The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-02-12
Cbserver,s Observations.

Will some one tell us who will be our next
postmaster?
l.. w. Whitbeck is going into the business
of fancy pig breeding.
Oh p. Sheldon put new furnace in the
Free Baptist church last week.
Wednesday morning opened clear and cold
the coolest of the season. mercury from % ,
to % , below zero.
The Paw Paw Herald announces that it
has adopted new plan, q change of base
1t will be better paper, as a matter Of
course.
On account OF the Indictment weather, the
entertainment advertised to be held at the
rink last Wednesday evening" was postponed
for ore week.
That portable butcher from Waverly, was
in town last Saturday with a sleigh load of
beef and mutton which he soon sold at bot
tom prices to cents per pound.
The narrow gauge train succeeded in reach
ing Lawton Wednesday afternoon and Thurs
day morning started on an exploring expedi-
ton toward Lawrence and Hartford.
Ed Hayes, the short legged ex-soldier and
pensioner, is rusticating with his brother in
Wexford county. Ed feels lonely since his
old partner and bed-fellow got married.
That New England supper at the First
Baptist church, was grand success and ma
ny of those who partook OF it went home as
well filed as those quail and mamma fellows
of old, that we read about.
Bloomingdale has a new preacher from
| Big Rapids, named Rose. 1t is said there
never was a rose without thorn. He will
probably be thorn in the side of all evil
doors, and spur sin out of the neighborhood.
which will be grand thing for our sister
village.
We understand that in the near future
our people are 10 have a rare treat in the
way of lecture by Rev II. w. Harvey
subject, Lights and Shadows of Army
Life. Time and place will probably bC
given in cur next issue.
Miss Maud Hawkins received the $500
corset. Miss Minnie Allen the skating corset
Miss Mary Crowell the style "B''. and Miss
Matte Blackman the Misses corset given
away by JAY Cummings on wednesday evening
of last week, at the rink.
A short, crooked legged rooster from Ar
| lington, forged note OF $500 against his
father and uncle and sold il TO Frank Sellick
the other day, after which he ''lit OUT for
the tall pines of northern Michigan. As vet
no steps have been taken to effect his capture
Rumor says the father will pay the note.
The custom recently adopted 10y good
many daily and weekly newspapers, of decor.
ating their columns with hideous wood cuts
purporting to be the portraits of respectable
citizens, is scandalous one. Such miserable
caricatures ought to make the publishers
liable to respond in damages, to those whom
they thus ridicule.
Our farmers are on the watch with their
dogs and shot guns, for the Bohemian oat
men. They have concluded that the yield
is no greater from oats that cost them $40 q
bushel than from those that are only worth
% cents. Our advice to the "Bohemians'
is TO pass gently by this town into Hamilton
and Keeler and not stop there.
II. p. Simmons and r. r. Doyne of Law
renee, Il. A. Vought OF Decatur. John Deck
er of Bloomingdale. A. j. Baird of Kalamazoo.
NJ. Z. Clark of Coolies, Warren Cushman and
A. Il. i. of Paw Paw, all got judgment against
Uncle Sam last week, and monthly allow
ances of alimony during the little time they
have to stay on earth. G. T.. Galligan was
their attorney.
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learned that trains each way were blockaded
on the Central, snow pillow with three
engines attached, being stuck between Dow
agiac and Pokagon, and gang of men gone
10 dig it out Business along the line of the
road entirely suspended. Two passenger
trains showed in on the South Haven road
somewhere between stations.
Lost Tuesday afternoon, when the wind
was blowing perfect blizzard. and the mer-
curry was 10 below zero, Ed. Arnold, an en-
ployee ut the Dyckman House, made a wager
of ten dollars, with Mat, the landlord, that
he could walk TO Lawton, distance of four
miles, and return, in three hours. Mat. after
wards bet the Wild Irishman five dollars that
he would win Arnold's money In Just one
hour and five minutes from the time he
started the telephone reported his arrival at
Lawton, and twelve minutes before the ex-
piration of the time, he was back at the
Dyckman house, having stopped at the de-
| pot half an hour TO rest. Considering that
he had TO wallow through heavy snow drifts
nearly all the way, the feat was remarkable
one. McCabe gave Arnold two dollars of
the five won 10y him.