Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-07-29
LOCAL NEWS

Mrs. p. M. Smith, went to Bass Lake,
this morning, to spend the day.
Miss Lura Schoenhals of Chelsea,
is visiting at the home of her uncle
E. w. Lake, for couple of weeks.
Homer Kipp, of Lorain, Ohio, who
is visiting John Chick, went with the
latter, to Bear Lake, near Summit,
to fish, Tuesday.
James Klein of Canton, Ohio, re-
turned to Alma, Wednesday morning
to spend a few days visiting with
friends in Alma and st. Louis.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Church of Christ, will meet Wednes-
day, August 4th, in the city park. A
pot-luck dinner will be served at noon.
George Bahlke has purchased the
Frank Pollasky property on Gratiot
avenue. He will remove the house
and build a new one, in the immedi-
ate future.
Ray Tomlin, Charles Daily, Orville
Allen, Ernest Seig, and T. R. Sprague
will leave Saturday evening for
Houghton Lake, where they will spend
the week end
Booster Day found all the mer-
chants busy handling the trade, but it
was hardly up to previous day in
point of business done. Farmers are
apparently too occupied with their
wheat crops to think about the bar
gain counters.
Six or seven automobile loads Of
Alma people will leave Sunday morn
ing for Clare, where they will spend
the day with Walter Caple and fam
lily on their farm near Clare. The
members of the party will take pot
| luck dinners with them.
Kenneth Priest who has been con-
fined to Saginaw General hospital for
some time following an operation for
appendicitis is some better today and
though not entirely out of danger the
doctors are very hopeful for his ulti-
mate recovery.
Thirty business men from Mt.
Pleasant, motored to Alma, Wednesday
morning. At noon they took dinner
at the Wright House. They visited
several of Alma's factories, the King
gardens and the business section of
the city. They returned in the after
noon loud in their praises of Alma's
growth and beauty.
Miss Iva Pulfrey has received a tel
egram from the Mayo Brothers hos
pital at Rochester, Minnesota, Tues
the hospital Immediately to assist in a
critical operative case of which one of
the Mayo Brothers will have charge,
Miss Pulfrey took her post graduate
nursing work in this hospital. That
she should be called from this distance
to assist in a big case is certainly a
fine recommendation for her skill. The
Mayo Brothers are undoubtedly the
best known surgeons in the United
States
Miss Florence Strong of this city
with fifty thousand, two hundred
thirty votes won a free trip to the
Panama-Pacific Exposition in the
Grand Rapids News contest She won
the most votes in District 8, embrac-
ing the counties of Kalkaska, Miss
aukee, Osceola, Mecosta, Gratiot, Is
abella and Clare. Ten young women
will be in the party which will leave
the first of August and return on the
twenty fourth.
Ezra Smith representing the Re.
public people, presented to the com
mon council, Tuesday evening, 9
proposition relative to the purchase
by the city, of the new fire truck
The matter was referred to the fire
committee and some action will be
taken before the next meeting al
which the proposition will undoubted
ly be approved or turned down. The
fire truck made big hit at the state
fireman's association convention al
Petoskey, and the company expect:
some orders in the near future.
The trees in Church Park have beer
trimmed up and the rubbish in tn,
park removed so that the appearance
of the place has been improved i'm
mensely. 1t will be a most delight
full place for picnics, in the future
when high river doesn't overflow. in
to the park. Twenty five dollars judi
ciously spent would make the Church
park a rival of the city park in beau
ty. Should anyone give twenty fiv,
dollars between now and the mex
publication day, the fact would receiv,
most honorable mention.