The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-08-28
WHOLE NUMBER 1877.

selection of candidate and an alter
mate for cadet ut West Point from
this congressional district This board
meets at KALAMAZOO on Friday of this
week. Mr.. Eaton left for Milwaukee
Monday afternoon, and will be com
PEELED To leave there Thursday night i'm
order to make his connections.
The reputation of the present Decatur
school board will go laundering down
the ages as that Of an aggregation OF
great econOmiZers. When il was found
to be imperatively necessary to lay new
walks in the school grounds, the board
sagely decided To order the fences torn
down and the lumber thereof used in
the construction Of the walks. Great
people! Great town! Great Scott!
Mr.. G. w. Young, of this place, has
charge of the department of agricul-
tural implements at the state fair. and
informs us that the applications for
space are more numerous than for any
preceding fair, and that everything in
dicates great show in all the various
departments. Mr.. Young has already
been down To Lansing once and will go
again on Friday, looking after matters
connected with his department.
medal occurs at the NJ. +. church this
"Wednesday evening, under the aus
pices of the W. c. Il. L. The recita-
tions will be interspersed with vocal
quartets and solos by some Of our best
home talent and some from abroad
Three disnterested persons of mature
age have been selected "a Judges
Great pains have been taken To make
this a first class entertainment. Every
body invited. Admission 10 cents
We notice that several of our ex-
changes are citing the law relating to
running traction engines over the public
highways, with view, no doubt, to
lessen the number of runaways and ac-
cidents attending such. Now, we here
in Paw Paw believe that procession
of regulation campaign size of such en-
gines, making circuit of our streets
about three times day, would tend
very materially To quiet things down.
BY all manner of means let us have the
engines wide open.
In accordance with the provisions of
law, the board of school examiners met
ut the office of the probate Judge on
Tuesday OF this week and elected a sec
retary for the ensuing school year, the
choice falling upon G. w. Cornish, of
Porter Judge Heckert appointed VIM.
Mcmillan, of Berlamont, IA teacher of
extensive acquaintance with the schools
of this comfy, To fill the unexpired
term of Mr.. Cornish, who had previous
ly resigned. We congratulate the board
upon its choice of secretary, as we
know Mr.. Cornish to be man in every
way eminently qualified to fill this inn
portant position.
Last Friday the G.. NJ. B. A. ball club,
of Kalamazoo, came down here and
played game with our team. From
the start the Paw Paws, seeing of what
kind of metal their opponents were
composed, played IA listless sort of game,
which dragged its weary length along
till $50 The feature of the occasion
was that large majority of the spec
tators, instead of passing through the
gate and dropping dime into the slot,
went around and came upon the
grounds by the back way The game
resulted II to l in favor of the home
club, which by innings. was as follows;
l 3 ) 6 : s 9
CM .BA. o o 0 1 0 o.
Paw Paw o : 0 ! *-12
A little before midnight last Friday
night the door-bcll at the residence of
County Clerk Anderson set up "A fearful
din, the motive power of which was a
young man from Bangor who claimed
to be on an errant of must" and want
ed marriage license-nOU. Throop is
too good-natured To refuse such re-
quest, so he dressed and went down To
his office and issued the much-needed
document. Armed with this, the would
be Benedict sought out the residence of
Rev. Taft and, informing that gentle
man of the nature of his nocturnal visit,
he introduced IA young woman to whom
he desired to be married. Short work
was made of this chapter rs the clock
was striking twelve, and it kept on
ticking rs though nothing unusual had
happened.
The Great Wild West" show, which
started out from this place last spring
with such Il blast of trumpets from the
Courier's band) has finally come to grief.
On Saturday, the 18th inst, IA telegram
informed our people that the Wild
West was held under attachment at
Ashland, Ohio, and Mr.. Geo. +. Breck
left that evening to protect chattel
mortgage given the Savings Bank and
also one given him in trust for numer-
Gus creditors VINO nau put tnelr Claims
into his hands for collection. He found
the show in the hands of two different
sheriffs for attaching creditors. Mr..
Pomeroy had also made an assignment
before Mr.. Breck got to them, and he
(Breck) was obliged To replevin the
property to protect the mortgages of
his clients. The outfit is now being sold.
The property was appraised by friends
of Pomery at 81, 2S0.00. Other chattel
haye been given, amounting
in all to about SIC, 900, besides numer-
Gus other creditors representing oyer
$40, 900 more. Among this last number
are several mechanics i'm this place,
men not able To lose even the amounts
of their respective claims The NORTH
ERNER is ever ready to encourage any
sound business venture, but slow To
take for granted the assertions of mere
and therefore refrained
from noticing this undertaking at all,
doubling its stability and not wishing
to be an instrument i'm foisting upon
the public confidence concern which
il had the best of reasons for believing
to be unsound. Yet, for its reticence,
this journal was severely criticized and
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