The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-12
Broughton's offer remains open another

Mrs. L. b. Irwin goes TO Lakeyille, n. Y.
this week.
Ed Hawkins of Kalamazoo, has been call
ing on friends in town.
Mrs. d. L. Rice of Detroit, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Geo. Longwell.
Twenty-Five cents wasn't much of a price
to pay for good halter. Eth, Vet?
Harry Longwell is little under the weather
just now. Been eating too much cheese.
Frank Van Ness has returned from quite
protracted sojourn south of the Ohio river.
Elmer Shrine has returned to Denver,
Colorado. He started on Wednesday, the
18th inst.
o. n. Hilton is camping out for a few
days with Bangor parties at Paulville on the
shore of Lake Michigan.
Editor Moon of the Dowagiac Times, has
been appointed postmaster at that city.
Henceforth, the Moon will shine for all.
The Disciple Sunday schools of this vii
lage, Decatur and Hartford are holding
joint picnic at Four Mile Lake to -day-Wed-
nesday.
Brodhead Post, G.. A. r., will attend the
Kalamazoo reunion in body, leaving Paw
Paw on Tuesday, the 18th inst, by the
eleven a. IN. train.
The young people of the First Baptist
Church will give an ice cream. lawn social
at the residence of Alonzo Sherman on
Tuesday evening, August 18th.
Mrs. ]. Cummings and daughter have gone
to Topeka, Kansas. They went with Charley
Ross. who has been visiting friends here
not the long lost Charley though.
A cablegram from Doc and George. says;
Arrived safely: will sail for New York, Aug.
Goth. Have looked over the horses and find
some that will do nicely"
DR.. Hank Sherman is great on fits. His
favorite remedy-a sure cure he says-which
he prescribed for Jewsharp Charley of the
Dyckman House, is br00mhedd potassium.
Reported that our former townsman.
w. Z. Grannis, has struck bonanza out in
Colorado in the shape of a combined gold
and silver mine-a very convenient and sat-
isfactory combination to have in ones fam
lily.
DR.. w. II. Coburn, Judge Hilton's brother
in-law, his wife and sister, who have been
visiting here. have gone to Kansas City on a
visit to Bert Hilton. Mrs. Amanda Andrews
and Mrs. o. n. Hilton accompanied them as
far as Chicago.
George Davis of Waverly has a patent,
automatic, self-acting potato digger-a
hound. The dog follows along the rows of
potatoes from hill to hill and as soon as the
tops are pulled. scratches out the tubers clean
as whistle. Valuable dog.
j. H. and Eugene Anderson of Hartford.
were in town the other day trying TO nego-
tiate for the purchase of the Paw Paw Mill
with the intention of converting it into a
roller mill but they failed to come to terms
with the proprietors of that property.
The Van Buren, County Pomona Grange
holds its quarterly meeting at the town hall
in Porter on the 10Th inst, instead of at Paw
Paw as stated last week. Our information
was incorrect. The place was correctly
stated in our Barnes District correspondence.
large number of visitors called at the
residence of Mrs. II. p. Nelson last Sunday
evening to witness the blooming of her
night t-blooming cereus Mrs. N. has beau
tiful specimen of that elegant cactus, as well
as a beautiful collection of other fine house
plants.
Will Thayer is getting TO be a celebrated
horse-tamer. When he comes to town to
get his bottle filled. he has his lines done up
by some friend and drives his prancing Pc
gasus home without touching rein. leaving
the undoing of his harness to his wife after
his arrival home.
We stepped into Geo. Rooms harness shop
the other day and found him just doing up
an elegant rubber-trimmed single harness
for Kalamazoo customer. George has al
ways manufactured his goods ION honor"
and, as a natural consequence. has established
reputation that insures him a good trade.
temple of the patrarchal circle was in
stituted In this village last Tuesday evening.
Quite number of the fraternity were pres
ent from the western part of the county.
The elegant uniforms worn by the visiting
members and their fine drilling on our streets,
preceded by the Young Alerts band attracted
a good deal of attention.
The republican county committee held a
meeting in this village on Tuesday last and
decided to hold the county convention on
Thursday Sept. 9th, at Lawrence. The
apportionment is made on basis of one
delegate to each sixty votes cast for governor
at the last election, with an additional dele
gate for fraction of half the basis or over.
Mr.. John Watkins of Almena, offered a
reward of twenty-five dollars for the recovery
of a stolen horse. as he supposed. After
getting out and circulating cards containing
his offer, he found the missing steed, which
was not stolen at all, but had only strayed
from home. So Mr.. w. is twenty-five
dollars ahead by not having to pay the
offered reward.
What is it? Who is it? were the ques-
tions asked last Sunday by nearly everyone
who saw it. On close inspection, it proved
to be Mr.. Henry Sherman with brand new
silk tile and Prince Albert coat. "Shoot
the hat "What a man will see when he
has no gum" and numerous other similar
ordinations were heard, but we thought
Hank looked well.
Postoffice matters in this village are be-
ginning to warm up again. vast amount
of private discussion and buttonholing is
going on among rival aspirants and their
friends. Probably we shall have democratic
postmaster in this village-sometime. Our
raadarc will ha informed who ia the luckv