The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-03-16
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with his new cap on.
Hi. Flanders has been re-sppointed Mar
shal of his native village.
Call and see Mrs. Prater's Easter Cards,
etc, advertised in this paper.
Mrs. Hannah Hazard, of Lawrence, aged
ninety years, grandmother of Mrs. .. w.
Rowland, is very i'll.
Next Tuesday evening there will be
Grange social at the residence of Ed. Gilman.
An ''old time supper" will be served. Every
body invited.
Prof. G. L. Hutchins has returned from
Vermontville. He reports very successful
institute at that place. He is making sue
cess teaching music.
At the meeting of the Executive Board of
the Van Buren, County Agricultural Society,
last Tuesday, some important changes were
made in the rules and regulations of the
Society. For one thing all entry fees were
abolished. We will give full statement of
these changes next week.
Windy Virgins wiggles out by processing
himself satisfied with his one horse storm.
When prophet prophesies powerful storms,
stirring and strong enough to blow billiards.
like blue blazes, the people do not like to &C.
cept such side shows. Virgins is a bigger
blowhard than his big blizzard.
Next Sabbath evening, March 18th, at the
Presbyterian church, Mr.. F. w. Sellick will
give second lecture descriptive of his re-
cent journey to the Holy Land. The route
described will be from Jerusalem TO the Dead
Sea and the Jordan River, and back to
Jerusalem again. All are invited.
Free & Martins stave mill came near going
up in smoke for second time, few nights
since. Some one had built a fire in front of
the arch, but it was fortunately discovered
and extinguished, about four o'clock in the
morning, by the party in charge of Briggs
mill 1t is supposed to have been the work
of a couple of tramps who were seen in town
the evening before.
We have received copy of the GAINESVILLE
wis., gazette, containing an interesting
sketch of Burr Robbins Grand American
and German Allied Shows, in winter quarters
at that place. Burr will open the season at
Janesville on the Both day of April next, and
many friends here rejoice at his success, and
would be pleased if his route should lead
through our county once more.
The store of Sherman d Avery is thor
oughly dismantled. Gilman & De La Vergne
have purchased Sherman's half of the stock
and removed the same to the Grange store.
Mr.. Avery has taken his part of the stock to
Bloomingdale. The store will be repaired
and arches cut through the wall, into Long
wells drug store, so as to make one large
store room, and then be filled up with large
stock of groceries and crockery.
We have received numbers and 4, Vol. l,
of our MdgdziHe, an amateur publication,
devoted to Literature, Natural History, and
Fun, published at Bennington, VT, and
edited by Miss Irene Putnam, young Miss
of II years. 1t is very tasty magazine
filled with interesting matter, and the man
ner in which it is edited would do credit to
an older head. We notice that Mrs. l.. A.
Millington, cousin of our townsman, Frank
Millington, is a contributor to its columns.
The "Sheet and pillow dance at the
Opera House last Friday evening, is said by
those who were there, to have been a very
pleasant and enjoyable party. The wearing
of bed linen is a novel and inexpensive
method of masking. The party was the out
growth of Miss Shedd's dancing school,
Miss S. seems to be meeting with that de-
gree of success which energy and persever-
ance deserves. Those who desire instruction
in the terpschorean art, will not be apt to
find more favorable opportunity to obtain
it, than by placing themselves under her in
struction.
Miss Caddie Thompson, who has been a
successful teacher in our school so long that
the patrons of the school and the district
board had come to regard her as almost a
fixture, has rendered her resignation to take
effect at the close of the present term. The
reason for such action on her part is failing
health. Miss T. has been an earnest, faith
full conscientious and successful teacher, and
her constant labors have 30 worn upon her
that rest has become indispensable. We
understand that after time she intends to
take a course in the commercial school at
Grand Rapids. Her place as teacher will be
filled by Mrs. Emma Heckert, who was for
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