Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-01-26
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.


Lester McMullen was in Ashley the
first of the week.
Mr.. ana Mrs. y. o. Trask of Mt
Pleasant were in Alma the first OF the
week.
Mrs Ralph Rogers of Toledo is a
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. III. j. Nermeulen
this week.
Jay Hicks has moved his bootblack
stand from the New Arcadia TO the Mil
liken House.
Mrs. w. f. Knox of Grand Rapids
spent Sundayon Alma with her mother,
Mrs. ID. Reid.
w. p Sigsby, who has been quite Ill
during the past week, is somewhat bet
ter at present.
Reuben ID. Maxwell of Ithaca has
! been granted an increase of pension
from s. to s. per month.
The Union Telephone Co. installed
seven new phones i'll Alma and six In
ST. Louis the first of the week.
Mrs. Florence Beckerthorn, who has
been visiting her brother. Darius Mil
Ter. has gone TO Ann Arbor 10 visit her
sister.
Mrs Fred Nicholson of Holland who
has been visiting her parents for the
past few weeks, returned home on
Thursday.
+. w. Davidson, Geo. Johnson and
Fred Newgreen of st. Louis were IN Al
ma Saturday night and visited the
sugar factory.
The members Of the Christian En-
deavor society of the Presbyterian
church are planning for valentine So
cial February ID.
Miss Annie Williams of Ithaca and
Miss Sadie Casey of Mt. Pleasant were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs A. Il. Nought
the first of the week
Mrs. f. @ Hitchcock of Grand Rapids
was the guest of her husband at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Francis the
the first of the week.
A special meeting of the Michigan
Republican Newspaper Association VIII
be held at Detroit, Tuesday evening, Feb
ruary 9th at the Wayne Hotel.
Prof. Cecil Forsyth of Toronto, Ont,
will take charge OF the Methodist choir
of Alma. Rehearsal on Friday night AT
eight o'clock local time at the church.
Mrs f. H. Stiles of Jersey City, n. j
and Miss Jennie futile of Brooklyn, y
Y, who have been visiting their sister,
Mrs. @. l.. Delavan, left for home Oh
Monday.
Allison Brooks of the firm Of Williams,
Davis, Brooks e. Hickman Sons of
Detroit and wife were in Alma over
Sunday the guests of DR.. and Mrs. j. n.
Lancashire.
We are informed that gentleman
from Ypsilanti by the name OF Frank
Pilbeam is contemplating starting
photograph gallery al this place in the
near future.
DR.. j II. Lancashire informs US that
it is his intention to begin work on his
new block, to be located east of the
opera house block, in very short time,
the weather proving propitious.
f. W. McCabe of Bay City was in
Alma over Sunday. Mr. McCabe in
forms us that it is his intention to leave
for Texas in short time, where he has
a position with a typewriter firm.
Farmers who have Eastwood, white
ash, black ash, or pine shlngle bolts that
now have no market, will do we'll 10
correspond with Ferris Smith w. W.
Co., st. Louis. See ad. on first page.
In the debating contest between Kali
amazoO college and the State Normal,
the former one won first prizn. 1t will
be remembered that Wilbur Nelson OF
this place was one of the three from
that took part in the contest
Miss NJ. Dick left on Wednesday for
Mt. Pleasant where she will visit short /
time and then go TO LaPorte, Mich ,
where she expects 10 make her future
home The L. @ 7. NJ. ladies present
ed her with handsome souvenir spoon
before leaving,
And now 1t is said that there are 10.
Doc microbes on every dollar bill thai
has been in circulation year None ot
)ur friends need boz detained from pay
ing their Indebtedness 10 the RECORD
however, through hvgeuic S"rupleS
We will take any kind Of an old bill.
and all.
That Uncle Sam does not do'rand al
work and no play from his boys
3 developed in an entertaiuinL account
Of the Social Life in the Navy writ
zen for the March Woman's Home Com
)anion by the popular author, Mrs
Anna A Rogers, wh6knOws very int
nately the life she describes. being the
wife of naval officer stationed at Ma
Mia.