Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-10-13
L. b, Kehn was in Ithaca Tuesday.

Ia. A. Sharp was In Grand Rapids
Tuesday.
o. ID. Moore was in Owosso on bust
ness Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs f, T. Edwards were in
Bay City Monday.
Get your dinner and supper at the
opera house today.
DR.. Lou Patterson was in North Star
the first of the week.
Pettyjohn's store sells mems mackin-
toshes cheap this week.
f. w Davidson of st. Louis was in
Alma Monday evening.
Scattergood 81 Jacobs have change
Of adj in this " eek's RECORD.
Mrs. Josephine l.. st. John spent Sun
day in Detroit with friends.
II. G.. Price returned home from Bart
lett, North Dakota, on Monday Of this
week.
Rev. Jay Clizbe was in Saginaw this
week attending the meeting of the Pres
byterian Synod.
If you want good second hand heat
ing stove, either wood on coal burner,
call on A. w. Brock.
Mrs. W. s. Turck was in Saginaw on
Wednesday and Thursday attending the
meeting of the state o. +. s.
Mrs. Minnie McCarty of Bay City
visited relatives and friends in Alma
over Sunday and the first of the week.
Mrs. Ardelia Smith, who has been
spending the summer in Alma, left on
Wednesday for her home in Hot Springs,
Ark
Miss Sarah Mcnamara has gone to
Mt. Pleasant, where she is employed as
saleslady in Marsh & Graham's mil
linery store.
Frank Hartel and Mrs Herman Har-
tel of Berlin, Ont, who were visiting
relatives and friends in Alma, returned
home on Tuesday.
L. B. Waring of Ionia, representing
the Michigan Tontine Investment Co.,
with headquarters in Ionia, was in Alma
the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Moore, who have
been spending several weeks with their
daughter, Mrs. Fred Osborn, in Dayton,
o., returned home Monday night.
Warren Halves of Crystal has moved
his family back to Alma, bringing with
him some horses, one of which is draft
horsefor sale cheap also top carriage
nearly new.
A full line of millinery goods from
Mrs. j. +. Lathrop's millinery store
were opened to the public on Thursday
and Friday of this week in Miss Carrie
Anderson's store at Sumner.
We notice by the state papers the fol-
lowing appointments from this county
to the census bureau at Washington
George A. Hafer, Ithaca; +. 5. Avery,
Ithaca; E. G.. Torrey, Alma.
We are in receipt of 1.-The Society
Girl march and two-step by II. G. Pull
frey of st. Johns, through the courtesy
of the composer. Mr.. Pulfrey is fast
coming to the front in the musical world.
j. Doyle, roadmaster, and 7. McOlos-
key, assistant roadmaster, of the d., q.
r. q w. railroad, were in Alma the first
of the week arranging for the construc-
ton of the new sidetracks at the sugar
factory.
On Saturday of last week Tim Kirwin's
blacksmith shop at Riverdale burned to
the ground with nearly all of the con-
tents. The origin of the fire is not
known, as it happened in the morning
while Mr.. Kirwin was at breakfast.
Deputy Game Warden F. w. Blair of
st. Louis was in Alma the first Of the
week looking up evidence against sew.
eral parties who it is alleged are violating
the game law in regard to shooting
quail and partridge. Several arrests are
likely to follow in a short time.
While working ON the sewer at the
sugar factory on Wednesday morning Of
this week James Lewis had the misfor-
tune to fall so as to strike on the back of
his head, iDjuring him quite badly. DR..
j. +. Suydam dressed the wound, and
at last reports the patient was recovering
rapidly.
Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Dudley of Gas
novia and Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Manches-
ter of Sparta, who have been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ID. Kathan of this
place, returned home on Monday. After
looking over the sanitarium, college,
beet sugar factory and other places, they
decided that Alma was very enterpris-
ing place.
BY request of some of the Alma citi-
zens J. Leahy, an expert optician of Mt.
Pleasant, has promised to visit Alma