Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-06-04
Alma. Mich. Friday. June 4. 1886

collapsed III Toledo, o., this week.
The Stuttz Furniture Co. has the con-
tract for furnishing the bedroom and
dining room furniture for the Normal
School dormitory.
Parties indebted to the firm of :. +.
Anderson are hereby notified that all
unsettled accounts will be placed i'm the
hands of an attorney for collection after
June 18th 1886.
Mat. WiXom's show drew Il good
house last night and gave fair satsfac-
ton; the tumbling and contortion acts
being especially good. If the proprietor
would get decent band and cut the
last act OF the performance, few would
be otherwise than satisfied with the en-
tertalnment he offers to the public. The
show is in Ithaca tomorrow.
AS will be seen by reading the election
notice in another column, a special
election will be held June II, to vote on
the question of bonding the village in
the sum OF $1,000 for the purpose of
building pumping works, purchasing
pumps and other nesessary machinery
and extending the water mains. This
is a subject that ought to interest every
citizen and large vote should be poll
ed. Good fire protection is a necessity.
and money expended for that purpose
is not thrown away. Your proportion
OF the tax for fire protection is apt to be
returned at an unexpected moment,
with large interest The better the
fire protection the less the cost of in
surance. Don't be penny wise and
pound foolish in this matter, but think
of.thc benefits to accrue from It, and the
comparatively small cost, and cast an
affirmative vote at the coming election.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
Michigan State Pioneer and Historical
Society will be held i'll Representative
Hall at Lansing, commencing Tuesday.
June Sth, 1856, at o'clock p. m. and
continuing through the day and evening
of the 9th. The Legislative Reunion is
to be held on the following day, June
10, at the same place, and the semi
centennial celebration the following
week, June 18th. The program will
consist of Music, Address of the Presi-
dent, Reports Of the Officers and Com
mittee, Interesting Historical Papers,
intefspersed with spirited five minute
speeches and "reminiscences. Reduced
rates have been secured at the hotels
i'll Lansing, as follows: Lansing House.
S1.50 per day, and Commercial House.
| Chapman House and American Hotel.
| each Sl.OO. Efforts are being made by
| the President of the Society, Hon.
Henry Fralick, to secure Il rebate or
reduced fare from the several Railroads
leading into Lansing.
The editor of Mt. Pleasant news
paper was found in Il Brown study one
| day last week by an Alma business man,
who went to the gentleman S Office to
spend Il little money for advertising.
Most publishers would have felt spasm
of delight go through their avordupois
on such an occasion. but this man was
made of Sterner stuff and politely but
firmly Informed the Il. b. IN. that Mt.
Pleasant money was the only money in
the world that would make him hap
| py, that while the Il. b. IN. could pro-
badly give the farmers of that vicinity
e.. q
Mt. Pleasant dealers, he thought,
evidently, that where ignorance is
bliss it is folly to be wise and by re-
fusing to accept the ad. he might put Il
few dollars in the pocketsof the Mt
| Pleasant dealers even if it was at the
expense of the farmers; consequently
another editor, more reckless, got the
ad. and the people of that vicinity will
learn that Alma is the best wool market
! for them. The Alma firm referred to
above is W. :. x s.
The work of putting the sanitarium
grounds in order is progressing rapidly
under the able management of w. O.
| Dpilliooll' ~ WI lNtNdl HUH llIN NllNNl
to the main entrance is now being
made. 1t is to he IL feet wide. and in
making it an excavation of two feet is
the first thing done; this is then nearly
filled with cobble stones on top of which
are placed broken bricks, which are
then pounded down and broken rs
thoroughly as is possible, and the whole
is to be covered with gravel. The walk
from the entrance to the street is to be
made similar also Il carriage drive
from the north side to the park. The
walks and drives are thoroughly
drained, in fact. the sanitarium grounds
and the park contain perfect network
of drains. complete in every particular
\ sewer is to be put in from the park
to the Superior street sewer, and the
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