Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-04-10
Additional Local.

Miss Lenhoff of st. Louis will organ
ize class in elocution in this place.
Rev. +. w. Irwin and family of West
Bay City visited in Alma this week.
NJ. Pollasky was in Mt Pleasant and
Glare on business the first of the week.
Mrs. M. Gray has returned from Grand
Rapids, where she has been for eleven
weeks.
n. c. McClrty, of Thamesford, Ont,
has been visiting his brother, G. W.
McCarty.
Miss Rosa Messenger went to Detroit
Wednesday to hear the famous
Paderewski
Married, Sunday April >, by Rev. w.
Watson, Edwin Church of Pine River,
to Myrtle Erskine of Vestaburg.
The Alma Light Guards, under COM
mand Of Capt. Theodore Nelson, were
out for drill Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Wellington White, a returned
missionary from China, addressed the
college students yesterday morning.
w. S. Turck went to Grand Rapids
Wednesday morning to attend meet
ing of the board of managers of the Sol
diers' Home.
Mrs. b. G. Button will leave for Jack
son this week where she will visit
friends until Ben has decided where
he will locate.
Married, Wednesday afternoon, by
Rev w. f. Jones, at the parsonage,
Frank L. Miller and Miss Jessie Kinker
ter, both of Ithaca.
Nichols is about with his kodak, and
our citizens Will do well to keep an eye
out for him He has caught some of
our citizens already
J. c. Bright of Lansing expects to
start cigar factory in Alma this spring.
He was here Wednesday looking for a
building in which TO locate.
Mr. and Mrs. NJ. Pollasky entertained
friends at dinner Wednesday in honor
of Rabbi GroSsman of Detroit, who was
their guest while he was in Alma
O. w. Rogers has just made 5000 egg
crates. He uses so many of them that
he has been compelled to help ont the
manufacturers by making them himself.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. ID. w.
Adams died Wednesday. Funeral SER
vices were held at the residence yester-
day afternoon and the remains inferred
i'll Riverside cemetery.
G.. w. Beck had but just finished
reading a letter from his mother, Mrs.
NJ. j. Spencer of Charlotte, Tuesday,
when she came in and announced that
she had come to make him and his wife
visit
1 have received my sample Phoenix
bicycle and invite all to call and see it.
a liberal discount will be given to those
purchasing this month Will sell for
part cash. balance monthly payments.
See adv. on another page
CARS BRowS.
The first term Of the InduS-r sch ol
closes tomorrow afternoon, when an ex-
hibition will be given of the work done
by the little girls. Visitors are cordially
invited to come at three o'clock. The
children will come as usual at half past
two o'clock.
There is woman in the southern
part of town who seems TO take delight
in severely furnishing her children.
The cries of the little ones have been
heard a block away. telling their mother
that she was killing them and begging
for mercy. Unless she desists, and that
very soon, the neighbors will take
hand in the matter.
The entertainment and supper given
by the Lady Maccabees, Tuesday even
ing, was well attended, and very enjoy
able, and melted the society about $25.
The drawing Of the silk quilt was the
principal event of the evening Ticket
No. III was the lucky one. The holder
of this number can get the quilt by call
ing at the Argus office.
At the Prohibition mass convention
held in st. Louis Tuesday, to elect dele
gates to the state convention TO be held
in Lansing next Wednesday and Thurs
day, j. w Doane of Forest Hill was
chosen delegate. Roland Holsopple of
st. Louis, and Rev. w. F. Jones of
Alma alternates. j. w Miller of Alma
was appointed to organize prohibition
club in this township.
The Presbyterian church was filled
Wednesday evening when Mrs yelling
ton White spoke about China. Mrs.
White lived for ten years in the province
of which Canton is the capital, and dur
ing her residence there made a careful
study not only of the customs and habits
of the people, but of the religious and
political history of the Chinese Empire.