The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-06
Observers Observations.
Greens are thick and plenty,

Greens are thick and plenty,
Rye fields headed out in April this year.
The cat crop is sown and most of it is up
and looks well.
The prospect for apples was never better.
The trees are filed with blossoms.
Canned peaches have dropped from 20 to
20 cents by resson of the fiattering prospect
of large crop.
Miss Clara Reed, daughter of DIR. Reed
has gone to Chicago, where she will remain
during the summer.
Capt. Matt. Longwell has a new born
Wilkes colt and the little bird sings IN his
heart in consequence thereof.
Will Lee, Lee district bachelor. now
bears sway over Miss Nettie CARLY. hand
some Lawrence school ma'am.
Our wood merchants are getting ready for
their harvest and say they think that the
crop will bring about % cents per To-, for
washed wool.
raisers, complains of certain worm, that
is making sad havoc by working in the
crown of the plant.
Ed Hayes and Dick Bradley had a hard
'set to- the other day and, from the appear
ance of Eds chin, we are inclined to think
that he got second money.
Kalamazoo is buckling on its armor and
making strong and heavy pull, since los
ing the state fair, for the soldiers and
sailors reunion. We hope she will be sue
cessful.
Nv vi for tav
days with his arm in q sling. We don't
know whether he got hurt in his new pat
ent car-coupler or not, but understand he
calls it rheumatism.
At church the other night, while they were
discussing the free reading room, one of the
ladies took the floor and made strenuous
objection to it, upon the ground that her
husband would while away his time there
when he should be at home with her.
Jim Lane, Flora L. Wilkes, and Lucy
Wilkes, all Paw Paw flyers, are now in Kala-
mazoo in the hands of trainers preparing for
the spring, summer, and fall races. There
is no town in Michigan. of the size of Paw
Paw that can beat her in the horse line.
Amos t. Hall has taken his young two
year old colt, that he recently purchased
down in the blue grass region, to Kalamazoo
where link Hill will teach him how to get
to the front. He is very fine fellow. We
don't mean Hill or Hall, We mean the
colt.
A. c. Slater of Long Pine, Neb., former
resident of this village, advertises a house
and lot for sale at Grand Junction, in the
South Haven Sentinel, claiming it cost him
over $500 to build it and which he wants to
sell cheap. He would probably take twelve
shillings for it.
Edison Woodman, the Duke of Perche man,
has new patent shoes for his horses while
blowing IN soft ground. A few days since
we saw him blowing with perfect ease, with
four l,40O pound Duke horses shod with
these shoes, on muck ground. They worked
like ducks foot in the mud.
The other night as Corp. Dixon and Gen
Salisbury were going home from Pentecost
meeting singing bringing in the Sheaves''
the general stepped on a loose piece of
sidewalk which flew up, downing the corp
oral in great shape, and nearly demoralizing
his handsome face. During the latter part
of the night, the corporal swore vengeance
on the corporation and threatened it
with divers other things in the halls of
justice. But since then, his heart has
softened and the bold battle SCARED hero is
once more at peace with all the world.