The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-09-18
Local and NeislbOrhOOd News.

Odell's on Friday OF this week at 2:3O
p. m
A carload of western corn recently
received ut an Owosso mill contained
enough dynamite to have blown the
city to atoms.
The fruit evaporation is in full blast,
and very good market is thus made
for class of fruit heretofore left to rot
on the ground.
X. Il. Qua will have "A sale of horses,
mules, cattle, hogs and farm nipple
ments at his farm on the Decatur road
Thursday, Sept. 26th.
Gen. Alger did not materialize, either
at Hartford Thursday, or at Benton
Harbor Friday of last week A severe
cold kept him at home.
Letters remain uncalled for in the
Paw Paw postoflice addressed to Mrs.
n. Chambers, Mrs. Il. III. Conlon, III.
Eldredge, Mrs. n Grover, III. Harton.
1t required 400 freight cars to trans
port the exhibits To and from the state
fair at Lansing. OF these, the c. X G..
Il. handled $50 and the Michigan Central
800
Among the new postmastcrs appoint
ed on the 14th inst, we notice two for
Van Buren, county: Albert D. Dun
combe at Keelerville, and Geo. g. Scott
at Sister Lakes.
Some slick-fingered gent touched
Oscar Lamphere, pensioner who had
just drawn his quarterly stipend, for
his pocket book and about $50 cash,
Saturday evening.
The Mattawan ball team came over
here last Saturday and played game
with the Paw Paw second nine, and
went home vanquished. Score, 10 to O.,
in favor of the Paw Paw kids.
The Berrien county Jail has about
twenty-five inmates at the present
time, and the sheriff is anxious to have
a session of the circuit court 10 make
room for more who should be there.
Burke's hotel, at Kalamazoo, caught
fire ut an early hour Monday morn
ing from defective fiue, and was dam
aged To the extent of 800 The thirty
SIX guests of the house escaped without
injury.
Aaron NJ. Waterbury has leased the
Kalamazoo house and will open it as
soon as an elevator and steam heating
apparatus can be put in. He formerly
ran the house and is favorably known
to the public.
Thirty or more of the young friends
of Miss Nellie Qua made an unannOunc-
ed visit to her at her home last Thurs
day evening, and "A very pleasant hour
was enjoyed Her cousin, Miss Lutte
Qua, of Gaylord was her guest, and as
sisted in entertaining the visitors.
Gov. Luce has appointed d. Il. Mer-
rill, of Kalamazoo, w A. Coombs, of
Coldwater, and +. w. Stock, of Hills
dale, as Michigan's delegates to the
conference of the three Americas
which meets in Washington Oct I'd.
The three gentlemen are all -four
millers
As the evenings begin to lcngthen
and more artificial light is needed in
the house, the careful housewife looks
about to see how well she is equipped
with lamps. Anticipating this, Brough-
ton has put in stock the finest line of
lamps ever shown in Paw Paw. Look
ut them.
The state W. G. Il. L. i DESTROYS that
: all ministers of the gospel in this state
make united onslaught on the tobacco
business next Sunday. There was one
minister up at the Grcenville confer
ence who would hesitate about roast
ing his people much for the use of the
weed, for he INDUCES tlifle himself
Our Lacota and Barnes District cor
respondence were received on Wednes-
day-after the NoRTHERNER was print
ed. Correspondents must get their let
ters To us as early as Tuesday morning,
and Monday is better still. We close
the forms of the NORTHERNER at p.
m. Tuesday. Please bear this in mind
The state fair. at Lansing last week
was the most successful of any in the
history of the society. On Thursday il
was estimated there were 81, 900 visitors
on the grounds Every available inch
of space for exhibits was occupied, and
the society is TO be congratulated on
the outcome of the first fair on its own
grounds.
Earl Strong, a young man whose
home was in Kalamazoo, was killed last
Wednesday i'm the ReUieU and Herald
Office, at Battle Greek, where he was
employed in the bindery. Strong was
going up in an elevator, was caught be-
tween the elevator ana the fiOOr IN some
way and had his head crushed. De-
ceased was very highly respected.
The district convention of the Dis
ciples, held at Hartford last week, was
great success. The storm on Sunday
interfered with the grove meeting and
compelled the audience to convene i'm
the church. At the conclusion of Elder
Carpenters splendid discourse he stated
that there was debt of 81 900 on the
house i'm which they were assembled,
and that sum was at once pledged
Fifty dollars besides were also raised
for missionary purposes.
Geo. L. Alexander, well known and a
former resident here, now keeping a
drug store i'm South Bend, Ind, made a
fatal mistake, "A short time ago, by put
ting up morphine for quinine. The re-
suit of the mistake was the death of Mr..
A. G.. Staley, president of the knitting
works, at South Bend, who went to the
drug store for quinine and gin TO ward
off an attack of rheumatism. After pro-
curing the drug the victim went home,
took "A large dose of it and retired. Dur
ing the night his wife was aroused by
his laboring breathing and called medi-
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