The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-05-27

Quoted by Rev. j. G. Higgins. Bible readings
every afternoon at 2:30.
Miss Laura Murch, cousin of Mrs. j. Z.
Prater, died at Russell, Kas., on the 22d ult.
| She was q sister of Sylvester Murch, and was
about seventy-five years old
Bowen attracted quite a crowd last Satur-
day by getting out the band, headed by a
boy driving a calf hitched to a cart, and
carrying banner labeled Bowen the King
Clother."
A special train will leave Lawton at eight
o'clock and Paw Paw at half past eight on
Wednesday morning next,for the old settlers
reunion at Lawrence. One fare for the
round trip.
An Odd Fellows social will be held next
Tuesday evening at the residence of j. E.
Phillips. An invitation is extended, not
only to members of the order, but TO all
their friends.
Grand opening at -Four Mile Lake on
Tuesday. We understand that there was a
fair attendance but the day was too cool for
comfort. ihe Dowagiac and Lawton bands
were present.
Flowers should be left at the store of
Comrade Ira Hubert on Monday morning.
Let them be arranged as far as practicable
by those who bring them and let Us have
generous supply.
Members of Co. &C." Sd Mich. Vet. VOL
Cav. should bear IN mind the meeting called
at Lawrence next Friday afternoon at one
O'Clock p. IN. for the purpose of arranging
for company reunion.
A good many nice fish are being captured
at Pugsley's Lake. Jim Phillips took in
! hDp fna t,Nft hot
kicked the beam at eighteen and quarter
pounds in its shirtsleeves.
Frank Millington spent Sunday in town.
He returned to Lansing on Monday, taking
his family with him. He expresses himself
as well pleased with his situation at the capi-
tai city. Success to him and his.
The ladies of our village and the surround
ing country will please remember that the
grand army boys are looking to them for
supply of flowers with which to deck the
graves of their deceased comrades.
May 23d is pretty early date for Michi-
gan strawberries. But that was the day that
our friend Fred Bassett of Lakeview fruit
| farm, presented us with box of that most
! luscious of all fruits, gathered from his own
vines.
At meeting of the school board held last
Thursday evening it was voted to retain the
services of Miss Belle Bitely as ID assistant
in the high school. Miss Bitely has hereto
fore taught in our school and her worth as
a teacher is we'll understood
Letters remaining uncaled for at the post
Office for the week ending May 22d: Will
Avery, Mrs. Will Avery. j. Cook, James
CARLY. Frank Cain, Miss Katie DAILY, William
Goodrich. Miss Carrie Moss, William II.
Pardee, Mrs d. Smith. Theodore w. Smith
The Presbyterian Society will hold a
strawberry and ice cream festival III the
courtyard on Wednesday evening. May
26th, and hope to find a large demand for
their luscious wares. Should the weather be
unpleasant, the entertainment will be at the
reading room.
Agents of hand fire engines are trying to
persuade our Decatur friends that Paw Paw
is dissatisfied with its steamer Don't take
stock in any such statements, they are sheer
fabrications. Paw Paw would not exchange
its "Silsby" for ten acre lot full of hand or
chemical engines.
The opening of the creamery was retarded
somewhat by a failure of the water supply,
tho well not proving of sufficient capacity
TO furnish the requisite amount of aqua
pulu. The company is having drive well
put down, which proves to be a slow and
tedious operation.
The Criterion Spring Co. has erected
house over its principal spring and has also
converted the building that was formerly
used as an Office by the late firm of Briggs
IL Nash into an Office for the company, and
now everybody that comes to town by rail
is confronted by the legend, in big letters,
| a rita y 0f4
Waters of Health"
If our advertising patrons realized the
inconvenience to which they subject us by
bringing in their copy on Tuesday instead
of Monday, we are sure they would comply
with our reasonable request to be prompt
in this matter. We acknowledge the liberal
patronage we have received at their hands
and ask that they accommodate us by giving
us their changes not later than Monday Of
each week.
Members of the G.. A. Il. will assemble at
their armory on Monday morning at nine
o'clock and march thence to Prospect Hill
where they will decorate the graves Of de-
parted comrades after which they will return
to the post room. Speaking and other exer-
cises will be held in the court yard after
dinner if the weather is pleasant, otherwise
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Kalamazoo. will deliver the address. Music
by the Young Alerts.
The Free Baptist Ministers Institute of
Michigan will be held in this village, COM
mencing Wednesday evening June 2d, and
continuing until Thursday evening. On
Egiday, Saturday and Sunday, the regular
yearly meeting will be held. DIR. Dunn,
president of Hillsdale College, will be present
and will address the meeting. The pro-
gramme is an excellent one and the meeting
bids fair to be very interesting and profita-
BILE.
The state board of equalization meets at
Lansing on the third Monday of August
next for the purpose of equalizing the
assessed valuation of the several counties of
the state. This necesstates an extra meet
ing of the board of supervisors, which,
pursuant to statute, will be held ut the court
house on Monday, the 14th day of June
1856. at which meeting much of the business
usually transacted at the October session
will be disposed of.
Grand musical festival at the Kalamazoo
Academy of Music at 230 and 500 p. m,
May 2Sth, for the benefit of the Children's
Home. Two grand concerts, admission to
both 80 cents. Reserved seats without