Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-09-29
Dewey celebration tonight.


County fair Oct. 3, 4, . and g.
George Sharrar spent Sunday in Sagi
nav.
A. II. Olmstead was in Grand Rapids
Monday.
w. L. Smith of Stanton is in town
this week.
Pettyjohns store can sell you shoes
the lowest.
Jas. Gargett was in Lansing the first
of the week.
F. E. Pollasky returned home from
Kansas City Wednesday.
Mrs. j. H. Lancashire returned home
from Detroit Tuesday night.
$500 buys a good black or blue black
beaver overcoat at Messengers.
Mr. and Mrs. H. c. Button are visit
ing relatives in Ithaca this week.
Come and see the pretty hats at Miss
O. E. Smiths today and tomorrow.
Messenger swell clothing is the equal
of the best custom made-at half the
price.
The dates of Mrs. Wilson's millinery
opening are Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week.
Geo. Bildson and Jean Paddock went
to Grand Rapids Wednesday to attend
the state fair.
John Watson of Breckenridge was in
Alma Monday on his way to Ann Arbor
where he enters the u. of M.
Caroline l.. Nichols, teacher of man
dolin, banjo and guitar, lat Mrs f. Mon
tigel's, Thursdays of each week 722w"
| VS.. Sayers, general missionary of
this diocese, was in Alma the first of the
week the guest of Rev. II. b. Jefferson.
M. Z. Walker of Howell has been in
Alma this week looking after G. E.
Burns interests. He shipped car load
of beans
Lafayette Stevens, the new furniture
man, has an announcement in this issue
Of the RECORD. 1t will be found on
page eight.
Gale B. Davidson has sold his interests
in the Hotel Dale at Ithaca. MIR. and
Mrs Davidson are stopping in Alma for
the present.
See the beautiful pattern hats and
bonnets at the grand millinery opening
at Mrs j. f. Lathrop's on Friday and
Saturday, October 6 and Z.
Mr.. and Mrs @. r. Moulton have re-
turned home after spending the sum-
mer visiting in jackson, Clarks Lake
and other points in southern Michigan.
Do you take the Michigan Farmer
If you subscribe for the RECORD and pay
one year in advance you will receive the
Michigan Farmer free until Jan. /, 1900.
Mr. and Mrs S. Fink received word on
Tuesday that they had new grandson,
a big boy having arrived at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. j, Turberg III Chicago on
that day.
Mrs. Hattie Wyeth has bills out for
an auction sale on the b f Walker farm
east of Elm Hall on Tuesday of next
week. G. +. Chandler of Butternut will
have the sale in charge and the usual
terms will prevail.
j. p Taft of this place has recently
completed a fine stone residence for
Riley STORIES of Ferris. The house is a
beauty and Mr.. STORES showed good
judgment in coming to Alma to get
workmen to do the job.
Comptroller Dawes has appointed A
B. Darragh of ST. Louis, receiver of the
Citizens National Bank of Niles, Mich
The bank during the last month has
been in the hands of Bank Examiner
Joseph W. Selden, who has been acting
as temporary receiver.
| Mrs. L. S. Stevens and daughter, Ber-
tina, left the first of the week for New
York City where they will remain a few
weeks and then go to Mobile, Alabama,
where they expect to make their future
home. 1t was their intention TO attend
the Dewey celebration while in New
| York.
The professional card of DR.. Geo. w
Pringle will be changed in next weeks
issue of the RECORD so as to read Drs
Pringle & Sweetland. Dr. Pringle will
retain his present Office hours, while
DR.. Sweetland's hours will be from
10 100 a. m to l2 100 M. and from 700 to
900 p. m.
The entertainment at the opera house
Wednesday and Thursday nights of
this week by Prof. Henry Payne Starr
the mind reader and spiritualistic ex-
poser, was quite we'll patronized. Prof.
Starr is certainly very capable man
and some of the feats performed by him
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