Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-04-21
~. LOUIS.

Henry Weiss did business in Summer
Monday.
Rev Il. b. jefferson visited - Louis
Wednesday.
Duane Throor !, the new clerk at Scri-
ver'~ hardware store
Regular meeting OF the Woodmeu Friday
night everybody turn out
The Ideal Laundry has purchased 1uc
safe from the Cary Sale Co.
Mr.. and Mrs II. L Nelson lett Wcdno--
day for their home in Toledo
John Clark i, assisting in SERVER hard
ware daring thu busy se'~ou.
II. Taylor ii Mt Pleasant did bo,i-
ness in st. LOU Wednesday.
II. Z. Green will occupy tac house about
to be vacated by b BachtelI.
Elder II. II Hoyt, the We-leyan llctho.
dist preacher, i, moving his family to Flint.
r f. Green is smiling these days over
the advent of an clcycu-pound boy, All doc
ING well
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Barton and Mrs. \.
5. Mcintyre did shopping in Saginaw last
Saturday.
:. Vliet and family and Mrs. Thco Ne-
SON and son Theodore OF Alma, visited Mrs
J. Il. Chccsmau Thursday.
Donald Cameron is much better from
the attack OF congestion of the brain which
he has been suffering from
Mrs. c. W. Smith ran a nail into her
foot last Friday, and has been laid up th,
week, but j, gradually recovering
: Dewey, cousin Of Mrs J. J. Noyes,
and of VIM. Young, spent Friday, Satur-
day and SUNDAY with his rel atiyeS in this
city
George Taylor has bought the Geo Kin
ney house on Pine street two doors north of
John Frazer, residence, and /, moving in
to it this week.
After several day, Of the hardest kind Of
work the RErUHLIcAN LEADER is located
in It's new home and is able to begin on the
work that has accumulated.
The Junior Society Of the Presbyterian
church held five cent supper at the social
rooms on Tuesday evening and Melted
neat sum for their treasury.
The Clara Schumann Music Club will
meet next Wednesday afternoon at 300 at
the residence OF Mrs. G.. NJ. Ferris. The
topic for the afternoon will be the Composer
IIensel
The annual meeting OF the Fire Depart
mcnt will be held next Monday night at
the usual time All members should be
present, as business Of interest to all will be
transacted.
Ben Stickney, the genial conductor OF
train 90, Of the d. G.. K. q w. took day
of Wednesday to show Us how to catch
fish. He carried home a ten-pounder, and
several other sizeable ones.
Jay Smith, Sandwich Is, came home
with his mother, Mrs. NJ. O. Smith, the
fore part Of the week. Jay bears the ear
marks of prosperity, and his many st.
Louis friends will rejoice thereat
+. II. Henderson has gone to Rapid City,
which he will make his future home. He
stopped over in Saginaw and visited
brother Monday night. Mrs. Henderson
will go in about two weeks. Mr. and Mrs.
II. leave hosts of friends in St. Louis who
will wish them the best Of fortune in their
new home.
Mrs =. !. Noyes and Miss Prudie Scri-
yer received word by telephone Tuesday Of
the very sudden death of Mrs. Fred Muir
dock at -. Johns Mrs. Murdoch, whose
maiden name was Ida Baker, was native
OF It. Louis, and was universally esteemed
here. She leaves a family Of young child
rem, one only four months old, and her loss
will be severely felt by her husband, whose
many st. Louis friends will deeply sympa-
thze with him.
NJ. c. Howell the octogenarian, is slowly
breathing out his last days at his home in
the first ward, with only son and his
aged wife to care for him, save as the
neighbors come in and assist. Mr.. and
Mrs. Howell were born, the first in 1915,
during the closing months OF the war in
which we taught Great Britain to respect
our rights, the latter two years later maxi
ing their ages respectfully 81 and 50.
They we're married at Penn Yam, Penn,
Dec. 81, 1886, or about 62l years ago,
probab being the oldest Doupl, in central