Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-07-01
Machine oil at Morden's.

The place to get your Fourth of July
roasts is at Parker & Huff's.
O. +. Brown was in Lansing on bus
mess the first part of the week.
DIR. b. II. Frank will examine your
eyes free at Wright House every Thurs
day.
Born, to Ray Wheaton and wife on
Tuesday last, nine and one-half pound
boy.
Miss Sarah Mcnamara visited her Sis
ter in Mt. Pleasant the latter part of last
week.
Annual clearing sale" at f. e. Pol
lasky's this week See his adv on an
other page.
M. j. Bright and wife of Toledo were
the guests of his brother, j. &. Bright,
and wife over Sunday.
Miss Lillian Martin of Fowlerville has
been visiting at the home of Frank FL
licott during the past week.
Misses Eta Fisk and Marie Yonkers
left on Monday for Petoskey where they
will remain during the summer season.
If your eyes trouble you go and see
DR.. b. Il. Frank, Wright House every
Thursday. Consultation and examina-
ton free.
1t is expected that we will BE- favored
with good game of base ball on the
| afternoon of the Fourth. Carrollton VS..
st. Louis.
How pleased we are TO find our pur-
chases satisfactory at G.. E. Pettyjohn q
Co.'S. What they tell you, you can de-
pend upon.
Save cooking at home the 18th by
getting your meals of the ladies at the
old NJ. E. church. Lots of room and
plenty to eat.
You should arrive early in the morn
ing on the Fourth so as not to miss the
Calithopican parade. One hundred
horses in line
j. Tuthle, ac ting chief engineer of the
d. G. II. e. w. was in town Monday
looking over the grounds at the depot
with view to making several improve
ments.
Miss Lizzie Lawson, who has been in
North Baltimore, Ohio, since last win.
ter, stopped off at Alma and visited
friends on Monday, while on her way to
Mt, Pleasant.
The most natural food is the food that
nourishes each element Of the body in
proportion to its natural requirements.
Such food will be demonstrated at Yer
meulen's, July I, and g.
Mrs. f. s. Pettyjohn left on Wednes-
~ evening for Mt. Vernon, Iowa,
rhcre he will visit relatives a few weeks.
The DR.. accompanied her as far as Chi
cago and will return on Saturday.
Mrs J. w. Holmes received a telegram
on Monday stating that her father, who
lives at Horton, was very dangerously
i'll. Mrs. Holmes, accompanied by her
two children, left for that place on the
afternoon train.
Ed Owens drug store, at Nestaburg
burned last Sunday morning The Bell
Telephone company's Office was in the
store, therefore connections 10 points west
of there were unable TO be made from
here the first of the week
Floyd Woodwar d, Eugene Delong,
Jesse Fatty, Fred Stoughtenburg and
Jas. Rogers went to Ithaca the first of
the week and took the examination for
enlistment All the boys passed with
the exception Of JAS. Rogers and Eugene
Delong, and leave for Island Lake today
f. f. Pollasky, j. l.. Miller, b. S.
Webb Messenger q Co., II. j. Vermeu-
len, S. l.. Bennett, Dean q Hollenbeck,
Thompson q Sanderhoff, Win Wilson,
j. @. Bright, j. +. Schwartz and r. f.
Green each have special advs. on our il.
ustrated cover. 1t will pay you to look
them over.
Thompson & Sanderhoff have their
stock all arranged and now have as fine
a hardware store as will be found any
where. The east side of their store is de-
voted entirely TO hardware, while on the
other side will be found the different
lines of agricultural implements. The
second floor space is used for buggies.
Farmers, attention You are COR
daily invited to visit the new store of @.
E. Pettyjohn & Co.'S, first door east of
Webbs Drug Store. Here you will be
treated right whether you buy or not
They carry a full line of mems shoes,
mems hats, and mems underwear. They
carry full line of dry goods at prices
you can buy.
Mr.. Edwin Emerson, Jr., whose adj
ventures in Porto Rico last month were
chronicled by the newspapers from one
end of the country to the other, contrib
utes to the Review of Reviews for July
valuable account of some things that
he saw and learned on his perilous
journeyings. AS Porto Rico seems dis