The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-09-11

st'Sh VI idil RoouS.
Mr.. l.. Perrigo, of this place, owns a
fruit evaporation in Allegan, and has
gone over there To start il i'm operation
for the fall campaign.
Mrs + H. Cowles, wife Of the man
aging editor of the St Paul Pioneer
Press, is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. c. Bliss. of this place.
The wife and daughter of Prof. Cook
Of Portland, Oregon, who have been Wis
iting friends in this village and vicinity,
have returnded TO their home.
There will be no preaching at the NJ.
+. church next Sunday. Prayer meet
ing Thursday evening, and Sunday
school at II m. Sunday, as usual.
Prayer meeting, as usual, at the Chris
tian church this week. Social services
at the regular hour on Sunday morning,
succeeded by the Sunday school session.
w. X. Holt, of Augusta, spent Sun
day with his parents in this place Will
is good mechanic, a good fellow, and
we are glad TO note that he is doing
well.
The East and West Farmers club
met at the residence of Mr. and Mrs
Charles Wildey, last Thursday, and
spent very pleasant day. The attend
ance was unusually large.
Mrs. Searls has returned to her duties
at Avery's millinary counters, where
she will be pleased to meet all her old
customers and as many new ones as
may favor her with call.
Broughton has applied the knife to
the price of table linens, and the prices
quoted by him to-day will draw to his
counters every careful house keeper
who reads the NoRTHERNER.
A half-bushel of Strawberry apples
left at this Office by Dewitt Crofoot,
raised on his farm just north of town,
contained exactly twenty five i'm mum
ber, and they were delicious.
The long wished-for rain came in alo-
pathic doses on Wednesday night and
Thursday of last week and the parched
earth and dropping vegetation received
new life and vigor therefrom.
The county board of school examin-
ers wish applicants for certificates TO
distinctly understand that a certificate
of good moral character will be consid-
cred as requisite to consideration of
their other qualifications.
II. w. Showerman, in his adv. this
week, quotes some very low prices in a
few lots which he would like to close
out before moving. Look at his adv.
and see If there isn't something you
can use at the price named.
A game of base ball will be played
here Faiday afternoon between the OF
segos and our home team, which latter
has been strengthened by securing
Smith, formerly of the Lawtons, as
pitcher. Ii will be hot game and well
worth witnessing.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of j. L. Preece, the tailor, in an
other place in this paper 1t will be
seen that, in addition to his regular
tailoring business, cloak and dress
will also receive attention.
Everybody knows Jim.
That was pleasant affair, that gath
ering of nearly one hundred members
of the NJ. f. church and the personal
friends of Mr.. and Mrs Hathaway, at
the parsonage on Tuesday evening of
last week. 1t was an impromptu affair
and greatly enjoyed by all.
The Lawrence correspondent of the
Decatur Republican and the Lawrence
Times are having it hot and heavy over
some trifling difference in orthography.
One of them wants an ri" i'm legs" and
the other as strenuously objects to it as
an Interpolation, and so they have it.
Hark, boys; hark.
Hon. G.. L. Eaton is endeavoring to
secure the presence at Hartford to-mor-
row of Gen. X. A. Alger, commander
in chief of the G.. A. r AS Gen. Alger
is to be at Benton Harbor Friday, it is
thought quite probable he will accede
to Mr.. EatOns request and address the
veterans of the Van Buren, battalion.
James Lowry, well known colored
man of Prospect Lake, died last Satur-
day, from blood poisoning A week or
so before his death he had got a silver
of wood into his hand in handling some
lumber, and blood poisoning immedi-
ately set in, with the result above in
dicated. Deceased was SO years of age.
The circuit court convened on Mon
day. The calendar for the present
term is the largest for a long time and
includes nineteen issues of fact five
imparlances; eighteen first-class chan
Gerry cases; twelve fourth-class chancery
cases, and five criminal cases. OF the
chancery cases, twenty are actions for
divorce.
A casual glance at the window sills
of the Dyckman house Office will eX-
plain why there are so many perforated
pairs of pants being worn by Paw Paw
dudedom. Mat. got tired of that kind
of window decoration and tackled barbed
wire on the sills 1t is noticeable that
no one pair of pants has two rows of
perforations. Strange, isn't it?
Rev. W. j. Hathaway, of the Nj. +.
church, is in attendance on the general
conference, now in session at Green
vile, Montcalm county. IL we under
stand the situation as it is, the univer-
sal wish of his congregation is that he
be returned to this charge, as both he
and his estimable wife have found very
warm places in the hearts OF their peo-
pie here.
On Monday evening the graduating
class of 80 visited Mrs. A. G. Martin
and presented her, as testimony OF their
esteem, fine steel engraving, beauti-
fully framed. Harry Mcneil, the class
president, made an admirable presenta-
-, onaach to which the entire class