Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-04-19
STATE SETTINGS.

Lake Linden had "A $4,000 fire Sat
urday.
Alpena guards will have new g., 600
armory
Keeler Maccabees will build a new hall
this spring
The First Presbyterian church of De.
trolt, is = years old.
Catholics in Hartford will build new
church this summer
Battle Creek wants the cncampment of
state troops this year.
81 lgnace Presbyterans will build a
new church this season.
Marshall is making preparations for a
Sunday school rally, August
The Michigan lumber trade in Ohio.
| Indiana and Illinois is increasing
An electric railway between Croswell
and Sanilac Center is on the taps
a small green bug is dong much dam
age to fruit buds in Berrien county,
Five hundred persons are employed in
| the Lamb knitting factory in Colon.
John Vischer, one of Hollands pioneer
residents and fruit growers, is dead.
March 81 there were 10 3Ol names on
the rolls of the Detroit pension Office.
y grand jury has been called in Eaton
county, TO investigate the local option law.
a white swan measuring six feet from
tip 10 tip was shot near Adrian last Satur-
day
An electric railway may be built be.
tween Stanton and Crystal Lake tins sum.
mer.
The French lumber company has paid
out S20, 600 TO farmers for logs the past
winter
The taxpayers of Lansing have decided
against the erection Of new high school
building.
Baptists Of Battle Creek will erect a
chapel and do missionary work among the
Adyentists.
The 7.year old daughter of Willis Ram
say of Grant, was killed by rolling log a
few days ago
A factory for the manufacture of hosiery
is to be moved from Michigan City, Ind
TO Muskegon.
Harry c. Tillman well known in polit
cal circles in this state. died in Detroit a
few days ago.
The eco eds" in Michigan University
are trying to raise Sl5 600 necessary TO
build gymnasium
j. w. Hopkins, grand keeper of records
and seal X of p, of Michigan, died in
Lansing, April sth.
The Soldiers Home in Grand Rapids. is
almost tenantless, so many veterans hav
ing left to find work
William Allen was killed and Roscoe
Young seriously injured by train in
Marcellus few days ago.
The Globe Furniture Go. Of Worthwhile
will manufacture the individual commun-
ion cup invented by DR. Ryan of lpsi
lanti.
Hereafter Albion college students will
be charged 10 per cent. interest on all ac
counts left on the college books for 30 days
or more.
4 deal has been consummated whereby
the Alpena X Northern railroad passes
into the control of the Detroit Il Macinaw
company.
The executive committee Of the Kala
mazoo County Sunday School association
have decided not to hold a tri county rally
this year.
NJ w. Parker, a business man of St
Johns, fell from train near Aurora. Neo
and fractured his skull He will die from
the injury.
Sixty car loads of square timber for
English shlpyards will be shipped from
Traverse City to England as soon as navl
cation opens.
The Business Mems association Of Al
pena. has granted a 10.acre site for a sole
leather tannery and ) acre site for a stave
mill and pump factory.
Mrs Dalcenia DAILY bequeathed $2j 600
i'm trust for the erection Of home for old
INDECENT ladies in Marshall \ site has
been purchased for 81 900.
Agents of a syndicate are working in
Ottawa county, endeavoring to secure a
Holland settlement for southern Texas
whore the syndicate has 1900 acres Of
land
Hon Cyrus Lowell died in Ionia a few
days ago. He was member Of the state
legislature in lS47 and 1855, and also a
member Of the constitutional convention
in 1850
Mrs Dr. A. JefTeries and Mrs. W. Nc
Sherry of Hubbardston are two of the six
heirs to a s. 800 600 estate in Buffalo, n.
Y There are two other heirs somewhere
in Michigan.
Kent county farmers are going extern
sivelv into bean raising this summer. Last
year one man made + $50 from - acres
Of beans, and from the same number of
acres Of wheat he made $3.50.
Hon. J W. b Sill, United States minis
/ ter 10 Corea, has sent TO the State Agricul
tural college a number of samples Of mil
let peculiar to that country 1t grows TO
an enormous size and Is used for food It
viii be planted on the farm at the Agricu
tural college.
Peach ycllows and black knot have
ruined many valuable trees near Ann Ar
I hor Resides tho havoc tvrop,,bf Is, ,oacI