The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-03-20

Albert Flanders is here on visit, on his
way from Fowlerville, buck to Dakota.
Jay Eye See, the great flyer will kick the
dust at the Kalamazoo races in June next.
Sam Holmes has bought the Butts place,
paying $3.50 for it. He will occupy it soon.
Henry Hinckley has purchased Elliott
Woosters farm of so acres. Price $4,000.
Our city Marshal sports brand new half
melon hat which gives him a very nobby
appearance.
| Frank Harrington sent TO Ohio and got a
fancy poland china SOW, TO add to his a.
ready fine herd.
The kids have commenced the marble
business, and ''skinning them out" is played
on every corner.
| Tommy Galligan and wife talk of attend
ing quarterly meeting some day next week.
Success to them.
The young man with the grip sack is look
ing for the farmer who wants to pay him
$50 per month, for the season.
DR.. w. b. Hathaway has traded his prop
erty here for Bloomingdale property. He
will make that place his future home.
That yearling Plymouth rock rooster with
spurs three inches long that we read about
in the He,uld. was three years old last spring.
Jim Leech has been papering the Dyck-
man House. We advise those who want to
see neat and tasty job to go and look at it,
Jim is thoroughbred paper sticker.
Ernest Geiser, LeGrant Fisher, Patrick
Sage and Edward Geer, all had their pen
sions allowed last week. Geer's had been
rejected three times. Chas. f. Galligan was
their attorney.
Henry Eye, who had tree fall on him,
last week, while chopping, is not getting
along very fast. A limb caught him on his
neck, and doubled him up like jack-knife.
The difficulty is with his back.
Ben Loew is in hot water. He says the
idol of his heart has packed her sachel, and
left him to mourn her loss, and what to do.
he does not know. Get divorce Ben, then
get another idol and be happy.
We went into Sellick's the other day and
found W.. j. smilingly doing up one humid
red and fifteen yards of standard prints fer
an old lady who was going to clothe up lot
of grand children. She was getting the
prints at four cents yard. Bill said be was
selling goods very cheap and we guess he
told the truth.
Reuben Qua gave his note for $50 10 a
travelling horse doctor, for performinga surg
ical operation on his horse. RUDE says the
tramp killed his horse, and. tho other day
he had to pay the note. Messrs. Bartram
and Babcock, our own farriers, stand high
in the profession. and we advise horsemen
to patronize them, and give tramps wide
berth.
Married. at Clay, Onondaga Co, n. y.
March 18th, 1884, Harmon j. Ostrander and
Miss Electa Winchell. On Saturday even
ing last, some fifty of their friends in this
vicinity, surprised them by an impromptu
celebration of the 50th anniversary of the
above mentioned event. The presents were
numerous and useful and all had n good
time. We were not present at this golden
b. - h.. I.
, celebrate their Tooth anniversary.
: good many people claim that % cents
:. per pound is too much for butter. Experi-
ence teaches as that it is not enough. HeIe
, are our figures. Cow, milk safe, pans,
pals, churn. ETC., SIS. Ground feed per
q week, Sl.25. hay S1.00, care 800. total
weekly expenses 1926. Average amount of
butter, per week, from a single COW, five
pounds, at % cents per pound, Sl.25, leav-
: ing us behind 5000 per week, TO say moth.
ing of interest on our investment. If dairy
business is profitable, we can't see it.
The question has been asked "How much
did our present Jail cost the county" We
: answer, nothing. 1t was built in 1856 and
was paid for by few business men of Paw
Paw, Almena, Antwerp and Porter. Ii cos
$4,000 and Williamson Mason of this place
: who subscribed 800 toward il, had the con
y tract of building it, He put it up and tool
the subscription for pay. He collected al
u but $3.50 which interest he still has in tn,
old concern. We presume he would gladl,
:. sell out for 80 cents on the dollar. IL ap
: pears to us as though Van Buren, count,
could afford to build decent Jail of it,
- own.
/ A couple of old ladies' came to town few
/ days since, with an old gray charger and
y. democrat wagon. They hitched the ole
q steed next to Smiths and covered him NJ
with bed quilt, while they did their shop