Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1899-07-07

| Monday.
Plumbing and water works fittings at
A. w. Brooks.
N. J. Ring was in Big Rapids the
first of the week.
Miss Jessie Weed is spending the
week in Stanton.
j. +. Schwartz was in Bennington
this week on business
Rev. NJ. ID. Carrel returned from Ian
sing Wednesday night.
If your are grower of sugar beets
read our offer on another page.
Pettyjohn's store carries all you need
in mems and women's rubbers.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Hannah are
visiting in Harbor Springs this week.
New line of ball bearing White sew
ing machines just received at Hubbell's
bazaar.
III. n. Button was on our streets last
Saturday for the first time in seven
months.
Miss Ariadne McLaren is the Union
Telephone Co. operator at Bivins 81
Rhodes
w III. Parr and Chas Ingersoll were
in Grand Rapids the first of the week on
business.
Miss Lottie Bahlke left on Wednesday
a for few days visit with relatives in
Saginaw.
1t is an impossibility for us to chron-
icle the coming and going of everyone
this week.
For SALE Good pair of driving
! horses, four and five years old. Inquire
, of d. V. Hubbell.
WANTED.-Good plain cook; no wash
! ing. Apply to Mrs j. II. Lancashire,
Alma, Michigan.
Mrs. d NJ. Peters of Shepherd was
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Dean
9 the first of the week.
. Mrs, Earl CLARK and daughter, Leah,
q are spending the week with relatives
), and friends in st. Johns.
a Mr.. and Mrs b. f. Walker have re-
turned to Elm Hall where they will re-
p main during the summer.
8 Thos. Granger left the first of the
| week for Canisto, n. Y, where he will
spend the summer at the home Of his
birthplace.
8 Mr.. and Mrs. Geo Latirner of Shep-
r herd are spending the week at the home
. of Mr.. Latimers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A r. O. Latimer.
:. Fifty-one tickets were sold at this
o station Monday night to the laborers ON
t the sugar factory, who went to Bay City
to spend the Fourth.
+ The advertising car for Lemen Bros
G circus, which exhibits at Clare July u
!. and Ashley July 10, passed through
J.. Alma Thursday morning.
DR.. j. H. Lancashire has purchased
). the house and lot OH Safest. north of
o the Wright House, formerly known as
/. the Mrs. Downey property.
II Alma will spend $4,000 in improving
a her streets and especially the roads lead
ing into town. When city sees to it
% that the roads leading into town are
s. kept in good shape. it shows that her
y people have good eye for business
g Merrill Visitor
Q The Alma delegation of Christian
o Endeavorers left on Wednesday for De.
q troit to attend the convention. The
following are the names of those who
u composed the delegation; Mrs. Geo. p,
y Blanchard Misses Edah Blanchard,
a Josie Whipple, Ethel Hawley, Mertha
Is Peters, Aria Holiday, Rev. W. *. Spen-
n Ger and Donald Carmichael.
y Bicycle Berry Book is an excellent lit
. tie manual orthy of place in every
e farmers library, The book is condensed
i and practical, as valuable for the villager
d with his l0xl2 berry patch as it is for
the commercial berry grower with his
n twenty. acre field. The price is 90 cents,
t. free by mail; address the publishers,
j. Wilmer Atkinson Co., Philadelphia
l. A card received at this office from
II VIM. Beverly, dated at Denver, Col,
). June 30, states that he and Mrs Beverly
q arrived there June 20, and that Mrs.
70 Beverly stood the trip very well, but
e was not feeling well at the time the card
l. was written on account of the hot
weather, the thermometer registering
n 105
4" The iron work on the sugar factory
j, was completed the first of the week
D. The frame work as it now stands is 81
z feet and six inches WIDE 1874 feet long
k and IS feet high. Over 5000 tons of
a CONSTITUTIONAL iron was used in the frame
1T work. Twenty carloads of machinery