The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-05
Observers Observations.
For President, Chester A. Arthur.

For President, Chester A. Arthur.
Wheat is all headed out and the crop is
good.
Nathaniel NJ. Pugsley has got up brand
new barn.
Fred Lord and Buel Bonfny have each
built new houses.
Mrs. John Robb was robbed of her watch
chain on Decoration day.
Several cases of scarlet rash in town and
the itch is trying to head it of.
The travelling dry goods pedlers are dish
ing it up to the farmers again.
The township has got its new road scraper
and it is doing business like little man.
Noble d. Richardson, ex-sheriff of this
county, is confined to his bed by sickness.
Ike Conner has just got on two more car
loads of oats which he retails at 80 cents per
bushel.
DR.. a. G.. Mardin, brother of Mrs. Mary
f. Jones, has gone 10 the Soldiers Home at
Milwaukee.
The clover crop will be good this season.
1t is heading out nicely and will do to cut in
a short time.
DR.. Maynard has little niece at Hartford
that gets away with first prize ct the skating
rink, in mile heats.
Mrs. John Payne of the Lee district, has
gone TO Crete, Neb., TO be present at the
trial of her brother.
DR.. Hilton has been appointed by the
township board as health officer, and has
commenced hostilities.
The Peak family is doing Michigan and
will probably be here before long. They are
quite family to peek at
Paw Paw with Its broad, graveled streets
and ten miles of shade trees, can beat the
world for a summer resort.
Thos. Welch, Esq, while out exercising a
high stopper last Sunday, had run away,
making kindling wood of his buggy.
Hank McCabe has bought the high stopper
of Tom Enos, and he is a good one. (We
mean the horse, not Hank nor Toni.
Hiram Flanders and Chas. L. Galligan
have both filed soldiers claims, a quarter
section each, in Sergeant county, Dakota.
Esq Randall at the bakery, dealt out to
the hungry public the first cucumbers of the
season. and Kirke Noyes the first cabbage.
The highway commissioner is repairing
the old bridge across the Sherman pond
That bridge never was worth - any how.
The ex-chief of police has ground hi
shears and commenced the wool harvest.
The X. A. II. that he can't handle is a good
one.
Paw Paw is preparing to make the eagle
scream on the Fourth, and has raised five
hundred dollars for ammunition to do it
with.
Kingsburys new milk wagon is making
its regular rounds and is very neat and
nobby, notwithstanding it has no drive-well
attachment.
Marcellus is Dragging over its % widows.
Paw Paw can double discount that and give
it fifteen, and handsomer lot never wal
loped husband.
Mrs. Albert Flanders is making short
visit here. on her way from Fowlerville, this
state, to join her husband who has claims in
Sergeant county, Oak.
A few days since while Myron Wells was
dragging, his old gray got angry, reared up
and fell backward upon drag tooth and
wounded herself severely.
Mat Longwell is getting up some new
double light harnesses, of the Colorado style.
for his livery. X. G.. Taylor, in Robb's shop
makes one, and Frank Drew another.
While Manly Babcock was driving flyer
from Kalamazoo the other day, the backband
broke, letting the thills down. The horse ran
away injuring Manly quite seriously.
While riding out of town the other day
we met n wool grower going to the sheep
shearing festival with a ram. He the ram
looked as though Hatch and Bill johnson
had had hold of him, and we asked the
owner Why he didn't grease him so that his
fleece would weigh heavier. He stopped his
team and begun to get down of of his
wagon, and we began to ask Jim Lane to get
us away from there as soon as possible.
which he did. We heard afterward that the
W. g. took first prem ium for heavy fleece