Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1894-08-03
STATE NEWS.

st. Clair county has forty-seyen resi-
dents who are inmates of asylumns.
Fishermen at Algonac report thai
they have met with great success this
season.
The common council of Centerville
has decided to light the streets of the
city with electricity.
Gladwin will now be lighted by cleo.
tricity, the ordinance providing for il
having been passed by the council.
The Seventh Day Adventists have
staked their tents in Copemish and will
hold meetings two or three weeks.
On Monday, August 6, the citizens OF
Quincy will vote on the question OF
bonding the towu for water works.
Ezra Roberts, of Leonidas, a St.
Joseph county pioneer, died Thursday
after long illness. He was 50 years
old.
A new brick school house is to be
erected at Kinde, Huron Co. The
building Is to be completed by Noyem-
Der /.
The residence of Erastus Conkling,
at Thompsonville, was destroyed by
fire, the contents being saved. There is
no insurance.
The cheese factory at Peck, Sanilac
county has been closed down on ac-
count of the falling of in the milk sup
ply, owing to the dry weather.
A Sparta woman has Just been
divorced from her husband on the
ground of extreme crulty. The husband,
or eX-husband, is IS years of age.
There are forty-fve saloons at the
Sault, but only twenty-six have taken
out licenses. Looks as if there were
good chance for the taxpayers to make
kick.
The blackberry crop in Ottawa and
Muskegon counties is very large and is
furnishing considerable fun as well as
profit to the many. youngsters in the
two counties.
Work on the buildings for the new
Upper Peninsula insane asylum at
Newberry has been begun and Will be
pushed rapidly forward. Several car
loads of material are arriving daily.
Last Friday the the thermometer at
the weather bureau Office at Alpena
registered 90 $40 degrees, the highest
point reached since the establishment
of the station twenty-one years ago.
st. Clair county farmers are praying
for rain. Everything is as dry as tim
der, no ram having fallen for several
weeks. 1t is claimed that there will
not be much more than half potato
crop.
The Seventh Day Adventists of Battle
Creek have issued an edition OF 10000
tracts entitled What Do These Things
Mean?" The strike trouble is claimed
to be fulfillment of prophecy.
Andrew Rondo, of Daggett, Menomi-
nee county, after a search lasting many
years found daughter at Ontonagon
who had been separated from him in
1873. The meeting was very affecting.
The Cass City and Caro- fairs have
been set for the same dates this fall, !
and an effort is being made to have the
officers of the two associations meet and
rearrange things so that they will not
clash.
John Nj. Switch, a Fairfield pioneer.
aged 70, died Sunday, after an illness
Of several months. A district conven-
ton of Sanilac and Huron counties Y p.
2. S. G. +. will be held in Crowel
August 80.
The village council of Union CITY |
have ordered a carload of Portland |
cement for sidewalks, at 81 barrel,
and propose to sell it to the citizens for
50, in order to encourage them TO
build good walks.
Forest fires are raging all around
Thompsonville, hundreds of acres hav
ng already been burned over. The
people of the town are becoming
frightened, as there is no protection
against fire there.
An old lady named Hall. living in
Moore township, Sanilac county went
tut to shut up the chickens during a
leavy thunder storm Wednesday night.
She was struck by lightning while out
md instantly killed.
Saturday night the milk wagon of
}. M. Roberts, of Coldwater, was struck
y passenger train No. 20, cutting
roberts quite badly about the head.
boy who was stealing a ride on the
ow catcher was not injured
Several farmers in the vicinity of
'ad Axe sent to a firm in Nunda, n. Y,
or set of harness, which they claim
D furnish for 1927, but when they ar
ived it was nothing more than rope ,,
lade up in the shape of harness. /,
The grocery clerks of Sherwood are '
little ahead of the rest of the world
delivering their goods Horses are q
DO slow for them, so they just load .
heir goods on a cart, jump on their 9
icycles and make the rounds in no .
me.
Josie Bryant, the girl from the In v
co al | n