Alma record., 1917-04-05
STYLE SHOW
Windows Drew Large Crowd Out But
Rain Hurt Affair.

Ama's second annual style show
held on Wednesday evening OF this
week was far better than that Of last
year, in point Of window decorations
and displays, but was marred by
rain which started falling about the
time that the show opened, and which
continued through the night.
A large crowd was on the streets
early IN the evening, and thoroughly
enjoyed many of the pretty windows,
before the rain drove them in
side, or else to their several
homes Many comments of most
favorable nature were made in regard
to the various displays that the local
merchants had 1t is probable that
nearly thousand people were on the
streets early, before the rain, the ma
jority Of them being women of the city
and the territory Immediately ad-
jacent to Alma.
Very few in number were the mer-
chants who failed to do justice TO the
OCCASION and make some effort at
having their windows, decorated with
the new spring styles and designs.
Even the grocery stores and meat
markets entered into the spirit OF the
show this year, and decorated TO some
extent at least, with the various wares
for Easter eating.
Among the prettiest windows that
were to be seen Wednesday evening
number were worthy Of special men
ton The windows of the ID. w. Rob
inson dry goods store was most taste
~ decorated and trimmed. The last
word in the spring styles for ladies
were most neatly displayed and per-
haps these windows attracted more
attention than any others.
A display Of furniture, bed room
and reed furniture, greeted the eye
when one passed the G. v Wright
furniture store. The west window
was given over to the reed furniture
display and the east window TO the
bed room furniture display.
Morris Messenger, Slater 4 Goodies.
G. j. Maier and Falor & Son, brought
their choicest wear for men to the
front and most tastely decorated their
windows with everything that man
could desire in the way of wearing
apparel
The Crandell 4 Scott store carried
fine display in all of its three win
dows. A rug display took one win
dow, and "A pretty display of reed fur
niture took another. A display Of
splendid parlor furniture in the third
window was one Of the finest that AL
ma had.
J. A. Gerhardt and W. S. Proud
made great efforts to show some gayly
decorated windows and both succeed
ed, perhaps beyond their expectations.
The window Of the Cerhardt store
compared very favorably with any
other in the city. The Proud store
added a display Of shoes to its dry
goods display.
The Economy shoe store lead all
others in the display of shoes, with
two we'll decorated windows, which
carried the latest in the shoes line
for men and ladies. The A. r. Smith
shoe store also had a well decorated
windows.
The Deluxe candy store and the
Davis cigar store carried the most
unique displays. A candy American
flag in colors was the chief attraction
al the Deluxe, with Easter eggs, etc,
of candy completing the display. The
Davis cigar store made a clever at
tempt to show an airship in action.
The Ellison grocery, Eckert meat
market, Brunner's drug store, c. r.
Murphy's drug store. Miller Brothers
grocery and others carried some pref
ty decorated windows that made hits.