Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-06-17
Machine oil at Morden's.

Machine oil at Morden's.
Pork chops fine as the finest at Bang
hart's.
Geo. Youngs went to Detroit Tuesday
on business.
Bart Miller went to Detroit Wednes.
day on business.
S. B. Case and O. L. Chadwick We're
home over Sunday.
Floyd Glass went to Cass City Tuesday
for short vacation.
H. E. Porter has moved his family TO
Morice for the summer.
Louis Brooke, 80, attended the eXer-
cises at the college this week.
JAS. A. Stuttz made a short trip to
Vestaburg the first of the week.
Born, to MIR. and Mrs. Ben. Garter on
Monday, girl. All doing nicely.
Miss Evelyn Sweetland's mother from
Edwardsburg visited her this week.
Will Sullivan of Hanover was in town
the first part of the week on business.
NJ j. Bogardus visited his son-in-law,
Geo. Ward, in Vestaburg the first of the
week.
Prof. w. @. Culver of Merrill, was III
town last week attending commence
ment exercises.
Prof. E. @. Thompson of the Saginaw
.chools and his wife attended commence
ment this week
NJ ID. Train, of Stanton, Mich, is
now employed as salesman with G. f.
Pettyjohn & Co.
w. S. Turck went to Port Huron Tues
day to attend the G. A. r. convention
held at that place.
Mrs. Theo. Neleon and family who
moved to Kalamazoo last year have
returned TO Alma.
Mrs. Celia Rich who is visiting rel.
atives in Ithaca spent Sunday at the
home of John d. Spinney.
+. p. Knowles, one of Alma's former
college boys, was called here this week
by the commencement exercises.
j. j. Kirby, superintendent of the \.
A. Express Co., was in Alma last Friday
looking after business for his new COM
pany.
Miss Kate Bear attended the gradu-
alton exercises of her brother on Tuesday
evening who graduated from the State
Normal at Mt. Pleasant.
Hon. G. II. Morse of Carson City has
been appointed statistical agent for Mich
igan by Secretary Wilson Of the agricul-
tural department. The selection is a
good one.
Rev. Q. E. Blanchard and wife Of
Schoolcraft visited friends and relatives
in town this week and at the same time
attended the commencement exercises Of
the college.
Jos. Vanvalkenburg got on another
big drunk last week, went home and
pounded his wife. Some steps should
be taken to protect the family against
the cruelty of the drunken beast.
The case of Thos. Patterson VS.. Estate
of d. h. Sullivan which caused consid-
cradle interest in the circuit court a por-
ton of last week, went to the jury last
Monday night and resulted in giving
Patterson judgment of six cents,
throwing the costs on the Sullivan
estate.
AT a meeting of the council last week
it was voted that resident owners who
wish TO build stone walks be allowed to
build five foot walks and that the village
pay three cents per square foot for all
such walk built This will bring stone
walk down to less than double what
board walk costs. There are few towns
in Michigan with as much stone walk as
in Alma and with this reduction more
will undoubtedly be built.
The following clipping will probably
be of interest to our readers: Miss
Letta b. Burns will graduate in June
from Albai Normal College with high
honors She has proven herself teach.
er OF fine ability and a most excellent
student. S,lne was chosen from class
OF 10 teachers to give lesson before a
large assembly which she did with cred.
it to herself. She was also selected as
one of the six speakers from the class of
'9s to speak at commencement. Miss
Burns has accepted position in New
York City at a salary Of 1000 Albany
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