Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-08-13
Diphtheria still RACES at Mt. Pleasant.

town Thursday.
They now write it DR.. Kennedy, p.
NJ, at st. Louis.
Alta Wilson is visiting little school
mates in Saginaw this week.
The neat. new NJ. f. church at Park
inson is to be dedicated Sept. 9th.
1t does not cost anything to loOok at
the pretty things at Mrs f. p. Shaifer's.
Rejoice and be glad. Thirty street
lamps have been ordered for the village.
Miss Minnie DePew, with II. A.
Delayan & Co.. is taking short vaca-
tion.
V. Hanson has been in the Southern
part of the State during the past two
weeks
The st. Louis Improvement Associa-
tion had better have guardian ap-
pointed.
1t seems quite probable that the con-
gressional convention will be held at
st--LouiS.
Work on the Church block is progress
ing finely, and the frame is being rails
q to-day.
Chas. O. Woodruff, Il st. Louis dent
ist, died, Aug. 5, at his parents home
in st. Johns.
We hear that John Harris is expect
ed to return from the Traverse City
asylum, soon.
Traction engines make driving Il
high-lifed horse a dangerous pastime,
just about now.
Lessons at reduced rates until Sept.
lst. in all kinds of Fancy Work at Mrs
L. =. Shalfer's. Nv
y. d. Noyes and wife. returned
missionaries, are attending camp meet
Ing near Grand Ledge. this week.
Everything new in the way of Fancy
Work at Mrs. +. p. Shaffer's one door
sQI.A Of Mr.. b. W. Ellison's. 2w
Work upon the Normal buildings is
being pushed and every effort made to
have them ready for the fall term which
opens Aug. 81.
MI and Mrs. Christopher Walker of
st. Lawrence Co., New York are the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Wander
hoof, this week.
Look out for travelling agents selling
Il powder called ''petoneum" for keep
ing vegetables fresh IA long time. The
powder is said to be fraud.
Quite number of our citizens went
to Owosso, Thursday to attend the re-
union. and all the G.. y. II. boys that
could possibly get away were on hand.
J. W. Galbraith has been employed
to survey and lay out the village plot of
Parkinson. on the Toledo road, five
miles south of this station.-Shepherd
Rlrictr.
Prof. Harding went to Fenton Thurs
day topresent diplomas to the graduates
of the Central Michigan Normal School
which closes its doors on the above men
toned date
Remember next week is the Odd
Fellows excursion to Detroit. Every
one invited. Round trip -, tickets
good for three days. Let everyone 60
and have a holiday worth remembering.
The Fenton Seminary is to be dis
continued and the buildings have been
donated TO the Baptist Ministers Aid
Society which will establish home for
the aged and disabled ministers of the
church.
The Mt. Pleasant Enterprise springs
this atrocious pun upon a long-suffering
public: said Nellie Grant Sartoris is
virtually deserted by her husband.
Wasn't it Sart-o-ris-ky to marry him in
the first place?
Bro. Oycracker says that NJ. V. Allor
Ia former resident Of this place CON
templates investing in the newspaper
business at Shepherd. Allor Will THINK
truly. that this world is all a lleeting
SHOW" if he should.
Dickens says: No man hates him
self" y cynic very truthfully adds,
that he doesn't need to. He will al
ways find pcople-particularly those to
whom he extended favors-ready to
take that job off his hands.
The man who asks. is this warm
enough to suit YOU" has been muzzled
and tied up in the back yard to keep
him out Of danger, his relatives rcaliz-
ing that long-suffering public couldn't
stand that kind of talk now.
The Mt. Pleasant Tribune hits il
exactly when it says: Gratiot county
may be short" on some things but il
is long OH fools. "Red-line wheat,
sold on the Bohemian oats plan, finds
| yief inns ap1nuU Tho farmers pf New