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Alma p .. lri 4 VOL. XLIII. NO. 36 $l..r-0 the Year 5c the Copy ALMA, MICHIGAN, DKCEMHKK 1, 11)21 TEN PAGES WHOLE NUMBER 2228 Regorid 1922 LICENSES T HUM OF SHARRAR & WATSON HAS SALE OF LICENSES IN THE VICINITY OF ALMA. Call Attention to the New Title Law This morning the firm of Sharrar & Watson opened their office in the Wright Hotel block for the selling and distribution in this vicinity of au tomobile and truck license plates for 1922. As was the case last year this of fice has on hand all of the necessary blanks needed to comply with the mo tor vehicle laws of the state, includ ing the new blanks for the certificate of title. Mr. Sharrar, in speaking about the licenses for the coming year, said, "All persons applying for 1922 automobile or truck licenses should bring their 1921 certificate of registration, operator's or driver's li cense card and certificate of title." Mr. Sharrar also stated that "Many people desire information relative to the various automobile laws, and we will be glad to give them any such information possible in this connec tion." Speaking about the need of securing certificates of title early, he said, "Doa't wait until the last mo ment to get your automobile title cer tificate. You must have it by July 1, 1922. You can't get under the wire by applying just before that date. You must have the certificate in your possession. With all of the time and warning there will be no additional days of grace other than those pro vided by law." Motorists of Michigan have made a good showing, according to Mr. Chapman of the Secretary of State's office, who was in the city Tuesday conferring with Sharrar & Watson,, and giving a school of instruction for the garage owners of Alma. Of the half million car owners in Michigan 150,000 of them have applied for cer tificates of title. They represent the wide-awake element. That means a crush which will clog the machinery for issuing the certificates. Points emphasized in regard to cer tificates of title are: You must have certificate of title in your possession by July 1 next. If you already have certificate of title for your car and sell it, you must transfer the certificate in the regular manner if sold before July 1. A receipt of registration or an iden tification receipt as it has heretofore been known will be furnished wtih each set of plates. The receipt of registration in addition to giving name of the owner oi the machine, engine and factory numbers and the other usual information, contains blanks for assignment of title, state ment of liens and the like. On selling a car the vendor must fill out the as signment blanks and mail to the sec retary of state's office. The assign ment must show the name and ad dress of the new owner. For failure to comply with this requirement within 10 days the transferer is liable to a fine of from five to fifty dollars. This certificate is placed in the "transfer of ownership file" at Lan sing, and a new certificate of title is sued to buyer on his application. It is the duty of the buyer of the car to make application to the secre tary of state's office for certificate of registration and title within 10 days after purchasing car. If appli cation is not received in ten days, notice is mailed to the buyer from the secretary of state's office and he is given five additional days. If he has not applied for transfer within 15 days, he is liable to fine, being con sidered as driving a motor driven car without registration. The fine in this case is five to fifty dollars. Owners of cars who seek certifi cates of title must furnish names and addresses of all former owners, or furnish satisfactory proof of the own ership of car. With the system in operation a few years, the secretary of state's office will have a complete history of the titles of all cars. The penalty for operating a motor vehicle after July 1, 1922, without certificate of title will be a fine of from $25 to $1,000. Original certificates of title are $1; certificates of title to the assignee or buyer, $1; second-hand dealer's li censes $5, or after 'July 1, each year, $.1. Of course the title law was pass rd to make the disposal of stolen cars difficult. It is to be enforced rigidly. The ladies of the "Royal Neighbors will meet at the home of Mrs. Frank Oeitz on Bridge street, Wednesday aternoon. December 7. All members are urged to be present as it- is the last meeting before the bazaar. ' Watch for Harold Lloyd in "Among Present" coming oon. advertise ment. W F N N i TODAY Silver Fox Show To He Held in Muskegon Muskegon, Mich., Nov. ".1. Over a half million dollars worth of