Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-09-17

| "A. W. wright WAS III Saginaw MOI
day.
Bicycle sundries sale at Westons. All
prices cut.
Earl G. Torrey was in Riverdale Tues
day on business.
A. H. Harrington of Marshall, Mich,
was in town Saturday.
Mrs. W. S. Turck was in Saginaw
on w. r. G. business, Saturday.
A. J. Van Page was called to Grand
Rapids Monday by the illness of his
cousin.
Fred Nicholson will occupy the p M.
Smith house just vacated by j. w
Opdyke.
Miss Alice Vliet and her sister Mrs
G. w Bates returned to Alma Saturday
evening.
Geo. Burt of Bay City, former Alma
boy, is assisting at the Sanitarium for a
few weeks.
l.. II. Hayt attends the races at Mid.
land this week and will enter Lady H.
in the 80 trot
If you want the latest in tam O. shant-
ers, walking hats and sailors, call on
Miss Carrie Smith
Geo. Quick of Sumner township has
the banner yield of clover seed. He
harvested So bushel from eight acres
of land.
7. A. Ely sold ten head of stears Tues
day for $3.50. 1t don't take much of a
man to make I. A. believe times are
improving.
The infant child of Neil Rix of Sum
ner township was buried the first Of the
week. Mr.. Rix lost his wife only a few
weeks ago.
Mrs. w. f. Jones, accompanied by
Wallace and baby Gladys, started Tues
day for visit with friends and relatives
> in Chicago and ST. Louis.
Fred Wright has sold his farm in Pine
River township and will move to Alma
where he will enter the employ OF
, Caple q Hall at an early date.
5 A. j. vantage retur ned from Crane
t Rapids Tuesday. He will leave fol
Chicago the first Of the week and enter
9 the Mccormick Theological Seminary
l Bertha NJ. Wilson at the opera hous,
5 Sept. 25th will be the treat of the season
Let all turn out and see something
9 grand. See press notes in another
column.
l Mrs. Theodore Nelson and family lef
9 Monday morning for Kalamazoo theil
future home. Wilbur and Theodore
Q will both enter the college at that place
{ During their residence here the family
: has endeared itself to the entire com
Y munity and all heard of their departure
with regret. The RECORD, with theiI
many friends, wishes them hearty Goo
: speed.
e The buyers Of the Saginaw Store ar
4 east selecting stock for the store the.
9 will soon open in the corner of tn,
r Church block. Dry goods, cloaks ant
! millinery will be sold at lower prices
than ever before heard of in Alma. TIL
trimmer, Miss Monroe, is also at presen
. in the east selecting pattern hats at tn
large wholesale houses. Miss Monroe il
well known as one of the finest trim
mere and will do all in her power t,
: please the ladies of Alma and surround
: ing country. Wait for the Saginaw
Store opening.
An immense vertical water-tube boile
3 has been put in just north of the waite
l works. An engine of two hundred fit.
horse power will be placed in connection
$ This will be sufficient to drive tn,
machinery of the new electric light plant
/ the TO Ter mills, water works and what
ever else it may be needed for, wheneve
5 the water may be too high or too low &
a furnish the power needed for these in
/ dustries, so the new boiler will probabl.
3 not be in constant use. The object o
3 placing water-tube boiler is to avoit
r all danger of an explosion. 1t will stant
{ two hundred fifty pounds pressure AM
e is so constructed that no more than on
Y Of the tubes would explode at time an,
: that would be no more destructive &
Y surroundings than the mere opening o
value for the escape of steam.