The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-06-03
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span of horses belonging to a man by
the name of Burbank, which had been left
unhitched at the big mill, ran away one day
last week, but before going far up Kalama-
zoo street they attempted to straddle tele-
graph pole A broken wagon tongue and
an injured harness the result
The experiment of furnishing water for
the fire engine by drive-wells, connecting
with single large pipe in the centre, was
not entirely satisfactory. Water was oh
tained, but not in sufficient quantity to sup
ply the full capacity of the engine. Mr..
Flanders is confident that he will make the
well success.
w. A. Burlingame and his son Will. have
for five years been the owners of a fine little
mare, which as soon as she could developed
into surprising trotter, bringing her mile
down to 2:21. A few days ago they sold her
to Mark Hopkins, of st. Clair, for the sum
of $4,000 cash. they to deliver her in Detroit.
South Haven Sentinel.
Report of school in District No. 4, in Paw
Paw, for the past month Whole number
enrolled, So; average daily attendance, 90
"Stars - Cora Webb, Dora Webb, Kittie
Burnett, Trudie Payne, Elsie Labadie, Bertha
Labadie, Kittie Labadie, Lizzie Lowe, Charlie
Hawlie, Chauncey Foote, Viola Foote, Willie
Goss, Nina Goss, Belle Sherrod.
SARAH A. LYLE, Teacher.
We observe that the Marshal is doing
good job in carrying out the instructions
given him by the village board to clean out
the filth and rubbish that accumulates in the
streets and alleys. If anyone could see the
number of dead rats, cats, sheep, and other.
filth carried away, he would wonder that the
sanitary condition of the village has remained
as good as it is.
The dwelling of Mrs. E. L. Barrett, occu-
pied by Il. G. Nash, was struck by lightning
on Tuesday night and would have burned to
the ground but for the heavy shower of rain
which was falling. The fluid struck near the
lowed the studding to the ground, tearing off
the plastering and making kindling wood of
the studding and siding and setting it on fire
in several pla es. The bolt passed down with
in four feet of the head of the bed occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Nash.
Ed. Welch attended the sheep shearing
festival at Schoolcraft last week, and carried
off the palm for heavy feeces on his ewes and
of unwashed wool. The fleece was a few
days over one years growth. The lightest
ewes fleece sheared, weighed 13 lbs. and all
the others sheared 10 lbs. and upwards. He
beat all other competitors lbs. on ewes and
* lbs. on wethers. Mr.. Henry Kinney, of
Kalamazoo county, purchased buck of Mr.
Welch last fall that sheared the other day
2721 lbs. Mr.. w. is one of our best breed
ers of fine sheep.
At the annual meeting of the Ladies' Mis-
stonary and Church Aid Society of the ST.
Marks Church, held May 26th, the following
officers were elected: Chief Directress, Mrs.
G. p. Schetky; Vice Directress, Mrs. 1. w.
Van Fossen; Recording Secretary, Miss
Kate H. Ocobock Corresponding Secretary,
Miss Abbie Barker; Treasurer, Mrs. b. F.
Stearns; Committee on Care of the Church,
Mrs. Kate H. Waite, Miss Mary Durkee !;
Conn., on Festivals and Entertainments, Mrs.
j. Hodges, Mrs. w. Reed, Mrs. G. Fitch !;
Com. on Work for the Poor, Mrs. l.. G. Ba-
ker, Mrs. G. G. Nash, Mrs. S. Ellis, Mrs. F..
G. Thomas.
The Covey hill grange is an enterprising
institution. At their meetings the members
are in the habit of discussing some practical
question. Last week their subject was "road
making" very compendable one. There
is nothing in which the farmers and business
men are more mutually interested in than
building good wagon roads on all the main
thoroughfares which lead into the town
where they do their business. After the
question had been discussed at some length,
old Mr.. Stoughton gave his experience in
road making, which convinced those who
heard him, that it was not safe to build a
sluice across the road unless you owned the
land on both sides of it.
In our last weeks issue, brief mention was
made of the case of Brotherton against
Bush, in which we stated that " from what
we learn, it has the appearance of being a
first class matchmaking affair."" Messrs.
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