Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-06-05

NJ. Lewis has moved his family into
Ellison house on State St.
Geo. White. If ST. Louis. transacted
business in Alma last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nate Harris. of ST. Louis,
visited friends in Alma Sunday.
Mrs. 4. IT, Moore, of Detroit, spent
Sunday with her cousin. Geo. Moore
@. o. Trask of Detroit, transacted
business in Alma the first part Of last
week
J. H. Lancashire and a party of
friends took an automobile trip TO Mt
Pleasant yesterday.
VIM. Demuth. returned last Saturday
from Springfield, where he has been
visiting for several weeks.
Mt. Pleasant man has opened FIVE
cent vaudeville show in the store room
formerly occupied by Convis & Convis.
WANTED-Potatoes and full line of
vegetables for which we will pay the
highest market price.
l469tf LEE MERCANTILE Co.
Messrs. John Marchmont and Lester
Sharp left this afternoon for Albion to
take part in the tennis tournament at
the annual field meet
l.. w. Swan desires you to leave your
orders for upholstering, mattress reno
waiting. furniture packing, carriage
trimming, etc, with S. w. Case the
photographer l412t2pd
According to news agency from
Rome the pope adopted vegetarian i'll
January, hoping to ward off the govt
from which he suffered constantly. He
has not suffered since and he attributes
his condition entirely to his diet.
An absorption of the Pere Marquette
railway by the New York Central lines
and some radical arrangements as
operations that win cut out Improbable
branches and bring the different parts
of the system into close working rela-
lions with the Michigan Central and
Lake Shore, is one of the probabilities
of the near future, according TO opinion
in railroad circles in New York.
The steamer Selwyn Eddy, one of the
Shaw Eddy fleet of boats was sunk in
the Detroit river Saturday in collision
with the steel barge Mazda, owned by
the United States Steel corporation.
Immediately after the collision, the
captain Of the Eddy headed for the
Canadian shore and the steamer sank
about fifty feet from shore i'll % feet of
water with her main deck submerged
but a short distance.
The Central Michigan Times, pub
lished at Mt. Pleasant, says -. w.
Doane started for California recently on
a visiting trip to friends and relatives.
Last Tuesday he Iett Salt Lake City on
his way TO Los Angeles. During the
night when Mr.. Doane was occupying
his berth the train was wrecked and
robbed. One man was killed. Our
townsman was relieved of about 800 in
cash and New York draft of $500. Mr..
and Mrs. Doane bought out Mark Nc
Macken early in the spring, coming here
from near Alma.
I'll stop your pain free. To show you
first-before you spend a penny-what
my Pink Pain Tablets can do, | will mail
you free, trial package of them-Dr
Shops Headache Tablets. Neuralgia
headache toothache, period pains, etc,
are due alone to blood congestion. Dr.
Shops Headache Tablets simply kill
pain by coaxing away the unnatural
blood pressure. That is all. Address
DIR. Shoop, Racine, Wis. Sold by Geo.
Sharrar.
Thursday evening the city band rem
dered concert on the corner of State
and Superior Streets, where platform
had been erected for the occasion. which
made it much more convenient for the
band boys. An unusually large crowd
had turned out to lear the concert.
The boys are rapidly improving and we
will soon have one of the best organiza-
tons in this section. There were some
trouble with one of the lights and it
was some time before the programme
could be started but when once down
to business the boys played well.
Friday, June Il, is Flag day, and the
American Flag Association, an organi-
zation of members from patriotic socie-
ties and individuals formed in 1897 70
promote reverence for the national
colors, is urging its fitting observance.
This will be the l5Oth anniversary of
the adoption of the stars and stripes as
the flag of the United States; and APP
propriate exercises in the schools, with
a general display of the flag on June II
are suggested as a part of an annual
tribute to the national colors which has
come to be recognized as peculiarly
fitting.
G. w. Buckberro ugh has transferred
his blacksmith shop TO III. 5. Hess of
rough will move his family to Farm
vile, Virginia. some time during the
summer, and states that he likes that
section. He was there for four weeks
taking treatment for rheumatism.
Farmville is on the Lythia Belt and
rheumatism is unknown there except as
the patients come from the north and
west. Mr.. Buckberrough states that
land is cheap, but can be purchased and
brought back to its former useful con-
dition The northern and western
people who settle there do much to re-