Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-03-02

Ruben Holiday is very i'll at this
writing.
Song recital at the opera house Mon
day night.
Morris Messenger was in st. Louis
Wednesday.
DR.. n. +. McClinton was in Ann Ar.
Dor Monday.
Chas. Silsbee returned from Chicago
Tuesday night.
q. o. Trask spent Sunday with rela.
tives in North Star.
Smith q Glass sells the Pere Mar
quette soft coal at 50 30 per ton.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W Wright returned
from their trip to Texas last Friday
night.
NOTICE Something entirely new at
Pettyjohn's store for mothers and house
keepers.
Republican caucus in the opera house
tomorrow night at eight o'clock, stand.
ard time.
lothian Allen attended the round. up
of the state farmers institutes in Ann
Arbor this week.
G. J. Miller has been in Mt Pleasant,
Glare and other northern towns this
week on business
!. l. Miller has sold the house and
lot recently obtained from j n. CALI
han 70 Thos Granger
See Buffers body guard at the opera
house tonight. One of the specialties of
the fremen's minstrels.
Inbroideries, laces, ribbons and trim
mings in all the latest styles and de.
signs, at f. f. Pollasky's.
John Greig has sold his house and lot
on Forest.st to +. p. Caldwell, and pur-
the Morse property in the southeast
part of town.
Herbert l.. Cope of Caro- was the guest
of his cousin, H E. Meyers, Wednesday
night. Mr. Hope is humorist and i'm
personator of much note.
M f. Walker, representing G. +.
Burns, will be in Alma during the
month of April 70 make contracts for
growing beans this season. l092-3w
Miss Lillian Ayers of Kalamazoo, who
has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. j.
w. Holmes, for the past two months,
returned home Wednesday.
J. NJ. Callihan has moved onto the j..
l. Miller farm southwest Of town that
he recently exchanged his house and lot
in the southeast part of town for.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. W. Abbott, Mr. and
Mrs. Francis Hawley and Chas. Clark
attended the state roundup of farmers
Institutes at Ann Arbor this week
About fifty members of the d. of Il.
lodge of this place visited the st. Louis
lodge last Tuesday night and exempt
fed the degrees. They report as being
highly entertained
If you desire 10 hear praise for the
excellent coffee served on your table,
use the famous A. l. Q. high grade
coffee. b. W Ellison carries full line
because they are the best.
DR. f. S. Pettyjohn was in Detroit
Monday and Tuesday in attendance on
the meeting of the Detroit Medical Lii
brary Association, and a reception given
by Dr. McGrew to DR. Willeymeyer of
New York City.
The snow storm Oh Wednesday was
the severest that we nave experienced
this winter, eight inches of snow falling
during the day. Trains Wednesday
night and Thursday were delayed all
the way from one TO five hours.
Before deciding on your new spring
dress, skirt or waist you should in
spect the largest assortment of dress
goods in the county. A complete dis.
play of blacks and colors, in fashions
latest fabrics, at F. E Pollasky's.
Saturday night, Sunday and Monday
we experienced our annual February
cold snap The thermometer registered
Ia degrees below zero the coolest night
| ~ degrees ABOVE IQt COlueSt ulkht III
February last year, and yet it was cold
enough.
St. Louis came very near to having q
disastrous fire last Wednesday morning
The fire caught in the basement OF
Alexander's store from the furnace
but as the party, who had just built
up fire in the furnace was still in the
building. he ex'inguished 1t without
the aid of the fire department.
Word was received on Tuesday Of this
week from NJ. B King, stating that hi
wife had died OF their home in Por
Huron on Monday with typhoid fever
Mr.. King will be remembered as form
erly being proprietor of the REcoRI
book bindery. Besides the husband
three little children are left to mourn
their loss. Mr.. King has our heartfelt
sympathy in his sad affection.
At the township election proposition
to build an iron bridge across Pin