Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-08-09
State News

hel l on the l4th
A new system of cclectric fire alarms
being put up a DDwaeiac
South Haven residents Will organize
village improvement society
A child only thirteen months old died @
consumption a. ovid this week
Nine new arc lights, ordered by Tecum
seh's council, have just been put up.
Not more than half the usual pc ,ch croI
will be harvested al Manchester his year
The Owosso & Counna Street Railway
is to be sold on mortgage sale next Tues
day
Homegrown cnbhageS are IN the mar
ket al Cadillac The northern towns
aren't so slow after all.
Goddess youths smoke cigarettes and
play cards on the graves IN the Jewish
cemetery Of Ann Arbor
Eighteen hundred bushels Of cherries
were shipped from Ionia this season, the
largest crop ever known.
Covert creek. ia Cas- county. has en-.
tirely dried up. md the -four mi al Pleas.
ant Valley has gone out OF bushes also
Allegan has queerly afflicted family.
consisting of two brothers, who were born
' ithout feet, and sister who has no
hands
A very poor wheat crop was harvested
IN the vicinity of Manchester One farmer
got only two loads of wheat from 81
acre Leld
Caleb Jordon of Dawson has lust sold
$500 feet Of black walnut lumber TO
Grand Rapids furniture company, at 80
per thousand
Three hundred cords of hemock bark
owned by Mr.. Ashcroft Of Manton were
burned in the woods north of that place, a
few days ago
The Twelfth annual reunion Of Company
d, Sixty sixth Illinois, Western Sparp
shooters will be held at Paw Paw Lake,
August , and
AT Wequetonsing the summer girls
dress in appropriate costumes and play
ball with the boys There is a regular
new women's nine.
A Flushing ieweler has made a UNIQUE
purse out of the skin of ground mole.
leaving rs pretty feet attached The purse
will hold 500 in silver.
Charles Bell, Caro- farmer. is accused
Of decorating his horse with stout stuck
with stout mai. al the end The horse is
one mass Of cuts and bruises.
The mad dog scare has again broken
out in Saginaw the little child Of j Nc. |
Williams beng bitten by dog that had /
previously bitten several animals
Frank Ellsworth, one Of the employees
of The Climax basket works at Traverse
City, made $50 baskets I'M nine and a half |
hours and called it his best days work.
Howard Britton Of Charlotte Is 10 years
otd and only three feet high lie weighs
forty pounds. He is good player on the
mouth organ and often plays on the street.
one hundred and twenty young farmers
from towns along the Detroit, Grand
Haven and Milwaukee left Grand Haven
Wednesday night for the harvest in Da-
kota
The Calhoun sunday school rally at
Marshall included - schools and ;, 600
children. Stores were protusely decorated
and speeches were made at the fair
q ounds.
Bert Jenkins. living with his widowed
mother on a farm near Corunna. loaded
up 80 bushels Of new oats, sold them for
s31, and forgot 10 20 home He is :
years old
Mysterious alarms of fire keep Ludng.
on fire department busy these DAYS.
Neither the fire nor the person who turned
n the alarm can be found. The fremen
lont see the joke.
The Chicago Il Grand Trunk com. 5
oany is providing lis passenger coaches &
With the Woods patent gates which will {
prevent pee pie getting on or of the train I
kept at stations. {
About 800 colored people celebrated :
day at Saginaw Speeches +,
we're made by Robert Robson and sam !
lel Brown Of Saginaw Louis David of
Bay City and others
Bangor's new pickle factory, one of the
argest institutions Of the kind in the il
7 nited States is so near completion that I
IS expected to handle the product of 400 a
ores of cucumbers this season.
Blackbirds are said to be almost as mum
rous as the leaves Cf the trees along Do.
'agiac creek, and that tlocks containing
thousands OF them can be seen every even II
ng as they assemble at their roosts. 9
There is so much lovely cement sidewalk Il
] Union City that the bicyclists can't re.
st the temptation TO ride thereon, in spite
the existing ordinance prohibiting it Il
nd the utmost vigilance of the officers y
After the family of Elmer Rider of Sher +,
God had drunk and relished their morn.
lg coffee. they found a fourteen inch d
make neatly coiled at tue bottom Of the 5,
Of And yet people talk about whiskey. Z.
Mrs. Victor Vosburg of Kalamazoo had a.
er husband arrested on body execution
nd locked up in Jail for failing to pay t'
er 81 90 as temporary aimony while di- d.
orce proceedings were pending. She has O.,
pay his board in jail. -
The contract to rebuild the burned /
)rton OF the st Johns Manufacturing II
factory has been tsken by a
rank Benhagel of lonia for S2j 600. n
he section to be rebuilt is 1jx200 feet. "
70 stories and a basement, of brick and
on.
The Olivet Optic says the drouth hasn't Iii
fected Eaton county's Indebtedness. AL =,
adv 10 600 has been borrowed with five u