Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-03-29
HOME AND VICINITY.

a. +. Pratt, of Ithaca, was in Alma
Monday.
Shingles for sale by G. l.. ~ q. M.
Delayan.
Miss Eisenlord is spending her vaca-
tion at Ipislanti.
Buy your baled hay and feed at the
Alma Feed Store.
Attend the carpet and curtain sale
at Z. f. Pollasky's.
Six tramps applied to the night watch
Tuesday night for lodging.
Ed. Comstock of the table factory is
in town this week on business.
Thirty-ive bushels of early field pease
for sale at the Alma Feed Store.
You can get the latest shapes IN
shoes and slippers at +. f. Pollasky's.'
Mrs. Oryil Davis is spending the
week with friends in Oakland county.
5. Messenger was in Detroit over
Sunday, combining business with pleas
ure.
l.. 5. Stevens has moved his art
studio over Jay Alverson's meat mar
ket.
a. f. Chase, OF Ithaca, has been
appointed game warden for Gratiot
county.
Never will you again have an oppor
tunity of buying a table at ten per cent.
less than cost ALMA TABLE Co.
Mems extra heavy overalls only 80
cents at f. +. Pollasky's. Get pair
while the stock lasts.
You can buy square, round, center
or pillar table at Woodward & Co.'s at
ten per cent. less than wholesale.
The lecture at the Baptist church
last Sunday evening by Prof. Kappes
was very interesting, instructive and
enjoyable.
George Bates, formerly student
of Alma College, now assistant pastor
at Bear Lake, visited friends in Alma
the first of the week.
Geo. Emsley with his household eff
fects left for Saginaw the first of the
week. Mrs. Emsley will visit friends
here for a few days, departing the last
of the week.
Having negotiated for the sale of the
table factory we will sell at private
sale the remaining stock of tables be-
longing to the company, consisting of
square, round, center and pillar tables,
at ten per cent less than the wholesale
price. At the store building of Wood
ward n Co. ALMA TABLE Co.
Sheriff King, of Montcalm county,
Friday, found some of the papers stolen
from Station Agent Giluly, who was
knocked down and robbed last Deem
Der, at Nestaburg, in hollow stump
near the house where Van Cleave
stopped over night. The watches and
money, however had evidently been
found and removed. Sheriff King says
other arrests will soon follow.-Even-
ing Press.
About twenty of the friends of Man
ley Smith gave him happy surprise
party last Wednesday night. The even
ing was very pleasantly spent in pro-
gressive pedro, after which refresh.
ments were served. Manley will leave
for Washington next Monday where he
is in hopes to find climate that will
relieve him of severe attack of rbeu-
matism he has been suffering with for
over year. His many friends wish
him good luck and hope his trip will
have the desired effect.
The tenacity with which some young
men cling to a forlorn hope is compar-
able only to the much abused .."puppy
and the root" Notwithstanding the
fact that two of Alma's young SWANS
had received two notifications last
week not to call last Sunday evening,
they did call, and waited patiently at
the elevator entrance for the young
ladies', who, meanwhile, had made their
exit from the building, and were de.
voutly worshiping in near by sanctu-
airy. The aforesaid young men were in
anything but worshipful frame of
mind when they learned how cleverly
they had been duped.