The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-04-18

Charley Hathaway rides an elegar
new bicycle now.


town last Sunday.
Will Snow has been in Chicago for Q
few days on business.
AL Stevenson has become an employe
of the Dyckman House.
Miss Jennie Fish of Kalamazoo, is the
guest of Mrs. G.. f. Chappell.
Frank Drew now manufactures his
elegant harnesses over Tyler's.
G. f. Young is in town again; came
home to see his baby, we presume.
The Y l.. M. b. ice cream social last
Friday evening was grand success.
Henry Hopping has moved into the
Manning house on Kalamazoo street
Cal. La Grave of Chicago, was in
town the other day, interviewing old
friends.
Broughton, the great all around mer-
chant, offers new attractions this week
Look them over.
Miss Bertha Noyes has returned home
from the land of the Dakotas, the home
of the blizzards.
Will Randall has been called here to
try to tell the truth as witness at the
present term of court.
A public entertainment will be given
by the w. &. Il. u. of Lawrence, next
Saturday evening, at the opera house.
The Disciple church at Bangor is for
tunate in having secured the services
Of Elder j. III. Reese for the coming
year.
The pastor of the Disciple church
expects shortly to deliver lecture on
Martin Luther, the Monk of Immortal
Fame"
Mrs. Eva Kelly of Cadillac, has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
M. Longwell, and her many other Paw
Paw friends.
In the list of pensions recently al
lowed, appears the name of Valeria L.
Nelson of Lawrence, widow of William
Nelson, deceased.
We call attention to the new adver-
tisement of 10 Gavin, the new Hamble-
tonian stallion recently purchased by
Gilman, Hathaway and Warner.
A large audience attended the joint
service of the Presbyterian and Disciple
churches last Sunday evening. Elder
Pallister delivered a fine address.
Mr.. j. +. Chandler, whose illness we
mentioned couple of weeks since, is
still seriously i'll but, at this writing, is
thought to be improving slightly.
Mrs. Odell, the milliner, has won
derfully fine display of goods, very
tastefully arranged. Her flower garden
an haf f,aa alc nf
1t is ID. Spicer & Co. now. Their
lad" should have been changed before,
but Dan forgot to mention it. He was
so busy selling goods that he didn't
think.
Elton Rogers, who has been so long
clerking in Broughton's store, has gone
TO Chicago, where he has secured sit
uation rs salesman. He understands
his business.
While working on Labadie's house
near Three Mile Lake few days since,
Mr.. M. V. b. Morgan accidentally fell
some eight or ten feet, injuring himself
quite severely.
1t is reported that Dave Horton has a
battery that he uses while amputating
the fretful bristles from his customers
faces. Dave is always trying to make
things pleasant for the boys.
We have received from the Detroit
Tribune copy of its base ball score
book for 1888. The great national
game will be made special feature of
the Tribune during the season.
Mesdames Hunt, Barton, Whitbeck
and Neff represented Paw Paw at the
recent convention of the w. G.. Il. u.
held at South Haven. A very success
full and interesting meeting is reported.
An unexpected influx of advertising,
which came too late for us to issue a
supplement, compels us to omit large
portion of our correspondence this
week. We shall try to make more
room hereafter.
Two wagon loads of new furniture in
one bill took their departure from Mel
sons furniture store a few days ago.
The sale made little impression, how
ever, on the big stock of goods carried
by Mr.. Nelson.
Bartram & Millington, the stirring
Wolverines, have fancy lad" this
week. 1t fully justifies the remark
made to us by the Kalamazoo Telegraph,
lOu nave kOOu du-StUttT Ill the
NoRTHERNER office.
Dick Setchfield has secured the con-
tract for doing the mason work on both
the Longwell and Bilsborrow blocks
Dick is hustler and dandy at his
trade" and will doubtless push the
work rapidly when it is once begun.
Some of the newspaper men of this
county met in this village last Monday,
for the purpose of organizing press
association. A temporary organization
was effected. An adjourned meeting
will be held at Lawrence on Friday,
May 4th.
The Freeport Qlls.) Bulletin gives an
account of the death of Mr.. Jared III.
Hitchcock, former citizen of Lawton,
at which place he resided for twenty
years. He was seventy-nine years of
age and died from the effects of a stroke
of paralysis.
The following letters remained un-
called for in the Paw Paw postoffice for
the week ending April 10Th: Mrs. Ruth
Allen, Mrs. O. w. Babcock, Martin
DAILY, Mrs. Rosa Kimball, Roll Larkins,
Allie Rasback. +. A. Ray, Nelson Tay-
lor, w. s. Trease.
Died, at Otsego, Michigan, April 18th,
1888, Mrs. Cleora Emery, widow of the