The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

White wheat, 1925.
Green apples per bu., zoe.
Snow, rain, mud and water.
Potatoes stand firm at 800.
Dry wood $115-green, 1925.
Live hogs $5.OO-dressed, $3.50.
Our locals are little scarce this week.
Criminal news has been quite scarce dur
ing the week.
We are getting lots of snow, but it comes
in liquid form.
George Dixon has got his pension increas-
ed to $40 per month.
Old Mother Shipton has only nine days
more to burst US up in.
Did you all get chance to sign those
Post-office petitions. We did.
They say we have got female chicken
thief in the northern part of the city.
John Syke lost three-year-old colt one
day last week. 1t got loose and took an
overdose of corn.
! Ira Flanders has gone to southwest Mis-
souri, to look into the stump-pulling business
there in that country.
Mrs. Gertie Bradt formerly Miss Coy and
her husband, will stay at her parents here in
the city during the holidays
Ben. Sheldon bought of Will Billsborrow
dred acres. Price, $1,000. Will kindly
wishes now that he hadn't sold.
Tom Welch's Young Wilkes" the sire of
William H." with record of 2:14l d stands
to-day among the greatest sires of trotters
in the world. Yet they say, Tom. is not
happy.
Paw Paw can have the credit of breeding
and raising the Chicago City butter and
cheese Inspector, who is there on duty and
making it red-hot for those oleomargarine
and patent butter chaps. His name is Harry
L. Howe.
John Shea, Waverly granger, has COM
menced suit against Stephen Abraham
| Whelpley, the Starred Policeman of this
city, for damages he sustained by reason of
the Chief letting fly his left fist and looping
Johns nose.
Our poultry merchants are finding con-
siderable fault with the weather, saying they
are not getting as much for their poultry
where they ship it to, as they could have got
| here.
Rolla f. Quick, the best looking man in
town by long odds, has just returned from a
trip up north where he has been looking
after his wealth. He brought home with
him a potato that beats anything for size
we ever saw.
Dutch Frank has applied for pension by
reason of chorea or st. vitus dance. Every
body who knows Frank, must admit that he
has got what might be called very handsome
move in his gait and he charges it up to
Uncle Sam, and says, before he was employed
by him, his movement was as quiet and smooth
| as river of grease.
Frank Cramer, German youth, was up
before Justice Galligan, on Monday last
charged with stealing some clothing, boots
etc., in the day time, from the dwelling house
of Cornelius B. Smith of Bloomingdale. He
waived examination, and in default of bonds
in the sum of $500, was committed for tria
at the next term of the circuit court.
horse was seen last Saturday sailing uI
Kalamazoo street at break-neck speed with 8
skeleton buggy attached to him and young
man, bare headed and in his coat-sleeves
after him, crying out at every step at the TOT
of his voice, "whoa Tom! whoa Tom =" bu
Tom didn't seem to whoa worth cent, til
he had tore that buggy into smithereens ant
landed what was left of it on top of wood
pile. They say the horse belonged to Dodg
Richards.
! That foot-race that came off down at Bat
tie Greek the other day, between Pat. Roger
} of this place and Eugene johnson o
} Toronto, was an astonisher to several of on
, sporting fraternity here in this burg, VIII,
went down there to hive their pockets
little. Pat, they say, got nicely beaten il
the race, which caused the hearts of the Paw
, Paw lads to feel sad. Some claimed tina
Pat was drugged, others. that he was over
fed, others that he was pulled, and other
thought he was stuffed with ducats, which
was probably the case. Pat didn't sta
around long after the race to be interviewed