Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-05-10
HOME AND VICINITY.


Finest ice cream to order at Fink's.
Fresh bread, pies, cakes and cookies
every day at Fink's.
Maud Hawkins spent Sunday with
her parents in Wheeler.
Thos. Talon of Riverdale was an
Alma visitor last Saturday.
George j. Tam Of Elwell has been
granted an increase of pension.
The next county teachers meeting
will be held in Perrinton, June IS.
The pension claim of Gordon G. Rosa
| deceased of Ithaca, has been allowed.
Corn and oat feed $50 per ton, bran
and midlings So per ton at Alma Roller
Mills.
The rite of baptism was administered
to two persons by Rev. E. j. Harris last
Sunday.
Mr.. Charles Tam, representing the
Detroit Free Press, spent last Sunday
in Alma.
G. +. Blanchard returned from Chi
cage last Saturday, and will spend his
vacation in Alma.
One hundred bushels of oats wanted
at the Alma Feed Store. Highest
market price paid.
j. L. Northon, president of the COL
lege Y. NJ. g. A., spoke Sunday before
the association in st. Louis.
Before buying gasoline stoves be
sure and see the New Insurance at
Smith & Glass Absolute safety.
Mrs. 5. II. Loveland has received
S4OO insurance on the loss by fire of her
residence in Mt. Pleasant, some weeks
ago.
J. a Weller of st. Louis was in Alma
Monday. He left for Tampa, Florida,
Wednesday, to join his family, who
have been there for the past six months.
Rev. c. w. Lisk, the new pastor of
the Baptist church in Ithaca, was in
Alma Monday, to attend the meeting of
the Gratiot County Ministerial Associa-
ton.
George Fink's restaurant has been
newly papered and painted, making it
one of the finest places of the kind in
the country. George is building up a
fine business.
Wellie Miller, whom we claim as an
Alma boy, has accepted a position in
Detroit as leader of an orchestra. He
left last Monday morning 10 enter on
his new duties.
Charles Fishbeck of this village was
elected vice president of the Gratiot
county branch of the Michigan Master
HOrse-slloers' Association, at its organ
izatiOn in Ithaca last week
Cyril y. Trethewy, student in Alma
college, left Monday evening for Chi
cago, having been compelled to give up
his school work for the remainder of
the year A crowd of students were at
the station to bid him goodbye, and as
the train pulled out, "Treth' was
given the college yell, several times re-
peated with variations.
While in Grand Rapids last week we
enjoyed avery pleasant visit with Frank
Irish, manager of the New Sweet, for
merly with the Wright House here.
Under his efficient management the
New Sweet has become very popular,
and is now one of the leading hotels in
that city. Frank is always glad to see
his Alma friends.
T. II. Roberts of Detroit, who is a
guest at the Sanitarium, spent the past
winter in the Bermuda Islands, and as
souvenir of his visit there brought
home with him some Photographic
views of public buildings, streets, ma
tives at work, and of fields of the beau
tiful Bermuna lily, the whole forming a
very choice and valuable collection.
Alma college offers three scholarships
to those standing highest in the eighth
grade examinations in country schools,
as follows: To the pupil having the
highest standings, years scholarship;
TO the next highest, two term
scholarship; to the third highest, a
terms scholarship. Alma and Ithaca
high schools each offered, to the pupil
receiving the highest standing, four
years course. The result of the exam
ination is as follows: Highest standing,
Minnie Keckler, Arcadia; second, G.. II.
Loomis, No. Fulton; third, Willie vii.
kinson, No. 6. North Star.