Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-12-28
STATE NEW S.

bil tIN mas organized humane
,nricty,
Bay City will build "A $40 900 school
house next summer
Two loave, of bread are sold for five
cents in Port Huron.
A Presbyterian church has been or
gained Ia Traverse Ci,y
Cornelius. CornweI. for over 80 years
resident OF Yp,ilanti, is dead.
Bay county paid out &l7721 for
sparrow bountics in November.
Richard $ Stanley, for over 80 years
resident Of Gilmore isabella county,
is dead.
Gov Rich's sworn statement of his
election expenses places the amount at
$l3SLG1.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
will open for business in Lakevicw Jan
uaIy ?, 1895.
George Moore aged Is. of BIG Rap
IDS. while telling "a tree. was struck by a
limb and instantly killed.
The agricultural college will ask the
legislature to appropriate %il,7jO for
the next two years expenses.
The common council Of Grand Rap
| ids has adopted an ordinance prohibit
ing throwing dice foY drinks.
The state supreme court says that
pianos are not "houNehold' goods, and
are not exempt from taxation.
Traversr City has a population of over
5000, and wants n city charter. The
village was incorporated il 1881.
The Land Loan and Title Guarantee
Company OF Mt. Pleasant wants to ex-
change real estate for good sound work
horses.
a buyer for an eastern firm pur-
chased over 80 tons of poultry in
Owosso this season, for which he paid
81, 400.
The state board of Agriculture has
decided that the woodlands around the
Agricultural college shall remain a per-
manent forest.
Teachers IN Occana county have or
gained a lecture bureau. the object of
which is to secure good lectures for the
rural districts,
A company with $l60, 600 CAPT al has
been organized to construct and operate
an electric railroad from Traverse City
TO Old Mission.
The Michigan Sick Benefit Associa-
ton has been organized by the men,
berS OF Saginaw Tent No 1O7, X O. +.
NJ. the largest tent in the state.
Two bills were presented to the state
the other day: one for S46j for the trial
of ex-Secretary of State Jochim, and
S2,479 for that of Attorney General
Ellis.
Willard Chapman, who escaped from
the Isabella county jail about a year
ago, was captured the other day IN
Wexford county and brought back to
Mt. Pleasant
A farmers and villagers sales-day"
will be established in Lakeview 1t is
designed, primarily, for the sale Ct stock.
but farm produce generally will be Of
forcd for sale
EX-Deputy Secretary of State August
W. Lindholm, has been held in 5000
bonds for trial al the January term of
lngham county court on a charge of
embezzlement.
The board of supervisors of Eaton
county refuses to call a special election
for the re-submission of the local option
question, alleging that the petitions sub
mitted were faulty or fraudulent.
James w. Wood, state treasurer of
the A. O u. W., who absconded with
the funds of that order about year
ago, is now travelling in the west for
hardware firm. 1t is said that he is
paying back, as fast as he can, the
money his bondsmen were compelled to
pay to make good his shortage.
Rev. VIM. Ward. pastor of the Meth
odist church of COrunna. is the ''Dr.
Parkhurst" of Shiwassee county. He
openly charges the liquor dealers with
violating the laws, and fearlessly de-
clares that the newspapers and COM
mon council are as guilty rs the liquor
dealers. His expose has aroused no
little excitement.