Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-06-28
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

- me Oh large ana small rugs II
Wright's furniture store. 97-1t-,
Jack Barkman of Breckenridge wa
ii Alma on business Monday.
Ralph Chisholm of Breckenridge,
was AN Alma visitor Tuesday.
Jack Robinson has sold the ole
Sam Wilcox residence TO Grin Full
Ter.
Miss Mae Wood of Mecosta visited
with Alma friends over the week
end.
DR.. +. G. Sluyter, osteopathic phys.
ician, Vermeulen block. Both phones
ADV.
George +. Sharrar left last Sat
urday for weeks business trip
through Oklahoma.
Mrs. s. f. Francis and family of
Mt. Pleasant visited with Alma
friends last Friday.
Mrs. Fred Rowland is III Grand
Rapids this week attending a conven-
ton Of music teachers.
Albert Frevert Of the Western Car
buretor company was in Grand Rap.
ids on business Tuesday.
"Chummy' Johnson Of the Michi-
gan Masonic home, visited with rela-
tiyes in Grand Rapids last week.
Mr. and Mrs 4. w Drummer are
spending few days in Detroit on a
combined business and pleasure trip.
Henry Schmidt Of Grand Rapids
has returned 10 this city where he
will BE employed again this summer.
4 Ernest Fuller, parcel post carrier
a. the post Office is enjoying a va
cation from his duties for short
time
Mr.. and Mrs. j. n. Day and daugh-
,tci, Mrs. Harry Taft, OF Worthwhile,
were Houghton Lake visitors last
week.
Prosecuting Attorney Q. L. Smith
e. Ithaca was in Alma on business
Monday
L. a. Sharp. who has been
in the east on a two weeks business
trip, returned 10 his home in Alma
the latter part of last week.
Mrs. +. w Moore and two sons Of
Winona, Mimi, who were called here
by the death of Alberta Durham, re-
turned to their home Tuesday.
Nh. and Mrs. Francis King. who
have been visiting in various points
IN the east for the past two weeks,
have returned to their home in this
city.
Richard Willoughby of Perrinton
and Mr. Sandell of Elwell enlisted
through Postmaster Cash Monday.
Willoughby will go to the navy and
Sandell TO the army.
Professor and Mrs. Keats Vining OF
Fremont visited with Alma friends
Saturday on their way to Mt. Pleas
ant, whore Professor Vining will
teach in the Normal summer school.
August f. Bruske of Ypsilanti, for
mer president of Alma college, was
in Alma OH a combined business and
pleasure trip the fore part of the
week.
Copies Of the official bulletin, pub
lished by the government, and contain
ing news of the government actvi-
ties, are hung in the lobby of the post
office, where they can be seen by
those interested
Work on the new Dallas block on
South State street is being rushed
rapidly i'm order that the building may
be completed at an early date for the
post Office. The bricklayers are now
busy with the patchwork, which will
soon be completed.
The Western Union telegraph Of
fee is now completely fitted up with
new counters, with marble bases, etc.
The windows have been given a few
artistic touches by the way Of signs,
making it look like genuine city Of
fee for the first time.
The Misses Annetta and Bertha Nc
Laren left yesterday morning for
Newark, Ohio, where they are attend
ing the wedding Of Miss Mildred Robe
end Robert Paul Sachs, both Of that
city. The wedding took place today.
Miss Robe Is well known IN this city.
Wcrkmen were busy the fore part
of the week shifting the old switch
track to the p " freight depot, over
to q platform by the new depot The
track was showed over about twenty
feet at the west end, near State
street, to get ii in the desired posi-
ton.
The forms for the concrete work
for the Merchants Building compa-
ny's new structure on South State
street are about ready for the con.
crete, rs the steel re enforcement is
now practically all in place 1t is
probable that this coming week will
see workmen putting in the concrete.
An adjourned council meeting was
to have been held last Thursday even
ing, bat not enough members Of the
council showed up for a quorum and
no meeting could be held. The pro-
liabilities are that most Of the mem
bers were enjoying an evening off and
taking in the high school commence
ment exercises.
a letter received this week informs
the Record that Miss Cora Dunlap is
attending the summer school Of the
Western State Normal at Kalama-
zoo. 1t also mentions the efforts Of
Chairman J. Writ Cunning to raise
$4,000 in one day for the Red Cross.
Cunning, pastor in Kalamazoo, is
graduate of Alma college.
The rooms for the McPhaul barber
shop in the basement Of the Pollasky