The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-05-05
WHOLE NO. 1415.

The two lectures delivered by Col. Cope
land at the Opera House on Monday and
Tuesday evenings, were well liked. The Col.
is certainly an entertaining speaker, and those
who 90 to hear him are usually well satisfied.
Mr.. Charles Bilsborrow has sold his full
blood Norman stallion to John Robinson of
Lawrence. The colt, very fine one, will
not be 3 years old until next September, and
weighs 1900 lbs. Mr.. Robinson will keep
him on his farm for stock purposes. The
sale was brought about by advertising in tho
NoRTHERsER.
The regular covenant meeting of the First
Baptist Church of this place, will be held on
Saturday, May 9th, at 2:30 p. M. Preaching
by the Pastor Sunday morning-subject,
"The Souls Thirst" The regular monthly
temperance meeting will be held in the First
Baptist Church. Rev. Mr.. Harvey will de-
liver the address.
a special to the Detroit Free Press from
South Haven, says the peach crop il badly
injured in that region by the late frosts-
early varieties nearly ruined, and the loss
immense. A correspondent of the Post and
Tribune, at Holland, says fully two-thirds
of the peaches in that vicinity are destroyed,
and other fruits badly injured.
| Tho yillaoa ar{ho,.;t;ao ara oont;nr;,f, thxa
good work of putting down cross-walks, and
several of our citizens have replaced their
old worn out walks with new ones. and many
others have made arrangements to do so in
the near future. Arrangements have been
made for procuring the necessary plank for
such purpose, so that all may be supplied.
Rev. G. o. Brown, of Kalamazoo, well
known as the "boy bugler," has accepted an
invitation to deliver the address in Paw Paw
on decoration day-Schoolcratt Dispatch
and Mems.
This is news to the citizens of Paw Paw.
We had never heard of it before. The De
catur Republican says Mr. Brown crates in
! Decatur on that occasion.
On Wednesday, April Goth, Prof. Upton,
and some of the lady teachers of the Deca-
| tur Union School visited the Paw Paw school.
Such visits are an excellent thing, and it
/. would pay if school boards should allow
teachers an occasional day to visit other
schools, by which they might obtain as well
as impart, new ideas in regard to their pro-
fession.
Il. o. Beebe, Esq, has returned from his
, trip to New York where no had been for
couple of weeks He went to Lockport on
business connected with his mothers will.
He says he found matters decidedly mixed.
e On his return, believing that 'the longest
I way round is the surest way home,'' he took
I in N. Y. City, filed up with shad and other
{ foreign luxuries.
? Mrs. Brownbridge, of Decatur. was seri-
ously injured on Monday by the bursting of
y an explosive cap, thrown by her into the fire
= after she had taken it with other rubbish
}. from her husbands vest pocket. The explo-
:. sion was terrific and burned her face terribly
Y as well as mangling three of her fingers
We understand that the explosive was part
of an attachment TO a cartridge used by Mr..
b. to blow out stumps on his farm.
: The following appointments have been
r made by the Township Board of Porter
o Township, viz:
Board of Review, Ezra s. Upharn, Jacob
G. Markle Health Officer, II. j. Kellogg;
Drain Com'r, David Beebe; Fruit Com'r, ID.
w. G. Lytle; Cemetery Committees, East
Cemetery, Mr.. & Mrs. Kern, Mr. & Mrs. II.
V. Munger, Mr.. & Mrs. Sam'l Bartlett West
Cemetery, Mr.. & Mrs. Theodore Chamber
lain, Mr.. & Mrs. A. j. Weldin, Mr.. tS Mrs.
u j. w. Burlington, Mr.. a. Mrs. II. NJ. j. Hall.
). At the last meeting Of Brodhead Post, No.
a 81, G. A. r., eight new recruits were muster
f ed. The Post now numbers siIty-two mem
{ bers and has a considerable number of APP
plications outstanding. These comrades arc
earnestly requested to present themselves for
muster at the next meeting of the Post to be
held on May 18th. The boys are anxious to
: bring their numbers up to one hundred by
= the time of the soldiers reunion, on the 10Th
' and 18th of Juno. Already they have out
grown their present quarters and are looking
about for more room.
' The residence of A. A. Johnson, in tho
> southern part of Lawrence township was de-
stroyed by fire, which originated in defect
u i've chimney, Tuesday of last week. At the
u time of the fire there were three children in
u the house, the mother having gone on an
u errand to a neighbors. An alarm was given
but too late for assistance, and everything