The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-11-02
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

HENRY EVANS fell dead while working
on the street at Bay City last week.
Heart disease.
WAGES in the Saginaw lumber camps
this season, $l5 to $40 per month and
board, with men plenty at that.
SAGINAW reports that the square-tim-
Der trade promises to be excellent this
year. Most of it goes to Europe.
H. 8. GURNEY 4 Son have established
factory for making pumpkin -four, at
Memphis, Macomb county.
The German American Fire Insurance
Company, of Pittsburgh, has withdrawn
its business from Michigan.
THE State Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry will commence its annual
meeting in Lansing, Dec. IL.
r. E. SHELDON, a man doing business
in Stanton, Montcalm county, hanged
himself in barn there last week.
A YOUNG man named Frank Jones COM
mitted suicide by hanging, in Lisbon
township, Muskegon county, last week.
MUCH complai 1t is heard among the
farmers in Genesee county on account
of the ravages of the insects in their
wheat.
The Northern Michigan Poultry AS
ISOLATION will hold their next annual ex-
hibition in Flint, commencing on the
18th of January, 1878.
A BOY named Richard McCully was
instantly killed by the bursting Of the
"jointer" in Howell & Ale's single mill,
at Vassar, last week.
LEWIS III. CoLwELL, lumberman of
Greenville, has made an assignment.
Assets, $32, 900; liabilities, $25, 900.
Myron Ryder is assignee.
G.. r. PALMER, of Manchester, fell
dead on the street at Jackson last week.
He was a well-known lawyer. An ex-
cessive use of chloral was the cause.
A NUMBER of cattle have of late been
stolen from Manistee and vicinity. 1t is
thought they are driven away and slaugh-
tered.
THE drug store of DIR. w. G. Lunlin,
at Bear Lake, Manistee county, was
burned the other night. Insurance
500, which will cover the loss.
AT meeting of the Board of Trustees
of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb
and the Blind, arrangements were made
to introduce Recommending among the
blind boys.
The Rev. Job Pierson, of Ionia, is the
possessor of a theological work printed
at Vienna in 1476, only twenty-one
years after the first book was printed
with movable types.
THE postoffice at Port Sanilac was en-
tered by burglars last week, and cash to
the amount of 1904 taken. The contents
of II registered packages were taken, the
amount of which cannot be ascertained.
No clew to the perpetrators.
THIEVES entered the barn of William
S. Curtis, farmer living north of Kala-
mazoo, the other night, and drove off
span of horses valued at $500, together
with carriage and several sets of har-
ness. A liberal reward has been offered,
and the prospect of their capture is
good.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
of Michigan, which has been in session at
Kalamazoo, closed on Thursday, 18th.
The following are the officers elected for
the ensuing year: G. w. G. t., Hon.
Thomas II. Bottomly, of Capac; G. w.
c., Rev. J. Boynton, of Schoolcraft;
G.. w. V. t., Mrs. M. E. Campbell, of
Mount Clemens; G.. w. S., John Evans,
of Bellevue; G. w. T., E. @. Man
chester, of Battle Creek; G. w. A. L.,
p. d. Woodruff, of YpsilantI; G. w. c.,
Rev. A. G. Thompson; of Lansing; G.
w. NJ, Caleb s. Pitkin, of Ypsilanti; G.
w. d. NJ, Mrs E. M. France, of Bat
tie Creek; G. w. I. g., Miss Fannie
Hartwell, of Hartwellville; G. w. 0.
g., Brent Harding, of Bay City; G. w,
NJ, Miss E. Freeman, of Lansing; Del
egates to the r. w. G. L., Mrs. III. A.
Pope, of Allegan; d. p. Sagendorph, Of
Charlotte; John Evans, of Bellevue;
Miss Jennie M. johnson; alternates, F.
FL. Bottomly, John Russell, Rev. j.
Boynton, G. p. Russell.
TIE Lansing Republican gives the
following statement of all articles of as
ISOLATION and amendment filed and re-
corded in the office of the Secretary of
State from Sept. 7 and Oct. 10:
Sept. 1O.-Michigan Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals Detroit.
Sept. 12.-Artcles of association amended of
st. Marks Home Hospital Grand Rapids.
Sept. 13.-Ludington Reform Club Luding-
| ton.
Sept. 14.-Frankfort Reform Club Frank
| fort.
Sept. 17.-Michigan Military Academy, Or
| chard Lake articles of association amended.
Sept. 24.-Bricklayers and Masons' Bene-
fetal Society Detroit.
Sept. 29.-Enquirer Publishing Company
capital, $4,000 Grand Rapids
Oct. 3.-Beech Railway Improvement Com
pany, articles Of association amended Kala-
maZoo.
Oct. 3.-Muskegon Turnverein Muskegon.
Oct. 4.-Alpena Water Works Company, no
| tice of dissolution.
Oct. 6.-Grifin Car-Wheel Company, capital
$50, 900 paid in $50, 900; Detroit.
Oct. S.-Detroit Post and Tribune Company
capital, $3.50, 900 Detroit.
Oct. 10.-Strezecow Koscinszki Polish Be-
nevolent Society Detroit.
Oct. 10.-Carp River Improvement Com
pany capital, $4,000 Point St. Ignace.
The report of the President of Michi-
gan University says: "The proportion
of women to men scarcely changes from
year to year. The women form little
less than 8 per cent. of the whole num-
Der of students. 1t is gratifying to see
how readily the more gifted young
women who have graduated here, es-