The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-22


mond when Professor T.. ID. Davis, Super
intendent of Schools. appeared on the
scene and arrested every member of the
Juvenile Club for truancy. The thousand
people present walked home in an unen-
viable frame OF mind
Alexander French was run over by q
train and terribly mangled, Mt Bay City.
There were eight contestants in the
oratorical contest at the State Normal
School, in Ypsilanti, namely: Miss Lucy
Norton, subject, Educational Dwarfs;"
Miss Frances Il. Pearson, THE Study of
Human Nature;" Miss Mary Camp, THE
Dignity of Labor; Miss Ida Robins, The
Lutheran Reformation Inevitable;" II.
p. Blodgett, "Our National Issues S.
j. Gier, Yesterday and Today p. L.
Trowbridge, Sabbath Dissertation" w.
N. Lister. The Nations Needs. There
were two sets of prizes-one to ladies
and one to gentlemen-each consisting
of $50 gold piece and gold medal.
The ladies' prize fell to Miss Mary Camp
and the fortunate young man was w. N.
Lister. The gold medals are very neat
works of art. They are each the size of
silver dollar, the outside bordered by a
nodded wreath of laurel, crossing at the
bottom, running up and around and
meeting at the top of the medal; inside
this is n circular band with the words,
Michigan State Normal School" inside
this band is central field. showing-on
the lady's medal-an engraving of the
main Normal building; on the gentle
mans medal, an orator in the act of
speaking The back of the medal con-
tains the inscription of presentation.
Each medal is hung from bar pin in
scribed, Normal News Oratorical Prize,
1889"
from the ports of Marquette, Escanabs,
st. Ignace and Ashland foot ur 2l0, 1892
gross tons, this being up to the average
of shipments at the busiest portion of
the season in preceding years. The
shipments to date aggregate 465, 1874 tons.
At the corresponding date last season
there had only been 1912 tons sent for
ward by water.
Astoria (Baraga County, dispatch:
Reliable advices from the South Shore
Railroad extension in the homestead dis
trict are TO the effect that fully S250, 900
worth of damage was done by the recent
forest fires A number of houses be-
longing to homesteaders were burned, but
the loss was principally on standing
pine"
A dispatch TO the Free Press from
Ishpeming says that "a find of gold of
great value was made last week only n
few miles from the city, but several
miles from where gold has been discov-
cred before. One small specimen of
quartz, weighing only six ounces, con-
tanned Thirty small nuggets of gold,
weighing nearly an ounce avoirdupois.
The exact location of the find is being
kept secret until the discoverers can Sc
cure the land, but when the news be-
comes public il will create great excite
ment.
The last Michigan monthly crop bull
letin is based on the reports of 800 cor
respondents, and shows the amount of
wheat winter killed TO be insignificant.
The condition is placed Mt 80 per cent. in
Southern, 81 in Central and 100 in North
ern Michigan. One year ago it was 60,
67 and 80 per cent, respectively. In
April 279,5l7 bushels of wheat were re-
ported marketed, and from August to
May Is $50, 747 bushels. Deductipg for
seed and home consumption. there is yet
in farmers hands 1850, 757 bushels of the
'sS crop. Glover meadows and pastures
have improved for the last month. The
prospects for full average fruit crop are
eX cellent.
Monroe Democrat: Some boys dis
covered hawk in the barn of Morris
Domling, in Nashville. They got
shotgun and went for it, and got it the
first shot. A dead hawk doesn't generally
bring much in the poultry market, not
withstanding the fact that they usually
cost considerable when shot in barn.
This one was no exception to the rule,
and after Mr.. Domling figures up the cost
of the barn. granary, pig pen and fences
burned upon the occasion, it will be
found to aggregate $3.50, the amount of
the insurance held by the farmers of
Monroe and Wayne County.
Thomas Med onagh, Saginaw County
farmer, was killed by falling tree.
- Arrangements are being made
throughout the State for the observ-
ance of Decoration Day.
The four breweries of A. Goebel &
Co., A. Michenfelder & w. p. Ratigan,
Charles Endriss and Jacob Man. have
been sold to the English Syndicate for
S475, 900.
Last springJ J. T Hurst, of wyandotte,
bought of Whitney Il Stinchfeld, of De-
troit, $50, 900, 900 feet of pine timber on
the Tobacco River, the consideration being
reported as $500, 900. Mr.. Hurst grouped
tba fiyohar ood hos cold cQOO 0o0 an, 18Th -