Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-08-02
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from his eastern trip
Miss Dora Koeller of Battle Greek is
visiting Mrs. II. n. Hayes.
l.. H. Hayt left Wednesday for New
York City to purchase goods.
Mrs. Jay Alverson left Tuesday to
visit friends in Newark, Ohio.
Jay Alverson has the contract TO build
the Nj. f. parsonage in Ithaca.
At last, Amos Pratt has traded horses.
It's slow COVER, and perfectly safe.
Alma WAS well represented at the
Maccabee meeting in St Louis, yester-
day.
Miss S. Greenfield and Miss Jennie
Gross of Chicago are guests of Miss Lena
Fink.
Mrs. A. Hodgkiu son who was reported
seriously i'll last week, is slowly inn
proving
j +. Ray and family returned We'd
nesday from an extended trip through
the east
@. O. Trask and wife left Wednesday
for few days outing in Chicago and
vicinity.
Mrs. A. J. Gill of Niles, Mich, is
spending the summer with l. b. Quick
and family.
Miss Myrtle Hoagland of Battle Creek
is spending the week with her aunt,
Mrs. j w Glass.
O. Z. Allen of Carson City is now at !
the Hotel Arcadia, and will open an up.
bolstering business.
Thomas O'Brien of this tow nship
has passed the l00.yesr mark. He set.
tied in this county in 1857.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferbinger and son Of .
Saginaw, were guests OF the family of
A. W. Wright, Wednesday
The annual meeting Of the Gratiot
County Pioneer Society Will be held in
Ithaca, on Friday August 10, 1901 An
excellent program has been arranged
which will be found in another column
Every resident so far as possible should
make arrangements 10 attend this meet
ing. Remember the pioneers are grow
ing old and 1t may be the last time IA
which you Will ever have an opportunity
70 visit with some of them
During a heavy storm about five
o'clock Saturday morning the barn on
Solomon Wllbur's place in the northern
part of town was struck by lightning
and burned 70 the ground with part OF
its contents. Loss $500, insurance $50.
Two horses, binder and other property
were saved from the flames. The fire (
department was quick 90 respond TO the I
alarm, but the fire had gained such /
Roadway that 1t was impossible TO save 4
the building
A Free Methodist camp meeting Is % /
be held in W H. Foxs grove, four miles |
east of st Louis, on the Pine River road, /
beginning August It'll and continuing
one week. Services each day as follows:
Holiness meeting, 80 a. M; love feast
900 a. m preaching, 10 80 a m, , go
p. M, and 5 100 p. IN. Children's meet
ing about 4 80 p. m Also services in the
grove each evening of August 3, +. D,
and g. The public is cordially invited
TO all these services.
While Stewart Harrison, prosperous
farmer of this county, and bis two
daughters were returning home Friday
night in their carriage, from st. Louis,
Fred Smock came up back of them with
his horses on the run, and, with a wild
yell, drove straight into Harrison's car
raige. Carriages, horses, men aud
women were in struggling heap when
they were eXtricated. from the buggies
1t was found that Mr. Harrison was
seriously injured inwardly, one daugh.
ter had the flesh of her arm frightfully
torn, and the other sustained serious in
juries in her hips and back. Smock was
placed under arrest.
The editor of the Ithaca Journal is
giving the farmers all kinds of flattering
notices and at the same time filing his
cellar. His latest is as follows
Wallace Coomer brought in queer
freak of nature this week in the shane
of a radish. 1t was in the shape of
hand, fingers and thumb, palm and
wrist, all in remarkably perfect imita
ton of human hand. The thumb and
little finger were trihe longer than
would be natural, and finger nails were
not represented The PALM, too, was
somewhat thicker than natural for the
human hand, but otherwise the resem.
blance was very striking
Gratiot County Teachers Institute
opens next Monday, August >, at the
High School Building in Ithaca, cor.