Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-12-04

For Xmas goods of all kinds, call on
3 5 Webb.
Pine brown oheyiot suitings from
$4,000 up at kehn's.
Warranted gold headed silk umbrel-
las 500 at Porter's.
Geo. Burt visited Bay City, Ann
Arbor and Tillsdale last week.
Cali at Deavan's for bargains in
gloves, mitteus and underwear. 81
Thanksgiving services were held at
the Presbyterian church last Thursday.
1t will pay YOU to visit the Bangs Ba-
zaar first door west Of Wright House.
Alma
Some 10 couple from A'na attended
The Fast Man at ST. Louis last Satur-
day evening
Warranted gold headed cane, an
elegant Christmas present, a fac selec-
tion at Porter g.
Chas. McNally has returned from
Greenville. where he has been at work
for the past two months.
Township treasurer, n. J. McCul-
Tough has received his roll and will
soon be around with that tin box.
Five hundred feet of new hose has
lately been purchased 10y The village
and is now on the reels in the engine
house.
w. \. Johnson, of Arcadia, has rented
his farm and bought Il house and lot of
f. w Hooper in Case addition and
moved to town
The Ladies of the W. r. G. will serve
a New England supper at the G. y r..
hall Thursday evening, December 10th,
from six o'clock to ten.
Jotham Allen, one Of the progressive
farmers Of Emerson township, pur-
chased a fine registered short horn bull
calf of F. w. Hooper this week
Ihave a quantity of cedar fence posts
round or split at my place near CLOVIS
bridge on Sec. "a of the township Of
Sumner, for sale cheap.
JOE VANARsDALE.
Every boy and girl in the state Who
wishes a pair Of American Club Skates
.pickcl plated should write the De.
trot Times, which proposes TO give
away 5000 pairs fol new subscribers.
Patrons taking space in the Christ
mas edition to be published next week
should have their copy in at once. BY
the help of each one in this respect we
can get it out early. We can assure all
that it will by far excel last years eff
forts.
Parties from Ionia were in town
Tuesday morning looking over the old
station with a view to moving it TO its
permanent location across the track
Such things make it look rs if the
company intended at some future time
to occupy the new building.
The play rooms at the Union School
have had new cement floors put down
and were turned over to the pupils
this week. The pupils spend their
short recess in these play rooms in
charge of a teacher instead of going
out doors, very excellent arrange
ment.
Lovers of an exciting play could have
their taste gratifed last Saturda night
at Holcomb's Opera House, st. Louis
had they attended The Fast Mail
| Contrary TO the usual order of thing,
when there is anything good on the
boards the opera house was We'll filed
aud every one was more than vel
pleased. The interest in the play de.
pended chiefly OH the scenery which
was finer than is usually brought into a
small town. The steamboat with its
furnaces, the freight train and the
! lightning express were'very real.
William Orr, one of Arcada's most
highly respected citizens, was pleasant.
| ~ reminded last Saturday that it was
his seventy-third birthday. HIS family
planned a good old fashioned surprise
party and invited in the neighbor.
aud when the day came they took the
old gentleman 10y storm. a jolliel
crowd never gathered to help mar
past his birthday than on this occasion
Just as the guests were ready to SIT
down to the well laden supper table
Alec W iley claimed their attention anC
in few well chosen remarks presented
MI Orr with a handsome easy chair il
be half of the friends present The re
cipient thanked them for the testimo
NAL of esteem and the company sa
down to supper.
w. a. Colledge, the we'll kno WI
traveller and popular lecturer gives tn,
first lecture of the course on Tropica
Africa. lie starts in a steamer from
New York, and in panoramic wa.
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