The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-31
WHOLE NUMBER 1893.

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Paw Paw-South Haven game last Fri
day with the intention Of keeping score
OF the game, but when he got hold Of
oae of the score cards $50 called) he
found il about as useful for the purpose
intended as IA bill of fare for kicapoo
dog feast. 1t didn't have the NORTH
ERNER imprint.
The four young Canadian tr.amps
mentioned last week a. having broken
into IA dwelling house at Lawton and
jailed here pending examination, were
taken 10 Lawton for that purpose one
day last week by Sheriff McFarlin. As
a result Of their examination they were
held To the circuit court in $500 each,
in default of which they were commit
ted
While driving i'm WaveIly township
dav or SO since, the NORTHERNER
noticed just at the north end of the
bridge across the north branch of the
Paw Paw river Canada thistles growing
as high as u mans shoulders and in full
blossom. Who is Overseer of highways
in that road districts 1t will be well
for him to see that they are cut down
at once.
Genial Charley Delamere, of South
Haven, brought his good-natured coun-
tenance into our Office one day last
week. One of his errands TO Paw Paw
was to induce Col. Dan. Spicer TO have
the reunion of the Van Buren county
battalion held at South Haven this year.
The NORTHERNER cheerfully seconds
the motion of Lieut.. Col. Delamere, be-
lieving that that place would be more
easy of access To IA majority of the vets.
of the county than any other.
Miss Claire Chappell few days since
received letter from Miss Clara Bar
ton, president of the American Associa-
tiOn of the Red Cross, dated Johnstown,
Pa, acknowledging the receipt of Miss
Chappelrs draft for S19.15 the proceeds
of the entertainment given by the
young ladies at the opera house recently,
and thanking her and her co-wOrkers
for the same. Miss Barton says: 1--WE
are getting these people into homes of
their own, and your money will help
TO furnish them
DR.. Gillis Bradley prides himself on
his ability to kill dog with as much
neatness and as great dispatch as any
man; still, occasionally he finds tough
customer. He was ordered To ''re-
move" dog belonging to George w.
LOngwell, and started in with shooting
him five or six times; he then brought
an AK into requisition, and still the
canine proposed To linger. Finally, he
took a cheese knife and beheaded the
purp and Immediately planted him
under six feet of earth TO make dead
sure. Oh, Gill says he can fix dogs
AT the last meeting of the common
council, the matter of lighting the vii
lage by electricity came up for discus
sion, and it was finally decided to sub
NIT 1t TO vote of the people at spe-
cial election to be held for that purpose
Judge Heekert, who is attorney for the
corporation, decided that there was no
warrant in the charter for such pro-
ceeding and, indeed, no reason why
there should be; that if the council had
authority To- contract for lighting the
village with oil, il certainly had the
same authority to contract for its light
ing with electricity. The matter will
probably be disposed of at the regular
meeting tonight.
Quite an excitement was created last
Saturday evening by the formidable
phalanN of ladies that swept across
Main street, each armed with cane
ornamented with yellow bow. The
husbands of said ladies were seen to
gaze apprehensively at one another
but their pallor gradually subsidized
when it became known that this was
simply the first tom of the new Pedes-
trian club, and that the roOster's claw
ON the canes signified nothing more
alarming than that chickens would bet
ter roost high whenever these ambitious
females appeared in their neighbor-
hood while the yellow ribbon was
symbol of the unfailing serenity with
which the B. 5 u. G.. will sally forth
every Wednesday morning and Satur-
day evening, rain or shine.
The members of the c. A. r. of west
ern Michigan who desire To attend the
National encampment at Milwaukee,
can compromise matters by going by
steamer across the lake. Ii is quite
probable that excursion steamers will
run, touching at all points on the east
ern shore of Lake Michigan, and which
will carry the veterans to'and from the
encampment at reasonable rates. [Since
writing the above we have learned that
Zach. Chandler Post G.. A. r., of South
Haven, has chartered the fine steamer
Williams for the occasion, and they ex-
tend cordial invitation To all comrades
and their friends 10 join them. The
Williams will leave South Haven Mon
day evening, August 26th, and return
Friday evening, the Both. Fare for the
round trip, 81 80. We have no doubt
that Supt Ihling would run special
train from Lawton to South Haven on
Monday afternoon, To accommodate the
veterans from this corner of the state.
Our boys played their initial game of
base ball this season on Friday of last
week with the South Haven club. They
were defeated, as they expected to be-
it being their first practice game, but
had il not been for the rank decisions
of the paregoric, seersucker-looking
guy who disgraced the position of um-
pire, they would have made better
showing and stood good chance to
win the game. He rendered three decis-
ions SO obviously partisan and unfair as
to call forth eXclamations of surprise
from spectators who were strangers TO
both clubs, and these, too, at times when
they counted-with two Paw Paw men
on bases each time. He was withdrawn
finally, but not until he had done his
work and the game had been lost to
Paw Paw The South Haven team were