Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-09-09
ST. LOUIS.

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day.
Chas. Greeley was in the city visit
ing his mother the fore part of this
week.
| Floyd Miller has started TO learn the
printers trade in the REPUBLICAN
LEADER office.
City Clerk Ell Hofstetter spent a
few days in Detroit and Cleveland, re-
turning Tuesday.
Mrs. Schuyler, the milliner, was
quite seriously i'll the fore part of the
week, but has recovered.
Mrs. Ashley Ritch returned to Toledo
Monday night after short visit with
her sister, Mrs. j j. Noyes.
n. M. Cook and wife returned from
an extended visit to their daughter.
Mrs. Heart, of Leslie, last week.
Rev George Ransom and wife are
in the city visiting their sister, Mrs.
j. r. Cheesman, and their many friends
here.
Fred Newgrean, of Clare, is the
new compositor in the REPUBLICAN
LEADER office. Fred comes TO us well
recommended.
Miss Grace Noyes returned Friday
night from her summers visit to
Toledo, her aunt, Mrs. Ashley Ritch,
accompanying her.
f. j. Wolfarth, wholesale baker,
from Saginaw, was in the city last
week, looking up the bread contract
for the encampment.
j. ID. Insley was in Wheeler last
week, running w. A. Patchen's black
smith shop while the latter was visiting
his parents in Marshall.
w. A. Patchen, the Wheeler black
smith, returned Friday on his wheel
from Marshall where he has been visit
ing his parents, making lao miles in
one day.
John Trpp, a travelling man from
Cleveland, whose home is in Albion,
spent last week here on a vacation,
stopping at the Harrington for the
baths.
Mrs. Schuyler has enlarged her mil
linery parlors to make ready for the
fall stock she is about to order.
A. w. Pequegnat is adding an enam-
cling and brazlng room at the rear of
his bicycle factory, his expanding bust
ness requiring more room. A. w
proposes to make up even a larger
stock than he did for the '9S season.
w. NJ. Dunlap has a berry patch
that is very much upon the "doee
Dewey" plan Ga la Cbancey Depew's
Story. He brought in Tuesday a
branch of plant of the Greig variety,
which had second crop of ~ perfect
berries IN one cluster. This plant has
evidently decided that if it is going to
prove itself patriotic American berry
it must get a hustle on.
George White has bought George
Wilson's stock of or ceries, and will
continue the business, conducting it in
an up-to. date manner. George has en-
gagged Harry Soper to assist him and
the boys are busily engaged this week
in renovating the stock and store room.
They propose to keep neat, nice, clean,
fresh groceries, besides doing a gen
eral produce business, buying wheat,
oats, wool, etc. We wish George the
success he will surely get.
VIM. Young, the photographer, has
pitched his tent on North Mill street,
opposite the Park House. Mr.. Young
went to Shepherd, intending te stay ten
DAYS, and stayed five weeks, besides
bringing away work to be sent back.
Mr.. Young is the Oldest photographer
on the road, having been IN business
when daguerreotvpes were common,
and our present cabinet photo was un-
known, and has followed the business
through all its numerous developments,
and is consequently pretty well pre-
pared to satisfy all. We have seen
some of his work, and can say that it
is all he claims for it.
GAS TOR a.