Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-01-14
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w. A. Bahlke went to Stanton Tues
day on legal business.
John Dean was in Shepherd last Satur-
day on undertaking business.
When your watch or clock needs re-
pairing take it to j. M. Nichols.
A. n. Hudson is in Frankfort this week
buying hides and furs for M. Pollasky
Mr. and Mrs. j. r. Shank of South
Bend are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. N
Ford.
The choicest kind of beef, mutton and
hams this week at Griffith's meat
market
l.. p. Baker of Paramount, y. D.,
visited at the home of Joseph Ellison the
last Of last week.
The fremen have started practicing
for their minstrel show which will be
given February %
Jim Allen is still doing business at
the Wright House Barber Shop and in
vites all to come and see him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Weston returned
Monday from a visit with friends and
relatives in Owosso and Corunna.
See Darlington in his numerous nov
elites and specialties at the opera house
this Friday and tomorrow evening.
GIRL WANTED A good girl wishing
to do light work can secure good posi-
ton by applying at the Record Book
Bindery.
The meeting of the Women's Club
next Monday will be held at the home
of Mrs. ID. W. Adams, Topic, 1.-The
Present Condition of China"
Word reached here yesterday that
Smith Hopkins, a former resident, had
died in Detroit and that the body would
be brought here today for burial.
Samuel Todd closed very successful
series of revival meetings at the Pres.
byterian church in Lafayette last Sunday
Several professed conversion and twenty
united with the church last Sabbath.
Miss May Pike was taken very seri-
ously i'll of appendicitis last week and
was obliged TO submit to a surgical oper-
alton for the same on Saturday last. At
present the young lady is doing nicely.
The Alma Mercantile Co. have moved
to the old Pollasky building and are
nearly settled, They invite their custo-
mers to give them a call in their new
location. The offices of A. w. Wright
and J. H. Lancashire have been located
in the same building.
Shortly after the north bound Ann
Arbor train left Ithaca Monday noon,
the train was stopped by message from
the Ithaca Office and man who had left
his board bill unpaid at Derry S boar ding
house in that village, was arrested and
taken into custody by the officers.
T. II. Johnson of Grand Rapids,
Deputy Supreme Chancellor of, and
agent for, the Supreme Court of Honor,
a fraternal beneficiary society located at
Springfield, H., was in town last week
and this. He has been quite successful
and written a good deal Of insurance
here.
G.. w. McCarty and son Bert left the
last of last week for Dyea, Alaska, and
from there they expect to go to the Klon-
dixie. Fred, another son of Mr.. Nc
Carly, is employed on the British survey
near the Alaskan country and it is ex-
pected that his father and brother will
join him and continue their journey
and search for gold under his directions.
The Women's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Methodist Church met last
Friday. p. IN. at Mrs. Carrels. A very
pleasant hour was spent in reviewing
the work Of the society. Mrs. E. S. Pet
tyjohn read chapter from "In Jour
neyings Oft" sketches from Mrs. Minds
journey around the world. The book il
intensely interesting and the reading
will be continued. For the benefit of
those who could not be at this meeting.
but can be present at the next it was
decided to have the first chapter re-read
3 together with the second at the next
meeting