domes ticated silver foxes will be displayed here December 7, 8 and 9, at the second annual live silver fox show of the National Silver Fox Breeders As sociation of America. This will be the only fox show held on the North American continent during 1912, both the Montreal and Boston shows having been cancelled. Muskegon is the recognized leader in this industry among the many sil ver fox raising communities of the United States and is surpassed only by Prince Edward Island, Canada. In addition to the live animals, a collec tion of silver fox furs, valued at sev eral thousand dollars, will be exhibit ed. Foxes from all parts of the northern half of the United States will be exhibited anil will include black, silver, red, white, blue and cross stock. The silver fox industry in Muske gon is but six years old, yet it has grown from a beginning with four pairs to about 2,400 foxes, valued at about $.".,000,000. SHOPPING HERE ALMA MERCHANTS II AYE Bid BUYING POWER, LARGE STOCKS AT LOW PRICES. It is very doubtful if there can be found in Michigan another city of anywhere near 7,f,00 population whose merchants carry such complete lines and fine slocks of merchandise as lo the retail merchants of Alma. Splendid assortments of seasonable goo' Is are always in evidence and when new things of merit- in any of the several lines are introduced, they will be found in Alma stocks about as soon as anywhere else. This is evi dence of the fact that the retaileis of" this'clly are making an e ffort "to supply their customers with the very best and latest goods on the markets. It is sure to pay anyone to come a long distance to buy in Alma legard less of what line of merchandise may be do? i red. There are three princi pal reasons why this is true. First, the big markets are just as access ible to the merchants of Alma as to any other merchants. Second, they mostly buy in sufficiently heavy vol ume to secure low wholesale prices. Third, the general overhead expense jf Alma merchants is mu;h lower than it would be in any of the larger cities of the state. It is also a fact that- the assort ment of merchandise found in Alma stores is sufficiently complete to in terest any general or holiday shop per. These displays of goods will be found much more satisfactory than an be found in any of the smaller ' rade centers about this section. All these tilings considered, Alma is one of the best, if not the best place to buy if one is looking for ser vice and economy. The facts are hat much trade is being drawn right now from the larger cities outside of Gratiot county, not through friend ship, but because they can save mon ?y and at the same time have nice -tocks of goods to select from and a horough knowledge that the goods ire honest goods at honest prices. Right at this time the dealeis in very line here in Alma are espe cially well prepared to lender satis factory service and trade facilities and offer attracthe prices to every visitor as well as home residents of this city. The new low prices they ire offering in most instances are lovn to a pre-war basis and there is no prospect of thrir ever going low er while there is reason to think that in some instances at least they may take a marked advance. If there ever was a time when the whole country needed buyers it is now. Buy everything you need, just as much as is possible the sooner everybody buys everything they need and want the sooner all men and wo men will be" employed. Alma's merchants invite the peo ple of central Michigan to come and shop, believing they can render a service well worth consideration. It is but a short step now to Christmas and by taking advantage of the op portunities offered by Alma merchants the people within a radius of fifty miles about Alma can greatly facili tate and make pleasant their Christ mas shopping. BUS LINE TO MT. PLEASANT F. L. Leland started a new bus line between Alma and Mt. Pleasant on Monday, Nov. 2S, the busses making two trips each way in the morning and afternoon. Busses leave Alma for Mt. Pleasant at 7 a. m. and 10 a. m., and in the afternoon at 1 p. m. and r:"0 p. m. In the morning busses will leave Mt. Pleasant for Alma at 8:.')0 and 11:.,0 and in the afternoon at 2:30 and 5:00. 1 A WELL KNOWN RESIDENT DIED LAST THURSDAY WILLIAM I. AMSBURY, HIGHLY ESTEEMED CITIZEN, WAS ILL ABOUT FOUR WEEKS. Funeral Sunday in Charge of Masons William Ira Amsbury, one of Alma's prominent residents, died at his home on Park avenue Thursday shortly afternoon, being 02 years of age at the time of his death. Al though he had been in ill health for about four weeks his death came as a distinct shock to his large circle of friends here. William I. Amsbury was born April :), 1S59, in Jackson county, and moved with his parents to Gratiot county in February, 181. He was married to Miss Ida Palmitier of Brady town ship, Saginaw county, August 20. 