Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-01-06
Messengers sale begins Saturday.


Rubber footwear sale at Petty johns. Z.
o. p. Stone of Ithaca WAS in Alma
Monday
Jay Jacobs was in Ithaca the first Of
the week
II. f. p Schneider was in Alma on
Wednesday.
Miss Adelia Reid returned to Frank.
fort on Monday.
Miss Florence Plum returned to Cleve-
land on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs A. w. Wright were in
Saginaw Monday.
The finest hams on the market at
Parker & Huff's.
DR.. j. Il. Peters returned TO Howard
City on Thursday.
Thos. Talon of Riverdale was in Alma
Tuesday on business.
Joseph Baird of Bannister was in
Alma Monday on business.
The supervisors of Gratiot county are
in session at Ithaca this week.
Mems winter underwear at 25c
= garment Pettyjohn's store
Miss Louise Hood is on the sick list
this week suffering from lagrippe.
A. 3. Scattergood was in Detroit the
latter part of last week on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo Thornton returned
TO their home in Marion on Monday
| Waldo Trowbridge of Kalamazoo
visited Chas. Grooms the first of the
week
A w. Brock left on Tuesday for Bos-
ton and other eastern points on bust
ness trip.
A Fishbeck of ST. Johns is stopping
with his brother, Chas Fishbeck, for a
few days
Mrs. Carrie V. Coeman of Chicago is
spending the week with her cousin, Mrs
A. f. Bruske.
G. II. Decker left on Wednesday for
points in West Virginia on a twenty
days prospecting tour
J f. Schwartz went to Bennington on
Monday to put in one of his Imperial"
furnaces for gentleman there.
Miss Minnie Egert left Thursday
morning for Elsmore, Ohio, where she
expects to remain until some time in
March.
and brush in Jim Aliens barber shop.
The two chairs in the shop are now run
ming in full blast again.
The attention of parties wishing TO
subscribe for capital stock in the pro-
posed beet sugar factory is called to the
notice in another column.
Messenger q Co Dean q Co., The
Jenness Shoe Co., G. K. Pettyjohn &
Co., J l.. Miller IL Son and A. b. Scat
tergood have new ads. this week.
Miss Winnie McClinton of Cass City,
who has been visiting her brother DR.
n +. McClnton, during the past two
weeks, returned to her home on Mon
day.
Miss Harriet Lancashire returned to
Boston on Tuesday and was accompanied
by her mother, Mrs Lancashire. DR..
Lancashire went as far as Detroit with
them.
The roads have been frozen hard
enough during the past week to re.
semble pavement. The blacksmiths
have realized a harvest in consequence
thereof.
DR. and Mrs +. s Pettyjohn enter
tanned a select company of about sixteen
invited guests on Monday evening last.
Music and games were INDUCED in and
refreshments were served.
Farmers wishing to pledge acreage
for the culture of sugar beets are re-
quested 10 call upon either L. A. Sharp,
J w Holmes, w. S. Turck & Co.. @.
f. Brown Of Alma, lothian Allen of
Ithaca or Silas Moody of Forest Hill.
j. w. Robinson of Vestaburg, and }.
n. Crusoe and DR.. w. r. Gambler of
Stanton were in Alma Wednesday to
attend the public meeting. Montcalm
county people are very much interested
in beet sugar factory being built here.
Geo NJ Hutchinson went to Lansing
Tuesday to enter upon his studies in the
Agricultural college. W. E. Redheld,
manager of the Isabella county cream.
ery, will have charge of the Alma
Creamery during Mr.. Hutchinsons alb
sence.
AS we are desirious of correcting the
business directory in the RECORD we re-
quest that the secret societies, whose
cards are in the directory, furnish us
,uitb a LET of tbair paxulv alactad off cars