Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1917-09-20
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS


Butter Gun wrappers. OFT
ldlehour, Friday, opening chapter
THE Fatal Ring. adv
Return Of Civilization"
at Genesta theatre soon.-Adv.
A dance will be held at the !. O. o..
r. hall at Elwell Friday evening.
Hear Evangelist j. S. Raum at the
Church Of Christ Sunday night 09-l-c.
Idlehour, Friday, final chapter THE
Mystery OF the Double Cross."-Adv.
Douglas Fairbanks in In Again,
Out Again. Idlehour, Sunday and
Monday-Adv.
Harry Gerber is in Ann Arbor,
where he is undergoing slight oper-
alton this week
/ Webb Mccall Of the Gratiot County
Herald at Ithaca, was in Alma on
business Tuesday.
T.. W. Creaser transacted business
in Riverdale Monday, and Tuesday
was in Ithaca on business.
Attend the~free lecture on Christian
Science Sept. 9th, at eight o'clock,
Wright opera house Alma.
Harold Moore left the first of the
week for Boston, where he will enter
d technical school this year.
Don't forget the free lecture on
Christian Science, Sept. 9th, at eight
o'clock, at Wright opera house.
Verne Miner has accepted a posi-
ton at the McPhaul Barber shop,
where four BARRIERS are now working.
The ladies of the Baptist church
will hold baked goods sale at the
gas Office, Saturday, September %
0S-2t-c.
Fred Porter has taken a position
in the public schools of HUMBOLDT
Kansas, and has already left for that
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Pulfrey left
Tuesday for a weeks visit at Grand
Rapids, Lansing, Detroit and Sagi-
nav.
Paul Odle was in Detroit for few
days on business this week in the in
terest of the Republic Motor Truck
Company, Inc.
Fatty" Arbuckle in his latest sue
cess "His Wedding Night ldlehout
Wednesday afternoon and evening"
It's scream,-Adv.
Mrs. J. w. Robinson was called to
Grand Rapids this morning by the
serious illness of her niece, who was
recently operated upon in one of the
hospitals of that city.
Demonstration, September % and
fraa
your feet hurt you, if you have weak
J arches, enlarged joints, callouses, oil
cramped toes, come in on the above
date. His services are free. Proud's
Dept. store. O9-1t-c
The council Tuesday night ordered
two new snowplows, so that this year
after heavy snowstorms, the city viii
have a pillow working in each ward
making it possible to clear the side.
walks in one day instead of in two
days as was the case in the past.
James Redman has returned from
New York, where he purchased TWEEN
ty carloads of peaches. Most of thes,
have been shipped, although the AL
bertas will not be shipped for weel
yet. The peaches which have beer
shipped are expected to arrive the
last of the week.
The new six foot sidewalk from
Euclid avenue east to the Republic
Truck company's plant has been fin
ished and workmen are now bus.
with the portion of the Sidewalk
which runs from the truck plant cas-
TO the west end of the Ruggles prop
/ crty out Michigan avenue.
1t was decided by the council Tues
| day night to extend the culvert, on
Michigan avenue, to bring it unde
the sidewalk, and thus widen the roa'
there at the same time, so that tw
| teams can pass at this point whe
| the work is finished. The culvert ex
| tension will be constructed of con
Il crete
II Word has been received here to tn
effect that T. Arnold Robinson, so
II Of Mr.. and Mrs J. w. Robinson o
L this city, was for three days in tn
j trenches at the battle of Hill 304
During the entire time he was force
: to wear his gas mask. The youn
man is hoping to get transferred
Pershing's army in France. He
now in the French army.
c. NJ Johnson was in Lansing o
business the first of the week.
A meeting of the directors of tn
board of trade will be held Friday
is expected, at which time propc
sition for a new factory for Alma wi
be brought up. The factory, if plar
go through, will be located on III
board of trade property in the sout
eastern part of the city.
Alderman Glass, Adams and War
were appointed as a committee Tue
day night to visit the town meetin
of Arcadia Friday afternoon and max
some arrangement for the upkeep {
the state roads, which were brougl
into the city this spring when ii
boundaries were extended. The:
roads take in a stretch on Grover av,
;. nue, and the road running east ar
Il west, just to the south of the Woo
bne farm. If proper care is give
the repair of these roads the sta
pays a portion of the expense of r.
II pair, amounting to about four p,
cent Of the cost of construction.
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