The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-01

Clayton ladies contemplate oronr
relief corps.
--Marqustts il 10 have tobogenn dido
1900 feet long.
Governor A. p. Swinsford, Of Alssksv
Is at his homo in Marquette.
--Oscoda Good Templars have given up
their charter and quit the business.
up at Cadillac they compel tramps to
pay their passage by shoveling snow.
Cadillac has new industry which
makes crates out OF waste from lumber
mills.
The Gratiot County Sunday school
Convention will meet in Ithaca Feb. IA
and Is.
The Marquette Mining Journal says
the Prohibitionists of the Eleventh District
will run candidate for Congress.
-Four steamers have been chartered to
carry ore from Escanaba at $1.40 perton
next season, the four being taken by ono
shipper.
Carson City wants some one who has
time, or wants employment, to put MP -
for sale next summer. No bonus, only
suggestion.
Moro attachments are being brought
against the Great Western Cutter-woTks a.
Grand Haven. superintendent Chamber
lain has not yet returned.
Toledo parties have contracted for all
the ice that Silver Lake. near Hamburg,
can produce. One hundred men are en-
gagged to harvest the crop.
-Graiot County S. s. Convention will
be held at Ithaca February IA and To-
President Geo. F. Hunting. d., OF Alma
will make the opening address.
"A fatal accident occurred at Smith
! Bros lumber camp on Nett River. While
skidding logs, John Kelley was caught un-
der rolling log and instantly killed.
Parties prospecting for coal at Tuscols
have struck seven-foot vein. The town
is celebrating. Work was commenced Their
by Saginaw parties with steam drill.
AT sixty-five feet, and just after q coal
vein five feet thick had been drilled
through, oil and water was struck in well
at Grand Ledge on Alonzo Bakers place.
L. B. Cook, q pioneer OF Grattan.
Montcalm. County, who moved there IN
1914 and celebrated his golden wedding
with his aged wife Dec. 10, 1882, died re-
Gently. a
-Morenci's hook and ladder company
has twenty one members and the hose COM
pany sixteen. A. ID. Stephenson is chief
of the department and foreman Of hose.
The members are we'll drilled, and the de-
parment very efficient.
w. L. Aldrich, q Maple Rapids drug
gist, has made an assignment to J. w.
Price. Previous to this he decided all his
property TO his wife, and then left for parts
unknown. AS his business matters are in
good shape and he left letter to his wife
and father saying he would never see them
again, it is thought his mind is unbalanced.
AT the quarterly meeting Of the State
Board Of Health, Prof. Waugh reported
upon a successful exp .riment of produc ng
an acute disease similar TO typhoid fever in
the human family by use of the germs
found in water used by the 800 victims Of
the scourg, Of Iron Mountain. 1t is be-
lieved 10 be the first discovery in tie world.
The Board accepted the invitation to hol
sanitary convention at Manistee in the
spring.
The three STORY addition to the Tink-
ham House. Mt Grand Ledge, is nearly
completed making a very fine structure,
and will soon lie ready to rent Nearly
S75, 900 has been expended the past year in
Grand Led<e for buildings and improve
ments, and the prospects are that much
larger amount Will be paid the coming
year, and the village expects a building
boom the coming season. The Jenney
Electric Light Company is now putting in
an electric light plant which will be in
running order within two weeks, as the men
are now at work upon it.
Pensions: Eleanor Mcbride, mother OF
Fayeite l.. Allen, Bancroft; George Bar
bcr Lapeer; Lewis Gotten. Vassar; An
drew d. McKesson, Petoskey; Albert q.
Jewell, Vermontville; Cary j. Mills, Pent-
water; Eli Bally, Ashley; Adam Minard
Clifford: Zadock Gil EFT, Cadillac; John
Watson, Albion; George w. Vreeland.
Merrice John S. Wilcox, Owe so DouA-
las ID. Cook, Grand Rapids; Alonzo 7.
Farleman, Adrian; Irving w. Pierce, South
Haven; Charles Shoemaker, Banheld; An
drew j. Blyler, Buchanan; Ephraim Fran
cis Ironwood; Marc Robinson, Royal Oak;
Lewis S. Allen, South Lyon.
The first permanent white settler in
Saginaw was Gardner ID. WI / ms, who
settled on the site OF Saginaw City in
1923. His brother, Ephraim S. Williams,
joined him in the fall Of tho same year.
They came to Michigan with their father.
Oliver William, Of Old Concord, Mass,
previous to 1912. The father became u
merchant and ship-owner at Detroit. His
| vessel was in the memora ole bnttle of I AXE