The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-08
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

THE citizens or hastings continue to hou
meetings in aid of further railroad com
munication.
PERRY SIssoN, of Goodland, killed 300 mice
while engaged in drawing clover from field
of thirteen acres.
DAVID SMITH, of Springville, aged so years.
has sold out the home in which he resided for
for forty years, and will return to England.
The late soldiers reunion at Hastings Ia
claimed TO have been the most extensive pub
lie demonstration ever held in Barry county
THE lawyers of East Saginaw are thinking
a great deal nowadays on the desirability OF
having Superior court to relieve the Circuit
court of its great press of business.
AT Bronson, Brown & McLellans grist mill,
Reynolds Williams planning and saw mills,
and u dwelling and barn, with all their con-
tents, were destroyed by fire. Total loss,
about $40, 900; no insurance.
THE Postmaster at Sherwood went to De-
troit and introduced himself TO Postmaster
Codd, who showed him about the Detroit
postoffce. Nlnety-ive persons are on duty
inside the building, including carriers, and
the balance due Uncle Sam for the last quar-
ter was over $4,000.
JOHN ROGERS, of Galesburg, died, aged 81
years munths and - days. He was the
Oldest citizen of Kalamazoo county, and
located in Galesburg in 1885, He was PEN
sioner for services rendered the Government
in the War of 1912, and had always been in
the bloom of health until n few weeks before
his death.
ST. JOHNS Independent: A large rat came
into the VI. L. church and passed up the CEN
ter aisle and out the back door. Rev. G. G.
Draper saw it while preaching, and, with due
presence of mind, asked the janitor to open
the back door and give the congregation fresh
air. My. what panic that rat would have
made if only one woman had seen it.
PALMYRA people are again moving in the
matter of securing railroad service from the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, which
they have needed sadly ever since that road
built track around their village to Lenawee
junction. Gen Innes, State Commissioner
of Railroads, is of the opinion that Il road can
be illegally persuaded to give the deserted
town IA station and send trains to and through
il.
THE managers of the Grand River Valley
division of the Michigan Central railroad are
! constructing a handsome little frame depot
at an exceedingly convenient point to the
business portion of Hastings, which is much
appreciated Improvement TO visitors and
citizens, upon the present rural station re-
treat. Trains will halt at the new station
after Nov. l.
DIR. JAMES s. FRAZER, of West Branch, was
accidentally shot one evening about dark by
Emory Brownell. They were hunting about
| two miles east of town. Brownell heard a
noise in the thicket but could see nothing,
and, supposing it 10 be Il bear or deer, fired
! into the bushes with the above result. The
ball passed through the groin and perhaps in
| nicted internal injuries.
Mrs. TsCHAUNYER, the West Bay City wom-
an arrested several weeks ago for stealing
silk from several business houses in Bay City,
and who afterward forfeited her bond and
went TO Windsor, where she was recaptured
and brought home, was released on suspended
sentence in the Circuit court, she having
pleaded guilty several days ago to larceny.
She is kleptomaniac. She furnished bonds
In the sum of $1,000 TO appear at the Deem
! Der term of court.
a KALAMAZOO druggist is in receipt of a
postal-card bearing the following unique
message: Dear Sir, Seeing in your card
! hand to me notice of your book entitled
advice TO mothers concerning disease of
women & children which please send me
sample copy. p. s. If you can send any extra
| tl,a Lot
truly --. n. b. of all things, the best
is, is thy soul saved? if not why not? now is
the accepted time, delay no longer. Prepare
TO meet thy God. Meet me in heaven. see
Thess. 5:23, Matt. 5:S."
In tho year of 1887 the Michigan Central
railroad completed its track as far west as
Ypsilanti, from Detroit 1t was intended to
have the cars enter Ypsanti on certain
day, and n grand excursion was given from
Detroit to the other terminal point. AS it
happened, on the day of the excursion the
road was completed only TO within five miles
of Ypsilanti, but the ties were laid and the
stringers on which the strap rails were
fastened were in place. The train was run,
however. and when it reached the end of the
completed track, efforts were made to run
over the wooden stringers with the engine.
| This proved to be failure and two of the
employees working on the road took their
teams and hauled the train the remaining five
miles. The next day the rails were laid and
the engine took the train back. Warren
Crothers of This village, was the owner of one
of the teams which drew the train to Ypsanti.
-Sdrdndc Local.
FoR some weeks past a terrible epidemic of
typhoid-fever has ragged among the pupils of
ST. Johns German Parochial school in Adri-
an and numerous residents in the neighbor-
hood have been affected. Several deaths
have occurred, and as many as twenty cases
are now under treatment DIR. Lyster, of
Detroit, President of the State Board of
Health, has made critical examination of
the premises, and attributes the entire
trouble to the well on the premises, sonic of
the water of which has been taken for an
alysis. The soil of the yard is said to be
fairly saturated with feculence from con-
tagious privies, drains, and stables. The
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