Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-10-27

Big New Home Sewing Machine Sale
November sixth to eleventh at Convis *
Convis.
Miss Todd, of Ithaca visited at the
home of Ellis Colburn over Saturday and
Sunday.
Bert Eckert and family have moved
in to one of the apartments in the Opera
House block.
Have your coal bin filled now with the
celebrated ST. Charles coal sold by A. c.
Thornton < Son.
Mrs. George Cowles and daughter,
Iva, are spending the week with rela-
tives at Lake George.
Arthur Harrington and Miss Thurston,
of Shepherd took dinner with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ellis Colburn Sunday.
Be sure and attend the New Home
Sc wing Machine Sale at Convis & Convis
November sixth to eleventh.
Frank Mosher and wife received
visit from Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Thorp of
Ionia, Monday and Tuesday
Mrs A. S. Lance went to Ithaca,
Tuesday, called by the illness of her
mother, Mrs. Albert Bradley.
Miss Julia Dillon left Friday for her
old home at Kalamazoo, expecting to
remain there during the winter.
Mrs. Ed DeYoung and little daughter,
Leona, and Mrs. Walter Vliet visited Mrs.
l. L. Hilsinger, OF Elwell, Tuesday.
Convis & Convis will have another Sew
ing Machine Sale. New Home-she is
hummer. November sixth to eleventh.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bassett, of Shep-
herd spent Monday with VIM. Young
and family leaving Tuesday for Elwell
to visit relatives.
There will be a Halloween Shadow
Social at the Day school house Tuesday
evening Oct. thirty-first. Everybody
come and enjoy the fun.
Miss Marguerite Lassen, of Ithaca,
visited friends in the city part of the
week and was present at the Andrews
Fredericks wedding Wednesday.
Mrs. Maud Wilson and Mrs. Mary
Wilson, of Vestaburg, after being enter
tanned few days by the formers sister,
Mrs. Henry Frusch, returned home
Tuesday.
Among arrivals at the Sanitarium last
Tuesday were Mrs J. G.. Stewart and Dr.
n. c. Haste, of Detroit, Frank Wender-
9th, of Chicago, and Frank Wenderoth
and wife, Of South Bend.
Commencing Monday, Oct. 3o,the hard
ware firms of Smith & Glass, Otto Sander
hoff, and the Caple-Soule Hardware Co.,
will close thir stores at 1880 p. III. every
eve ming except Saturdays.
Ralph G. Ely of Deming, New Mex
leo, spent the first of the week with rela-
tives in town. Mr.. Ely was formerly
superintendent of Alma schools and was
warmly greeted by his old pupils and
many other friends.
w. S. Meek, of Lima, Ohio, visited
his mother, Ms John Haggard, of Pine
River, from Friday of last week until
Tuesday, when he was accompanied home
by his mother and sister Grace. From
Lima Mrs. Haggard will go to New
Hampshire, Ohio, to spend some time
,..,.t, ott,oY ,a1ot;,-oe
Charles Scramlin, thresher of Seville
township, was before Justice Spinney
Tuesday upon complaint of Agnes NJ.
GARNER for using indecent, immoral,
obscene, vulgar and insulting language
in the presence and hearing of her and
her son. 1t was s74.2s or 80 days in
the county Jail and he paid.
A startling piece of Alma news APP
peared in the columns of the Ithaca
1 Journal of last week, under the staring
headline Found Hanging" 1t reads
like patent medicine advertisement and
occupies nearly column of space, at ten
cents per, telling of an Alma young lady
who was found hanging in garden
house, to her lovers neck. 1t was dis
appointing in that it did not give rem
edy for stiff neck or weak back. We
predict great future for this correspond
ent in a broad field far removed from
simply filling the local column of a
country weekly. Midnight oil is now
being burned in the preparation of the
next insta,lment, which it is quietly
rumored will be entitled Forty Buckets
Of Blood" which the publishers will pay