Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1898-04-29
Webb sells wall paper the cheapest.

Bert Hayes returned Saturday morn
ing from Stanton.
Geo. Youngs is putting a new roof on
the Adams block this week
The regular meeting Of the L. and A.
M. No. 245 Saturday evening.
j. G. Bright and wife spent Sunday
with his mother in Mt. Pleasant
Mrs. @. III. Little of Detroit is at the
Sanitarium for rest and treatment.
Mems negligee shirts at unheard of
prices at Chas. +. Pettyjohn & Co. S. =
Chas. Morden is enjoying visit from
his cousin, Aldridge Morden of Ridge
town, Canada.
Miss Kate Feeney of Mt. Pleasant
made short call upon Miss Sarah Nc
Namara last Tuesday.
The w. Q. L. u. will give a Frances
Willard memorial service in the NJ. Il.
church Sunday evening.
a. r. Dingman's son-in.law, Geo
Mitchell from Hillsdaie has been visiting
him the past few days.
| Miss Shanafelt of Owosso, who spent
Sunday with Miss Peters, returned to
her home Monday morning.
Two small gasoline stoves are for sale
at A.W. Brooks. Those wishing such an
article will do well to look at them
Mrs. Eagon, mother of Mrs. Claude
Chadwick, left for Ann Arbor Wednes-
day to have an operation performed up II
her eyes
The Schumann Grand Concert Com
pany at the opera house, May ). Prices
%, 30 and 30 cents, Reserved seats on
sale at Webb's without extra charge.
j. T. Hall of Chicago was in town last
Friday on business with A. w. Wright.
Mr.. Hall is an old Alma man, being in
the furniture business here several years
ago.
Miss Nellie Tubbs, who recently moved
with her parents onto a farm six miles
west of town, has been spending several
days during the past week visiting
friends here.
G. E. Scott has not been able TO attend
to school duties for few days past on
account of illness. Pearl Fuller is tax
ing charge of his room at the High
School during his absence.
The rumor ahoat that a photograph
gallery is being flied up in the new
Pollasky block is not authentic There
being no place in the building, according
to Mr.. Pollasky's account, where such
could be placed.
Arbor day is being celebrated in the
college today by the omission of all
classes in the afternoon and, in their
place, after the program in the chapel
is carried out, by all turning out and
help plant trees around the buildings
and on the campus.
We are pleased to note that Miss Jessie
| Waters has been awarded the gold medal
by the Chicago Musical College for her
beautiful singing and artistic rendering
of Guonods difficult Aria and Waltz
song from Romeo and Juliet. Chi
cago Musical Times. Opera house
Alma, May 9TH. Prices %, 30 and 80
cents.
John d. Spinney, of Alma, bears so
close a resemblance TO Louis Smith
deputy county clerk, that either of them
can be easily taken for the others double,
and acquaintance often make mistakes
| The two men met at the clerks office
yesterday and on comparing notes it was
found that there We're five days differ
ence in their ages, each having been born
in Saginaw in August, 1861. There is
half an inch difference in their height
Mr.. Spinney having got that much the
start of Lou. But the man who still re-
sides in Saginawfmore than Offsets this
! advantage by being 30 pounds heavier
than the man who looks like him 49,
Courier Herald.
The state dairy and food commissioner
announces his determination to prosecute
retailers who sell impure goods instead
of going after the wholesalers. While
it is well known that the average retailer
| has no intention of violating the law and
takes the word of the wholesaler as a
guarantee that his purchases shall be
strictly pure, the commissioner finds it
almost impossible to convict the whole.
saler. He first gets evidence from the
retailer and when he confronts the
wholesale dealer with it that worthy
denies ever having sold the goods. The
commissioner says most wholesalers
prefer being prosecuted themselves than
having proceedings commenced against
their customers, and he thinks this may
make them more cautious.
The /. O. o. +. report delightful