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


1t only costs you fifty dollars now TO shoot
q ten cent partridge.
We have filled our new ice house with ice
fourteen inches thick.
Miss Effie Galligan has just returned from
three weeks visit at Kalamazoo.
Miss Minnie Orr, a beautiful Breedsville
belle, was out this way on visit last week.
Richard Underwood and wife have been
down to Jackson on a visit to their daughter.
Milan Hudson got pension of fifty dollars
month the other day, through Galligan's
agency.
Lawrence has Bass for supervisor. We
have known suckers and bullheads to be
elected to that Office; of the three, give us o
Bass.
DR.. Francis Sidney Reed has bought .
house and lot of Frank Adams at Lawton.
which he will occupy as soon as Prof. Hinck-
ley vacates it.
Bangor has a jeweler by the name of
Clock. He has some small clocks that he
sells for dollar each, and others that he
wouldn't part with at any price.
Geo. Lucas sold us ten pound pickerel
the other day. George has been picking
several of these fellows out Of q particular
spot, but where that spot is, We say not.
The Kalamazoo Weekly 1'eegroph gave
US very good puff last week, for which it
has our thanks. The Telegraph has large
patronage in this county, which it richly
deserves.
A man dressn:.- Ser was in town the other
day, lo2kin6i - place to locate. There
/ ~ X ~ &asI. ax,I ana
~ valid reas05fh- sss.. s9gsSs.ap't have men
Edressmakers.
Mary Z. Jones, the walkist, celebrated her
50th anniversary on the oath inst. Let it be
distinctly understood that she would not
give her little twelve dollars per month for
all the men in the country.
There is talk that Tink Hills will pull the
ribbons over Hendryx-gr. &. 2:2715, Jim
Lane-b. &. 2:291, Belle J.-b. m. 2:29Z,
and Lady Hendryx-br. m. 2:3O, all Daunt-
less colts; quartette that it will take consid-
erable speed to knock out.
Geo. Underwood Orchards SOM who came
home from Missouri last summer minus one
foot by reason of railroad accident, recent
ly got thousand dollars out of the company,
has taken wife and is happy.
Chas. T.. Galiigan bes bought of 8. N.
Hurlbut of Detroit the young stallion Custer
Wilkes, by Young Wilkes-2:2S4; dam,
Detroit Girl, by General Custer. He bids
fair for good one and will bear watching.
They say Miss Fate, handsome Decatur
lady, has got Bolts. The following remedy
is highly recommended: Take as much red
precipitate as will lay on ten cent piece,
mix with dough and make into pill. If not
/ Iii fba M
The Adcanee speaks of pine tree that
was recently cut near Bangor that turned ont
sixteen logs twelve feet long, two fourteen
feet long, two eight feet long and one eight
cen feet long, in all 254 feet in length. Now
Lyme, wasn't that rather long-legged tree9
A Kentucky soldier wrote to our agent that
his regiment, the 41st KY, had never been
mustered out of service and asking If he
couldn't get his pay while so serving Uncle
Sam. He was informed that, as he hadn't
reported for duty for twenty-three years, it
would be presumed that he was absent with
out leave and not entitled to pay.
At one of our lyceums not long since,
during discussion of the question Of pen
sioning all Union soldiers, young disciple
of Cicero said: "Now it seems to me that
, all talk of such law is foolishness here IN
Michigan. If Chas. L. Galligan and ais pen
sion agency live few years longer, every
ex soldier in the state will get pension
anyway" We think 80 too.
A certain township officer applied through
, Galligan's agency for pension by reason OF
sunstroke. After examination, his case was
. rejected. An appeal was taken by the agent
to the secretary of the interior and the de-
/ cision reversed. New declarations were filed,
new evidence introduced, new disabilities set
up and all that could be done was DONE a
new examination resulted in the allowance
of his claim on the ground of fits The
commissioner fixed the agents fee at $25--
: worth at least $75. The pensioner does
some terrible kicking and says $40 is enough
: and that the agent is fraud and is giving
him fits. Perhaps there is some fraud there
but where does it lie? Galligan never lets a
claimant 20 without pension. If she can't
get one any other way, like the old doctor
he throws his patients into fits. He is great