Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-08-12
LOCAL NEWS

friends IN Alma, Monday morning.
Miss Virginia Mikesell visited
friends in Flint, the fore part Of the
week.
Mrs. " p. Cash and daughter Miss
Mildred are spending the week at
Crystal Lake.
A. l. Barber of Mason is visiting
his daughter Mrs. Floyd Glass, on Ely
street, this week.
Miss Mildred Allen, left Monday to
spend two weeks with friends in Sag
inaw and Detroit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Duffield of Tole-
do, are visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Harvey.
j. w. Holmes of Lansing, is visiting
at the home of his son Milton, on Ora
tiot avenue, this week.
! Miss Irma Osborn went to Bay City
Monday morning, to visit with friends
! for a week or ten days.
Miss Sarah Malt of Saginaw, is
spending a week with her sister Miss
Louise Malt, of this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. j. Alverson of It'll
AGA, spent the day, Wednesday, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. NJ. McLaren.
Mrs. j. Frank Jackson who is in
the General Hospital of Saginaw, is
making very satisfactory progress.
Miss Ariel Cargo of Bellevue, Mich
igan, is spending Chautauqua week
with Miss Grace Allen on State street.
All orders for three strand switches
brought in this month will be made
for fifty cents. Mrs. A. Ravelin. adv.
Mr. and Mrs. f. NJ. Wood went to
Harrison, Wednesday morning to
spend a weeks vacation with rela-
tives.
Mrs. +. S. Hubbell on Grafton ave
nue. has an Auratum lily in blossom.
Last year there were thirty blossoms
on it.
Rev. Brownlow has relegated his
Brush Runabout to the second hand
dealer and has purchased a new Ford
Runabout.
Bert Pulfrey of Saginaw, motored
to Alma, Sunday, to visit his parents,
George Pulfrey and wife, on West Su-
perior street.
The Motor Truck company has
changed its pay days from the second
and the seventeenth of each month to
the fifth and twentieth.
Mrs J. p. Losey, and little son
Philip. went to Yale and Lapeer and
other Thumb towns for ten-day Wis
It, Tuesday, with her husbands rela-
tives.
Ezra L. Smith returned from a trip
to oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tues
day evening. where he was on business
for the Republic Motor Truck COM
pany.
Do not forget your gas bill. Owing
to the fact that the fifteenth falls on
Sunday, payment of gas bills on Mon
day the sixteenth, will save the dis
count.
Edward Johnson of Yale, who has
been spending the past week at his
parents home, returned to Alma, Fri
day night, to take up his duties at the
Wright House.
George Clark, the proprietor of a
poolroom and lunch room in st. Louis
dropped dead of heart trouble while
umpiring a baseball game in St.
Louis, Saturday.
Mrs. Sylvia Gaffney left Monday
morning, for Cleveland and Chicago
where she will purchase her fall stock
of millinery goods. She will be gone
/ for about two weeks.
Arnold Robinson, Edward Johnson,
Alger Wood, John Gaffney and Addi-
son Wilson attended the field day cell
ebration in Merrill, Wednesday, motor
ing there in Mr.. Robinson's car
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Wilson and sor,
( Lloyd, from Oxford, accompanied by
Miss Maude Green of Lapeer. have
been visiting old friends here, the
past few days. returning home by way
Of Lansing.
Word has been received from d. L..
Johnson, who is touring a few of the
eastern states with his family, that
they are having a fine time. ID. l..
says that ne did the Falls at Niagara
/ i'm record time.
Miss Annette McLaren returned
Monday evening from a visit at the
home of her sister in Detroit She
was accompanied by her sitter Mrs.
S. w. Knapp, who will visit for a
few weeks in Alma and Ithaca.
Mr. and Mrs. F. w. Balch of Three
Rivers, was in Alma, Wednesday,
transacting business and calling on
old friends Mr.. Balch was formerly
an Alma merchant and is now in the
furniture and undertaking business in
Three Rivers.
DIR. F. r. McNabb has withdrawn
his racer from the Ithaca track and
has taken it TO the Breckenridge track
in preparation for the coming races
to be held there and in ST. Louis, un-
der the auspices Of the Driving Club
Of the three towns, elsewhere men
toned.
The CITY band gives a CONCERT every