Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-08-23

Midland Saturday to play match
game
II. l.. Lockwood has decided to do
no more credit business after Sept. 1st.
All goods sold for cash only, and at
bottom prices.
The Organ Concert to. morrow even
ing will be a great treat, Prof. Sprague
has unqualified praise as performer
calculated to exhibit to perfection the
qualities of an organ.
The race broke last week and in con-
sequence the water works were idle,
the first they have been unable to fur
nish water in good while, 1t was just
the time fires usully occur.
Prof. b. A. Welstead was in town last
Friday, he is on the road for a Chicago
house. He will return to Alma soon
and be ready for his next years work,
he will board at the Milliken House.
Annual excursion to. Petoskey and
Traverse City over the d. l.. & n. r..
r., Tuesday, September 3, and good to
return by any regular train until Sep
II inclusive. Fare from Alma $3.50
and return.
Farmers will do well to call on Joe
VanArsdale when they have eggs or
other farm products to sell, as he pays
the highest price and carries nice line
of groceries, can be found opposite the
Angel House
a goodly number Of our Soldier
friends, left for St. Johns Wednesday,
to attend the Soldiers and Sailors en-
campment. We wish them much pleas
ure in recounting the thrilling incidents
of the camp and field.
Wright, Schneider & Stuttz have
put their mill in shape to do custom
work in the old way, grinding the
farmers wheat with the stone. Most
of farmers prefer the old way to
the roller process, by so doing they get
flour from their own wheat.
On Wednesday last, Fred Thornton
shot blue Heron, which measured
six feet eight inches from tip to tip of
wing and stood five feet four inches
high, and on Thursday he brought in a
Fish Eagle, which measured five feet
s inches from tip to tip of wing.
A basket picnic of the farmers of the
townships of Pine River, Arcadia, Sum-
ner and Seville will be held in the grove
of r. 5. Miller, at Elwell on Thursday,
Aug. %. The invitation is to everybody
to attend. DR.. Geo +. Hunting has
been engaged to make little speech.
We have attended these picnics and
know of their enjoyment and should adj
wise all not to miss it. if they do they
will always have one thing TO regret.
Gratiot county claims to Lave the
meanest man. He is a merchant and re-
fused to let his hired boy take pinch
of salt out of his barrel for the boiled
egg he had brought for his dinner,
but told the boy he must bring his own
salt. lie is about equal to another man,
who when he caught fly in his sugar
barrel always brushed the sugar off
its feet back into the barrel before he
let him go.-IIolIy Adrertiser. Have
you the papers for this brother Slocum.
Two young men from this place
started out few days ago for the
camp meeting at Elm Hall, with a
rig. They took one young lady from
Elwell and another from Riverdale,
and were apparently happy. First
one couple took the rig and enjoyed a
pleasure ride. then the other, and it
ended up in fight between the girls,
one claiming that the other bad had a
longer ride than she had, and at last
the boys took hand in, and the affair
was settled.
At the Michigan Business Mems
Association, assembled at Muskegon
last week, and during the considera-
ton of the report on legislation, Gov.
Luce freely expressed himself as OPP
posed to the election of young law.
yers to the Legislature, and favored
only one legislative house, and con-
stitutional amendment fixing, GER.
tain number of days for the legisla-
tive session and the price to be paid
each member. Above all, he wanted
people to elect honest men TO make
laws for them.
The new pipe organ, which Farrand
& Votey, Of Detroit, have been
building for the past four months, for
st. Johns Church, will be i'm place OF
Saturday, Aug. 24th, and grand
Opening Concert or Recital, will be
given OH that evening. Prof. Sprague
of Detroit. will preside at the Instru
ment, and give a series of selections
calculated to display its tone and Other