Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-02-21
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

You will find the best bread in
Butter Cup wrappers. OFT
Observation-Disclosures Hayaka
wa in "rhe Secret Game. ADV.
VIM. S. Hart in THE Silent Man
Idlehour, Sunday and Monday.-adv
A. +. Dunn of Muskegon Heights
was in the city on business Tuesday
Lima Cavaleria in THE Etcrna
Temptress"-Idlehour, Thursdak. -
adv.
Fatty Arbuckle in "Out Vest
absolutely his funniest picture-ldle
hour, Wednesday.-adv.
Superintendent of Schools, A. +
Schultz, was in White Pigeon the for,
part Of the week on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. vining of Lake
view were Sunday guests at the homs
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. +. Brown.
Get your order in for guaranteed
house paint; $500 gallon. See Cook
lO9 S. Court Ave, Alma.-3l-2-p.
Captain jacques de Beaufort at 8:4i
p. m. Friday evening on lyceum
course Time for the basketball
games first.
John Flansburg was called to Shep.
herd Tuesday to attend the funeral OF
his mother, who died Sunday ut tn,
hospital here.
|. S Fink of Columbus, Ohio, was III
the city the latter part of last week
on business with the Republic Motor
Truck company.
William Bittner Of Lowell was
called here the first of the week to
take the physical examination before
the Gratiot draft board.
f. Denton, who has been living in
this city for the past several months
has moved to Grand Rapids where he
will make his future home.
Raymond Mclaughlin Of the Repub-
lie Motor Truck Company Incorpor
ated was in Grand Rapids on business
the latter part of last week.
Glenn Wilbur of the Republic Motor
Truck company was in Grand Rapids
the fore part of the week attending
the auto show.
Prudden has given permission 10
light street lights on Saturday, so that
in the future at least Alma will be
bathed in lights Tin spots)
Floyd Holman left Monday for Los
Angeles, California. where he has
accepted "A position in the new plant
of the Republic Motor Truck company
The Luther circle of the NJ. +. Aid
society will meet Tuesday afternoon,
February rs al 2:30 o'clock at the
home of Mrs. F. @. Parker on Gratiot
avenue.
l.. +. Murphy Of the Central Mich
igan Light q Power company was in
Clare Monday and attended the coun-
ell meeting there with view of ex-
tending the lines of the company in
that section.
Bartling q Holmes will move their
offices from the Vermuelen block to
the corner of Gratiot and East Center
street about March LIST. An office
building is being fitted by these hust-
ling Alma contractors for their use
1t has been announced that the lee
ture Of Captain Jacques de Beaufort,
the attraction on the lyceum course
will not start until S:i5 p m. because
of the basketball games for that even
ing in which there is great interest
The second travelling library from
Lansing is now ready for use at the
Alma Free Reading Room, 322 S.
Woodwork avenue Three new books
have recently been catalogued-"Bi
lies Mother" THE Challenge of the
Present Crisis" and With Our Sol
diers in France"
The following is an extract of a
letter sent to l.. w. Race by the Civic
league February 16, following the
death of his wife: "The Alma Civic
Improvement league extends sympa-
thy to you in this trying hour. Mrs.
Race was an able and willing worker
in the league, of which she was "A
member and her services will be
greatly missed"
Ralph c. Ely. Federal Food Admin
istrator for New Mexico, has returned
from a trip to Washington where he
had a conference with Herbert G..
Hoover, National Food Administrator
concerning the marketing of pinto
beans produced so abundantly in Col
orado and New Mexico Under the
plan proposed the government will
purchase all the pinto beans grown in
Colorado and New Mexico at III
cents per pound. Colorado has APP
proximately 9O,ooO,O00 pounds of the
product unsold.