The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-01-23
Local Department.

Mails, east and west, will close al
1870 p. m. until further notice.
VIII Bryar has abandoned the idea OF
tuning pianos. He says it's no go.
Mrs. Sherman learns that Joe has a
good situation at Spokane Falls, w. L.
Berrien county receives S12, 775 2O
taxes from her twenty-eight retail liquor
dealers.
Miss Florence Butler is visiting the
family of Rev. j. III. Tanner, ut Mar
shall, Mich.
Sheriff McFarlin has appointed j. G..
Van Dyke, of South Haven, as one of
his deputies
The Van Buren, county Sunday school
convention will be held at Gobleville
February IA and 10.
The proceeds of the Della Putnam
benefit Is over $50, with some tickets
yet To be accounted for.
Union meetings are being conducted
this week at the First Baptist church.
The attendance is good.
Mrs. Odell is closing out her stock of
millinery at very low figures in order to
give room for new goods.
Editor Dean, of the South Haven
Messenger, made the NoRTHERNER IA
friendly call last Saturday.
Mrs. l.. G.. Hurd is at home after a
somewhat extended visit with friends
at Coldwater, her old home.
Pomeroy's wagons are fairly glitter
ing In green and gold, and will be
very attractive when completed.
Union meetings are being held by
the various churches in Allegan, and
much good is resulting therefrom.
Our informant was in error last week
in locating Charly Hathaway ut Battle
Greek 1t should have been Albion.
The Paw Paw roller mills started up
on wheat last Saturday. The buck
wheat mill is not yet ready for business.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph says viii
Longwell won the prize in that city at
progressive euchre. Baby. Color not
given.
A party of Free Methodists have been
holding series of meetings in the hall
over Ed. Nash's store for the past week
or ten days.
Pastor G. G.. Thomas, assisted by an
eminent evangelist, is conducting a
series of meetings at his M. E.) church
in Dowaglac.
Sam Holmes returned last Friday
from Grand Rapids, where he had been
serving rs a juror in the United States
circuit court
The business men of Allegan are in
favor of Transforming their village into
city, and steps will be taken To secure
the necessary legislation.
Mr.. Joel w. Niles, well known citi-
zen of Berrien Springs, was burned to
death last Thursday night in a fire
which destroyed his house.
Mass at 1870 at St Mary's on Sunday
next. After mass 4 meeting will be
held for the settlement of all business
connected with the cemetery.
The Walter A. Robinson Comedy Co.
nights last week; played To fair houses,
and gave general satisfaction.
An adjourned meeting of the w. G..
L. u. will be held in the parlors of the
NJ f. church Friday afternoon Jan. 25,
at 2:30, for the election of officers.
A telegram to Judge Heckert Tues
day. morning announced the death of
his wife's sister, To whose bedside she
was summoned short time since.
Charley Myers and jim Kirby, of
Waverly township, had a spirited set
To over the ownership of an aX helve a
few days since. The helve was unin-
iured.
Our engine has arrived and is i'm po-
sition, and hereafter the presses of the
NoRTHERNER will be driven by steam.
And still there's more Improvements
To follow"
The dwelling house of Charles Eglus,
between this village and Lawton, was
totally destroyed by fire on Thursday
morning of last week. Insured in the
Cass County Mutual.
The organ concert, at the Presbyte-
rian church last Wednesday evening,
netted some fourteen dollars, which,
considering the inclemency of the
weather, was very good.
VIM. A. Smith can recover a lost
memorandum book, containing n few
photographs and note for $50, by des.
cribing the property and paying foI
this notice. Call at this office.
Broughton pays a glowing tribute to
the vigilance of our firemen, the value
of clerk that never sleeps, and Incl
dentally apostrophizes graveyard Oh
two. His pronunciamento is good