The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-08-29
Local Department.

Otto Gilman, Eds little boy, is down
with typhoid fever.
The Free Baptist Sunday school pic
mics at Pugsley's Lake to-day.
Miss Minnie Irwin and Burt Nash OF
Porter, spent Sunday in town.
Burr Robbins, the great Snowman,
was in town yesterday morning
Notice the advertisement of the Paw
Paw public school in this paper
The Disciple Sunday school intends
to picnic at Lake Park next Friday
Bert Mosier is now jumping counters
at G.. +. Gilman's boot and shoe store.
1t is said that James Bennett will open
arestaurantin the storevacated by Fred
Broughton, the great boot and shoe
man, has something interesting in this
paper
A. Hathaway's black colt ran away
last Monday afternoon, badly wrecking
his carriage.
Bro. Archie Stewart of the Coloma
Courier, made us pleasant call on
Friday last.
A special meeting of the w. C.. T. u
is called to meet at Mrs. Odell's next
Friday afternoon.
Lew Showerman spent Sunday at
home with his parents and then re.
sumed his pill peddling
emily omitted from our list of successful
applicants for certificates.
Slight frost reported in soaIe localities
last Thursday morning, The mercury
marked 46o at seven a. m.
A meeting has been called for this
evening at the town hall, for the pur-
pose of organizing prohibition club.
We invite attention to the advertise
ment of the South Haven fair which
appears in another column of this paper.
Fred Bilsborrow has moved his hard
ware stock into his elegant new brick
store. Look out for his new "ad." next
week.
III. p. McFarlin's house, in Waverly,
was considerably damaged by fire last
Monday morning. Origin of the fire
unknown.
Nellie Richardson, Mabel Briggs, Kit
Buckhout and Fan Thomas returned
last Monday from weeks camping at
Lake Park.
We make still another addition, this
week, to our list of Harrison veterans,
as follows: G. S. Adams of Pine Grove,
H. +. Northam of Arlington.
Col Hawkins, profiting by our re-
marks in reference to his pole, took il
down and erected new and handsome
one, fifty-two feet in length, in its stead.
Active steps are being taken for the
purpose of holding juvenile republi-
can mass meeting in this village in the
near future, probably next week Satur-
day.
Jos. Davey has just finished the job
of successfully placing those large plate
glass that he ordered from France five
weeks ago, in Bilsborrow's front win
dows.
Our democratic friends have not yet
procured hole for their hickory pole.
If they Will wait until November 9Th,
the republicans will put them in hole,
party, pole and al.
The Lawton ball team played two
games with the Allegan club-forenoon
and demonstrating the first by a
score of ten to nine and the second by
a score of eight to seven.
Bro. Geo. w. Perry of the Bellevue
Gazette and secretary of the Michigan
Press Association, called on the NORTH.
ERNER last week. We regret that we
were not in TO greet him.
The thanks of the NoRTHERNER are
due to Mr.. j. Horning and Mr.. Horace
| Cor. N or 20, oil lnf1
the former of the Cuban queen variety,
the latter of the black Spanish.
The secretary is receiving encourage.
ment from stock buyers who intend to
be present at the Paw Paw fair, to be
held October 10th, 18th and 18th. See
advertisement in another column.
b. A. Olney of Hartford, one of the
old pioneers of southwestern Michigan
and, probably, the wealthiest man in
this county, died at his residence in
Hartford township last Sunday morn
ing.
The township authorities have been
clearing out and cleaning up the GENE.
terry in the north part of the village
known as the "old cemetery" so that
it presents much more respectable
appearance.
A spiritualist grove meeting will be
held at Lake Park next Sunday. Hon
l.. V. Moulton of Grand Rapids, will be
the principal speaker. Dr. Reid, the
celebrated "test medium, is also adver
tised to be present.
Mark Oppenheim, a merchant al
Chillicothe, Mo, only brother of Harri:
Oppenheim of this village, was shot
and lived but an hour afterward. Par
ticulars unknown. Harris has gone tc
attend to his burial
Postmaster Mackellar can tell who
paid for the Cleveland & Thurman cap:
worn by those "colored kids" Pete i:
sly dog, but we are "onto his wheel.
We are fearful that he is becoming
"perniciously partisan"
A large amount of interesting cores
pondence is unavoidably crowded oui
of this issue of the NoRTHERNER. We
expect to have more room in the future
and hope our attentive corps of CORES
pondents will not become discouraged