The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-26

lecture on "Rome and the Dark Ages" at the
First Baptist Church on Thursday evening,
August 26th, at eight o'clock. All are COR
daily invited.
Mrs. Barton, pastor of the +. w. Baptist
Church, will deliver an address to young men
on Sunday evening next. A cordial invita-
ton is extended to everybody and especially
the boys and young men.
A bolt of lightning struck B. A. Olney's
barn, south of Hartford, last Saturday night.
1t was totally destroyed, together with its
contents, consisting of about 1000 bushels of
wheat, besides other property.
A prohibition county convention will be
held at the opera house in the village of
Lawrence, on Tuesday, August 31st, at ten
o'clock a. NJ. for the purpose of nominating
candidates for county officers.
A prohibition meeting was held on Mon
day evening. Mr.. A. K. jennings delivered
an address. A club was organized with
Jason Woodman, president; Mrs. j. w.
Russell, secretary, and j. w. Free, treasurer.
The 38th annual fair of the Michigan
State Agricultural Society opens on the 18th
pro1imo and will continue five days.
Through the courtesy of Mr.. VIM. Chamber
lain, president of the society, we have re-
ceived complimentary ticket Of admission.
The heaviest rain fall of the season was on
Saturday night last. The rain was con-
tinuous throughout the night and fell to the
depth of five inches. There was an almost
uninterrupted display of celestial fireworks
and artillery during the night The storm
was accompanied with very little wind.
A telegram was received here last Monday
morning, announcing the death of Mrs.
Culver of Laingsburgh, mother of DR.. T.. w.
Bartram, who died on the morning of the
23d inst, of heart disease. Mrs. Bartram
took the first train and will be present at the
funeral exercises. The DR.. is still in Eng
land.
Wheat is coming into this market quite
freely. Mr.. Van Auken buys all that is
offered and pays as much as can be obtained
anywhere. He has bought wheat that was
drawn almost from Bangor village and some
from Kalamazoo County. Farmers will find
that Paw Paw prices are as good as they can
obtain anywhere.
Our friend, Norris Van Fleet was on the
ground to see the ball game at Lawton last
Friday and, before the game began, was
Offering to lay a wager that the Paw
Paws would be victorious. When the
great National game has become so popular
that even the blind become interested in it,
it may be said to be quite hustler in the
amusement line.
A card of recent date from our friend
John Knowles announces that he will travel
on the "Rocky Mountain Circuit" as special
agent for the Imperial Insurance Company
of England. His postoffice address will be
Durango, Colorado, to which point he re-
quests that his copy of the NoRTHERNER be
sent John is a number one insurance man
and we are pleased at his promotion.
Married, in this village, on Tuesday of
last week, Mr.. Charles Hymes-betterk known
as jewsharp Charley-to Miss Wash Jones,
both of the Dyckman House. We under
stand this is nothing new for the groom it
being his third trial within the last three or
four years. AS to the bride, she will soon
get accustomed to it. Charley is said to be
possessed of great musical talent, and can
play to her on the harp whenever she may
happen to feel disconsolate or blue.
Mr.. T.. G. Engle says they came near meet
ing with smash-up as the train he was on
was crossing the "Sierras." 1t was in the
night and they had just passed "the Horn"
and were ascending steep grade, when the
train uncoupled and several coaches started
back down the hill with great rapidity.
There was only one brakeman on the broken
train and it was with great difficulty that he
succeeded, with the help of the passengers,
in stopping the train. Had they ran back
little farther they would have been liable to
land in chasm half a mile deep.
a farmers basket picnic will be held al
Four Mile Lake, August 31st, under the
auspices of Van Buren, County Grange. Good
speakers and q cornet band will be in attend
ance. Round trip tickets as follows: From
Hartford and Lawton, 80 cents: from Paw
Paw and Lawrence, % cents. Trains leave
Hartford at $50, Lawrence at 900, Lawton
at 900, Paw Paw at $50, and return to all
points after the close of the exercises. These
annual picnics, while under the auspices of
the grange, are open to the public, and all
who attend will receive most cordial well
come. They are very enjoyable.
number of the young kids of this place,
ranging from six to ten years of age, started
for Mattawan on Saturday last with strong
intentions of doing the boys of that place in
game of ball, but came back feeling very
much disappointed, having been beaten by a
scrap took place between young Africa and
juvenile America, resulting in a victory for
the former. They turned their homeward
trip into cooning expedition and confis-
Gated watermelons, apples ETC., to quite an
extent and it is reported that some of the
lads were feeling quite uncomfortable under
their aprons.
The Kalamazoo reunion was the largest
that has been held in the history of the
association. The opinion is gaining ground,
however, among the old soldiers that these
mammoth reunions are not just the thing;
that the principal result is the assembling of
a large crowd, and that the enjoyment is not
equal to the discomfort. Regimental and
company reunions where the veterans have
an opportunity to meet and visit with their
own immediate comrades, although they
make far less show and display, are becoming
more popular with the old boys than these
large promiscuous assemblages.
Hod Hubbard, the good looking and gen.
tlemanly conductor on the narrow gauge, is
a level headed chap, but sometimes gets
little ratified just the same. The other day,
desiring to rinse off the cinders that had
accumulated on his person, he resolved to
take n bath and. il being nearly train time