Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-09-09
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

Flour
q Fl Carl was in Mt Pleasant on
business last Wednesday
Emmett Kamone. of Ludiugton. visit
ed friends in this city last week.
Fresh roasted peanuts. 10 cents a
pound at Luchini Bro Fruit store. 1t
For salad dressing. for your table.
for your health and for your complex
ion get our Pure Olive Oil Luchini
Bros. Fruit store. 1t
Mrs A Hsmlin has returned from
Petoskey where she was called on ac-
con of her mothers lines The latter
is greatly improved
j. f. Seaver has bought a house on
River Avenue belonging TO Ehen Soul.
The sale was effected last week nv
Bausill and Swigart.
RAYMOND G. Swigart left for Mt
Pleasant Thursday where he resumed
his nosition AS teacher of sciences at
the Mt Pleasant high school
Ask your grocer for Alma Bread
Flour IF he has not got it. insist
on his getting il for you There is no
other like il Demand il of him X
john Smith. a farmer living in
North Shade has bought the j L Sea-
yer house on Wright Avenue The sale
was effected through Bausill and Swi-
CART
The red appearance of the moon last
week was undoubtedly due to smoke
from the forest fires that have been
raging north of Cadillac in Antrim
county
Bert Hudson returned last Wednes-
day night from Saginaw. where he
visited friends after taking in the re-
union of his old regiment held at Lam
sing last Friday
One of the large Pitsburg plate glass
companies is manufacturing grave
head stones of glass The most unique
feature of the, new tombstone is the
fact that in many of the orders ex-
ecuted the photograps of the deceased
are blown in the glass
The price of hard coal has now ad-
vanced to 81. 80 a ton. There has been
an increase of ten cents ton each
month since last April. This price
will probably be the top notch for hard
coal this winter. Soft coal is also
higher than il has been at anv time
this wear.
Alma has been purchased by George
Fisher of Blanchard The farm con-
tains about 40 acres Mr. Fisher has
sold farm he owned in Blanchard and
will move his family on to the Emmes-
lev place. He is hustler and adds
one more TO the energetic farmers
about Alma.
lothian Allen. the agriculturalist at
the sugar factory. saws the beet crop
is looking fair hut is in great need of
rain. This is particularly true of the
west and south parts of the county
where the rainfall has been execution
allv light all summer. From present
indications beet harvesting will begin
two weeks later this year than usual.
Otis Scott. of Detroit. brother of
Stunt. Scott. of the the Alma Roller
Mills. who is doing some special work
on the books at the roller mills was
well acquainted with Dan Walser. the
Detroit news dealer and confectionsr
who was murdered in his news store
in Detroit. Wednesday night Mr..
Scott used to huv his morning paper OF
the old man every dav.
Burdette Forduer made a trip in an
automobile to Grand Rpids last We'd.
nesday. Recently he sold Ford tc
Mr.. Nav who was up to last Tuesday
guest at the Sanitarium. The latter
went TO Grand RaDids. but not caring
TO drive his car. had Mr. Forquer take
roads very dusty and SANDY on account
of the drv weather and arrived home
thoroughly covered with dust
The offices of the American Mastie
company. situated at Cincinnati anc
the Offices and factory of the British
American company were destroyed bv
fire. Thursday Ang. 81. The A meri.
can Mastic company is head of the
Mastic roofing company of this citv.
The loss tn the Mastic company Is con.
fined to its office fixtures and records.
The British American company In
whose building the offices were situat.
ed losses about $1,000