The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-20
Local Department.


Home made strawberries of very
fine quality are now abundant.
Dansby will convert the upper room
of his store into an ice cream parlor.
Butler has lot of large and very
fine looking potatoes from Manitoba.
Mrs. Lena Flanders of Marcellus is
visiting her parents and friends in town.
Rev. |. T. Bates of Arlington, made
the NoRTHERNER brief visit on Friday
last
Dick Hayes is i'm town on furlough
from the Soldiers Home ut Grand
Rapids.
Preparations are being made for Il
grand time at Lake Park on the Fourth
of July.
5. H. Blackman has gone to Brecken-
ridge Mimi, to visit his daughter, Mrs.
Matte Pitkin.
Register of Deeds Monroe would like
to have the supervisors return their
books of mortgages.
j. c. Dunning made his parents "A
flying visit last Saturday, returning on
the Sunday night train.
On Sunday last, the mercury ranged
from % : in the shade to 1929 in the
sun. Oh, but it was hot!
Commencement exercises at the State
Normal school next week from the cath
to the eth inst, inclusive.
Co. &c" of the 4th Mich Cav. is hold
ing its annual reunion at Four Mile
Lake to-day and tO-morrow
Chas H. Smith of Hartford, Conn, is
visiting his brother, Capt. Ed. of the
renowned Long Brick Store"
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Alexander of
South Bend, were visiting friends in
town the latter part of last week.
Arthur Rogers is at home on visit
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs X. Rogers;
their daughter Gladys is also with them.
ID. Fisher Esq. of Kalamazoo, was in
town last Monday, looking after that
grocery business of the firm of F. IL G.
Paw Paw masons will hold business
meeting next Tuesday evening, when a
full attendance of the members is de-
sired
Mr. and Mrs. H. c. Van Deberg of
Kingston, His, were visiting in this
place last week, the guests of Mrs. :.
L. Conway.
When Dansby wants to cool himself,
he gets ont on that new Verandah in
front of his store, where the mercury
marks l20@
The services next Sunday morning nj
the Christian church will be i'm memory
of the deceased children of Mr.. and
Mrs. j b. FOOte
Chas +. Galligan and daughter have
gone to Iowa. c. +. wants to follow
his flyer, jim Lane, around the trotting
circuit of that state.
"Baloana" is the way we saw it spelled
on meat market sign the other day
If that doesn't spell bologna, what in
the world does it spell?
Paw Paw did not send a very large
delegation to the Chicago convention,
but she will be heard from at the polls
next November, just the same.
Miss Louise Brooks, niece of Mrs
Conway, who has been attending school
here for several years, has gone tc
Denver, the home of her father
Several parties will start from here
in the next few days, some east, some
west and others south, in the interest
of the Baker patent hay binder.
Bangor suckers have been going tc
Hartford to get their jugs filled, They
won't have to do so any more; they
have rum shop of their own now.
Fidelity lodge, daughters of Rebekah
will elect its officers this evening fol
the next semi-annual term. A full at
tendance of its members is desired.
'Truth is stranger than fiction" We
saw Jerome Warner run, actually run
across the street the other day, and the
mercury was at 90o when he did it
! too.
The annual reunion of the Van Burer
county battalion, G.. A. r., will be helC
at South Haven June 2Sth, 29th ant
30th. Every old soldier in the county
should be present on that occasion.
s. A. Colburn is here from north
western Iowa after seventeen years
absence, To visit his father and sister
and to obtain evidence i'm support o
] his pension claim from his old comrade,
of the 4th Michigan cavalry.
Lightning made itself quite familiar
in different localities during the recen
thunder storms. Among other places
it frisked around Frank Adams anC
Mrs. Bitely's dwellings at Lawton
frightening the occupants considerabl,
but not doing much damage.