The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-02-07

Corn is little off.
Wheat is little off too.
Sleighing is little off three.
The skunk-skin trade is lively.
Cow slop is gently moving upward.
The fishing season is in full blast.
We were not invited to attend the critic
box discussion.
A spring tooth harrow inventor desires TO
make Paw Paw his home.
What has become of the I'd National bank
that was going to bud and bloom here?
Lorenzo Cate, an old settler of Van Buren,
county is here on a visit from Wisconsin,
after al absence of twenty-six years.
Henry belong, of Edgel, dashing hero
of Michigan battery got pension of $l2
per month, last week, dating from Feb. -,
1883. C.E. Galligan attorney.
Last Saturday was woodchuck day. When
he came out of his hole he saw it in all its
beauty, and he returned and laid himself
gently away for another six weeks.
Mrs. Aurilla Kirkland, handsome young
widow from Decatur, was IN town all last
week attending meetings and visiting friends,
and us. She went home rejoicing.
A good looking young chap from town
visited his Lee district darling last week.
was gently refused on the ground that he
wore No. 5 hat and his feet were too small
| John Robb visited Lawrence the other day
and reports times awfully dull there. He
said the merchants had locked up their
stores and were off fishing through the ice,
while the blacksmiths and other tradesmen
were picking over beans for 10 cents bushei.
Frank Pierce, whom we have been expect
ing to bring an Ohio milliner here as his
wife, tells us she will not come until tho
spring rush is over, that she is doing $780,
600 year trade with 1900 per cent profit,
and that it would not be advisable to leave
it at present. Franks head is level
The new annotated statutes of this state
are now in the hands of the County Clerk
for distribution to Justices of the Peace. We
would advise that they procure them at once
before they are stolen by the lawyers We
mean by lawyers from other counties. Mem
bers of the Van Buren, county bar don't
steal, they are oil honorable men.
A tall man from the western part of the
county was in town recently. He was soon
surrounded by number of our Kids, one of
whom looked up and asked him to throw
down chew of tobacco, another requested
him TO go to the woods and pick him
mess of squirrels, another inquired what the
weather was up there, etc. Somebody will
be corrupting the morals of those young
Americas one of these days.
| A lot of Peck's bad boys met at the nj. l..
church the other night, during church hours,
and began snowballing the horses that were
hitched outside of the sheds, to see them
jump. One horse broke loose and lit out
for home at lively rate. He was caught
just in time to save smash-up. If such
boys would read our writings more, they
would divest themselves of such bad prac-
tees and grow up to be useful congressman,
governors, etc.
A chap from Msttawan came TO town and
got one Of our justices to go out in the coun-
try and take an Acknowledgement of deed.
The justice stuck gold pen over his right
ear, bottle of ink in his left coat pocket,
and started out behind gray charger, driven
by the Mattawanner. The lady who was to
execute the deed was i'll and had to be held
up by the officer while she signed it.
After waiting for them to send a mile for
witnesses, the business was concluded. The
Mattawan man asked the officer for his bill
and was informed that it was fifty cents.
He handed out quarter and said he guessed
that would do. The justice advised him to
pay the other quarter but he declined and
drove off. The magistrate in the mean
time, not being very supple, had fallen down
and when he got back to his Office found he
had broken his bottle of ink, and the fluid
had converted his left leg into barber-pole,
he had lost his pen, broken his watch crystal,
and came very near smashing his ribs. He
concluded he must have the other twenty
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Mattawan economist, who was then willing
to compromise. The quarter was donated
to him, and he paid the costs, 1910, but had
the satisfaction of knowing he had saved the
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