Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-10-08
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The RECORD until Jan. lst for ten cents,
Mrs. S. +. Jennings of Fowler, N. Y.
is visiting friends in Alma.
Supt. and Mrs. r. G. Ely called on
Mount Pleasant friends over Sunday.
Miss c. E. Smith can furnish you
trimmed hats all the way from SOC to
$40.
Mrs. A. j. Hall left Monday for a few
weeks visit with relatives in Glendale,
Kansas.
Don't forget the $500 Chicago excur-
sion via d. Ct. r. & w. r. r. October
l4th. Tickets good five days.
1t is very important that our advertis-
ers have their copy for advs. in as o
rs Wednesday noon TO insure a change.
Mrs. L. p. Caldwell took advantage
of the Ohio excursion on the Ann Arbor
to visit her mother and sisters in
Toledo.
Our Shoe Sale was so successful last
Saturday we have decided to continued it
for Saturday, Oct. 8, All goods sold 60
cents on the dollar.
j. WOODWARD * Co.
Silas Barriger, whose leg was broken
three weeks ago, is carrying it in Il
plaster case and is able to be on the street
by the aid Of crutches.
Geo. Thompson and wife and Frank
Ray and wife went to Grand Rapids last
Friday to attend the meeting of the
Frankmen's Association.
Miss Margaret Mitchell, formerly
kindergarten teacher in the Alma school
left Monday for Memphis, Tennessee,
where she has accepted a position as
teacher.
Mrs. a. f. Bruske attended the meet
ing of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Synod of Michigan, held
at Kalamazoo this week. She reports a
helpful and inspiring time.
In addition to the improvements
mentioned in a previous issue the firm
of G. l.. q G.. NJ. Delavan are putting
in new shelving, new counters, plate
glass front and electric lights.
j. f. Schwartz completed putting in
two of his Imperial furnaces in the
new NJ. E. church this week, and also
sold one TO NJ. j. Clagget of st Louis and
one to Mrs. Parl Allen of Emerson.
Cast aside that pair of i'll fitting shoes,
they will cause you much suffering and
misery. Buy a pair of f. E. Pollasky's
easy fitting shoes of the latest shape and
style and you will be more cheerful and
happy.
Have you seen those beautiful gold
fish on exhibition at Bivins q Rhodes
drug store? If not, it will pay you to
stop and take a look at them. Bivins
e. Rhodes are TO be congratulated for
their acquisition.
The ladies of the st. Johns church
have secured the set of pictures offered sc
generously by the Ladies Home Journal
and intend to nave an exhibition and
sale some time in the near future, time
and place to be announced hereafter.
Mrs. Z. Bowles of Wyandotte spent
/, Friday night with Mrs. L. Strayer. Mrs.
! Bowles is an artist and the colors have
so affected her eyesight that her physi-
clan says she must quit painting fol
several weeks or go entirely blind.
J. w. Sidel of st Louis has leased the
, Wright House blacksmith shop and com.
2 menced business Wednesday morning,
3 He is reported as one of the best
) horseshoers in Michigan and will make
; this a speciality. He will also do general
blacksmithing.
The old bridge across the race IN Wood.
r worth street will soon be a thing of the
} past. The Township Board has pur,
chased an iron bridge of the Michigan
/ Bridge company at Portland. The bridge
I is TO be constructed on the low trus:
5 plan and will have three panels, each
4, thirteen feet long or a total length OF
t thirty-nine feet. The width will be six
, teen feet clear and the height five feet
: and the capacity of the bridge will b,
100 lbs. 20 the square foot Of floor. The
2 bridge is TO be completed 10y Nov. 10Th
p The cost is $3.50 but the outlay Will b,
a paying investment for the township.