Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1918-10-17
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS
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Victory Bread here has made pos
sible victory on the west front. Cole
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Hicks visited
with friends in Breckenridge Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs William Medler visit.
ed with relatives in Breckenridge
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. c. G. Falor and fami-
/ Is visited friends I'm Breckenridge
Sunday.
President II. NJ. Crooks Of Alma
college was in Lansing on business
Tuesday.
DR.. f. G. Sluyter, osteopathic ply
stefan, State Savings Bank Building,
Alma, both phones. 57-tf
Mrs c. l.. Wood left yesterday for
Pontiac, where she Will visit with her
daughter for short time.
James Porterfeld and family have
moved to Mt. Pleasant, where they
will make their future home.
Ensign Lester Doerr, former Alma
college student, was in Alma visiting
with old friends the latter part of last
week.
Mrs. C. j. Milligan, who has been
visiting with her parents in Pigeon
for the past two weeks, has returned
10 her home in Alma.
The local suffrage association APP
preciates the space donated by
Messrs. Clapp and Powell this week.
Read what they have to say.
Mrs. Overmeyer and Mr.. and Mrs.
Will cambridge returned from De-
troit the fore part Of the week, where
they have been visiting with relatives.
The Alma high school football team
will play Midland at Midland Satur-
day, and hopes to make a good show
ing against the strong Midland
eleven.
Harry Helmer of Alma college was
in Ann Arbor the latter part Of last
week attending a meeting of college
delegates, held in the interests of the
S. A. T. c.
Mayor Francis King was in Detroit
Sunday. where he spent few hours
with his son, Ensign Henry King,
who has been transferred TO the Pa
cific coast for duty
Sunday, October 20, will be recog-
nized as Equal Suffrage day when all
ministers throughout the state Of
Michigan will be asked to speak on
this important issue.
The postponed meeting of the Pres
/ byterian Aid society will meet with
Mrs. Suydam on Pine street. Business
of Importance will come up. The
meeting will be held October %.
The Alma Fire Department was
called to the home of Rev. Raum on
Ely street Tuesday morning, a small
fire having started in the roof 1t
was extinguished with very little
loss.
The Eastern Star of this city will
give 500 benefit party at the new
Masonic Temple Thursday evening,
October "a Fifty cents couple.
7. j. Clark and d. l.. Sharrar were
named Tuesday night by the city
council as members Of the board of
registration day, Saturday. November
q.
Douglas S. Cameron, son of Mr..
and Mrs. George Cameron, died sud
denly at his home in Highland Park,
Detroit, on October 4th of stomach
trouble and uraemic poison. He
leaves TO mourn their loss. father,
mother, one sister, grandparents and
many friends. The funeral was held
here Sunday afternoon. Rev. Raum
officiating.
William Allen Hooper. the son of
Mr. and Mrs. r. w. Hooper of this
city, a graduate of Alma college with
the class Of 1913, and who has spent
the past five years in Alberta, Can.
has enlisted in the Siberian contin-
gen of the Canadian Rifles, and is
now in training at Camp Willows,
British Columbia. He expects to
leave for Japan in December and
from there go to Vladivostok, Russia.
Word has been received that Jack
Forest Metcaf was killed in action
in France, July %. He enlisted as
soon as he was eighteen in Co. X, l61
Reg, U. S. Init, at Arlington, Wash,
and lived TO serve his country only
about one year. He was grandson
of Ephriam Metcalf, veteran of the
Civil war, who passed away two
years ago. He has a number of rela-
tives here.
Millions of yards of silk are now
used in making bags TO hold the
powder for heavy artillery charges,
says the November Popular Mechan-
les Magazine. Because of the grow
ing scarcity of this material, special
interest centers in tests now being
made Of cotton-cloth substitute,
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