The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-06-18

IHE supreme court mas I4Z cases on
its June term docket.
THE new Court House of Montcalm
county cost about $50, 000
THE Marshall Boat Club has con-
structed dock 100 feet long and four
feet wide.
THE Marquette and Mackinaw railroad
is growing rapidly now on the northern
end of the line.
NUMBERS of Indian mounds are being
opened III building the Marquette and
Mackinaw railroad.
THE first locomotive for the Detroit,
Mackinac and Marquette railroad has
reached Marquette.
Corllnna is to be dedicated June ~ by
Bishop E. p. Hart, of Jackson.
The Enamet county Democrat says
that more lumber will be shipped from
Petoskey this season than ever before.
THE hemlock extract factory at Mullet
lake, Cheboygan county, has gone into
operation, after an idleness of several
years.
HENRY l.. BROWN, of Hanover, Jack
son county, while blowing, turned up
knife made of copper He thinks it was
once the property of some "big Injun.
The Congregational Church of Green
vile has been sold with all it contains
and the lot on which it stands to the
Episcopal congregation for the sum of
81, 800
A NEW hose cart with 800 feet of hose,
II new hose company and new hook
and ladder company, are few of the
things talked of by ambitious st. Louis
tiremen.
The wild rice sOwn around the lakelets
and marshes in the vicinity of Houghton,
to attract wild ducks, has failed to grow
on account OF imperfect planting and
other causes.
DURING the cannonading mt Kalama-
700 in honor of the nomination of Gen.
Garfield, man had his arm blown off
and received such other injuries as will
probably prove fatal.
UP to Saturday night the Tittabawas-
see Boom Company had RATED for the
season S53, 26S logs, and for the week
ending that time 1914, 527, the weeks
work being the largest on record.
SHIPMENTS of iron ore from the Upper
Peninsula up to, and including June 2,
aggregated 324,91 tons, of which the
Marquette district contributed 223, 623,
and the Menominee district 101, 292.
j. S. MANNING, Census Enumeration
of Sidney, reports the population of the
village of Sheridan at SOB. lie says he
found one lady III that vicinity Sc years
old hOelng III Il corn field
The wheat harvest of Michigan will
be fully three weeks earlier this year
than usual. Many fields are now fully
three feet high, and nearly headed out.
Such an instance was never known be-
fore.
In 1872 the population of Clam Lake
tnow Cadillac) was 400 persons all told,
but small as the town was it supported
seventeen saloons. Now the city of
Cadillac has 1900 inhabitants and only
six saloons.
AT citizens meeting held in Green
vile 1t was resolved to raise the amount
of stock necessary to commence and
carry on woodenware mandatory in
that city. A committee was appointed
to canvass for subscriptions.
THERE died in Erin township, Ma
comb county, last week, man who was
at the time of his death, without doubt,
the oldest person in the State. His
name is Peter ST. George. Mr.. st.
George was born in Montreal Canada,
in IVA, and was French Canadian.
He came to Michigan when young man
and took up his abode in the woods, near
where Detroit now is. He cleared of
timber the land where the City Hall now
stands, and considerable more in its i'm
mediate vicinity. When the war of 1912
broke out st. George joined the Ameri-
can forces and fought through the war.
Mr.. st. George was a strong, robust
man in earlier years, and even i'll ex-
treme old age he was noted for his Wig
orous physique. He was married three
times and leaves numerous descendants.
His third wife survives him. He was
always bright and strong mentally, and
to the curious interviewer was fond of
relating adventures of his early life.-
Mount Clemens Monitor.