The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-07-29

Sheriff John Galligan of Kalamazoo, who
has been rusticating about our lakes for the
past week, attended the Free Baptist Church
last Sunday night. Kalamazoo papers please
copy.
James Marshall, an old Paw Paw boy who
went TO the far west several years ago. has
returned, bought farm, and will mike Paw
Paw his home the balance of his happy
days.
DIR. Andrews, who has been confined to
his bed for the past week with his old army
complaint, has just got SO no can get
around a little but looks very peaked and
weak.
WILDER Babcock went down to Battle
Greek and brought home with him a sorrel
trotter, and il is limited about that he is going
to down the county. but Jim Lane smiles
over the assertion.
Holmes and Spicer's brown delivery horse
that visits nearly every house in town, had
the misfortune the other day to break
through his stable floor, injuring his legs,
and is now laid up for repairs.
The rain last Sunday night and Monday
was glorious thing for the farmers and
everybody else. 1t has just fixed the corn
crop SO we need have no more fear as to its
getting worsted by dry weather.
The oat crop is about all cut and VII
soon be secured. 1t is one of the best
crops we have had i'll this part OF the county
for long time. We understand il is light
in the northern part as they have had buI
little rain.
Kalamazoo is a very enterprising city, and
the way it gets rid of its soiled doves is
to drown them The other day il put one in
the Kalamazoo river and sent it to the happy
land of Canaan amid the walls of many sor-
rowing souls.
They had wedding in high life over in
the southern part of town last Saturday
night, and the boys were on hand as usual
and gave them a little charivari with forty
seven bells, tin pans, ETC., which made rat
| thing of noise.
One of our bully boxers put on the gloves
| the other night and challenged Lew SaulS
bury, country lad, for little rare sport
1t iotts rare sport to see the bully boxer go
to grass three times in succession about as
fast as he could get up.
Peaches are now sold on the streets by tie
quart In our palIny days they were sold by
the wagon load and bushel, but things have
changed since then. as now they bring four
dollars and n half per bushel, when then
they only brought ten cents.
Ex-Marshal Flanders and Uncle Tommy
Gallgan traded buggies the other day, and
Hi. says every church he comes to the buggy
he got is bound to turn up to it in spite of
all he can do. and now he is bound to dis
pose of it if he can't get but half price.
The Free Press and Courier has got the
fair books out and has sent them to the
Kalamazoo Pub. Co. TO be trimmed. When
they get back look them over, prepare
your stock, etc. etc, and this fall let us have
one of the best fairs We have ever had.
We took dollars worth of minnows and
twelve shiliiugs III money, and went to
Three Mile Lake fishing the other day, and
had first rate luck. bringing home a fine
string. The fish were not very hungry for
our minnows that day but we caught them
just the same.
Wilton and Tom Rogers, couple of
Wilkes trotters got into the twenty class
last week, the former downing Palo Alto,
the great California trotter in three straight
heats 2:20. 2:1934 and 2:19ll, and when
we say the Wilkes family are the greatest
trotters of the world. we can verify ii by
Tom. Wech.
They walked up from the mineral springs
together the other night TIL they reached the
rear end of Smiths store when he told her to
stand there few minutes till he returned.
as he wanted TO speak with Fred Covert a
moment. She stood. watched and waited
for nearly half an hour when she got disgust
e and left Stan. told us not to say any
thing about il and we are not going to.
Hiram O'Dell one of our boys, only ninety
four years old, has just got back on n visit
from Chicago, where he has friends and rel
atives Hiram went and returned alone,
safe and sound. He drove the first stage
that was ever driven in Rochester. n. Y.
over seventy years ago when that city was
nothing but a little hamlet of about 200
inhabitants. Now il contains about 10000
considerable of change since Hiram was
young.
A Decatur landlord drove into Lawton the
other day with q pair of cats sitting on either
| side of him. John Beam looked this land
lord over and concluded be had been tres
passing on some of his property and threat
ened to chew his name for him. This
notorious landlord commenced surveying
John from top TO bottom, ordered up his
ponies, took his cats and got out of town AZ
| quick as possible. 1t is safe TO say that il
| John once gets hold of this notorious cat
cooper it will go hard with him, and we
hope he will.