Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-01-10
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

c. X. Brewer is in Saginaw on
business today.
You will find the best bread in
Butter Gun wrappers. OFT
Ira III. Mckinney left Wednesday
for Denver on months business
trip.
Geraldine Farrar in THE Woman
God Forgot, "-Idlehour, Sunday and
Monday.-adv.
Geraldine Farrar in "The Woman
God Forgot, "-Idlehour. Sunday and
Monday.-adv.
Mary Pichord in "Rebecca of Sun
nybrook Farm return engagement
Idlehour, Tuesday-adv.
Fatty" Arbuckle in "The Country
Hero" -Idlehour, Wednesday. Come
prepared to laugh.--adv.
Our rye bread can't be beat, they'll
all tell you that. Just ask for Model
Bakery's rye bread.-adv.
THE Natural Law" Alma, January
18th at Wright opera house. Seats
or sale at Brunner's drug store.--adv.
The American Transfer company of
ST Louis, Jay Smith and Glenn Kane,
proprietors, has gone out Of existence
by the division Of the concern into
two branches. Mr.. Kane will take
full charge of the motor bus line from
st. Louis to Alma and Smith will take
the local work in st. Louis.
w. w. Caple of this city, for some
time owner of the well-known Dough
erty farm near Clare. has Ia
ken possession Of the Mt. Pleasant
greenhouse, owned for sometime by
C. V. Abeele. Mr.. Abeele took over
the Dougherty farm in the deal. Mr.
Caple has secured the services of an
experienced man to take charge of
the greenhouse.
Mrs. Elnora Jones of this city, who
was recently arrested and held for
officers from Isabella county on a
charge of forgery, has been sentenced
al Mt. Pleasant to serve from six
months to fourteen years. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Hiram ellison of
this city, who is the star witness for
for the prosecution in the Epler muir
Ger case.
Miss Robinson, Mrs. George W.
Moore and a number of other Alma
ladies will attend a convention in Bay
City this week held preparatory to
the registration of Michigan women
fol war service. A school of instruc
ton for registrars to handle the reg
istration of women will be held and
women active in the work throughout
the state will speak.
Report comes TO the Record that
several people returning to Alma col
lege the first of the week, arrived in
Grand Rapids late on the Chicago
train and as the hotels were filled
with visitors to tho furniture shows
they were compelled to spend the
night in the depot there, the train
for Alma having left Grand Rapids
when the Chicago train arrived. A
couple faculty members were among
the unfortunates.
The r. F. ID. carriers from the local
post office report that they are being
delayed greatly because neople are
not clearing a way to sleir mail boxes
through the deep snow. HKerytime
that the carriers get out of the track
in the road and have to go through
drifts to the mail boxes, they are held
up just that much, making them late
around their routes. They would APP
preciate it, if people would clear a
path TO these boxes.
The Alma Office Of the Western
Union Telegraph company expects to
get moved into its new quarters in
the |. o. o. +. .block the fore part of
next week. The new fixtures for the
office have not yet arrived, although
they have been shipped and the fix
lures now being used in the present
office will be moved to the new quar-
tiers until the others arrive. The
company expects to have one of the
finest small city offices in the state.
A mothers club was organized at
the home of Mrs. +. l.. King of East
ward street Thursday. Officers were
elected and it was decided to hold
meeting the first Thursday of each
month. Mrs. f. l.. King entertained
twenty ladies and their children at
dinner and Immediately following the
dinner the club was organized. The
next meeting will be held at the home
of Mrs. Jesse Augustine. Mrs. ID. l..
Johnson assisted the ladies in organ
izing the club. All mothers are in
vited TO join.