The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-30

Irue Nortberner.
Paw Paw, MIcuIeAS, May 30, 1873.
InraI leparfmrnf.
THIS is Decoration Day.
PorAro-BUas are plenty on the sidewalks.
STOCK exchange has been organized at
Detroit
The editor Of the Lawton Tribune has gone
to Nebraska.
SOME of the Decatur ladies patronize our
dress-makers.
THERE are Sc teachers in the city schools of
Grand Rapids.
\ NEW village has been plated on the east
bank OF Muskegon Lake,
THERE were 72,O0O,OOO OF shingles shipped
from Michigan last year.
SEVERAL new fences have been built here
during the past few weeks.
Mr.. JOSEPH DAvEY has erected handsome
dwelling house on Elm street.
THERE are 321 scholars in attendance at the
Catholic school at Kalamazoo.
clothes-pin factory is in operation at mon
City, employing about 20 hands.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to build a railroad
from Adrian to Toledo via Bhssfeld.
The Detroit d Bay City Railroad is open
for business to Vassar, Tuscola Co.
MORE than one-half the engines on the
Michigan Central Railroad burn coal.
\ NEW German paper has bsen started at
Saginaw City, called the Wochenblatt.
Miss CLARA HALL has gone to Chicago where
she will spend short time visiting friends.
\ NEW paper has been started at Reed City,
Osceola County. 1t is called the Clarion, and
published by ]. X. Farchild.
WoMAH's glory is in her hair, but it is good
plan to tie it up when cooking.
The Decatur Republican complains because
so many young men are leaving that place.
We might spare you few from here Ed.
THE head Of the Michigan Insane Asylum
makes acknowledgment of some 100 papers
regularly received at the institution.
The Modocs used to pick up and smell of
the shells thrown into the lava beds, but now
crawl off, shouting =" Big bullet here "
The United States Treasury Department has
completed the purchase of custom-house site
at Port Huron, by the payment OF $4,000 cash.
The first annual meeting OF the Ann Arbor
Horse Association will be held at their grounds
in that city, June 4th, 5th, and 9Th. Premiums
$4,000.
SOME Of the " fellows" who started from here
with Robbins and Co.'S circus have returned
They found more work than play in the show
business.
STRONG efforts are being made in Grand Rap.
ids to secure the construction OF a street rail-
way to the fair grounds IN time for the next
state Far.
TEMPERANCE billiards. are a popular game at
Grand Rapids, and 1t is becoming fashionable
for the young ladies' OF the first families to
take hand.
". E. STEWART, editor Of the South Haven
Sentinel, has gone out west. During his ab
sence the Sentinel will be under the control OF
his brother Archie.
TUE members OF the bar OF Kent, Eaton
Jackson, Calhoun and other counties propose
TO call a m Getting Of the lawyers in the State
10 be held at Eaton Rapids, on the 9th OF
May.
The annual meeting OF the State Sunday
School Association Will be held at Kala mazoo
June Sd. 4th, and 9th. President Angel OF
the University and many eminent clergvmen
OF the State will be there.
THE Adrian Times says that a Blissfeld mar
last summer tightly corked up some hundred
potato bugs in a bottle. To his disgust they
are lively as ever this spring, although air and
food have both been denied them through the
winter.
H. S. Knickerbocker, clerk IN the Bay City
postofice, has been arrested for robblng the
mails, and has confessed the crime. YounQ
Knickerbocker is graduate OF the law schoo
az Ann Arbor, and his family connections are
respectable.
The Ann Arbor Courier says that Joshua
G. Leland, Horace Carpenter, Daniel 3
Brown, and Z. w. Morgan will each be g.
years Of age some time during the summer of
1878. They all settled in Washtenaw County
over 43 years ago.
THERE are said to be 20 cities and villages il
Michigan that are gong to "put up more brio
blocks and private residences, that will refec
credit on the enterprise Of the owners and ad