The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-01-02
Local Department.

f. NJ. Snow went to Detroit Monday
The board of supervisors will convene
next Monday.
On Thursday, Jan'y 10th, 1899, Peter
will trundle John.
Hon j. s. Cross, of Bangor, was in
town last Friday on business.
+. b. Longwell, of Jackson, spent
New Years with his friends here.
Miss Lena Snow is visiting the family
of Rev. j. ii. Tanner, at Marshall.
Lawton and Hartford correspondence
reached us Tuesday night-too late.
The Presbyterian church will soon
have an elegant pipe organ in place.
Hon. G. j. Monroe and S. p. Wilson
of South Haven, were in town Monday
DR.. A. w. Hemdrick has removed his
Office to rooms in the Longwell block.
Mrs. Frank Kelley and children, of
Cadillac, are visiting friends in this
place.
Mrs. Hewson, from LaPorte, Ind, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j Nj
Brown.
Hon. h. l.. Warren, late of the Abb
on Recorder, was in town last Friday
calling on old friends.
Dr. w. c. Y. Ferguson is now oc-
cupying those elegant dental parlors
over the savings bank.
To ask a Paw Paw minister whats
the damage, 'Squire?" costs the festive
groom exactly five dollars.
Mrs. b. +. Heckert left for Hudson,
Ohio, Monday, being called thither by
the serious illness of her mother.
Geo. Kline, the harness maker, has
pulled up stakes and removed, bag and
baggage, to the village of Hartford.
Mrs. James Griffis, of Wayne, Cass
county, has been visiting in town few
days past, the guest of Mrs. X. c. Nash
Ed. A. Wildey went to Chicago last
week and bought car load of Montana
sheep, which he will fatten for market
The first snow of the season, that is
to say anything more than few flakes,
fell last Thursday morning, December
27th.
George Belts, formerly well known
and highly respected citizen of this
county, died short time since in Da-
kota.
Married, at the NJ. +. parsonage, by
Rev w. j. Hathaway, Dec. 81, Henry
Cross and Miss Ellen Mcclure, both
of Almena.
The Detroit journal came out in an
elegant new dress yesterday, and looks
as bright and fresh as it is newsy and
entertaining
Baptist church on Friday and Satur
day evenings of last week were very
slimly attended.
The annual meeting of the Presbyte
rian society will be held at their house
of worship tomorrow Thursday after
noon at o'clock.
The ladies of the NJ f. church viii
give coffee social at the residence OF
Mrs. ii. r. Odell, this evening. A cor
dial invitation is extended to all.
Rev. f. II. Harvey will go to the state
encampment of the G. A. r., which vii
be held at Bay City in March, as a rep
resentative of Brodhead Post No. 81.
Mrs. Webster, wife of Rev. Jane.
Webster, of Leslie, Mich, is in town
having been called here by the serious
illness of her mother, Mrs. Mary A
Hayes
Last Wednesday evening the mercury
dropped from 4So to "a ,, fall o.
"a : i'm n very short time. The colo
wave was Immediately preceded by {
heavy rain.
The desk in the probate Office vacated
by JAS +. Chandler, Esq, will be filled
by Mrs. Heckert, who will prove, We
have no doubt, valuable auxiliary tC
her husband.
Nelson Rhodes, confined in the jai
here for the larceny of a harness anC
buggy at Dowagiac, attempted to hang
himself in his cell Sunday night. Twas
rank failure.
The Farmers Mutual Fire Ins. Co. o.
Van Buren, County will hold their an
nual meeting for the election of officers
at the court house on Tuesday, Jan. 3d
at one o'clock p. m.
The old county officers are just step
ping down and out and the new one
are just stepping up and in. But th'
court house ring never dies. The
king is dead; long live the king"
A letter from J. c. McLain, of Bloom
| ington, Dakota. renewing his subscrip
/ tion 10 the NoRTHERNER, says the,
/ have had delightful weather there thu
/ far this winter-the coolest day being
10o above zero-the plows not having
] been stopped at all.