The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-30
Observers Observations.

Observers Observations.
Don your straw hats.
Now is the season for suckers and milk.
The ice wagon now makes its daily calls.
No cases of sunstroke have yet been re-
ported.
Most of the kids have adopted the bobtail
hair cut.
Our people were crying aloud for the street
sprinkler, last week.
Pcnickers are repairing tents and boats.
preparatory to the summer campaign.
Mercury has finally got through fooling
with zero, and will try the other fellow a
while.
Josiah Kingsbury is fixing up his wagons,
intending to drive through to the home of
the Oklahoma boomers.
Dan Hurlbut, the drayman, has bought
Dansby's bronchos ard rig, and will keep
them at the draying business.
The boys have opened mp the frog and
sucker trade and are rushing business.
Goods in that line are selling cheap.
AS they 90 out on an evening walk, moth
ing will draw those ten cent pieces out of his
pocket quicker than an ice cream sign.
Two of Geo. Harrison's little girls have
been quite i'll, but are improving. 1t was
feared they had diptheria, but the physi-
clans all say not.
Will Sellick has hung out for sale, an ele-
CANT lot of hammocks Nothing, so they
say, is so nice for sparkling, as one of those
swinging institutions.
John Blaisdell, Joseph Ellison, John M.
Hoisington, Green West, Oscar ID. Chapman
and two others, were made happy last week,
through Galligan's pension shop.
Henry wison-not Henry the butcher
has gone west on a tour of inspection and
recreation. He intends, before he returns,
to bask on CALIFORNIA; golden shores.
Van Fossen, the Herald man, has removed
the fence that surrounded his domicile, and
will either build new one, or, what is better
yet, follow the fashion and not have any.
Dick Setchfield and family of Waverly,
have taken leave of granger life and moved
into town where their little offsprings can
attend the big school and enjoy themselves.
The British lion is viggling his tail for a
little brush with the Russian bear. The
bear sits on his launches and growls, ready
! to give the lion a squeeze whenever he pitch
/ eS In
! All the more industrious people in town
of which we are one of whom. have cleaned
up their dooryards and cellars. Let others
go and do likewise. Don't forget the back
yard.
Several Kalamazoo flyers are being fitted
up, for the purpose of competing for the
prizes that will be hung up at our spring
fair. Where is Rolla? a word to the wise
is sufficient.
Will Carr, the Waverly wood merchant
boasts of new girl baby weighing II pounds
in its stocking feet. Since the advent of the
little cherub Will can scarcely be reached
with ten feet pole.
Young Hessings,. wilkeses, Erebuses
Dukes, yoluntairs, etc. are putting in appear
ances. Each, of course, is so much better
than any of the others, that its owner is very
iubilant and happy.
Nearly every child in town wears around
its neck, small sack filled with camphor
sulphur, assafetida, etc, to prevent contag-
ious diseases. IL it is prevention that pre-
vents, it is good thing
Hank Eye has gone into the cattle business
But one thing worries him, pleuro pneumo-
MA Should this disease enter his herd and
as it sometimes does, destroy 80 per cent of
il, Hank would have left just halt Jersey
calf
J.. w. Whitbeck has become a clerk in Ed.
Gilman s grange store. Whit. may not
knows the grips and tokens, signs and pass
words, but he will make a good clerk. Just
the same. We are informed that he has
wholly withdrawn from politics.
An old lady was in town the other day
with basket of what she claimed were " un-
impregnated' eggs, and which she claimed
would keep longer than ordinary eggs. Sam
Holmes bought them for his own eating.
We do not understand Just what an "un-
impregnated" egg is.
She was a beautiful KaIamazulu. and told
our pension agent that she married him the
day he left for the army. She was sweet
sixteen in July. 1864, and, in October fol-
lowing, he was killed that her marriage had
been kept profound secret from that day
to this, known only to the officiating maQis
trate and two Witnesses that she still re-
remains his widow, and timidly enquired if.
under the circumstances, she was entitled 10
a pension. Certainly" replied the p. a..
You are just as much entitled TO pension
as though Won had lived with him IL years
and bad raised IL children She smiled.
filed her claim and departed for her Kalama.
700 home.