The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-08
Observers Observations.
The bows are LAYING in store of nuts.


Houses are scarce in town. and rents are
high.
Jack Smith and ferret bagged eleven rab-
| bits the other day.
The Catholic people are about to put a
furnace in their church.
We hear that H. c. Nash ESQ. will take
charge of South Haven paper soon.
The buckwheat pancake season is at hand,
and patent sandpaper will be III demand.
Geo. Dixon, Frank Cole and John Robb
all have new abiding places and are happy.
Mrs. Aurora Rowley has bought a house
and lot in the southwest part of town. Of A.
Sherman Esq. Price 5000.
Clara Rodenbaugh of Breedsville, formerly
Clara Flanders OF this township, is the hap
| py mother of brand new daughter.
Mrs. Eggleston, widow lady living Just
north of Lawton, had the misfortune to
lose her only son few days since. Heaven
! help the poor widows.
Our landlord went out last S to shoot
a pigeon for poor sick widow woman. The
gun kicked. For further particulars, en-
| quire OF MS lett cheek.
A Chicago rooster was in town the other
| day selling an odometer, concern to be at
! tached To carriage wheel to tell how far
you drive. $500 was the price.
John Garvin, our good looking wagon
maker. met a stranger few days ago and he
! took him in. It was not the stranger but
John who was taken in, $40 worth.
Oren I.andon. of the Lee district. has
moved into town. Frank Harris has done
likewise, and Mrs. Strouls of the same place.
has sold her farm to Benz. Rogers of Porter
Hogs are selling for $3.50 per hundred.
Any ordinary piece of a hog at the markets
sells for III cents per pound, and if you
call for ham they gently whisper in your ear,
ttreHty cshets.'
He was a resident of the western part of
the county, drew prize in the ". O. lottery.
went to Kansas. started boot, shoe and
grocery house, and dropped his wad. Liza
bilities unknown.
Ab. Grout says Robt. Hamilton, of Deca-
tur. ran into him a few nights since, demol-
ishing Abs buggy considerably. Judge
Mason has the matter in charge and will
settle the matter for the parties.
A female woman accused the wild Irish
man of talking naughty about her, and put
a revolver in her hip pocket and proceeded
to interview him. The result was that the
| f. w. was out revolver and the w. j. is a
pistol ahead
4 Lee district chap went to Decatur the
other day and got SO full of St. Jacobs oil
that it began to slop out of his ears, got
( into the cooler and pawned his harness and
carriage for S1i to pay his fine and costs
and then came home 10 repent.
/ She was an old lady and wanted pension
OH account OF the sufferings and death of
her husband. She interviewed our pension
agent who blandiy remarked 10 her what
was the cause of your husbands DEATH He
has been great sufferer. replied the old
| lady. and if any one is entitled to pension
| am. About ten years ago he had his head
and left shoulder smashed by piledriver,
letting nearly all his brains out: shortly af-
terward he was kicked by mule in the
anterior part of the midrih, causing paraly-
sis of the lumbar regions. then be had seven
teen ribs broken by well caying in on him,
after which a shot gun bursted blowing out
his left eye and taking off his right ear,
then wagon ran over him crushing both
ankles. and finally, last spring, he got drunk
and lay down ON the railroad track and
a train of forty-fve loaded cars passed over
him, which finished him. lyon don't seem
to connect his injuries and death with the
service, said the agent, consequently you
are not entitled TO pension" Well said
the old lady, IF You think my hug
band hasn't suffered as much as any soldier,
and you can't get me a pension because he
was never in the army, will go to souae
one who can