The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-02-20


Geo +. Breck and wife left for Ian
sing Tuesday. Mrs b. will visit there
while George attends the Michigan
Club banquet at Detroit. They will re-
turn on Monday next.
Mrs A. T. Hartwell gave dinner to
party of friends on the 10Th inst. in
commemoration of her birthday. 1t
was very pleasant affair, and highly
enjoyed by those present.
Col. Todd is making farewell visits to
the various G. A. X. Posts Of the county
Last Saturday evening he visited l.. c.
WOodman Post, at Lawton. The "boys"
are 10th to part with him.
Lew Showerman has received an ap-
pointment rs railroad postal clerk, and
left for Cleveland, o., on Wednesday
last to assume his new duties. We are
not informed as to his route.
A large number of the friends of the
late Mrs. Forsyth accompanied her re-
mains from Hartford To this place last
Saturday. special car being place at
their service by Superintendent Ihling
Those popular "Red School House
Shoes" with which Broughton has de-
lighted the little folks for several win
ters past, are again to the front and
furnish theme for his ad. in to-days
paper.
"The Kings Daughters" of the Presby-
terian church held social at the home
of Mrs. +. III. Harvey on Monday even
ing An old-fashioned candy-pull was
principal factor in the evenings enter
talnment.
Horace A. Buys, very worthy young
man of this township, left for the far
west few weeks ago, and his father
is now in receipt of intelligence that he
is teaching school at Durkee, Baker
county, Oregon.
The Marcelus NeWS says: "Prof.
Bradt expects to leave next Monday
for the upper peninsula mining regions
where he will accept position rs
surveyor and mining engineer for one
of the large mining companies"
Fred Bassett is the inventor of
churn which, to us, appears to be as
near projection as human ingenuity
can get One of them is on exhibition
at Bartram q Millington's and we learn
they are To be manufactured here.
Prof. and Mrs. Bradt are the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. l.. b. Coy. They are
doing up a little visiting preparatory
to going to the upper peninsula where
the professor has accepted the position
of geological and mining engineer of a
large mining company.
Martin Slatterly has begun suit
against Marshal Gates, of Kalamazoo,
for 81, 900 damages for false imprison-
ment. Complainant AYERS that the
marshal put him in Jail Saturday night
and kept him there over Sunday, with
out cause or complaint.
Harry Showerman is putting IN fine
stock of goods at the Oppenheim stand,
and, what is more to the point, he is
selling them at the very lowest living
figure. See his ad. elsewhere in this
paper, and look over his goods before
purchasing. 1t will pay you.
Mrs. Philena X. Sexton, wife of VIM
Sexton of this village, died last Friday
afternoon, aged AZ years. Funeral
from the NJ +. church, Rev. Hathaway
officiating, Monday forenoon. Quite a
number of the members of the G. A. r.
turned out To assist Comrade Sexton in
the last sad offices to his departed loved
one.
The funeral of the late Rev. Fr. Wer-
nert took place at Kalamazoo last Fri
day and the remains were Inferred in
the new Catholic cemetery known as
Mount Olivet. A considerable number
of the former friends and parishioners
of deceased from this place attended
the ceremonies, which were very inn
pressive.
A farmers team, standing in front of
Fred BilsbOrrow's hardware store last
Saturday, took fright at something and
left for the country in double quick
time, scattering packages as they went
north up Kalamazoo street until they
were out of sight. JEFF Chaffee caught
the fugitives at the village limits and
tied them to tree. No damage.
Mrs. Sally Hutchins, one of the earli-
est pioneers of this county, having set
tied here in 1885, died at her home on
the farm, northwest of this village, on
which she had lived for over half a cen
tury, on Friday last, aged 80 years. The
funeral services were conducted by Mrs.
Barton at the late residence on Sunday,
and the remains were deposited in the
receiving vault at Prospect Hill.
The Decatur Republican last week
published map of the country includ-
ed in the route of the proposed railroad
from Sturgis to the lake, making very
good prinia .facte case for Decatur. A
critical engineer, however, would ask
for profile of the proposed line before
he would make his final decision, and
the Republican would hesitate sonfe be-
fore showing up that part of its ideal
line laying to the south and east of that
village.
We have been permitted to see a
private letter from Rev. G.. p. Linder-
man to a friend here, and by it we
learn that he is devoting his entire time
this winter To evangelistic work He is
laboring at the present time at Cherry
Creek, Chautanqua county, n. Y, some
$50 miles from his home, and is meeting
with great success. The reverend gen.
! tleman has hosts of admiring friends
here who will always he delighted to
hear of his well-doing
Mrs II ID. Forsyth died at her home
! i'm Hartford on the 14th inst, and
although this event had for some time
been considered not remote possibil
/ ity, yet its announcement was a terrible
shock to the many friends of that lady