The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-03-02

TO Grand RAPIDS next week, 10 take charBe
of an Office there, as foreman. Bert knows
just how to do it.
DIR. G. w. Ward has opened business at
103 Bond St., kalamazoo. The DIR. is a
good dentist, and we expect he will meet
an abundant success
There vii! be services, morning and even
ing next Sabbath, in the basement of the
First Baptist church. The upper room will
not be ready for two or three weeks.
Extra meetings are to be held at the M. f..
Church each evening for the next ten days.
The Presiding Elder, Rev. 1. Taylor, will be
present this week, and Rev. Mrs. S. M. Henry,
of Evanston, H., next week.
Rev. w. G. Burns returned from Detroit
Wednesday, where he has been spending a
few days visiting friends and attending the
Quarterly Session of the State Executive
Committee of Y. M. G. A.
We had the pleasure of calling on Mrs.
Mary Braddock, at Bay City, last Friday.
We found her father, s. H. Blackman, and
her sister Matte, there. They were all well
and appeared to be happy.
Married, Feb. 9Th, 1883, by VIM. Mason,
Justice of the Peace, VIM. j. Brace and Orie
o. Judson, both of Antwerp. Also, by the
same, Feb. 23d, 1888, Geo. w. Crawford and
Gertrude M. Cunningham, both of Paw Paw.
There is to be a sheet and pillow-case
dance at the Opera House, March 9th, by
members of the Dancing School. Only
those invited by members of the school are
expected to take part. Dancing bill, S1.OO.
Spectators 10 cents.
We looked in upon the maskers last Tues
day evening, and found them jolly crowd,
among whom were some very picturesque
costumes. The galleries were filled with
spectators who seemed greatly to enjoy the
Kaleidoscope view.
Read "Jay's" new "ad." this week, if you
want to know the plan no has adopted, to
determine who takes the new sewing ma
chine. 1t will be necessary for the party
holding the lucky number to be on hand
and take away the prize.
The many friends of w. w. Hodge, of
Geneva, will be sorry to learn that he has
been very ill with typhoid fever, which had
a run of 25 days before it was broken, leav-
ing him very weak. He has been confined
to his bed six weeks, but at latest advices,
was slowly recovering.
There will be caucus of the Republican
| electors of the village of Paw Paw, at the
Court House, on Saturday evening next, at
half past seven o'clock, for the purpose OF
putting in nomination candidates for village
officers, to be voted for on Monday next
BY order of Committee.
To the person wishing to know about the
Mecklenburg Declaration, we will say that il
was made in May, 1775, when a band OF
patriots met at Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co.
North Carolina, and declared themselves in
dependent of the British King and Parlia
ment, thus anticipating the real Declaration
of Independence in 1916.
Mr.. Ohn Williams and wife, formerly Mrs
M. X. Noyes, were agreeably surprised on tn,
evening of the 22d, by number of theil
neighbors who came with well filed baskets
containing variety of articles for the salts
faction Of the inner man. An exceedingl,
happy time was had. May they enjoy man!
pleasant years of life together.
There was an incipient confagration il
Judge Hilton's office, in the Court House, oil
Monday last. BY some means fire had beer
communicated to the carpet, Just behind tn
store, and hole was burned through boil
carpet and floor before it was discovered
No one was in the Office at the time, anC
had not the Judges brother happened in, il
time to extinguish it, there might have beer
a serious fire.
The Republican county convention held a
Lawrence, on Friday last, was organized b,
the election of B. +. Heckert as Chairman
and C. A. Harrison as Secretary. The fol
lowing gentlemen were elected as delegate
to the State convention, VIZ: c. j. Monroe
II. l.. Warren, II. FL. Howard, o. w. Row
land, o. N. Hilton, James Monroe, A. Chap
man, Charles Duncombe, G. w. Lawton, A
b. Copley, David Anderson, II. S. Richards
and A. N. Brown.
The lecture on the "Sham Family" wa
listened to by we'll filed house. Mr.. Am
brose touched upon the various inconsisten
cies of humanity, moral, social, and politica
especially the latter. He is a strong advo
cate of Woman's Suffrage, Free Trade, an
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