The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-21
WHOLE NUMBER 1922.


tunity to work at from sixteen to eight
cen dollars per month.
The weather we have been having for
the past few weeks has been hard on
wheat and clover fields.
The robins and blue birds are here
and spring has surely come, but IT may
be a cold one all the same.
Maple sugar has struck the market
and is being gathered up by the sugar
eaters as fast as it comes TO town.
David Wellbaum, who worked the
Darling farm near the Lee school house,
has packed his worldly goods and gone
TO Indiana.
Bobby Graham is the happy father of
a brand new daughter, born last week;
weight, ten and one-half pounds in its
stocking feet.
Hay is thirteen dollars per ton and
not scarce. Quinine is worth from fifty
10 tifty-tive cents per ounce and it Is not
scarce either.
Jim Whelpley gave us the pencil to
write up these items and told us when
we got out again to call on him. Jim is
quite clever chap.
Rev. G.. w Hoag, while preparing to
build on his forty-a part of the Indian
FARMS keeping bachelors hall in
Sherrod's shoeshop.
John Emery, who lately lost his wife
at Lawton, has sold off his goods and
will go to the far west; to grow up with
the country, we suppose.
We killed calf the other day that
dressed GIG pounds; not a this years
calf, but last Fourth of July calf, and
it wasn't much of a calf either.
Eastern horse buyers are here picking
up all the good horses they can, and yet
we have plenty of them. They pay
from $50 to $500 for good workers.
You can't catch fish in any other way
than with hook and line; yes, you can
catch them, but it will cost you fifty
dollars cash, and don't you forget it.
Geo. Eye, the old hero, has taken his
eighty acre farm near Lawton and
boiled il down TO four acres just north
of town, formerly owned by Calvin
Hall.
Comrades Lille and Chandler are
running Touring mill between Malta
wan and Lawton and are making roller
process flour. Everybody patronizes
them.
If someone will leave two bushels of
good early rose potatoes for seed at
Galligan's pension Office, he will get
81 so per bushel for them, and more too,
if he wants it.
CD. Russell, gentleman, Mr.. Ed
itor, whom you tied up to fair damsel
about twenty years ago, has bought an
acre of land in Lawton and will build
on it in the spring.
How about politics this spring, and
who is going to be supervisors We
would rather like that Office ourself, but
our preference is Ed. Wildey, as we
think he would make better one than
us.
A. j. Labadie, brother to Ed. and
Henry, died last week at Mt. Clemens,
of what some people thought was can
Ger of the stomach. He was tifty-seven
yeaas old and formerly lived in this
town.
Lem. Lyle will leave the Baker farm
this spring and will move to another
good fellow and a good worker, but it
headed.
The Lee district school closed last
Wednesday, Miss Lille Jennings was
the teacher and gave good satisfaction.
Mrs. Well Lee will knock the ignorance
out of them this summer at the rate of
forty knots an hour, rs she has the job.
There were thirteen persons made
happy last week through Galligan's
pension agency. Jessie v Stevens and
David Dillon from here, and George W.
Shaw of Kalamazoo, an uncle of the
editor of the Courier were among the
happy ones.
Dauntless, the sire Of Ed Annun,
2:17t, Jim Lane, 2:294, and fourteen
other good ones, will make the season
of 1888 at the Dowagiac fair grounds.
He is owned by ID. Mcdonnell of Mus
cantine, Iowa, and is the best sire that
ever struck the state.
They had carpet bee at Jim CALI
gans the other day, and about twenty
women were in attendance. Among
them was Mrs. Jack Huntington, with
her nine months old baby, that has been
quite talker ever since. The plainest
language it uses and which it keeps re-
/ peaJlnR IL, f1OW you gong tO tTlH IL :
How you going to trim it."
A Detroit millionaire offers SO, 500 for
Jim Lane, provided that when taken to
that city, he bitches up well with flyer
he has, and will pay all expenses. Jim
will hitch up with any of the good ones,
but will hardly go to Detroit on such
an occasion. Don't you think, Mr..
Editor, that his owner has soft spot.
We do. We honor your Judgment, Mr..
Observer. Ed.
Tommy Nesbitt of Lawton, got pen
sion while ago and, when his agent
notified him of its allowance and before
opening the notice, he supposed 1t was
a call for additional evidence. He said
he felt SO perplexed over the matter
that, il he had been hornet, he would
have stung everything on his way home;
but when he got home and opened the
letter and found his claim was allowed,
he felt so good that he could have
hugged all creation. There is differ.
ence 'twixt tweedledum and tweedledee.
He is genius and has got up what
he calls an anti-contagious-dis pre-
venter, and thinks there is millions In
it. 1t is simply good, healthy speci.
men of the segdnku that he keeps tied
to tree in some convenient place neaI
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