The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-11
WHOLE NUMBER 1712.


Rev. j. H.. Tanner is holding series of
meetings at the Methodist church in Hart
ford. Rev. w. W. Lamport of Hartford,
filed Elder Tanners pulpit on Sunday last.
The Presbyterian church received five
additions to its membership on Sunday last,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Harvey by letter, and
Misses Gertrude Beebe, Bessie Servoss and
Bertha Glidden on profession of faith. 1t is
good to see our young people needing the
injunction, Remember now thy Creator in
the days of thy youth"
Mrs. Frank Eldredge sends us the follow
ing notice: Understanding that reports
are being circulated to the effect that, since
the attempted suicide of Miss Ida Weather
wax, whom / charitably allowed to remain at
my house, Mr.. Holmes, superintendent of
the county poor, has provided tor all my
expenses, l wish the public TO understand
that there is not word of truth in such
statements; that have received no assist
ance of any kind from anyone but, with my
husband, have borne all expenses.
To the many old subscribers who have
paid up for their NoRrHERNER for the current
year, as we'll as to the twenty-five new ones
who have performed the same meritorious
act since the opening of the new year, we
return our sincere thanks. There are still q
few of our patrons who have not yet remem-
bered to gladden. the heart of the printer by
giving him a call and "paying in advance"
We should be pleased to see them at any
time. To such as are not yet subscribers
for the NoRTHERNER, we extend cordial
invitation to enroll themselves among its
thousands of readers.
The Lawton IL South Haven narrow gauge
railroad has but one train day each way.
and it is said that doesn't pay.-Hdi. Tel.
There is certainly more truth than poetry in
the above. The road offers, absolutely, no
accommodations to the public now whatever,
hence no wonder it does not pay. When
they had two trains a day, and with good
connections, the road paid well.--Ddy
Spring. John, do you hear this? Why
didn't you ask the newspaper men and then
you would have known that you were doing
a paying business. They know everything,
and could even "keep hotel' upon a pinch
BY the way, we understand that train-service
will be arranged as soon as spring opens
in way that will prove highly satisfac-
tory to everybody.
And now Paw Paw kicks because of the
miserable mail service afforded by the
"gOuge.' The mail which leaves Chicago at
seven In the morning, reaches Paw Paw gen
orally about six In the evening. As the Re-
tectoY says, We extend our unfet sympathy.
Day Spring. The sympathy business is
all right but il is not the "gouge" that is
responsible for the miserable mail service.
IL is this democratic administration that re-
fuses to pay for the delivery of the mails III
advance of the regular train. And yet.
whenever the weather is halfway decent. the
much abused "gouge'' sends our mail over
by velocipede without any extra compensa-
ton for so doing. BY the way, it is nine
O'Clock in the morning instead of seven that
the mail leaves Chicago.
The Dowagiac Republican clsssed the
Hartford safe crackers as citizens of Bangor
Now is the time for Bangoreans to kick.
The burglars are neither of them residents
of Van Buren, county and do not claim to be.
They are evidently professional thieves one
claims to be Grand Rapids man and the
other halls from Detroit-PAw Paw NORTH
ERNER. We beg to differ with our county
seat contemporary. Both of them claimed
to hail from Bangor township when arrested
1t is very probable that they did not, how
ever.-Ddy Spring. Certainly, Bro. Day
Spring, differ as widely as you please. The
NoRTHERNEn did not pretend to state what
claims were made by the burglars at the time
of their arrest, it was telling the people what
they claimed after their incarceration in the
cooler: and it was correct, as usual.
We "got on to a shrewd dodge of one of
our popular physicians the other day. Going
into his Office, we found it empty but his
slate bore the encouraging legend, Back
soon." The front of his stove was wide
open, the pipe damper tightly closed and the
room full of coal gas. We opened the
damper and retreated for breath of fresh
air. Meeting the doctor shortly afterwards,
we told him how we found things in his
den. why" said he, "that's the way do.
People come in and wait for my return, the
gas makes them i'll, give them dose of
aqua pura or perhaps spoonful of chloride
of sodium tincture; they recover as soon as
they step out into the fresh atmosphere and
l get fee and the credit of being great
doctor" It's fine cold weather scheme,
and we warrant its originator to be sharp
enough to devise something equally good for
summer use. Don't ask us who it is; we'll
never give him away.