Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-07-01
LOCAL NEW S

|. MHlOn iiOlileS anu ldIllly anu Idih
Ruggles and family, spent Sunday at
Crystal Lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Mclaughlin and
brother George. spent Sunday with
friends north of Forest Hill.
The Methodist Aid Society will
serve dinner and supper Circus Day in
the church parlors for % cents per
plate.
A mans own opinion of himself is
fully as reliable as the forecasts Of
the party vote made by the party lead
er just before the vote begins TO come
in.
a girl in love will never admit that
all men are alike. A few years after
marriage she may be Of the same o.
pinion still-she may think hers is the
worst.
Miss Mary Rose who has been visit
ing friends in Sheridan and Edmore,
for the past week visited with friends
in Alma, Monday morning on her way
to her home in North Star.
After a girl has been engaged seven
or eight years she begins to wonder
if that is the length of time hubby
would require in which to fulfill the
promises made after marriage
A revolutionist is usually somebody
who is too cowardly to risk his own
life, to get something he desires, so
he becomes a leader of the down
trodden and sizes them on from the
rear.
The Ringing Bros. circus is per-
feet city in itself, visiting a different
locality almost every day for 200 con-
secutive days, travelling approximate
ly 10000 miles in a season, yet moving
with more system and with less fuss
and noise than any branch of the
army.
When conditions are such as to
make you wish to sit down and wait
for things to become more propitious,
that is the time to get out and hustle,
for your competitors with less energy
than yourself will be doing what you
wished to do and you will have the
field all to yourself.
When annexed to the city Of Alma
on circus day, Wednesday, July Z, il
will add TO the local population a Bah
el like throng of nearly 400 people
These will come from every part of
the world for the majority of the per
formers are foreigners and making
their first tour of this country. The
canvas city will stretch over 20 acres
and in addition to its people will com
prise 1875 horses, Al elephants, 10 ze-
bras and more than a thousand wild
animals.
The circus will come mere on SO dou-
ble-length railroad cars This sea
sons main tent is the largest the
. Ringing Brothers have ever used. Ii
. has been built not only to accommodate
the circus program but also arranged
|. for the massive spectacle Of Solomoi
and the Queen Of Sheba. This newly
! added production requires a cast OF
5 $50 people, hundreds of dancing girl.
caravan of camels and special seen
cry, costumes and electrical effects
This makes necessary the carrying OF
! stage Of tremendous proportions.
At present there is scarcely an emp
ty house of any kind in Alma. Thii
!. lack of house has sent rent soaring
I sky high making il a fine thing for th,
Z property owner but rather hard on tn,
. renter. As a result OF the shortage
: many men working IN the factoies, es
! pecially in the Republic, are renting
j. homes in st. Louis. coming to Alma il
: the morning and returning to St Lou
!. is at night. This stringency in work
ing mems homes should be alleviate,
|. Immediately for Alma can i'll affor,
{ not to house her working men. W.
want and need the working men t,
live here.
The biggest shipment Of empty mill
cans ever made out Of Alma, or on,
. train, left on the evening west bornc
. train, Thursday evening. There was
Z two hundred fifty six empties sent on
. OF stations between here and Crane
+ Rapids. The total weight of the emp
) ty cans alone was over two tons anC
9 a half When they came TO the Swif
} COMPANY with their contents of cream
: they weighed twelve and one half tons
z or twenty five thousand six hundred
: pounds. Swift & Company is doing
Z a remarkably big business, in othe
! products as we'll as in cream and but
6 ter. On several Of the trains coming
!. to Alma, milk car has been added Z
Z care for the enormously increasing
z cream shipments.
II One of the most interesting of tn
Y several circus Departments is that il