Alma record., 1913-01-02
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Write it 1918.

Archie Brown was in Ithaca Mon
day.
]. P. Losey returned Friday from
Saginaw.
]. w. Blakely transacted business
III Ithaca Saturday.
V. c. Wright was in Riverdale
Monday evening.
Will DeOrmond janitor of Wright
Hall is seriously i'll.
Fred II. Rowland was in Shepherd
Wednesday morning.
VIM. A. Bahlke was in Ithaca on
business Friday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs Ira Swain are visiting
friends in Kalamazoo this week.
Thomas Mayes opened shoe shop
in A Hunters building last week.
Frank Powers was taken home to
Ithaca from Brainerd hospital Friday
Miss Lucille Gardner was quite sick
during the latter part of Christmas
week.
DR.. c. B. Gardner and family visit
ed Christmas day with his parents in
Howell.
Joe Watkins, manager of Alma FL
evator Co., was in Grand Rapids
Tuesday.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Adolphus
Root of Hanna avenue, girl Christ
mas night.
DR.. Blaisdell of Alma college will
address a mems Bible class in Lam
sing next Sunday.
Mrs. John Daughty, nee Margaret
Stuckey, returned to her home in
Cadillac Monday
a. B Champion of Delphi. Ind,
was a guest OF George Ricketts, and
family last week.
Mrs. Amelia Halsted, mother of A.
A. Chick of Wright avenue, is visit
ing the son and family.
H. A. Disc of Grand Rapids has
accepted the position of cashier at
the Alma roller mills.
c. F. Walton, son-in-law of c. F.
Gongwer, returned Monday to his
home in Ashland, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Carter of Ar
cada township spent Sunday with a.
II. Olmsted and family.
Rev. J. w. Priest was called away
Friday afternoon to take charge of a
funeral service i'll Fenton.
Miss Myrtle Creaser who has been
teaching in Cheboygan is spending
the holidays with her parents.
Ira Swain was the recipient of a
bear skin sent by his brother Floyd
of Illahe, Oregon, this week.
G.. w. Pulfrey, wife and two daugh-
tiers ate Christmas dinner with their
son II. G.. Pulfrey of Saginaw
During Christmas week ten cards
were dropped into the local post Of
fee bearing no address whatever.
Attorney O. G. Tuttle of Ithaca
was in Alma Tuesday on business and
i'll Breckenridge in the afternoon.
Rev. N. p. Brown has announced
revival meetings to begin i'll Sumner
Center Tuesday evening, Dec. 31st.
The roads for the last week of De-
cember are pronounced by autoists
as the best they have been for years.
The one year old baby boy of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Irwin of Court
street died Tuesday of whooping
cough.
James L. Miller, who formerly
worked in the Roller mills is now
packing bran in mill in Grand
Rapids.
Frank Andrews OF Omena, better
known as Pink, spent the first of
the week in Alma the guest of Foster
Frakcr.
Mrs. Sylvia Miller of Ithaca and
Mrs Barbara Smith of Middleton
spent Tuesday at the home of II. b.
Stuckey
\ nine-pound boy arrived at. the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. George Sax
ton of River avenue. Wednesday
morning.
y. N sDlllllil ldN DOuSll ONl llN
shoe business of Mr. Geo. l.. Rickets
and will continue the business at the
old stand.
DR.. and Mrs. Suydam with Mr.. and
Mrs Frank Barnes spent New Years
day with the doctors brother, Ira, of
ST. Louis
+. Joslyn OF Grand Island. Neb.,
arrived at the home OF his sister Mrs.
+. J. Lyon of State street last week
FOR visit
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Hill OF 5ll Wal
nut were rcjoiced Sunday morning by
the advent to their home of a six
pound baby girl.
Hell Clark and family OF St. Johns
spent Christmas week with his pa
rents Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Clark OF
Pine River avenue.