Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-09-27
HOME AND VICINITY.

G. h. BLANCHARD.
Best cigars at Mahan's drug store.
Special prices on kid gloves at Del
avans'.
Artists material of all descriptions
at Webbs.
Mrs. Frank Irish joined her husband
here Tuesday.
Warm meals and lunches at Fink's
Palace Restaurant.
G. S. Young was in Saginaw on
business last Saturday.
Prosecuting Attorney Leet was here
on legal business Tuesday.
b. w. Ellison made business trip
to Grand Rapids Wednesday.
Bart Miller has been in Saginaw and
Bay City this week, on business.
Special inducements to students at
Fink's fashionable dining parlors.
Will Perkins, for some time night
clerk at the Sanitarium, has resigned.
Isaac Pierce, an old time resident of
Alma, was here on business last week.
j. l.. Hubbel, an attorney of Bedding
was in Alma on legal business Tues.
day.
A full report Of the Gratiot county
fair will be given in the RECORD next
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Sharp have re-
turned from trip through Minnesota
and the Dakotas.
The Ladies' Guild of st. Johns
Church met with Mrs. II. Brewbaker
yesterday afternoon.
Walter Cook and Lizzie Hodges of
Ithaca were married 10y Justice Dun
ham yesterday.
J.F. Schwartz's new foundry is COM
pleted, and Mr.. Schwartz expects to
take off the first heat to-day or tomor-
row.
Persons who have split fire wood on
hand should put it under lock and key
when they go to bed. The wood pile
thief is at work.
Mrs. J. w. Avery is quite sick at the
home of her mother Mrs. Kate Irwin.
and has been compelled to defer her
return to st. Louis, Mo.
Major Lemen fell from Fred Ker.
mems dray the other evening, with more
speed than grace, and as result one
hand is laid up for repairs.
Edgar Church returned from the
500 last week. He leaves for AM
Arbor next week to take course il
civil engineering in the university.
The time of the ID. l.. Il n. traiI
from the west, which has for somt
time past arrived here at 800 a. m. ha
changed, and now reaches Alma a
1924 a. m.
Stockholders of the National Loal
and Investment Co. will pay thei
monthly dues at Mahan's drug store OF
Saturday September %. Please t
bring pass books.
Mrs. Lizzie Bricker has on exhibition
at Mahan's drug store, beautiful
specimen of salt or coral work on til
exterior of bottle. The designs ar
roses and daisies artistically arranged
A freight train collision occurred o
the switch west of the L. 81 a. A. depc
last Monday night, between No.
south-bound and No. % north'bounC
The pilots on both engines were tor
off, and engine No. 20 was derailed.
Frank Irish, than whom the stat
does not boast more experienced an
able hotel man, who was clerk at IL
Wright House when his father VIZ
manager of the same, has returned
Alma, and now holds the dual positiC
of assistant manager and clerk of Il
Wright House.
VIM. McNutt was the most surprise
man in Arcadia township last Fridi
when about % of his neighbors al
friends from Alma went to his hon
and told him that they had been j
formed that he was 81 years oil
William did not try to deny the il
parchment, and his friends were Civ,
a hearty welcome He was again su
prised when they presented him I'll
- easy chair as token of regard Aft
partaking of the bountiful supply
refreshments furnished by the ladi
the friends took their departure.