The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-09-04

Geo. w Matthews, of Sioux Falls.
South Dakota, arrived from the wild
and woolly west last Saturday.
The rite of baptism was administered
to candidate for membership in the
Disciple church Monday morning.
Editor and Mrs. Russell, of Bangor,
attended the state meeting of the Chris
tian church in this place ON Saturday
and Sunday.
Walt Wilson says he knows from re-
cent experience that it is no fun to be
perched in a tree at l2 o'clock at night,
even in this warm weather.
The home of Mr. and Mrs Jason
Woodman received a new element of
light and happiness on Sunday, in the
advent of fine boy baby
Judge and Mrs. Barnum, of Denver.
Colorado, who have been visiting old
time friends here for a couple of weeks
left for their western home Monday
Marshal Bullard is determined To put
stop to ball-pitching ON Main street
which has been carried 10 such an eX-
tent a. TO become an intolerable nui-
Sance
Thos Welch is making circuit Of
the fairs with his promising young
stallion. Van Buren Wilkes He is at
Jackson this week and will be at Ian
sing next.
The parents of the unfortunate Olive
Graine found it absolutely necessary
that they take her back TO the asylum
which they did on Thursday last 1t i
feared that the girls reason is hopeless
ly dethroned.
A. f. Hayes, foreman of the NORTH
ERNER Office, is taking a little vocation
He left here last Thursday for Detroit,
and intended TO go thence To Cleveland
by steamer, and take stroll through
Central Ohio before coming home
Frank Kelley, of Cadillac, made a
flying visit to friends here last week,
only staying over one night. His little
daughter, Fay, who had been on a visit
to her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. D.
Nj. Longwell, accompanied her father
home.
Attention is called to a remarkably
generous proposition made by the De
troit Tribune, in another column of this
issue. Here is an opportunity to get "A
mass of valuable reading matter for the
approaching winter evenings for small
outlay of cash.
I'm order TO call attention to the new
tobacco law, which takes effect Oct LIST,
the Michigan State w G.. 7. u. respect
fully request all the ministers of the
state to preach on THE Physical, Men
tai and Moral Effects of Tobacco" on
Sunday, Sept. 22d.
Ed Hultz, a son-in-law of Mr. Joshua
Hunt, of this place, died at his home at
Humboldt Park, near Chicago, on the
22d ult, from cancer in the stomach
Deceased was former resident of this
place, where ne has numerous relatives
and hosts of friends.
The Paw Paw contingent to the Mil
waukee encampment arrived home on
Friday and Saturday. Col Eaton was
obliged to leave Milwaukee before the
naval battle came off in order To reach
Kalamazoo in time for the examination
of applicants for the West Point cadet
ship.
The combination car on the noon
train, hence TO Lawton, last Thursday,
took fire from cinders catching on the
front truck, and it required some lively
work on the part of the train hands to
extinguish il. A hole had to be cut
through the floor in order to reach the
fire.
Mr.. Geo. f. Breck will go to Ashland,
Ohio, next week, TO look after the in
terests of his clients, creditors of the
Pomeroy Wild West show, part of
which concern is TO be sold by the re-
ceiver at that place, and the balance
under chattel mortgages at Mi!lersburg
a day or SO later
The Cleveland Bay Horse Co. have
15 head of horses at the jackson fair
this week Next week they will be eX
hibited at the state fair at Lansing. The
herd will then be divided, part going
to Grand Rapids and part to the eX-
position at Detroit. We predict that IA
goodly number of these will wear the
blue ribbon decoration on their return.
In 1887 James Kelly and Peter Faro
were convicted in our circuit court of
burglary, on their plea of guilty, and
were sentenced by Judge Mills to three
and-ahalf years Imprisonment ut Jack
son. Before Sheriff Todd started with
his prisoners they broke Jail, but were
lttNDiultU. Judge NllllS SET d>lut lDt
former sentence and increased it To five
years. Kelley and Farro have appealed
tothe supreme court To set the sentence
aside as illegal.
The Allegan GazeHe of last week uses
mp nearly two columns of space to tell
its readers that their great railroad pro-
iect is busted, SO 10 speak. IL seems
that Mr. Farout visited the people of
Saugatuck and Allegan and made them
"A series of propositIons-nOne of them
looking 20 the building of n through
line-so eNacting i'm their details that
he was squarely informed that they
could not aud would not be entertained
1t is evident that if the people of that
region get a railroad, the cheapest and
surest way is for them 90 90 to work
and build il themselves-and we
wouldn't be surprised if they did so.
In its issue Of August 10th the Ban
gor Democrat published an open letter,
over the signature of w. w. Kinney,
attacking the character of i. >. Rus
sell. editor of the AdCaHce- reflector.
The language of the letter revealed the
fact that its author is more familiar
with the vernacular of the barrOOm and
slums than that of better society. Mr..
Russell wisely refrained from answer
ing the scurrilous article but has com
menced proceedings against both the