1SS9. His wife passed away in May of 1892. In 1892 Mr. Amsbury mov ed to Saginaw where he engaged in the mercantile business for ten years, after which he moved to Standish and engaged in the same business for sev en years. After disposing of his bus iness there Mr. Amsbury returned to Alma and since that time made this ity his home. He leaves to mourn their loss one daughter, Iva, two grandchildren and four brothers Seely, Wallace and Fred vof Alma and Joe of Midland. The funeral services were held on Sunday afternoon. Rev. M. W. Duffey of the M. E. Church had charge of the services at the home. Masonic services were conducted at the grave in Riverside cemetery by Alma Lodge No. 214 F. & A. M. of which Mr. Amsbury had been a .launch member. E u ANNOUNCEMENT OF HIS AP POINTMENT IS MADE BY CO I. FRANK E. SMITH. Colonel Frank E. Smith, Vice Pres ident and General Manager of the Republic Truck Sales Corporation, ha.s announced the appointment of Mr. Gordon Cameron as Director of Service, in complete charge of the servicing of Republic Trucks from the Factory. Mr. Cameron comes to the Republic organization after a fruitful exper ience in the sales and service of both automobiles and trucks. For ten years he was connected with the Max well organization, having been Super visor of Sale3 and Service in the Southern Zone and then General Ser vice Manager for the entire country, with the exception of New England. The reorganization of the Service Department at the Factory has been completed under Mr. Cameron's di rection, and both in appearance and effectiveness of service it is complete in every detail. In the various branches established by the Republic Company similar s-ervice arrange ments will be completed. In addition to his work at the fac tory, and in general supervision of Branch service, Mr. Cameron will as sist Republic Distributors and Asso ciate Dealers to arrange service de partments and to care for the trucks in their territory in the most effect ive manner. "The appointment of Mr. Camer on," said Colonel Smith, "is another evidence of the fact that the Repub lic organization intends to give to Republic users the highest possible degree of service. When we sell a truck our interest in the owner has only begun, instead of having ended." "Half-way service, "Which truck owners of some other makes of trucks have been forced to accept because they could not get anything better, is like throwing a life-preserver , to a man who has fallen off an ocean liner, and then forgetting to stop the boat. He may float for awhile or some other ship may save him, but he Won't have much use for the boat that didn't stop. "Republic service is unequalled be cause it doesn't adopt half-way measures." Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wilk announce the marriage of their daughter, Edna, to Mr. Benton Cowburn on Wednes day evening, Nov. 2", at the' Presby terian manse, Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Cowhurn are at home to their many friends at 7507 Lin wood ave., Detroit. Tom Mix Strand Saturday. a vertisement. CAMERON 1 MANAGER CHARLES ZUEDLIN. TD ALMA SIN SECOND NUMBER OF COURSE TO BE HELD IN HIGH SCHOOL DECEMBER Hi. Charles Zueblin, well-known lec turer and writer, who speaks here on the Lyceum course Friday evening, December 1, has delivered his fa mous lecture on American life in all parts of the country. From the Gal veston (Texas) 'iVibune comes the following vivid description of Mr. Zueblin as a lecturer: "Mr. Zueblin is as far removed in appearance fiom the usual deep stu dent of large problems as may be imagined. He looks more like a bus iness man, who has survived twenty years of battling with executive prob lems in some hustling company and still retained the clear eye and sturdy physique of a college athhte Those who have heard Mr. Zueblin lecture know that it is impossible for the mind to wander while he is on the platfoim. He .deliver .Jus message with electric energy, and his words come, with pious ion and almost with the rapidity of gatling gun bullets. His ideas possess the quality that is called 'suggestive,' for they set little trains of thought which the listener has already half formulated, into ac tive movement. The awrago person in the audience eonus away from a Zueblin lecture fe'-ling that his men tal processes have just received a cold .