Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-05-25
THE STATE.

The children of Manchester are hav-
ing an epidemic of Dutch measles.
Hon. William Newton, of Flint, will
deliver the Grafton Memorial Day at
Bancroft.
The Builders Trade Council OF
Battle Greek. has adopted resolutions
indorsing Coxey movement.
500 Methodists say that when their
new church is completed it will be the
finest in the state, outside of Detroit.
Charles Fitch, of Otia, Newaygo Co,
had both of the bones of one of his legs
broken while playing ball the other day.
An Adrian man whose tongue gets
the better of his judgment, was fined
SO Friday morning for useing profane
language.
Horace King, an elderly man resid-
ing on the west side. Saginaw, dropped
dead Friday afternoon, supposedly
from heart disease.
Alfred Taylor, well known colored
maj and former Kentucky slave died
at his home in Adrian Thursday even
ins. at the age of 20.
Bay City liquor and cigar dealers are
up in arms because they have been
notified to pay their taxes to the deputy
collector at Saginaw.
Circuit Court convenes next week at
Mt. Pleasant. There are five criminal
cases on the calender. Among them
is the notorious Cole abduction case.
Porter Avery, of Coldwater, says he
has an 1904 United States silver dollar.
There are only about half dozea in
existence and their value is put at 81 900.
The Grand Army posts of Bay City
have decided to hold memorial eXercis-
es on the morning of Memorial Day and
attend a cornerstone laying in the after
noon.
Flint will be "A modest and unpre-
tentous city this season. There will be
no Fourth of July celebration nor
county fair while it will be an extreme
~ quiet Memorial Day.
The job press, type and furniture of
the Copemsh Courier was taken away
Wednesday on . chattle mortgage
The editor claims to have purchased
enough more type to enable him to
issue his paper.
Muskegon Good Tempars will on
Thursday next celebrate the fortieth
anniversary of the introduction of the
order into Michigan. The first lodge of
Good Templars was organized in De-
troit, on May ~, 1854.
Dick Bolton, fireman at Graham
Bros. factory, Mt. Pleasant, caught his
arm in the machinery Friday morning
and tore it of so it had to be amputated
at the shoulder Bolton is 80 years
old and has wife and one child.
The ladies of the w. c. T. T., of
Saginaw, are the agitating the question
of having matron OF the central
police station. Chief Kahn favors the
invocation and it is believed the police
commissioners viii indorse the project.
Dewitt Moody, of Shiawassee Co.,
has begun suit against Henry Hill, of
Owosso, fer $40, 900 damages. Hill is
the father of Moodys wife, and Moody
claims he has alienated his wfe's affec.
tons. Offering her a 40-acre farm if she
would leave him.
James +. Loxley's barn on South
Center street, Bay City, was set on fire
at O'Clock Sunday morning and badly
damaged. An hour later another incen
diary fire was started in a vacant store
building near the corner of Lincoln and
Columbus avenues.
Nothing but unwashed wool is being
marketed in Ovid at present, and at
prices ranging from ten TO seventeen
cents. Prices for washed wool have not
as yet been established. The number
this season is 10,700.
Bert Beckett, of Flint. on Friday
pleaded guilty to charge of cruelty to
animals before Judge Walker, who
gave the young man some fatherly
advice about his behavior to dumb
brutes, and fined him about $25 as
reminder for his cruel conduct.
Nearly all the mills on the Menomi-
nee river are now running. AT Menom-
inee large percentage of the lumber
held over was sold late last season or
early this spring. but at present there
is little desire for mill run; no desire on
the part oil the manufacturers to force
sales.
Elmer Delano, of Marengo Prairie, is
not thought as much of just at present
as he was few days ago by some of
his neighbors. One of his cows was
missing and he thought that it was
mired in deep swail, so he called all
of the men in his immediate neighbor-
hood together and kept them out until
midnight looking for the missing
bovine, but it availed nothing. Then
when the party arrived home there was
Mrs. Cow comfortably chewing her cud
in her own yard.
For some time past pieces of coal