Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-09-16

Francis King went to Saginaw on
business this morning.
DR.. and Mrs. Andrews of st. Louis
visited friends in Alma Tuesday.
w. O. Watson of Breckenridge was
in Alma on business Wednesday.
DR.. Z. G. Sluyter, Osteopathic Ply
stefan, Vermuelen Block, Union phons
AZ. adv.
Latest styles in fall and winter
hats at Mrs. Gaffney's Style Shop
Will Davis of Detroit is spending a
few days visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. o. Davis.
Mrs. l.. N. Baker was in Saginaw
Tuesday at the bedside of her brother
who is dangerously i'll.
Ammi Lancashire sailed for Europe
with W. II. Powell, a newspaper war
correspondent, last week.
Mrs. George II. Smith is visiting
her son and daughter at Rockford
and Grand Rapids this week.
S. +. Francis of Mt.Pleasant, mana
ger of the Bell Telephone Of that city,
was in Alma on business Tuesday.
John Seeley of Caro- was in Alma
today with his son, who will enter
the college next week as a freshman.
VIII Moody of Forest Hill is en-
ployed in the Crandell & Scott Furni-
ture store, He started work Monday
morning.
c. NJ. Johnson, the Ford man, was
in Detroit the fore part of the week
securing a few cars for Gratiot
county customers.
Mrs. Arthur Little of Rantoul, Hi
nois, and two little boys are visiting
her brother, Douglas Putnam of this
city for two weeks.
Miss Harriet Stanton of Lansing
and Claire Going Of Riverdale were
married in Mt. Pleasant Wednesday.
They will live near Alma.
Anderson & Hauck are rearranging
the interior of their general store on
East Superior Street. New shelves
have been installed and neat show win
dows fixed up.
Miner & Son began the installation
Of their ice cream and soda fountain
the fore part of this week 1t is one
of the latest models and is a fine add
ton TO their store equipment.
Miss Helen Lancashire, who has
been doing Red Cross work in France
for the past year returned to the
United States and the home Of her
parents in Manchester, Massachusetts,
last week.
Theodore Higbee, 1914 graduate
Of the college, who has been working
in New York City for the past year.
arrived in Alma Tuesday evening and
will spend few days visiting old
friends in the city
Clarence H. Jessup, who has been
selling books in Indiana and Ohio dur
/ ing the vacation months returned to
Alma Friday to take up his work
in the college next week. He will en-
ter in the sophomore class.
George II. Smith received a car
load of Holland furnaces the fore part
of the week and is busy distributing
them throughout this part of the
county. Mr.. Smith has been very
successful in the sale of this furnace.
George K. Avery of Cedar Lake
brought in a most remarkable stalk
of Vicks Cardinal Asters to the
Record Office Tuesday morning
There were nineteen blossoms on the
stalk. Everyone Of them was large
and of magnificent coloring.
Marshall Allen Macdonald, a lusty
ten-pound young man, arrived at the
home of his grand parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. j. Fraker, Tuesday morning.
The mother was formerly Miss Lois
Fraker and the young son are both
doing finely.
Mrs. Howard Willard was called
to Perrinton Friday morning because
Of the serious illness Of her aunt, Mrs.
Charles Herrick Mrs. Herrick passed
away Monday morning. The funeral
was held Wednesday morning at
eleven o'clock
Mr. and Mrs. Brearley's grand
daughter, Gertrude n. Elliot of 1170
Fourth Avenue, Detroit, took second
prize in the show for girl babies
from cities over ten thousand at the
Michigan State Fair at Detroit the
fore part of this week.
Mccullough & Besore have pur-
chased a new fiat work roner for
their laundry. 1t will replace an old
one that was too small for their
growing business. The purchase
price of the new machine was thir-
teen hundred dollars.
MONTAGUE SURPRISED
Over seventy-fve members of the
Alma Lodge No. PA, Free and Ac-
cepted Masons gave a most delightful
surprise party in honor of Herbert
Montague, Superintendent of the
Michigan Masonic Home, Friday even
ing. 1t was in the nature of birth