Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-13
THE STATE.
A Portland man ate 20 eggs in II

serve the Saturday half holiday.
Tie Salvation army in Traverse City
recently gained rs recruits in single
day.
A Prohibition club has been organ
lied at Maple Rapids with % charter
members,
The chemical works at Mancelona
have been enlarged by the addition Of
another boiler 10 the battery.
G. A. Isham, of North Shade has "a
ewes which gave birth to A lambs
OF these 80 lambs are now living.
John Ewert, Saginaw hardware
man, Friday fell 30 feet down an
elevator shaft. He is seriously injured
Burglars broke into Stevens az Sly's
meatmarket at Plymouth, blew open
the safe, but found no money therein.
| No clew
Typhoid feaver has appeared in the
jackson prison again. There are sew
eral cases, supposed TO be due to bad
| sewerage.
Grand Rapids carpenters have organ
lied council. OF the / 300 carpenters
in the city, only 100 at present are
union men.
William Parker, an old Lapeer pion-
eer who has just died, had four general
ions of descendants living at the time
of his death.
Captain Shean, of West Bay City,
who had his skull fractured in "a saloon
row Monday night, regained conscious
ness Wednesday.
Local option petitions are being cir
culated in CharlevoiX county with the
intention of securing vote on the
question in June.
Slas Doan, postmaster at South
Branch, Ogemaw county, Is under
arrest on the charge of embezzling $305
from money order funds.
The adventists are preparing for
great convention of all the teachers in
the country belonging to the sect, to be
held in Battle Creek in June.
Alleged illegal fishermen arrested at
Mustegon, will fight their cases through
to the supreme court. They say the
game laws are full of holes.
Bids for building the new home for
the feebleminded and epileptic at La
peer have been advertised for and will
be opened in Detroit April II.
The First National bank of Hancock
has just had its charter renewed. Dur
ing the past twenty years it has paid
dividends to the amount of $40, 900.
The Cassopols light and power com
pany has been granted a 20-years fran
chise for street and commercial light
ing by the Cassopolis village council.
The Rev. c c. White, of Saginaw,
emphaticelly denies that he intends to
forsake the pulpit for the stage He
SAYS he knows that he is not an actor.
A 5-year-old daughter of NJ. l.. Fens-
lermacher, of Brany township, Kala-
mazoo county, fell from haystack IA
feet high and was unconscious for SO
hours.
Bloomingdale fruit growers say the
recent cold weather was Il good thing
for the peaches-killed just enough of
the buds to do the work of thinning
the fruit.
John IL. LOOMS, of Jackson, a rail-
road man well known throughout the
state, died Sunday morning as the re-
suit of amputation of leg short
time ago.
The Saugatuck harbor is in bad
shape. The steamer j. &. Suit, which
wntered there, has been trying to get
out for week or more but has not
succeeded.
The roller skate fever has struck
Charlevoix, rather late in the season
but they have it good and hard, and
since the ice disappeared have fixed up
their old rink.
Cedar Springs, Mancelona and sew
eral other Northern Michigan towns
want the townships in which they are
located devided into two or more elect
ion precincts.
The Saginaw police have notlhed all
saloons and disreputable house selling
liquor, To be ready with $500 license
money May /. Many of the smaller
places will close up.
The Michigan Press Association is
making arrangements for trip down
the st. Lawrence and through the
White Mountains, in connection with
the annual meeting in June.
Defeated candidates at Lapeer threat
en- to contest the election on the ground
that voters who asked for assistance in
preparing their ballots were not requir-
ed to swear to their igorance.
Marlette is bound to be up with the
times Arrangements have been made
wherein it is TO have an electric light
ing system and it is expected that 1t
will be in running order within six