The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

Zimmerman killed playmate with base.
ball BAT.
There are over 100 visitors at tn,
springs at St Louis that register from
Cincinnati. Itii
Sparta has two baseball clubs named
"The Paralyzing Jim Dandies" and "Th,
Get There Ellis"
This season has been the most favor.
able for harvesting that Shiawassee County
has known for years.
Mrs. Ignace Navarro of Frenchtown.
Monroe County. dropped dead while on
her way to call on a neighbor.
The price Of salt was advanced by the
manufacturers at Bay City to so cents q
barrel. owing to the recent strike.
The abstract of title of the postoffice
site at Detroit covers 400 sheets of legal
cap. and contains the record Of 140 instru-
ments.
William Elsenman, Hillsdale College
graduate of 1882, has been made Superin-
tendent of the Denver (Colo.) public
schools.
Nearly $500 worth Of standard books
will be added TO the Ludington Public
School Library before school begins in
September.
Zion Store, Salt Lake City, is the
largest general store in the world, and that
of Hannah, Lay & Co.. Traverse City, the
next in size.
Contracts aRgregating s2,375 have
been let for the new ST. James Catholic
school at Grand Rapids. 1t will cost $500
when completed.
A reward Of 500 has been offered foi
the body of Horatio L. Ide, missing from
Ransom. He is believed to have been
foully dealt with
-Owossos Union School has furnished
five officers for the order of Good Tenn
plars from its recent graduates, who were
duly installed last week
Il. Wollers S-months- old twin boys
both died near Adrian last week. Both
children were taken sick at the same time
and died about the same hour.
The ninth annual exhibit Of the Colon
Floral, Horticultural, and Art Association
will be held Sept. 8, 9. 10, and IL. The
management is under the supervision oil
amateur lady florists principally.
The committee in charge has decided
to abandon the State Encampment OF
Knights Templars at Grand Rapids this
year. the sentiment of Knights throughout
the State being against the encampment.
The firm of Cossett & Homee, OF
Owosso, have just fitted up their extensive
shops with new machinery. A little while
ago the largest iron wheel ever manufact-
ured in Shiawassee County was produced
by this firm.
"A tract of land was bought by the city
of Ishpeming, recently, for cemetery pur-
poses. The old cemetery was so full that
not foot of available space was left, and
graves had been made in the roadway.
Burials have been made at Neganneo the
past several months.
j. d. Hodgkins is the owner of q
tenement house in Negaunee which has
been refuge for beggars and squalid pow
erty. He has been notified by the City
Recorder to clean and repair the place al
once. 1t is known as Castle Garden.
and has long been disgrace to the city.
A little boy fell off the dock at Hough
ton recently. His mother saw the fall
and, rushing 10 the spot, she stripped of
her skirt and held it over the sinking boy
who clasped it and was saved. Her JOY q
the rescue did not prevent her from en-
forcing the lesson witha good sound spank
ing, publicly administered.
The salt inspection in the State during
during the month of July was as follows: