Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-05-01

Noah's Ark.
Rev. w. f. Jones was in Bay City
Monday on business.
Clarence Church went to Detroit
Monday on business.
b. S. Webb went to Dewitt yesterday
for few days visit
Carload of plaster just received at
the Alma Feed Store.
DIR. j. III. Lancashire has been III
Chicago on business this week.
Spring tooth harrow for sale cheap or
exchange for young stock or sheep.
GEO. Nj. DELAVAN.
Best board in Alma, at lowest prices,
at Fink 5 restaurant. Call and see.
Mrs w. +. Jones and Master Wallace
spent Sunday with friends i'll West Bay
City.
Person desiring choice bedding plants,
call at Bittner's green house, near the
college.
Born, Sunday, April 26, to Mr.. and
Mrs. John Blank, two miles west Of
Alma, a boy.
The rite of baptism was administered
to seven persons in st. Johns church
Sunday evening.
First-class second hand gasoline stove,
and good organ for sale. Inquire of A.
w. Brock, Church block.
j. c. and Mrs. Bright are nicely set
tied in the Frank Wood house, on
Woodwork Avenue, North.
II. Woodwork and Mrs. Eugene
Barnes, father and sister of Mrs. a. j.
Hall, spent Sunday in Alma.
Miss Fannie Ostrander of the Santa
rum is the proud possessor of bicycle,
given her by one of the guests.
Montigel q Co. have an order to man
ufacture two machines for making
trunk Stats, for Mt. Pleasant firm.
w. A. Bahllle and l.. H. Hayt attend
ed the democratic state convention in
Detroit this week as delegates from this
county.
II. G. Hynes of Saginaw, district agent
of the National Loan and Investment
Co. of Detroit, was III Alma on business
last Friday.
There have been six Sunday schools
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organized in Gratiot county since the
County Sunday School Convention III
St Louis in February.
The high school soph0mores gave a
reception to the same classes i'll tile
Ithaca and st. Louis schools last Thurs
day evening in c. A. r. hall.
Mrs. l.. S. Stevens read a paper on
venetian Art" and Mrs Will Reed
one on INCIDENTAL Life is Venice" at
the meeting of the Woman's Club Mon
day afternoon.
The w. G. T. U. of Seville township
has been organized with the following
officers: Miss Minnie Morgan, presi-
dent Mrs n Rockwell, corresponding
secretary Azalia Dunklin, recording
secretary; Mrs. Kettle Nutter, treasurer.
G. H. Wagner, an Emerson township
farmer will go to Tennessee about the
first of May, on a prospecting tour.
Hardly that, either, as he made himself
| thoroughly familiar with the topOgraph-
ical aspect of that country during the
war of the rebellion.
G. Hyde of Burr Oak arrived last Fri
day with a car load of peppermint plants,
which have been set ont on the grounds
of the Alma Driving Park Association.
Next year Mr.. Hyde expects to largely
increase the acreage of plants. He will
erect still here the coming summer.
Last Sunday was the seventy seventh
anniversary of Oddfellowship, and the
day was appropriately observed by
Alma lodge. Services were held in the
NJ e. church, at which time Rev. J. w.
McAllster preached an excellent SER
mon. Oddfellows were present from
Ithaca, st. Louis and Riverdale.
William Howe has copies of the
Gratiot County News of Aug. 3, 10 and
%. 1859, one of which contains several
chapters of the CHRONICLES, in which
are given an account of the county seat
war between Ithaca and this place. Mr..
Howe has also collection of almanacs
of the years from 1902 to 1908, inclusive,
which are decidedly interesting when
compared with the almanacs of this
date.
Miss Grace Otis, one of Alma's most
popular teachers, declines her appoint
ment for next year. Miss Otis will go
to Ann Arbor and spend two years in
studying music and literature. Alma
schools will lose the services of an ac-
complished, capable and faithful teacher
musical circles will miss voice of rare
sweetness and power, and social circles
the preseuce of one who was ALWAYS a