The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-23
Observers Observations.

Not a house TO rent in town, all full TO
overhowing.
Joe, the butcher, has downed pork roasts
to ten cents per Id.
Buckwheat flour is in the market at $2.40
per hundred, and slap jacks are plenty
The gentle loaser has left the dry goods
box and taken up his quarters inside by the
fire.
Philip Lee went up to Three Mile lake the
other day and caught the finest string of
fish that was ever brought into town,
Jim Leach has been over to Marcellus
doing some of his fancy painting. They say
over there that he is stem-winder, and so
he is.
Among the good-looking horseback riders
that went to Decatur to the republican mass
meeting, we are inclined to think the Wild
Irishman took the cake.
Maiden z. Allen has two horse e-chestnut
trees which bore an abundant crop this sea-
son. Some folks are carrying the fruit in
their pockets to prevent rheumatism.
Wheat is down, pork is down, beans are
down, and when down at the rink the other
night we saw several new skaters down.
Everything is down, nearly, bat feathers,
and they are next to it.
Oliver Smiths folks, living southwest of
town at the narrow-gauge crossing, trotted
out new girl baby last week after Is years
of married life. Better late than never, and
Oliver is happy over the little waif.
The wood-stealing season has commenced
and the market is open with wood at from
ten to twelve shillings per cord. Those Wa
verify fellows have commenced drawing, and,
as the woods are full of it, wood will be
cheap.
David Gates OF Saranac, Ionia county, was
out here last week on visit, and took back
with him one of Chas. T.. Galligan's thor
oughbred Poland China pigs, saying they
were the finest he ever saw. John Spackeen
is no slouch of a hog-judge, and he took one
home with him last Saturday, saying he was
as good pig as he ever wished to look at.
Henry NJ. Cook, living just east of town,
has bought him new thoroughbred Jersey
bull and says he is not going to eat soft but
ter any more. We Strengthened up with
granger airs, looked very solemn and wise,
and replied that we were going to have one
too. Henry smiled, went into Sam Holmes
bought 20 pounds of Goldfish for a dollar, and
went home. Since then we have been smil-
ing and wondering how in sam hill he could
make hard butter from one of those little
fellows.
The Van Buren, county agricultural society
will pay so cents on the dollar on its awards;
Dowagisc pays in full. The Van Buren,
county agricultural society charges its ex-
hibitors, hog-shepherds and grooms 25 cents
each every time they go in to swill a pig or
curry an old mare. Dowagiac gives its ex-
hibitors, helpers and grooms free passes.
That Is the difference between the two. One
is grand success, and the other speaks for
itself. No, it can't speak, too weak, dead.
Not dollar left, not even enough to pay H.
funeral expenses. Gone to that bourne
whence it will never return under the pres
ent administration.
A granger went up west with cane enough
to make A gallons of syrup and had it made
up at q sorghum mill. Saturday he went
and got it and looked awfully sweet while
coming home, and so did the road on which
he travelled, as he left a stream from the mill
until he got to Samuel Consolus. where he
discovered the bung was out of his barrel
and so was the syrup. The poor man felt
discouraged as his bright prospects of slap
jacks and molasses vanished into thin air,
and he wished he had never been born. We
omit his name for the sake of his wife and
children, and will vouch for his soberness at
the time the bung flew out