Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-11-01
HOME AND VICINITY.

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Special sales on shoes for the next 10
days at Delavans'
See report Of proceedings OF Board OF
Supervisors in this issue.
Prof. Fink calls no one from the audi.
ence but those who volunteer.
Just received, fresh stock Of
Gunther's candies al Benefits.
DR.. J. +. Suy dam is taking treatment
at the Sanitarium for rheumausG.
Mrs. G.. L. Wilson and son are yis'J-
ing friends in North Star and Hamil-
ton.
J. b. Tubbs went to Buffalo, y, y,
last Saturday with several carloads ol
stock.
Mrs. +. b. Wightman and daughter
OF Fenton are guests Of John Durham
and wife.
DIV. Hubbell has been appointed jan
itor or the Union school, vice y , l.. Has
kell removed.
G.. 5. Ward, who has been confined to
his house by sickness for the past two
weeks, Is improving.
Prof. w. n. Ferris, of the Ferris In
dustrial School in Big Rapids, was in
Alma last Saturday.
Mrs. j. Il. Peters was summoned to
Owosso last Saturday 10 attend her
daughter who is very sick.
Gideon Strickling and wife OF Hub
bardstOn spent Sunday with Nj. and
Mrs. Justin Gill IN this place.
Miss Sophia Willard went TO Toledo
Monday morning 10 remain with Ler
sister, Mrs. II. j. Vermeulen
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. IL Hayt entertained
Mr.. HIS father and mother from Hen
derson, the latter part Of last week.
Ben Lane and Irwin Mills have the
prize as boss fisherman having caught
81 pound Of plckerei III the pond Satur-
day night.
Ellicott & Moore is the style Of the
proprietorship of the GratiOI County
News, James Moore OF Ithaca having
purchased one-half interest.
Bert Woodward went to Bowen (
Mills, Barry county, Tuesday morning
TO attend the funeral OF his father
which occurred Wednesday.
The Ladies' Guild Of st. Johns par
ish met with Mrs. Orville Davis yester
| udJ, NtAI lllD Ohilh WI
meet with Mrs. Ella Downey.
Dudley Hoyt, who has driven one OF
the creamery teams for several years, I;
now driving the Wright House bu.
team. Frank CLARK is driving the cream
cry team.
Clara Merrill of Ithaca was elected
G.. M. of F., and Nellie Scatterg0Od o
the same place was chosen supreme
representative at the meeting of th'
grand lodge of RathbOne Sisters in Mt
Pleasant last week.
Business at the Wright House is III
creasing. More travelling men are stop
ping there now than at any time fO
several months pastor than registered
there at this season last year. Thi
would indicate returning business actiy
ity.
The college glee club were out sere
nading last Friday evening. The boy
called at DR.. PettyjOhns, and sam
their choicest selections. Their ardo
might have been dampened sOmewh3
had they knowu that the doctor and hi
wife were not at home. Just rs the boy
had finished singing, DR.. and Mrs Pet
tyjohn returned, and unperceived b
the serenaders, slipped in the side door
and then invited them IN, when the
were treated to the best the house AT
forded.
AT meeting of the Agriculture
society held in Ithaca last Saturday
the following officers were elected
President, Jonathan Allen, Emerson
secretary. l. n. Cowdry, Ithaca; treas
urer, Ransom Fraker, Ithaca tn
new members Of executive board ar
A. w. Barnes. ID j.. SharraT and J.
X Munson This is the best board tn
society has ever had, and under it
management the affairs of the soclet
will be capably ma jagged.
The Ithaca high school foot ball team
after being defeated by the Alma cOlleg
reserve team last saturday, is now dom
the baby act" Ct aiming unfair playin
by Alma. and b eavier weight OF on
team. The trut h is, there we're tw
men in the Itba Ca team who were 40
members, and lad it not been FOR To
playing of their coach. the Ithaca team
would have been defeated by create
score. The Alma reserves had but on
man on the field who did not play rec
ularly with them, and that one, MegaW
played a position entirely new TO him
AS for the statement that the Aim
team was heavier than ithaca. on
glance at the boyF from the county sea
would convince the observer that eac
one of them would average heavier tina
the individual members Of the Aim
team.