Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-08-17
STATE NEWS.

Flora Ouelette, the Marine City girl
who claims the power To make the
water give up its dead, made an unsuc-
cessful attempt at Port Huron Saturday,
to find the body of Daniel McLester, the
Detroit boy who was drowned in the St.
Clair river the other day.
Rev. William Anderson, pastor of the
INLAY City Congregational church for
the past six years, has accepted call
to the churches at Maiden and Dover,
Ill. He will begin his labors on his new
charge the lst of September. He and
his family have large circle of friends.
Fire broke out in the Bowman q
Crawford's livery stable at Oxford,
Saturday morning, and destroyed the
building, seven horses, buggies, etc,
the blacksmith shop of Jones d Miller
and the marble works of George Brown.
The total loss is about $l5 200. with
only about 800 insurance.
A peculiar accident happened to Mrs.
Henry Ebling, of Newaygo, recently.
The lady was passing cow at the in
slant it threw its head around to rid
itself of flies. She was lmpaled on the
horns of the animal and received wounds
from which it will take her some weeks
to recover.
Schewaing citizens have adopted an
old-fashioned bat little used mode of
furnishing undesirable citizens. Last
Friday night, a number of persons dis
gulsed themselves and called on the
person they desired should leave town
and gave her regular spanking, then
warned her to take up her bed and walk
A very general feeling is prevalent in
Mt. Clemens that some good missionary
work could be done by the owners of
some of the shade trees on the streets
of that town by trimming the branches
so that it would be possible for IA man
going to church to reach his destna-
ton without having his hat all dented
in and getting poked in the ribs two or
three times besides.
1t is stated as fact that there is
young man in Central Chippewa,
Osceola county, so much admired by
three young ladies of that village that
they have come together and settled on
"A plan whereby one Of them will land
him. Cuts were drawn to see who
should have the first chance TO ensnare
him, and it fell to the lot of the pretti-
- t, Il.
kicking and want to 90 back on their
agreement. Poor fellow
Another proof that advertising pays
About four months ago +. p. Ruel lost
a horse, and after nearly two weeks of
search in every direction, the horse was
given up as lost. Last week one of his
neigkbors bought at the Record office
package of old papers, among them
Mayville paper, advertising horse
answering the description of Mr..
Buel's. He at once investigated and
sure enough he found his horse at work
on farm near Juniata, Tuscola county.
1t cost him only So and Frank now
smiles le.-Imlay City Record.
Vivian, the little Swear old daughter
of Adelbert Beers, of Bellevue, while
about her play Friday came across
box which to her young mind resem-
bled medicine, and thinking it just the
thing for her pet kitty, set about to
administer dose but the kitty kicked
vigorously, whereupon Vivian, to prove
it was goody goody, took dose her.
self. The child's mother came upon the
scene AZ this stage of affairs and dis
covered that she had taken a liberal
dose Of rough on rats. Prompt action
by way of antidotes and powerful
emetics saved the child's life and here
after Vivian will shun all appearance
of medicine.
When man so far contdes in his
fellowman a TO 90 in bathing with
him at the twilight hour. and that man
surreptitiously reaches over a LOG and
catches bullfrog and stuffs it into his
pants pocket while he is out toying with
the laughing pillows, and when later
he emerges from the water and resumes
his apparel wholly unconscious of the
vile trick of his trusted fellow. and
directly on putting his hand into his
pocket discovers with feelings of I'M
imaginable horror what he supposes to
be water snake, coiled up therein,
and is forced to put his clothes away
from his crawling flesh as he starts on
"A run for his home a mile away, and
the base author of his dire agony so far
forgets what is due to a friend and to
society as TO lie down and with hyena-
bowls roll in the grass, we repeat,
when a man can enter upon such
career of crime as this, he is NANCY
hound and murderer. 1t is such
things, rather than safe-blowing or
assassination that make one lose faith
in his species.-Grass Lake News.
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