Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-04-17


Collector, was in Alma last Friday Oh
business, and to recall days of "Auld
Lang Syne" with his old friend BY
Webb.
Mrs. j. c. Bright went to Saginaw
last Monday. She will return in about
two weeks, by which time Mr.. Bright
will be located in his new place of bust
ness in this village.
+. ID. Taylor. for the past year
steward at the Sanitarium, left this
morning for Chicago, where he has Sc
cured il position as assistant steward in
the Great Northern Hotel.
Samuel Goodwin of Saginaw has been
engaged by A. w. Wright as farm su-
perintendent. Mr.. Goodwill has moved
his family TO Alma, and occupies the
residence opposite the Sanitarium.
Twenty heavy export steers, the best
ever shipped from Gratiot county, were
shipped from here to Buffalo last Satur-
day. They were from one of Mr..
Wright's farms and were fed by G.. w.
Ward
Chat Two-Step, by Harry Thompson,
is the name of musical composition
dedicated TO Chat, the bright society
paper of Bay City, and published by the
Chat Publishing Co. 1t is for sale at
McCarty's music store
Orla TubbS, the lineman, who with a
corps of assistants, has been putting up
the wires for the Gratiot County Tele
phone Company is entitled TO great
credit for the very prompt and able
manner in which he has done his work.
The Epworth class of the Nj. f. sun
day school will give an entertainment
at the residence Of DR.. +. 5. PettyjOhn
Wednesday evening, April %. The
proceeds of the entertainment will be
used to purchase IA window for the new
church
Tom Raycraft handsome farm house,
about four miles northwest of Alma,
was destroyed by fire, together with
most of its contents, Tuesday forenoon.
The fire caught from defective chin
ney. There was an insurance of $500
on the house, and 500 on the contents
After many delays work in Tinker
and Hannah 5 factory was started yes
tcrday morning. Every thing about the
establishment has been put in first class
shape, boiler and engine have been thor
oughly cleaned, and a new mud drum
put in. No expense has been spared to
make it the best plant of its kind i'll tins
part of the state.
Mrs. p. Hill was invited to the resi-
dence of Mr. and Mrs. William McNutt
last Friday She didn't realize at first
that the people whom size found there
had gathered to celebrate her own birth
day, but when a beautiful chair was
given the fact was very apparent Re
freshments Were served and a very
delightful afternoon was spent.
Mr.. Myers, agent at the ID. L. q n.
depot says that if parents do not keep
their children away from the depot,
there will be a serious accident, and
probably loss of life. Every day little
BOYS gather at the arrival of trains and
play about the tracks, and on several
occasions it has required great caution
on the part OF the train-men to prevent
accidents.
7. \. Ely has commenced the work of
factory inspection in his district We'd
ncsday he was in North Star and in
spected the plant Of the SandusSy Stave
and Heading Co. Yesterday he was in
Breckenridge and Wheeler Next week
he will go to Lakeview, Howard City,
Stanton and Greenville. About the
tenth of May Mr.. Ely expects to 90 to
the upper peninsula.
Mrs. Carrie Brown has left at this
Office an egg, which, for size beats the
one mentioned last week, being three ard
seven-eighths inches in length, and six
and one-fourth inches in circumference.
Mrs. Brown has seventeen hens of the
Plymoth Rock and White Brahma vari
cites. Since January - last, she has sold !
30 dozen eggs, besides using them freely
in her home, and has now six dozen i'll
the house.
Friday evening of next week the
Euterpe Club will give its annual CON
cert. The mere announcement is suffi |
Gent to fill the opera house, inasmuch |
Us the concerts given by the club in
former years have been of the highest |
order of excellence. The members Of
.he club have been doing good work the |
past season, and the concert next Fri |
lay evening will be up to the standard |
VI former years.
Roy Church returned Tuesday even
ng from Millersville, Ohio, and brings |
glowing accounts of the oil wells which |
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