The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-22

ings A cordial invitation is extended to all.
Observers Observations.
Tom Graham is the happy father of new
boy.
Johnnie Scott will move down to Water
viet
Hen fruit is coming into market very lib
orally.
Sam Orr has gone into the colt breaking
business.
Jim Galligan sold pair of two years old
colts the other day for $500, cash.
Miss Nora Galligan has returned from
Kalamazoo, where she has been attending
school.
When he buys her a gold watch and she
gives him new sealskin cap, look out for
breakers.
Fishermen are catching good many of
the fnny tribe through the ice and occasion
ally land sixteen pound pickerel.
Mrs. Monroe Dean and Capt. Matt Long
well of this place, were two of the sixteen
who got pensions through Galligan's agency
last week.
DIR. F. Sidney Reed has moved to Lawton,
where his fair daughter, Miss Clare, will op II
a dressmaking establishment and the doctor
will practice his profession.
These February thaws have started the
'coons to running and the boys are catching
good many of them. We mean the old
fashioned, ring, tailed coon of our boyhood
days.
They had a surprise party at Alb. Grout's
last Saturday evening. Chicken pies and
other "fixins" suffered and good time was
had. Surprisers seem to know pretty well
where to go.
Madison Orr, who has worked Wilson
Lees farm for the past two years, has packed
his goods and will start in few days for
Iowa, intending to make that state his future
happy home.
Phil Sherrod has moved back to his farm
having had his fill of city life. One of the
two worst things farmer can do is to raise
geese, the other is to desert his farm and
move into town. .
Sugar makers are fixing up their camps
and getting ready for the spring campaign
As they can get twenty pounds OF good mus
covado for dollar, we see no reason why
maple sugar shouldn't be cheap.
Jim Scram is jogging Ben Wilkes and Jim
Lane. Wilkes is booked for 230 this fall
and jim Lane for 2:16. In addition To this,
Jim has gone to raising Skye terrier pLpS-
We mean Jim Scram, not Jim Lane.
Uncle Dan Sherrod has been confined TO
his bed several weeks. He is troubled with
erysipelas and complication of other dis
eases. On account of his extreme age
something over eighty the chances are
against him.
Frank Harris, while getting wood one day
last week near Buckville, had the misfortune
TO break his right leg between the knee and
ankle. DR. Dillon of Decatur, put it in shape
and he is dong finely. Franks legs will be
evenly matched now, as they have both been
similarly broken.
They gave Us birthday surprise the other
night III honor of our having been on earth
since 1910. The way they fed US made Us
wish they would surprise Us dozen times
year. Some great men have been born in
| February; for instance, ourself, Thos. Welch,
A. Lincoln and c.. Washington.
john Lee of Crete, Neb., formerly of this
place, after nearly fifty years of married life,
is rejoicing over his first born, a ten and ono
half pound boy that looks like his daddy in
a thousand different ways. AS the lad was
born on the l4th, John will probably name
him Valentine or Charles E., we can't say
which.
certain Kalamazoo doctor got n
pension through Galligan's agency and
about the same time had the misfortune to-
lose his best girl, a certain Miss Lemon who
after drawing on the doctor for her wedding
outfit, soured on him and married Vicbs
burg chap. The doctor was considerably
disappointed at not being elected legal
lemOn-squeezer.
The company that was about to purchase
Ira Flanders Mattawan mill property has
Aattered out and will not bny In addition
10 milling, Ira has been III the German carp
business He stocked pond for widow
woman near the Fitch farm III Antwerp and
was to have half the increase; but an unprin-
ciped bullfrog got at them one night last fall
and destroyed the entire plant.
Capt Hsndryx of Hamilton, was in town
tho other day, his face covered with bull
gored scars, saying he had got those Jerseys
dehorned and they were as peaceabe as
lambs. The captain has had several sharp
encounters with his Jerseys and, although be
was never killed, has been horned pretty
close To deaths door several times and now,
though in his S4th year. If anybody has q
Jersey bull that he thinks can down him, we
| are willing to- wager that he is not nfiald &c
] try titles with the, animal.