Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-01-07

Byron w. King at the opera house
next Wednesday evening, Jan. 18th.
Under Sheriff Hall was called to
Edmore on official business Monday.
A quanty of prime clover hay for sale.
Inquire of Voorhees, Bros. s. 90 per ton
at baru.
w. S. Turck left Wednesday morning
for Dunedin, Florida, where he will
spend the winter
Attorney Bert Hays of Stanton spent
Sunday with the family of his brother.
! in-law, Bert Woodward
j. A. Livingston, a prominent Mt.
Pleasant man, has an important letter
in the RECORD this week.
Maurice Grigsby and Miss Mary Cald-
well spent the holidays with the parents
of the former at Hastings.
Ed Hodskinson of Kalispell, Mont.
former Alma boy, came Thursday to
make his parents short visit.
Miss Gertie Durham and Miss Mae
Hines of Big Rapids spent New Years
with their cousin j. Major Lemen.
l.. H. Hayt has purchased a forty
acre farm of Walter Shook in Emerson
township six miles east of this village.
The Women's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the M +. church will meet with
Mrs. NJ. D. Carrel on Friday afternoon,
Jan. It'll.
Professor Nicoud was in Saginaw over
Sunday, where he was billed to play
morning and evening in the jefferson
NJ. E. church.
Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Button, Mrs H. L.
Button and Miss Laura Button were
entertained at the county Jail on New
Years day by n. j. Mccullough and
family.
Francis Porrett of Monticope, Ont,
visited at the homes of Andrew Smith
and j. NJ Montigel the first of the week.
He left Wednesday for Jackson, where
he will spend a few days before return
ing home.
Mrs. S. A. Vliet returned from Bay
City Monday evening, where she has
been confined for the last two weeks
with peritonitis. She still lacks much
of being well. Mrs. G.. w. Bates accom-
panied her from Bay City.
Miss Blanche Curtis of Emerson
pleasantly entertained the senior class
Of the high school and few Of the
Alumni on Friday evening. Miss Curtis,
who graduated from our schools year
before last, is now attending college at
Oxford, Ohio.
On Nov. 18th, the l1x14 it, windows
were put in the new Pollasky block; on
the 22d Of the same month one of them
cracked in two in the center; on Dec.
Both the Fidelity and Casualty ms. Co.
of New York had a window in. This is
making pretty good time.
Several of our business men turned
on the electric lights in their business
places last week and are very much
pleased with the new plant. The lights
are strong and very steady. The ma
jority of our business houses will be
wired as soon as the company can get at
| it.
E. II. Brown, of Climax, associate edi-
tor of the Michigan Farmer, will be
present and take part in the One Day
Institute, at Forest Hill, on Jan. Il. He
! will discuss "Soil Manipulation and
Corn Culture" An excellent program
has been prepared for this Institute and
it will prove of value TO all farmers who
attend.
Owing to the season the class in charge
of the Herbert A. Sprague entertainment
did not quite meet their expenses, but
the excellence of the effort of Mr.
Sprague amply recompensed them for
their little loss and trouble Mr.. Sprague
is master Of his art and a most delight
full gentleman to meet He met the
pupils OH Wednesday morning and gave
an excellent discussion of David Cooper
field. The pupils were put through a
rehearsal of their parts under his criti-
cism and every suggestion was example,
fed by the gentleman We hope Mr..
Spngue may come this way again. He
has certainly formed a circle Of warm
friends Of the school.