The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-16


Farmers have commenced to SOW wheat.
Very nearly cold enough for frost last
Monday morning.
This is the month of fairs and pumpkins.
Prepare for business.
We are now at Benton Harbor, enjoying
the Berrien County fair.
Jud Wilson, the painter, is putting up a
new addition to his house.
H. w. McCabe is going into the hedge
business for the Michigan Hedge Company.
The Sykes Bros. have put up new cider
mill and are squeezing out cider in good
shape.
Peaches range from one to two dollars per
bushel. according to how bad you want
"sass."
Earthquakes, spring chickens, watermelons
and politics seem to be the topics of all con-
versation now.
Hon. j. j. Woodman has Just become the
legal possessor of fancy, long-wooled ram
that is beauty
Sunday is easily distinguished from other
days by the firing of guns and the noise of
the ball players.
Cr. King of Mattawan has fast horse on
the track, in the hands of Will Lewey, q pro-
fessional trainer.
Little Dell Pepper of East Decatur, went
to picnic the other day and got poisoned
and now he can't see.
Mrs. Lew Salisbury is very sick and her
friends are anxious about her recovery. Dr.
Rose of Decatur, is treating her.
Mrs G. Hogmire has put up an addition to
her barn and also built new wood house, a
great improvement to her buildings.
Jim Lane is at Benton Harbor and will
trot there Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week, in two races, the 800 and 2:45 classes.
Ed Hayes got him a new suit of clothes
last Saturday. Judging from his appearance
when going home, we think they were made
of cork screw goods.
Thomas Galligan and wife and old Mr.
Hathaway and wife have just returned from
few days visit down among the peach or
chards of West Casco.
A handsome Bangor widow came to town
the other day. hitched her horse, which got
loose and lit out for home, giving Joe Sage
good job riding home with the widow.
Page Emery was walking along with a pail
of Jersey milk, when, all at once, he fell
through the walk, losing his milk and very
nearly losing the use of one of his legs.
Sheep men have commenced buttering
their bucks. preparatory to the fairs. A well
buttered buck will shear from eight to ten
pounds more than one that is unbuttered.
professional gentleman came over on
the track the other day with tall, rangy.
bay strider, intending to down the whole
party. He tried it and, we are panied to say,
failed.
John p. Smith, late of Co. /, 18th Mich
infantry, got pension the other day through
Galligan's agency. Johns case had been
rejected twice, but good pluck made him
successful.
Corp. George Dixon of Kalamazoo was on
our streets last Saturday, shaking hands with
old friends. The corporal says he will bid
adieu to that fourishing city ere long and
return to his first love.
Harry Wilson was out on the narrow gauge
the other Sunday with hand car. The ex-
cursion train came along and dumped Harry
and his car in good shape. No deaths, but
lots of bruises and very narrow escape.
Corn has ripened up well, and the most OF
IL Is out Oh the way Oh Tue IIOSIs n
portion of it has been cut and in now in the,
shock. John Spackeen, that Grover Cleve--
land German Yankee, says he has a field that
will yield 100 bushels of corn to the acre.
He sells Kalamazoo road cart and got.
| into il and told his customer to take hold of
the thills and see how evenly it was balanced.
Customer let 90 the thills; 200 lbs of human
flesh went over backwards on the floor.
Customer didn't buy, seller didn't feel well
over it. No cards.
Geo. Savage, a savage hero of Co. G., 18th
Mich. infantry, came down here from Mar
cellus a short time since, and employed Gal
ligan to get his pension for him. George
will, in few days, get about 81 400 as the
result of his little trip to Paw Paw.
Every time ten cent boy makes any pro-
gress at our public school, it costs about
eleven dollars for books. 1t may be all right,
but we will be totally bumfzzled if we can
see into il. We never attended school but
two years in our life, and all the books we
had were ten cent speller, twenty cent
arithmetic and forty cent reader, which
lasted us the whole two years, and with which
we graduated from the old school house in
the Lee district, under the tutorship of Mrs.
Bill Thayer, quite good many years ago.
But they don't graduate now as they did
then and their books are entirely different.