Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-12-10

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Our job work is unsurpassed in this
part of the state.
The st. Louis creamery has suspend
ed operations for the winter.
Two Jackson papers, the Courier and
Citizen are having libel suit.
st. Louis will endeavor to organize a
Sons Of Veterans lodge, Dec. 10
All the legal lights Of the county are
in Ithaca this week attending court.
ID. Reid, Supervisor of Arcadia, has
recently moved into his new residence.
Mrs, ". 0. Watson, of Breckenridge,
was i'll town Saturday visiting friends.
Il. 4. Miller Il Cos windows are
ornamented by some handsome new
curtains.
Jerry Davis will have charge of the
county house and its inmates for three
years more.
Reported thai dry goods and cloth
ing store are to h. opened soon i'll the
Church block.
Francis Palmer neat, new two-story
residence, on Woodwork Ave, IS near
ly completed.
A. X. Smith, recently of st. L., has
gone into the banking business at
Brainard, Neb.
Rev. J. W. Sutton, OF Lakeyiew, has
been in town this week shaking hands
with old friends.
Mrs. Mills is now engaged at the
Woolen Mill and will do all kinds Of
knitting to order. 40l-2w
From the comments OF our st. Louis
brothers of the quill We take it that the
Chinese students are frauds.
Another peaceful Indian has been
discovered in Montana. He has been
petrified for over 1000 years.
Is. $. Webb displays an elegant -
Christmas card that he expects to sell
to someone here in town. 1t is beauty.
st. Louis is in for a three months
siege-Salvation army. The editors
over there will all be joining, we ex-
pect.
The New York gentleman whom
some Of our exchanges are connecting
with the proposed toboggan slide here
is a myth.
Work on she grade OF the I. 5. & NJ
road has commenced at Sheridan and
the citizens are looking for a good,
healthy boom.
This is the season of the year when
the frugal and economical wife will
burn s25 worth of wood TO nurse a -
cent house plant.
The mercury fooled around zero for
several days but came up the middle
of the week, to get ready for another
plunge, probably.
F. NJ. Ward. of Holland Patient, \.
Y, is the new bookkeeper for Tink er
& Lumsden, the position having been
resigned by Mr.. II. J. Ward.
Chas. McNally, the jolly porter at
the Wright House, handled 81 grips
Wednesday, and he says it was not
much of Il day for grips either.
Chadwick Il Waldbridge are engaged
in quite an enterprise. They shipped
We carloads of ice to Ithaca. Thursday
and will cut and ship several more.
The frame Of the new Episcopal
church is all ud and shows that the
building when completed will be neat
and tasty and great addition to that
end of town.
:. \. Smith was called to Jackson
the first of the week TO attend the fu-
neral Of Hon. Frank j.. smith, with
whom he was for many years associated
in the hotel business.
The Richmond Dramatic Co. is en-
deavoring to make arrangements with
the opera house managers TO come here
Christmas week. Some Of our eX-
changes speak highly Of them.
Michigan now claims to be worth
S54 900, having that amount in the
treasury over and ahoye al indebted
ness. This Is said to 10 better show
,ng than can be made 10y any other
state IN the union,
The elegant Lew Church block receiv-
ed its first new tenants, Thursday. w.
l.. lIough X 60 having moved in then.
\ visit to this live firm, this morning,
found them getting 4e,tled nicoly In
their new G""llels The store IL 22x75
mes, with iine fEont and corner win
dgws, making il light and pleasant and
commanding fine view Of the greater
portion Of the main street.