The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-09
COUNTY MICHIGAN, 9


Will ID. Davis has an uncaled for
letter at the Paw Paw postoffice.
Attention is called to notice of great
stock auction sale" in another column.
Col. w. X. Hawkins and Mrs. j. NJ.
LOngwell are visiting friends at Cadillac.
A number of young believers in the
"Chataugua idea" have formed circle
here.
The Ladies' Aid society of Almena
will meet with Mrs. Charles Failing,
Friday afternoon, Oct. 18th.
Harry Showerman is now nicely set
tied in his new store, and would like to
have his friends drop i'm and look him
over.
Mr. Geo. W. Koons was confined to
his house the greater part of last week
by a bilious attack, but is all right again
now.
Frank Millington wears his north
eye in IA sling, and when asked regard
ing it he says you ought to see the
other fellows eyes.
The b. S. Pedestrian club is requested
To meet at the home of the captain next
It tNtlllIR ut StNtil % ClOtk.
canes. Atg WiederSehen.
Sam George, of this place, was thrown
from horse in Kalamazoo last Thurs
day, and So seriously injured that his
life was despaired of at latest accounts.
&. +. Galligan's trotting horse Jim
Lane will arrive home to day from De-
troit, where he has been under the
management of G.. w. Voorhis, noted
horseman.
f. l.. Peck will sell lot of stock and
farm implements at auction, at his
farm four miles northwest of town, on
Tuesday of next week, commencing at
10 o'clock a. IN.
Mrs. Lucy Plopper, of Prospect Lake,
left at this Office on the Sd inst. a limb,
cut from an apple tree in her orchard,
which was literally loaded with bios
SONS and buds.
OF course there will be throngs of
people in town the balance of this
week, and no one should go home with
out having visited Broughton's great
all-around store.
Old observers say that we are to have
an early winter and hard one-basing
these predictions on the fact that migra-
tory birds are massing and some flocks
have already moved southwark.
The Snow Bros are kept hustling
nowadays to fill orders for their hot
air furnaces. Comfort and economy"
is the motto adopted by our people
now when fitting up their homes.
Broughton takes section of the fair
ground fence for billboard this week,
but there is such rush for "red school
house shoes" that the boys don't stop TO
read his adv. 1t is fine production.
I'm the circuit court yesterday the case
of Chas. o. Hills VS.. James Richards re-
suited in "A judgment for plaintiff for
fifty cents On trial as we go to press
the eicctment suit of Gibson VS.. Van
Sickle.
+. Bilsborrow left potato at this
office, Monday, which weighed three
pounds six and-a-half ounces. 1t is of
the James Wick variety, and Mr. b. says
this is but slight eXaggeration on his
whole crop.
The Hartford Day Spring last week
completed its 18th year. This journal,
under the careful management of Mr..
Phillips, has improved materially, and
is now one of the brightest local papers
in the county.
Bartram & Millington offer as a spe-
cial premium to the family exhibiting
the four best looking daughters, be-
tween the ages of 8 and 20 years, at the
fair this week, set of Dickens works,
Is volumes, beautifully bound.
Rev. DIR. Mead, of Appleton, Wis,
agent of the American Bible society,
occupied the pulpit of the NJ. +. church
last Sunday morning, and that of the
Disciple church in the evening, deliver
ing on each occasion a powerful SER
mon.
John Mahard, of Lawton, was in
town Monday evening, and If he had
tried hard he might have found better
company than that in which he passed
his time. He claims that he was
touched" for his pocket.book and $25
cash.
Hon. Thos. Mars, master of the state
grange, and Jason Woodman, lecturer,
Mich, yesterday. Mr.. Woodman then
lecture before the several oranges the
balance of the week.
John Rae, from the northwestern
part of the county somewhere, got
drunk last Sunday and made an eyre
gious ass of himself generally. McFar-
lin locked him up on general princi-
plies, but allowed him to depart Mon
day on promise of behaving himself.
The thirteenth session of the Porter,
Antwerp and Almena Sunday school
institute will be held at the Nj. r..
church in Lawton on Saturday of this
week, the first session at 10 a. m. Rev.
w. j. Hathaway, of the M. +. church
of this place, delivers an address before
the institute in the evening.
Roswell w. Brown, well known
citizen, died at his home mile and "a
half east of Lawton, last Thursday
night, after brief illness. The funer-
al was from the Baptist church, in
Lawton, Sunday, conducted under the
auspices of the G.. A. r., of which or
ganization deceased was member.
The Atlantic and the Pacific express
trains, east and west respectively on
the Central, made the same dismal fail
ure in an attempt TO pass each other
on the same track, at Mattawan Sunday
morning, as has characterized all SINH
lar efforts All of the Atlantic but two