The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-16


three times the amount of year ago.
-Mancelona will have a foundry, ma
chine shop and gristmill next summer.
"A Mason man is going into the chicken
business. He will turn them out on short
notice with an incubator.
st. Louis business men have raised
fund of $4,000 with which to induce man
ufacturers to locate there.
1t is predicted that more strangers win
visit Marquette during the summer OF 1885
than in any other one season in the city's
history.
"A medical institute at Flint. was burn
ed, causing loss of $4,000. Thirteen
patients were with difficulty rescued from
the flames.
The Centerville creamery has begun
operations. When running their full ca
pacity they turn OF from 1000 TO 1900
pounds of butter per day.
Mrs Carissa veeder. of Williamson,
died last week in the Dist year of her
age. She was pensoner Of 1912, in which
war her husband was soldier.
Charles Lockwood. cadet at West
Point Military Academy. from Sturgis, has
been obliged to give up his studies and go
to New York to have his eyes treated.
Inspector General Kidd inspected the
Three Rivers Light Guard. and found the
company in good condition. excepting
cloth n.y. which has been used since 1873.
j. Brown and C. Dickinson, of White
Pigeon, are feeding 2,l00 sheep. They
consume 40 bushels Of shelled corn and Ii
tons of hay daily at cost of $50, or $500
month.
Two pupils in the Mason High School
froze their feet while sitting in the school
room last winter, and now the people think
ii time to discover some better method Of
heating.
Dave wolford, foreman of Harbor
Springs section of the c. II. & l., took
first premium on northern division for best
worked section and last year took the same
premium on main line.
old This is not all; she is the mother of
twenty one children. p. S.-She is a right
smart old lady yet, and has just completed
quilt containing 1856 pieces.
The J. W. French Manufacturing Com
pany, of Three Rivers, will turn over $685.
600 worth of property to their creditors and
the works be set in operation. If the prop
erty sells for what it is listed it will pay all
the indebtedness.
An East Saginaw man is under arrest
charged with stealing q Bible. That man
ought to be released on his own recogniz-
ance and sent to Barnum as one East Sagi-
nav man who cares enough for a Bible to
steal it. -Kalamazoo Telegraph.
There are 1877 ladies' in attendance at
the University, an increase of 16 over last
year. They are distributed as follows:
Literary department, 119; medical. Sc;
homeopathic medical college, 10; dental de-
partment, 8; law department, 3; phar-
macy, l.
p. Paine. living near Westwood, Kali
kaska County, was at work at the bottom of
o well sixty feet deep, when the bottom of
bucket filed with curbing, which was be-
ing lowered, gave way. Three of the pieces
struck him on the top of the head, crushing
his skull badly.
The School Board of Three Rivers has
adopted resolution requiring candidates
for graduation from the High School there
to hold third grade certificate from the
Board of Examiners. The Three Rivers
Tribune thinks it will tend to lessen the
number of graduated ounces.
ID. c. Churchill, when about ten miles
from Alpena was interviewed by a lynx.
He was without any weapon. The lynx
gazed at him short time. then politely
walked to one side Of the road and allowed
Mr.. Churchill to pass on. Mr.. Churchill
did not linger. Republican.
Ira Starkweather, an old resident and
good man of Flower6eld, is dead at the age
of So He was Justice of the Peace eleven
years, Notary Public fifteen years, Post
master sixteen years. and Supervisor
| Twelve Years, Delng MEMBER OF the ot
Joseph County Board at the time Of his
death.
Last year, the first vessel from Chicago
for Buffalo passed through the Straits OF
Mackinaw April 26, which was unusually
late. This year our lake men will deem
themselves fortunate if their vessels. bound
for the lower lakes. shall get through the
Straits by the middle of June. The Joe in
the Straits is more thick and more solid
than has ever been known before. and as
yet it gives no sign of thawing. Chicago
journal.
The organized workingmen of the Sagi-
nav Valley have issued a nu Der of circu-
lars warning those seeking employment not
to be misled by advertisements promising
work in that locality. as it is "for the pur-
pose of reducing wages, while at the same
time our resident workingmen in the valley
are idle" Attached to the circu ar is a
| table showing that the wages per day of