Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1892-02-26

The Milling Company shipped five
! carloads of of -four east this week.
Frank Medlar has been visiting
friends III Isabella county for the past
week.
( j L Davidson. of Port Huron, WAS
in town the first OF the week visiting
relatives.
Just received, some fine Florida Rus
sets and some fancy Mesina lemons
az Benefits.
The village election is close at hand.
Leu the best men be nominated for
village officers and then see that they
are elected.
Luke Palmer, who has been sick ut
the residence of his brother Francis
! Palmer during the winter was taken TO
the train Friday morning and left for
! his home.
Maud Schultz young and pretty
girl of Isabella county, became tired of
life aud shot herself last Saturday.
She will probably die and refuses to as
/ sign any cause for her rash act.
Your eye ON this spot, 60 days. You
will miss bargains to not heed. $4,000
worth of furniture must be sold to
make room for building. You fail to
come, you fail to get bargains.
JOIN 7. PETERS, Alma, Mich.
a b Dubois and wife returned home
from California last Saturday, where
they have been spending the past year.
Mrs. Dubois is better known here,
perhaps, as Lillian LaPaugh, of Sum
ner,
The Nonpareil Club of st. Louis,
have secured at a considerable eX-
pense the celebrated Swedish Ladies
Quartette for April 4th. st. Louis will
have to fill lIolcomb's Opera House
full if It gives house such as the rep
utatiOn of the troupe deserves.
A. j. Holmes, of Seville, is among
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weeks he has been taking care, at his
place. of one John Powers an Irish
man, who OWNS n good forty north of
Elwell. Last week Powers died and
on February Is was buried, but before
dying he made Will and, having no
relatives in this country, left his prop.
erty to Mr. Holmes.
For more than an hour last Wednes-
day large com pany Of music-lovers
listened with delight to succession of
quartetts, trios, duets and solos 10y the
Swedish Ladies' Quartette, four beau
tful women with beautiful voices
Their style of singing drew out the
most unbounded praise from all their
hearers Chicago Times.
The Detroit Journal has been pur.
chased by Ex-senator L. W. Palmer
and William Livingstone Jr., and it is
announced that no effort or expense
viii be spared TO make it the most com
plete afternoon paper in the west. Mr..
Livingston, who assumes the active
management of Tie Journal, is rep
resentatiye republican whose exper-
fence in newspaper work and manage
ment covers quite a period of years.
Last Monday night delegation Of
Alma X. of P.'s attended the reception
aud banquet OF the Nc. Pleasant lodge
at that city, bat do not seem to be very
favorably impressed with their treat
ment. The local committee failed TO
make the necessary arrangements at
the hotels for the accumulation Of
their guests aud the visiting Knights
had any amount of trouble TIE Sag
iuaw delegation was unable to find
/ proper quarters and took their special
train back. The Ithaca and Alma
/ knights were unfortunate enough to
/ put up at the Bennett house aud their
opinion, based on short acquaintance,
of the genial a. proprietor and wife is
such that they propose to shun it here.
after aud advise their friends 10 do
/ the same.
The method of procedure under the
new election law is SO radically diff
/ ferent than it was under the old law
that short explanation of its principal
features may be of interest at he pres
ent time. According TO its provisions
the caucuses OF the various parties
must be held at least ten days prior to
election and the tickets handed in to a
board of commissioners, appointed by
the village or township board, which
sees to the printing, The tickets of
the different parties are printed upon
one ballot and the ballots must be
printed and placed under seal. On the
opening of the polls the inspectors
break the seal mark the ballots on the