Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-08-28
School books at Webb's.

MIS-. Jonn Dunndn mas gone 10
Cadillac to visit her son.
George Boyer will be tried September
10, for cruelty to animals.
Mrs. w. A. Bahlke returned from
Marysville, Monday night.
For SALE-A fine five-octave organ,
cheap. Apply to Fred Kernen.
Mr. and Mrs. L. II. Hayt attended the
democratic convention in Bay City.
Delavan Bros. have shipped seventeen
car loads of rye and oats this month.
Miss Jennie Smith returned last Fri
day from Petoskey and Harbor Springs.
Miss Alice France of Saginaw is the
guest Of the Misses Paddock this week.
William Howe has been engaged as
janitor of the college buildings next
year.
Mrs. Sarah Clum and daughter are
visiting friends III Montcalm county
this week.
Lumon Gee is the agent for IA book
called Under Both Flags" panorama
of the civil war
l.. \. Sharp will deliver an address in
the Christian church at Forest Hill on
the evening of Sept. s.
Mrs. A. j. Hall has been entertaining
her aunt and uncle Mr.. and Mrs. John
Woodwork of Charlotte.
Mrs. O. Davis is visiting friends i'll
Ann Arbor and Dexter. She expects to
be absent about three weeks.
n. Thursday evening brought Mrs. y. j.
Dingman after two months visit.
Very much improved i'll health.
Prof James Mitchell will spend Sep
TENDER in this place, reading up on spe-
cial subjects i'll the college library
Robert MCGEE, who has spent the
most of the vacation in Ithaca, went to
Owen Sound, Monday, for Il short visit.
j. NJ. Nichols is visiting in the south
ern part of the state He is Independent
of the railroads, making the trip on his
wheel.
Miss Fannie Miller Of Ravenna, Ohio,
who has been visiting Mrs. +. j. Sigh
tor and w. G. Osborn, returned home
Monday.
President Bruske was called to Mt.
Pleasant Wednesday, to preach the fu
e 81,
Doughty.
The horse belonging to Marshall
Dallas which was so badly burned in
the fire last week, was shot Tuesday
evening
John Jameson, a former student in
Alma College, has offered a so prize to
the best orator in the sophomore exhi-
bition next year.
Mrs. L. kchu went to Hamburg Mon
day for three weeks visit. She prom
ised to send the folks at home a large
box of fish each week.
Hiram Utley is small, but his water
MELONS are not, and the RECORD force
is thankful for the delicious MELONS
left by Mr. Utley last Saturday.
Rev. r. T. Lynd of Saginaw will
move his family to Ithaca in about two
weeks He has accepted the passionate
of the First Presbyterian church in that
place.
Sylvester Barber, who formerly lived
i'll the Rice neighborhood in Sumner
township, but who for twenty years has
lived in Nebraska, has been visiting
friends III this vicinity.
Hiram Utley and wife were called to
Mt. Pleasant Saturday, on account of
the death of Mrs. Utley's sisters hus-
band. Rufus Utley attended the funer
al i'll Mt. Pleasant Monday.
l.. II. Mapes has left at this office some
very fine samples Of white dent corn,
ripened. He has about ten
acres of this corn, which was planted
May Is, and nearly the whole Of it is
now ready to cut.
\ beautiful flower from the sunny
outh-land is poisoning i'll the homes
of Mrs. w. S. Turck and Mrs. G.. 5.
Ward. 1t is lily, in delicate stripes of
red and white, and is rare treat for all
who have never been south.
John Greig will attend the National
of the G.. \. II. in Mime
opolis, Mimi, next week. 1t is not the
alone that takes John out
there. He has two brothers living in
that city, and a host of old friends in
the state, who will meet him at the en-
The seventh district convention of the
w. r. G., comprising the counties of
Clinton and Ionia counties, was
held in Ithaca Tuesday. About seventy
five visitors and delegates were present
work was given and several
good papers were read and discussed.