Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-10-28
LOCAL NEWS

TO Vassar last Sunday.
Joseph Seaver of Ithaca was in tow
last Saturday on business.
Sheriff Newell Bradford of Ithaca
was in Alma Monday on business.
DIR. f. G. Sluyter, Osteopathic Ply
stefan, Vermuelen Block, Union phone
I47. adv.
The Board of Supervisors who were
in session last week, adjourned last
Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Rae of Grand
. Rapids spent Sunday with her sister
Mrs. ID. w. Adams.
w. S. Proud left last Saturday for
Charlotte, his former home, where he
will spend a week on business.
The Presbyterian Aid Society will
meet with Mrs. George Moore, sO7
State Street, Tuesday, November 2nd.
; S. +. Francis, manager of the Bell
Telephone Company at Mt Pleasant,
was calling on Alma friends Monday.
I Chas Burson local manager of the
. Gratiot County Gas Company of st.
Louis, was in Alma on business Mon
day
A. j. Hall and wife are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. III. n. Ronald at Thorntown,
Indiana, this week, making the trip
by auto.
Miss Mary Hamilton spent Sunday
with friends at Ann Arbor, taking in
the football game between Michigan
and NJ. A. c.
! b. G. Appleby and wife of Saginaw
were in Alma Saturday. Mr.. Appleby
is stock holder in the Gratiot County
Gas Company.
i w. c. Vliet of Chicago was i'm Alma
over Sunday with his family Mr.
Vliet is with the Studebaker Auto peo-
| pie in the windy city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Bieelow are the
happy parents of an eight pound boy,
arriving Saturday night. His grand
father, F. w. Clark, is doing we'll
Mrs. Byron Watson of Brecken-
ridge was elected Grand Warden at
the meeting of the Grand Lodge of the
o. +. S. at Battle Creek last week.
A tractor demonstration will be held
at 1880 o'clock, October 2sth on Wood
mere Farm, one mile south of Alma.
All farmers interested are invited to
attend
| l. NJ. Yerian and wife, on Wright
Avenue, entertained Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Seeley of Pennington over Sunday.
On Friday last they motored to Mt
Pleasant.
William Cameron, an old and re-
spected citizen of st. Louis, died at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Chas.
Harris, Sunday night. He was 90
years old
The Board of Supervisors OF Wash
tenaw county rejected the local option
petition presented in that county,
hence Washtenaw county will be dry
two years more.
Miss Eliza Emsley, the efficient
bookkeeper at the Studebaker Garage,
has been confined to the house for two
weeks. Her sister, Mrs. Bruce Fail
ing, is looking after her work.
Chas. Button returned home Tues
day from Ypsilanti. While handling
his trunk at the station he slipped,
and the trunk struck him, putting him
out of business. He will be laid up
for some weeks.
The Gratiot County Gas Company
are installing posts this week at
Breckenridge for their new street
| lighting system at that place. They
have been detained in the work, but
expect to turn lights on soon.
While walking home last Thursday
night, Mrs NJ. Pringle stepped off the
sidewalk into the gutter and broke
bone in her foot. She was immediate
ly taken to Saginaw where an x-ray
was used. The fracture was set and
she will be confined to her room for
some weeks.
The reputation of the Alma Grain
& Lumber Company, under the man
agement of Will Griffin, is fast coming
to the front. He reports the Roller
Mills two weeks behind on its orders,
and they are running it to its capa-
city. Alma is now considered one of
the best grain, hay and bean markets
in the county.
The Presbyterian Church Choir
composed of Hira Moore, Prof. Schultz
Malcolm Smith and Fred White, drove
over to Pompeii last Sunday evening
and furnished music for the County
Y. NJ. c. A rally at that place. Messrs.
Moore and Schultz made short talks.
A large crowd were present and a very
profitable meeting reported.
The streets of Alma were the scene
of disgraceful row last Friday night
as a result of which warrants were
issued for James Barry and Ollie
Worden. Barry took fine and Wor-
den was bound over to Circuit Court,
both for resisting an officer.
This is not the first offense of
Worden's and it is to be hoped he will
get the full extent Of the law Alma
of late has been very free from