Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-01-14
Fresh trout at Banghart's.

Fresh trout at Banghart's.
Nichols, the jeweler, is receiving some
very fine clocks.
The union depot received a coat of
paint this week.
Jacob Hirschkowitz was in ST. Louis
on business Tuesday.
Sidney Clum is clerking at l., II.
Hayt's in Geo. Taylor's place.
Chas. Butterfield of Plymouth was
the guest of his brother over Sunday.
A. G. Middaugh and family expect to
remove to Maryland in the near future.
Prof. and Mrs Mitchell visited at his
former home in Breckenridge over Sun
day.
H. j. Vermeulen left Tuesday evening
for business trip to Chicago and
Detroit.
@. l.. Chadwick has the contract for
icing the refrigerator trains on the ID.
G.. r. q w.
For first-class hair cut or shave try
Grooms' Barber Shop Middaugh's old
stand Superior-st
Mrs. L. Irish of Pontiac returned home
last Saturday from a visit with her
father, w. w. Rollin.
II. E. Meyers was elected a member of
the Board of Trustees of the NJ. E.
church Monday evening in place of the
late j. w. Hawkins.
No che should miss seeing Mr.. Car
rington in his character as the Drummer
Boy of Shiloh at the opera house tonight
and tomorrow night. Admission only
10 and % cents.
Harry Chivers drilled we'll at Lyman
Cohoon's new residence the last of last
week. The depth of the well is fifty-tiv
feet and the water rises to within eigh-
teen feet of the surface.
G. +. Brown, member of the executive
committee of the Republican Press AS
ISOLATION for this congressional district,
is at Lansing attending a meeting of
that body in session there this week.
Miss Fannie Sharrar has a position
with the county drain commissioner,
G.. A. Scholtz, at Ithaca. His office
hours during his administration will be
from Monday noon till Saturday noon
Supt. Ely informed the school board
at their meeting last week Thursday
evening that he would not be a candi-
date for reelection to the position he
now holds. Several applications have
already been received fog the place. The
school board will no doubt have a large
number to choose from.
Among late arrivals at the Sanitarium
are Mr.. Daniels of the n. w. Aver
advertising firm OF Philadelphia, Jas.
Soper, vice president of the Hay Todd
Underwear 90. of Ypsilanti; and Judge
A. J. johnson of Topeka, Kan, master
! in chancery and the one who negotiated
the sale of the Santa Fe railroad.
In our write-up of Prof. Nicoud's Re
cital last week we gave the impression
that Miss Velma Sharp played piano
solo. This was a mistake. Master Lester
Sharp played violin solo, with piano
accompaniment by his sister and 2nd
violin by Prof. Nicoud. Lester is deserv.
ing of much praise for the excellence OF
his playing.
In the damage suit of John Snyder VS..
f. w. Hooper before Justice Durham
last Monday, these gentlemen did not
employ counsel but acted as their own
attorneys. 1t appears that Snyder
bought bill of lumber, q 900 it., OF
Hooper, which the latter was to have
sawed and delivered. The men who
were to furnish Mr.. Hooper with the
lumber. failed to get it all sawed and SC
he was unable to deliver TO Mr.. Snyder
about 1000 #. of what was contracted.
Mr.. Snyder procured the balance else
where and claimed that he was so much
damaged by the transaction that he
ought not to pay for what he had re.
ceived. Hooper sued for his pay and
Snyder brought counter suit for dam.
ages. The judge took the usual -four
days to decide and at the time of our
going to press had not rendered his de.
cision.