Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-04-27
THE STATE.

Mrs. b. +. Baxter, one of the oldest
residents of Tecumseh, died Saturday.
Charlevoix stands good chance of
getting bank. Capitalists are now
figuring on it.
Louis Miller, of Manistee, had three
fingers taken off by buzz saw on Sat
urday afternoon.
Traverse City, having had every
other kind of club and survived, now
wants yacht club.
A Chicago publisher is in st. Joseph
making arrangements To publish the
poems of the late Ben King.
Company ID. NJ. n. g., of Jackson,
has organized an athletic club and starts
out with fifty-siX members.
Charlevoix's census enumerator has
been given a quiet tip to find a popula-
The Albion District Woman's Home
Missionary Society will hold their third
annual meeting at Sanoma, April 25th
and 26th.
Vandals, the favorite name for the
shunks who steal flowers from graves,
are at work in Lakeyiew's cemetery on
dark nights
Tho Ludington Mail has discovered
that il Is glirt, Of "a ''>"urrilous attack
whenever il ventures 10 cr,tcise the
city's school board.
The quenchless rumor that the Chi
cago d West Michigan has purchased
the Harbor Springs branch has made
its spring appearance.
The Rev. John Snyder well known
Unitarian minister of st. Louis, Mo,
has fallen in love with Pentwater and
bought summer residence there.
All the men employed by the Dia-
mond Match Co. on the drive of the
Ontonagon river are out on a strike.
They were getting 81 per day and
want s..
Reed City hastens to announce 10 the
world that it will have rip roaring
Fourth of July celebration, with horse
races, band tournament, hose contest
and balloon ascension on the side.
Central Lake is experiencing build
boom. This summer two new churches
will be built and intermediate river is
to have a bridge. The people will be
asked to vote on $4,000 schoolhouse.
The Adventists of Battle Greek have
decided TO put thirteen tent companies
in the field this summer TO do mission
airy work -Four will travel through
Canada and the remainder in the Uni
ted States.
There is movement on foot in Cal
houn county to hold a conference of
Prohbitionists and Populists, with "A
view of pooling their issues in the COM
ing political campaign. The meeting
will be held in Battle Creek.
The Jackson g. A. X. committee of
arrangements has selected the follow
ing officers for Decoration day; Presi-
lain, Rev. X. b. Balcom; orator, Charles
H. Smith; marshal ID. T. Mccall.
The cycle club of Cheboygan have Sc
cured permission from the racing board
and will hold big racing meeting on
Decoration day. The track is in fine
shape and some fine sport is anticipated
if the weather is good.
Besides forseeing a wild wealth of the
raw material for sand brick factories
Ludington is convinced that it has in
its midst the next Ninth district con-
gresham in the person of the Hon. X.
p. Bishop.
A Boyne Falls man was asked to
hook on his team and assist in pulling
stalled logging train over the grade.
"All right" said the Boyne man with
calm and beautiful assurance, take
off your old engine"
A Petoskey business man, who felt
that he needed exercise, has gone in for
athletics to such an extent that he can
swing an Indian. club around his head
147 times and his wife is still carrying
in the wood and water.
Col. X. +. Smiley, the silver-throated
Memorial Day orator, has lost a job.
The Newaygo post has declared off its
negotiations with the colonel and has
sensibly decided that the home talent is
all right and less expensive.
A number of Sandstone farmers took
to Jackson on Monday an idiotic man
whom they found in marsh eight
miles west OF that city. 1t has been
learned that he is an escaped inmate of
the Calhoun county-house, and he was
returned to Marshall
A Bedford farmer named T. L. John
son had duck that wanted to be an
ostrich The diet of the latter didn't
agree with it very well. and the duck
was killed and dissected Its stomach
contained thirty nails. four screws, a
number of carpet tacks and one rivet
Sammy Mcclure, a schoolboy. was
doing some work for himself at Temple,
Mcclure d Co.'S planning mill at Te.
cumseh, when he accidentally brought