Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-02-24

'The Sunday school teachers meeting
viii ie h,l | at lhe home of B + Worth
i1gton next Saturday afternoon.
Wifrcd Soule was called by telegram
from ohio to attend tue funeral Of his
mother Mrs. Ed Soule.
Fred Newton of -. Louis WAS at this
place on business Thursday hast.
Mr.. Annie san lrrs i, taking treatment
of Or Wheeler of 81 Louis.
Mrs. Herman shaver is .ufrerinc very
much from sore eyes,
Del Baker has purchased a new Huber
traction engine til which to run his bay
press.
Geo Samb ugh had sale las; Thur.-
day. He intends 10 move to Ithaca in
The spring
Rev McComb cYpects Ia begin special
meetings. at the NJ :. church next week
He La, practically r"covcre from IN, re-
cent illness.
Mr anG Mrs. Chapman who have been
guests at HE home of Clinton Vie. fol
some weeks past, returned to ,her home
in Ohio last week.
Lawrence d. lloulden. youngest son of
Mr. and Mrs. VIM Ilouldenl died at his
home in Emerson, Feb. :, 80. # pneu
mona, aged IS years, 10 months and :,
days.
Mr.. En- Soule died at her home, Sch.
:, Of pnermonr, aged 30 years. She
leaves a husband ard SIX children to
mourn her los-l
The member. of the 4 lima lodge /. ..
o. F.. visited Emerson l,dac 40 80,
last SATURDAY. evening.
Mrs. Philips If Porland, who has
speut the winter thu, far wi,h her son
William of h- phcr, expects t. rejuln
nome III, week
A memorial meeting in honer of
Judge Thos. VI. Cooley and Prof Ed.
l. Walter will be held at the Univer-
s.ty of Michigan, February 20.
II. C. Parke, president Of the we'll
known firm of Parle, Davis & Co..
chemists of Detroit, is dead He died
from heart failure following chills at
San Diego Cal. where he had went
short time ago to look after his large
ranch interests.
BY supreme court decision Elijah
Calkins, of Flint. was given 81 900
l.. Il.
road for injuries. There are now
nearly 81, 900 garnishments against the
railroad company to satisfy Calkins'
Flint creditors
Miss Octavia Roberts. of Erie, aged
A., got a judgment of $4,000 against
Ed. j. Druillard, aged 81, of the same
place. in a breach of promise suit.
Druillard was married to a Miss Ellen
Reau about eight months after the APP
pointed time set TO marry Miss Roberts.
The present indications are very
bright for a large building boom at
Owosso the coming season. Ten bust
ness blocks, nearly all of them three
stories high and of brick, have already
been arranged for, and the Woodland
furniture factory will also be rebuilt.
According to the reports of the state
board of health, influenza. neuralgia,
rheumatism, bronchitis and tonsilitis,
in the order named, have been most
prevalent. Consumption was reported
in 100 places, scarlet fever in A..
typhoid fever in = and diptheria in %.
The council at Standish has voted TO
accept the proposition of paying new
furniture company, seeking location
there, 81 600 per year for pumping the
water for the village by the addition
of one pump 10 what they have now.
The company will employ 100 to 200
men.
With the thermometer at 90 below
zero Sherm Clark. of Fife Lake. wan
dered out on the lake and lay down on
the ice 10 take snooze. When he
awolIe he made his way to the shore,
where ii was discovered that his feet,
hands and ears were frozen. Too much
booze.
George KNIT. a farmer of Dryden
township, Lapeer county, was knocked
down and severely punched by steer.
In its fury the animal picked Kintz up
on his horns and tossed him into the
air. He came down on his feet and
kicked the brute on the nose until he
drove him off. KNIT weighs 100
pounds.
Plane are being laid to continue the
work early in the spring on the new
railroad running east from Hart
through IIesperia TO Fremont. Sew
eral more Chicago capitalists have in
terested themselves in the enterprise
and ii is to receive a boom by the local
men who have been promoting the
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