The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-23


Paw Paw, MICHIGAN, May %, 1873.
anrai department.
A CONVENT Is TO be established at Grand
Rapids.
DIR. RoMNoER, the State Geologist, recently
returned from visit to Europe
soJoURSER TRUTH was the first depositor in
the Savings Bank at Battle Creek.
n COMPANY has been organized at Flint with
capital of $4,000 for the purpose OF manu-
featuring wooden goods
THE Rev. j. II. Thompson, of South Haven,
Is about to give up preaching and so to farm
ing for the benefit OF his health.
Syracuse paper has received poemon the
loss OF the Atlantic, but is afraid TO publish it,
lest it might kill soma OF the survivors.
FASHION is rarely useful. 1t scorns utility.
That of wearing tue hair loosely down the back
is now going out just as fy-tIme begins to
dawn.
Dr. e. j. BONNIE, Miles, has a cat which
Toosts with hls chickens aud hen which re-
turns the compliment by setting on nest full
OF kittens.
Miss NErTE SINCLAIR has been appointed
superintendent OF Schools lu Kankakee county.
Illinois, and Is the first wo' who has ever
held the Office IN the State.
VyRIgvlr IF Marshall plairoq M,
vention which does awag with the - dead center"
in the crank OF the steam engine, thereby saw
ing a large per cent OF power.
In connection with the Air Line Railroad,
the Michigan central has doubie-track it's en-
tire length, with the exception of the distance
from Jackson to Ypsllanti.
THE Michigan State Medical Society will hold
its seventh annual meeting at Saginaw City,
commencing on Wednesday. June IL, and will
continue in session for two days.
The young lady, Miss Anna A. Harrison, who
drew the 1000 in greenbacks at the Detroit
Commercial Advertiser distribution, is a COM
positor in an Adrian printing office.
JAY PHETrEPLAoE, a former resident of Kala-
mazoo, well known and highly esteemed by the
older citizens Of that place, died at Denver, on
Sunday, the 18th, after brief illness.
The Three Rivers Reporter boasts OF dent
ist IN that place who can extract IA teeth in 55
seconds. We know an old lady who can take
out that number OF teeth in half the time, and
che isn't much OF dentist either.
THEY tell of Breedsville man who lately set
out several sections Of an ancient liberty pole
under the impression that they were shade
trees. He is evidently indebted for his knowl-
edge OF arbouculture to some city dealer in
fruit trees.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE was an avowed advocate
of woman suffrage. These are his words. ut
tered IN 1867: Say everywhere for me that
see no end to the good that will come from
suffrage to the electors, to the elected, and to
the women themselves"
Two young Alegan mechanics, Abbot and
Askins are building small propeller 10 run
on the Kalamazoo River for the accommoda-
ton OF pleasure parties. 1t will carry about %
persons They expect to lie able to launch It
this week. and in short time to have it in run
ming order.
BIZ reference to the Michigan Directory lust
out, we see that G.. w. Lawton, our Judge Of
Probate is set down as an attorney residing in
Kalamazoo. 1t COST Us $500 for the precious
document irnpartng that little piece OF inform
alton. We notice more OF the same sort. We
have the consolation OF knowing that we are
not the only psrson sold by the purchase OF this
big book OF Ads"
ALTHOUGH people complain Of the dullness
of the times there are occasionally large bust
ness transactions taking place. The other day
James S. Tuxbury sold his residence in this
village 70 James Nowlan. Of Waverly, for
$4,000. taking the farm of Nowlan at %, 600
in payment. James VIII now turn his atteu-
ton to farming, -ho has been hopping em for
some time past
THE following conversation between two
clever lawyers overheard the other day -
How does your client like it 2" Not over
much; begins TO complain Of the expense
Mine Is all right; bound to fight it out. Can
we manage to get the jury to disagree again y
Don't know we must work for it," - You
get beat OF course, in the end but you'll APP
peal, Of course 2" ''Of course"
PEOPLE make mistakes. All sorts OF people
find that they have made mistakes at sometime
Biologists inform us that this whole Continent
has been ground down and polished off by the
dragging of glaciers over it. with the exception
OF that portion on the Western side traverseC
by the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains
Now this was mistake. for il that locality haC
been ground down by glacial action there would
have been none OF those deep gulches left from
which the Colorado beetle or potato bug is sup
posed to have originated. Potato raisers M
doubt regret the mistake.
THE ST. Louis Republican, the leading Dem
ocratic paper Of the fifth city Of the Republic
was started in the year 1903, and is therefor
sixty-five years old. At the time it was starte'
the scenes OF the Revolution were still fresh il
the minds of the people. 1t has recorded tn
events of the war OF 1928 between this coun
try aud Great Britain the slavery and com
promise excitements OF 1920, 1850 and 1S6