Alma record., 1917-07-05
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Pollasky were
Crystal visitors Monday
Mn and Mrs. r l.. McConkey were
Ithaca visitors last Friday.
Norma Tamhdge IN Fifty Fifty
Idlehour, Saturday Adv.
Final chapter Of The Secret King
dom"-ldlehour, Sunday.-Adv.
Attorney Romine Clark of ST Louis
was in Alma on business Monday.
r. l.. Smith left = the first Of the
week for d business trip to Jackson.
c. NJ Johnson and family visited
with his parents in Roscbush Sunday.
Mrs. c. l.. Lelavan of Ann Arbor
is "A guest Of relatives and friends
il this city.
Dr. and Mrs. +. G. Sluytcr spent
tho Fourth of July at Long Lake,
near Fenton.
Miss Dorothy jackson spent sun
day in Detroit with her brothers, Mil
ton and Harry
Clyde Creaser left Tuesday for De-
troit, where he viii visit with friends
for a few days.
City Clerk Carl Gallagher and City
Engineer Smith were in st. Johns on
business Monday.
Return showing of Fatty" Ar
buckle in The Butcher Boy'-Ide-
hour, Saturday.-Adv
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Rockwell and
MI and Mrs. G. V. Calkins spent
the Fourth at Reed City.
Drs. +. G. Sluyter & Taylor, os-
teopathic physicians, Vermeulen
block. Both phones-Adv.
Prof. and Mrs. Lester Sharp of
Ithaca are guests at the home Of the
formers father, l.. A. Sharp.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lang are the
proud parents Of an cieht-pound girl,
born last Saturday, June 30th.
Vincent Circle of NJ. r. Aid society
will meet with Mrs. Sarah Osborn on
Grover avenue, Thursday afternoon,
July 18th.
o. w. Swisher left Saturday to Wis
! il with his parents and other rela-
tives in the vicinity of Dowagiac,
Michigan.
Mrs. +. Brcarley and daughter,
Mrs. Elliot, have returned from a two
weeks visit at Columbus, Newark and
other Ohio points
Mr.. and Mrs Sam Osborn and fam
( lily of Bay City were guests at the
home Of M and Mrs J. J. Osborn
Saturday and Sunday.
The Misses Nelma and Mary Sharp
Of Washington, y. c., are guests at
the home Of their father, l.. A. Sharp.
during the summer months
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Barnes and fam
ily Of Toledo, Ohio. are spending ten
days az the nome or the formers par
cnts, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank W. Bar
nes.
Claude Derrick, who has been
working in this city for some time.
enlisted at the recruiting Office here
this week His home is in Brocton,
Illinois.
Mrs. Trapp. Miss Winefred Trapp
and Miss Frances Stitt arc attending
the Western State Normal summer
school, at Kalamazoo, for the six
weeks course.
Ralph Wagner of the Gratiot Coun-
ty Gas company. who has bee. spend
ING the past few months on business
through Tennessee and Georgia, has
returned to Alma.
Mrs. j. c. Gossctt returned from
Flint Monday, where she has been
visiting with her daughter, Miss
Laura, who is taking a course in the
Rauley hospital in that city
Charles Button, former Alma bar
ber, who has been in Mexico for his
health for some months, has return
ed to Lansing, and it is said that
there is no hope of recovery.
George Meyers, employment agent
at the Republic Motor Truck Compa-
ny, Inc, has enlisted in the thirty
third Michigan. He was in Saginaw
yesterday taking his examination.
A Republic truck is being fitted up
for the Alma Republic baseball team
of Michigan State league The team
will use the truck in its travels be-
tween Bay City, Saginaw and Flint. |
Mrs. 4. W. Humber and two chill |
dren, who have been visiting in Min !
neapolis, Minnesota, for the past few
weeks, returned to Alma the first of
the week. Mr.. Humber met them in /
Chicago
John j. Herman and wife. Mrs. |
Walter Coleman, and Louise and An
ma Herman Of Toledo, Ohio. were call /
ed here yesterday to attend the flu
neral of their brother-in-aw Char
les A. Sawkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G.. Rhodes |
were Grand Rapids visitors the latter
Part of last week While there they
spent a few hours with Prof. and
Mrs. +. F. Ellsworth Of Kalamazoo.
who were also visiting in Grand Rap |
ids.
The regular meeting of the Fran
ces Willard Union will be held july
18th. at the home of Mrs. W. H. Wal |
ton. Subject. christian Citizenship"
and one of the pastors will talk on
the subject. Roll call, Temperance
Clippings"
A card received by the Alma Record
brings the information that DR.. j.
T. Ewing of Alma college has gone TO
Chautauuua, New York. where he will