The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-11-19

margarine factory III DetIoit.
SIX weddings in one day is the way
they do business in Battle Creek.
ARRANGEMENTS are nearly completed
for telephone exchange in Adrian.
The Clinton woolen-mills have rur-
chased $4,000 pounds of Wisconsin wool.
THE township of Clinton, Macomb
county, has new and convenient town
hall.
A NEW postofIice named Ruth has been
established III Sherman township, Huron
county.
A GRAND RAPIDS man won 81, 800 on
election, and is having an lawfully
good time"
THE Washtenaw County Supervisors
have re-established the office OF Dram
Commissioner.
AN East Saginaw enthusiast wagered
! his house and lot on the result OF the
elections-and lost.
| A NUMBER of new buildings are being
erected at Menominee, among them an
elegant brick school-house.
The Presbyterian Church at Muir,
Ionia county, has just procured an 500
pound bell at cost of 1862.
PRoF. HARRINGTON has received rev
| telescope and transit instrument for use
in the students observatory.
A MARRIAGE is reported from Licking
ton, Sanilac county, between youth of
20 years and a woman OF 90.
THERE will be 800 freight cars added
! to the rolling stock of the Kalamazoo
division of the Lake Shore road.
IT is estimated that fully 1000, 900
feet of lumber will be held over on the
mill docks of the Saginaw river, this
winter.
The census of Roscommon county
footed up / ,417-men, women and chill
dren-but they managed to poll 1,O26
votes.
JOHNNIE KEALLY, of Bay City, pulled
horses tail, and the animal kicked
| Johnnie in the face so that he will never
be pretty again.
ROBERT LOTT, of Huntsville, has pur-
chased /, 800 acres of pine land in the
vicinity of Hubbard lake, which he esti-
mates will cut 80, 800, 600 feet of logs.
THE Homer Ladcr man wants to bet
that Homer has some sidewalks that can
throw Col. Mclaughlin, Sile Purdy, or
any other wrestler in the State, III a far
! tussle.
THE Adventists have just completed a
new church Mt Alma, said to be the
finest church in Gratiot county. They
have also a fiourishing society in st.
! Louis.
A PETRIFIED body was found in the
Russell Street Cemetery, Detroit, the
other day by laborers who are at work
removing remains.
SILVER cells two or three feet in
length have been caught in Saginaw
river, probably the growth from plant
made by the Fish Commissioners three
years ago.
A LITTLE daughter of l.. b. Des-
voignes, residing near Mendon, st.
Joseph county, was killed the other day
by the accidental discharge of u pistol
that he was tampering with.
FANNIE j. CHAFFEE, who recently
married Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., was born
in Adrian, her father, ex-senator Chat
fee, of Colorado, having formerly been
merchant in that city.
THE salt product of Michigan for Oc-
tober was 296, 795 barrels total product
for the inspection year to date 2, AL, 332
barrels the product for the year which
closes Nov. 30 will be about 2,700, 900
barrels, and 70O,O00 barrels in excess of
the product of 1879.
THE winter fishing in Ludington is
| ,,,e& Ub;tafo1, ora cold nv,
the fishermen ut 4 cents per pound, and
next month they expect to get 5 and 8
cents. The catch is good.
A. w. BENNETT, of Sand Lake, Kent
county, was thrown off load of hay in
that village by the breaking of the
binder, and fell in such manner as to
break his neck, killing him instantly.
Four Republican candidates for Con-
gress in Southern States are graduates
of Ann Arbor, and two are elected-viz,
John d. White in Kentucky, and
Augustus H. Pettibone in Tennessee.
AT least $4,000 year is paid for
labor in Menominee saw-mills and for
logging operations. The amount ex-
pended annually in this manner ON both
sides of the creek will aggregate at least
81 300, 900 cash.
A 3-YEAR-oLD boy of Charles Erie
berger, of the town of Waterloo, fell in
to the cistern, and when taken out was
dead. The water was very shallow, but
the child fell face downward and was, it
is supposed, smothered.
THE lumber shipments from Saginaw
river for the month of October were ST.
000, 600 feet, and for the s" sson to Nov.
/, I'll, 100000 feet, an excess over the
shipments last year of $4,000, 900 feet
of lumber.
Milo HALsTEAD, bee-hunter, had
climbed tree near Bennington, Shia-
wassee county, to secure some honey,
and fell from height of sixty feet.
Several ribs were broken, also his thigh
bone, but the wonder is he was not
killed outright.
FRANK B. CLARKE, Register of Deeds
for Monroe County, died in Monroe last
week. Mr.. Clarke was elected Clerk of
Monroe County in 1860 and served one
term. In 1874 he was chosen Register
of Deeds, and was reelected in 1876 and