The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-07-25


Now is the time to SOW your turnip
seed.
The kolicky kukumber is with us
once again.
The apple crop will not be large; a
good many are falling off
Miss Nora Galligan is visiting among
her uncles and aunts at Kalamazoo.
Miss Minnie Orr. of Breedsville, is
visiting her many friends in the Lee
district.
The hog merchant is on the road buy
ing up the bristly porcines at nickel
pound.
Camperouts are as thick around
Three Mile Lake as toads after q
thunder shower.
Bro. Russell of the AdUance has our
heartfelt thanks for that kind notice of
our antecedents.
Mrs. L. G. Ward and son who have
been here from Kansas have gone to
Pennington to visit Mr.. WIS father.
Several fields of rye have been
threshed in this neighborhood. The
yield is from fifteen to twenty bushels
per acre.
Jim Lane won the 2:2s race at Men,
dOta, ILL.,, last week in fine shape,
knocking out a large number OF good
style horses.
Ben Rogers recently traded one of
his work horses for flyer. To-day the
| flyer sleeps beneath the sod and poor
Ben is not happy.
Cady vanvleck, one of our small
rather than take the risk of shipping to
the Chicago market.
Poor quality of hay sold in the month
of April for twenty dollars per ton;
now the best can be had for eight
dollars and the woods are full of it.
DR.. Conkey, IS, of Dowagiac has
retained Galligan to secure a patent for
a new foot pad for horses recently in.
vented by him. 1t is good thing.
Abram Graham left his scythe where
one of his best cows stepped on it. 1t
turned up and ran half way through her,
killing her in few minutes. Abe has
lost eight head of his best cattle in
months.
We went to campmeeting the other
day and heard some good speaking and
singing One song that particularly
struck our fancy was, "Mary has gone
with a coon," or something like that
They always have good singing at a
campmeeting.
L. l. ~
colt in the state. Thomas always had
a great deal of respect for George
Washington and his Ratchet. 1t is a
Ben Wilkes colt but Welch says its dam
is the best in the United States and
that accounts for its good qualities.
Ira Flanders has new patent wind
mill to which is attached a pump, "a
feed mill and carp pond and it runs
them all. 1t is said that by touching a
spring, it will catch a four pound carp
from the pond, dress and bone it for
breakfast in just four minutes. Ira has
large lot of those finny fellows in his
pond.
Political pots are boiling with great
rapidity. The republican thinks the
democrats will have an opportunity to
use their red bandanas to wipe their
weeping eyes. The democrat thinks
mot so Mary Ann" OF the two, in
the language of the great Pat. Stanley
of Waverly, "Give me liberty or give
me deathw
She put on her husbands pants, boots
and coat, tied club to her waist with
which to kill snakes and started for the
huckleberry swamp. Little Johnny
Galligan sneaked up TO see what kind
of a man she was, but when she jumped
from behind n tree and told him to
git" he got" without waiting TO
satisfy his curiosity.
Col. McFarlin of Waverly, had a
$500 claim against Uncle Sam of
twenty-five years standing Our local
agent secured it for him the other day
and now he threatens to go for him
because he was allowed ten per cent
for collection. That's right, colonel,
show him up and, if he is a swindler,
have him punished to the full extent of
law, and then ponder over the glass
house story. No charge for advice.
joe Davey and Charley Searls, city
assessors, thought the owner of Ben
Wilkes ought to pay a city tax on him,
although he resides three and one half
miles out, but Ben was i'm town
two days in week, and so they assessed
him at the sum of $500, aud now his
owner must pay or fight. We don't
doubt the ability of these gentlemen to
erect first class buildings but we do
think their legal ability would not
warrant their appointment as justices
of the supreme court.