Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-02-14

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Farmers about Hartford propose to
Start "a cb, csc factory.
\ new Pres bytciap chuch was dedi-
Gated 10 Battle Creek, few days ago.
The q A. X. post 81 Vassar will
erccf "A soldiers monum 1t, Il n cost Of
81 900.
The Merchants National bank Of
Mu~kcgon mas gone into voluntary
liquidation
\ Chine c coed has been chosen
secretary OF ihe senior medical class al
The university.
Edward Douglass Of Niles was IN
! s;anlA killed the other day, by a train
on the Michigan Central.
Cleveland capitalists have organized
4 stock company and will resume min
ing operation IN Ontouagon county.
Prof. G. +. X. Bellows Of the Nil
/ Pleasant Normal school, IS n candidate
FOR superintendent OF public Instruction.
The Dewey & Stewart roller mill.
one If the oldest land marks IN Owosso,
Aas burned to the ground Tie other
night.
The handsome Sandstone residence
on The steele fam, niue mics north Of
IOnia. was burned few days ago, AT Is
MSS Of $50, 600.
Gov and Mrs Rich will goto Mexico
with the Michigan editorial association.
tie Will leave February Is, and be
absent about 20 days.
The Michigan Maple Lumber Co.
was organized in Traverse City a few
days ago. Fifty concerns are represent
ed in the New company
Grand Rapids will bond itself for
tor 800 900 10 put in All electric light
ing plant. This decision was reached
alter a hot tight IN the city council.
Mrs Patrick Lavey of Dexter. the
other morning gave birth to triPlets.
All boys Weighing seven and one half
pounds each, mother and sons are
doing hnelv.
W w Thorbum Of Lansing ha, been
elected president Of The Michig Vet
crniary Surgeons association, and
William Joppiiug OF Owosso, secretary
and treasurer.
The republican state convention
to choose delegates at large To the
uational convention in ST. Louis Will
be held m Detroit, as near the 2lst Of
April as possible
Jane Moiitt aud her daughter Dot
/ Alexander of BIC Rapids have been
sentenced to 30 days in the Detroit
house Of correction for stealing Il pig
valued at one dollar.
jim Dcweerd a farm laborer, near
Ai,egan, has by the death of a relative
in Holland. fallen heir to a fortune of
$500, 600 lie has gone to the old
county to claim his Inheritance.
K. Mckay, pioneer of Macomb
county, is dead. He was one OF the
original aDolitionists, casting his Vote
Tor that party IN 1912 when there were
only two anti-slayery votes in that
town.
Peter Callicott of Decatur has been
sehtinced 10 thirteen months IN the
! lonia house of correction for violating
the local option law. Theodore Lowry
of the same town gets five months for
the same offense.
Jerome b. SweatIand pioneer of
Pontiac, was found lying upon the floor
of his shop the other morning, in n
comatose condition. He died soon
after being removed to his home.
Death was caused by apopleXy.
Solomon 0. Hunt was locked in jail
in Petoskcy the other night on "A charge
of vagrancy He was found dead in
the morning. In his hand was letter
saying that he was an old soldier, that
his sons would not take care of him,
and he was forced to leave home.
The Women's League Of the Uuiyer-
sity OF Michigan offers one year
scholarship Characterization and tuition
feeS) in the University of Michigan to
any 0Iduuhlc pl III dpljIONtu HISf
school who will raise and send them.
before October /. 1896. the sum Of
5000 Tor the women's building fund.
Nearly 800 people assembled at the
! Rayucr opera house in Mason, the other
night To witness the marriage of the
two midgets. The bride, Mary j.
Gonguire of Mason, was 19 years old
yesterday She weighs ~ pounds and
is just 80 inches tall. The groom.
Major Noble g. Winner, of Monticello,
Ia, who Is 26 years old. weighs ~
pounds and is SO inches tall
Justice G. b. Grant, of the Michigan
supreme court, in an address in Lam
sing the other night. took firm stand
against prohibition and local option.
He opposed prohibition on the ground
that il cngendcred fraud. deceit and
bribery, and failed to accomplish the
| object desired. He urged the enforce