The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-09-04

Summerfeld Ford visited his many friends
in Paw Paw, on Thursday and Friday last.
He had not been here for seven years. He
is located at st. Louis, Mo.
We acknowledge the receipt of an invita-
ton from Miss Abbie Barker, to attend the
anniversary exercises of the Three Rivers
seminary to be held this evening.
We call particular attention to the new
advertisement of those stirring, go-ahead
business chaps, Covert 81 Bartram, which
adorns the first page of this paper
The republican county committee will
| furnish speakers to assist at the organiza-
ton of Blaine IL Logan clubs at any place
in the county, whenever requested so to do.
Mr.. Ennie Everett of Kalamazoo, has been
visiting in town this week. He is taking
the civil engineering course at the University,
and will resume his studies about Sept. 2ith.
A sample of Alabama timber will be sent
to the worlds exposition from Mobile. 1t is
stick of pine timber forty-two inches
square and eighty-one feet long, worth
| 81, 900.
Frank Stearns, who is again home from
| the great northwest, looks brown and
hearty. The climate out there seems to
agree with him. Frank is no tenderfoot by
this time.
Brothers and sisters of the First Baptist
church surprised Mr.. s. Il. Bowen and fam
| lily, on their return from Holland Had
peaceable possession of premises. Good
! time of course.
We observe by the Mandan, OAK, Pioneer
that j. IL. Shrine, formerly of this place, has
been elected Junior Vice-Commander of
Alfred Sully Post, q. A. r., No. 6l, recently
organized at that city.
Breck held another enthusiastic repubh-
can meeting in Waverly, last Saturday even
ing. Those Waverly republicans are wide
awake and are setting good example to
their brethren elsewhere.
We don't understand why the Courier
persists in calling the republican caucus a
parrot and monkey" time. One of the ed
itors of the Courier was not present, but
was taking vacation at Holland.
We call particular attention to the new
advertisement of the Grange Store, G. (.
Gilman, manager. Mr.. Gilman has man.
moth stock of goods and is selling at prices
that are as reasonable as a reasonable per
son could ask.
Through the courtesy of the secretary, Mr..
J. L. Sebring, the NoRTHERNER has received
tickets of admission to the meeting of the
Bangor Driving Park Association, which
takes place on Thursday and Friday, Sept.
| 1th and 10Th.
Supt. Ihling and K. Martin recently at
tended railroad meeting at Covert, and re-
port hattering prospects for an extension of
the narrow gauge, TO Covert and South Ha-
ven. There will be another meeting at South
Haven. tomorrow evening, Sept. 18th.
A meeting of the school board was held
on Tuesday evening, and the new board or
ganized by the election of .. w. Rowland,
Moderator, G. S. Maynard, Director, and O..
W. Longwell, Assessor. The bonds of the
assessor were fixed at the sum of $4,000.
Gene Moon, a former Paw Paw boy, and
a member of Co. G, Sd Mich. cavalry, now
foreman of the Gazette, of Carthage, Ills, had
three new moons at his house on Wednesday,
Aug 20th. They were all boys, two of
whom are fourishing, the other, however,
died soon after birth.
X. w. Noyes has Just imported direct
from Yokohama, Japan, large quantity of
first quality tea, put up in Perfection cans,
which are made without lead or solder, thus
obviating all danger of lead poisoning Look
out for his new advertisement next week,
and in the mean time buy can of his tea.
We can vouch for its being first quality.
VIM. Thorpe, son of Mr.. S. Thorpe of
Nicholsville, was accidentally killed few
days since. He had been cunning on lake
where himself and comrades were camping
out. Coming to the shore he extended his
gun for the purpose of enabling them to pull
him to land, when it was accidentally dis
charged, its contents passing through his
heart.
Jordan of the Courier, and Rowland of
of the NoBTHERNER, have laid a wager as fol-
lows: If Blaine is elected president, Jordan
agrees to wheel Rowland in a wheelbarrow
from the Dyckman House to the school
house. up on one side of Main street and
down the other: if Blaine is defeated Row
land agrees to wheel Jordan over the same
route. Somebody will have some fun.
Mr.. o. S. Wood has purchased and just
received beautiful Southdown buck, from
the registered flock of G. H, Stanton of st.
Louis, Mich. Mr.. w. will receive the ewes
from the same flock in November. With
the present low tariff price for wool, farmers
will naturally turn their attention to the
raising of mutton sheep, of which there is
no finer variety than the Southdowns.
Clum and Charley were around on their
annual inspection tour among the peach
trees, few days sinc% They whitewashed
two of our trees half of our orchard. We
had another-haven't got it now-that was
badly diseased, which they neglected to
mark. If they don't do better than that we
propose to circulate petition for their dis
charge. We have gone out of the peach
business. Disguised with the-commission-
ers.
The Chicago NeUS contains an item stat
ing how its editor interviewed John G. New,
at the Palmer house, and obtained ticket
of admission for the editor of the NoRTHERSER
to the republican National convention. AS
there was no one in Chicago during the ses-
sion of that convention, who had any con-
nection whatever with this paper, there must
have been some mistake in the matter
Some one must have obtained that ticket
under false pretences. However, we are
much obliged to the Ne,cs man for his good
intentions in our behalf.
On "Wednesday of last week, the Disciple