Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-08-28

The State teachers institute is ia session
this week at Ithaca.
Milllngton post G.. A. x. will have y
camp fire Sept. and 3.
Allen {. Adams. of Detroit. has been in
town this week visiting relatives.
Large line OF Mems Calf Boots at
Il. l.. STARKs.
Mrs y. II. Davis. OF Eaton Rapids, is
in town visiting A. q. Davis family.
Call at T.. l.. Stsrks and get prices be
fore buying your shoes. II will save you
money.
An intelligent industrious boy desiring
TO learn The printers trade can tind a
situation at this office.
The Evening Journal is conceded 10 be
the best evening paper in the stte. Try il
. week. 1t will only cost you ten cents
September 10 will soon be here Don I
forget the eIcursion 10 Detroit. because II
is going 10 be THE excursion Of the season.
Grand Rapids is jubilant. The Soldiers
Home il TO be located there. To our way
OF thinking they could not have found .
better place.
And then the whining schoolboy with
his satchel and shining morning face.
creeping like snail unwillingH TO school. "
will be In order soon.
Sparta has prize calf which weighed
1913 pounds when it was 3 hours old and
Breeze inquiries mpertinenily what
Grand Rapids editor Las escaped
The G. A. r. posts Of this county hold
their annual camp fire at St. Louis next
week commencing Sept. lst. and con
tinuing 3 days A pleasant time is looked
for by all.
Jas Miller who escaped from the
county Jail In March last was captured at
brought back To wait his trial. He Is
charged with burglary.
An exchange says OF the "Nobody's
Child" company: The hest recommends
lion that can be given them. perhaps. is
the fact that they are everywhere greeted
with crowded houses
The large mill being built at Shepard
City by Wright, Schneider e. Stuiz is
ncaly completed and will soon be ready
for business. Business has 10 hum
when this firm gets after It,
Albert Miller, OF Tifrin, Ohio was in
town visiting J. l.. last week. He carried
away very pleasant impression OF Alma.
He says it is a. lively town as he has seen
lately and pretter by long way
Do rot fail to read the cohtcil proceed
ing' on fourth page this week Alma is
To have some new walks and tha. right
away. Look over the proceedings aud see
II you are required TO buddy share.
4 Hoag of Newark has len at thi, office
some stalks Of millet iaised on bis farm.
which 'lays over ANYTHING ot the kind
We have YET seen. They are about feet
long; while the heads OF some OF them
measure nearly eight inches. -Gratiot
journal.
The ST. Louis Knights OF Macabees were
present in full force Monday evening in
response to the invitation extended by the
Alma lodge. They came over in a special
car and were met at the depot by the band
and escorted up town in good style
Everything was done for their pleasure
and entertainment, and the visiting mem
berS expressed themselves as well pleased
with their visit and reception.
Forest Hill lays claim TO the meteor
seen and heard in various parts NJ the state
recently. George Huffman says thst a. he
WAS turning his horse out To pasture it sud
denly grew very light and looking up he
saw a brilliant meteor coming towards him
IL struct the fence only . few feet from
him aud broke into numberlcss pieces
some Of which he secured Some relation
to the one iha; came here perhaps
We have been induced to look after the
welfare OF the Evening Journal in Alma
and operations have commenced Tie
papers left with some OF our citizens are
sent this week free in order TO give YOU
chance 10 look il over aud see how ysu are
suited with il. Saturday the carrier will
call upon you and give all who desire
chance TO subscribe for a week month !
or any time they may choose. The Jour
nal Is the only evening paper receiving |
the full Associated Press reports thus |
enabling II 10 get news up 10 a late hour /
It's market reports are later and more com.
piete than any other cent paper 10 the |
state. Give your name to the carrier or
I.ave II nj this Office
While In Grand Rapids Menday even
ng We saw the celebrated lightning
painter. Mr. Geo. Simpson. paint one OF
bis marvellous pictures. The canvas was
arge-about three feet 10y two-and he
commenced upon It in the most careless
eisurely manner possible. An observer
" ould be apt 10 think that the result
would bC "A hldcous botCh but as The work
"enI on every stroke Of the brush count
III. and within twenty minutes from the
lime he commenced, handsome landscape
food completed before the audience. and
vas sold while yet fresh and glistening
rom the brush. BY The way the pictures
we're bid oil we were led 10 think that
he citizens would be richer in pictures
han ia "shekes' should Mr.. Simpson
bide among them long.
We visited in Grand Rapids aud Bailey
luring our vacstion-the first We have
lad since We cast our lot among the Citi-
ems al this burg II was not a. long M II
night have been, but stll COZ siderable can
'e crowded into the space intervening be. !
ween Saturday morning and / uesdAv !
yening or at least We found that To Le
he case. The trip was pleasant one in
pte OF the weeping skies When one is
mOng good friends and pleasant scenes 1t ,
makes lltile difference whether the sun ,
hines or hides behind n misty veil SO We ,
pursued the even tenor Of our way-eI.
ept once when the train waited for 10
Dan. not even the street car driver, and
hen We must confes, IL WAS not as even
y IL might have been-snd let il rain
il chose There were many !
'lsassni incidents and we shall think for |
sany . day Of our trip.