-lower bath followed by a vigorous rub that sets the whole body tingling and glowing with the shock." Mr. Zueblin has written a numbe. of books which have had a wide cir culation. Among them are "Ameri can Municipal Progress" and "De mocracy and the Overman." Like the first number on the course this attraction will be held in the Alma high school auditorium. Tickets for the one number will be on sale at the door for fifty cents. Those who have net purchased season tickets and htill desire to obtain them can se cure them for tie balance of the course at the First Sta'e Bank. Receive Fine Western Apples Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Irisbic of VAV) East End street recently received a 10 It, box of apples from Cash in: re, Washington, sent to them by Mr. Frisbic's- sister, Elsie Hudson. The apples average from 12 to 1" inches in circumference and are perfect in every way, as not a blemish or a worm hide can be seen on any of them. The apples were produced in the famous Wenatchee district in Wash ington which has advanced from an obscure inarab'.e community of strug gling settlers to one of the greatest apple-producing centers in the world in the short space of 2 years. The crop from this district this year is estimated at $2."i,OOU,UO0. Sunshine for fully 12 hours each day of the growing season, with an abundance of irrigation water under full con trol ami a volcanic ash soil found nowhere else in the country worked the miracle. More than one-third of the fancy boxed apples produced in the United States this year were grown in the Wenatchee district which comprises "0,000 acres of bear ing orchards. Two of the apples sent to Mr. and Mrs. Frisbie may be seen on display at the Record office. CHANGE HOUR OF SALE The Alma Retail Merchants Bureau which is conducting auction .sales every Saturday afternoon for the peo ple of Alma and vicinity at the Roller Mills on East Superior street, bas changed the time of the sale from 2:.')0 o'clock to 1 o'clock. Those haw ing goods which they wish to dispose of by auction are invited by the Re tail Merchants Bureau to bring them to this .sale. It is a free sale con ducted for the public benclit by this organization. 1 E f ST. LOUIS BUSINESS MEN HON OR MAN WHO BROUGHT THE CITY US PROSPERITY. His Alma Ventures Aided That City Friday evening of last week the business men of St. Ixjuis gave a tes timonk'l dinner at the Park Hotel in that city to Frank W. Ruggles, of this city, former president of the Re public Motor Truck Company, Inc., and at the present time president of the Northern Wheel Company of Alma and the Buggies Motor Truck Company of Saginaw, the latter com pany the newest of the Ruggles ven tures. The banquet was ai tended bfc 12." business and professional men of St. Louis, who gave the dinner to Mr. Ruglges in recognition of the growth and prospeiity that came to St. Louis as a result of Mr. Ruggles' concerns in this city, which greatly promoted the growth of Alma's sister city dur ing the past decade. S. O. Burgdorf acted as toast master at the banquet. Toasts were re; : ponded to by Frank W. Ruggles, Newell Smith, George Yliet, C. W. Giildings and William Yost. , Troop C 10(Ith Cavalry Michigan National Guard of this city is now open for enlistments again. Captain Reece belies that a number of prom ising nu-n may be secured for the cavalry troop while the enlistments are open. Information in regard to enlistments may be secured from any of the officers of the troop. BEEN COMPLETED new $;:.ooo structure will BE OPENED TO PUBLIC THIS COMING SUNDAY. The i instruction work on the mau soh'um in Riverside cemetery has ! een brought to a conclusion, and ; few minor details of completing the tine new structure ate out of the way, permitting the no w building to hi opined to the public Sunday from :: a. m. until 1:00 p. m., by the Flowers Mausoleum Company of To ledo, which has had charge of th work. 'I hi noiv structure is one of the finest pi uduclior.s that the conipan has had during its sixteen years of experien o in buil.l'ng mausoleums, and it is certain that this part of th. state does net o'Ter a structure of tin kind that will exceed the Riverside cemetery in building in beauty, or in excellence of construction. The build ing is 72 feet in length and ."' fiH't in width. The exterior of the struc ture is entirely in Bedford stone which will whiten up mu.df' more, than at present and by next summei should present a beautiful site with its grevn background of lawn and shrub-;. Entrance to the mausoleum is gained nt the front through large double solid bronze doors, which open to a large cot ridor, nearly ;"0 feet it. length and 12 feet in width, whicl will furnish an abundance of room for funeral services in the