The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-01-09

Have you all written il 1889?
Now is the time to prepare for winter.
Turkeys can have II rest for another
year.
Bert Libby is grooming Ben Wilkes
and jim Lane this winter
This is the great resolution month, so
make good one and hang to it.
Bert Hlnckley has rented the Baker
farm, and will move on in the spring
Johnnie Scott has rented farm near
Hillsdale, and will move out there this
week.
Dogs have been making havoc among
the flocks of sheep of Sam. Orr and Alb
Grout
Roy Leach has racer which he
thinks can get away with all the run
ners. 1t is built that way.
A. L. Marden, of Sheffield, Alabama,
is out on a visit to his sister, Mrs Mary
+. Jones, and other relatives.
The winter thus far has kept the
wheat fields baldheaded, which makes
it bad on our bread timber for 1899.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Orr and Miss
Mabel Barker, of Breedsville, are up
visiting their many friends in the Lee
district.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Grout have re-
turned from their long Pennsylvania
visit, Mr.. G.. bringing with him a Key
stone flyer
Miss Nora Galligan is teaching school
for the winter at Kendalls, commencing
last week Monday, and reports every
thing lovely.
Many say they have never seen such
a muddy winter rs this has been, but
we, like the legendary old lady, have
seen hundreds and hundreds of them"
Ben Rogers has bought the Uncle Dan
Sherrod place and commenced repairing
it, and now has house to rent we sup
pose. This makes Ben an S0-acre farm.
Mrs John Russell and daughter Maud,
of Unionville, are on a visit to ais and
other relatives here Diptheria kindly
scared them away, as they are having
it at their home town.
Barney Smith, of Bolton, Texas, is
visiting among the Orrs. He is bach
elor, with long, flaming beard thirty
two inches long, but, remember girls,
he is not in the market.
Robt Morrison, living east of town,
is going TO build IA nice brick house in
the spring having a part of the mate
rials on the ground already. We have
good looking architect in our neigh
borhood, and Robert calls up there quite
often to get plans-as we suppose
Bobby Huntington, the little duck
legged thresher, is making many inn
prOvements on his farm this winter in
fixing his barn, grubbing out his fence
rows, etc As rule, these threshers
are the most shiftleSs farmers we have,
but not SO with the little sawed-of
! Bobby.
Frank Phelps will work the farms of
| the widows Dean and Kirkland the com
ing season. Frank we understand, has
another object in view in the way of "a
| handsome young female of whom Mrs.
Kirkland is the ma. Well, Jennie is
good girl and the fellow who gets her
will make no mistake.
Old fat COWS are selling at three and
/ four cents per pound on our streets.
| This is cheaper than the gentleman cow
beef at penny pound that we read of.
Pork is much higher, and this commod-
ity will bring a big price the present
i
home use, and be happy.
He lives up in Porter, and was brag-
ging the other day about what good
cheese he got in town. When asked
where, he said, "Of that old gray-head-
ed fellow who keeps grocery opposite
! the court house" Yes, Dan, we are
growing old, and the mile-stones of time
are getting there thick and fast in our
l hut LOT no
all right, mile-stOnes or no mile-stones.
Cady Van Week has at last sold his
farm TO brotherin-law of John Dun
ningtOn, recently from across the briny
deep. 1t was 40-acre farm, and Cady
paid for it $1,000, and, after making
many improvements, sold il for 1880.
1t was the California fever that caused
him TO sell so cheaply. His wife was
! stricken with the same disease some
time since and is there now, and Cady
wants to get there, Eli
Fred Webb is quite dog fancier, and
was the owner of fine dog that was all
right only he would visit his neighbors
little too often. Free Salisbury was
the owner of a "three dollar dog that
was all right only she was n bad egg
sucker. Fred didn't like the visiting
proclivities of his dog, and, meeting
Free one day, he stumped him for a
trade After considerable bantcring,
they traded, and Fred went home with
his dog, whistling and singing and as
happy as a lark at the good trade he
had made About a week later one of
the neighboring boys was looking the
dog over, and wanted Fred 10 book him
for a pup. He declared he was not i'm
the business, but an anatomical exam
ination proved to him that he lCdS-the
first he knew of il. And now he has
another dog to put upon the market.