Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-05-17
STATE SIF TINGS.


day.
Homer schools are closed or account Of
diphtheria.
Nj Pleasant, pillow factory has moved
to Shepherd
\ trolley line will soon connect Flint
and Fit >hng.
Michigan knights TempIars will meet
IN Bay city May p.
Michigan Congregationalists viii meet
in ovid June IT,
Bounties welc paid on 81 600 sparrows
in Michigan last year.
\ Plauwcn blacksmith is shipping
horse shoes to England.
Iliah license has proved too much for
300 Detroit saloonists.
Chippewa county has issued 100000
bonds for good roads
Michigan state frcmen's association met
in Traverse City May - H..
Napoleon will build $1,000 brick
school house this summon.
Experiments in irrigation are to be tried
~ lhC -AElitu al NblltEt
The new iron bridge over Grand river
in Lsnsing will cost $50 600
Coldwater cleared So 233. 10 from its
electric light plant, last year.
GraSshorpcr, are causing S,rmers about
Calumet considerable trouble
Four saloonists in Cadillac have quit
business on account Of high license.
Grand Ledge is boring 500 feet into the
bowels Of the earth for mineral water.
Owo,so Baplsts will build a $50 600
church, with seating capacity If 300
Alpena whcelmcn viii give torch light
parade on the evening of Memorial day.
samuel Browball, merchant of Lake
wieW died from an overdose of morphine.
Mrs. banks Of Alden, aged 20 years.
suicided the other day by taking morphine.
Francis Murphys temperance revival
in Jackson resulted IN .. 500 conversions
Michigan Methodi.ts have contributed
nearly 81. 600 for mission work the past
year
Lapcer county farmers have fed at least
jo. coo bushels Of wheat 10 stock the past
winter
Menomncc expects to have match
factory IN operation before the season is
over.
Marlette will enforce the "cmfew law.
and all kids must be in doors at eight
o'clock.
The primary school interest fund, which
was apportioued May lG, amounted TO
$500. 600
There are 40 veterans in the Soldiers
home in Grand Rapids, 2lj less than in
the winter
The thirty eighth annual catalogue Of
the \ gricultural college contain, the names
of 42S students
The bust Of Judge Cooley in Ann Ar
Dor will be unveiled with imposing cere
monies May "a
All reports indicate that Michigan :
fruit belt will this year yield the largest
crop ever known.
James II Robertson, farmer Of Pewa.
mo- was instantly killed by the kick of a
horse the other day.
A. c. Arnold Of Battle Creek has been
held for trial on the charge of numbering
his son last December.
NoIdcrs i'm f Bement & Sons nipple.
ment and stove works.in Lansing are on a
strike for higher wages
Sixteen Of the A. saloons in Shiawassec
county have been obliged to quit business
on account Of high license.
Oscar Iost Of Leslie is under arrest on
"a charge of arson. He is accused Of set
ting fire to his billiard hall
out of JOG applicants for first grade
certificates at the last state teachers eX-
animation, only - were successful.
The unusual warm weather in May has
ripcned the Michigan strawberries. and
they are yielding an abundant crop.
The Owosso Athletic Association, com.
posed of young business men Of that city.
has been Incorporated, capital $1,000
Belding has raised S2j, 600 of the S3j.
600 necessary 10 secure the town shoe
factory, which will employ 300 hands.
Jerry Nile, and John Crawford were
0Nllt'iNt'4 iu WI uuId ltSN week 10 GlUuI
years each in Jackson for highway rob
berry.
The State Game Warden SAYS that -
arrests were made during April. $50 com.
plants lodged and f. convictions Sc.
cured.
An Is months old son Of Murdoch Nc
lniyre, got hold of a bottle of bed bug
poison, and drank it, and died almost in.
stantly'
a gang Of six counterfeters was arrest
ed in IIillsdalc last week. The arrest
was brought about by the post office in.
spectOrs
Cyrus Alsdorf, leading business man
of Lansing aud for many years assistant
superintendent Of the reform school for
boys Is dead
There are 394 registered eclectic physi
clans IN Michigan. and they ask for rep
rcsentation In the medical department Of
the University.
G. A. Anderson. a student in the liter.
airy department Of the University. died the
other morning of brain trouble caused by
over study,