Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-04-16
Additional Local.


was in town calling on friends Monday
Dewey VanDyne left Thursday for
Mt. Clemens to work in the Sanitarium.
f. A. Lindner is the new shoemaker
in the building recently occupied by ID.
Leach.
Bertha McLaren began the spring
term of school in the Wiley District on
Monday.
p. ID. Metzger of Bay City was the
guest of O. E. Scott of this place three
days of the present week.
Mr.. Franklin Duck, soldier in the
late war of the rebellion, was at Mid
land Wednesday of this week, before
the u. S. Medical Examining Board.
Mrs. Julia Weber, an aunt of Mrs.
G.. M. Scott, fell on the steps of Ladies
Hall, Wednesday afternoon, badly
fracturing her wrist. The member was
dressed by DR.. Suydam.
Orlando A. Sharp was in Midland on
Wednesday before the Examining Board
at that place, trying for pension. he
is deserving of good pension and we
hope he may be successful.
Shaw 81 Kimbal of Vernon purchased
the cattle from the A. w. Wright farms
Wednesday They were tifty-one IN
number, and some of the finest ever
shipped from the local market.
The baseball season will open in Alma
with game on April cath, between the
home team and Mt. Pleasant. Look out
for hot game Admission 10 cents.
Further announcement next week.
Roy Covert, graduate of the Mich
igan University Law School, has opened
an office in the Ellison building on State
street Roy is Gratiot county boy and
a genuine hustler Give him call
The third of series of talks TO mothers
will be given at the home of Mrs.
Blanchard next Tuesday night at I 30,
standard time, by Mrs. Plum. Subject,
The Story in the Home and kindergar-
ten.
The Epworth League Of this place are
busy making preparations for the
County Convention which will be held
in the NJ. f. Church, April goth, 1897.
A very complete program has been pre-
pared
A supper will be served by the ladies
of the Episcopal Church on Thursday
evening, April %, at the Wright House
from six to nine o'clock QocaD with an
elaborate menu twenty-five cents
pays the bill. Everybody invited. The
supper will be supplemented by an old
fashioned social in the parlor where
abundance of "pi" will be served
Charles Fishbeck, chief Of the Alma
Fire Department has been invited TO
prepare and read paper, docs not the
state association add to some extent to
the prosperity and efficiency of the vari-
Gus fire departments Of our state and
should not the same be encouraged"
The meeting will be held in Detroit,
May 10th and Goth.
The Township Board on Wednesday
let the contract for new iron bridge
over Pine River The structure will be
one hundred and seventy feet long and
built in two spans each seventy feet
long, with center butments. The price
is $4,000, 100000 of which is to be
paid Jan. 10th, 1898, the remaining nine
hundred on Jan. 18th, 1899. Ramsey q
Company of Portland, who received the
work, bid $4,000 more on the same
thing one year ago. The bridge will be
completed by July LIST.
The chances are good for the Inaugural
ton of cereal coffee industry in Alma,
known as the Standard Anti Coffee Co.
The physicians at the Sanitarium declare
il to be the best Of its kind ever sub
mitted to that institution. For those
people unable TO drink coffee this prep
aration will be found a wholesome and
efficient beverage. The Anti Coffee can
be had of B. G. Button, Win Wilson, Ed.
Kelly and l.. H. Hayt, our local grocers.
In preparing the drink a heaping tea
spoon of the mixture is sufficient for
each cup. Add boiling water and allow
it TO boil from ten to twenty minutes.
Serve hot with cream and sugar. Should
IL ha roo ctropo add boiling water