and nearly to Mt Pleas
ant there was barely enough snow to
make the ground look white and Alma
had much more than our northern
neighbor.
The Higgins Milling Co,
of Grand Rapids, won their suit for
$3S1.41 against Harry Way and Royal
Hyde of the Alma Flour & Feed Co.
The defense claiming violation of
contract was ruled out of court as a
firm or co-partnership doing business
under an assumed name and not on
record in the county. The state law
is very explicit on this point but
many so-called firms or corporations
have no legal existence. See Pub
Acts 101 of 1907. Attorneys for
plaintiff, Charles Goggin; defendant,
Kress & Durham
The annals of the State of Wiscon-
sin record the name Of the Hon. Geo