Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-02-19


and Byron. has gone into Writer quarters
at Toledo.
81. Louis Is TO have daily signal servive
r ports, several Of her enlerprsing cilize 5
having come down with the necessary
funds Why can't Alma be thus favoredg
II. Louis Leader: During 1895. 60i
hearts were made TO beat as l97 hearts in
this county. The ages of the contracting
parties average Males Is to 20 years,
females 10 to %.
wcll.known horseman says: TO
keep the snow from baling in the hoofs
of horses. clean out the feet and give them
coat of tar" He AYERS they can lrayel
for days and will not ball II is simple
and We worth IL trial.
Not day passes over the earth but men
and women of no mole IL SIC. deeds,
speak great words, n Goes: - sor-
rows. OF these obscure heroes, philoso
pliers aud martyrs, the gr, alter part will
never be known Till that hour when many
That were great shall be small. and the
small shall BE- great.
Edison, the inventor, has perfected his
invention for telegraphing TO and from
moving trains, and ii has been success
fully tested An express train running at
the rate Of thirty m les an hour, receive
aud returned answers with perfect ease.
The system Will be introduced at once on
the Illinois Central.
Recent changes in St. Louis law firms
are as follows: The law firm of Paddock
Il Snyder is dissolved. Judge Paddock
will employ good clerk instead of hay,
ing partner. The firm Of Giddings *
Crandal has also dissolved, aud out OF the
above two dissolunons has been made the
firm of Crandell IL Snyder
Pricharis gold mine. near Alma, is
playing to hard luck. a SHAFT was being
sunk, but the workmen struck Il rich lead
Of quic ksand, which caused the whole
thing TO cave in. Another hole has beeO
started. ovid Union. \ man must be an
idoit or crazy, that will undertake to find
gold mine IN the lower peninsula of
Michigan, they do not exist TO any very
great extent Reed City Clarion
H:llsdale Standard: Just now. when it
is seriously contemplated to reduce letter
postage to one cent, it's interesting to re-
fleet hat fifty Years ago letter carried
thirty miles was subject loa siX-pence''
post ge; ten cent, would carry 1t eighty
miles, ei. htecn pence would insure its de.
livery distance of one hundr ii uuG ftly
miles, and it took a quarter Of a dollar TO
yet that letter four huir red miles Wages
in those days were fifty cen per day.
Mt Pleasant Tribune: Mr. Worth Pres.
ton has accepted "a posi- ion in The new
national hank started in Duluth, MINI by
Hon W. y. Brown, of NJ Pleasant A..
w Wright of Alma, and OF lcr~. Il few
days ago. TIE bank could not have sccur
ed gentlemauof motc marked ability and
integrity than Mr. Preston, and the in
sltuti was fortunate ia obtaining his
seryic =. lie left for Dulu.u 10 ASSUME
his duties last week
An exchange gays Nh if its readers
wish 10 have a complete record Of local
events and ,nc of TIA" po> u'.rr~ iug
books that can be had any where. let them
take bla X hook nd each week clip
from their paper all the item, interest
and paste Tia IN under az datcof The paper,
and at toe end of tn year they will be sur.
priScd at the amount of local Il story had
in one scrap book. CIT out all the church
notices. weddings. births, deaths, personals
aud improvements, and | ~uch items that
are increasing, and M few years you will
have collection such as yoi would moi
part "illI i1r any other book that could be
/ procur d.
! Journs a few days ago Scayer &
Webster of This village purchased %
! bushels of clover seed from certain
farmer In the county, whose name we
purposcly Withhold, paving 1925 pei
pushed for the same. it was to he prime
article. and was brought in new bags SC
rs 10 ubyi lie the necessity cot reh N ing
! After two bags had been sewel up, pre-
paralory to shipment, the fact va,
accidentally discovered that small guam
tity 81 seed OH the top and butio D.. OF
each bag was prime articl while that H.
the middle uf the bags was very inferior
and har.l marketable ANY price The
result was that the farmer in question
{ und it necessary to settle the matter by
paying $40.
The old saying that people who live in
glass houses should not throw stonrS' is
not always strictly regarded in tin, day
and aye OF the world he an nviable
posse '>ors of such domicis, figaraIi ones
Of course, are The very ones .o gp prowling
around their ncighbors' premises TO discover
whether his mantion is not composed of
the same little ~, erial. and If he finds
such to be The case. sluccu and guiding 10
the contrary Notwithstanding, lie pebbles
go gathering fast and furious AGAINST the
trail edifce; but it frequently happens
that the missile rebounds 10 the confusion
OF the assailant, for these glass b uses are
not easily repaired. and SO we venture to
repeat the oft rel Gated adage people who