The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-05-09


-Petoskey Presbyterians will erect .
$4,000 church.
The 500 has put in an electric hre-
alarm system.
"A new electric fire alarm system ha
been put in at Lansing.
Fire destroyed the residences of w.
b. Boutwell, and John lambert, and five
barns, at Hillsdale. Loss. $4,000.
Oliver valiquette. well-to-do farmer
Of LaSalle, dropped dead in his dooryard.
He was born in Monroe County atty years
ago and was highly respected.
While saving q log of large dimen-
sions at the block works at Worthwhile
fifty eight-inch circular saw burst, the
pieces flying in every direction. Several
men narrowly escaped being killed.
The sixth annual meeting of the Ma
comb County Sheep Breeders and Wool
Growers Association was held at the barns
Of the Fearnaught Driving Park, at Romeo.
The meeting was net only large but was
up to those of former years.
DIR. Edmund S. Dunster. professor OF
obstetrics and diseases of women and chill
dren in the University of Michigan, is dead.
He was graduate of Harvard, and went to
the University of Michigan in 1871. He
was an eminent man in his profession and
contributed many valuable papers to medi-
cal literature during his life.
About three weeks ago John Sailor es-
capped from the Kalamazoo Insane Asylum
bareheaded and without shoes or stockings,
and was not found for several days, when
he was discovered in a shed in q dying
condition. He had been living on grass
and water, and not very much water, he
said, for three weeks, and had tried to hang
himself with strips Of his clothing several
times, but failed. He will probably die
from exposure.
"A badly mutilated body. supposed to
be that of William Lavender, aged 81, was
found in the snow near the highway, three
miles from Mancelena.
John Flavel, desperate thief of many
aliases. a pal of 'Blinky Morgan" and
wanted for robbing various postoffices, was
arrested at Detroit, after q determined re-
sistance.
The Lansing Division Uniform Rank,
Knights of Pythias, are considering the
advisability of taking in the national meet
ing and drill at Cincinnati next June. The
Mason Division is also contemplating the
trip.
The State pharmacy law requires that
every drug store shall be in charge of q reg
istered pharmacist. Since August. 1887,
the State Board has arrested thirteen un-
registered pharmacists. aud eleven of these
were convicted.
g. w. Dierdorf has been appointed
Station Agent of the Chicago and West
Michigan at the Butterworth avenue CROSS
ing, Detroit. Dierdorf is no larger than
Tom Thumb. He is feet II inches high,
and weighs SO pounds. But despite his
diminutive form he is skilled and relia-
BILE telegraph operator.
Seventeen years ago John Rock, of
East Saginaw, logging contractor, drew a
large sum Of money from the bank and
went 10 Bay City to pay some obligations.
He was seen to enter saloon there, after
which all trace OF him. was lost He was
supposed to have been murdered, and q
saloon-keeper in Saginaw, suspected to
have had hand in the matter, was subse-
quently sent to prison on another charge
and died there. Rock was never heard
from again until a few days ago, when he
returned to his wife and five children in
East Saginaw. He says soon after he en-
tered the saloon in Bay City referred to he
lost consciousness, and when he came to
himself he was in Kansas City without
money. Ashamed to return, he drilted to
California, where he remained until recent
ly, when he determined TO hunt up his fam
iy, and on returning he found them alive
and we'll.
Comparatively little is known of the
celery interests in Jackson, says the Pilot
and what promises TO become one of the
the land which is now utilized TO grow this
product was considered almost worthless,
being low, wet ground, covered with tama-
rack and willows, but has by proper drain
& age and fertilizing become very productive,
and will grow anything tina. can be raised
1 on the uplands. In 1885 MIR. Heyser plant
t ed five acres TO celery. and in 1887 fourteen
ac.es, from which latter venture profit Of
: about $4,000 was realized. This year he
. will put in thirty eight acres, and will sci
' 100000 plants, it requiring $4,000 plants to
Z the acre. This setting usually commences
a in May and lasts until July 10. and thai
|. which is set in May is ready for market in
r July. 1t will require thirty laborers from
May to December TO take care of thirty.
e eight acres, and the estimated yield is SAID
I to amount to 81. 200 per acre. figuring thu
!. celery at fifty cents per dozen. Last yeal
n celery was sent from Jackson TO all points
: that could be conveniently reached by ex.
: press, and 1t is stated that the demand
!, greatly exceeded the supply. One firm ii
v Cleveland, which wanted $50 dozen pei
K day, could only get from fifty to 100 dozer