The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-01-15

Observers Observations.
We do not like q lazy correspondent.
We have been having our February thaws.
George Eye has rented Ira Flanders farm
and moved ON 1t.
Mrs Hadsell is the happy mother of
new boy, born the 10th.
The ice crop is getting altogether too ripe
to harvest in good shape.
Mrs. Calista Hogmire has Just returned
from four weeks visit at Bangor.
Wheat is selling for 75 cents a.bushel
crackers at war prices, 10 cents pound.
Ed. Hayes got thousand dollar pension
the other day, and he and his chums are
happy.
The Notary Public season has began.
Now is the time to file your application with
Judge Parkhurst.
Fred Lord got to the front with new
Fred, born on the 9Th inst, who kicked the
beam at nine pounds.
Oar winter seems To indicate that the front
end OF the hogs melt was good deal the
longest, but then, the winter is only half
gone.
Mrs. Chauncey Cookbook has opened new
dress making establishment in the Sherman
block, In the rooms formerly occupied by
w. @. Mackellar.
She came up Main street last Saturday
the big white drapery came down nearly trip
ping her up. She kicked them off, gathered
them under her arm and went along. . She
had our sympathy.
Little Johnny Galligan bought the first
new suit sold at the "deep cut. They cost
him 5000, and he says when he attended
church last Sunday he felt as we'll ragged
OUT as any of them.
Lawton correspondent OF the. HeraM
says firm in that burg shipped an OK that
weighed 900 pounds, and a pig six months
old that weighed $50 pounds. All we have
to say is ''quite an OK, quite pig, quite
good yarn
Wesaw the new president of the Van Buren,
county agricultural society few days since,
and he informed us that he was going to try
and have a good fair We aay "bully for
Ike and let everybody bring their bulls and
not make bull of II as they have been doing.
La Grange, Cass CO., has farmer named
Ned Hilton whom the grangers surprise oc-
casionaly with little parties. Paw Paw has
probate judge by the same name. An at
tempt was made to surprise him by defeating
him for the position he holds, but it failed
to materialize.
A couple of our fsh-mongers went to
Kalamazoo the other day and purchased
load of fish. There was hole in the bottom
of their wagon box. and some Paw Paw
"paux-laux" players who followed them home
had more fish to sell than the mongers had.
They retailed them at bottom prices.
A Waverly man claims that the state owes
him large sum for false imprisonment as
he was incarcerated in Jackson for - years
for crime of which he was wholly innocent
He Is going to Coldwater to obtain proofs Of
his innocence and if the money is not forth
coming he will make the fur fly.
Peach men say they are all right for
good crop next season, and that peaches will
be cheap-not to exceed $3.50 per bushel.
The prospect is quite encouraging to farm
ners who had to have their orchards cut down
on account of the yeIows. They can sell
wheat at 10 cents and buy peaches at the re-
markably low price above mentioned.
We recently received letter from Kansas
stating that potatoes were worth 30 cents
bushel, and hay at the stack from Sl.50 to
5000 per ton. We would like to trade pota-
toes for hay. Here ton of hay is worth 40
bushels of potatoes. They say Kansas is
great state, and that they have no more hail
storms and cyclones, the legislature having
passed an act prohibiting them and impos-
ing heavy fine or imprisonment, or both,
in the discretion of the court, for passing
through there.