The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-18

firemen's tournament is to be held at Miles,
october l.
George vanderpool has taken up his resi-
dence at Muskegon.
Napoleon Young o. Adrian recently walked
900 miles in / 1000 hours.
Detroit is troubled with well-executed fifty
cent counterfeit scrip.
ally in the copper regions.
Ex-Governor Baldwin and family who have
been absent in Europe nearly two years, have
sailed for home.
II ia now asserted that it is the wigmakers
who are at the bottom Of this excitement about
the new gold country.
The Jones family OF Cass County held pic
mic recently on Young's prairie. There were
1874 Of the family present.
"She dyed for me-" said the young husband
when he behed her dark locks gradually re-
turning to their original red.
During the month OF August there were 90
homestead entries at the Traverse City lana
office. embracing SPA 49-100 acres.
Mr.. George C.. Kimbal of Springfield Mass,
ia the succe, sor of Hon. A. H. Morrison as
Superintendent OF the c. & VI. L. S. K. X.
A patron Of poor hotel in the country said
every thing he obtained there was cold but the
water. and everything was sour but the pickles.
II is a significant fact that In the later his
tory Of ralroadng, whenever there has been
war OF gauges the narrower always comes
out victorious.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Com
pany has had compiled a new map Of the
counties in which 100000 acres of it's land
grant is located.
A model husband thrsshed his wife fearfully
because their baby didn't get prize at baby
show. and wound up by Offering to swop the
baby for apig.
Observe the benefits OF classical education.
chap who spent 81 500 to graduate from
Harvard NJ postmaster in an Iowa town, at q
salary of :2i per year.
Cant. E. B. Ward OF Detroit bad 81, 000, 900
feet OF pine injured by the recent fires in the
north woods In order to save it he will have
it immediate ly numbered.
During the month OF August 10 convicts
were received at the State Prison. IA discharged,
two pardoned, one died, and one escaped
The present number is 694.
The Fourth Annual Fair of the Paw Paw
Valley Agricultural Society will be held on their
grounds, in the village of Lawrence, September
3Oth, October 1st and I'd.
An exchange gives notice OF hook and
ladder company in their village. The ladder Is
used to climb to hen roosts where the hooking
ia done.-Benton Harbor Palladium.
The Northern Granger has been consolidated
with the New Era, OF Owosso. The new sheet
will be called the Granger and Era and its ed
itors are W. G. Fitzsimmons and "a. B. Wood
A boy by the name of Pckney, from Por
Huron, escaped from the Reform School OF
Tuesday of last week. but was soon afterwarC
recaptured He made his escape through th'
engine room.
Mrs. Mccormick. OF this place, who has beer
an invalid for many years, has occupied sons
of her spare time in piecing quilt, which beint
now completed contains 6.13O pieces.-Decatu
Republican.
married gentleman, from Toledo, walked
into the ballroom at Putin Bay the other nigh
in full dress. after sitting for some minutes OF
his wife's powder-box, carelessly left on chair
The effect was striking.
T. T. Phillips has succeeded in placing oil
words on postal card. THIS entities hum L
the championship. as i; would make over tire
columns OF closely printed matter 10 o arg
nc5-22per. 90 Ez:hapge.