Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-01-20
LOCAL NEWS

week.
Mrs. G. V. Wright and son are
spending the week with her parents at
Crystal.
DR.. +. G. Sluyter, Osteopathic ply
stefan Vermeulen block, Union phone
47.-Adv.
Donald HOLMAN of Kalamazoo is
the guest of his uncle, +. l.. McConkey
this week.
Mrs. V. F. Scott of Breckenridge
was called to Ohio TO the sick bed of
her father.
+. L. Smith of the Republic Truck
Co., is in Detroit this week attending
the auto show.
A G. Leitch, manager of the Gratiot
County Gas Co., was in Saginaw on
business Monday.
Emmett Shaw has sold his property
and has moved his family to West
Middletown, Ohio.
George Willard who has been very
sick for some days is in very critical
condition at this writing.
An eight pound boy came TO the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy d. Perry
of Arcadia township Jan. 15
Mr.. and Mrs. f. NJ. May attended
the auto show at Detroit last week
and remainded over Sunday.
T. A. Burt OF Urbana, H., member
of the Sharrar, Burt Land Co., OF this
place is in Alma this week on bust
ness.
Floyd Gargett, assistant salesman
ager OF the Republic Motor Truck Co.,
attended the auto show at Cleveland
last week.
Rev Louis Brooks of Alma and
Kendall Brooks of Mt. Pleasant,
former Alma college students were i'm
Alma Monday.
G. V. Wright fixed up a pair of new
iy weds with load Of furniture last
Monday, They will reside ten miles
north of St. Louis.
Will and Mrs. Jennie Convis of
Dakota, brother and sister of Frank
Convis of Ithaca were guests of Alma
friends last Monday
Fred Newgreen of St. Louis who
has been an employ of the State Board
of Health for ~ years called on Alma
friends last Tuesday.
Several of our local horsemen took
in the matinee at st. Louis last Tues
day afternoon. Some of them took
their speed with them.
Harry Patterson and his new bride
returned to Alma Monday night.
Harry looks as happy as king but
says he wants house.
Miner & Son and j. w. Miller our
two ice dealers are busy putting up
what they pronounce first class
grade of ice this week.
The Pension Bureau has recently
granted a Widows Pension to Mrs. j.
b. Tubbs of Elwell Mrs. Tubbs was
formerly an Alma resident.
During the cold weather the fore
part of the week two employees of the
Republic Truck Co., froze their ears
while testing out new machines.
|. II. McKinnie. superintendent of
the local plant of the Michigan Sugar
Co., and wife left Saturday for a
visit whit friends at Sterling, III.
The annual meeting of the Presby-
terrain Fortnight club will be held at
the home of Mrs. j. f Mitchell, 41S
State street Tuesday p m. Jan. 25th.
M. A. Holmes, sales manager of the
Republic Truck Co., spent Friday and
Saturday at the auto show in Detroit,
in interests of the Truck company.
r. B. Wagner, Secretary of the
Gratiot County Gas Company returned
Tuesday evening from a two weeks
business trip TO Chicago and Grand
Rapids.
Miss Pella Z. Alberton, of Greenville
has taken charge of the coat and suit
department of the ID. w. Robinson
store. Miss Albertson comes well
recommended.
Ira Hatch a former Alma college
student, now located at Cleveland, at
tended a meeting of the board of
trustees of Alma college last Monday
of which he is a member.
Rev. w. X. Spencer former pastor Of
the Presbyterian church of this place
now a resident Of Ionia, attended
meeting Of the board of trustees of
Alma college last Monday.
The Republic Motor Truck Co,
tested out on the streets Wednesday
morning a Bakery Truck for the
Stretcher Baking Co., Of Logansport,
Ind. The truck is painted white, with
covered seat and special equipment
for bakery business.
Mrs. f. F. Gray, special map com
mittee of the Associations of Gratiot
County Sunday Schools reports that
several schools have failed to respond
to simply forgetting to attend to it,
to simply forgetting to attend tit
We urge immediate cooperation by
those who approve the plan and desire
the honor Delay binders the full sue
cess of the work The services of the
officials is all gratis, money being
asked only to partly cover actual ex-
penses. Ithaca 1-17-15.