Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-07-23

Big Rapids, Monday.
f. r. Griffith shipped carload of
stock to Buffalo Saturday.
Rev. w. f. Jones fished near Vesta-
burg during the past week.
A single bedstead for sale. Inquire
of Mrs. Kits, Church block.
If the best BARRIERS with the best tools
can please you, try Earl Clark.
Ned Kline has returned from Ypsi-
lanti, drawn hither by the demand for
labor.
Miss Mcnamara has been entertaining
Mrs Jas. Glavin of Mt. Pleasant, the past
week.
Twenty-six persons patronized the ex-
cursion to Toledo, Sunday, over the Ann
Arbor
John Kane, formerly of the Palmer
House, Ithaca, is working for Ed. Ed
wards.
We are indebted to Wesly Switzer Of
Summerton for quart of lucious red
raspberries.
A good many Riverdale, Elwell and
st. Louis people saw 81 Plunkard last
Tuesday night.
The annual statement of the Alma
Building and Loan Association will be
found on an other page.
Louise Brehany possesses "a magnifi-
cent soprano voice of great volume and
sweetness. chicago Mail.
Judge Smith of Owosso was in town
last week, making arrangements for en-
tering his daughter in school next year.
Baby Gale, aged six years, with the
Garrick Theater 90. is wonder and is
probably the best at that age on the stage,
Miss Maude Wilson pleasantly enter
tanned few of her young lady friend
one evening last week at her home across
the river
Mrs. Lozier who has been visiting her
daughter Mrs. E. S. Pettyjohn, left
Friday for Chicago, accompanied by her
son, Mr. Horace LoZier.
LOST On Sunday July 18th, one gold
brooch, round, set with pearls and dia-
mond center green enamel. Finder will
please return same to this office.
His instrument both talked and sang,
and at times pleaded with tender pathos.
The audience was hushed in breathless
silence.-Cinclnati Commercial Gazette.
Another evidence of prosperity, and
this one among the farmers, is the large
trade i'll mowers, binders and threshers.
Agents say this is the best season in five
years.
Alma Fire Department will send a
racing team to take part III the tourna-
ment at Saginaw next Wednesday
They hope to bring back that 500 prize
in the hose race.
II. +. F. Schneider and Jas. A. Stuttz,
both former business men of this place,
and at present connected with the same
wholesale firm, were in town the last of
the week, selling shoes.
The original 81 Plunkard has come
and gone, leaving Alma with which he
has always been favorite. as pleased as
could be desired. The audience was
immense. ST Plunkard is becoming as
much of classic as Uncle Tom 5
Cabin"
The Board of Trustees of Alma College
at its last meeting reduced the expences
of the Preparatory Department TO just
one half of what it has been heretofore.
The total cost of tuition, incidentals
and gymnasium fees are now only Sl6OC
for the year $500 to be paid at the be-
ginning of each half year
The great violinist, Edouard Remenyi
who is to appear here tomorrow night
is planning a two years trip to South
America, starting next April. He has
had this trip i'll mind for several years,
but his American contract has never
permitted it, so this will probably be the
last chance people will have of hearing
this fayorite artist, at least for number
of years.
A. Page of Elwell is to be seen al.
most daily on our streets with his little
white wagon loaded with the choicest
red and black raspberries. Mr. Page
has four acres of red and two acres OF
black raspberries. On Tuesday last he
had 90 people, picking 40 quarts. About
ten o'clock Joseph Sweet of Elwell drove
over with his photograph wagon and oh
tanned some first.class views Of patches
and pickers with peach orchard in the
back ground.
A special fiction number is FranB
Leslies Popular Monthly for August
There are seven complete stories, al
illustrated, and all are bright and clever
the one by Margaret E. Sangster being
particularly noticeable for its sweet
simplicity. But the number is not