The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-02-26

DuliA-utdU III Tue iIADDy Wills
tho fight all right, bat Scotia received the
PeIt(s) Ac
y Our false prophet, who has been predict
ing, for the past three weeks, heavy fall of
rain and general breaking up, paraded the
streets last Tuesday, with the word thGo
printed on his back in large letters. They
are very bad boys to do such thing, Ell,
Bill?
Married, at Parkerville, Kansas, Mr.. James
T. Parker TO Miss Maud Brewer. The bride
is daughter Of the late Lawrence Brewer,
OF this county, and is q most estimable young
lady. We understand that her husband is a
prosperous drug merchant of Parkerville,
9Ssstr'v Very fine man.
George Angel Of Decatur, was arraigned
before Justice Warner last Tuesday, charged
with an atteInp. to steal the organ from the
Porter church. He waived examination, and
was held for trial. If an angel hasn't the
right to remove church property, will some
one inform us who has!
Deacon James A. Burns aged so years died
at his residence in Hillsdale. Thursday night
the 18th. of pneumonia. The funeral exer-
cises held at the house were conducted by
Rev. DIR. Durgin assisted by Rev. Mr.. Ken
ney Mr. Burns was the father of Rev. w.
s. and A. j. Burns, recently of this village,
The following are the names of the star
scholars of the first intermediate department
of the Paw Paw Union School, for the exam
ination closing Feb. 10th; ninety-five being
the required average per cent: Julia Harri-
son, Jessie Harrison, Ella Mcdowell. Nina
Rowland. Sabra Stanton, Jimmie Phillips,
Clarence Flanders, Ralph Jones.
The annual meeting of the Van Buren
County Sunday School Association will be
held at Hartford, on Thursday and Friday,
March 9TH and 9th. w. Il. Jacobs and Prof.
r. .. Excel of Chicago, are among the at
fractions this year. Reduced rates on the
L. d 5. IL. X. Il. have been secured. a
general good time is anticipated.
Two employees of the Dyckman House
ran a foot race the other day in their stock
ing feet, when the thermometer indicated
10 > below zero, for a wager of 81. The con-
testants were Dick. the blonde. pompadoured
dish wrestler, and George McDougal, the
chief director of the wood yard. Dick walked
of with the filthy lucre, putting and steaming,
y Hon. @. j. Monroe was in town last week
on his way TO Lansing. He had been
heiHc and was trying to get back to the cap
ital He had driven all the way from South
Haven, and had had terrible time TO get
through, the roads being wholly unbroken
over the greater portion of the route. 1t
takes something more than a snow storm to
keep @. j. from his post of duty.
! The following named gentlemen were duly
elected and installed as officers of the Grand
Encampment. /. q. o. f., recently held at
! Allegan: s. u. Munger of st. Johns, G.. p. !:
Geo. Greenfield of Marshall, G.. II. p. j. B.
Award of Camden, G.. s. W.; Z. III. Whitney
of Lansing, q. s.; Harrison Soule of jack
son, G.. T.. Andrew Harris of Alpena, G.. j..
W.: s. s. French of Battle Creek, Grand
Representative.
Owing to the inclemency of the weather,
and the financial depression of the country,
the 3D. Mich. Cavalry will hold no reunion
this winter. meeting will probably be
called sometime during the summer or fall.
Comrades are requested TO send the address
of members of the regiment to o. 4. Web
ster, secretary, Ann Arbor, Mich, and also
the death of any members that has occurred
since the last reunion.
The union service, held on Sunday last, at
the Disciple church, under the auspices of
Brodhead Post, Il. a. r., in conimemora-
tion of Washington's birthday, was very in
teresting and called ont large audi
ence. Rev. III. w. Harvey, chaplain of the
Post, planned and managed the exercises.
| Appropriate addresses were made by Rev's.
Corey. Fish and Brooks. The singing was
by chorus, managed by Mr. q. w. Koons,
and just filed the bill.
z foot race on Main street last Saturday
afternoon, drew out a large crowd. The con-
testants were Fred Longwell and Andy
Graine. Distance 100 yards. CRANE giving
Fred IL feet on the outcome. Andy, making
n miscue on the start, stepped on himself
and Fred took the lead, and, although rather
low in build for a racer, proved TO be quick
stopper and crossed the score ahead, winning
the race by two full lengths. Time not
given.
The following is the programme for an
open session of Van Buren, County Grange,
to be held at Decatur, Feb. 26th, at two
o'clock p. m:
@. o. Abbott, Keller.
Essay-...............M Mrs. Chas. Larkns, Decatur.
Papsr-''Iiow Raise my Colts, ,"-Edson woodman,
Essay" -"Cultvation of Flowers, Mrs. Mary Pow
Rssay-" blackboard Farming,"-A. c. olidden
Essay-......... Mrs. Jerusha wakeman, Lawrence.
Paper. +. Howe, Decatur.
All are cordially invited to be present.
Zone of Paw Paws noble sprouts started
Ythe other day. for the rural districts, either
\ with or to visit his best girl, we are uncer-
<Qin which at any rate his attention was 20
TAKEN up, that he didn't observe when his
horse stepped of into the snow out of sight,
leaving nothing but two ears sticking up.
The only way be could manage to extricate
his steed was to unbitch, take him by the
narrative and pull him back to the nearest
barn-yard where he could change ends with
him, so as 10 return home and abandon his
trip as a bad job. We don't want to give
the young man away, and will simply say
that his initials are John Thomas.