Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1902-08-22

rev. anu MRS. d. l. Oraue Oh Troy
Grove, Ill are visiting friends in Alma
this week. Jack" will be remembered
as one OF our college graduates.
Mr.. and Mrs Geo. r. Blanchard left
Monday for Big Rapids where they
j lined their son, Rev. O. +. Blanchard,
in an outing at Chippewa Lake.
Almost every train into Alma brings
in large number OF Adventist for the
csmpmeeting. The conference meetings
will commence on next Monday.
Miss Margaret Funston has resigned
her position with The Hayt q. PierceCo.
aud accepted a position in the dry goods
department at II. j. Vermeulen's.
J.F. Schwartz was in Six Lakes
Thursday putting up furnace he sold
TO party there. Mr.. Schwartz has sold
and put up four different furnaces this
week.
A large number of ladies from. town
were given reception at the home Of
Mrs. ID. r Sullivan west of Alma last
Wednesday afternoon. Refreshments
were served.
The call for the Republican Icounty
convention at Ithaca on Thursday. sept
ember 4. and the township caucus for
Friday, August go, will be found in An
other column.
A party Of nine guests OF the santa
/ -. fhnu rth al
Wolfe's farm last Tuesday evening
where they were served a chicken pie
supper in right royal style
John X. Morton Of Milwaukee, well
known to Alma people as at one time
the popular snare drummer OF the old
Alma band. passed through Alma
Wednesday on his way to Bay City.
Ashley Clark, who has been visiting
his parents near Alma. left for Berlin,
Monday where he will join his wife and
the first of the month expects to go TO
Independence. Kas., where he has an
interest in glass factory being estab
lished.
number Of her classmates at the home Of
her parents last Monday in honor of her
eighteenth birthday. Refreshments
were served and Miss Brock was pres
ented with a handsome ring by her
friends.
Much to the enjoyment OF pedestrians
L - -, 90
on State 81. adjoining the railroad
tracks The people have had to walk
through the mud and sand at this place
so long it certainly should now be APP
preciated.
The case of Fred Green vs.. Moses Bol.
niger occupied the attention Of Justice
Duuham's court last Saturday after.
noon. Green had sued Bol'nger for $50
he claimed due for wages. but the jury
only awarded him a Judgment against
Bolinger of sl5 aud costs
Miss Beatrice Jones, formerly of this
place who has been employed in whole.
sale millinery establishment in Grand
Rapids during the past year, was mar.
ried in Alma on Monday OF last week to
Chas. Elliot of Stanton. Rev. A. b Bow.
mar officiating The RECORD extends
congratulations.
The apple crop this year seems TO be a
large one in this vicinity, If one is to
iudge by the amount OF the fruit that is
being shipped out of here Besides the
Alma Fruit & Produce Co., which is
| buying and evaporating the fruit, II. j.
Vermeulen and The Hayt & Pierce Co.
are barreling apples and shipping them
Geo. +. Bart on the Clark farm north
OF town, owned by A w. Wright,
thinks he has solved whether fruit grow
ing is profitable or not This year he
had one half acre of strawberries from
which he picked 500 quarts of berries
which he sold for 5000 22 Mr.. Wright
has decided to devote quite portion of
the farm hereafter 10 small fruit.
II. j. Vermeulen will soon add COM
plete stock of ladies millinery TO his
department store and employ all expert
trimmer and milliner to take charge.
AT present this department will be in
the rear of the dry goods but in the
spring Mr.. Vermeulen will build an ell
extending to Woodwork ave. for the
accommodation of that part Of the bust
ness.
Preparations are being made on a
large scale for the dedication OF Gfatiot
countys new court house on September
10th We have now one Of the hand.
soonest and best court houses in Mich.
igan and we should endeavor TO as.
sist in making the dedication as impos'
ing as possible. A full list Of the var.
ious committees for the day will be
found on another page.
Mr.. and Mrs. w w. Kinch were
given surprise party at the home OF
their son, Lewis Kinch, last Tuesday
night by number of their Alma friends
who as a token of their esteem, pre-.
sented them with q handsome rocker.