The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-09-04
ANNALS OF TANGLETON.
JrNIpER PLACE. Aug. O. Z


h suite a good menny
In the church, but out of il, he was a
favorit an he dun lots of temperance
work in his oan way.
Thare is an aged man in Tapgleton
now that allus ses, God bless him,
whenever he speeks of Mr.. Smith. 1t
Is becaws that mans sun was a drunk
ard and Mr.. Smith maid a man of him.
He was an outsider-a Catholic.
An anuther man, one that KEEP a
saloon. thawt lots of Mr.. Smith, be-
caws he wus so friendly an talked tenn
perance so sensible. Mr. Mallory
quit the saloon bizness an went up TO
Chicago, an got into good offs. He's
thare yet, an / hope he reeds The
LEDGER. He Good reed between the
lines"
Befoar Mr.. Smith left thare was
quite revival, an fur q spell the
harris of the peapul peered to melt an
run together, as it wur. Baptists,
Methodists an outsiders preeched, an
praid, an sung together, an oh how
happy Uncle Jimmy was.
But when thel meetins was about
dun, sumbuddy begin to labor among
the converts, quietly, to convince EN-
that immershun only wus baptism.
There fell a GOODNESS between the
2 churches, an society was devided
agen.
After that cum the Rev. Chatterlys.
| speek of EN- that way becaws the wife
preeched as well-an a site better, than
Mr.. Chatterly.
She wus tall, large woman, ruther
fne-looking, but, of coarse, she he'd a
fawlt. Folks thawt she drest too fine.
Well, she urned mummy, ritin fer
papurs an speekin at places, an if she
liked fine close, it wus good for
traid an L thawt it WIS nun of my
bizness. j never caire what emmy buddy
wares or duz with his mummy.
Folks ruther admired Mrs. Chat
terly, but tina didn't luv her. AS fur
Uncle Jimmy, he dident get along
with her, at all.
Thare was lots of trubbel in Chat
terly's time. 1t was hard to get mum
ny to pay his house-rent, and he
coodent get his peapul to even try to
lift the dett on the church.
Uncle Josey had bin pashent long
enuf, he thawt. He needed funds his
self, an his wife forgot she was sancti-
fide whenever the subject cum up.
Chatterly moved to Mensen, five
miles west-he had to preech there
ennyway-the seckend year, an one
day he found the church door locked
On him.
/ don't kno ritely jest how it hap
pened or endid, but Mr.. Chatterly
INIT ,,raacbin In TonClatOn
Sum times the Baptists he'd a
preecher, sum times not. Sum Epis-
copal folks got clergyman" to crtfn
frum Ordway evry fortnite, an the
Baptists went to thare meetins, held
in the Methodist church. That So
ciety only lasted yeer.
Heer l sit by my fire an it seams
as if can see pictyers of old Tangle-
ton an its peapul in the coles. The
folks that was middlin old In the urly
DAYS hav either gon to rest on the hill
side, or tina ar neerin it fast The
Loys an girls is mostly settled in life,
but sum of EN- dropped out of the
ranks an went "over the river" The
folks that then was tiny is now the
yung society, an so it will go on for
ever.
Most of the bizness houses hev
changed hands, an when L 60 down
town / seam almost in strange place.
But Miles Alexander is thare pompus
as ever. He has bin in the State Leg
,slatures; so hes Mr.. Roberts, an now
his wife puts mr." before his name.
She used to call him just Roberts"
But after all, it is Tangleton, with
its trees, green in spring an brite in
autumn.
There's no place like home" Good
bye. JUMPER BERRY.