mauso leum. Running across the building are two corridors 11 feet in width in which the crypts, 2'.m! in number, a re located. The floors of the corridors are finished in ceramic tile with Per sian borders, and v.n inspection of the stiuctuie will show the care that has been used in laying the tile floor. The interior walls are entirely of marble, the various slabs being un usually well jointe;!, some of them being joined so well that it is almost impossible five feet away to tell where one slab stops and another be gins. Large stained glass windows at the ends of the corridors furnish lights for the building which, com ing from the colored windows and re flected back and forth on the polished surface of the marble, makes the structure unusually light. It is un derstood that about $..00 worth of shrubcry has been purchased for the ground:, surrounding the mausoleum, which is to be planted in the spring, and this should aid greatly in im proving the looks of the structure, because of the setting that it will have. The Flowers Mausoleum Company invites the public to inspect the building Sunday at any tine from 9 a. m. until 4 p. m., during which time a representative of the concern will be at the building. Til BANQUET GIVEN I El Officers Arrest Three Celebralors Three young and rather prominent farmers of Newark township were taken in tow here Thanksgiving evening by loal police officials, who objected to the way in which the said farmers were conducting their Thanksgiving celebration. It seems that the trio had imbibed somewhat too freely of one of those concoctions which come under the head of "home l)iew." The men were taken to the jail, but the condition of oi of them was regarded so serious that he was re moved to a hospital, where the sober ing up process was conducted in his case. The others were left to regain their normal poise 1n the jail. Fri day the men admitted to the officers that the home brew that they had been consuming had been obtained in Mt. Pleasant. They were then taken befere a lo cal justice of the peace, where they paid a nice little fine and costs in each case to avoid going over to Ith aca to board with the sheriff. They probably won't let it happen again right away. NORTHERN WHEEL COMPANY HAS EVERY PROSPECT OF A BRIGHT FUTURE. That the Northern Wheel Com pany, about which little has been heard since it was organized, has be ,'ome a real factory in the industrial life of Alma, is a thing that will cme at this time as a distinct but pleasant surpiise for most people of he city, in.duding a large number of ;'no three hundred odd stockholders of he concern. This newest of Alma industries, or aniv.ed and put under way just shortly before the industrial depres sion struck the United States, with ut any great automobile or truck onnectior.s, was hard hit, right at he beginning of the depression. Like many older and more stable concerns, ruin seemed to threaten if heroic business measures were not adopted. During November and December of last year the company practically ease.l operations, during which time i thorough study of the company was nade, meetings of the management with th stockholders collectively and ndicidually were held, and plans foi neeting the hardships of business de nevsion were laid. In January the plant started work again, and with a bull-dog tenacity :he management went at the various business trouble?, and overcame tlie-m, and gradually business was se cured. It has not come without the isual struggles that are always pres nt in the business world, and in fact hey were multiplied and made more iifticult because of the depression. In qiite of everything new business was nought to the company, in increas ng amounts until today the concern las orders enough on its hooks to 'ceep the factory running for. over a nonth, should no new business come 'n. During this tinu1 the working .'orco at the factory has been aug nor ted almost continuously and r rowing from just a few men, it has cntinued until now there are ovei 0 men on the payroll. Few companies of any kind have een enjoying such a growth during he past year under the adverse bus iness conditions, and certain it is that 'he wheel companies are not to be 'ound that can , -Show bigger ptopor icnate results for the year. The ir. t nine months show a business of over $200,000, the large business of he past few months balancing up the smaller business of earlier in the year. About D",000 wheels have been manufactured during this time. The payroll based n this period will ';e about SKO.OOO for the year. During the past few months the ompany has closed deals with east ern and western corporations