The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-22
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town.
Frank McEntee is visiting friends here for
few days.
The corn crop is heavy and is out of all
danger from frost
Hot weather for September. Mercury Sc
degrees on Monday last.
A man who amounts to anything in this
world, always has some two legged cur bark
ing at his heels.
Geo. ID. Boyce, of Porter, is credited with
eight different premiums on his swine, at
the State Fair now in session at Jackson.
Any one finding lady's dolman between
here anl Lawrence, or in that place, will be
literally rewarded by leaving it at this Office.
Co. "Cr of the 4th Mich. Cavalry, held
reunion at John C. McLain's place in Porter,
on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
Speaking of the Egyptian war, the Post
and Tribune says: Christians are in dan
ger at Damenhour." They cannot be very
good christians
Don't read Carroll & Cos. new double
column ad. If you do, you will be sure to
go and invest your spare cash in all the new
boots and shoes you can buy.
And now comes Wells Mosier with an Old
Nixon peach measuring ten and half inches
in circumference and weighing nine ounces.
Such fruit is good enough for anybody.
Joe Luce is home from the north on a
visit. He came to attend the wedding of his
daughter, who was married on Wednesday
last, to George Burns of Almena, Rev. ID.
Osborne officiating.
Brodhead Post, G.. A. r., of this village
now numbers ninety-four members on its
muster rolls, and has six outstanding applca-
tions, which, when the parties are mustered,
will give it an even hundred members.
Capt. Smith has returned from his eastern
trip looking hale and hearty, and all swelled
up with clam chowder. His brother Lish
accompanied him home. He don't sport so
much of bay window as the Capt. does.
j. G. Warner, Esq, is as happy as King,
and weighs within an ounce and half of
ton and half. Cause, pair of boy babies
born Friday, Sept. 18th. Joint weight 13
pounds. Mother and babies doing well,
father ditto.
Our friends are trying to fill the boys in
the NoRTHERNER Office with watermelons.
Thus far the attempt is failure. The latest
attempt was made by L. Crandall, Esq, who
deposited fine one on our table last We'd
nesday. Fenner still cries for more.
Johnny Bryar, who has been for four years
clerk in the drug store of G.. w. Longwell
& Co., has formed a partnership with p. G..
Forsyth, in the New York Drug Store, and
enters upon the duties of his new position
next Monday morning. We predict success
for the new firm.
DR.. John l.. Cross, of Bnnror, recently
went to Nebraska, seekirc - improve his
health. He died at Plum Creek in that State
on the 18th inst, and his remains were
brought home for burial. He was buried
with Masonic honors. His wife, who was
sent for, failed to reach him before he died.
H. w. Moon, the champion melon man,
left some very fine specimens of his fruit en-
our table last Friday. His five acre patch
contains many varieties one of which pro-
duces melons weighing so lbs. when full
grown. One of the specimens left with us
weighed 30 lbs. and measured 81 by a inches
in circumference.
One night last week some miscreants went
into the garden of E. G. Hazard, Esq, of the
village of Lawrence, and pulled up and de-
stroyed his melons and cabbages Tar and
feathers would be altogether too elegant
suit for such villains. Nobody would shed
tears if people should load their old shot
guns and convert the hides of such miserable
sneak thieves into sieves. When a man or
boy gets so internally mean as TO steal from
crippled soldier, or wantonly destroy his
crops, he is too mean to live.