The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31

The annual meeting of the county board
of examiners was held on the 2Sth, at the
office OF the county clerk and A. X. Ross of
South Haven was elected secretary for the
ensuing year, A. c. Martin of Paw Paw be-
coming chairman.
The friends OF Rev G.. l.. Cole will pay
him visit on Friday afternoon and evening
with picnic dinner and supper,-old people
in afternoon and young people in evening.
If any one has any doubt 70 which class he
belongs, he can attend both. Everybody in
vited.
A youthful bugler, in undress parade,
made his first appearance on this earthly
camping ground in rather an unceremonious
manner at the st. 10. re-union,, With their
customary promptness, the 'boys" at once
dubbed him Calmer, after the camp.
The perennial bear puts III his appearance
as unfailingly as marbles or base ball. and as
surely attracts an admiring group of wide
mouthed urchins. who dream that night Of
wonderful adventures, and hair-breadth es-
capes from the suarling growing, terrible
''bar.
People will do well to beware of an old
duifer who is around selling an article to
polish knives. silver-ware, zines, window
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nothing more nor less than cement or water
lime, which can be bought by the barrel for
two dollars, anywhere.
Elijah Y. Crane, an old and respected res
ident of the Lee District, departed this life
last Saturday, aged - years. lie leaves
wife to mourn his loss. The funeral oc-
Cured from the Lee school house and his
remains were followed to their last resting
place by a large circle Of friends vino will
Tong remember him as an honest, upright
man.
! Brown, the loud-mouthed fesSe0ger man.
has "gone where the woOdbine twineth," and
the news of his departure will probably be
quite relief to many of his So. Haven
! friends g. He left no word concerning the
urgent business which called him away, but.
perchance some of those astounding proofs
he claimed to hold against our Prosecuting
Attorney may have taken unto themselves
wings, and he be in frantic pursuit.
The editor of the Kalamazoo P6ddgog1te
has had big scare He received postal
card so fearfully and wonderfully inscribed
that he felt sure the lamented Horace Greedy
must have returned from the realms of the
unknown, and was wondering with extreme
! trepidation what the great philathropist
could want of him, when he finally deciph-
cred Don Henderson's remarkable signature,
and suddenly remembered that he doesn't
believe in spiritual manifestations, anyway.
Z. w. Hall of Porter. met with a sad acci-
dent on Saturday last. He was drawing wa
ter to supply steam thresher, when the
horses became frightened and started to run,
! throwing him from the water-tank, and the
wagon wheel passed over both legs, breaking
one, and iniuring the other. Elmer is one
Of the young men whom we shall always
count among "our boys" and we feel truly
sorry TO hear of this enforced idleness which
we know will be even harder for him TO bear
than the pain that attends it.
Base ball is getting to be quite the rage
among the ladies', and many clubs have been
organized throughout the country. IN q
contest at Philadelphia. the other day, be-
tween two rival feminine clubs. they APP
pesred resplendent in gorgeous new uni
FORMS but had a very amusing faculty Of
dodging oil the balls. The climax OF the
amusing, however, was reached when one of
the fair players, in a momentary fit of alb
sent-minGedness, undertook TO capture ely"
in her apron. which she didn't happen to
have on.
= new dalIg, eulLeu Dy Lloyd breeze ana
christened the Detroit ECentng ,Jolyn0(.
will compete with the Ereniag Nclrs FOR
public patronage, after Sept. Bird. 1t will be
two cents per copy, and promises to be "in-
dependent in all things, clean in tone, and
pure in character, and that every effort shall
be put forth to make it in all respects
model daily newspaper" There is plenty of
room in newspaperdom for such a sheet. and
if it proves what it promises, we doubt not
of its gaining the generous need of success
which we wish it.
Our keen-eyed Observer having spied an
innocent "cullud gemman" on his way to
town short time since, succeeded in gain
ing an invitation to ride, and thereupon be-
came engaged in most animated converse
ton. We know not whether the subject IN
der discussion was the "corn-fed granger" or
the best method Of applying "blisters' to the
spinal column but we do know when they
drove into town with one wheel rattling along
on the bare spokes, they were both blissfully
unconscious that they had left the tire mile
or more behind than, and been sowing the
felly broadcast.