Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-11-06
A THOUSAND DOLLAR CLUB
Enterprise Being Started to
Furnish Alma With Homes
That Are Needed.

Alma's long felt need, and at the
present time its most pressing de-
mandEmore homes for home seek
ers-seemS about to be realized, as it
is certain that as it is needed there
will be a million dollars available for
home building in this city.
The new enterprise, which will be
known as The Thousand Dollar Club,
will have plenty of finances to take
care of the great demand which there
rs in Alma at the present time for
homes, and promises to have the
funds which will be needed for this
work in the years which are ahead
for the city, full in promise Of fine
growth for the community if it will
prepare the way by the construction
of homes. 1t has the promise of be-
ing the link that Alma needs, to
keep the city in the ranks of the pro-
gressive communities of the state, as
only by the building of needed homes
can community hope to thrive, to
enlarge, and to enrich itself, and by
so doing make itself so attractive
that industrial institutions will seek
locations here. and thus serve to still
further enrich the citizens and its
residents.
1t is an established fact that few
enterprises of an industrial nature
will seek to put their factories and
plants in communities which 90 not
have facilities to take care of work
ers, and this means just one thing,
that being homes in which workers
may live in comfort.
The need for homes in Alma has
been apparent to the most casual OBJ
servor for some few years past, and
this need has continued to grow, until
it has become the most serious prob
lem that Alma is facing today. At
the present time Alma is unable to
take care Of all of it's people in the
way that should be done Many are
forced to exist in light housekeep-
ing rooms," devoid of the comforts
and the conveniences that people have
every reason to expect in a thriving
well-to-do industrial community.
Individual effort has been put forth
it has failed to give the needed relief,
and during the past three or four
years Alma has been falling behind
the growth that it should and would
have enjoyed had it been able to pro-
vide houses for those who have
sought to locate here.
At the present time the outlook
fo SaVionc tho,, No,., -,
dustries are about to start here,
which will demand their hundreds of
workers, and Alma has not the houses
in which to put them. 1t creates
condition that must speedily be solved
and which must be solved by Alma
and Alma alone, as funds for this
purpose from other places are out of
the question as every industrial COM
munity of Michigan is finding just
such a building problem on its own
hands.
The present plan to provide a mil
lion dollars for homes in Alma is
the result of some months of work
on the part of a committee which
was selected by the Board of Trade
LOT JnlS purpose. - plan mas Deen
evolved which will furnish the needed
money through The Thousand Dollar
Club, the details of which are ex-
pected to be ready for publication
next week, at which time member
ships in the club can be had.
That it will require cooperation on
the part of Alma people to make the
building program a success is GER
tain, but it is understood that prac-
tically everyone will be able to join
the club, derive the benefit that is to
be secured, and yet aid Alma greatly
by making it possible for the city to
supply the houses which are so bad
lv needed