Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-01-27
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.



Tuesday.
j. n. Ford was in ST. Charles Tuesday
on business.
NJ. f. Medler of Carson City was in
Alma over Sunday.
IL. T. Button and wife spent Sunday
in Alma with relatives.
Mrs. S. +. Barnes of GouvernOur,
n Y, is visiting relatives in town.
Nj. G. Dallas has been confined to the
house during the past week with the
grip.
Fred Derry of Owosso was in Alma
Monday visiting his brother, l.. A.
Derry.
DIR. A. f. Bruske filled the pulpit of
the Presbyterian church in Bay City last
Sunday.
Attend the bonifde sale of dress goods
at 30 cents on the dollar. Chas. Petty
john q Co.
The Farmers Institute dates are next
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Remember them.
Deans Ten Nights in Bar Room '
at the opera house next Monday night.
Admission 10 and 20 cents.
Bert Woodward returned from his
trip TO Virginia last Wednesday night
His son, Floyd, accompanied HIM home.
The annual report of the Farmers
Mutual Fire Insurance Co of Clinton
county will be found in another column
of the RECORD this week.
Joe Dunevant has recovered from his
recent attack Of the fever sufficiently so
that he has resumed his duties has vii
lage nightwatch.
Geo. Reed, receiver of the First
National Bank of Ithaca and the First
National Bank of Mt Pleasant, was IN
town Wednesday
Those wishing their eyes tested viii do
well to call at Scattergood' 5. j jacobs,
the optician, is graduate of one of the
best optical colleges in Illinois.
When trade is dull, then Is the time
to advertise and get your goods and low
prices before the people Iustling al
ways wins and advertising always pays.
DR.. j. r. Peters has rented the barn
back of the Edwards hotel and put in a
first-class livery stock. More evidence
of the boom in Alma for the coming
year
There is certainly something wrong N
Michigan this year Here it is Wen
along toward the end Of January, and
yet there his not been single report
that the peach buds have been killed
Miss Sara Mcnamara has been quite M
with the grip during 10 past TWO weeks
but is convalescing at present. Mis-,
Ethel Hawley has been assisting at Yer
meuen's during her sickness
\ play that every mother should take
her family to see Hon James q.
Blaine Deans Ten Nights in a Bar
Room at opera house. Monday night
Admission 10 aud 20 cents
Mr.. and Mrs W. >. Turck were very
pleasantly surprised on Wednesday even
iug last by about eighteen of their i'm
M diate friends. The evening was
pleasantly spent in playing progressive
pedro.
The thii teenth annual conyentioa Of
the Gratiot County Sunday School ASSOC
citation will be held in the Presby terian,
church, Alma, on Wednesday and
Thursday, February - ard 10 We viii
publish the program latter
Lafayette Stevens of Elm Hall was in
Alma Tuesday on business Mr. Ste
vens has quite a La &c farm all in good
state of cultivation. about one mile
south and west Of Riyerdale and is very
enthusiastic in regard to the pr respects
for the beet sugar factory in Alma Mr.
Stevens tells us he has grown the sugar
beet for the past four or five years for
stock food, and that last year his crop
was 800 bushels.
The editor sat in his Office cold
whence all but him had fed, but he
wished that every hst dead beat was in
his grave-stone dead His mind then
wandered far away to the time when he
should die. and his royal editorial soul
20 scooting to the sky when he'd roam
the fields Of Paradise, and sail DER Jas.
per seas, and all things glorious com.
hined, his every sense to please He
thought how he'd look across the great
gulf, dark and dreary, that yawned be.
tween his happy soul and those that
swindle here. And when for water they
should call, and in agony they'd caper,
he'd shout TO them: "Just moisten
your tongue with the due that's on
your paper. FIX.
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