The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-08-07

| VII hh' ~o'h lhNls Iuilhcl pdIlltulti
later.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Stan
Briggs j. made bright and glad by th'
advent of a baby girl born last We'd
nesday morning.
Postmaster Mackellar was taken yer,
seriously i'll Sunday with an attacl
resembling cholera mOrbus, but is ol
his feet again now.
Mrs. VIM +. Murray, of Peoria, Ill.
is here on visit 10 her sister, Mrs. ID
Spicer, and other friends. This is he
first visit here in eleven years.
There were ninety three candidate
for certificates ut the examination o
teachers last Thursday A list of th'
fortunate ones will be given next week
Cameron Hill was before Justice Ma
son last Saturday, charged with th'
larceny of six plugs of tobacco, on the
3rd day of July, from Milo Huey. III,
was held to the circuit court in $500.
Judge Heckert will 90 to South Haver
next Thursday, August 18th, 10 heal
claims against the estate of Henry No
Ian, deceased He will also attend tC
any other business that may properly
come before him on that occasion
Broughton's ''all-around store" is still
the common center of attraction, and
notwithstanding the fact that this is g
dull season for most dealers, the Com
modOre was too busy to write up new
adv His old one will bear reading tive
or three times more.
Rev. w. D. Hathaway and his family
are attending the camp meeting al
Crystal Springs. and there will be nc
preaching at the NJ f. church next
Sunday, in consequence. Prayer meet
ing tomorrow evening and Sunday
school at the regular hour, rs usual.
The annual state meeting of the Chris
tian church will be held in this place
commencing August Goth and holding
over four days. The church here i,
making arrangements to entertain al
least one hundred and fifty delegates
The session will doubtless be extremely
interesting and profitable.
A game of ball will he played be
tween the Lawton and Paw Paw clubs
on the new grounds of the latter, OF
Friday afternoon. The Lawton team
are kickers as well as ball-players, but
their manager Is coming with them
which is guarantee that in this in
stance they will play ball
"Uncle jim" Monroe. of Kalamazoo
was down at CassopOlIs few days ago
and the Democrat of that place is sus
picious that the "lumber" that Uncle
jim" talked about in public was moi
the lumber he was really looking after
and suspects the presence of a large
political mice in the visit. May be.
When it was proposed To raise 5000 tC
cover the expense of a preliminary
survey for the proposed new railroad
the committee selected to secure thi:
amount found three classes of men
first, those who would not pay cent
and said so; second, those who were
willing to pay and did so, and third
those who subscribed, and refused Il
pay There's the three clasSes-tak,
your choice.
We call especial attention to the al
vertiSement in this paper of the hot-ail
furnace manufactured by Nj. Snow n
Sons, of this place If the manufacture
ers cared To occupy so much space
they could give testimonials by the col
umn When the NORTHERNER testifies
To the value of these furnaces, it does
so from personal knowledge To be
come acquainted with this heating ap
paratuS l. 10 buy it,
VIII Hinckley, formerly of this place
shot himself. with suicidal intent, at his
home i'm Hartford last Saturday, the
ball entering the body about an incl
below the heart and intlicting wha'
will undoubtedly prove a fatal wound
1t is said Hinckley had been drinking
! heavily of late, and flew into passion
| because his wife declined going To Paw
Paw lake with him. Mrs III. is daugh
ter of Jas. Phillips, Esq, of this village
One day last week Frank Pierce
while moving for Aaron Raymond, il
Waverly township, cut his foot with tn,
scythe, and thought he would come NJ
! town and have it attended to. Befor,
reaching town, however, he changed
| his mind as to the nature of his injury
and decided to call it a snakebite, an,
proceeded TO doctor" accordingly. TIL,
medicine took effect on Mr.. Raymond
horse, which Frank was driving, and i
ran away. demolished the carriage
threw Piercey out and broke his cola
! bone.
Most everybody is striving "to max,
both ends meet, and it seems now tha
difficult feat will be accomplished. Th,
"West-ends" meet the "East-ends" in
game of base ball at the ball park il
this village this afternoon, on whicl
occasion great sport is predicted. Th,
proceeds will go into the Golfers of tn,
Paw Paw club to assist them in com
pleting their grounds, purchasing uni
forms, etc. There should, and proba
bly, will, be n good turnout. Admis
sion to the grounds, ten cents. NJ
sneaking under the fence or swimming
the race to avoid paying this sum, 10
the names of all such offenders will b
reported.
The game between the Kalamazoo
Blues and the Paw Paw team, playe'
at our ball park last Friday, drew out
good crowd and gave entire satisfac
ton. The game throughout was nota
BILE for the entire absence of everything
in the kicking line and passed off with
out n hitch. At the end of the frs
innings things must have looked rathe
blue for the Blues, as the Paw Paw
had scored nine runs to a goose-egg 10
the visitors. I'm the sixth inning Shep
ard. Paw Paws pitcher, received an In
Jury which incapacitated him FOR fur
ther work i'm the box and which mate
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