The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-25

v Turkeys are preparing to be served to the
hungry.
Ira Flanders has moved back from Malta
wan TO his farm.
Ed. George and family will move into
town for the winter.
Bobby Graham has been down with
quinsy for week past.
The boys are bagging lots of rabbits and
other game nowadays.
Mr.. A. Mardin, brother of Mrs. Mary L.
Jones, is making her visit.
Miss Kittie Burnett is battering down the
walls of ignorance at Mattawan.
Miss Rose Potter of Kalamazoo, is visiting
Miss Effie, Farmer Galligan's daughter.
Farmers old beef cows have struck the
market and are being sold by the quarter
Hogs melts are very even and large, and
indicate hard winter. So says the hog
melt prophet
Alb. Grout sold part of his seasons crop
of turkeys for sixty dollars. That is better
than raising wheat.
June Smith, the blacksmith, was out the
other day and loaded himself down with
wild turkeys again.
jim Galligan lost one of his equines last
week. He had owned her but short time
and is out forty dollars.
Miss Jennie Kirkland, one of Decatur's
handsome school ma'ams, was down last
week. and made us visit.
Mrs. Alb Grout had an old turkey come off
a stolen nest the other day with thirteen
young turks. Rather late for thanksgiving.
H. X. Halsted was out huuting few days
since and captured three coons. He is
full dedged team at anything he undertakes
Mrs. John Sherrod and Miss Eva Sherrod.
who went west some three years ago, are
back on visit, the latter, probably, to stay.
Walter Brown was in town the other day
with the finest load of potatoes Of the season.
and sold them off for thirty-fve cents per
bushel.
Seward Payne, who started west few
days ago To seek his fortune has pulled up
at Crete, Nebraska, with his uncle, John Lee.
who resides there.
Lincoln Reed is the happy father of
brand new boy, who put in an appearance
last week. Link, it will be remembered.
married Col Mull's daughter.
Johnnie Scott, who went north a few
weeks ago to seek his fortune among the tall
hemlocks, has returned to his native heath.
satisfied that "there is no place like home"
The hog market is q little of. live hogs
only bringing $3.50 per cwt., and in conse
auence thereof, some Of our farmers will join
teams and ship their hogs to the eastern
market.
Maria Earl, widow Of Palmer Earl. died
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aged seventy nine years. She was. the
mother of Mrs. John Beam and pensioner
of the late war.
Jimmy Smith. son of Hauk the bay win
dow blacksmith, is at work for rs this winter.
He has seven horses to feed and groom, be-
sides other stock to care for. He says he
likes it better than breaking jams and driv-
ing logs on White river, where be has been
for the past six years.
Dewitt Ferguson is doing good work
threshing corn with his threshing machine
The corn is fed the same as wheat, stalks and
all. He can thresh 200 to 250 bushel per
day of clean shelled corn, and no waste. 1t
is new idea, but seems to take well among
the farmers who have tested it. IL cuts the
stalks up and leaves them in better condition
to feed than before. as they are run up on
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fact it is n corn husker, shelter and stalk
cutter combined, aud the work is done for
$500 per hundred bushels.
Jim Bennett was not the only party who,
got pension through Galligan's agency last
week. The following named parties were
also made happy in the same way: Capt. G.
w. Bullock, Richard Monroe and Jane Il.
Randall of Kalamazoo, Andrew Duran of
Muskegon, B. +. Bartholomew and M. o.
Joiner of Mattawan, Lieut.. Morrill, Wells of
Wyandotte, Kansas, Francis Cooper of Ben
ton Harbor, Christopher Parsons of Goble-
vile, Joshua Cotton of Decatur, Elisha Tyler
Jr. of Paw Paw, Thomas Riddle and James
Hughes of Bangor, Levi Beach of Lawrence.
Levi Castleman of Marcellus, Simeon Nutting
of Hartford and G. f. Sheldon of Dempster,
my.