Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-02-27
Fresh Frankfort Sausage recsi

Iicbu IIduhIOII Odu6dxo IoCciVcu
every Saturday morning ut Verm.u
lens.
New onions, raaishes, pie-plant,
vegetable oysters, spinach and lettuce
at the Star Store this week.
The Sunday School convention of
GratiOt county at Ithaca last Friday
and Saturday was we'll attended.
Gratiot county teachers will be in.
terested in the announcement, made
by Secretary futile in another column,
OF the spring examinations.
The lady members of the Y. y. s. c.
f.. and the Epworth League and also
The Y. w. G. A. will hold a united
gospel meeting in the M. Z. church, at
O'clock on Sunday afternoon next.
All ladies are invited to attend.
The Mt. Pleasant Business mems Ex.
Change are discussing furniture
factory, a wooden mill and the proba-
bility Of getting the immigration de-
partment of the Il. 81 A. 20 act with
them. There is nothing like hustling
10 make town grow.
Charles Ii. Coats a former resident
Of Alma, but for The past few years
manager OF Bull Sons 81 Co. 3 hardware
store at St.Louis has resigned bis posi-.
ton and removed to Findlay, Ohio,
where he enters into business with bis
brother. His Gratiot friends will be
sorry to learn of his renewal.
The T.& A.depot at Mt. Pleasant was
burned last Monday morning about SIX
o'clock. The FIRE caught from the coal
stove. Loss fullycovered BY ipsura nee .
Mrs, G. West of Dansyille is stopping
with her uncle. +. n. Chadwick and
taking treatment at the Sapitarium tor
an old standing rheumatic trouble.
DR.. Nelson, the new president of
Kalamazoo College, has been spending
few days with friends in st. Louis.
He left Wednesday on an extended
trip through the south where he will
revisit scenes which acquired perponal
interest to him during the stormy
period Of the war. lie will not begin
his acuive duties rs president until next
fall.
The Musicale at the College Chapel
last Wednesday evening was not 80
we'll attended AS it merit d.. Mr.. Beck.
ner and Miss Ransom have appear ed
too often before Alma audiences Ia
need any comments OH their work.
They were ably supported by other
members of the Department of Music
of the college who exhibited the care
full training they had received from
their instructors.
Miss Amy Austin, living four and
One-half miles northeast of st. Louis,
was riding to town last Tuesday with a
reighbor on load of stage bolts, when
the sleigh slowed to one side and over
turned the load into the ditch. Miss
Austin was thrown under the load and
seriously injured. In addition to other
painful bruises, her right thigh bone
was broken. Medical attendance was
huridly summoned and the fracture re-
duced. The patien. is now doing well.
The practical use Of aluminium is
brought TO mind by receiving from the
Michigan Stove company neat little
souvenir in shape OF match case made
OF that rare but extremely useful
mineral. Though but one third the
weight of iron it is much stronger than
steel, will not rust nor tarnish and is
nou.corrosive. The Michigan Stove
Company with characteristic enterprise
is mixing aluminium with tie iron
that enters into their Garland stoves
and are therefore turning out an article
superior in finish and quality.
Rev. G. II. Scott from San Francisco O,
Cal, will personally conduct an even.
ing's journey through the picturesque
scenes OF the Pacific Slope. at the Meth.
odist Church on Wednesda, evening,
March 9TH, journeying TO wonderland
over the surface of Great salt River,
through TO treasure vault of precious
metals, to the home of the glaciers and
the land Of the Midnight Sum- Alas
Sa, the most picturesque land in the
world. Here is the Muir Glacier, the
frozen river that is forcing its way into
the ocean at the rate Of 10 feet per day.
Showing with the aid of the stereopti-
can the principal points of interest in
Alaska. The habits and customs of
the Alaskans are all graphically de.
scribed on canvass. The strange wild
scenery, the rude buts with their gro.
tesque totem poles, their methods of
healing the sick, and their peculiar re-.
ligous customs will ali be fully illustrat-
ed, the whole forming most enchant-
ing and instructive journey. All these