Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-06-11
w. S. Turck was in Grand Rapids the
last of the week.

last of the week.
FOR SALE:-A butchers lard press.
For sale cheap. w A. THOMAS.
Irving Clifford of Grand Ledge is visit
ing relatives III town.
Subscriptions for the Century maya
zine taken at this office.
A secondhand organ and other furni-
ture for sale at this office.
DR.. j. III. Lancashire was in Grand
Rapids Tuesday on business.
A w. Wright and l.. A Sharp were
in Saginaw on business Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Wright were in
Saginaw Tuesday visiting friends.
Frank Caswell of Carson City was
the guest of Fred Fullerton over Sun
day.
Parties wishing mill wood leave or
ders at Alma Feed Store. Price 70 cents
per cord.
DR.. Dudley went to Chicago Tuesday
night for two weeks visit with friends
and relatives.
Carts Brown, Lou Kehn and Lou
Derry were up to Harrietta the first OF
the week trout fishing.
For SALE A neavy work or family
horse 9 years old, sound and all right
will sell cheap or exchange for wood.
Inquire at this office
A Regular convocation of Alma chap
ter, No. 1913, II. A. NJ. will he held on
Monday, evening June l4th. All mem
bers are requested to attend. Work i'll
Z. NJ. degree. M. POLLASKY, ii. p.
The first S. S. convention held at
Elwell last Sunday was "A success. The
attendance was large and great interest
taken, which was very satisfactory to
the founders.
Supt. Patrick Kelly of Mt. Pleasant
was in Alma Friday evening on his way
TO Elm Hall where he delivered the high
school commencement address. All
reports praise it very highly.
On Tuesday DR.. Bruske received two
large portraits of Messrs. Wells and
| Stone, two of the founders of Alma col.
lege. They will be hung up i'll the
founders room, and will be dearly cher
ished by the college.
June 18th, 1897, being the l20th an
niversary of the adopting of our nation
al flag, has been set apart by act of Con
gress as flag day. All citizens are re-
quested by the "Sons of the American
Revolution" TO unfurl the stars anC
stripes from their residences, and places
of business on that day.
The baseball game played 10y the St
Louis and Alma aggregation in Saginaw
last Sunday was advertised as the f. q
p. NJ. against the Alma College nine
The RECORD hastens TO inform the pub
lie that not a college man was in the
game and the college boys had nothing
whatever to do with the event. The
facts are that only two Alma men play
ed in the game the other seven being
from st. Louis.
w. ). TIIrck q Co. have just added e
their bank twenty eight Safety Deposit
Boxes for the convenience Of their Gus
toners. Each box is fitted with tive
keys one to be held by the bank the
other by the depoSitor and the box can
not be opened without both keys so thai
articles and papers deposited therein arr
safe and secure The boxes or drawer
will rent for 81 80 each, per year. Th'
set is very handsome one and weigh
900 pounds complete. BY this our Cit
zens are given the advantages Of tn
larger city banks at small cost. Mr.
Ward will be pleased to show it to any
one interested.
Ono finds the expected variety in tn
contents of the American Monthly Re
view OF Reviews for June. The subject
of the sugar tariff, a sixty years retros
pect of she British Empire, the recen
visit to the United States Of NJ. Bruno
there, the French critic; the defectiv
! eyesight lately developed among Ameri
can children, and the movement for tn
pensioning of school teachers, are treat
ed in special articles The editoria
, department entitled The Progress o
, the World covers such topics a
, Ameri can intervention in Cuba. tn
relation of Hawaii to the sugar question
the use of money in politics by corpor
atoms, the enlarged metropolis of NeN
York, the fate of the arbitration treaty
European alliances and the Greco-Turk
ish war, the future of Greece, etc.
The summer girl is nothing this sea
son if OF brilliant. Bright silks, brigh
ribbons, and bright flowers are heape'
upon her with lavish hand the frou:fro
of silks ruffles heralds her approach, an
as far as the eye can see, bit of vivl
color identifies her For this reason OF
en-air tttcs and all outdoor social gather
inuc a ra nXtrpmplv brilliant functions