Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1904-03-18


Mrs. Henry Wise returned home from
Lake George Thursday.
See +. w. Smith 81 Son for painting,
paper hanging, decorating. etc.
Miss Lulu Finch, Of Stanton. visited
Mrs. j. T. Gaffney Wednesday.
Why not put bath tub in your house.
Two for sale cheap at Wright House.
Mrs. f. l.. Barnes was called to Mill
brook Thursday by the illness OF her
sister.
Mrs M. Gray has had a relapse this
week and is reported as not being quite
so well.
Rev. O. f. Hoag lectured in Harbor
Beach Tuesday night. returning home
Thursday.
Thos. Talon, OF Riverdale,.. was in
Alma Wednesday and made The Record
friendly call.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adelbsrt Miner, OF
Riverdale, visited at the home of A. ID.
Raby this week.
Mrs. d. ID. Whitesell, of Mt. Pleasant,
visited at the home of her brother, w.
w. Fraker, Thursday
The Alma orchestra will furnish
music for the Knights OF Pythias enter
tainment at the opera house next Thurs
day night.
Miss Marie Vsnderwerp, Of Grand
Rapids, is visiting Miss Winnie Teevan
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Bart Mil
Ter this week.
Postmaster o. A. Button, OF Sumner
made The Record friendly call on
Wednesday Of this week and went away
the possessor of one of those wall maps
of Gratiot county.
Those contemplating the building OF
cement sidewalks this year should call
on Soule & Enterline, the new sidewal k
builders, at once as first orders will
receive first attention. All work
guaranteed.
President Young and Surveyor Chase
have gone over the proposed route for
the new sewer in the south and west
portion of the village and as soon as
weather permits work will be commenced
for its construction.
Mrs. A. e.. Gardner and son, Dee, OF
Dillonvale, O., who were called here by
the death of H. NJ. Durham, have been
visiting relatives here for few days
since, but left Thursday to visit other
relatives in Shepherd.
A band of Gypsies have been camped
about three miles southeast Of Alma
during the past week and the female
members of the outfit have been plying
their vocation Of fortune telling among
our citizens.
A mass meeting will be held at Tai
Ions opera house at Riyerdale on
Wednesday evening OF next week for
the purpose Of further interesting the
farmers of that section in the growing
of cucumbers for the picking station
that is to be erected there. Coffee and
sand Siches will be served free to those
in attendance.
The Owosso press is again very much
enthused over another rumor that the
Ann Arbor division is to be moved back
from Durand to that city. However,
it is claimed that il is not mere rumor
this time but that the change Is actually
to be made on or before April LIST.
Bills have been printed at this office
this week announcing an auction sale of
live stock, farming implements, etc., on
south and one fourth mile west Of Vesta-
burg, on Thursday March 81, commence
ing at 10 o'clock a. IN. o. K. Chandler,
auctioneer. Free lunch at noon.
II. z. Lee, Of Chicago, VIM. Walker
and n. McKee,, of Grand Rapids, the
three igentlemen interested in the new
company to be formed to take over The
Hayt a. Pierce Co. stock, are here this
week invoicing. In consequence the
store is closed and the clerks have been
transferred 10 the Nermeulen place of
poets TO be located.
The lecture at the opera house last
Tuesday night by George h. Vending
closed one Of the best series of entertain.
ments ever given by lecture course in
Alma. Each number on the course was
in itself we'll worth over one.half the
price Of the ticket for the entire COM
bnation. Those who managed the
course and were instrumental In provid-
ing the entertainments are to be con-
graduated upon its successful outcome
The mad March hare got his fur
rufiled up last Monday and started in 10
show US TO what extent he could carry
his madness. The result was the worst
storm that has swept over this section
during the year. p. NJ. Smith, the
weather observer at this station, reports
that eight inches of snow fell during
the day, but it was so light that in water
it only amounted to six tenth of an in h
The fury Of the storm broke at night
and the following day it came off very
mild
Mt. Pleasant has been having consider