The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-01-22
The Farmers Institute began here last
Tuesday. We will publish a full report next


The Farmers Institute began here last
Tuesday. We will publish full report next
week.
There will be a meeting of the Van Buren,
County Medical Association in this village on
Tuesday next.
A. G. Martin won the silver watch at Chap
pel's. He says he never won anything be-
fore. Probably he never will again,
Prof. G. K. Hutchins and his gee club
intend to give concert at the Disciple
church, on Friday evening of next week.
Married, at his residence by Elder T..
Brooks of Paw Paw, MIR. Jopson of Sutter
county, California, to Miss Kansas Eta Hill
of Almena.
If the weather is pleasant and the sleIghing
good the Disciples will hold social next
Tuesday evening, at the residence of Fred
Sh@fer, III Almena.
The recent heavy snow storm materially
interfered with the running of trains, and
the delivery of the mails. Last Friday even
ing six freight trains were Snow bound at
Lawton.
At the gift-fat-stock- baby enterprise at the
roller rink Tuesday evening last, Mr.. Harper
of New York, walked away with the first
prize, Henry Sherman second, and Will Ran
dali third-rag baby-better than none, Will.
The ladies of the First Baptist church, will
give New England supper next Tuesday
evening, Jan. 27th. There will be costumes
of "ye olden time" and short programme
of music and rotations suitable to the occa-
sion. Tables will be ready at $50. Admis-
sion free. Supper 10 cents. All are invited
Speaking of butter making the Chicago
Breeders Gazette says the Jersey COW "Mary
Anne" owned by V. u. Fuller of Hamilton,
Ont. has record Of sc lbs. II toz. in seven
days, beginning with Sept. 23d and ending
with Sept. 30th, 1884. This goes far beyond
any previous record, and is wonderful and
astonishing yield.
Rev. ID. Tompkinson of Porter, thinks his
lot is cast among people who know how to
make pastors life happy one. He de-
sires to return the sincere thanks of himself
and family for load of provisions recently
delivered at his residence, by the Porter
brethren. He says the supplies could not
have come in a more acceptable time.
The following is a list of the committee
assignments of Van Buren, county men,
University, Agricultural College, and the
craftsmanship of the committee on Banking
and Incorporation; Representative j. G..
Parkhurst Liquor Traffic, Town and Count
les, and the craftsmanship of the committee
on University; Representative j. S. Cross,
Horticulture State Affairs, and the chairman
ship Of the committee on Insurance.
Married, Wednesday evening January ii,
1885, at the residence of the brides parents
in Lawton, Mr.. Fred j. Lich to Miss Julia A.
Jones, Rev. III. w. Harvey of Paw Paw, ofic-
iating. The wedding was very pleasant af
fair indeed, quite number of the personal
friends of the high contracting parties being
present. The happy couple were the recipi-
ents of large number of elegant and useful
presents. Fred and his wife are now at Big
Rapids, on a visit to his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. G.. Lich, formerly of this village. The
NoRTHERNER tenders its congratulations to
the newly married couple and earnestly
wishes them long and happy voyage across
the matrimonial sea.
The Ladies' Reading Club which assem-
bles every Monday evening contrived on
Christmas eve. to smugele large rattan
rocker into Miss Kate Ocobock's domain so
mysteriously, that she has but recently been
able to decide as TO who the guilty parties
might be but, the clue once gained, Kate
determined not TO be out-witted, and so,
when called upon last Monday evening to
begin the reading, she opened the book and
calmly commenced
"Chapter V-The Mystery.-In an old
wooden castle in the city of P-lives a
little old woman whose only companion
is little orphan boy, SO you can easily
see that she often realizes that there are
twenty four hours in the day and night.
The night before Christmas this little old
woman went out of her room on an errand,
and when she returned there stood the most
acOnde1ub chair. Large and roomy, with
arms wide apart so that large person could
be comfortable in it, and in the meshes was
drawn some bright satin ribbon, and three
5oics,-and let me tell you that three bea,Lr
at one time are luxuries this little old woman
never enjoyed before.
She was speechless with astonishment,
and her poor little heart got up and sat down
so often, that it loosened the buttons on her
dress.
Well, to this day she does not know for
certain who sent her this beautiful gift but
she thinks il was the fairies, and SO, every
time she rocks, she says "God bless the
fairies, and their fairy queen"
1t was not until she reached the ''three
beaux' that the ladies began to remark that
it did not sound quite like Dickens, but
when she left the 'fairies" and glided into
"Boflin's Bower" they all knew that Kate
had solved the mystery.