Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-01-29
State News.

| n branch of the state anti-salooI
league mas been organized at Sunfield
CheSaning is to have a revival.
Meetings will begin in the Baptist
Church next week.
| Farmers around Gauges have IA pr
Vatc telephone circuit, which work
successfully with l20 miles of wire.
The Fennville Fruit Shippers As.
| sOclatlon held It's annual meeting, and
found mat it had over 81 900 i'm the
treasury.
The civil service commission has
been notified of the removal of Octave
Ardouin as janltor III the custom house
at Bay City.
Measles are prevailing at McBain
and IN surrounding neighborhoods e.
such an extent that the village and
several of the district schools are
closed. But one death has been re-
ported.
Michigan postmasters. Abbotsford
81. Clais county, Mrs. l.. +. West
brook, vice NJ. V. n. Westbrook, dead:
JOY, Emmett county, Mrs. Alkaline
Tyrrell, vice j. w. Shannon, resigned
Benton Ilarbor residents have or
gained local humane society. and
propose that the statutes prohibiting
the working or driving Of crippled
horses shall be enforced there in the
future.
The owners of the big canning
l. Il inn IN, 4
negotiating with the inventor of a
potato and corn planter To turn the
institution into Il factory during the
winter months.
The common council at Niles has
decided that hereafter all travelling
theatrical companies must either paV
license or donate two reserved seat
tickets to the show TO each Of the city
fathers.
Ludington's board of trade has an
pointed committee to look up a suit.
able site and take steps toward organ
lZing hotel company to build a
modern hosiery IN the spring to take
care of the large crowd OF summer
visitors.
Farmers clubs in southwestern
Michigan will make an effort to have
the various agricultural societies OF
the lower peninsula unite with them
IN asking the mempers of the present
legislature to take such action as will
do away with the fee system for county
officers.
Miss ThirZa Stone, of Comstock
township, aged 90 years, recently com
pleted quilt of the "crazy" variety,
which is II phenomenon in artistic
needle work. Its value is attested bv
the TACT that 1t was readily purchased
by Kalamazoo parties, the price paid
being $50.
The larger portion of the pepper
mint crop OF western Michigan is
grown III the immediate vicinity of DE. |
;atur, where 10000 pounds of oil were
last season. The yield of oil |
IN Allegan county reached nearly 20
100 pounds, and the largest field of |
peppermint III the world is located |
here.
"A movement isunder way to organ
ze an anti-saloOn league in Saginaw.
he same a. now in vogue in several |
Michigan cities. The ministerial as
location Is back of it, and war will |
'e declared Sunday, February ii.
when some big temperance guns from
broad VIII discharge their thunder
rom the pulpits.
"A temperance editor at Stockbridge
TODD up to speak in the farmers in
ttute ana was taken To task for pub.
lshlng tobacco advertisements. The
emperance editor explained that the
q. appeared III the ready print, aud
that he was not ALWAYS ac-
ountaOle for what got INTO his patent
inside, and then wondered why the
eople laughed.
The Mason Park Association. hold
ne union township fair the past
We years at Chcsaning, has been dis
owed. The lease of ground ran out.
nj the buildings were sold on a mort
age held by j. G.. Sutherland. AL
ert Cantwell purchased the property {
nj the probability is that stock
)mpany will be formed, the grounds {
ought and the fair run for all il is
Orth.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Ovid are l
Iilte indignant over firm that is q
legged to have contracted to pay Sl.2O I
er bushel for good beans for seed. 9
hey claim that the purchasers pick d
ON each bushel from ight to twenty Il
FUNDS, charge the farmers for the q
cking, and pay them from ten TO f
vcnty cents per bushcl for good
ans. The farmers are fighting mad.
ID many have prepared to give them '
sound thrashing before the leave n
wn. il
pune !