The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-19

Miss Lydia J.. Conway is home from
Valparaiso.
Milton Pugsley is home from Valparaiso
on two weeks vacation.
Miss Carrie Parker is visiting her parents
and friends in this village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Lyle, of Dowagiac, We're
the guests of F. w. Sellick, on Sunday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Il. Clapp have gone to
Boston to remain with their children until
winter.
Jacob Carr found a pair of spectacles on
the street on Saturday. The owner can get
them by calling at this Office.
The M. +. Sabbath School will give pic
mic at Pugsley's Lake, on Wednesday of next
week. Everybody is invited.
DR.. Robinson has returned from the west
and is about TO remove to Grand Rapids
where he expects to go into business.
A. H. Heron of this village delivers his
lecture on Prohibition, at the M. L. Church
in Mattawan, on next Sunday evening.
Pelick Stevens, one of the Oldest and
wealthiest citizens of Kalamazoo, died quite
suddenly at his home in that village on Sun
day last
John Free has gone to Illinois to help
Bruce Wilcox slaughter lot of prairie
chickens he has been raising on his farm
this season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Avery went to Pc
toskey last Saturday. Charles has returned,
but Mrs. A. is to remain until frost comes to
beat the hay fever.
John II. Shears writes us from Boulder,
Col, that his family is we'll and he is doing
nicely. Everything in the place is just
booming and John appears to be happy.
Old Mr.. Cooper, from Lawrence while
here on business last Tuesday. and while in
the act of counting a thousand dollars in Z.
A. Cranes office, fell from his chair and died
almost instantly.
We would advise the friends of Cal. Smolk
TO have her return home Immediately for
judging from the reports concerning her,
she would weigh a ton should she remain
east long enough.
j. j. Swick one of our boss stock buyers
bought, one day this week. of A. Gleason.
pair of steers three and four years old
which weighed twenty y-four hundred pounds.
1t don't pay to raise good stock-Oh no
The Paw Paw and Almena telegraph COM
panies have consolidated. and the prospect
is very favorable for an extension of the line
to Kalamazoo. If the company continues to
increase, Jay Gould will probably buy them
out.
The agricultural society Of Allegan gave
Senator Conkling call to deliver an address
at its fair. He evidently declined. having
gone out of the business. Austin Blair has
been engaged by the society TO deliver the
address.
Frank Rawson who is located at Crested
Buttes, Col. has good word for the Nor
therner, and says "he could not do without
it." He is engaged in mine engineering and
reports the weather fine and everything
booming.
At the union meeting on last Sunday even
ing at the Christian church. the different
choirs united in furnishing the singing. II
was agreed that hereafter at all union SER
vices. there should he union of choirs.
This is as it should be.
The Evening News says: 1t is reported
that one of the boa constructors kept at the
high school museum, Battle Creek, has es-
capped, and that the terrified citizens are roost-
ing in trees. and citizens who indulge in an
occasional case of the jim-jams, are having
the liveliest whirls they ever mad.
Quite a number of the friends and neigh
bors of Mr.. Bale gave him little surprise
by dropping into his house on Friday even
ing last, to say goodbye before he took his
departure for England. Mr.. b. is one of
our most thorough farmers and has large
circle of friends in this community.
While son of Myron Smith. of Lawton,
was turning the corner around Tyler's hard
ware store at a rapid rate, on Sunday even
ing, one of the forward wheels of his buggy
became detached. throwing him and young
lady riding with him to the ground. No
serious injury was sustained by either.
l.. w. Beals thinks he has the finest Dur
ham calf in the county. car load of blood
ed cattle were being shipped from England