The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-11-21
Observers Observations.

Buckwheat is rather light crop
Cider is abundant but winter apples
are scarce.
Miss Mary Burnett is visiting friends
in the Buckeye state.
Moses Tyler, from the wilds of Gene
va, visited us last week
Miss Annie Whitman is visiting at
our little country home.
Jim Galligan is putting up new
house for Mr.. Atwell of Porter.
The hog killing season has struck us,
so have tenderloins and sweetbread.
We killed wild turkey the other
day; it belonged to Mrs. Albert Grout.
G.. w. Lee-that's Well-and wife
are visiting friends of Mrs. L., at Lam
sing.
Marshall Lyle has a brand new house;
we see no reason why he should not be
happy.
Corn threshers have begun opera
tions. Their method beats husking all
hollow.
Percy Lawton of Lawton, will teach
the winter term of school in the Lee
district.
Thos Graham has bought the Elder
Hoag place, making fine addition to
his farm.
Johnny Scott has bought Stephen
Peppers forty acre farm. Steve will
move To town.
1t don't take much of blackwalnut
tree this season to furnish fifteen bush
els of walnuts.
According to the hogs melts which,
they say, never lie, we shall have a
mild, open winter
Alb. Grout has gone to Conneaut, o.,
to come home with his wife who has
been visiting there.
Mrs. Norman Haynes, nee Baker, of
Cadillac is visiting her friends and rel
tives in this vicinity.
John Spackeen has built new addi
ton to his house and is fixing up his
premises in nobby shape.
Thos. Cotton will build new resi-
dence. Who knows but Tommy has
his eye on some fair maid?
Mrs. Annie Orr, who has been max
ing us visit for the past three months,
has returned to her Iowa home.
Miss Nora Galligan was compelled to
close her school in the Weldin district,
Porter, on account of scarlet fever.
When Ii. X Halsted goes cooning
these nights, he generally captures one
or two old, solid fellows, fat and oily.
Geo. Osmun and Eli Babcock of Wa
verly, sold the subscriber a pair of
weanling Ben Wilkes colts for $3.50.
They are good ones.
Well. Lee drains his pond holes by
driving pipe down through the clay
and allowing the water to filter away
through the sand beneath.
Lincoln Reed of Buckville, Col.
Henry Mulls son-in-law, has another
newcomer BENZ Harrison.
Why didn't the Michigan Hedge Co.
plash their three year old hedges this
year as they agreed to do? Perhaps
they will smash before they plash.
Percy Kimball has rented the PENN
Sular barns ut the foot of st. Joseph
street and will open feed, sale and
boarding stable. The Babcocks have
! gone.
Mrs. Cady Van Week has gone to
CALIFORNIA; golden shores Cady will
| follow her as soon as he shall find q
buyer for his farm. Gene Salisbury and
family occupy their house
Hank Halsted, Charley Wellman and
! Gene Salisbury dug for us from half an
acre of muck land, 56S bushels of .tur-
nips 1t can't be beaten for there was
no room on the ground for any more
turnips.
Edison Woodman bought young colt
the other day for seventy dollars. He
put halter on it and the first time it
made a Jump it fell over back and broke
its neck. 1t dosn't pay, Ed, to break
colts that way.
Wheat is up to a good price and so is
! flour. We never knew wheat to ad-
vance but flour followed it the next
day. When wheat falls, flour don't
hear of it for three weeks. Strange,
isn't it?
II. A. Hills of Lawrence, drives the
! finest team in the state; HendryX,
2:244 and jim Lane, 2:29f. They can
make 225 with ease when called upon.
They are half-brothers, sired by Daunt-
less, and will bear watching next sea-
son.
Onions are cheaper than we have
| known them for many a year. We.
raised about 600 bushels, have sold
portion of them for twenty cents, given
away good many and shall probably
have to throw away the remainder. A
farmers life is truly one of independ
ence.
An old chap came into Galligan's
pension office and said that he had
heard that whiskey was TO be three
cents glass, tobacco penny plug
and that everybody was TO have pen
sion, and wanted to know if the good
news were true. On being told that he
had been deceived, he went away re-
marking, "what liars some people are"