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

w. III. Pomeroy returned from his
Texas trip last Monday
The NoRTHERNER will be found i'm its
new quarters next week.
Frank ID. Dodge of Lima, Ind, is Wis
iting friends in this vicinity.
A. b. johnson, of the Decatur Repub-
lican, was in town last Friday.
Born, to Mrs. and MIR. Ed. Phillips,
Jan. 2d, an 8-lb boy. All well.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gilbert, of
Kalamazoo, are here on a visit.
"Zan" Harrison, of Bangor, was in
town last Thursday on business.
Organ concert at the Presbyterian
church next Wednesday evening.
Judge Heckert left for Grand Rapids
Tuesday afternoon on business trip.
We hear some talk of minstrel per-
formance, by home talent, in Paw Paw
soon.
Mrs p l. Bragg is enjoying a visit
opolis.
Mr.. Matt. Murphy of Lawton put his
good-natured phiz into our Office on
Saturday.
The Van Buren county Sunday school
convention will be held at Gobleville
Feb. IA and 10.
We learn that w IL. Filley contem-
plates going to Lawton and engaging in
business there.
We received a very pleasant call from
Mr. Joseph Lannin of South Haven one
day last week.
Miss Lille Jennings left for Muskegon
last week. She goes there to learn kim
tergarten work.
Cassopolis ladies gathered prefect
pansies from their out door gardens
New Years day.
The circuit court for this county will
convene next Monday. The jury will
attend a week later.
Amos Stevens, of Battle Creek, spent
Saturday and Sunday with his mother,
sister and-others.
Uncle Billy Young, while going home
from town Saturday evening, slipped
and fell, breaking rib.
The thirteenth Michigan infantry will
hold its annual reunion at Otsego on
Thursday of next week.
Broughton furnishes our readers some
food for thought in his advertisement.
None should fail TO read it.
Hon. G. l.. Eaton come home from
Lansing on Thursday afternoon of last
week, and returned Tuesday.
Ed. Darling and wife left for their
Detroit home last Thursday, after a
weeks visit with friends here.
The crowded state of our columns
this week has compelled us TO cut our
correspondence to some extent.
Miss Eva Hayes accompanied her
sister, Mrs. Webster, TO her home in
Leslie, and will spend a few weeks
there.
Mr.. Henry Spaulding of Hartford, as
sistant Sergeant-at-armS of the house of
representatives at Lansing, was in town
Saturday.
County Clerk Anderson was getting
the lay of the land" last week, and on
Monday morning he assumed his duties
in earnest.
Two freight trains attempted TO pass
each other on the same track at Mar
cellus last Thursday morning, with the
usual result.
Henry Waite, prominent citizen of
Almena, died Sunday night from pneu-
monia, after an illness of but few days,
aged "a years.
j. r. Galligan showed us the other
day lock of wool, pulled from one OF
his Shropshires, which measured thir-
teen inches in length.
Another consignment of wagons has
arrived for Pomeroys Western World
show. j. G. Garvin is also building
several at his wagon works.
Mrs. Phebe A. De Graft advertises
some very desirable property for sale
1t is nicely located, in good shape and
is in every respect first class.
Mrs. Evans, widow of sixty years,
whose home is in Keeler township,
dropped dead from heart disease at Ben
ton Harbor on Monday of last week.
Longwell Bros were too busy this
week to write up n new adj, but they
will try to issue a manifesto in our next.
Meanwhile they are always "at home" "
We notice in the Muskegon Daily
Chronicle, among marriage licenses
granted, that of Justin M. Colburn, of
Montague, and Miss Juliet NJ. Colburn,
of Almena, Mich.
The South Haven Messenger speaks in
very high terms of the performance of
the furnaces which Snow Bros, of this
place, recently put in the First Baptist
church of that village.
The board of supervisors convened
Monday, but up to the time of closing
our forms nothing had been done save
approving the bonds of the new county
officers and some little work by com
! mlttees.
Lucius Baker, of Lawton, celebrated
his Slst, birthday recently by chopping
three fourth of cord of stove wood,
then went up town and prowled around
! for some wrestler who considered him
self smart, He didn't find his man.