Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-30
State News.

Parma will be "dry" town after May
| the council having decided to accept
no saloon bonds after that date
One general store, "A saloon, a hall, a
barber shop and dwelling at Arcadia
were destroyed 10y fire The loss is -l0,-
600
Eight dollars ii day, cash in advance"
are III words which knocks the street
iaklr silly when he strikes the village of
Dundee. A good idea for other towns
! to adopt
There is To be go 81 fair held at
>tandlsh this year. The president and
secretary are ready hustlng to mako it
Success Gratiot. however, will wait
until two weeks before the date.
The Bangor pickle factory has begun
shipping It's $4,000 bushels Of pickles, to
clear ont III time for the new crop of
cucumbers.
Chambers is prevalent among horses in
southern Berrien county, and "a number
of the ANIMALS have beel ordered killed
by loca veterinary surgeons.
At Attca William II. Hodson, aged
twenty six, committed suicide by hanging.
he was temporarily IN ane. Hodson was
commander of the knights of the Macca-
bees tent
Many OF the oldest and best miners on
the Marquette iron range are going to the
god regions of Alaska and British
Co umba III the belief that they car. bet
ter their present condition.
The Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased a ract of land iii Dundee and
Wi Immediately begin the construction
of an oil station to supply the surround
ing towns and villages,
The prospects are that Croswell will
have three places where you can "wet
your whistle for the coming year. The
liquor dealers filed their bonds with the
village dads this week.
Traverse City will have another daily
paper about the first of May. 1t Will be
called the Morning Record, and published
by J w. IIannen ard L. II. Bates. In
politics 1t will be republican. With
Bates interested it is sure to be success.
The Maustique PioneerTrbune says
hat if trees were planted in the court
V trd OF that town, and COWS and ball
players excluded for few years, MANS
tque would have handsome park.
At Port Huron the annex to the San
born evator, with storage capacity Of
100000 bushels of grain, was destroyed
by fire Thursday, together with It's con-
tents, about 10000 bushels OF corn and
oats
John f. Seeley, president of the Tus-
cola County bank, writes from Caro-:
after talking with many farmers of this
county am convinced that the winter
wheat crop will not average over sixty
per cent of good crop. think the
average estimate for our state is too
high
General Manager George Gillette fell
| from the shaft in the Peninsula Box Il
Lumber Companys factory at Menome-
nee and died three hours afterward He
was hitting large door of the dry kiln
when the cable broke and he fell twenty
five feet, with the heavy weights falling
on him.
Receiver Weadock of the Firs' Nat
ional bank of East Saginaw h rs received
an order from the comptroller of the cur
rency to dec are ten per cent dividend
and the same is now in process OF prepaf-
alton. 1t will be ready about May 20
and means the disbursement of $4,000
TO the depositors.
An Allegan farmer was troubled witt
hordes of rats in his barn aud successful.
~ rid the building of the pests by a very
simple device He constructed sma'
WOO len windmill with RAFT accom-
paninent, which he placed on tue barn,
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