who (Continued on page four) MACCABEES HOLD CAMPAIGN The Lady Maccabees of Gratiot, Isabella and Clare counties are put ting on an intensive campaign for a large class of new members, under the direction of Janet Branch of St. Louis, and Cathrine Seymour, D.G.C., of Saginaw, who are being assisted by Mary Clow of Alma. It will come to a close December 20 at St. Iouis, with a pageant called "Yesterday and Today." The meeting will also cele brate the 2th anniversary of Fran ces E. Burns as great commander of the organization. Many hives will take part in the pageant. An all-day meeting will be held with a banquet, which will be in charge of Emma Alexander of St. IjOuis. Attend the Presbyterian rum jnage sale at the Edson Mnor build ing on Stat street, Saturday, Dec. 3. advertisement. 1 A I E BUSINESS HAPROVEMENTS UNDER I BY GAS COMPANY .LANY IMPORTANT CHANGES BEING MADE THAT SHOULD 13 E N E FIT CO N S U M E R S. New Compression Tanks Purchased During the past few weeks the Gratiot County Gas Company has made numerous changes that are ex pected to greatly better its service. Not all of the changes have been com pleted as yet, but it is expected that the next thirty days will see a finish of the improvements that are now under way. The concern is building a large coke shed and coke bins for the pur pose of keeping its coke dry and eliminating fine "breeze" from the coke in the future. The coke shed is SO feet long and 40 feet wide and the coke bins will be 00 feet long, 12 feet wide ami 14 feet deep. This coke shed and bins will house a total of T."0 tons of coke and will enable the company to supply a better grade of coke in the future as well as to enable the company to keep the cokr free from moisture. In order to increase storage capac ity, the company has ordered addi tional compression gas storage tank?, 40 feet long and 8 feet in diameter, to be installed at St. Louis, Ithaca and Breckenridge. The foundations for these tanks have been completed and the first tank has been shipped from the factory. The company has also just com pleted n meter house which will hou;;j. the meters that will measure, under pressure, the gas necessary to supply Alma, St. Iouis, Breckenridge and Ithaca. Three high pressure station meters are now being installed and when this work has been completed the company will be able to handle it3 leakage problem much more success fully. A new gas main is being laid from the plant to Grover avenue, so that there will be a separate line feeding Ithaca and another separate line feeding St. Louis and Brecken ridge. A meter prover has also been in stalled in the office of the company on State street. An accurate test of every meter can now be made by the company. This instrument is expect ed to promptly settle a great many arguments in the future, as to the correctness or incorrectness of a cus tomer's meter. With the completion of the above improvements the Gratiot County Gas Company will have made all in stallations that aie possible in a plant of this kind to bring its gas and coke service to the highest state of per fection. And with the twice-daily gas tests that the city is making at the city hall, the citizens of Alma, St. Iuis, Ithaca and Breckenridge are assured of as perfect gas service as it is possible for a company to give. Dropped Dead Here Wednesday Night Theo Lebeau, of Saginaw, district manager for the New Era Insurance Company of Grand Rapids, dropped dead Wednesday night about X:'Q on Superior street on the sidewalk in front of the Floyd Luchini candy store. A physician was immediately called by the shocked bystanders, who pronounced death due to heart trouble. The body was removed to the Crandell f'. Scott morgue, and Coroner Ludwig of Ithaca was called. He came to Alma this morning. Word of Ixdieau's death was tele phoned to his wife in Saginaw, and relatives came to Alma this morning to take the body to that city for burial. Iebeau was about 40 years of age. 'can Temporary Factory Secured for Acme Work on a temporary factory for the Acme Beet Harvester Company has been started, and Mr. Lippert, designer of the machine, who is heav ily interested in the concern, expect3 that the work of remodeling the tem porary quarters will be finished with in thirty days. The building which is to be used by the company for the time being is located near Wright Park, off Orchard street addition. When the remodeling is completed the plant will consist of a machine shop, large assembly floor, paint und stor age rooms, and will fumUh facilities for the manufacture of three Acm Beet Harvesters a day. Watch for Harold Lloyd in "Amon Present" -coming soon. advrtije-ment.