Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-05-06


days in Portland the guest of relatives
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Gallagher of For
est Hill. visited friends in Alma, Sun
day.
Miss Helen Grimm spent Sunday in
North Star the guest of Miss Helen
Selby.
DR.. Gill is nicely located in his for
mer suite of rooms in the Pollasky
Block. Adv.
Miss Crystal Heron spent Satur-
day and Sunday in Elm Hall with re-
latives.
Miss Marion Shaver and Miss Ber-
nice Muscott of Ithaca were Alma Wis
itors, Friday.
Mrs. Wesley Parr went to Ferris
Center, Tuesday morning to visit re-
latives and friends.
Howard Handley spent Sunday in
Ithaca the guest of his aunt, Mrs.
Mary Thomas and family.
Mrand Mrs. NJ Levenson of Bay
City, were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ben Mindell and family.
Ex-County Drain Commissioner,
James Redman, was in Alma, Tuesday
afternoon, and called at the Record
Office.
Henry Soule went to Detroit, We'd
nesday, to start construction work on
house which he is building there
this spring.
The Cheemoan Camp Fire Group
will give Bake Goods at the Gas
Company office, Saturday, May Sth,
from II to 6 pm.
Charley Button and Laurence Eli
son spent Sunday and Monday in West
Branch, trout fishing. The boys re-
port good luck and fine catch.
Milton Holmes and Frank Ruggies
went to Detroit Tuesday afternoon to
attend "A convention of truck manu-
facturers which is to be held this week
in that city.
Rev. Wade l.. Frost, a 1912 gradu-
ate Of Alma College and for two years
pastor of the Congregational church
of Carson City, has been in Alma this
week visiting friends.
Miss Bertha Williams, student in
the college, who will graduate from
the kindergarten department in June,
left Wednesday morning for Flint,
where she has accepted a position as
teacher in a kindergarten.
Dwight Won Thurn, a freshman in
college, left this week for Fort Wayne
Indiana, where he will start out sell
ling books for the summer. He has
quit college but will resume his work
next fall.
Superintendent Larue of the Ithaca
Public schools and who was recently
elected to similar position in the ST.
Louis public schools, was in Alma
Monday to secure Paul Austin,
student in the college, as a teacher in
the high school at st. Louis.
Mrs. Jennie Dayton, for the past
two years an inmate of the Masonic
Home, died Sunday afternoon of can
Ger of the stomach after a long ill
ness. The remains were shipped to
Flint whre interment was made.
The deceased was seventy eight years
old.
"Chef" hewitt of Mt Pleasant, who
has been managing the Mt. Pleasant
Indian baseball team this spring and
who for several seasons was the lead
ing catcher of the South Michigan
league, visited with friends in Alma
Tuesday morning. He will play with
the London team OF the Canadian
league, this summer.
Mrs Gaffney went to Bay City
Tuesday morning in answer to a sub
poena to be a witness at the trial of
Purl Chaffee of Breckenridge, who
was arrested on suspicion of passing
counterfeit money. Mrs. Gaffney was
one Of the victims OF the counterfeit
err. The trial is being held in the I'm
tied States District court
Mr.. and Mrs Stephen Hill of Kaw-
kawlin, spent Sunday at the home of
Prof. and Mrs A. r. Cook Mr.. Hill
will be remembered as one Of the fin
est football and baseball stars ever
turned out at Alma college. He play
ed tackle on the football eleven and
first base on the baseball team Mrs.
Hill was formerly Miss Elevena Hoov-
er, 1908 graduate of the college.
Fred Slater put into operation
unique advertising idea, Saturday,
when he had four youngsters playing
in the sand in his font window for
two hours during the afternoon rush
The kids were dressed in rompers
which he is advertising extensively.
A diminutive dining table and CORE
spondingly diminutive chairs were also
placed in the window A large crowd
watched the window display all the
time.
Between seven and eight hundred
people attended the Spring Opening
Of c. V. Wright's new furniture store
Saturday. Repairs amounting to sew
eral thousand dollars have been made
on the new store and The opening was
a fitting celebration of the completion
Of the work In the afternoon Mrs.
Albert Hudson played the piano and
in the evening Medlcr orchestra fur