Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-12-24
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800 dolls at about % cents on a dol
lar. J. l.. MILLER.
26 dozen new fancy feathers cheap.
j. l.. MILLER.
Breckenridge pines fol- dramatic
club.
The Congregational Society will have
a tree Christmas eve.
Mt. Pleasant dedicates a new Baptist
church next Sunday evening.
\ Yerington acts as village clerk
since Mr.. X. w. Ely's departure.
The Ladies Library will not be open
next Saturday afternoon and evening
The new p O. rooms will not be
ready for occupancy before the first of
the new year.
Gen. Logan is sick at Hot Springs,
! Arkansas, and cannot attend the Sol
diers Home dedication.
The installation of Masonic officers
Will be held at the Masonic Hall on the
27th of December, at p. m.
Mrs. Ben Button went to Jackson,
last saturday to visit friends. Mr.. b.
will follow, Saturday. and spend Christ
mas there.
The concert in the Normal Chapel
last Friday evening. conducted by Bert
Milliken, was well attended and was a
very pleasant affair.
Miss Carrie Bamborough, of the
Union Schools, will visit Eaton Rapids
friends and attend the State Teachers
Association, at Lansing, next week.
The Toboggan slide has captured its
first victim in this state. At Jackson. a
man fell from the slide 26 feet, dying
Of his injuries the next day.
Last Tuerday afternoon the Anti-Bo-
heman Oat association met in Church 5
opera house of this village, but did littl
business more than to increase its
membership and raise funds with which
to fight the swindle.- Ithaca 1drancc.
The Ithaca dramatic club will produce
the military drama. The Drummer
Boy Of the Rappahannock. the first
week after the holidays. This is one
of the finest military dramas we have
ever seen, and some of the tableaux are
especially fine.
The ID. l.. * y. will sell tickets on
Dee. 29th and morning train of 30th to
Grand Rapids and return for one fare
for round trip to attend the dedication
of the soldiers Home. Tickets will be
90 d to return on any train on or be-
fore Jan lst., 1887.
G.. B. Porter will move his jewelry
stock into the old postofiice building af-
ter New Years, and Nick Davidson will
remove from the McCarty House shop
and occupy the building made vacant
10y Porter's removal. Sort of a general
shaking up and changing about, all
around.
The phantom social announced to
take place at the residence of G.. :.
Ward, Wednesday evening was post
poned, owing to sudden indiSposition
which seized Mr.. Ward in the early
part of the evening. He was a very
sick man for a time and is not yet able
to be out.
Leaton X Upton have sold to J. NJ.
Ashley. of the I. \. y. & y. NJ. rail
way, l. acres on the flats" in this vii
lage, the consideration being =, 80. 1t
Is the intention of Mr.. Ashley to offer
the land as free sites to encourage man
ufactming industries to locate in Mt
Pleasant NJ. Pleasant Tribune.
Thos. scarborough. a former resident
of Alma. and well-known in Gratiot
county, is here from Philadelphia visit
ing old friends and acquaintance. AZ
ter leaving Alma in "a he went to
Maryland and remained a short time
and then he moved to Deleware where
he resided several years, and from there
removed to the city of brotherly love.
of which he still remains a resident.
Farmers beware! On Aug 3. 1856. at
a conyen ion held in Lansing, the Bo-
hemian Oat Association was merged
into the "Lenawee, Clinton and Gratiot
seed Association. with home office
in Ithaca. Agents are now working
the county and we warn farmers to be
careful While it may be all right. You
are entitled & the doubt. of which YOU
will do well to avail yourself and per-
haps save your hard-earned dollars.
The ADVANCE will fight this scheme of
defrauding farmers to the bitter end.
and will keep them posted on all its
phases developed from week TO week.
-H,dcd 1duono.