Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-10-19
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James Bonine, cass county farmer,
has herd of forty elk.
Jackson city directory claims IS, 1913
population for the central city.
An Eaton Rapids man has fifteen pet
skunks running about his house.
Cass county's apple crop will be lar
ger this season than for many years.
Baptist ministers of Michigan met
in annual conference at Lansing Tues
day.
Thirteen MusKegon school ma'ams
were turned down at the recent exam-
nation.
Saginaw Bay Coal company will
abandon its mine at Sebawaing on ac-
count of water.
The name of the postoilice at Even
Station, Ontonagon county, has been
changed to Even.
Ground will be broken at Gladstone
soCn for large stave factory, which
will begin operations in the spring.
Conrad Schneider has been appoint
ed postmaster at Horton Bay, Charlie
voiX county, vice A. j Stroud, resign
ed
The Dryden Ladies of the Maccabees
are preparing drama which they will
produce soon for the benefit of the So
Getty.
The Supreme court has granted
writ of hab, as corpos il the case of W.
II. Thacker, the convicted Benzonia
wite-poisoner.
Wright Bros. of Iron Mountain have
secured a railroad contract for 500, 600
cedar ties, and will give three months
work to 800 men.
One hundred laborers on the Chicago
x Northwestern ore docks at Escanaba
are out on strike for raise of wages
from 81. % to Sl.65 per day.
Tommy Madosh. well known Mar
quette Indian, has the snow shoe con
tract at the Marquette prison. He has
l20 pairs of shoes ahead.
Morgan, Drexel Il Co.. of New York
will bid in the Bay City Il Alpena rail
road and buy the Alpena IL Northern,
extending the latter to Cheboygan.
The hard iron smelling annex of the
Lake Superior iron works of Hancock
burned to the ground Saturday evening
at o'clock. Loss, $20, 900; insued.
The calender for the October term of
OF
seven criminal cases, eighteen of which
are for the violation of the liquor law.
William Washington, an ex-convict,
is in jail at Hillsdale accused of rob
bling Lake Shore car of various val
tables, He was captured at Jackson
The Michigan Central intends 20 ex-
tend its line from Buchanan TO Berrien
Springs. and surveyors are now at work
on the east side of The river selecting a
route.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. Turrell of Litchtield
celebrated their ruby wedding Thurs
day of last week. Their siXty-five years
of welded life have been very happy
ones.
Grin Ludlow, accused with Mrs.
Hurd of numbering her husband is be-
lieved innocent by his Benton Harbor
friends, who have sent an attorney to
aid him.
Chattle mortgages for Sl4,440.75
were filed Friday last by the j. p. Win
does, on the plant of the Kalamazoo
whip lash factory, TO secure dozen
creditors.
Edna Austin and Edith Shit, who
ran away from home at st. Joseph
some weeks ago, have been discovered
at Watervliet, where they were visiting
an uncle of the Austin girl.
Houghton county spent 10000 in
capturing and convicting the Mineral
Range train robbers, but still has sl07,
900 in the tresurv. She collected $72,-
CSC last year from liquor men.
Gladstone will have quite an addition
soon, as seventy cottages are to be built
to accommodate workmen who will be
employed at the new iron furnace which
is being built there.
The Grand Traverse region will soon
be the leading fruit raising district in
the state if things keep on the way they
have for few years past. Thousands
of fruit trees will be set out next spring
one man alone having ordered 10000
for his own planting.
The long talked of project of spur
line from Benton Harbor by the way of
Berrien Springs to South Bend, con-
Meeting with the Grand Trunk, seems
about TO be realized. Surveyors are
going over the proposed route. and it is
claimed that the work of construction
will at once commence.
A man living near Three Rivers is
the possessor of set of bedroom fur
nture consisting OF three pieces made
from the Lumber cut from chestnut
tree which his uncle planted in 1885
The tree lived for thirty-fve years and
was three feet in diameter when 1t was
blown down, about two years ago.