The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-10-14

Eugene Labadie of Decatur, the man who |
is accused of attempting to murder Henry |
Houghtaling, has been released on bail of
$4,000 pending his examination. VIM. Lyle |
and Ii. L. Labadie are his sureties.
Joe, the butcher, has come out of his hole
since he became full hedged citizen of the
United States; that is to say, he has removed
his meat market from the DyclSman House
cellar to the new building adjoining the hotel
on the east.
The sixth institute of the Sunday schools
of Almena, Antwerp and Porter, will be held
at the Kinney school house in Porter, on
Sunday, October 31st. An interesting and
attractive programme has been prepared for
the occasion.
While tearing of the plastering of his
house, Frank Throop discovered, pasted on
tho wall, an old Paw Paw Free Press, con-
tanning a notice of the marriage of the late
DR.. Andrews. The paper was printed in 1916,
forty years ago.
Our father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Eber
Rowland, returned to Lawrence last Friday,
after quite protracted visit here. Mr.. Il.
was seventy years old last Thursday and is
about as well preserved man of his years as
can ordinarily be found.
A two days prohibition mass-meeting is
advertised at Longwell's Opera House, com
mencing Tuesday evening, October 10Th. w.
ii. Thompson of Charlotte, M. M. Culden of
Lansing, and q. b. Kulp of South Haven,
will address the meeting.
A union temperance meeting was held at
the Presbyterian Church last Sunday even
ing. Mr.. John Il. Clark was the speaker.
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many Sunday evening temperance lectures,
there was no politics in it.
The following is list of letters remaining
uncalled for i'll the post office at Paw Paw,
for the week ending October 11th: Mrs.
Susan Everett. Mrs. l.. French, Thos. Good
win, Edward Hall, G. l.. Hendrick, Miss Jen-
ME Kline, Chas. McDonel Mrs Amelia Rob
inson, Miss Free Smith, w. c. Tyler.
The third sem-annual convention of the
Niles District Young Peoples Association
will be held al the NJ +. Churchin Decatur, on
Thursday and Friday. October 2lst and 22d,
inst. An attractive programme has been
prepared for the occasion and general
attendance is solicited.
The bean business is quite brisk. Connor
has his machine running. which keeps twenty
pickers busy. Wells ~ Stevens and o. s..
Wood are also buying, and Van Auken will
be on deck as soon as he gets over his rush
III the apple trade. Prices range from sixty
cents to S1.15, according TO quality. Choice
hand-picked would probably bring about
S1.25.
Wes. Young attended the great south west
ern fair held at st Louis, Missouri. He re-
turned last Monday. He reports the fair as
having been a great success, a big thing.
Everything lovely in the south and yet Wes.
says be heard a southern audience applaud
when the band played Dixie" and hiss when
it played Yankee Doodle The memory of
the "late unpleasantness' still fingers, even
among our Union loving y southern breth-
ren.
As previously advertised, the base ball
game in which the famous female battery,
Misses May Lawrence and Pearl Emerson,
otherwise known as the ''beles of the bat"
or the queens of the emerald diamond
were to appear, came of last Tuesday after
noon. Two mines were made up of our Paw
Paw players, Capts b. +. Warner and Stan.
Briggs, the ladies officiating as the battery
for the first named nine. Capt. Warner and
his men-and women-were beaten Score
twelve to fourteen. The boys say that the
girls conducted themselves like ladies and
had they been born of male persuasion,
might, with unceasing practice, become fair
ball tossers.
Alb. Showerman, Roy Osborn and Frank
Thomas were over on the Kalamazoo river
hunting last week. Frank discovered gill
net in the stream and. knowing that it was
illegal to fish with gill-nets, he proceeded to
investigate-with a view, we suppose, of re-
leasing any fish that might have become en-
tangled therein. Just as he had released five
fine pickerel-from the net-the owner
thereof put in appearance. Frank saw him
first and was equal to the occasion. Hello" !"
said he, If this is your net we will divide
pro rata" The fellow was stumped but,
realizing that he was in the minority, con-
sented to the proposition. 1t takes an early
riser to get the start of Frank. His cheek is
simply sublime.
A matched game of base ball was played
during ths "frontispiece" of this week, on
the result of which the respective captains
wagered hellufadollars worth of cigars
ninety for quarter. Three innings were
to be played. During the last half of the
third, the score standing ninety to their get
some, the captain of the weak side kept call
ing to the sentlemanly umpire to call the
game on account of darkness. The sun not
being more than two hours high, and there
being but one man out, and the umpire real
izing that il would be dark before they could
get the other two men out, much to the
delight of the lilliputian captain, called the
game draw and announced that, weather
permitting, it would be played over one week
from that date, rain or shine.
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