Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1900-04-27
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
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visiting relatives and friends in town.
Sheriff. A r. Dunn AMI Deputy Sheriff.
l.. Castle, of St Johns, were in Aims
Wednesday.
Mrs d l. Sharrar, of Ithaca, was the
guest of her son, George Sharrar
Wednesday.
Mrs. Isaac Pierce, of West Bay City
has been visiting friends and relatives
in Alma this week.
a full report of the republican county
convention held in Ithaca last Friday
will be found on another page.
Z n. Chadwick has received notice
from Senator Mcmillan that his pension
has been increased from SIP TO 81 per
month.
Justin Gill has resigned his position as
timer at Caple q Hairs and gentle
man from Toledo by the name of Thos.
Ballard has been secured to fill the va.
cancy.
Geo Ward has exchanged his eighty
acre farm in Montcalm county for the
j. H. Miller house and lot on Woodwork
ave. south of the mill-race and will move
to Alma.
The eclipse Of the sun announced for
May 2S, VIII be "A remarkable one, so
states the scientific American. 1t is said
that the present generation will not live
TO see another like it.
O. G. Thompson has had the rooms in
the block over Thompson d Sanderhoffs
hardware store fitted up into an elegant
suite Of living rooms and moved into
! them the first of the week
Clark Decker reports boom in the
building Of residences in Alma this
! spring. Al present he is building n res
! idence for Jos Weeks and one for Tink
! CT d Hannah IN the Ward & Hal add.
| ton.
1t is rumored that there are t. be
several changes in business firms and
! also several changes in locations OF other
places Of business i'm town before long,
but we are not nc liberty at present 10
make them public.
a w Wright has purchased the Isaac
Pierce farm q eighty acres situated
north of town This is the property Mr.
Pierce has been advertising TO sell in five
acre lots, but Mr. Wright purchased the
entire eighty acres.
The open season for catching trout
commences next Tuesday. Several of
our enthusiastic anglers have been itch.
ing for several weeks and have the spot
picked out 70 commence on the first day
The summer Sunday excursion season !
has now been formerly opened. the first
ONE, the one 20 Saginaw and Bay City
over the Pere Marquette, took forty five !
people out of Alma last sunday, forty /
two 20 Saginaw and three 10 Bay City. /
The open season for spring house |
cleaning has commenced and in cOnse- |
Quence the male portions of the different I
establishments where the fever has .
struck, are eating their meals and sleep. (
ing on the roof, or any other old place /
Daisy V, the valuable brood mare /
owned 10y G +. Brown, died last Tues
day morning. She was bred by l.. J
Van Leuvan and had a bar of 2.29l, /
as % three year-old She was bred this
year 10 Track Wilkes and was expected
60 fo1l i'm a few days
News was received here on Wednes.
day that W II Waldby Of Adrian had
died i'm that city that day Mr. Waldby
was promincur banker of Adrian and
i'm the past had loaned considerable
money ON real estate i'm Gratiot county.
De was an uncle of Mrs. Marcus Pol.
lasly
We are informed that in all probabili.
ty sanitary convention under the direc-
ton of the state board of health will be
held IN Alma some time before the first
of June Prof. Delos Fall of Albion.
member Of the board, will be in Alma
today 70 make what arrangements are
necessary.
Miss Katherine Delavau received
card from her nephew. Fred. who is
with the party II AlmaiteS enroute 20 the
state ri Washington. IN which he states
that rhe card was written on the sum.
INIT of the Rockies at an elevation of
4, 80 feet He also states that the entire
party is enjoying good health
The Gratiot County odd Fellows Nu- ,
tual Benefit Association, the orgaui2a-
ton Of which we mentioned a few weeks
ago, is now fully organized and mem. (
berS are being enrolled on its books II
is thought that nearly every member Of
this popular fraternal society in the
county Will join the organization.
We have been Informed that there
viii be change Of time on the Psre
railroad next week. Just
how much the change will affect trains
-uIOuEu Anna we are uDdD4e 10 learn,
but our informant states that the trains
will undoubtedly run through TO Bay
City instead Of stopping at Saginaw
hereafter
While G. l Howe was working on
leveling the large sign in
front Of Sharrar * Mulholland's drug
store last Tuesday the scaffolding fell.
breaking into a thousand pieces the
arge French plate glass in the front of
he drug store. The glass was 96xl36
inches IN size and cost about Sl25. 1t
was not insured.
In Mcclure Magazine for May, Prof.
Dean 9. Worcester, of the Philippine
Commission, will give an account of /
ieneral Lawtou and his last campaigns
as Professor Worcester came to know
hem in the course of his intimate asso. (
'iation with Lawton in the Philippines
lhe article will be illustrated with se- Z
les of protraits of Lawton and other 4
pictures. 9