The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-05


vices at st. Marks church will be held as
usual.
There will be literary social at the resi-
dence Of Mr.. Amos Hall, on next Wednesday
evening, Aug. 10th. Everybody is invited to
attend.
We call the attention of our readers to the
new advertisement of marked-dOwn goods
of the popular dry goods house of w. J. n
Il. Sellick.
Mrs. b. +. Heckert and Mrs. 5. w. Dun
combe. have gone to Petoskey for two weeks
vacation. Mr.. Duncombe has been there
some time.
We had pleasant call on Tuesday last
from Prof. Burkett, of the Advance. Call
again Bro Burkett, you will always find the
latch string out.
Allen ~ Hoskins thrashed. one day last
week, ten hundred and fifty bushels of wheat
for Seneca b. Anderson of Columbia. A
pretty good crop for this year.
Dan. Spicer has been carrying very black
eye for several days. When interrogated in
reference to it, he says: 1T is the same old
story. stick OF stove-wood. ETC.
There was an upper ten drunk in town
last week. Have a care or you will bring up
in the cooler. There will be no respect paid
TO persons in the arrest OF DRINKS.
ID. Il. Allen, of Covert. while on his way
TO this village Monday last. on business be-
fore the Probate Court lost his pocket booI;
containing about fifty dollars in cash.
Those Bangor boys are whole souled lot
of chaps and entelprisinG withal. We mean
Zan.. Lyme. Call The. Col. Hank. John
Clark. Aus. and a lot of others like them.
The largest yield of wheat we have heard OF
in the township of Porter was that raised by
John Hutchens. ON Thomas Alexander's
faIm-22 bushels to the acre was obtained.
While Mrs. j. Il. Baker was on her way to
Decatur last Monday. her horse became
| frightened, ran away and overturned the
buggy, throwing Mrs. b. out. bruising her
head and spraining her arm quite severely.
The prospect is farmers will obtain good
prices for their pork this fall. The reports
from the various states indicate that there is
large falling of from the number of hogs
in the country as compared with last year
Pomeroy GOble of Almena. while raking
his wheat stubble last Friday. killed eighteen
massasaugas. 1t was not Il very good day
for snakes either. Had il been. Nh. g.
thinks he could have caught an hundred OF
them.
Emancipation day was quite generally OBJ
served by the people in the vicinity of South
Haven. A delegation of about two hundred
colored persons came across the lake. Covert
also furnished large delegation of colored
people. Charles May was the speaker of the
day.
j. &. Gould of northern Antwerp. reports
like other peach growers III this section OF
the country. that he has 10 peaches this year
but that his grape crop is very fine, End from
present indications he will have about 10000
pounds of the finest grapes he has evei
raised.
The Board of State Auditors have awarded
contracts as follows: For printing. Geo. II
House. of Lansing the binding to Thorn.
dixie Nourse, of Detroit: the Peninsulal
Paper Co. of Ypsilanti is TO furnish the pa
per. The prices are much less than thos5
paid last year.
The Presbyterian Sabbath School and So
ciety. picnicked at Four Mile Lake on We'd
nesday of last week. They report very
fine time. and judging from the pleasant
company We chatted with as We rode dow
to Lawrence that morning. we doubt no
their report is true.
Jay Cummings. who has been clerking for {
number of years for w. j. d X. Sellick, ha'
gone into the Dry Goods business OH his owl
hook. jay is good fellow and has hosts %
friends. See his new advertisement else
where in this paper. Call and examine hi
stock and prices before purchasing
Whitehall. Mich. was visited by destruc
tive fire on July 81. Property to the amoun
of S120,000 was destroyed. Among In
losers are Charles and Albert Mears. former
ly residents of this place. Charles lost
hotel building valued at $4,000. on whic
there was no insurance. and Albert lost hi
watch and chain and one hundred dollars il
cash.
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