The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-11
Todd ran more than $50 ahead of his


Todd ran more than $50 ahead Of his
ticket.
Monroe, the man who was 10 have been
beaten, has 1,0l1 plurality
7,170 votes is by far the largest number
ever polled in the county III an off year.
Just step into the Clifton House and take
a look at John Woods (Beniamin) Chicago
Times overcoat.
The members of the Disciple Church held
very enjoyable social at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. A. Van Auken, on Tuesday
evening last.
The Young Ladies' Mission Band of the
Christian Church. will give "pie social at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. George Flan-
ders, on Friday evening next. A welcome
will be extended to all who come.
The members OF the Presbyterian Society
gave Mrs. Andrew Harwick reception last
Wednesday evening, at the residence of O..
M. Harrison. A very pleasant time was had.
Mrs. FL. will remove to the West soon.
The fusionists had their county tickets
printed at several different offices. The result
was, as might have been expected, mistake,
part of their tickets reading, for auditor gen.
eral, Judson b. Farrar, and part reading
Judson 5. Earrar.
Fred Bassett thinks the Courier was a
little off when it announced that he was
going on the road. He expects to 60 to
Lawton and back, and that is about all. 1t
was the election, Fred, that mixed things SO
with the Courier.
a letter from Mrs. y. G. Forsyth, dated
Nov. Sd, requests us to change the address
OF her NoRTHERNER to Los Angeles, Cal, to
which place they have removed. She says,
! Our welcome friend, the NoRTHERNER, comes
regularly every week. 1t is like having a
visit with dear friends, especially when OBJ
server has column"
We are sorry that we have to announce the
death of Mrs. Jane Il. Lockman of Almena,
wife of our esteemed friend, Mr.. ID. @. Lock
man. she died on Sunday last, of consump-
tion. from which disease she had been q
sufferer for ten years. Mrs. Lockman was n
very estimabe lady, and was nearly sixty
years of age at the time of her decease.
According TO the vote on coroners, where
/ there seems TO have been very little splitting,
the real republican plurality in the county
appears to have been about / 1876 votes. Meas
ured by the same standard, the plurality two
, years ago was 1,265, republican gain of
seventy votes. The entire vote two years
ago was 333 greater than it is this year.
Miss Frances Warner arrived at home from
| her protracted visit to California, on Monday
evening last. She was accompanied by Miss
! Bell of San Francisco, who is on her way to
visit friends in Detroit. The ladies stopped
at Salt Lake City, and visited Mr.. and Mrs
+. +. McGurin, and also at Denver, and
called upon Elmer Shrine. Miss Warmers
cousin.
We are in receipt of n letter from the
Hartford correspondent of the Courier. in
which she takes exception to the following
item, recently published in our Hartford cor
responsiveness The Hartford correspondent
of the Free Press and Courier, claims to he
a strong advocate of temperance, and under
took to admonish your correspondent for not
uniting with the third party movement: but
when | replied that j wanted TO exterminatt
all liquor from the country, that would not
rent IA building for the sale of liquor, mol
have barrel of cider i'll my cellar with
faucet in it., for my children to drink from
uutil it became vinegar, and that was more
than she could say, she dried up and left fol
other quarters.' She says: "This whole
item is a l--e from beginning to end, infer
ence and all. In the first place, never haC
any such talk or conversation with any per
son. No man, woman or child ever made
any such remarks to me. In the second
place, never rented a building for the sale
of liquor. In the third place, never had {
cider barrel with a faucet in it for any pur-
pose. In the fourth place, havn't child
in the world that any one could have coaxec
or hired to taste of cider, just from the press
even. since they were ten years old; they are
not fond of worm juice and, besides, they
have been brought mp to avoid even The
appearance of evil, with regard to this, the
greatest of all evils-the drink traffic." The
other portions of the letter, referring to the
religious views, ETC., of our correspondent
we decline to publish. 1t has no reference
to the truth or falsity of the statements made
Suffice it to say, he is gentleman of culture
ability and of great moral and social worth
and stands as high in the estimation of the
people of Hartford as any man in that pleas
ant village.
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