Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-03-20
HOME AND VICINITY.

Op-tO-udtc tIOuStIS, 1T MSSSlhSel -
Up-to-date negligee shirts, at Messin-
gers.
Full line of garden and flower seeds
at Mahan's.
J. w. Hawkins has gone to Clarence
to do some work.
The Oriental Princes will meet next
Wednesday evening.
Flower and garden seeds of every de-
scription, at Mahan'S.
George w. Pulfrey of st. Johns was
in Alma on business yesterday.
Mrs. J. F. Sartor and Mrs j. I. Lee
Messurier spent Tuesday in Ithaca.
WANTED.-To buy good horse. In
quire at J. l.. NIillerS dry goods store.
The Rathbone Sisters will meet with
Mrs. Bart Miller next Tuesday after
noon
Up-to-date spring suits for men and
boys in worsted and cashmere, at Mes
singers.
James Gardner and Blanch Hudson
We're married by Justice Durham Mon
day afternoon.
Robert Murker went to Grand Rapids
Saturday TO see his best girl. He re-
turned Tuesday.
George Smith of the Hotel Vincent,
Saginaw, visited his family here the
first of the week.
Earl Clark's, opposite the post office, is
the place TO go for a clean shave and
fashionable hair cut.
The Rod and Gun club will have Il
"shoot" this afternoon, and a business
meeting this evening.
Mrs H. j Vcrmeulen and Miss Sophia
Willard will start next Monday for
Kamloops. British Columbia.
The Rod and Gun club will build
club house across the river from Church'S
park, on the Gargett property.
w. S. Turck and family and c. s.
Ward and wife will leave Duneden,
Florida. next Monday. They will visit
in several cities en- route to Alma.
There are now twenty five subscribers
III Alma TO the Gratiot County telephone
line, and fair prospect of AT least forty
subscribers, when the phones are ready
to put in.
Ernest Spinney a brother of J. ID
Spinney and at one time student in
the Union school here graduated from
the Homeopathic College in Chicago last
Tuesday.
The officers and teachers of the Mis-
sion Sunday school met at the home Of
Mrs. II. Downs and disbanded, and
reorganized as Union Sabbath School
with Mr. Issac Campbell as Superin =
tendent
Another subscription paper will be
circulated by our Methodist friends for
the building fund. Al who have sub
scribed, but have not paid their subscrip-
tons, will be waited upon in the next
few weeks
John Comstock, northwest of Forest
Hill, is the owner of a valuable horse,
which run a snag in its foot Blood
poison set in and but for Mr.. Comstock's
prompt treatment the animal would
have died. He drew seaton in the
breast and saved the horse.
The novelty social given by the Ep-
worth League at the home of Mrs. w.
A. Thomas, Monday evening was very
enjoyable affair. Refreshments were
served from paste-b board boxes, coffee in
tin cups, and dough nuts from an UNI
brella handle. Music was furnished by
the Epworth League double quartet and
recitations given by Miss Nellie BAN
borough.
That the Alma Sanitarium Co pays
out good deal of money, the greater
part of which finds its way into the tills
of our merchants. is evident from the
fact that since May /. 1898. that com
pany has paid out for wood alone, ST.
1881, and during the month of Febru-
AIRY. this year $4,000 was paid out for
wood The two items of butter and
eggs amount 10 snug little sum each
week for the Sanitarium uses 20 pounds
of creamery and 80 pounds Of dairy but
ter each week, and loo dozen eggs.