Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-06-01

the week.
O. f. Brown is IN Cadillac on tele.
phone business.
Waldo Bogart visited relatives in
Holly over Sunday.
Geo.Spicer returned home from Rocky
Ford, COL, last Friday,
Miss Edna Schwartz visited relatives
in St. Louis over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. M. Scott returned
home from Lansing Tuesday.
Wrappers to suit everybody, young
and old, big and little at Pettyjohn's.
Do you have trouble getting a good
light? Get some Perfection oil here.
1l05-tf o. l.. 81 G.. M. DELAvAN.
Paul Murray has moved his family in
to the @. Thompson house on Water.st.
Mt Pleasant Indians VS.. The Almas
on the college campus tomorrow after
noon at 2:30.
Ten per cent. off on dollar on all
goods sold at Hubbell's Novelty Store
Saturday only.
Mrs. George Hogue left Thursday for
Grand Ledge and Portland for a short
visit with relatives.
You will find one of the cheapest and
best line of trimmed hats in Alma at
Miss @. f. Smiths.
Matt. Wentz has so far regained his
health as to be able to appear on the
streets in wheel chair.
Miss Lillian Corey of Saginaw was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Decatur
Coleman, the first of the week.
A glass blowers entertainment COM
pany is occupying the building next TO
the Central Drug Store this week.
A. L. Fisher returned home Friday of
last week Mr.. Fisher is travelling in
Iowa for Chicago wholesale tea house.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Stevenson left
Thursday for Windsor where Mr..
Stevenson has steady employment Of
fered him
Mrs. L. S. Stevens and daughter,
Bertha, returned from Mobile, Ala, last
Friday and expect to remain in Alma
during the summer.
Misses Lamborn have good white hats
at prices never before quoted in Alma.
Also sailors and street hats. Everything
at great reduction.
Bert scarborough of Detroit is visiting
his parents for few days. Bert has been
quite i'll for the past few weeks and is
at present convalescing,
Last Sunday was quite a day for ex.
cursions through Alma. Thirty nine
tickets were sold to Saginaw, thirty
eight to Detroit and seven to Mt. Pleas
ant.
A. ID. Hallock has returned from
Detroit and informs US that it is his in
tention to organize an independent
company in Alma as soon as
possible.
The Union Telephone 90. has placed
a power generator in the central ex-
change at this place Much quicker SER
vice than heretofore is the result, and it
also makes the work easier for the oper-
ator.
Wallace Lang, formerly of Sumner,
at present an engineer on the Missouri
Pacific between st. Louis and Kansas
City, was in Alma the first of the week
the guest of his old school teacher, Fred
Fullerton.
The eclipse of the sun last Monday
was quite generally observed at this
POINT. With the exceptions of few
intervals of short duration when the
view was INSTRUCTED by passing clouds,
the entire course of the eclipse was
plainly visible.
Assistant Postmaster. General Heath
has given notice of the receipt of petit
ton asking foI the establishment of
rural free delivery route west from Alma,
and that it has been referred to the prop.
er special agent who will attend to it as
soon as il can be reached, which we un-
derstand will be in short time.
One of our business men had bill
passed on him last Saturday that had
been raised from sl.00 to $40 The
figures on the bill representing the
different ones were all pasted over with
tens so that if person did not look
closely at the bill he would not notice
the deception. The man who passed
the bill was a stranger in town.
We are in receipt of copy of the
April number of the Southwest Develop
err, published in Kansas City, Mo-, the
issue being devoted entirely for this
month to the business interests of Coffey.
Vile, Kansas Among the halftone illus
trations we notice that Of A. l.. Wagstaff,
q former resident Of Alma. Mr.. Wag-
staff is now the secretary and treasurer