Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-09-06

Buy your school books and school
supplies of L. II. Hayt.
ii. j. Vermeulen has had the gutter
in front of his new store paved.
John w Morton and family visited
friends in lonia county last week.
Special Inducements to students at
Fink's fashionable dining parlors.
Call on the old reliable jeweler and
Optician when in need of anything III
his line. TAYLOR.
Mr. EnCch Wimple, who has been
quite sick for some time, is able to be
out again.
Mrs Charles Morden went 10 Grand
Rapids last Saturday for a fortnight's
visit with friends.
Miss Ella Watson Of Breckenridge
visited Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Beckner
the first of the week.
Mrs. ii. j. Vermeulen returned Mon
day evening from visit with friends
in Lansing and Detroit.
To Observation-Disclosures rooms on
Woodwork Avenue, second house
north of Dingman's store.
L. NJ. Smith and family, who have
been spending their vacation in Massa-
chusetts, returned last Saturday.
Charles Spicer and George Parsons
have formed partnership for the
purchase and shipment of live stock.
Lost: Between Alma and the Davis
school house last Friday, "A gentleman's
coat. Finder please leave at this office.
Mrs. G. j. Sterling, who has been
visiting her father, Ii. a. DelaYan, re
turned to her home in Chicago last Fri
day.
J. NJ. Nichols and wife and George
Fink and wife left yesterday for a
weeks visit in Petoskey and other
resorts.
c. l.. & G. NJ. Delayan are having a
repair sale and are moving very large
quantities of merchandise Of all kinds
at very low prices for cash.
The Junior society of Christian En-
deavor will serve ice cream and cake on
the lawn in front of John Caple's resi-
dence, Saturday evening, Sept. :.
The case of Howe VS. ShaiIer, which
was called for a second trial before
Justice Durham last Tuesday, WAS set
tied by the payment of costs 10y Dr..
Shaifer.
Brock Il Rodman expect TO leave
Alma in about three weeks for
Muncie, Ind, where they Will engage
in the manufacture of the Acme
Heater, patented 10y Mr.. Brock.
Frank Acker, who lives six miles
east of Alma, had horse, buggy and
harness stolen last Thursday night.
The thief also visited Mr.. Hawkins,
who lives near Acker, and stole set
of double harness.
w. II. Kinch visited his son James in
Mt. Pleasant last week, and while
there was presented with enlarged
crayon portraits of himself and wife,
which his son had had made as a
surprise for his parents.
The WOman's Club Will resume its
regular meetings the last Monday in
this month. The club expects to rent
and furnish club room in some
convenient locality, and have regular
place for holding its meetings.
Prof. G. y Davis and Kendall Brooks
sent boat by express to Riyerdale
last Saturday, and then boarded the
train and went to Riyerdale after H.
They made the return trip 10y boat, a
distance of between 20 and SO miles
The distance 10y rail is 10 miles.
b. Rice of Glare helped himself to .
load of wheat belonging to man living
west of Shepherd. He brought it tC
Alma, and was endeavoring to dispose
of it at the Alma roller mills, when G.
w. Fouts of Shepherd, deputy sheriff
of Isabella county, came and took Rice
and the wheat back to Shepherd.
+. s. Holccmb, who has been visiting
his mother at the Sanitarium for sew
eral weeks past, left Wednesday fol
Fort Mead, South Dakota, to enter thu
United States army as a member of thu
Eighth cavalry, troop b. Mr.. Holcoml
graduated from the Michigan Military
Academy at Orchard Lake last June.
The RECORD was in error last weel
when it stated that the Sunday schoo
in the Gerber school house was estab
lished through the efforts of LumoI
Gee. Mr.. Gee informs us that thu
school was organized by the township
Sunday School Union, When, how
ever, the continuance of the school wa
in question, Mr.. Gee took hold of 1t
and by his efforts has made the schoo
one of the most ilourishing anC
enterprising in the township.
In 1883 J. NJ. Nichols began working