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

lou VIII nnd the BEST Dredu III
Butter Cur wrappers. OFT
Elmer Francis of Mt. Pleasant was
! III Alma IN business Monday.
Sheriff Newell Bradford of Ithaca
was in Alma on business Monday.
John Chick of this city was in Chi
cago on business the fore part Of the
week.
Attorney c. II. Goggin was in It'll
AGA on legal business Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Geraldine Fairar in THE Woman
God Forgot" -Idlehour Sunday and
Monday.-adv.
Well-bred is the one best bread for
sale at all good grocers or at the
Model Bakery.--adv.
Mary Pickford in "Rebecca of Sun
rybrook Farm" return engagement
ldlehour, Tuesday-adv.
Fatty" Arbuckle in "The Country
Hero, "-Idlehour Wednesday. Come
prepared to laugh.-adv.
We are still making that wonder
fully good old fashioned salt rising
bread at the Model Bakery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Delavan of this
city are the proud parents of an
eleven pound girl born Saturday.
Alma college opened Tuesday after
the holidays and the school work is
again going forward at its customary
pace.
Malcolm Wilcox, city editor of the
Alma Journal, was called TO Nance
lona Tuesday by the serious illness of
his mother.
Paul ode left the latter part Of
last week for Buffalo and New York
on business for the Republic Motor
Truck Company, Inc.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alger Wood of Moline,
Illinois, who have been spending the
holidays in this city, guests at the
home of their parents, have returned
to that city.
Earl Vance, former employe of the
Alma Record, who is now in the
United States army, and stationed at
Trenton, n. j., paid the office pleas
ant call Friday.
Dr.. Crooks will address the Parent
Teachers club Fsiday, January 18th
at the union school building; subject
"Americanism in Home and School. y
All parents invited.
Glen Hulse, son Of Mrs. NJ. r.
Hulse of this city, has re-enlisted in
tho United States army. He joined
the aviation corps and is now in
training at Pensacola, Florida.
!. S. Fink of Columbus, Ohio, Re
public dealer in that city, was il
Alma on business the latter part Of
last week. He will be remembered
as a former resident of this city.
There will be special meeting OF
the Pythian Sisters on Wednesday
evening, January 10th, at which tim,
the officers will be installed. after
which a pot-luck supper will be held
The board of trustees Of Alma col
lege will meet at the college mex
Tuesday for the mid-year session
Nothing aside from the regular order
Of business is being looked for.
Mr. and Mrs. John NJ. Durham OF
Grand Rapids are the proud parent:
of seven and one-half pound CIR
born Saturday. Mr. Durham will b,
+, membered as former Alma attor
!. noy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Leonard lef
!. yesterday for Florida, where they ex
pect to spend the winter months
They expect TO visit in Jacksonville
Tampa and Arcadia while they ar
gone.
The Woman's club will abandon
its literary program during the wa
ard do Red Cross work The clu
will meet each Monday afternoon a
the usual hour at the Red Cros
rooms.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Epler, Davi
Beaudry and Charles Hooper of thi
city We're called to Ithaca Tuesda
and Wednesday as witnesses in tn
hearing of Albert Eichorn, Joe
: Brennan and Inez Johnson.
A large number of persons fror
: here attended the hearing of Alder
Eichorn in Ithaca Tuesday, bu
: Wednesday the number was mucl
smaller because of the court ruling [
: close the court doors when the seat
. were all taken.
Mrs. Henry H. Soule will go I
: Detroit Monday TO attend meetin
: of the Michigan Woman's committe
!: OF the Council of National Defens,
Mrs. Soule is chairman of the Aim
unit and will represent Alma an
Gratiot at this meeting.
l There will be community singin
at the Methodist Episcopal churc
Sunday afternoon at 400 oclocl
taking the place Of the Liberty sins
ing which was to have been held las
Sunday, but which could not be hel
because of the inclemency of tn
weather.
President II. NJ. Crooks Of Aim
college is in Chicago this week a
tending conventions Of the Presbytel
ian College Union and the America
Association Of Colleges. At the latte
convention he will give an address
Impending Changes and Preser
Needs in College Education"
The next regular meeting of tn
Francis Willard Union will be hel
at the home of Mrs. L. c. Wood, %
Grant avenue, January l6, at 2:30
m. The report Of the National w.
IT. u. convention, which was held