Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-05-28
Alma. Mich. Friday. May 80. 1886

specimens of the Photographic art.
j. l.. Miller made a business trip to
Detroit Wednesday, returning Thurs
day evening.
: Visit the creamery when you have
time. 1t is quite sight to see butter
made by machinery.
| "A Saginaw farmer says that wheat
has never been SO forward i'm this thirty
six years experience in the valley as it
Inow is.
The Superior street sewer is to be
lowered - feet commencing at the cor
Iner Of Woodwork avenue, from there
to its terminus.
/ IsGen. n. Church, we are informed,
4has arrangements nearly completed,
land will soon begin work on his pro-
PoSed new block of stores.
III. +. =. Schneider went East on Il
business trip this week. While absent
he will make contracts for all the wool
his firm can purchase this season.
| w. ;. IL ;. have Il call for wool in an
other column. AS usual Alma will be
the best wool market in the county and
isellers will do well to bear this fact in
mind.
The elevator to be used in the Santa
Irium arrived Thursday and is being put
I'm position to-day. 1t is Il beauty and
corresponds nicely with the interior ap-
Ipointments of the building.
| Ball playing on main street ought to
be stopped. Some fractions horse will
be frightened some day and run away.
as the citizens feel like doing when
crossing the street when game is in
progress.
i We are Informed that good many
GratiotiteS expect to attend the semi
lcentenniel celebration at Lansing next
month. The program published else
Iwhere in this issue will prove of inter
est to them.
a. Yerington has put out neat justice
of the peace and insurance signs this
Iweek. 1t would not be easy to miss his
office now, and judging from the amount
of business he transacted before it was
mot such of Il task then.
In the case of the people VS.. Charles
Gibbs for criminal assault, before JUS
tice Yerington, yesterday, the accused
. was held for trial III the circuit court
. and required to give bonds in the sum
of $500 for his appearance.
! .Ir. Blanchard of Elm Hall has con-
Itrdcteu with the L. \. y. u y. Nj. road
to furnish them fifty thousand fence
NJ posts and five thousand telegraph poles.
.kThe timber will be run down the river to
| tbis place and then shipped to the south
ern diSviSion of the road which IS not
!, Iyet entirely complete.
Village Assessor Pulfrey hands us Il
card showing this years assessments to
be as follows: Personal 100000: Real
I estate, $500 ,925.50 making total of
S426, $500 against S352.000 and some
odd dollars last year. This shows some
thing of the progress Alma has been
. Imalling during the past year.
i Wright Opera House Band gave the
first open air concert OF the season
Saturday evening. The improvement
| in this all ready well trained organiZa-
! ton was very noticeable ! The crowd
Twas like Oliver Twist, dissatisfied and
WANTED more" Speak to the clerk Of
the weather and have it pleasant next
Saturday evening, somebody, please.
| Messrs. Bloomberg & Harris, of De
troit, have started a cigar factory III
| the rooms over :. Fink's saloon and are
lnow busy turning out fragrant lIavan-
as. 1t will be several days before their
goods will be on the market, but some
, time next week our local dealers will
be able to offer You Il first class cigar of
lhome manufacture. BE sure and buy
them.
The boys are going crazy over base
Iball. Evenings the average pedestrian
walks with fear and trembling expect
D ing to catch foul" on the side of the
head. Every other street corner is
crowded, the small boys take main
street. and the kids get out on the
back streets and make more noise than
Il fouth of July procession, brandish Il
/ lclub liercely and call that ball playing.
Il Farmers should learn to beware of
all agents, no matter how well recon-
/ mended. who come to sell them seed of
n any kind at big prices agree to buy
p back the crop ut the same rate. Every
, such bargain covers swindle of some
I kind. No honest firm can afford to
r make any such contract. No farmer
! need expect to get more than market
, rates for his crop, no matter how
valuable the seed --
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