Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-12-04
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Take your skates to Weston's and gel
them sharpened.
Harry Parshall of st. Louis visited
Alma friends Tuesday.
L. +. Kuhn and wife visited friends
in Stanton over Sunday.
Miss Carrie Smith visited friends in
st. Johns Saturday and Sunday.
Next week you may see some beauti-
full pieces for the holidays at Nichols
Tubbs d. Son are making Preparations
to ship three carloads of stock to Buffalo
Saturday.
Mrs. L. p. Caldwell and daughter
Mary visited friends i'll St. Louis Tues
day afternoon.
Ex-senator Townsend of Saginaw
was III Alma Tuesday evening the guest
of p. +. Banghart.
A. w. Wright left Friday evening on
an extended business trip through Wis
consin and Minnesota.
Mr. Grant Moulton and family of
Grass Lake are visiting his uncle, G. r.
Moulton, for few days.
Mr. and Mrs Fred Hammer are re-
joicing over fine young lady, who
made her appearance Sunday last
Our offer of The Michigan Farmer
and ALMA RECORD until January l.,
1898, for 81 30 is certainly Il bargain. 4
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Taylor of Toledo
We're the guests Of A. o. Davis and
family of this place the last OF the week.
To all subscribers who pay up to date
and 81 90 in advance, the RECORD will
be sent until January /, 1898, fifteen
months.
Mrs. Julia Matthews, Mrs. w. f,
Jones grandmother, left yesterday for
months visit with Rev. w. f. Irwin
i'll Chicago.
Mrs. Ii. +. Myers and little daughter
returned to Lowell Saturday morning
Mrs. Myers mother lies very sick at her
home Ill that village.
Mrs. Salter and little son Of Detroit
and Mrs. Lawrence and son Fred of
Watford, Canada, visited their sister,
Mrs. Ed. Kelly, over Sunday.
The friends of DIR. Slaymaker will
doubtless be pleased to learn that he is
nicely located and engaged IL Il private
practice in the city of Chicago
II. a. Dickmann of Detroit, represent
ing the Protected Fireside Circle, is III
Alma this week organizing u lodge for
this popular Insurance Company.
Thirty members of the l. O. Q. f..
went to Riverdale Wednesday evening
and exemplified the third degree for
that lodge. All enjoyed pleasant
time.
A. w. Wright lost valuable steer
last Sunday. The animal had been de-
horned and while tying it up the head
was struck, reopening the scab and
causing it to bleed to death.
A leading speciality at the minstrel
show Thursday evening was the sing
ing of the Mastadon quartet. Their
voices We're admirably adapted to each
other and their expression excellent.
In the probate court of this county
last Friday, Reed Latimer was appointed
as guardian of Henry White instead OF
the boys father, Hiram White. MIR.
Latimer is kind and judicious man,
and will make the boy an excellent
guardian.
around among the business men the
first of the week to defray the expenses
of lowering the ridge III the highway at
the Arcadia and Emerson line. This
will permit the farmers from that vi
cinity to get into Alma by level road.
jerome X. Jeromes last story previ-
Gus to his engagement TO write two
plays, has been secured by The Ladies
Home Journal, and so is to be printed
in Its January issue. 1t is called "An
Item of Fashionable Intelligence" and
deals with life III the higher social cir
cles Of London.
Bills are out announcing an auction
sale on the farm of ). Ill. Epler, one-haIf
mile east and two and three fourths
miles south of Alma on Thursday, Dec.
10th, 1896 at ten o'clock sharp. \ large
and choicely selected number of cattle,
horses and other live stock together
with general farming implements will
be sold. Lunch served at noon. a. ;.
Garfield is the auctioneer.
We are in receipt of a letter from job
Z. Sleight of Bath, formerly OF Alma, i'll
which he rejoices at the recent election
of VIM. Mckinley. He also states that
he has just returned from his annual
hunt in the woods of Northern Michi-
gan and has had splendid success. He
shot five deer, two at one shot. and lots