Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-12-20
Watch the horse.-Adv.


ADV.
You will find the best bread in
Butter Cup wrappers. OFT
Jane Cowl in Spreading the Dawn"
Observation-Disclosures.
Walter Caple of this city was in
Clare on business Tuesday.
VIM. S. Hart in "The Disciple. -
ldlehour-Xmas day.-Adv.
Billie Burke in "Arms and the Girl
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Prosecuting Attorney Ora l.. Smith
was in Alma on business Saturday.
Sheriff Newell Bradford of Ithaca
was in the city on business Saturday.
Marguerite Clark in "The Valen-
tine Girl" 49, Idlehour.-M Monday
Adv.
Bryant Washburn and Honey in
"Skinner's Baby Friday.
ADV.
Mrs. Jack Robson is reported as be-
ing i'll with pneumonia at her home
or Park avenue.
+. L. Smith of the Republic Motor
Truck Company. Inc, was in Saginaw
or legal business Monday.
We wish one and all a merry Xmas
and feel assured you have bought
your past years supply of baked goods
from the Model Bakery.-Adv.
Will sell 5-room bungalow; with
furnace; modern improvements guar
anteed; small rent pays for it. Act
quick. Mr.. Drew. care of Alma De
velopment Go. 22-lt-c
The free reading room announces
that it will now be open from three
o'clock until ten o'clock p. m, and also
that the Ladies Home Journal is now
being received.
Mrs. Edward Brehm of Minneapolis,
Mimi. is "A guest at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. II. Shepard
She will be joined the first of the
week by Mr.. Brehm and they will
spend the holidays here.
| Word has been received from friends
of c. c. Thompson, former resident
and business man of Alma, that he
had just suffered from the second
stroke of paralysis and was in "a very
critical condition at a hospital in Fs-
canada.
! Will the parties who took the cream
/ pitchers from the school house Sept. 4
/ the day of the Red Cross banquet to
the departing soldiers, please return
the same to the Red Cross room, No
IL Pollasky Block, or the Red Cross
will have to pay for same.
A display of articles which Thomas
Arnold Robinson brought from the
battle fields of France are on display
at the Economy Shoe store. Among
these is the steel helmet worn by Mr.
Robinson. two gas masks which he
used, two brass vases, made out of ex-
ploded French as" shells. and Ger
man steel helmet
Word comes from kirksville, Mo-
TO the effect that DR.. +. e.. Sluyter
late of this city, has been appointed
inferno under DR.. George Still, one of
the best surgeons in the W. S. hospital
at Kirksville. Only six get the priv
ilege of taking the examination each
semester and. of the six DR.. Sluytel
was the high man and landed the
place.
Robert Notestein, who is attending
the college of Wooster this year.
where he is classified as senior, is
spending the holidays at the home
of his parents, Professor and Mrs. F.
~ Notestein, of this city.
Clarence Hateman, who is teaching
in Grand Haven this year, is visiting
with Alma friends today.
Miss Ruth Durham, a senior North
western University this year, arrived
today for week and halls visit at
the home Of her mother, Mrs. H. NJ.
Durham. Impedately after New
Years she will go to Mortified, Mass,
where she will attend the national
meeting of the Y w. c. A., as one of
the three delegates from her univer-
sity.
Word received from Piqua, Ohio, is
tc the effect that Bert Hayes, Jr.,
formerly of this city, has sold his
hotel in Urbana. Ohio, which he has
been conducting for the past three
years and that he has taken position
as manager of the Taylor Rolling
Kitchen company of Mansfield, Ohio.
which is making kitchens for the
army 1t is said that this company
is enjoying a great business and a
rapid growth AT the present time. Mr..
and Mrs. Hayes and family will locate
IN ManSfield Janlarv