The true northerner., 1889-09-18
WHOLE NUMBER 1900.

ago to visit relatives in this state. He
went first To Grand Rapids, where he
was taken sick, and died last Friday.
Mr.. f. L. Warner left here Monday
noon to accompany the remains Of his
relative To the east, where he will re-
main fol n week or ten days.
The bean crop of Van Buren, county
is secured and il is large. Corn, espec-
tally that in two southern tiers of town
ships, will be ready (" cut in another
week. The apple crop is heavy and "A
fair price is being paid for the fruit,
both by shippers and at evaporators.
Wool brought "A better price than for
years. Small grains yielded fairly well
and hay was good. Now, if our farmers
want the earth, let them rise up and
say So
We notice that the Lansing RepubH-
can and the Kalamazoo Telegraph are
taking us "to do" for advertising
Hon. T. w. Palmer To address the Van
Buren veterans at Hartford" Now,
that is all right, gentlemen. so far as it
goes, but the Palmer you are blubber-
ing about IL not the Palmer we were
talking about Our Palmer was Hon.
Lewis e., of Big Rapids, and he favor
ed the assembled throng of eX-soldIers
with an admirable address
We were permitted the perusal of
letter from a young farmer in South
Dakota to his friends here, and his ac-
count of things there this fall is not an
altogether satisfactory one. In his
immediate locality hundreds of farmers
are absolutely destitute of most of the
necessities of life. 1t is difficult, and in
many instances impossible, to get hay
and grain to feed their teams to enable
them To do their fall plowing. About
one more such season as the past has
been and Dakota will be ITO Let"
A game of ball between Otsego and
Paw Paw was played on the grounds of
the latter club last Friday afternoon,
which resulted in victory for the
visitors. If Shaefer, of the Paw Paws,
had been placed behind the bat at the
beginning of the game, the result
would have been different, as the con
dition of Briggs hands was such as TO
render him unable to give Smith pro-
per support. The exchange was made,
finally, but too late to save the game to
Paw Paw. The score was to 4 i'm
favor of Otsego.
Decatur is great town. 1t has
more sources of wealth than is allotted
to ordinary rural localities, and yet it
is not particularly "stuck up" on that
account. Decatur had an extensive
broom factory for three or four hours
last week, and village lots appreciated
in value, and rents went up and Bill
Tucker had his shoes blacked. But
when an order came for the freight
agent to forward the broom straw and
l.
left there by mistake, to Decatur, Ind,
the Jig was up and Decatur returned to
her prOverbial snooze.
g. L. Nash has bought grain at Mar
cellus for the past eight years, and he
kindly furnishes the NORTHERNER with
the prices paid for wheat at his eleva-
tors on the 3lst day of August in each
of those years, as follows: In 1882, %
cents; 1888, l.0l; 1894, 81 90; 1885, 75
cents; 1886, 20 cents; 1897, 50 cents; 1888,
- cents; 1899 20 cents. As Marcellus
has the reputation of being as fair
market as any non-milling town in
southwestern Michigan the. farmer
can decide whether he can make wheat
growing pay here at that average price
-S2t cents.
The Cleveland Bay Horse Co. of this
place had sixteen head of horses at the
Jackson fair and the same stock at the
state fair at Lansing At Jackson they
took II first and second premiums,
and ut Lansing they got first and 4
seconds. A part of this stock was
shipped from Lansing to the Detroit eX-
position, and part of it was brought
home and will go to Rrand Rapids next
week. DR.. Bartram informs us that
the Cleveland Bays attracted much at
tention from breeders of all-purpose
horses, and the probabilities are that
before the fairs are over several of their
stations will he sold.
The marriage license of Allie Auton
and Libbie Sheldon was published last
week, but we did not tell, for We did
not know, that they were married at
the home of the brides father on We'd
nesday noon, Sept. 4th. Only "A few of
the many friends of both parties were
present Mrs. Barton performed the
ceremony. A number of beautiful
gifts were presented while the newly
welded pair were receiving the usual
congratulations After enjoying a
bountiful dinner the happy couple
took train for Chicago, where they
spent few days amid the wonders
and smoke of that metropolis.
The reunion of the Van Buren vet
eran battalion, at Hartford last week,
was a perfect success in every partic
ular. The weather was fine, the at
tendance good and the old vets had p
feast of hand shaking, yarn-spinning
and visiting which will last them fora
year At the business meeting, L M.
Harvey, of Bangor, was elected colonel
for the ensuing year. The principal
address was delivered by Senator l., G..
Palmer, of Big Rapids, who gave his
auditors mastery discourse of that
solid, practical sort which furnishes
food for thought and enriches the un-
derstanding The address is eulogized
i'm warm terms by all who listened to
il. The senator was followed 10y Hon.
j. c. Burrows, who was not there to
make a speech, but TO meet and visit
with his former comrades in arms. He
gave the boys a little talk, which com
prised a brief digest of the pension
laws and his own views as TO prospect
i've pension legislation Judge Buck,
Revs. Waterman, of Kalamazoo, and
Harvey, of Paw Paw, and Judge b. +.
Heckert followed i'm the order named,
and the boys broke camp feeling that