Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-11-20
Additional Local.
visiting

M. Gray is in Sheridan visiting
friends.
+. w. McCabe was in Ithaca on bust
ness Saturday.
Geo. w. Bates left for Kimball Lake
on business today.
Francis Palmer did legal business in
Ithaca Wednesday.
Sheriff Petit of Ithaca was in Alma
Wednesday evening.
DIR. J. II. Lancashire returned from
New York last evening.
O. w. Sexton of Chilson was in Alma
on business Wednesday.
Hon. III. II. Kinds of Stanton was in
Alma Thursday on business.
f. w. Hooper shipped $4,000 pounds
of poultry to Buffalo this week.
The RECORD gives all the news $l.OO
pays for it until 1898, fifteen months.
Geo. p. Stone of Ithaca was in Alma
Thursday morning on professional busi-
ness.
Mrs Ed Weston leaves Saturday for
a visit with her parents and friends at
Elsie.
Mrs. II. G. Downs was called to ithaca
Wednesday evening by the sudden i'll
ness of her little neice.
Earl Clark the barber is on the sick
list week, necessitating his shop being
closed part of the time.
Mr.. and Mrs B. F. Tuttle Of Chelsea
are visiting their daughter, Mrs. G. L.
Delavan, for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. J. Perkins were
called to Greenville Thursday morning
by the death of her brother at that place.
DR.. A. F. Bruske will conduct the
Thanksgiving services at the nj. Il.
church, Thursday, Nov. 26. Services at
the usual hour.
Mrs A. T. Young, who fell and in
iured her ankle some seven weeks ago, is
now able to step on it again. DR.. Prin
gle attended her.
On another page will be found the
Official returns of Gratiot county's cleo
ton. Out it ont and preserve it as one
of the "seven wonders"
j. G. Coffin of Hartford Conn, rep
resentatiye of the Galena Oil Company.
visited his sister, Mrs. Lathrop, of this
village the first of the week
Miss Ida Salter will give an enter-
tainment at the school house, No. z,
Sumner, consisting of Evolutionary
reading, Friday evening, Nov. %. Pro
ceeds for library fund.
W. A. Leet, prosecuting attorney was
in Lansing Tuesday, arguing the st.
Louis supervisor case before the supreme
court Mr.. Leet insists that he is right
and usually is when he makes de-
cision.
AS the little neice of Andy Hall sat
playing at the piano the other even
ing, the door suddenly opened and an
unknown man entered and advanced |
toward her She rushed by him and |
going TO a neighbours aroused them, but
when they reached the house, the man
had escaped.
During the past fall John Schwartz
has been operating cider mill in con-
nection with his foundry This has |
been big boom for the farmers of this |
vicinity as it has furnished a market for
several thousand bushels of apples |
which would otherwise have rotted up |
on the ground. Mr.. Schwartz is
friend to the farmer and always has an |
eye open to their interests as well as |
his own.
Two weeks ago DIR. Peters was called |
out to the farm of Mrs T. A. Johnson |
to attend a sick cow. He, after examin- |
ing the animal, pror ounced it a case of |
tuberculosis and Immediately informed |
the State Livestock Commission. Thurs
day one of the members Of the
commission. II. II. Hines of Stanton |
came here and after killing the beast, |
found it to be as claimed. Two other |
young calves which have been running |
with the COW have been shut up, and |
further developments will be watched. |
This is the first case of the kind ever
reported in this vicinity.