The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-05-14

tickets 10 the spring meeting OF the van
Bnren County Agricultural Society, to be
held May 2l, 22 and 23.
We were favored. one day last week, with
a very pleasant call from Bro. II. l.. Hay
ward, editor of the Longmom Ledger, pub
lished at Longmont, Colorado. Mr.. IL. is a
very pleasant man TO meet
The fine republican pole at Decatur is no
more. 1t was shiyered by a stroke of light
ming, on Tuesday of last week-a Judgment
upon the party for not coming up TO the
support of their ticket at the recent spring
election, as they should have done.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot? w.
s. Jones, president, informs US that there
will be meeting of the {" Alumni Associa-
tion," at the high school room, on Tuesday
evening May 26th, inst. A full attendance
is desired, as important business will come
before the meeting.
The newly installed fiicers of the l. o. q. It.
at Keelerville, are as follows: Mrs. George
Thomas, w. G. T.; Mrs. Frank Hill, w. V.
T.: w. j. Martin, w. Sec.: David Buck, w.
+. S.: S. Pritchard, w. T.: j. Pritchard, w.
c.. Miss Gertrude Martin, w. g.. Miss M.
Nj. Mason, w. Sen.; Mr.. F. Z. Martin, w.
O.G.
The president and executive com mittee Of
the Pioneers Association" of Van Buren,
county, will meet at the office of w. Il. Haw-
kins ESQ.,, in this village, on Thursday, the
21st inst, for the purpose of making arrange
ments for the annual reunion to be held at
Paw Paw, on the 81 day of June next, at 10
O'Clock a. m.
Miss Frances Willard, the great temper
ance advocate, will address our people at the
rink, on Wednesday evening. May 20th.
Miss Willard possesses National reputation
as temperance lecturer, and her address
will, doubtless, be rare treat which none
can afford to miss. Let the lady be greeted
by full house. Admission free to all.
|, f. N Rathbun went to Paw Paw last
Thursday 10 take the foremanship of the
, NoRTHERNER office. He has not yet fully re-
covered from his recent illness but when he
does and gets right down to business the
people at the county seat will find they have
one of the most rapid and artistic job print
ers in the state.-Decdtur Republicans.
Among other attractions, the Van Buren
| County Agricultural Society advertises two
grand balloon ascensions, to be given by Prof.
/ L. ID. Hogan of Jackson, Mich, to take
place at one o'clock, p. m, on Friday and
Saturday, May 22-3. Prof. Ii. is the gentle
man who attached a Jackson wagon to his
air ship, and sailed away with it, as an adver-
tisement for the manufacturers.
On Saturday evening last, George Monroe
and Henry Pulver of Almena and Brad.
Brooks of Porter, were arraigned before Esq.
Warner, on charge OF drunkenness. They
admitted the transgresson, and were ad-
judged to contribute $40 each to the library
fund, or board with colonel ten days. They
spent the Sabbath with him and, not liking
to intrude any longer, paid up on Monday.
|, Speaking of planting evergreens, the Par
! Paso Herald discourses lucidly and learnedly,
! as follows: .They should be fresh-dug.
quick packed and soon received. The its
der point about an evergreen is co root. If
once dried il seldom refovers. 1t is very
important, therelyre, that the roots should be
: careful-p protected from sun and wind. II
dossible, take a cloudy or showery ray for
, for handling evergreens. IL the tight con-
ditions do not exist, keep the roots constant
: ly wet and rolled up in mating
Mrs. Belva Lockwood late candidate for
the presidency of the United States, will ad-
: dress the citizens of Paw Paw and vicinity
! at Longwell's opera house, on Tuesday
. evening" May 26th, inst. Mrs. Lockwood
has the reputation of being an eloquent
entertaining and instructive speaker. AS a
: member of the bar of no slight reputation,
and as the only woman who was ever honor
ed by nomination for the Office of chief
magistrate of the Nation, she will. without
doubt, draw large house. Reserved seats
at Longwell's, only thirty-ive cents.
e During the past winter we inserted an ad
vertisement for the Nunda publishing com
:. pany, Nunda, N. Y. Since that time several
!. of our farmer friends have informed us that
they have sent the company money without
! any returns. We also failed to receive our
pay for inserting the advertisement. We
now see that the same fellows are advertising
s in some of our exchanges, this time having
i another scheme. Let them alone.-Doud
giac Times. The NoETHERNER is also in re-
= ceipt of a proposition to advertise for the
! above mentioned concern. Our readers need
not look for the "ad." We have no use for
it.
We have almost forgotten in these latter
> days how stirring were the scenes few gen
erations since in what were then the "bor
s der-lands" of Kentucky and Tennessee. But
Q they are called to mind graphically by q
paper on Knoxville in the Olden Time,
!. from Edmund Kirke, which will appear in
{ the June HARPER's, with a portrait of old
John Sewer. the pioneer, and illustrations
y
|, rescue by the Tennesseeans from North
Carolina courthouse, where he was being
9 tried during an interstate war, reopens q
well-nigh forgotten chapter of American
I history.
The following appears in the Americon
= Settler, paper published in London at
this meet the eye of John Baden, late oi
t Wolverhampton, England, last known to re.
r side at Bloomingdale, Michigan, United
e States, about August, 1S82-will he kindly
send his present correct address to No. IL
n st. Marks Road, Wolverhampton, England
also if this meets the eye of any person who
: might have seen or employed the said John
: Bladen, if such would kindly communicate
anything they know of the said John Blader
to the above address, they would relieve the
5 burden of his widowed mother, and expenses
would be remitted." Michigan papers please
y copy.
Another Celebration.
The executive committee appointed last
year to manage the Fourth of July celebra