Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-11-06
State News.

way lduu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VIII
dedicate Il new church on December 10.
\ man named Roberts lad his foot
badly crushed by hay press west OF
Worthwhile.
The Union City high school has a
chorus class of fifty voices, besides two
string orcheStras.
At recent school teac hers eXamina-
tons in Calhoun county only One-halt
OF the candidates were granted certiti-
Gates
The Southern Michigan Telephon,
Co wi ii headquarters at Athens, ha>
extended its lines to Fabius and wlli
reach Niles soon.
Corn huskipg is nearly finished a.
round Boomingdale; in fact all fall
work is about done and farmers arr
nearly ready for winter.
Clinton can have fire protection if
the village will furnish the pipes and
hydraut, necessary, the wooden mills
Offering tufurnish the steam and pumps.
Merchants in the western portion OF
I the upper peninsula are being victimiz-
ed by means of forged checks, but nc
clue 10 the swndlers has been secured
as Yet.
Some inhuman wretch near Saug;
! tick few nights AGO cut of the tai
of two COWS, and when found in the
morning were nearly dead from loss of
blood.
a Lawton man has been experiment.
ing with IA new kind of syrup, made
from the juice of watermelons boiled
down. The flavor is much like that OF
sorghum, only somewhat richer
The numb,r of fatllitles in mines in
Houghton county during the year end
ing October |, shows great falling off
compared with other. Only ninteen
lives were lost, out of nearly 5000 men
employed.
Party leaders at Tekonsha were look
ing over the registration list the other
day when they discovered that twenty
odd citizens who have voted for years
past have never had their names on
the reg STATION oil.
One or the woman at work sorting
rags in the paper mill at Otsego made
pretty good wages for that kind IF work
last week. She found an envelope con
tainining 500 in bill among the rags on
which she was at work
The fruit growers of Summit town
ship, Mason Co, have formed the Sum
init Fruit Packing Co, with capt;
stock of $4,000. They have purchased
a building and will Immediately fit i,
up with the necessary machinery for the
manufacture OF fruit packages.
The sidewalk damage case of Frances
+. Burroughs against the village Mil
ford has been settled by the payment OF
so to the former, each side paving it,
own costs. The case which has been in
the courts two years has cost the village
800.
a Camden I-year-old got hold of son
matches and in playing with them set
her clothing on fire. 1t was all ablaz
when her mother discovered the state
Of affairs and extinguished the flames
! but strange TO say, the little one was
not injured beyond slight burns on the
face,
a Hill>dalr young man Charles Whit
uey, fhile playing football at Reading
= few days ago, was struck on the nos
! ny another persons head. His nos,
| BLEED freely and all efforts to stop tn,
hemorrhage were VAIN until at last al
~, ration had 90 be performed. He /,
now in "a critical condition.
w. w. Ctippen. of Mi ford, candidate
for register OF deed has a new windmill,
its pay ment 10 depend on the results o.
the election. If BRYAN is elected, h.
owns the mill without paying for it
bat if Mckinley is successful he mus
pay Alfred Kinley, president of the vii
! lagc, twice its cost which amounts e.
$50.
The school teachers of Calhoun coun.
~ are opposed to the statute which re
quires all candidates who write an ex.
animation TO pay what is termed the
institute fee, and they have signed
petition asking the state legislature t,
repeal the law. Now the Brancl
county teachers have caught the fever.
and under the direction of Commi,.
sioner Winner are circulating simila
petition.
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