Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-09-27

ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

j. II. Lancashire was in Detroit
Wednesday.
n. Lilley and wife attended the state
fair this week.
Bert Hudson made business trip to
Stanton Monday.
Mrs w. A. Seaver visited friends in
Ithaca last week.
Arson Farr and wife attended the
State Fair this week.
Fourteen tickets were sold for the
Manistee excursion on Sunday.
l.. 9. Bagley has accepted a position
/ in the Alma State Savings Bank,
John Fatty has been assisting in
Messengers store for the past week
T. f Prirgle, our new taller, has
| leased the Sloan house on Wright-st
The infant child Of ii. +. Meyers has
been severely i'll for the past few days.
A cement walk has been laid in front
az J. G. Weeds residence on Park-st.
f. a. Leonard is making extensive
/ improvements TO his residence on Park
st
Roy Wetherbee played with the Eu-
reka Band at the ST. Johns fair this
week
Three children of Lee McClelland,
who have been i'll with typhoid fever,
are now reported as convalescent.
The MISSES George Richardson and
Anna Barber Of Ithaca visited Mr.. and
Mrs. A. +. Mulholland Wednesday
j. w. Dean left Monday for Lansing,
/ to take the examination before the state
board of examiners for undertakers.
The beautiful weather Of the past few
DAYS has been very favorable for the
commencement Of the beet harvest
G. w Booth has resigned his position
with f. + Pollasky and is now in charge
Of the shoe department in Vermeulen's
Mrs. Cbas. Lane left Monday to make
her home with her son in Howell She
has leased her home to J b. Rockwell.
f. L. Fouts for the past year with II.
j. Vermeulen, has resigned and expects
to take a position as travelling salesman.
Mrs. l.. VI. Laner OF Elkart Lake,
Wis accompanied by her little daughter,
visited her brother, Geo Elias, last
week.
DR.. W Kelly and family took posses
sion of their new house today II is one
of the best and most modern residences
in Alma.
Miss Bernice Feek of West Branch,
has accepted a position as assistant book
keeper and cashier in The Hayt d Pierce
90. store.
Geo Sharrar and wife and Lloyd FL
Hson and wife attended the state fair,
and also spent few days in Detroit
this week
Taylor's Comedians closed the week
with a crowded house ON Saturday
evening They are playing in Howard
City his week
Is it possible that the school board are
going to wair until spring before build
ing the new sidewalk around the school
house: if so why:
Mrs. c. l.. Chadwick returned from
Chicago Wednesday evening. She re.
ports her brother as improving and in a
fair way to recovery
W. H. Doan, who has charge of the
a W Wright farms, delivered the first
load Of beets 10 the sugar factory last
Monday morning
The Pere Marquette Ry. 90. are doing
a great stroke of business in Alma, so
much SO that a switch engine has been
installed TO assist in the yard work.
The band gave a concert on the street
Tuesday evening. The regular Thursday
evening concert was declared off on ac-
count of the show bands, which took
possession of the streets.
Mrs. May Hosford, who was arrested
in Lansing last week on the charge of
bigamy, was brought before Justice
Chadwick last Friday, and bound over
to the circuit court In default of bail
she was taken to the county Jail
The little son of John K Ray was
quite severely injured Wednesday while
coming home from school by coming in
TO collision with bicycle ridden by
Floyd Struble. The little fellow
was thrown to the ground, and his face
was badly bruised.