Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-06-19

Geo. j. Butcher, of Elm Hall, was in
Alma Tuesday.
All goods marked down at Vermeul.
ems special sale.
e. l.. Brown visited his family at
Lake City over Sunday,
Mrs. A. +. Mulholland visited in
Ithaca the first of the week.
VIM. Carr, Of Saginaw. visited his
cousin. Mrs. p. 7. Banghart, Tuesday.
DR.. Alton LETTERS, of Matherton, Wis.
tied Mr. aud Mrs. Walter Mosher Mon
day.
Look for the yellow tickets" at The
Hayt & Pierce 90, great "Mill End
sale.
Mrs. Alice Wilder, OF Kalamazoo, Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Mosher Mon.
day.
e. T. Edwards has moved his family
to Flint where they expect to make their
future home.
VIM. Orr left last Tuesday for New
Berlin, N. Y where he expects to spend
the summer.
Commencing Saturday, for me week
Vermeulen will cut prices way below
manufacturers cost.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Kinch have re-
turned to Mt. Pleasant and will make
their home here in the future.
Mr. Ghnphard ~ nhtOanN yuhn hos
been visiting DR.. and Mrs. Geo. +.
Butler, returned home Tuesday,
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. O. Moody, and Mrs.
f. Ii. Doane went to Lansing Wednes-
day to attend the commencement exer-
cises at NJ. A. g.
Orlie Ashcroft, of Kalamazoo, an ex-
pericnced man, has been secured as
manager for the dry goods department
at Vermeulen's store.
Mrs. V. A. McCauley, of Chicago, who
has been visiting her daughter. Mrs. w.
O.. Mills, at the sanitarium for a short
time, returned home Tuesday.
Miss Sharp, who has been studying
music in Detroit, during the past year,
came home the latter part OF last week
to spend the summer vacation,
John Booth, of Ishpeming, is visiting
his parents and friends in Alma this
week. Mr.. Booth has a very good posi-
ton with the Daily Mining Journal as
special correspondent. v-.
V. M. Wilson and Otto Hawley, who
are in st. Louis, Mo-, very kindly re
nembered The Record with copies of
the dailies of that city in which descrip-
tons of the recent terrible flood in that
locality were given.
Clark Burt has the thanks of the
editor of The Record for a box of the
finest strawberries yet seen this year.
The berries were picked from Mr..
Wright's fruit farm north of Alma, and
were accompanied by a handsome bou.
quet of flowers, sent by Mr.. Clark's
little daughter. r.
Mrs. b. E. Stevens, of Fenwick, was
brought here last Monday and under
went a successful surgical operation at
Brainerd's hospital for the removal of a
tumor. She was accompanied here from
Feuwick by her husband and her brother,
E. L. Edwards, who went there for
that purpose on Saturday last.
Shortly after the toll rate had been
established between Ithaca and Alma
several patrons Of the Union Telephone
company at the former place ordered
their phones taken out. Last week see
ing the error of their ways, nearly all
and several new subscribers were Sc
cured.
Mrs. d. M. Woodward, of North
Liberty, Ind, who visited at the home
OF her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Hutchings, last week, returned home
Monday accompanied by her sister,
Mabel Hutchings, who will''remain there
for a short time during the summer va.
cation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Fullerton, who
went west last spring to seek their for
tunes, returned to Alma Tuesday with
the intention of remaining..here. Accord
ing to Mr.. Fullerton's statement, for
tunes are not so easy to be picked up
out there as supposed, and for a man
who has to work for a living, Michigan
is a much better state to reside in.
A very prominent mar Of Mt. Plea.
SAINT lost his spectacle case, containing
a pair of gold bowed spectAcles in Alma
last Thursday, while attending the
firemen's convention. The gentleman
desires that his name be not mentioned
on account of his prominence and the
fact that some of his fellow citizens
might make uncomplimentary remarks
in connection Herewith, but if the
finder will leave the same at this Office
we will see that they are returned to the
proper person.