Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-06-12

Z Rev. Elder was in Ithaca yesterday
Frank Convis spent Monday in Ian
sing.
Jas. p Gibbs of Ithaca. was in Alma
Monday.
p t. Banghart spent Monday in
Saginaw.
lothian Allen tf Ithaca, was in Alma
Monday.
J. w. Robinson transacted business
in st. Louis Monday.
lothian Allen transacted business in
Saginaw last Monday.
Justice Chadwick transacted business
in Ithaca yesterday morning.
Barnum & Baileys shows are TO be in
Saginaw, Wednesday. June 10th.
Mrs. Robert Sartor and father of
Harrisyille, were in Alma, Monday.
w. A. Bahlke has an elegant patch of
beets which are ready for thinning
Henry Daymon. who lives AZ miles
south Of Alma is putting up fine barn
w. II. Doane, of Mt Pleasant, for
merly of Forest Hill was in Alma Tues
day.
Chas. Ainsley left yesterday for a few
days visit with his parents in Williams
ton, Mich.
Jno- Caple attended the Knight Tenn
plars conclave in Saginaw yesterday
and today.
The Superior Street bridge was re-
planked and strengthened the first part
of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Colburn. of Perry,
visited last Saturday and Sunday with
Dr. Gill and wife.
Chester Walker, formerly Of Alma,
now of Saginaw, spent Sunday with his
parents in this city.
VIM. Club has sold the lot formerly
owned by Ferd Montigel to d. c. Wood.
Consideration 800.
John T. Swigart returned Monday
from Middleton, where he spent several
days looking after improvements on his
farm near that city.
The Board of Equalization at Owosso
has reduced the assessment of the
Owosso Sugar Co. from S400, 900 to 1925. =
900.
V. 5. Struble of Shepherd was
awarded the job of laying the brick on
the new pump house az Mt. Pleasant for
$3.50. Boyne City red brick will be
used, and the morter will be colored a
dark red
An Owosso jury valued the affection
of wife at Sl00. A rural mail car
rier brought suit against a doctor for
alternating his wife 5 affections, and the
jury thought the doctor didn't get more
than a dollars worth.
His hand lacerated by mad dog,
Andy Franklin, farmer of Poseyville,
Midland county, was hurried to Ann
Arbor. Monday, for treatment. The
dog was acting strangely and had been
confined in a kennel, and as Franklin
infiicting dangerous wounds.
The band gave its regular weekly
concert on the corner of Superior and
Prospect Streets last Friday evening.
The concert was not given on the regu-
lar Thursday night as several members
of the organization were out of town.
A large crowd turned out and the new
selections were well played and APP
preciated
/. w. Swan desires you to leave You
orders for upholstering, mattress reno
waiting furniture packing carriage
trimming, etc, with 5. w. Case the
photographer l472t2pd
Some parents think il a mystery that
Notwithstanding good advice, their boys
grow up 10 be wild and reckless men. If
these boys were taught from infancy
that home was the proper place for them
after dark, rather than proving around
the streets, young men with much better
moral character and more intelligent
minds would be the result Parents
need not expect pure morals in a boy
that prowls the street at night, even if
he does go TO Sunday-school
Last Friday, Drain Commissioner
Potter and his force removed from his
former offices 20 the northeast corner of
the basement where elegant new offices
have been fitted up by direction of the
board of supervisors. Fred Broughton
did the work. lie is now engaged in
finishing up the southwest room as a
resting place for citizens of the county
who have occasion to visit the court
house.
Peculiar freaks of nature have been
noted on the lakes recently in the form
of lowering and raising of the water in
places. AT Marquette recently the
water rose six or seven feet during the
night within a space of few minutes.
and after holding to that level for some
time gradually receded. This phenom- !
ena was also noticed at the 500 and at
Manistique. Whether it is a tidal wave
or on account of the strong winds is un-
known, but the general opinion is that
il is caused by submarine disturbance.
The Lady Maccabees, who attended
the convention at Alma yesterday,
came home with their pride at the top
notch. Shepherd Hive was strictly in
it, all day. They captured the prize
for the largest number Of endowment
members taken in i'm the two counties