The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-28
InraI 1eparfmenf.

There will be no services at the Presby-
terian church next Sunday.
Mr.. j. Kingsbury, the dispenser of milk in
this village, has been quite sick.
The teachers examination is being held
to-day, friday, in the High School room in
this village.
A. b. Johnson has sold the Decatur Repub-
Hcdn to h. l.. Warren. Mr.. johnson is GO
ing into business with his brother at Detroit.
James Abrams is the person who has pur-
chased the Shropshire sheep, and not James
Adams as the NoRTHERNER was made to read
last week.
There were forty-four applicants for GER
tificates at the Decatur examination held on
Oct. 9Th. Twenty-four of them succeeded
in getting certificates.
Mrs. VanVleck is canvassing for the Life
of Garfield and is meeting with commendable
success. See notice of the book she sells,
elsewhere in these columns.
The annual meeting of the Van Buren,
County Grange, will be held at Lawrence,
Nov Sd, 1881, at 10 o'clock a. m. A large
gathering of patrons is expected.
Scott Udell, the horse-thief from Breeds
vile, got four years in the house of correc-
ton at Ionia. and Delos Frary, his partner,
got two years at the same place.
Jo. Hanson purchased of Capt. Ed Smith
the other day, calf five months old, which
weighed, when dressed, 26S pounds. 1t was
| the finest veal ever dressed in Paw Paw. 10.
has a taste for good meat and knows what
pleases his customers.
We call the attention of our readers to the
advertisement of fine wool sheep and blooded
hogs of G. F. Harrington. Mr.. Harrington
is the breeder of some of the finest stock in
Western Michigan. Those wishing to pur-
chase, will do well to give him a call.
w. w. Crandall has Just returned from a
visit to Orleans county, N. Y, and brought
with him very fine stallion of the "North
of England" breed of horses. He weighs
about 1850, is a dapple gray and as fine a
specimen of horses of all work as one often
sees.
The petition of Frank Hitchcock vs. the
Board of Supervisors of this county for
mandamus, to compel the payment of his
claim for $1,000 salary, was dismissed from
the Supreme Court on Wednesday last. Pros.
Atty. Rowland and Judge Jawton argued the
case on behalf of the county.
Josiah Chadwick died in this village on
Wednesday, of general debility, at the ad-
vanced age of S2 years. Deceased was the
father of Chadwick Brothers of Decatur,
Mrs. j. II. Baker of this place, and Mrs. s.
G. Mather of Lawrence. His funeral will
take place this friday afternoon at 2 p. M,
at the Episcopal church. His remains will
be taken by his friends to Avon, N. Y, his
former home, for burial.
Mrs. Henry Filley, who died on the sth
inst, after a brief sickness of less than two
weeks, at Gliddenburg, was a young lady
who had many warm friends and was highly
respected, both in this village and that neigh
borhood where she had resided since her
childhood. She was the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. l.. b. Sheldon, who have lost two
other children within few years, lust az
they reached manhood and womanhood.
There is but one remaining, a son, who has
been an invalid for several years.
We are in receipt of the initial number of
the South Haven Messenger, edited by A. N.
Brown. 1t is an eight column folio and is
very tastily and neatly gotten up. It's poll
tics are Republican and its editor has high
expectations that his enterprise will win.
The editor, however, deems it his duty, in
his first issue, to publish scurrilous article
on the NoRTHERNER. We have no doubt Mr..
Editor, as you say, but that you will live to
scratch venerable head full of honors," but
il will be for the best of reasons-a dearth of
Gae comb.