The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-06-10
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The Central has adopted a new time card.
The changes are slight.
Tom Mahard is limping around, having
been tangled up in runaway smashup.
l.. Stern q Co. shipped their first wool of
the season last Monday, about 10000 pounds.
Guy c. Ray is preparing to raise his black
smith shop and put wall under it. He will
also put in a new front.
Strawberries have suffered considerably
on account of dry weather. They have
struck bottom at six cents.
C. d. Lawton and the Judge each have
another old barn. They have pretty near got
a corner on the barn market
Wool is coming in at lively rate. the
price being twenty-five cents. l.. Stern &
Co. are doing the buying here.
Mrs. Jared Doughty and children of Mt.
Pleasant, and Miss Nettie Sutton of Kalama-
zoo, are visiting friends in town.
Mrs. Johnson has fitted up an ice cream
parlor in Morrill's corner store. She and
Billy" are experts at the business.
There is a report in circulation that the
railroad between here and Paw Paw has been
sold to Studebaker Bros. of South Bend.
Dave Powell is erecting an evaporation at
this place. and has also done some work by
way of painting and trimming his residence.
Miss frankie Moshier has been enjoying a
pleasant visit from her friend Miss w. g..
Wood of Jackson. She returned home on
Saturday.
1t seems our last weeks correspondence
failed to reach the printer on time, conse-
quently some of our items are not as fresh
as they should be.
VIM. Stanton was taken sick while in
town the other day and says he came very
near going overheard. Bill is troubled some
with heart disease.
Oh. Williams is OH the street again, al
though looking pretty thin. His two broth
ers from New York have been with him dur
ing his severe sickness.
G. S. Adams recently received letter
from his friend A. II. Powers of California.
formerly Of this place, enclosing nugget of
gold Just as it came from the mines.
DIR. Moffett has one patient to whom he
gives considerable time and attention, Sun
days not excepted. Its another case of heart
disease. Dr., you're "long" for this world.
Il. L. bdTllcLJ Oh lut hdldiuh zoo DdllN
telegraph, was in town recently working up
subscription list for that staunch republi-
can sheet. 1t arrives here on the afternoon
freight and is delivered by Vert. Dey.
School closes on Thursday. The gradu-
ating exercises will be held on Friday even
ing at the NJ. L. Church. There are six
members of the graduating class Miss
Belle Ellison, Frank Bates. Frank Mckeyes,
Bert Prentice, Will. Watkins and John Giles
pie.
Memorial day was duly observed here.
The boys have had an elegant monument
erected at the cemetery upon which is the
name of the post, and also the names Of
those whose graves they decorate. Rev. II.
w. Harvey of Paw Paw delivered the memo
rial address to crowded house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jason Atwell recently cele-
brated their golden wedding. Quite num-
Der of friends from abroad were present,
among whom were a daughter, Mrs. Mary
Bennett, and her husband from Burr Oak, a
son, Mr.. James Atwell, with his wife and
daughter from Chicago, a sister, Mrs. Addi-
son Harvey, from Mendon. and brother.
Mr.. George Teller, with his wife from Colon.
Mr.. Teller and Mrs. Harvey were both pres
ent at the wedding fifty years before. Miss
Cora Atwell of Chicago, read an original
poem written expressly for the occasion.