Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-12-27

Nanted.--A RECORD OF Dec. q, VIII
be highly appreciated at this office.
The Presbyterian church remembered
DR.. Hunting with a costly overcoat,
Our correspondents must have been
busy, as they have most all forgotten us
this week.
The NJ. +. Society presented Rev.
Vickers with IA handsome plush easy
chair for Christmas present.
Call and examine my large line of
Jewellery, and remember l shall lead
the trade. Mrs. L. =. Shaffer.
The.Ladies' Home Missionary Society
of the NJ. +. Church will meet at the
home Of Mrs. Hawkins Friday Jan 3rd.
Mrs, j. A. BAKER.
We wonder if our lady trends are
going to receive calls New Years,
no names have been handed in for
announcement.
| have an endless quantity of those
fine silver Knives and Forks in several
designs and will sell them cheap Mrs.
+. i Shaffer.
The Methodist young people receiv-
ed their gifts from a capacious sleigh
and SO ineXhaustible seemed its store
Of treasures that one was almost in
clined to think st. Nicholas had been
found and appropriated to the occasion.
OF all others the one rascal that
should be cursed is thief, especially
one who would stoop to stealing a gold
pen from poor editors desk. We haye
such a crime perpetrated OH us. A
person that Will stoop to such an act
should be suspended in the air al
kicked to death 10y mule.
a stately ship. managed by Gre W
Of hardy sailors. with cargo of pes
ents so large that they covered the deck
and hung from the spars and yards,
was the sight that greeted the eager
eyes Of the children who attended the
Presbyterian Christmas fectiye at the
College Chapel, Tuesday evening.
At the Episcopal church was a pine
tree loased with such fruit as pine
trees never bore before, and it is safe to
say that no tree ever looked finer than
did that one TO the throng of little ones
who had gathered there to witness the
distribution of good things. Altogeth-
er the exercises were success at all the
churches.
). w. Tinker was very much
surprised man Monday afternoon,
when the mill suddenly closed down
lIurTying to his Office to learn the cai SO
he found himself surrounded by 4
crowd Of his employees who invi ed
him TO try very fine upholstered easy
chair. Geo. Gibson made the pres
entation speech Which we give s
follows:
Mr.. Tinker: | have been requeste ed
by my fellow woikmen of the different
branches in your employment, to p,e-
sent You with this chair, as a token
the esteem and regard in which you are
held by them. This manifestation of
of their feelings is both highly honor
able to you and creditable TO them; hon
orable to you in that it proves you have
elways treated them with courtesy and
kindly consideration; creditable to
them. in that it shows their appreciation
of those courtesies and thus trying i'm
some small degree to make this a red
letter day in the'calandar Of your life.
1t also proves conclusively that there
exists between you and your employees
that harmony of feeling which is the
true relation between capital and labor
and which is so conducive to the best
interests of the employer and employees
| am certain that l only voice the
sentiment of us all, when | hope that
you may long be spared to occupy the
position on now so worthily fill in this
establishment. and that when weary
and tired with those haresing cares
and anxieties which at times beset
every business man, you can return to-,
your home and sitting down say,
shall not enjoy mine ease IN mine
Chair"