The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-02-19

The Lawrence mail was not sent down af-
ter the beginning of the recent storm, until
Saturday.
We thought the Herald would be improved
by change of base and it was. 1t was
quite legible.
The late Il. .. Briggs carried some $17 900
worth OF lfe-insuance, including an acci-
dent policy of $4,000.
Rev. ii. w. Haryey's lecture, mentioned
in our last issue, will be given at the Presby-
terian church on Tuesday evening next, Feb.
"a. Admission 10c.
Our post Office, last Saturday morning
looked like city Office. 1t was filed full
OF mail bags, and the girls were hard at work
trying To bring order out of confusion, while
Beebe looked placidly on and-smoked.
Chas. and Frank Duncombe of Keller,
We're in town last Tuesday. Frank says they
have better walks in Keeler than we do here,
for the reason that majority of the people
there keep snow-plows of their own, and use
them.
The winter of 'S4 and 3 viii go into his
tory as the cold winter. Reports from vari-
Gus parts of the state show several degrees
1864. The storm Of last week was the Sc
verest ever known in Michigan.
The question with our peach growers at
tho present time is not whether they will
have any peaches next season, but whether
they will have any peach orchards. We
heard one fruit grower offer to sell his or
ehard at dollar tree and throw in toe
land.
The cost to Van Buren county, Tor the
maintenance of its INDECENT insane, at the
Kalamazoo asylum, for the quarter ending
January 31st, 1885, was @5S9.0S. There are
now ten patients in that institution, who are
being kept there at the expense of our
county.
The Detroit Times didn't paint the town
red, but it did print rhyming Valentine
edition." in which news, editorials, ads =
everything, was given in verse. The Times
has a good deal OF "git" to it, but this effort
must have been terrible strain on its poet
icGl editor.
Sunday school workers should remember
the convention of the Sunday schools of Al
mena, Antwerp and Porter, to be held at
Mattawan on the 2lst and 22d insts. Those
having it in charge have prepared very at
tractive programme and the meeting should
be an interesting one.
A union service, under the auspices OF
Broadhead Post, q. A. r., will be held az the
Disciple church on Sunday next, Washing
tons birth -day. Members IF the Post will
apper in Uniform. Neighboring Posts and
all ex-soldiers are specially invited to attend.
and general invitation is extended to all.
Saturday was pleasant day, the first day
for nearly week, that people could venture
ont without danger of freezing. Oar streets
were filed with teams and our merchants
seemed to be having good run of custom.
The roads, IN many places, were reported as
wholly impossible and teams bad to be
driven through the fields.
Three incipient confagrations were discov-
cred in Decatur last week: in time TO be ez-
tinguished before a great amount Of damage
had been done. People cannot be too care
ful. Hot fires are required in such an open
winter as this. and it Is almost impossible TO
fight fire with any degree of success when
the mercury is hiding in the bulb of the
thermometer.
"a reader writes from Nc Cook, Nebraska
as follows: The natural supposition is that
when person adyertises, he expects TO reap
some benefit, bat confess that, after read
ing jays 81 al" several times over, can see
no possible advantage to him, except, perhaps,
in fitting the satin corset" We leave the ex-
planation to jay If all our readers read the
lad" as carefully as our Nebraska friend we
presume he would be we'll satisfied
Our readers viii recollect the case of Roxa
Johnson of South Haven, who was convicted
last fall of killing a child, and by Judge
Mills sentenced to the Detroit House of Cor
rection.. County Treasurer McLain, received
few days since, from the managers of that
institution, a bill for her maintenance, which
he refused to pay, having been advised that
it is proper charge against the state, instead
of the county. The question involved is an
important and interesting one.
A meeting of the citizens of the village of
Paw Paw was held at the court house last
Monday evening, for the purpose of putting
in nomination citizens temperance ticket,
to be voted at the village election on Mon
day, March 2nd. The following is the result
of tho meetings For President, Edwin
Martin Recorder, J.. w. Whitbeck Treas
urer, T.. A. Granger Trustees, David Wood
man 2nd, o. n. Hilton and Eli Wise AS
SCISSORS, $. II. Blackman and Il. l.. Warner.
There will be a public social at Grange
Hall, Friday evening, Feb. Goth, to which
everybody is invited. Popcorn and apples
will be served and 10 cent donation solic-
tied. A portion of the evening will be occu-
pied with music, song and juvenile literary
exercises, under the direction OF Mrs. j. G.
Gould. Admission free. At regular grange
session, Feb. 27th, there will be select read
ings by j. q. Woodman. and discussion of
the subject, +" What Should Farmers Read .