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

Lew Onurcnlll, n. Dunnlng, MIS-. y. I1OWdfu,
L. .. Jackman, l.. j. Modem, A. A. Stevens.
If you have young cattle or horses to sell.
it will pay you to read the business card of
w. NJ. Welch in this issue. Mr.. Welch was
for many years a resident of this county but
is now located at Glenwood. Iowa.
The labels for the Criterion Spring Com
pany, that the Buffalo Lithogragh Company
have been SO long i'll getting ready, have
Just arrived and the boys will begin imme-
diately to fill their orders for water
The ladies of the Christian Church will
hold a lawn social at the residence of Mrs.
Mary Hopping on Tuesday evening next.
Ice cream and cake will be served. A cor
dial invitation is extended to everybody
A lady from Ponca, Nebraska, wishes to
know if our Glendale correspondent is dead
again? We are not certain whether he is
or not. There was a funeral down that way
short time ago 1t might have been he.
All members of Brodhead Post, G. A. r.
are ordered to report for duty at the next
meeting of the post, on Monday evening"
August 9th. Arrangements will be made at
that time for attending the reunion at Kala-
| maZoO.
A democratic county delegate convention
will be held at Lawrence. that city of con-
ventions, on Friday, August 18th. Evident
| ly, Van Buren, democrats do not believe in
the popular superstition that Friday is an
unlucky day.
A meeting of the Farmers Union of Ant
werp. will be held at the residence of J. X.
Bangs. August 4th, at ten o'clock a. III.
There will be a paper by Mrs Clark, one on
clover by Il. G. Sheldon, and select reading
by Mrs. Zelie.
The chairmen of the several township
boards of school inspectors will meet on
Tuesday, August Sd, at the Office of the
county clerk for the purpose of electing a
member of the county board of examiners
rice Jennings whose term expires.
Among the many callers at the NORTH
ERNER office during the late reunion. none
were more welcome than Comrade Erastus
Ferguson of Brooklyn, Mich. Ratty, the
wild man we used to call him when in the
service. He is royal good fellow.
DIR. f. w. Bartram and G.. L. Breck have
gone to England in the interests of the Cleve-
land Bay Horse Company. The company
not satisfied with the two splendid stations
it already owns, proposes to import one OF
more direct from their native heath, so to
speak. The Dr. can pick out good one if
anybody can.
We are in receipt of the 42d annual cats-
logue of the University of Notre Dame
Among the names that received "honorable
mention we notice that of Bert Bryar OF
Paw Paw. as follows: "Bryar, B.-1st mention
in 4th Latin; mention in I'd German: Isl
premium in I'd Christian Doctrine" Evident
ly, Bert is a faithful scholar.
The spirituaists and liberalsts of south.
western Michigan will hold four days
campmeeting at Four Mile Lake August 9th
to Sth. inclusive. o. p. Kellogg of Ohio and
Mrs. L. G. Woodruff of Michigan. are en-.
gagged as speakers. Miss Nina Powers OF
Scots. Mich, will furnish the music Adj
mission to grounds, ten cents; teams free
We see by the Adrian Times that the far.
mers of Lenawee county are fully alive tC
the fact that the Michigan Hedge company
furnishes the best fence for the least money
that it is possible to have, and if we were to
Judge from the orders that Mr.. Sherrod il
receiving in this section. we should say that
our people fully agreed with their neighbors
of Lenawee.
When we get hungry for fruit we intend
TO make raid on Kate's cellar. She has
been up to Jim Nelson's for three weeks past
canning fruit of various kinds sand must have
an ample supply by this time. We have nc
idea what she intends to do with it. Oi
course, for ten months in the year. she has a
large family but its members all aboard
themselves. Perhaps she intends to take
in" q boarder or boarders.
Lake Park is just booming now with pic
MICS. On Wednesday last the Porter, Malta
wan, and Waverly people held forth and, Oh
Thursday, Arlington sent q Jolly crowd
This "wednesday afternoon the Methodist
, of this village are there in full force and
week from to-day the Presbyterians expec
to try their hand at the same game. If yol
want to have good time, there is no bette
place to attend, in these parts, than LAX
, Park.
Some exhibitions of slugging with tn
gloves has been the pastime for a few week
past. On Wednesday evening, the 21st
Paw Paw Hank and Canada Frank
took bouts in which Paw Paw went to eartl
several times and Canada was cock of th
r walk. Paw Paw Hank" had just little to-
, muck bug juice to keep his equilibrium
! On Thursday evening, Baldwin, the Irsl
giant, had a set-to with an unknown, who
, proceeded to knock him out in three rounds
The Paw Paw boys went over to Hartford
| last Friday and played that game of ball
The result was twelve tallies for the visitor
and only two for the home nine, the Hart
: fonls being credited with eight fine larg
, goose eggs in the first eight innings an,
scoring but two counts in the ninth. Is th
Day Spring satisfied now? 1t must be con
vinced that the Paw Paw boys have an abun
dant supply of sand We think the Paw
2 Paws materialized to the full satisfaction o
the Hartfords. Great credit is due to tn,
Paw Paw battery for their fine playing. ID,
. so some more then cackle.
We drove out past that new school hous
3 in the Young's District one day last week
: IL is progressing finely and will be an elegan
little building aud credit to the enterprise
, thrift and intelligence of the inhabitants o
. the district. We could but contrast il will
3 the miserable hovel that is made to do dut,
, as a school house in the Clapp District
What's the matter with the good people owe
: there? Are they less intelligent and enter
prising than their neighbors? We hope not
There is but a small number of pupils il
: either of these districts; the inhabitants o
each are mostly well-to-do farmers, and tn,
one is as abundantly able to build goot
house "a the other. The taxpayers of th,