Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-05-19
ST. LOUIS.

Everett Mcclure i, assisting in Carl
Smiths grocery.
The band concert Thursday evening call
ed out a large crowd
:. |. Harrison of Mt Pleasant did bust
ness in this city Wednesday.
c. w. Yerington mailed a dray-load Of
advertisements again this week
Miss Minnie Cheeseman returned from
the Nav Festival at Ann Arbor, Monday.
Mrs. VanOstran, nee Miss Annie Curtis,
of Lansing, is visiting her parents in this
city
J. Greg, city marshal Of Alma, and ID.
y. Whitesell were in the city on business
Saturday
The annual meeting Of the Monday Club
will be held at the home OF Mr-. Fred
Henry Monday afternoon
Mrs. Phoebe Austin, Mrs. G. C. Bartons
mother was very i'll SATURDAY., but is some
what better at last reports
4. II. Lowry and Russell Moore attend
ed the State Firemen's Convention in
Grand Rapids Wednesday and Thursday.
Miss Martha Adams, who has been laid
up with severe attack of the humps, il
back to her duties in her fathers store
again.
Mrs Redmans : :. elias. Of young ladies
will give an ice cream social at Rev. Kill
leens Tuesday evening May %. Everyone
invited, price Zoe.
Miss Newton, 9TH grade teacher in the
public schools and Miss Luten, kindergar-
ten teacher visited the formers home in
Maple Rapids over Sunday.
j. r. Wilson left Tuesday for Grand
Rapid, to attend the State Fireman's Assn.
While there Mr. w. will also take in the
Grand Commandery X. r. which convenes
there this week
The Presbyterian Sunday school met
Thursday evening and elected officers for
the ensuing year. They were as follows:
Sup't, j w. Bernard; Asst Supt. f. y.
Humphrey; Sec'y, Miss Hattie Rudesill;
ASST Sec'y. Wilbur Burns; Treas, c. c.
Barton; Chorster, y. Burns; Libn, w. II.
SERVER
Washington Dulsher of Midland, says
the Republican, has had coffin built for
| him according to his ideas OF what coffin
should be. The work was done by local
mechanic and the box is six feet long,
twenty-eight inches wide and twenty-five
inches deep. 1t is painted in the national
colors
The first thresher OF the season to be sold
from this city went Friday with Charles
IIoyt Of Jasper in charge. 1t was pure
hased by Mr. Hoyt from Stambaugh u
Newton. Fifteen hundred is quite sum
to invest i'm a machine and Mr. II. may
succeed in getting it back threshing this
season, AT least he intends trying.
The Nickel Magazine is unusually
bright and interesting. "Uncle Sans
Queer Wards" tells the story Of the people
OF our new possessions from picturesque
point Of view; "a Mad Kings palaces" j,
another article Of interest OF which describes
monuments left by Bavaria's mad King
Louis. Fiction is not neglected and sever
al short sketches and some long ones com
plete the number The price five cents is
low for the matter.
Itls reported that there is a hitch in the
work OF prospecting for coal in this vicinity
owing To the refusal of several farmers to
lease land. II true their hesltancy must
come from some misunderstanding or mis-.
apprehension of the results. 1t hardly
seems possible that anyone would refuse to
take advantage OF a deal that will give him
| in case coal is found, an increased value to
his farm Of three times what its worth at
present, should he want to sell, or an in
come Of from $50 to $500 per acre if he
doesn't want to sell and still have the farm
left uninured for farming purposes. The
Experiences of farmers in the vicinity OF
St. Charles may we'll he studied by farmers
here. Two years ago land could be bought
near that town at the buyers price $40 per
acre being fancy price for the best. Now
coal lands have gone up to as high as 500
per acre and lands not in the coal belt have
shared i'm the rise. You can't make any
farmer in that locality bolieve that there is
anything wrong with coal business their
pocketbooks contain positive evidence to
the contrary.