Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-11-05
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Mrs. Caroline Sloan has been granted
a pension
Kittie Palmer of Ithaca called on Alma
friends Monday.
E. Scatton of Buffalo is visiting at the
home of d. v Hubble.
Mrs n. J. Mccullough of Ithaca
visited friends Tuesday.
Mrs. II. j. Winchell of Howell spent
Sunday with her husband.
Lumon Gee was in Shepherd last Fri
day, on pension business.
b. w. Ellison has Gratiot County
phone. Put in this week.
Mrs. W. S. Turck was the guest of
Lansing friends over Sunday.
Peters e. Dean have raised their side
walk and put in stone gutter.
Misses Knox and Reid took in the
carnival at Grand Rapids last week.
John Salter of Ithaca had his head
badly cut by horse kicking him last
Sunday.
Mrs. d. G.. Johnson of Ithaca was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs j. M. Nichols the
last of the week.
A. B. Spinney of Reed City connected
pleasure with business and spent Sun
day with my son John"
L. B. Wolf and family returned last
Saturday from trip through southern
Michigan and northern Ohio.
Misses Stevens and Richey Of West
Bay City were the guests Of Messrs.
McCabe and Johnson Saturday.
r. d. Lemen says the insurance bust
ness is very good. He wrote up $40, 900
worth of property Monday and Tuesday.
Miss May Brown of Fenwick returned
home Saturday after a short visit with
her cousin Miss Sherwood, northeast of
town.
Mr.. and Mrs H. Z. Meyers spent Sun
day in Grand Rapids. Mrs. Meyers
remained few days with her people in
Lowell
j. B. Tubbs has been appointed mem
Der Of the Soldiers Relief Committee by
the Judge of Probate in place of M. j.
Bogardus.
Mrs. A. B. Dubois of Astoria, Oregon,
is visiting at the home of her foster
father, E. Sadler. She went to Shep.
herd Monday.
1t is needless to go to Klondike for gold
nuggets when they can be obtained right
here. b. s. Webb had a number of
them in his window last Saturday
f. +. Ranney Of Greenville, accom-
panied by his children, Hattie and
Leroy, came Saturday to see an older
son play football on the NJ. A. @. team.
Charlie Stone brought cluster of
three beets TO the Office this week. One
was real large and the other two were
entwined about it in a very peculiar
manner.
+. Schwartz put in two Imperial"
furnaces in private dwellings at Edge
wood the last of the week. One was for
John Rowell, formerly in charge of the
Hotel Arcadia.
Seats for sixty children were put in
the old kindergarten room at the Union
School, now occupied by Miss Chase,
Wednesday, The seating was done by
the Grand Rapids School Furniture Co.
at very low figure. There was no
school In Miss Chase's room that day.
John Snyder, who is a very careful
and progressive farmer living two miles
northwest of town, has just completed
one of the most convenient stock barns
in the county. He has also put up a
new windmill and so has the best of
conveniences for housing and tending
stock.
The force at Tinker & Hannah are
kept constantly at work on special orders,
of which there are enough ahead TO keep
them busy till Jan. lst. The sales of
this firm for the months of July, August
and September amounted to as much as
the sales for all of last year. The COM
ing year bids fair to continue the pros
perity of the last few months.