The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-05-26

The corn crop is nearly planted.
The asparagus season is in full bloom.
Sheep washing is the order of the day.
Those gay and happy potato bugs are here.
Alonzo Curtis lost a valuable horse last
Friday night
Our City Marshal is making a good road
on the west side of the river.
We guess Mary f. was little of the track
when she told us they sold potatoes in Wis
consin for 25 cts per bushel.
Capt Jacob Carr, of Waverly, late of Co.
A, LIST Mich. 1t. Art, has gone to Coldwater
to attend a reunion of the old boys.
If our commissioner wants to collect dol
lars for fast driving over the river bridge,
he had better put up that other sign
There were never so many old men in this
place as at the present time. Fifty years
excuses them from poll tax, you know.
Ed. Hayes caught nearly hundred pounds
of suckers out of the Landphere pond, the
other day, with hook and line. Suckers
never bite.
Judge Richards has purchased caligraph
on which to do his writing. We think it
will have tendency TO improve the Judges
penmanship somewhat.
Report had it that Thos. j. Nichoalds had
sold his interest in the wagon and carriage
business to Ira IL. Johnson. We are in
structed by Thomas to say that such is not
the case.
1t is reported that an executor of this
paper bursted his corset-strings landing
some big fish, one day last week. We saw
the string, one sinner, two clubs, q punkin-
seed and big sucker.
A Keller Justice was holding court one
day last week, and during the progress of
the trial, one of the parties to the suit called
the other a liar. One moment, said the
Justice, this court will take a recess for FIVE
minutes, SO these parties can step out into
the back yard and settle this dispute.
Corporal Ben. Holt says his patient, John
Modem, does not get along very well under
the bee hive treatment, and that he has
either got to change doctors or bee hives
pretty soon, or he will not be able TO run
that foot race with Charley Cookbook which
has been SO long talked about, and (which is
to come off in the near future.
Up in the Lee district they let their hogs
and sheep perambulate the highways to-
gether and the old sows feast upon the
young lambs, There must be money in it
az the farmers up that way seem to patron.
ize the highways as grazing ground, quite
extensively. We saw lambs passing down
an old sow's gullet at the rate of 1900 per
annum, and no questions asked.
At q wedding feast here in this city not
long since, the ma of the bride and another
ma, got gloriously happy over little grape
Juice and SIGH. If the brides ma hadn't
sent us particular word not to mention it we
would be glad to tell just how the two old
gals carried on but we promised not to give
them away, and we are going to keep our
word.
A bright Lee district maiden had one of
those evenly balanced chaps come to see her
last Sunday, and in order to have little fun
with him. she gave him the following conun-
drum from the Detroit Free Press, which
read thusly: in one pen there are four
calves, i'll another two young men with their
hair parted in the middle, how many calves
in both pens Damfno said he, and
jumping up hastily took his straw hat, went
out and united his big grey colt and went
back to his home in East Decatur
|