Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-05-02
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

Monday.
You will find the best bread il
Butter Cup wrappers. OFT
Dorothy Dalton in "Flare- Up-Sal'
hour, Thursday.-adv.
William A. Medler and family wer,
Camp Custer visitors Sunday.
Nh. and Mrs. Iii Sibley were il
South Bend visiting over the week.
end.
Enid Bennett in Naughty, Naugh-
ty!"-Idlehour, tonight (Friday).-
adv.
Earl Light was in Kalamazoo on
business for the Republic Wednes-
day.
w A. Bahlke, attorney at law, is
in Oklahoma City on business for a
few days.
VIM. S. Hart in his latest picture,
Blue Blazes Rawden" - Idlehour,
Sunday.-adv.
Tom Moore in Brown ofHarvard"
and Billy West in The Stranger
ldlehour, Wednesday-adv.
Carl Harry of Camp Custer, Bat
tie Creek, spent the week end in this
city visiting with his wife.
II. a. Ashley of the Liberty thea
tire was in Saginaw and Detroit the
fore part of the week on business.
w. j. Melchers of Owosso. general
manager of the Union Telephone COM
pany was in the city on business
Monday.
The Alma fire department was call
ed to the Medler home on Pine street
Saturday by a small blaze which did
little damage
Alma Chapter. No. AZ, O. E. S..
has adopted a French orphan. This
is one Of the thirty adopted by the
order in Michigan.
A regular meeting of Alma Chap
ter, No. 43, o. +. s., will be held on
Friday evening, May 3, at the Mason
ic hall Initiation.
Private John Arthur Mcintyre of
Camp Custer. Battle Greek. spent the
weekend in this city, a guest at the
home Of his parents.
Mrs. Amelia Holsted, who has been
spending the winter with her son.
A. A. Chick. has returned to her
home in Maple Rapids
Mr.. NJ. l.. Marshall was in Detroit
over Sunday and on his return to
this city he was accompanied by his
wife, who has been visiting friends
there.
William Murphy of this city, who
enlisted in the navy some time ago,
has been transferred from the Great
Lakes training school to Newport
News.
The Alma public schools enjoyed a
half holiday last Friday, because of
the fact that it had been made an
holiday for the furtherance of the |
Third Liberty Loan.
When the Sammies left here last
Friday, driving forty Liberty trucks
through to the coast, they were pre-
scented with bunch of bananas, the
gift Of Fortino Brothers fruit store.
Russell Gaffney and Ralph Tink-
ham, recently drafted, men who are
at Camp Custer, Battle Creek. have
been assigned to the 31lth Engineer
ing corps and will probably be at
Custer for some time.
Harry Jackson. former Alma young
man, and son of Rev J. Frank Jack
son, has been appointed chief annaly-
sist for the Aluminium Castings com
pany of Detroit This firm has plants
in several large cities of the country.
The Alma Record carries two full
page advertisements this week for
the Third Liberty Loan. One is con
trbuted by the D. W. Robinson Dry
Goods store and the other by the
Alma Grain & Lumber company, the
Commercial Coal company. j. w.
Blakely, and v F. Cash.
Bullet Fitch. former Alma college
football and baseball star, visited
with college and town friends over
the week end. Fitch is now located
at Camp Custer, where he just
course in the third officers
training camp 1t is expected that
Fitch will soon receive a commission.
Efford Beverly, Alma young man.
who enlisted in the army last fall and
has been in Texas since that time, has
been transferred to Washington. He
visited with relatives here overnight
last week, while enroute to the capital
city Reports are current that Bev-
erly will soon have commission.
Frank Convis Of Ithaca was in AL
ma on business Saturday.