The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-01
The faculty Of tho university AT Ann

long standing proposition TO move the
medical department OF the university to
Detroit. He said as to his recent remarks
before a legislative committee at Lansing:
Il said to the Legislators that the only
place in this State where a complete
clinic could be established was Detroit.
did say that it is just as reasonable to
expect to grow oranges in Canada as to
maintain a complete clinic in Ann Arbor.
The medical department of the university
has been at a standstill for twenty years,
while the whole university has grown
from 900 students to 1900. 1 have said
nothing at which the regents ought to
take offense, and no threats of theirs will
ever intimidate me from an honest ex-
preston of my opinion" DR.. Frothing
ham added that he owed nothing to the
university or Ann Arbor but hate. This
was reference 10 a case which was tried
thore three timeD against him, and sent
back each time for a new trial. The
Doctor again said he should sgitate this
question regardless of the regents. He
said he would defy them to bounce" him,
and that if this were done he would make
it hot for them and the university
VIM. H. Marston, an old pioneer of
Alpena County, died at his residence in
Long Rapids Township. He was aged
y years.
DIR. Weaver, the Bay City fraud who
made his living by duping gullible pa
tients, having failed in getting new trial,
stands facing State prison and weeps
copiously. When he has brief dry sea-
son he spends his time in smuggling let
ters out of Jail to his wife.
The Oxford Globe was issued recent
ly in an enlarged edition, giving an able
review of that village and its business
interests, which shows commendable zeal
and enterprise on the part of its editor,
that place to be thrifty and permanent,
and its business men of the right mate
rial to make live, prosperous town. It's
school and its churches are also doing
Auuth toMhlu It's pitNtAlA anu ldtuAt lhAti-
tellectual and moral Advancement.
The steamer Massassauga will ply
the coming season on her last years route,
between Detroit and Gibraltar.
The Genesee County Sheep Breeders
and Wool Growers Association met ut
the commodious barns of Elmer II. Stone,
near Grand Blanc. The gathering was
largely attended by Genesee farmers who
are interested in the raising of sheep,
from all parts of that county. The stock
shown compared favorably with that
shown at any former meeting Of the Asso-
citation or that exhibited at any State
meeting. Among the prominent breeders
present were d. p. Dewey, of Grand
Blanc, who exhibited ten ewes and twelve
rams, all OF which were fine animals; E.
II. Slime of the same township, showed
a flock of merinos in which were ten rams
and twenty ewes; George w. Stuart's
flock was represented by eleven ewes and
six rams, selected from n flock of $50; f.
r. Anable, of Burton, showed six ewes
and one ram. Charles Cheney had on
exhibition the largest and best built ram
at the show. The animal weighed rs
pounds, but was not shorn, as he is to be
exhibited at the Atlas meeting at Good
rich. Ebert Pettis, of Dawson, was on
hand with two ewes and two rams. Joseph
Shaw showed three Shropshire ewes, and
Andrew Hampstead two ewes of the same
breed.
H. c. Mckinley, who owns the plant
of the Otsego County Herald now pub
lished at Gaylord, will remove to Glad
stone about June !, next, and start a
Democratic paper to be known as the
Gladstone Herald There is already
paper in Gladstone known as the Delta,
and it looks, to disinterested party, as
though there was not large enough field
for that one; but there's nothing like
trying.
j. II. Hill & Sons, of Saginaw, have
let the contract for saving the entire Up
per Peninsula output, estimated at H.
900, 600 feet, to Cheboygan parties.
The three log camps of f. K Potter
& Sons, of Alpena, have banked IL ,OO0,-
600 feet of logs, and, in addition, l,O00,-
600 feet of logs will be banked by joboers.
Horace Lapham, of Lansing, and c.
H. Stanton, of Ionia, have engaged in a
great lumber enterprise in Graham Coun-
ty, North Carolina, where they, with 9th
ers, have located $1,000 acres of yellow
pine and ash.
Frederick Schultz, German farmer,
living near Buena Vista Township, Sag
NAV County, under bail pending his trial
for having shot and killed Thomas Flana-
gan. suicided by jumping into the Sag
inaw River. He was 62 years old, and
leaves family. His body was recovered.
Only such members of the State
militia as have been mustered into the
service prior to June and have attended
20 per cent. of all drills from and after
June l will be allowed to go to the en-
campment of the State troops. Substi-