Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1902-05-09

farmers for beans.
Men, il you want to please your wives
and sweethearts get a nice hair cut and
shave at Davis Bros
A +. Pratt, the barber. has been re-
papering and redecorating the interior
of his barber shop this week.
VIM. and Fanny Delmater OF Mt. |
Pleasant visited their aunt, Mrs. j. q.
Barber, the first of the week.
w. Webb has been refurnishing the
interior Of his ice cream parlor this week,
in readiness for the summer season.
Mrs. j. G. Barber is quite i'll. Her
daughter, Mrs. f. II. Goss, Of South
Bend. Ind, is here assisting in caring
for her
Mrs. Amos Bodine, who has been
visiting friends and relatives the past
week in Edmore and Mcbride, returned
home Monday.
Mrs Lillian Hallock, who has been
stopping in Alma with relatives for the
past few months, left on Thursday for
her home in Detroit.
Mrs. T. Shipman suffered stroke of
paralysis last Sunday and at pres INT is
in very critical condition. This is the
third stroke she has had.
The regular Friday night dancing
assembly will be held in the opera house
tonight. These assemblies are proving
TO be very enjoyable social functions.
Jasper Nevins has sold his eighty acre
farm one mile southeast Of the sugar
factory to Mrs. NJ j Fraker for s4.075.
Mr. Nevins has bought Melvin Sharrar's
forty acres farther south.
Congressman Darragh has sent Post
master Brown several packages OF gar
den seeds for distribution and those
wishing any Of the same can secure
them by making their wants know at
the postoffice.
Jas Lou and Frank Vanek left the
first of the week for Wallsceburg, Ont,
| thty huNC POSitlOib III tut nov
sugar factory in course Of construction.
The Canucks will have quite a colony OF
Alamaites among them if this immigra.
ton continues.
o. K Scott, who has been attending
Princeton college during the past year,
is home for a short vacation and expects
to preach at some place in the Saginaw
Presbytery during the summer. MIR.
Scott has also been studying abroad
since he left Alma few years ago.
Sharrar & Mulholland find it impos-
sible to hold their formal opening this
week as announced previously on &C.
count of the great amount Of work that
has been required to put in the new fix
lures and refurnishings for the store.
The announcement for the time OF the
opening will be made at later date.
Jas L. Wilson and Mrs Elsie Cush-
nell were married in st. Louis on Tues
day of this week Mr. Wilson is form
er Alma boy, now located in Bedding,
and the bride is a former resident OF
Merrill. The happy coaple passed
through Alma Tuesday night on the
Pete Marquette for Bedding, their future
home.
The rain storm last Saturday night
and Sunday morning was the severest
experienced in this locality for some
time. IL was one continuous thunder
storm from nine O. clock Saturday night
until eight O'Clock Sunday morning
, Greeks were flooded and many cellars IL
town were filled with water. 1t was
more in the nature of cloud burs
than anything else.
/ A young man giving his name al
Albert Drake was found "Wednesday
d. morning in front of l. Horizons plac,
] west OF town with "A broken arm as tn,
result of being thrown from a buggy
He was thrown from buggy about tive
, O'Clock that morning and lay there In al
The team, which belonged TO Kemp
livery barn in st Louis, found its wa,
home all right. Drake was brought 4
e Alma and DIR. McClinton reduced hi
fracture, then he Was given lodging il
village bastile until he got repaired up
Isl Perkins, with his wealth o
wholesome fun, is the next attraction a
= the Alma opera house On THURSDAY
evening the rural drama should pack
the theater, for of all the successful
plays of the season, Isl Perkins" stands
in the foremost rank. The author had
but one idea in mind when he wrote rs
Perkins" and that was to get away
from the ordinary in dramatic lines
Judging by the favorable criticisms
awarded the piece by the dramatic jourr'
ais. the play is all that the advance
agent claims for it. Fun is the prime
motive, backed up by clever situations
} good dialogue, stirring climaxes and