The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-14

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JAPHET FISHER, the first white settler
in Benton township, Eaton county, is
dead.
THE Lenawee County Fair was a
great success. Schuyler Colfax made
speech.
A. PROPOSITION to bond the city of
Adrian for $160, 900, for water works, is
to be voted upon.
THE Maple Rapids Dispatch issued a
very creditable daily edition during the
Cliuton county fair.
EAST SAGINAW is now moving vigor-
ously to secure the location of the county
seat of Saginaw county.
HUNTERS report that caribou deer are
moving north, which portends mild
winter.-Chippe,0a County NeWs.
AT special election held in Adrian,
the sum of $50, 600 was voted for the
construction of water-works.
A FARMER in Buena Vista, Saginaw
county, has q number of plum trees in
full blossom for the second time this
season.
l.. b. KENDALL has resigned the Post
mastership of Kalamazoo to devote his
time to the settlement of the estate of
the late Lieut.. Gov. Robinson, of Colo
RADIO.
LEBANON, Clinton county, has some
girls that are experts in the field as well
as the household. There are two, each
of whom husks about twenty bushels OF
corn per day.
TIE explosion of n boiler in the salt
works of Ladne & Phinney, near East
Saginaw, demolished the building, and
killed two fremen named John and
James Ricord.
The ground in Clinton county was
never put in as good condition for a
wheat crop as it has been this fall. and
never in the history of man were so
many acres sown.
WILDMAN MILLS, of Creswell, thinks
that 81, 000,0 would not replace the
fences burned, nor $4,000, 900 place the
people as they were the day before the
forest fires.
DIR. MoVIcAR, of the State Normal
School, has issued an order that male
and female pupils shalt not board at the
same houses. AS some of the students
are married, they wonder what he
means.
WHILE putting down a drive-well on
the premises of III. G. Tyler, Clinton
county, bed of coal was struck thirty
feet below the surface. Something like
seven and half feet were bored through
and the work closed.
The Tecumseh Herald announces that
John r. Clark, who for months has been
laid up as the result of being accident
ally thrown from a wagon, is able to be
out, but not sufficiently recovered to at
tend to his business. Mr.. Clark is one
of the best-known and best-llked tenn
perance speakers in the State.
WIN. SoHEFFER, living near Freedom,
Cheboygan county, heard CONJUNCTION
near his house, and on investigation
found large lynx carrying off chiken.
With the assistance of q dog he sue
ceeded in freeing the lynx. Mr.. Schef
fer procured gun and shot it. 1t was
a mammoth specimen of the kind, meas
uring five feet and seven inches.
ST. JOHNS Independent Farmers
ought to be happy, Notwithstanding
their short crop OF wheat. Everything
they have to sell is bringing almost war
prices, while what they have to buy is
but little higher than 1t was when wheat
was So cents. With wheat ut 81 80, but
ter25, eggs Is, potatoes 90 cents and other
things i'll proportion, n farmer ought to
be able to live as well rs when he has to
handle a big crop at low price.
AT st. Johns, Clinton county, when
the law of 1879 declared that billiards
and bars must be i'll separate rooms, the
saloonists smiled q smile that was child
like and bland, and ran up a board par
tition between the bar and the billiard
tables. Now that the law of 1881 says
that billiards and ba1s mustnot be III adj
joining rooms, they have smiled again
and run up another partition, making q
narrow hall suitable for lunch-room be-
tween the bar and the billiard tables.
That's the way it is being worked in
other places also.
NEW Michigan patents L. III. Bailey,
Hillsdale, astral lantern Joel Bennitt,
Palo, barley-fork; II. l.. Chapman, Mar
cellus. lace-cutter o. j. Clark, Detroit,
carpet-sweeper g. b. 0ark, Detroit,
sash holder N. w. Gardner, Bridge
water, bagholder; q. Gruber, Detroit,
brush II. Y. Hovey, Grand Rapids, an
imal trap; j. Howell, Jackson, vehicle
axle j. Hudson, Detroit, buckle and
strap fastener L. Luce, Detroit, railway
car Il. Luce, Detroit, railway car j.
w. Miller, Jr., Mount Clemens, wind
vehicle G.. A. Myers and w. L. Smith,
Schoolcraft. clothes FOUNDER III. Piston
ious, Saginaw, invalid bed; A. Rim
schede, Detroit, lubricator; w. Smith,
Eaton Rapids, device for fastening on
boot-strap Ii. w. Titus, Jackson, car
riage body; r. G.. Tucker, Lamont,
plow-point; j. w. Veley, Pine Grove,
portable fence.
THE Adrian Times says: While Irving
Shumway, of Fairfield, was digging in IA
gravel pit, about two feet below the sur
face he came across some fragments OF
ancient pottery. The largest piece is
evidently portion of water vessel,
which was larger in the middle than at
the top or bottom, and shows considera-
bic rude artistic skill i'll ornamental
work around the edge. The vessel was
of some considerable size, but not frag-
ments enough were found near 1t to en-