Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-10-18

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lman's.
Bring MS wood for what you owe u,
on your subscription.
Mrs. Geo. Royce, of Marquett II
visiting relatives in town.
.. q. Tuttle, secretary of the board
OF school examiners, was in town Tues
day.
w. ). Nelson who has been to Cal
lfornia the past few months has re.
| turned.
III you try the JaxoL crackers you
VIII use no others, for sale by w. l..
Hough & Co.'S
Farmers will remember that we want
'cood on subscription, and now is the
time we want it.
Fred Alexander is assisting Bert
Van Den Bergh in the drug store
nights and mornings.
Andrew Shiera the old reliable laun-
dry-man has returned aud has charge
of the Wright House laundry,
Dick Small lost 100 cords of wood the
hrst OF the week by fire in swamp, to-
sether with quantity of timber.
c. l.. McCullen, of Riverdale, has
our thanks for liberal sample of the
White Star potatoes, the finest we
have seen this season.
Forest fires are raging quite bad in
this locality, on Wednesday last the
smoke was so thick it was almost i'm
possible to see across the street.
j. l.. Finch has located in the build
ing East of Mrs jennings store where
he expects to handle full line of east
ern fruit. He will also handle general
nursery stock, among which, will be
some Niagra grape vines,
The Attorney General has decided
that the new election law applies to
special as well as general elections and
that according TO section eight of the
act, all tickets for all elections in Michl-
gan must be printed under the direction
of the Secretary of State.
Mrs. Mary Miller wife of the propri-
etor of the Diamond Match Factory, of
Akron, Ohio, her mother Mrs. George
Hayes, relatives of Mrs. Woodward.
made the latter visit of one week re-
turning home on Friday last. They
brought many glad tidings from the
Buckeye State and more welcome
greeting could not have been had.
If orchard trees have been properly
cared for from the first, there will be
but little pruning needed, and it mat
ters not much at what time it is done.
Grape vines, currants and gooseberries
may be pruned soon after the leayes
have fallen BlackberrIes and Rasp-
berries should be pruned by cutting out
the old canes as soon as the fruit is
gathered.
The memorial services of Thomas
Widely the founder of Odd Fellowship
will be observed at Pollasky Hall next
Sunday at 800 O'Clock p. M, everybody
invited, An address will be delivered
lay Past Grand Master Geo. Dewey, of
Owosso, and Past Grand Master G. w.
Crouter, of Charlavoux subordinate and
Rebecca lodges are requested to meet at
Lodge room at $50. The Order of Odd
Fellows has been in existence compar-
atively but few years, not exceeding
two hundred at most, yet in that short
space of time it has attained an i'm
portance which is truely surprising.
The first recorded evidence we have of
ITS existence is in the first half of the
eighteenth century, but tradition, the
lying jade, carres il back to a much
earlier period. The place of ITS birth
was England, and it seems to have
been an organization Of mechanics and
laboring men, united for social purpose
and to aid its members to obtain en-
plOl luCIlO do Ncil dS W dSSlSU IDeru
pecuniarily when in need Thls branch
of tie order is now known as the Man.
chester Unity OF odd Fellows. The
great American branch order self con-
stituted in Baltimore, Nd, April 26th,
1919, by five English Odd Fellows, with
Thomas Widely at the head, together
with the Manchester Unity are the only
recognized branches of the order, other
orders of Odd Fellowship exist, so
rapid has become the popularity Of the
society that the membership nov ex-
ceeds any other secret organization in
lie world by over "a quarter of a mil
lion. The two branches now number
1894 so. 1t is sometimes said that
Odd Fellowship is an offspring of
Masonery, but this is not true and
the writer knows whereof he speaks.
While occasionally a similarity of ex-
preston can be traced in few of the
tunlmportant parts of the ceremonials,
in the fundamentals they are essential
! lv different. Masonery is a noble in