Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1902-07-18
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(Office, Room No IS, Opera Block.
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l. II Hayt was in Grand Rapids
Monday.
A. G. Schartow was in Saginaw
Wednesday.
Wheels checked at J.P McKay's store
all next week
(lt Prevents unnecessary work. waste
and worry C g co.
o. w Weeks was in Jackson, Mason
and Detroit this week
w f. Rings OF Elm Hall visited
friends in town Monday.
Mrs. NJ. A. Hodges returned from
Chicago Tuesday night.
Mrs. JAS. w. CLARK Of Chicago Is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. ID. CT. Hall
Cnas. DePlanta has purchased the j.
NJ. Montigel residence on Water.st.
Chickens have been reduced 20 shil.
ling pound at Banghart's market.
Don't fail TO get one of those - 9S
suits at The Hayt * Pierce Cos store. .
JAS. l.. Wilson and wife of Belding
visited relatives in Alma last Sunday.
DR. f. G dip has good Kentucky
driving mare and rubber tired buggy
for sale.
5. l.. Bennett and daughter, Ruth,
visited relatives in st. Joseph the first of
the week
See that line of 81 50, $500 and % 80
hats for o cents at The Hayt q Pierce
Go : store
Ewes tested free at the Hotel Arcadia
this week and next, by the best eye spe.
cialist in the state.
Misses Mary and Marjorie bearing
left on Thursday for short visit with
relatives in Big Rapids.
Band concert on the street tonight.
Hereafter the weekly band concerts
will be given on Friday nights
Mr. and Mrs. T. w. Teeven of Grand
Rapids visited at the home of Mr. and
Mrs Bart. Miller last Sunday.
Misses Edna and Emma Swigart left
on Monday for Detroit where they will
visit friends during the week.
Mrs + Fields, who has been visit.
ing her daughter, Mrs. S q Pierce,
left on Wednesday for Crystal Falls
Caple X Son have a number of refrig-
orators in stock that they will sell at
reduced prices during the next week.
Miss Bessie Pufrey of st Johns Wis.
tied her brother, Geo w. Pulfrey last
week and over Sunday, returning home
Monday.
DR. and Mrs A + Bruske and daughter
Esther, left last Saturday for Higgins
Lake whore they ex0ect to remain dur
ing the summer vacation.
Geo w. Dodge, for some time past
the efficient clerk at the Wright House,
has resigned his position and the first of
the week left for his former home in
Montague.
This week and next our readers can
get, free of charge, the services of the
best eve specialist in the state. He can
be consulted, free of charge, at the Ho-
tel Arcadia.
A. II Hodskinson has the house he re.
Gently purchased OF II. J Vermeulen
nicely located in its new location
south of the Hotel Arcadia, and when the
grading on the lot is finished he will
have one Of the incest residences inAlma.
Fred w Ivey, representing the Globe
Cabinet Co. Of Kansas City, Mo-, has
opened up his office in room Is new
opera house block, for the purpose Of
advertising and introducing the Globe
kitchen cabinet TO the people Of Alma.
This cabinent is about the neatest and
most useful piece of kitchen furniture We
have seen for some time and should be
in the home of every housekeeper in the
country,
All reports received by Alma Sugar
90. indicate that the beet crop this year
will be on the average of that of previous
years, the excessive weather wet during
the past month Notwithstanding. Some
fields where the land is low do not
promise much Of a yield, but most of the
acreage Is on nigh land and the beets in
general never looked better, although
wedding and thinning has been back.
ward. Gratiot county has more acreage
out to beets than ever before in the
history Of the industry and about the
first Of the present month the outlook
was very dubious, but the farmers are
feeling better now.
j. w Tracy Of this place and A. w.
Pequegnat Of st. Louis furnished quite
a little exitement for our spOrtsmen last
Monday night by race between Mr..
Pequegnat' Oldsmobile and Mr.. Tracy
on a bicycle. The first race was 10 have
been from the postoiiice in Alma to the