Alma record., 1914-01-08

Mrs. .. IL. Castle OF RiVerdale
visited with Mrs. J. M. Day last week.
Miss Anna Winn returned to her
school in Adrian Saturday morning.
Mrs. Mary Johnson of Edmore was
in Alma Saturday on business.
Read the advertisement of Hicok' S
Fur Coat sale.
A. r. Smith advertises a great re-
duction in shoes. Read his advt
Mrs. Burnie Dickson is visiting her
brother, Arthur Conklin, in Green
vile.
Mr.. A. ]. Shvely and wife of St.
Louis were Alma visitors Saturday
afternoon.
Miss May Kennedy of Mt. Pleas
ant was in Alma Friday visiting
friends.
M. L. Cr; ssett who has been sick
with pneumonia is reported as rest
ing nicely.
Walter Swope of the Riverdale ell
evator was an Alma visitor Monday
of this week.
Superintendent Mckinney of the
Bay City sugar factory was an Alma
visitor Saturday
Mrs. Anna Beeson of Toledo spent
last week at the home of Mrs. A. E.
Trapp of the city.
Catherine Luciel, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ira Swain. is quite sick at
the home of her parents.
Miss Edith Cook returned to Cleve-
land Saturday after spending the hol-
idays with her parents aud friends in
Alma.
The special sale of holiday and
winter goods at Browns Bazaar con-
tinues this week See last weeks
Record for list 1854 =
Miss Alta Crossett, who is attend
ing school in Ada, Ohio, was called
home Tuesday by the illness OF her
father, M. L. Crossett.
Harold Reynolds of Detroit and
Casey Carr of. Cassopolis attended
the New Years party at the Masonic
Home and spent the next day visit
ing their numerous friends in the
city.
Miss Elsie Boyer who for the past
two years or more has acted as cash
er at the Journal office expects to
leave January 10th for Pasadena,
California. where she will spend the
winter months
Miss Alma Axtel of Petoskey re-
ceived a $500 piano Christmas in a
piano contest held to decide the
finest musician. Miss Axtell is a
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Sloan OF this city.
A knocker is a poor asset to any
town, and the sooner we get rid of
them the better. Stay by the burg
don't go to foreign fields with your
patronage and expect your revenue
to come from your own town upon
which you have turned your back.
The editorial staff of the Maroon
and Cream began its strenuous work
during the last few days of vacation.
The staff is composed of Sidney Cook,
editor in chief, c. w. Carey, business
manager, and Miss Margaret Allen
and Arthur Simenton, associate edit
ors. They expect to make the annual
this year the best the college has ever
produced.
The Alma Illuminating Co., II. S.
Conner manager, with offices in the
Edwards hotel building on State
street, have increased their business
to such an extent that more room is
necessary and additional frontage is
being secured to the south of their
present location. The firm are be-
levers in newspaper advertising as
demonstrated by their advertisement
which appears from week to week in
the columns of the Record.
Dwight Won Thurn returned Fri
day from Rapid City, South Dakota
He left Alma last June and has beer
ranching on a six hundred acre al
falfa ranch in the Black hills. Dwight
will remain the rest of the winter a
the home of his parents, two mile.
east and one north of Alma. Mex
term he will complete his course il
Alma high AS Mr. Won Thurn il
recognized as very able athlete hi
services will again be appreciated b,
the students of Alma.
There is something the matter will
the man that is constantly talking
about the inferiority and decadenc,
of modern life, and who in so doini
extols the so-called good old times.
AS matter of fact the old time
were anything but good-they wer,
in the main bad, and if those peopl
who boast of the old times could b,
some transmigration be taken bacl
to them they would plead loudly t
be set free and return to this TWEEN
tieth century. In truth the man wh'
extols the past at the expense of tn
present is lacking in judgment or OBJ
servation, or else he is the victim o
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