Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-02-13

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days with her sister, Mrs J. j. Shields.
of this city.
Chris. Holsen. of Monroe. Mich. ar
rived Friday noon for few days visit
with his nephew. A. G.. Beason, who re-
sides near Alma
The boys of the high school gave
dancing party at the X. of p hall last
Thursday night. The young people en-
joyed themselves.
III. B. Stricken. who has been en-
ployed as time keeper at the Sugar
factory this campaign left Friday for
his home in Pittsburg, Pa.
Mrs. John Ross, of Elm Hall was
called to Hamburg, Mich, last week.
Friday. Mrs. Butler, her sister, who
resides there, is in critical condition
Mrs. w. J. McPhee left Friday for
Sault Ste. Marie. where she intends to
meet her sitter. Mrs. A. j. McWalters
with whom she will whit Toronto. and
Kingston, Conada.
The children OH the street as we'll as
some of the older people were very
much amused Thursday TO see an OK
team with load of wood in tow. The
spectacle is getting TO be quite rarity
Mrs. +. d. Hamilton. whose husband
is an engineer on the p. M. r. r., and
who so fortunately escaped being in the
Riverdale wreck, visited in Ithaca last
week, returning to her home in Grand
Rapids last Saturday
Last Wednesday and Thursday was a
day of trouble for the street commits
sioner. The severely cold weather we
had been having had caused four of tie
siderable time and trouble to get them
into working order again.
Mr.. S. n. Case of this city is the re-
ceiptent of piece of log from the old log
cabin where he was born. The cabin
was erected in 1887 and still stands on
the old site in Livingston county. Mr..
Case states that his mother has resided
there since lS47 and has never changed
her place of residence since Mr.. Case
is having the piece of wood turned and
polished that he may have an interest
ing souvenir
DR.. Maynard Pringle, dentist from
Carson City and graduate from the
dental department of the Detroit college
of medicine has purchased the dental
outfit OF the late Dr. Kelly and will
open the office for business Monday,
February is. DR.. and Mrs. Pringle ex-
pect to make Alma their future home
and we assure them a cordial welcome
OH the part of our citizens generally.
There will be special Evangelistic SER
vices in the Baptist church, beginning
Monday. Feb. %, at p. M. conducted
by Rev. w. A. Bliss, pastor of the Mack
inaw ST.. Baptist church, Saginaw. Mr..
Bliss received his training in Mr.. Spur
geon's college, London, and comes with
the spirit and message of its founder.
The public cordially welcome.
Only 10 out of an estimated total of
from $50 20 200 persons survived the sink
ing of the JOY line steamer Larchmont
in Block Island sound tuesday night.
OF the saved, eight were passengers. six
men and TWO women and the rest were
members of the crew, includins Captain
McVey. The Larchmont. which was
boand from Providence, Il. L.. to New
York, went down after colliding with
the schooner Harry Knowlton. IL was
impossible this afternoon TO fix the mum
Der of those lost. Captain McVey esti-
mated the number of passengers as $50
and the crew as 50. On the basis Of
these figures the number of those who
persisted was placed at 1871. According
to Captain McVey of the Larchmont the
steamer remained afoat barely ten
minutes after the collision. Boats and
RATS were hastily launched and in them
passengers and Grew waged desperate
battle with high seas and strong gales
The night was extremely cold and many
died from exposure. Five boats and four
RATS carrying 10 survivors and the
bodies of III dead managed to reach
Block Island