The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-06-30
Observers Observations.

1920.
Tommy and Sylvia have returned from
their York State visit.
Rose bugs are raising the deuce with
the apple crop IN some places.
j. II. Woodman, of the Lee district, has
purchased thoroughbred short horn bull.
Ira II. Johnson has purchased from c. f.
Allen, two lots on the west side of the Allen
block.
Johnny Burns says our fat justice charged
him S45o for trying to go hand in hand
with girl.
Paw Paw has a one legged boy who plays
base ball and runs or hops the bases equal
to any of them.
The case of the People VS. Shields of Coolies
for violation of liquor law is adjourned until
Saturday next.
The fruit crop is good all over the county.
Peach men have commenced thinning the
fruit on their trees.
Those frosts that the Three Mile Lake
correspondent of the Hcrdld was 10 have
about the 21st of This month, were sweaters.
A Decatur lawyer allowed his COW to run
In 4bo ctrao+S NJ traCnooe M, az orc ,>r,par,x,
and few days ago she got III front of the
fast express and went flying up Jacobs lad
der.
Now comes Scott Wood with a new road
cart which he says beats them all. 1t is
different from any we have seen, and Scott
says it is the gayest thing he ever saw, in
which to ride to pic mic.
VIII Dansby's team ran away early one
morning last week. and when they left him.
which was in the middle of the street, he
was very thinly clad, having nothing left on
his person but red flannel wrapper. No
bones broken.
Rev. Thos. Hamilton, of New York, a
nephew of Dr. Russell. visited Justice
Galligans people one day last week. He
taught the first school ever taught in De-
catur, more than 80 years ago. He says be
finds some improvements since then.
Reed Yeckley and Marco Barker, couple
of Hamilton bloods, were i'll town last Friday
and got so full of beer that it began to slop
out of their ears McCabe took them in out
of the storm, and brought them before
Justice Galligan charged with being drunk
They plead not guilty. Reed was full of de
fiance as well as beer. but Marco was too full
for utterance and great tears rolled down his
manly cheeks as he cried aloud as though
his tender heart would break. Their cases
were adjourned until the next morning
when they changed their plea 10 guilty. and
Charley assessed them $40 each and told then
to 90 and sin no more
Cyclones are terrible things, and one o
our business men has great fears that som,
day. through their instrumentality, he will
climb the golden stair, therefore he has made
preparations for safety by digging hole il
the ground. and when he hears the rolling o
the distant thunder and the rushing of tn
mighty winds, he retreats to his little hol
like prairie dog. for protection. fey
nights since, about the witching hour o
midnight little breeze came up from Ia
west and caught him mapping. He spran
out on the floor as though the sole proprieto
of Hades was after him, and not being abb
to find his pants in the darkness, he rushe
! for his outdoor cellar, clothed like Adam i
until the storm subsidized. Every bushes
man should have cyclone protector.
We took little trip down through Hami
ton and Keller the other day, and visite
some of the first farms of that part of ii
county. Crops of every description are lool
ing well. There were some of the fine
pieces Of wheat We ever saw. A large acreal
of oats was sown this season and that Gre
never looked better, and nothing can no
prevent heavy yield. John Roosevelt, WI
is the happy owner of 1 800 acres of choi'
land, great part of it burr oak land, whic
is the best in the world, showed us his man
moth clover fields, intermixed with timoth
One 50 acre field will cut at least two tor
per acre. John is not what you might ca
proud seldom, if ever, parts his hair in IL
middle, and never combs it down on his for
, head, but is good landlord for fellow
stop with occasionally. After leaving h
place we visited Charles A. Limbeck, Il
greatest Poland China hog breeder in Il
State, without exception. Mr.. L. has II
the finest breeding sows we ever saw and 1.