The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-02-18

Oar slelRhing hes beautifully aid.
Our sport~men are catching great many
Ash through the ice.
The ham and egg season has put in an APP
pearsnce. The former sells Mt loo, the latter
for l5c.
The mud business has commenced in
good earnest and the wood trade has come to
standstill for the present.
Charles X. Galligen is putting up new
horse barn on his farm with room for seven
flyers. His brother Jim is the architect.
John Emery has thrown up the restaurant
and drill business and is practicing mis- pro-
fession as horse tanner, in the city of Law
ton.
Lansing, Detroit, jackson and Kalamazoo
are all entered for the state fair. Kalamazoo
has the pole and is likely to capture the
prize.
George Lyle raised, last season, $500
bushels of beans, and is distributing them
among the female population to be hand
picked.
Coon hunters were OF the war-path last
week, during the thaw. aud gobbled up
quite good many Of the little ring tailed
animals.
Alb. Wildey and sons fatted and shipped,
this winter, seven hundred sheep. Among
them were Some of the finest the country
affords.
Our justices and constables are all belly
a,hing around and complaining OF so little TO
90. Whenever their neighbors get into a
angle over male pig or a female calf, they
fairly jump for JOY.
Bill Nye, the Kalamazoo Boomeranger
mot the Lsramie) who was bold hero of
the great American rebellion, was made
happy last week with a pension received
through Galligan's agency.
We were OFF our base last week, which
was the reason you did not hear from u.s.
We often get that way and talk OF going
back on our farm in the spring. to iead and
live a rural life once more.
Joseph l.. Salisbury has horse that he
claims will be 81 years old the 18th of next
June. The old hero says he can do a big
days work yet and often feels 30 good that
be can hardly keep him from running away.
The boys are having good times toboggan-
ing on the banks, near Slbin's machine
shop, as appears from the many broken
sleds, skinned shins. bruised noses, sprained
wrists and ankles, they bring fhorne with
them.
Our poor commissioner has issued an
order requiring all those in need OF county
help to dispose of their CANNES. Several
little purps will have TO bite the dust if they
insist on breaking bread al the expense of
the public.
4 couple of Lee district residents of the
female persuasion got into regular hand
to-hand fight, one day last week, over little
neighborhood wrangle. No bones were
broken, but there was some lively scratching
aud hair-pulling. All is serene now.
One of our ice merchants was up on the
pond the other day instructing his men how
to cut ice and not fall in among the little
fishes, and, while doing 80 fell in himself,
and had to be tished out with pikepole. He
doesn't instruct in that way any more.
Joe Davey has large cast-iron watch dog
sitting on his stoop for an ornament. The
dog poisoner got his eye on the canine,
thought he was too savage brute to live,
and left his goods there two or three times
but has not yet been able to down the dog.
A Kalamazoo paper reported the weight
of newborn baby at go los. The father of
the little waif got up on his ear about it.
claiming it only weighed II lbs, and demand
ed a retraction, which was made. and now
father, mother, child. and paper are all doing
as we'll as could be expected under the cir
cumstances.
DR.. J. A. Partridge OF kalamazoo, and DR..
l.. 5. Putney of Sturgis, have been appointed
on the kalamazoo Pension Examining
Board, in place of Dr.'s Hitchcock and Fisk,
DR.. Osborne being retained. Dr.'s Partridge
and Osborne are both ex-soldiers aud the
boys will get their Just dues. We are not &C
quainted with DR.. Putney.
He is young man and when his father
died he left him several thousand dollars.
He bought this and that, got into lawsuits
and always came out second best, spanked
and married a handsome young widow, fire.
qnently visited the Garden City," where
nice, sleek pigeon toed young man gained
his confidence. He told the n. S. p. t. y. m.
Of his wealth and that he would like 10 90
into some paying business. The next Gay
the pigeon toed chap showed him n dispatch
in regard to some western mining stock that
was Just booming, and the following day
another similar dispatch. The stock was
rapidly advancing and the twain telegraphed
that the young man would take $4,000 worth.
Another dispatch was soon received, from
another quarter, Offering him $1,000 for it.
This caused him TO close the bargain as
quickly as possible which he DID by paying
his $1,000. He still owns the stock and
will, no doubt, continue to own it for some
time to come. His pigeon toed friend has
business in some other locality, just where,
the stakeholder is unable to say. He is
dressed in mourning now, over the loss of
$4,000 and still lives in the great county of
Van Buren,.