The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-02

"A Womans hehef corps IN mlked or
at Bronson.
Battle Creek has company of Okla
homa boomers
-Nichola Daily. Quincy pioneer, died
last week. aged n.
"A Flint lady asks all TO beat it who can:
A quilt containing 10, 4S9 pieces.
Poor 10" pervades Michigan to the
number of COO. mostly of the Pottawato-
mic tribe.
There is woman who has lived fifteen
years in Saginaw City and never been to
East Saginaw.
"A Dickens every four weeks costumed
reading club is among the new mental enter
prises at Battle Greek.
DIR. Moore, who recently disappeared
from London. Ont, giving rise to suspicion
that he had been murdered, is at East Sag
inaw.
The question Of raising $4,000 for an
addition to the Central School building has
been buried under opposing votes at st.
Johns.
"A member of the first medical class in
the University of Michigan and who fur
nished its first cadaver is temporarily resid-
ing in Ann Arbor.
A graveyard insurance company has
been started in Battle Creek, insuring peo-
pie up to 80. An examination has been in
vited oy agents of local companies
-Ex- Congressman Willard, editor of the
Battle Creek Journal. was elected Presi-
dent of the newly organized Peoples CO.
operative and Mutual Benefit Society.
e. S. Spencer, Battle Creek boy who
left that town in 1852 then just Of age, and
struck out for California, now ranks among
the ablest lawyers of the Pacific coast.
"A colony of some twenty-five people
from Ohio, designing to settle on railroad
lands in this State. became stranded at
lansing and the Superintendent of the
Poor returned them to their homes.
Miss Eliza Bayles, who died last week
at Monroe, aged 70. was gratefully rsmem-
the cholera epidemic in 1882, when she
went from house to house, caring for the
sick
Battle Creek claims to furnish more
travelling statesmen for wholesale houses
than any other city Of the size in the State
Over fifty young men from that city are now
travelling for manufacturing and wholesale
houses.
Gold hunters are swarming on the
ranges north of Ishpeming, in the hills near
LAnse and along Paint River. Every train
from the south brings some new prospector
who has the fever. There have been several
rich finds lately.-Mining Journal
The Battle Creek College authorities
are suspending students for writing for the
local papers and letting out events which
happen inside the college walls. The insti-
tuition seems to run on close communion,
supreme panjoram, inauisitorial sort of
style-Detroit Free Press.
A couple of Hudson men and their
wives few evenings ago drove in q cutter
TO the house of an acquaintance mile away,
unhitched the horse and tied him. Late in
the evening it was found that the horse had
broken the halter and gone home. But the :.
plucky husbands bundled their wives into
the cutter and getting outside the shafts
played horse and pulled the women home.
Three men at Juddville, Shiawassee
County, whose gardens join, began case
to get eighty five cords Of stove wood Of
man who had sick wife and four small
children living in a thin single boardhouse.
They took every stick Of wood the man
had. The latter brought suit against the
parties, however. and the jury rendered a
they had taken.
The war between the faculty of the Ad-
vent College at Battle Greek and the boys
and girls who believe that it is their destiny
to make love to and spark each other wax
eth hot and human nature won't down at
the parading of severe penalties. Threat
ened with expulsion, the culprits have
grown demure and apparently penitent, but
the fun and mischievousness of the situa-
ton goes increasingly on. 1t is against the
rules for boys and girls to walk home to-
gether from the tabernacle, and some Of the
boys of feminine appearance one night Sc
cretly donned female apparel and walked
home with the girls.-Kalamazoo Tele-
graph.
South Frankfort has an old lady Mrs.
Hinkson) who was born in Vermont in
17SS, and consequently is 81 years of age.
She lost her eyesight about fifteen years
ago, but of late years has regained the use
of her eyes, and can sew and knit without
difficulty. She attends to her own house
work still. Her son William, now 65 years
old, lives with her. Mrs. Hinkson has full
control of her mental faculties. and remem-
bers some old Revolutionary soldiers very
well: also the time when the news reached
them that President George Washington
had died at Mt. Vernon. When the war OF
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