The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-22
Judge Fallas, of Cadillac, will deliver
the address here ON Memorial day.


noon. Election of officers.
l.. w. Whitbeck has taken a contract
to furnish all the materials and erect "A
30X40 foot barn, with Gamble roof, for
Mrs. DeGraff, on the west side of the
river.
We publish elsewhere circular from
Gov Luce which is of Importance 10
those wishing to attend the dedication
If the Michigan monuments at Gettys-
burg.
Mr. and Mrs Hugh L. Orr, who have
been visiting Mrs. c. +. Galligan and
other friends here the past two or three
weeks, have returned to their home in
Iowa.
Among the recent visitors i'm town
were Mrs. III. :. lsmon, of Chicago; Mrs.
Sherman, nee Nellie Ismon, of India
napolis, and Mrs Francisco, nee Ida
Clapp.
Commander Heckert, of Brodhead
Post G.. A. r., has ordered post court
martial to convene on Saturday even
ing, May 25th-the first in the history
of this Post.
The 9Th convention of the Paw Paw,
Decatur and Lawrence Sunday school
association will he held at the Christian
church this "wednesday afternoon and
tomorrow.
The third quarterly meeting of this
conference year of the M. +. church will
be held in this place on Saturday and
Sunday, June 1st and 2d. Love feast
at . a. IN. Sunday.
Longwell Bros are still at the front,
with fresh goods in all their rarious
lines The popularity of Harry and
George grows with their growth and
is based on actual merit.
w. III. Wilson bought of VIM. Thayer,
for the City market, one 2-years-old
steer that tipped the beam at 1, ,260 lbs,
live weight, and dressed 772 lbs, a little
more than 81 lbs. per hundred.
The Michigan Central, in their new
time schedule, have ignored the exist
cnce of Dowagiac, SO far rs the fast
trains are concerned, and the denizens
of that hamlet are wroth thereat.
Ed. Dillon, of Waverly, and Miss
Lizzie Moore, of Almena, were married
ut st. Mary's Catholic church, in this
village, on Wednesday morning of last
week, Rev. Fr O'Rorke officiating.
Married, at the home of the grooms
mother, Mrs. VIM f. Hunt, in this
village, by Rev. w. j. Hathaway, May
18th, John NJ. Caleb, of Paw Paw, and
Mrs. Samantha +. johnson, of Buchan-
an.
BY order of the president, the mem
bers of the Paw Paw alumni association
will meet at the rooms of Mrs. A. c.
Martin on Saturday evening, at 7:30
o'clock. That each one shall make a
special effort To attend, is earnestly re-
quested.
1t is somewhat singular To note the
difference in the number of dog owners
at different times of the year. While the
supervisor was making his rounds the
town was full of Ownerless curs-and
cur-esses, but they are all at home
again now.
The season for cut-wOrm stories is
now fully open. jeff Chaffee captured
eighty of the pests around the roots of
one little raspberry bush. He also as
serts that the worms had climbed the
bush and cut off the foliage, which was
just starting.
Our law -makers-Or at least the SEN
ate branch of that body-don't seem to
take kindly To woman suffrage or capi-
tai punishment. Bills which had crept
through the house for both those meas
ures were promptly strangled in the
senate last Thursday.
Broughton has got his artist at work
again and, although his productions
may be little off on perspective and
foreshortening, they are not only eX-
pressive, but impressive, as well. But
the goods are there, the prices bisected,
and that's what impresses the people.
Our wool buyers have made no public
announcement of prices as yet, and we
are not informed of the fact if there has
been any marketed here this season.
In looking through our neighboring ex-
changes we see prices mentioned run
ming all the way from ID, IL, 20, to %
cents.
Less than two months ago Albert o.
Nash, of Marcellus, had Il happy home
and the companionship of loving wife
and promising baby boy. Now he is n
childless widower. Their baby died on
the 25th of March, and to-day he will
lay at rest all that is mortal of its
mother.
Under-Sheriff McCabe luxuriates in
duster. Now duster amt much of
thing to luXuriate in, but when the
other fellow has To pay for it., that makes
the difference McFarlin was caught
in the very act of smoking cigar-on
the sly-and the penalty was the duster
aforementioned.
Milo Huey, "A thorough business man,
has assumed the proprietOrship of the
Waverly cheese factory. He has Sc
cured the services of Mr.. Geo. +. Shat
tuck, practical cheese maker of much
experience, who will have charge of the
work We bespeak for the new man
agement an abundant success.
Mr.. Vandeburg, of Kingston, Ill, a
brother of Mrs. $. T. Conway, arrived
here last Friday from Mt. Clemens,
where he had been testing the virtues
of the mineral baths for sciatica. He is
much improved and left for home Mon
day, accompanied by his daughter, Miss
Lydia Vandeburg, who had spent a
couple of weeks here.
The attention of breeders is called to
the advertisement of Winewood, else
where in this paper Gentlemen own
ing well-bred mares will gladly avail
themselves of this opportunity of trans