Alma record., 1913-10-23

| trip to Ithaca Friday.
Vern Handley spent Sunday in
Ithaca visiting friends.
Louis Ball has been up near Forest
Hill this week working.
O. L. Paulus was in St. Louis this
last week on pleasure trip.
b. link, of Alma has been work
ing for John Snyder this week.
Mrs. Giles Isham spent Sunday
with Mrs. James Hopkins, in Alma.
Melton Chambers and family left
Monday morning for Grand Rapids.
William Smell and wife of Alma,
visited their uncle Geo. Webb and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mart Smith of Alma
spent Sunday with Hamilton Gee and
family.
There were number from here,
| attended the horse races in Ithaca on
Thursday.
| Mrs. Cora Rogers, of Seville spent
| Tuesday with Miss Floral Waldo and
Mrs. B. Mckinney
I Misses Otta and Fleeta Udell of
north of Alma visited with John Sny-
der and wife
Tom Beade and wife of Alma made
made a pleasure trip in this vicinity
the first of the week.
| Mabel Rogers, from here, but now
of Ionia, who has been very sick is
better at this writing.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Giles Isham enter
tanned Mrs. Jasen Carmen of Alma
the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. Brant of Alma
have been spending few days with
George Webb and family.
Miss Carrie Bailey was in Elm
Hall this last week visiting her aunt,
Mrs. Butcher, and family.
A number of farmers have been
hauling their beans to Elwell this
past week to the elevator.
Mrs Jerome Kenney and her bro
ther Chas Tayor went to Ithaca on
Friday on a business trip.
Ernest Ellison, of Riverdale called
on his uncle Geo. Webb and family
and Frank Webb and wife.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Wiley spent
Sunday with the formers mother,
Mrs Raycraft, at Forest Hill.
! Misses Edna and Mildred Wiley,
spent Sunday with their grandmother
! Mrs. r. Raycraft at Forest Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. l.. Paulus spent
! Sunday with the laUer's brother, J.
Robinett and family in Breckenridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Edgar spent
Sunday with the latter's brother, M.
! Curtis and family near Breckenridge.
!; Miss Mary Stitts will return to her
school duties near Ashley, where
she is teaching, the first of the
week.
Il Mr.. and Mrs Merrill Carter of
4 Ithaca spent Sunday with the for
mer's aunt, Mrs. A. II. Olmsted, and
family.
II Mrs. Maud Cumming, who has been
in this neighborhood for the past
week, returned to her home in De-
y Boit Saturday.
d Mrs. srancis Glow, who has been
in Elsie on a business trip for the
| L. O. r. M. N. of Alma returned
home Saturday.
Mrs. NJ Torton returned to her
home in Flint Thursday after visit
| with friends and relatives here for
the past few days.
Bert Marlborough and Lon Hous-
den went to Benzie county Tuesday
on business trip. They returned
home the last of the week.
( Roy Christ, Chas. and William
| Anderson, Leonard Putnam and
Chas. Palman autoed to Ithaca on
| Thursday to see the horse races.
| Mrs. Dayton Power and children,
who have been visiting James Porter
field and family returned to her home
at Otter lake the first of the week
Albert Adams, who was hurt from
falling off load of hay couple of
. weeks ago, was able to leave Fri
day evening for his home in Fisher,
Illinois
Mrs. Walter Ferris has been enter
tanning her grandmother, Mrs. S.
Bailey of Ferris this last week
Mrs Ferris is in Elm Hall clerlling
in store.
Lyle Ball, who has been attending
the Union school in Alma this fall,
has decided not to go any more this
year. He is employed at the sugar
factory in Alma for the campaign.
Rev. Mrs. T. w. Woodhouse, of
Bridgeville, Va, who has been visit
ing her sister, Mrs. William Edgar,
left for Breckenridge Tuesday for a
visit with her brother, M. Curtis and
wife.