The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-10-31
MICHIGAN NEWS.
BAY CRY is to have pin factory.

MICHIGAN has 1920 miles of coast
line.
A BoYs' MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT CLUB
has been formed at Portland.
Wolves are reported numerous in
the woods about thirty miles west of
Alpena.
NINE snits for divorce are pending in
our Circuit Court.-Allegan County
Democrat.
A DAVIS youth of so summers does
nearly all the work on forty acre farm,
and is happy.
PROF. FAIRCHILD, of the State Agri-
cultural College, has accepted the Pres
idency of the Kansas Agricultural Col
lege.
The Supervisors of Van Buren,
county have appropriated $4,000 for the
detection of the murderer of the Morris
family.
THERE have been more men and
children drowned in the Saginaw river
the present season than for several pre-
viOus years.
SOME of the papers up south report
that the fog is so thick in Escanaba that
the citizens drive nails in it to hang
their hats on.
RECENT sales are reported of LOO
acres of pine-land in Montcalm county
for $37 900, and of 760 acres in the same
county for $23,56O.
MICHIGAN has a Board of Health in
every one of it's cities and villages. In
this respect Michigan leads all the
States.
The Board of State Auditors will ad-
vertise for bids for furnishing sta
tionery for the State for the years
1SSO-S1.
RoLLIN A. HoRR, twin brother of
Congressman Roswell G. Horn, of Sag
inaw, has been elected to the Ohio
State Senate on the Republican ticket.
IT is suggested that the Grand Rapids
fremen be ordered to "slush" the city
streets with water, in the hope of scour-
ing the diphtheria out of the city.
MATTERS are being pushed to induce
the authorities to locate either the
Blind Asylum or State Reform School
for Girls in Fenton, at one of the empty
seminaries.
MICHIGAN apple-dealers are having
hard luck. The fruit is rotting very
fast, and many buyers get get badly
stuck by the depreciation of stock in
hand.
The Michigan State Baptist Associa-
ton has elected the following officers:
President, Rev. E. A. Mather; Score
tary, Rev. II. M. Shanafelt; Treasurer,
Prof. Z. w. Olney.
PETER TINTLE, resident of Dexter
since 1913, died suddenly the other
morning, of apoplexy. In politics he
was Democrat. In 1864 he was elect
ed Register of Deeds, and in 1876
County Clerk.
Two MEN named Parker and Cope
land were out hunting near the town of
Venice. Parker was carrying a double
barreled shotgun over his shoulder.
The gun in some way was accidentally
discharged, and both charges took effect
in Copeland, one in the neck, the other
In the brain.
HE State does not protect by law
the deer in the north woods from the
hunter, and the inhabitants are now
becoming law unto themselves, and
are shooting the hounds with which the
deer are icing chased. Persons intend
irg to go north are cautioned to leave
their valuable dogs at home.
DIR. LOUIS DAVENPORT, one of the
most prominent physicians Of Detroit,
was found dead in his Office few days
ago. The cause of his death is sup
posed to have been heart disease, has
tened by the shock of his venerable
mothers death, early the same morning.
DR.. Davenport was single man, 81
years of age, and owned much valuable
property in that city and Windsor.
From 1861 to 1866 he was surgeon in
charge of the Marine Hospital.