Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-20
THE STATE.
A new village band has been organ
lied at Plainwell

to commence condensing early next
week.
Two Monroe boys have been fined
$40 each, including costs, for bother
ing a banana peddler.
There is strong talk Of state bank
being organized at Greenville, with
Milo Lewis as cashier.
1t has cost Flint for fuel for the in
digent poor since December last 5000,
the highest that has been paid in years.
Constantine met with heavy loss by
the burning of her school house. The
building is said to have been worth
100000.
The annual report of the waterworks
and electric light commissioners of
Coldwater shows net gain to the city
of 81 800.
An owl four and a half feet from
tip to tip OF its wings was captured by
Hiram Cook of Everett township re-
Gently.
A Sheboygan man named Frank
Russell has succeeded in tanning sea
gull so that it runs about the house
with a brood OF chickens.
Mrs. Burpee, the Corunna woman
who is charged with ill-treating Ira
Burpee, her foster son, has so far been
unable to secure bail.
Colonel c. V. Il. Pond of Coldwater
has received an appointment as chief
clerk in the secretary of states Office at
Lansing at salary of 81 POO.
Mrs. Miller, wife of X. A. Miller of
Lapeer, ,has lost her reason and has
been committed to the asylum at
Pontiac. She has been very i'll for
long time.
Roy Blystone of Bedding was beating
his way on freight on the Michigan
Central road. He fell from the train
about four miles west of Three Rivers
and lost his LETT foot.
Professor II. j. McEueH has been re-
engaged as principal of the Bancroft
schools at an advance of salary. The
other teachers have also been rendered
their positions for another year.
Hon. Harrison Geer of the law firm
of Geer Il Williams, Lapeer, and known
throughout the State as a lawyer of
great ability, has announced his inten-
ton of removing to Detroit.
frankie Farnum, a little Berrien
Springs boy, had his wrist mangled by
little pet pug dog, and though the
wound was Immediately cauterized and
dressed it is believed that his hand will
be crippled for life.
The store Of +. NJ. Ladd, in South
Milford, was broken into and goods to
the value of 800 taken. Entrance was
made by'prying the front door open
with chiselS stolen from shop near by.
No trace of the perpetrators as yet.
Some three years ago Eugene A.
Travers of Sherwood fell from scat
fold while painting Il building in Jack
son, and received injuries from the
effect of which he died Friday morning.
He leaves widow, mother and brother
10 mourn MS loss.
1t will be necessary for people, es-
pecially for ladies whose sleeping rooms
are on the ground floor, to look care
fully TO the curtains before they dis
robe. The president of the village, the
marshal and night watch have organ
lied Peeping Tom club for the pur-
pose of gazing into windows at hours
when people usually retire. [Allegan
Democrat.
The poor of st. Clair county were
assisted to the amount of $7,347.52
during the quarter ending March 81
This is S2,S30.26 more than the dis
bursements tor the previous quarter.
An insane girl named Nellie Schwartz
created quite sensation in Saginaw
on the It'll inst by her eccentric actions.
The poor girl was finally arrested and
sent back to West Bay City, her home
Shooting in the marshes around
Monroe has been considered poor this
year, not many large bags having been
made. The largest of the season was
made last Saturday, when three sports
men bagged 116 ducks.
Rev. Mr.. Trivette of Winnipeg, Man,
has been engaged as rector of Grace
Episcopal church in Lapeer, and will
begin his service in few days. The
church has been without pastor since
Rev. +. Hall went TO St. Johns last
Summer.
The little 3-year-old son of Henry
Hook, of Cheboygan, was throwing
chips into the river back of the Indus
trial iron works with several other
children, when he slipped and fell in.
So far every effort made to find his
body has been unsuccessful.
The work of tearing down one of
Ann Arbor's oldest landmarks has COM
menced. 1t is the old Zion church, for
many years one of the largest church
buildings in the city. where university
commandments have been held and
where Wendell Phillips delivered his