Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-08-05
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ADDITI( NAL LOCAL.

Mrs. q. h. Wilson.
J. II. Lancashire was i'll Saginaw
Monday on business.
Francis Hawley and wife were III
Wheeler the latter part of the week.
Lady II. has been entered for the 2 80
trot at the Jackson races next week
w. w. Rollin has our thanks for the
peck of fine eating apples left at this Of
fee
October 4th, 9th and 9th are the dates
fixed for the Gratiot County Fair to be
held i'll Ithaca.
Walter Caple left on the Niagara Falls
excursion Thursday for Canandagua, n.
Y, where he will visit his brother Chas.
Caple.
Miss Abigail Symonds of the Deaconess
Orphanage of Lake Bluff, H., is spend
ing the week with Mrs. Robert Car
penter.
II. A. Wise and wife left last Tuesday
for Lake George where they expect TO
remain for two or three weeks visiting
relatives.
Sergt Fletcher Booth and Private
Clyde Thompson of Sumner came home
from Camp Eaton on a few days
furlough onThursday.
Henry Mapes returned from Detroit
on Friday last. On his trip he visited
his son who is working on the Stinch-
field farm near Birmingham.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Wright, DR.. and
Mrs j. H. Lancashire and children, left
in the private car "Alma" this week for
a two weeks tour in the east.
Miss Lura Marquitt, former student
of the union school, and her brother,
Delon, of Hinckley, Ohio, are guests at
the home of their uncle, w. j. Gargett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Coleman's little
fourteen months old baby died on We'd
nesday after a lingering illness Of several
weeks. Interment will take place i'll
Riverside cemetery today.
Word has been received from Mrs
VIM. Hannah who isstopping with her
daughter in Detroit, stating that she un-
derwent a successful operation for re-
moval of cancer from her neck recently.
Ringing Bros. great canvas pavilions
cover more than eight acres, and constr
tute a veritable city of tents. The mann
moth hippodrome amphitheatre is the
largest ever constructed, and is absolute
ly impervious to rain.
A meeting will be held i'll Forest Hill
on Wednesday. August 10, for the pur-
pose of organizing a republican club.
The meeting will be addressed by DR.
Wheeler, and A. b. Darragh of ST.
Louis, and j. N Mccall of Ithaca
Wilfred Webb formerly with ID. w.
Adams, has taken charge Of the Vienna
Cafe formerly owned by a. Delliehaus-
en-, and will endeavor to serve the peo-
pie of Alma with baked goods, confect-
ionery, ice cream soda. etc. We wish
him success.
A company of ten ladies, from Alma,
consisting of Mesdames, Micham, Kehn,
Scott, Suydam, Lemen, Durham,
Paddock, Barnes. p NJ. Smith and f.
Montigel, all went out to Grassmere
farm on Thursday of last week and spent
the day picnicing.
\ round trip rate of So 40 has been Sc
cured from Alma to the Knights of
Pythias encampment to be held in In
dianapolis the week of August 20. These
tickets will be good returning up to Aug
ust 30 or by depositing ticket an extern
sion can be secured till September 10th.
Home Art this month contains two
supplements No. is patriotic pillow,
designed by J. Nagahama and is to be
worked in Royal Floss, red, white and
blue flowers and shield. No is a
corner of pansies for table cover,
cushions, etc, designed by NJ. Tsuboy-
anna.
Rev. II. b. Jefferson left on Monday
last for parts in northern Michigan
where he will enjoy much needed rest
during the next few weeks During his
absence there will be no services at ST.
Johns church with the exceptions of
Sunday School, which will be held at
the usual time. Rev Jefferson expects
to return before the 2Sth inst.
A young man, stranger in the town,
was arrested the first of the week,
charged by outside parties, with obtain
ing money under false pretenses He
was taken before Justice Palmer who let
him go on suspended sentence. By request
of some Of the parties interested we re-
frain from giving any of the details
The young man has since left town.
Mrs. Blennina Hicock of Flint accepts
the position of lady principal and the
chair of English in Alma College. This
lie oopsidarod "a great acouieitiop Che