Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1920-02-26
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Deluxe candies.--77-tf-c
Madge Kennedy - Idlehour Sun
day-adv
Checkers Idlehour Monday anc
Tuesday.-adv.
You will find the best bread in
Butter Cup wrappers. OFT I
Sheriff Alfred Willert of Ithaca
was in the city yesterday on business
lsadore Friedman of Tawas City
is visiting with Alma friends for a
few days.
{. V. Calkins left yesterday fol
Bay City to attend the meeting OF
the consistory.
Dudley Kress of Ithaca was in AL
ma visiting with friends for few
hours Tuesday.
DIR. E. G. Sluyter, osteopathic ply
stefan, State Savings Bank Building
Alma, both phones. 57-tf
Mr.. and Mrs. {. ID. Bolyard spent
the week end in Grand Rapids, guests
of friends in that city.
The Baptist chicken supper, which
was recently postponed, will be held
Wednesday evening, March TO-
{. +. Brown of Mt. Pleasant was
in the city for some hours yesterday
enroute to Grand Rapids on business.
Ora l.. Smith of Ithaca, prescott
ing attorney Of Gratiot county, was
in the city yesterday on business
connected with his office.
The w. K. c. will meet at the home
of Mrs. +. Hawley at 315 Grattot
avenue, on Tuesday, March 2. All
day session with pot luck dinner.
Clear. and sweet soft tone is
what Pathe brings out of any record.
The photograph many companies
are trying to initiate. Smith Music
Shop.-adv.
Frank ketcham of Hastings will
address the people of Gratiot county
in Ithaca Thursday, March 4, using
for his subject, "The Farmer in Re
construction"
Dorothy, the infant child of Mr..
and Mrs. Archie Bentley, died Sat
urday. The funeral was held on
Monday. the body being taken to
Nestaburg for burial.
George f. Sharrar was in Grand
Rapids Monday, having been called
as a witness in the Newberry trial.
He was on the stand only a very few
minutes, and judging from newspa-
per reports had very little to impart
to the jury.
The tuberculin test has been APP
piled to the Bradford & Son herd of
25 guernseys, which is conceded to
be one of the finest in this part of
the state, and every one Of the ami
mails was found to be free from tu-
berculosis it is stated.
f. f. Sieg, Fred Slater, c. V. Cal
kins. j. w. Blakely, Dick Rockwell, J.
NJ. Montigel, DR.. Maynard Pringle,
w. s. Proud and S. L. Bennett ex-
pect to go to Saginaw Friday to at
tend the meeting of the Shrine in
that city Friday evening.
On Wednesday of this coming week
Margaret Stahl, Americas foremost
of plays, will appear in
the Methodist Episcopal church, as
the fourth number of the Alma Ly-
ceum Course. The number is expected
to be a highly interesting one.
About forty members of the X of
=. lodge in this city went to St.
Louis Monday evening, where the de-
gree team Of the local lodge con
ferred the third degree on a class of
ten candidates. A fine banquet fol
lowed the work of the evening.
The Alma College basketball team
will play its last game of the local
season Tuesday, March 2, with the
Mt. Pleasant Normals. The Normals
have one Of the fastest teams i'm the
state, but the ccllegians are hoping
for victory over Nevitt's men.
The first reading Of the proposed
ordinance TO revoke the franchise of
the Gratiot County Gass Company.
was laid over week Tuesday even
ing on motion, in order that City
Attorney Kress might go over the
matter carefully. An amendment
offered to lay the matter by indefi-
nitely, was not given support.
Tuesday evening the city commits
sion rescinded its action of December
and IS, when resolutions regard
ng the turning over of portions of
the trunk line highways in Alma to
he county road commissioners were
passed, and then resolutions, pre-
pared by the state department, with !
the same end in view, were passed
TO comply with a request. The state
mas prepared form of resolutions
which will be used entirely for this
work.