Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1906-02-09

Orand Rapids.
Attorney J. G.. Kress was in Lansing
part Of the week on legal business.
Ben Springer went to Kalamazoo,
Tuesday morning on a business trip.
The Misses Jennie and Marie Mccarey
returned from Mt. Pleasant Monday
Dave Fink and two nephews, of Chi
cago, are visiting his parents this week.
r. p. Lee of the Lee Mercantile Co.
spent Tuesday of this week in Saginaw.
f. W. Blair, state bank examiner, was
in Alma, Friday. Mr.. Blair was on his
way to Lansing after inspecting the banks
at Breckenridge and ST. Louis.
Ex-Judge S. b. Daboll, of St. Johns
has been guest at the Wright House
this week. Mr.. Daboll is inspecting the
r. +. ID. routes running out of Alma
In another column of this issue will be
found the statements of the condition of
the Alma banks, as required by the COM
missioner of the banking department.
Both show healthy state of affairs and
an increase i'll business since their last
report.
The Stocking Social given by the St.
Agnes Guild in the K. of 2. hall last
Tuesday evening was we'll attended. The
evening was devoted to card games and
music, and light refreshments were
served.
G.. Lote Silvers New York Minstrels
played to a full house here last night.
The performance was high class in every
respect, each member bringing forth mer-
tied applause.-Norway Mich Times.
Alma opera house next Monday even
ing. Reserved seats on sale at Sharrar's
drug store.
In the past six month taps have been
sounded over the graves of 2S,oo6 pen
sioners of the Civil war, according to the
statement of Pension Commissioner War
ner Friday. This, he says, is an evidence
of the rapidity with which veterans are
being diminished. The total number of
pensioners on July 1, 1905 was 6S4,6oS.
On December 81 it was 679,234.
At the annual meeting of the Peerless
Cement Company held in Battle Greek a
week ago, the following officers were
elected: President, A. w Wright; vice
president, Sumner o. Bush; general man
ager, J. r. Patterson; secretary and treas
urer, Will NJ. Hatch; board of directors
A. w. Wright, 5. O. Bush, w T. Knowl-
ton, ]. R. Patterson, w. NJ. Hatch.
-Coldwater Courier.
If town does not reach after trade it
will come only as fast as it has to, but if
the merchants go after the business in
the surrounding country, advertising,
trade will come from an increasing radius;
the town will gain reputation for being
awake and it will forge 10 the front. 1t
is the men III the town and not altogether
the men living within a certain number
of miles from it that makes a town a
hustling business center or otherwise.
The total eclipse of the moon sched-
uled for the morning of February is
expected to be remarkable in many
respects. The moon enters the shadow
of the earth at seven minutes after Il
o'clock, midnight, and will be totally
eclipsed at :oS o'clock. For an hour
aud thirty-eight minutes, our satellite
will be sailing through sea of semi
darkness. The middle of the eclipse will
take place at 1857 a. M, Chicago time,
and the total phase will pass at 2:46.
Two hours is about the longest time the
moon can be totally eclipsed by the
shadow of the earth.
G.. Lote Silvers New York Minstrels
played at Arbeiter hall Monday evening
to very a"preciatlve audience. The
overture - chorus, the real minstrel
part =, as good as any we have seen in
K time and the songs and cute say
.ngs provoked vociferous laughter. The
{ Silvers are both fine singers. The spe-
, cialty parts by Jim Crawford, Ned West
and others, whose names we did not get,
were clever and were loudly applauded.
!, Rant, the wire walker, was a wonder.
The closing illustrated songs were fit
ting finale to a delightful evenings en-
tertainment purged of all that low, un-
clean stuff that goes with so many of the
travelling shows y.-Mancehster En-
terprise.
Alma opera house next Monday night
Reserved seats OH sale at Sharrar's drug