The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-17
WHOLE NUMBER 1891.

spent Sunday i'm this place, having re-
turned this way from the press associa-
tion meeting and excursion.
The excursion to South Haven last
Sunday was well patroniZed, notwith-
standing the rain. -Four coaches were
fairly well filled before the train left
Hartford This place furnished a de
tachment Of about fifty. We learn that
the congregations of the several South
Haven churches were materially aug
mented by the eXcursionists.
And now comes little green bug at
tacking the corn fields. 1t is armed with
pincers, between which is sort of
proboscis, used To puncture the stalk
IL gets I'm its work at the root. The
corn turns yellow and ceases To grow
This new candidate for public patronage
was first discovered i'm this state, near
Adrian. He halls from the west
Capt j Il Hendryx died at his home
in Hamilton township on Monday morn
ing at , o'clock. The remains were
taken TO Marshall for burial Deceased
has been a conspicuous figure in Van
Buren, county for many years, as Il
prominent farmer, stock grower, news
paper CORES spOndent and local pOliti-
clan. He was upwards of 80 year of age
We learn that Mr.. Geo. NJ Lyle had
a valuable horse terribly mangled by Il
harpoon hay fork one day last week
The horse was one of "A team, standing
on the barn floor while a load of hay
was being taken off The fork by some
means became detached from the rope
by which il was suspended and fell
some twenty feet, entering the animals
back
As VIM. Fee was on his way home
one evening last week and just passing
the residence of John Burnett, dog
belonging To Mr. Burnett rushed out
and made a Vicious lunge at Fees throat
He threw up his arm 10 protect his
throat and the dog fastened upon his
hand, biting it through. The owner Of
that eur ought never TO be called upon
again for tax on its carcass.
Born. to Mrs. and Mr.. sam. Babcock,
of near Coolies. recently, triplets No
further particulars Ii would not be
out of place, perhaps, To state right
here that the aggregate altitude Of Sam.
and Carrie is but little over eight feet,
and the aggregate weight of the prolific
pair Is about 200 lbs, but there seems
to be no June bugs camping i'm the vi
cinity of the Babcock dOmicile
Special attention is called To the new
adv. of W. j. Sellick Il Son in this
weeks paper. Looking ahead towards
the fall trade, this firm has decided TO
make marked reductions in the price
of all lines OF summer goods, of which
their stock is still complete. If you are
looking for anything with suspicion
of "shOddy" about it, don't go To Sellick's
they don't handle that class of goods
Our Cass county neighbors are won
dering who the "Sheriff Woodstock, of
Cass, can be that the Courier had over
here after a prisoner the other day. 1t
is probable that the COurter'S proof
reader was working up some new deal
whereby the pOstotfice could be kept in
democratic hands-even though the APP
pointee was nominally republican.
With them it is anything to beat" the
peoples choice.
Van Buren, county has finally devel
oped a horse that not only can but UtH
trot when called upon. We refer To
Ike Monroe's Tariff, by Young Wilkes.
He took first money in the 2:33 class
from field of such goers as Beverly,
Bay Tom, Almeda Wilkes, Kitty b. and
Prize. at Grand Rapids on Friday last.
Tariff took the three. last heats i'm "A
hotly contested race, taking "a mark of
2:275-the time of the last mile and this
on half-mile track.
A number of young ladies from this
place made an organized movement on
Lake Park last week, intending 20 en-
joy season of absolute immunity from
the demands of society; To let down
their hair, don the Hubbards and have
a high old time generally. But cruel
fate pied the whole business The Sc
clusion sought was not to be found at
that resort, and orders from maternal
heaquarters To come home made an end
of that particular outing.
The Detroit base ball team has been
playing a class of ball of late which is
the admiration of all lovers of the sport
and is especially gratifying to Michigan
people. This club. early in the season,
was at the foot of the class, and it seemed
absurd for anyone To- hope that they
would finish anything better than third
or fourth But they kept right on play
ing ball and to-day they stand at the
summit with goodly number of points
between them and Syracuse, which club
led the field up to about ten days ago.
There are a couple of walnut trees
Just outside the sidewalk, opposite the
rear of the lot owned by Mrs Aldrich
and occupied by Mr. +. Neff, which, if
the owner will not trim up the street
commissioner should cut down and re-
move rs a nuisance. After heavy rain,
such as we had last Friday, the branches
of these trees actually sweep the ground,
and pedestrians can take their choice
either TO crawl through the limbs or 90
out into the torrent of water in the
street. The NoRTHERNER knows of a
party who viii make complaint if this
nuisance is not abated; and this is not
the first time il has called attention To
these trees either.
This is the season of the year when
everybody would like TO take little
vacation, even though 1t were only 70
take hammock and swing il between
a couple of trees ON the bank of some
of the numerous lakes which abound i'm
this locality, and trough it, for a short
season. The old adage "All work and
no play makes Jack dull boy" is es-
pecially applicable during the heated
season. We observe that our ministers
are all i'm their pulpits yet, notwith-
standing the fact that a large per cent