The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-04-01


Peppers have begun to peep.
Cleaning door yards is the order of the
day.
Bert Green, the typo, has gone to be a
corn-fed granger.
Those handsome Mother Hubbards" have
put in an appearance.
We have trotted out the first Young
Luck's ALL colt of the season.
Farmers. look out for the "red line" wheat
swindler. He is abroad in the land in all his
glory.
j. l.. Saulsbury's thirty year old
steed passed to the sweet by and by few
days since. Joseph is very lonely now.
Messrs. Bangs, Gilman, Bartram, Breck
Richmond d Co. have purchased thorough
bred Cleveland Bay stallion from an Illinois
firm.
Hiram Flanders, our ex-marshal, and c.
K. Galligan, our pension agent, are in Chica-
90 buying farm horses to be brought here
for sale.
Mrs. Capt. Barrett has reshingled her
house, the same that was badly scorched a
few months since. Chester II. Allen was the
architect.
DR.. j. p. Fox, formerly of this place, has
been appointed by Grover as chairman OF
the pension examining board at Gaylord
Mich, where he now resides.
The prospects of our spring fair are first
rate. The track is heavy but in good condi-
ton. Several good horses are reported as
| signifying their willingness to be here as
soon as things are ready for them.
Bangor firm advertises for young calves
to ship TO Chicago. 1t matters not how
young they are, as they are all worked NJ
into Chicago bologna and shipped back here
and sold for twenty cents pound.
Abel Champion of Hinsdale, came out here
short time since and married one of our
handsome widows, who, they say, has left
him and gone to a more congenial cline. II
appears he had not Champion her tight
enough to be Abel to hold her.
| A Wayerly man was in town a few days
since, and, seeing the leader of the Pentecosi
band driving team with load of benches
| for his meetings, wanted to know where Ed
Annable was going with all those seats. Ed
may look like him but he breaches different
| ly.
old chap. To our certain knowledge he pen
sions hundreds of people who were never in
the army; and not only this, but, only the
other day, he granted pension to thorough
bred Canadian, who resides in Martinsdale
Ont.
He is WORTH at least S15O,OOO dollars and
passed through town the other day with a
buggy load of pups. He said he got them
up at Mattswan at the rate of three for q
dollar and that he could sell them up in his
neighborhood for twelve or thirteen shillings
each.
Fred Cookbook and Dick Bradley were al
Kalamazoo the other day and blue coated
gent jumped them for atch-snatchers. A
little investigation showed that he had cap
tured the wrong chaps. Dick said he thought
he was elected to 60 up and stay while with
John Galligan.
The following named old vets received
pensions last week through Galligan's agency
Elijah Bulhand. Goblevile l.. j. Lane, Law
renee; Frederick Shay. Battle Greek; N. F.
Pool, Augusta A. l.. Lille. Hamilton, Allie
gan Co.. j. q. Ketchum, Kalamazoo; Chas
Weaver, Almena; G. b. Graham, Paw Paw
j. M. Burch, Warren, Neb.; John Aldridge
Sawyer, Berrien Co.
The widow who captured a soldier after
his discharge reaps no benefit from the new
law increasing widows pensions from eight
to twelve dollars per month, as it applies
only to those who suffered while their hus
bands were in the army. They will not need
the services of an agent. All they have to dc
is to sit still and their good old uncle will
pay them thirty-six dollars per quarter
instead of twonty-four as heretofore, com
mencing from the date of the passage of the
bill.