Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-04-15
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Messengers store. loS3-tf.
Rollo Allen of Wheeler was an Al
ma visitor Wednesday,
Miss Vida Granger visited friends
in Breckenridge Tuesday.
l.ote Adams made business trip
TO ST. Louis Wednesday.
Charles Button maze a business
trip to St. Louis Wednesday.
L. NJ Johnson made a business trip
to breckenridge Wednesday.
Carl Wood of Forest Hill was in
Alma on business Wednesday.
James Snepp Of Riverdale was in
Alma on business Wednesday.
Simon Messenger entertained COM
pany from ST. Louis, Wednesday.
Hubert Walker and Vera Handley
were Ithaca visitors Wednesday.
c. +. Brown is moving to the Blan-
chard house on State st. this week.
Fred Rowland is entertaining his
father, of Praryville, Mich, this week.
J. d. Holman auctioneered the Big
Public Sale at Vestaburg Saturday.
Ralph Chisholm spent Wednesday
evening in Breckenridge with his par
ents.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Oswald are
spending a few days at St.Louis with
friends.
Hon. j. w. Holmes of Lansing was
IN Alma Wednesday calling on his
many friends.
Miss Margaret Allen and Miss lrma
Johnson made a business trip to Mt.
leasant, Monday.
Merle Keene and Francis Mitchell
spent Thur lay and Friday in De
-0it on business.
VIII Griffith, who is auditing books
.ior the several Michigan Sugar Co.'S
plants, WAS here on Sunday.
Lloyd Smith of the Brer--f and
mith Meat Co., of ST. Louis, trans
ctcd business in Alma Wednesday.
M Y Salter o. Ithaca was caller
Oh tire Record Monday ON his way
home from business trip to Saginaw.
Mis- LeontiGe Messenger returned
I'D Bay City Monday morning after
spending the.week end with her par
ents.
Manager Dickinson of Libby, Me
Neal Libby, Of Stanton was in Alma
7 lay DOSING for a house prepa-
tory TO moving to Alma.
Miss lossie Clark returned TO Ches-
aning Monday morning where she is
teaching school, after spending the
vacation week with her parents Mr..
and Mrs..Tom Clark
Lee Fenburg of Pine River township
was taken before Judge Mann at AL
ma, Friday on the charge of not send
ing his son to school. He was given
eight days in the county Jail.
Mrs. John Day and daughters Rua
and Mrs. James Ostrander spent sew
eraI days of last week with friends in
Alma, Mrs. Day and Mrs. Ostrander
returned to Houghten Lake Monday
noon.
Ward Hodge, who attends Alma
college, left for Saginaw Wednesday
evening. He was joined by his father
b. l.. Hodge at Breckenridge Thurs
day in that city looking over various
automobiles.
G. V. Wright was in Detroit last
Saturday to lay in complete supply
of rugs costing approximately eight
hundred dollars. While there he also
purchased a new Ford car which he
brought home with him.
Annie Lancashire was in Alma
Tuesday and Wednesday visiting at
the home of Charles c. Rhodes and
attending to the interests of the
Wright estate He left for New
/ York Wednesday afternoon.
The stag party which was to have
been given by Messrs. Blakely, Ger
Der, Slater, Ward and Gardner Fri
day evening, April 10th, has been
postponed to Friday evening, April
23d, on account of the Glee Club
concert which is to be given tomor-
row night.
A Get Together, dinner to which
all the students and townspeople are
invited, will be held in the dining hall
of Wright Hall Thursday evening,
April 22nd, at six o'clock. This will
take the place of the football ban
quet which was not held this year.
The price of admission will be thirty
cents. with an invitation TO all to at
tend.
| N. T. Fenner who has owned and
run the blacksmith shop on w. Su-
perior St. just east of the cement
feed barn owned by Frank Clark, sold
out his interests last week to the
Kean brothers Of Breckenridge who
come to Alma with the highest re-
concentrations for honest and eff
cient workmanship.
Frank Smith the Maxwell" dealer,
spent the first part of last week with
friends at Traverse City. From there
he drove a Maxwell touring car to
Detroit on business, and Mr.. Smith
states that he drove through right af-
ter the two big storms and had very
little trouble in making the trip al
though several other cars were get
ting stuck in the mud
One Of the series of sem-weekly
banquets which have been held for the
past winter by the Knights of Pythias
lodge was given last Thursday even
ing by the committe headed by Henry
Soule. Instead of following the usual
order of procedure the banquet was
held first and the program of lodge
work was given afterwards. The
toasts We're omitted. The banquet be-
gan at six o'clock and following it j.
b. Marks was given the third degree.
The new regalia, robes etc. were used
for the frst time.
While the affirmative team of Alma
College debaters were succumbing to
the skill of the Hope College debaters
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