The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-05-12
Observers Observations.

we are happy.
The sidewalk building is just booming.
The recent rains have helped wheat and
grass out finely.
George Butler has got to be one of our
city, bus drivers.
Those potatoes we planted on election day,
still sleep beneath the mother earth.
Our new Yale lock post-office drawers will
be here about the Goth.
Tommy and Sylvia Galligan 60 to the
State of New York on visit soon.
Corn planting will probably boom about
next week, if the weather permits.
Mrs Rowley has sold her farra of GO acres
in the Lee district to Reuben Qua. Price,
$500.
Those potato bugs have put in an appear
ance, and will be ready for business at the
earliest opportunity.
A Lawton soldier got his pension increased
last week from ~ to Sl2 per month. Chas.
E. Galligan was his attorney.
The law business is not very brisk now-a-
days, and the lawyers are all living on short
rations.
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hind leg, and he will probably pay for this
notice. We mean Milan. not the dog.
The Sykes family bought two new organs
at the Chicago Music Store last week. They
are a musical family.
Sylvester Talmadge Conway, Tycoon No.
u ex-editor of this paper. they say, has the
best sidewalk in the city.
That dog fight we spoke of last week, was
the means of stirring up law suit between
the owners of the respective purps.
Uncle Elijah Crane and wife of the Lee
district start for Delhi, New York, in few
days on visit, TO look over the scenes of
their childhood
Sheriff McCabe is the happy owner of a
Robert Emmett colt; Chauncey Cookbook a
Hessing Jr.. and A. Hathaway Young Wilkes
They all claim to have the best, and we guess
: they have.
G. W. Young has been around with his
satchel, finding out all about our worlds
goods and how many dogs we are in posses
sion of.
The tax list is in the hands of the City
Marshal and he is ready to collect the ducats
His office is with the Fat Justice over the
r post-ofice, where he will be glad to see every
body interested.
Sucker-catching is a good business will
, the boys now, a-days. and large quantities
{ are taken out of the river every day. The,
f say a sucker never bites, but they catch then
4 with hook and line just the same, which
+ shows they were never weaned.
!, They are making patent strawberry bed
= this spring all over the city. They take al
o old barrel, bore it full of holes, fill it will
$ rich earth and plant a vine in every hole
: and when berry begins to peak out and it
s face begins to look like Ike's and Amos it i
" plucked at once There is money in it. TT.
d it.
Mrs. Mary E. Jones. the walkist of tn
; Lee district, was called by telegram on
% day last week to the bedside of her mother
in Richland county, Wis., saying she wa
dying. Mary kindly remembered us with
postal card, saying her ma was better, tina
8 out of the - children were at home, tina
potatoes could be got there in any quantitie
fer % cts per bushel. and that she would b
} back to her peaceful home in n few days
4. We will say for the benefit of our readers
r that Mary did not walk there, but went o.
the cars.
3 Alb. Grout, a well-to-do farmer of south-wes
y Paw Paw, drives two fiery, untamed steed
II and while going home from town the othe
"a day they lit out with him as though tha
fellow whoris sole proprietor of Hades wa
t. after them. Alb. slipped off of the seat dow
er into the bottom of his wagon trying to sto
4 them, and then he bobbed up and down lik
A. an eel catcher for about two miles and ha
before he could check them up. He final
- succeeded in doing so and reached his HON
9 in safety. His wife, looking him owe
49, the next morning thought he was consider
u able shorter than usual. So getting her tap
line she measured him and found using
blacksmith's term he had upset himself S
: he was just 394 inches shorter than he wa
- the day before.