The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-06-11

UOJS.
Mrs. Barnum has returned from her
visit and brought Mrs. N. p. Conger
homo with her.
Charley Cole purchased a valuable
thoroughbred mare of Three Rivers
parties Monday.
Hon. Geo. +. Lewis, editor of the
SagindDidn and postmaster at Saginaw
City, died on Memorial day
A G.. Glidden, editor of the Grange
ViSitOr, attended meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture at Lansing yester-
day
John r. Doughty, native of this
place, has recently commenced the pub
lication of a newspaper at Gladwin,
this state.
John Pepper, wife and baby, of Kala-
mazoo, spent Saturday and Sunday with
his mother, Mrs. Maggie Pepper, in
this place.
The steamer was out Saturday even
ing reducing the surplus in the reser-
voirs, So that some needed repairs
could be made.
The Michigan Press Association will
hold its 23d annual meeting at Saginaw
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
July 16, II and 18.
III. ID. Forsyth and Miss Ida Stowe
were married at the home of the parents
of the bride in Hartford on Saturday
evening, May 3lst.
Eli Bierce and family will move to
Missouri in short time-Mr. b. having
secured a lucrative business engage
ment in that state.
John Burns let horse to some man
few days ago to drive to Marcellus,
and the horse died few minutes after
reaching that place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Niles Anderson and
Mr. and Mrs. George Russell, of Kala-
maZoo, were guests over Sunday of A
L. Anderson and wife.
A man named Watson, working on a
farm near G.iddenburg, had an arm
broken and a shoulder dislocated in a
runaway seance Monday.
The ot-bridge at the mineral spring
has been repaired, to the delight of
the scores of people who have faith in
the virtues of those waters.
Miles Lucas caught two eels at the
Landphere pond recently, the aggregate
weight of which was 13 pounds; and
this is not fish story, either.
The thirteen-ye son of Lyman
Hinckley had the first joint of the thumb
and first finger of the left hand blown
off by dynamite last Saturday.
DR.. and Mrs. Russell and Carlton
aud fo,oilu mill obo,tlv lon,,o
for Eldorado, Kansas, where they will
make their home in the future.
Frank Van Ness wheeled himself and
Miss Conley, a reporter for the Chicago
Times, from South Haven TO this place,
on a railroad velocipede, Sunday.
Col. Henry M. Duffield. Commander
of the Department of Michigan, G. A.
r., has appointed Il. G. Nash, of Post
No. 81, as Aide-de- Camp on his staff.
L.. Martins cherry orchard is coming
to the front in better shape this year
than ever before His crop is variously
estimated from 1000 to 1900 bushels.
The ladies of the Baptist Aid Society
will give an ice cream social at the
restaurant of James Bennett this WED
nesday) evening. All are cordially in
vited.
The person who took, by mistake,
camp chair from the court house yard
on Memorial day, will please return it
to j. w. Ball or any member of Brod-
head Post.
A game of base ball at Lawton last
Saturday, between the Kalamazoo
Il ~. T
resulted in favor of the former by u
score of 10 to IL.
Mrs. H. S. Williams is expected to
arrive in this village tomorrow and
will try to see all her old. time friends
She is at present with her mother, Mrs.
Durkee, south of town.
Sheriff McFarlin was soliciting sub
scriptions To a fund for graveling the
clay roads in Waverly, Monday, and
was meeting with success. Mac head
ed the list himself with S25
Many orchardsts in this neighbor-
hood are spraying their trees, using
either Paris green or London purple,
at the proportion of one pound of the
drug to 200 gallons of water.
The public spirited people of both
Marcellus and Decatur have decided
upon having reggla;r old fashioned cele-
bratlons .o.G't4G coming r6I.rth 81 July.
Paw Paw will, of course, celebraIeEas
usual.
Owing to the small attendance, the
Teachers Institute, which was TO have
been held at Breedsville last week, was
adjourned till the last Saturday i'm
September, when it will meet at Bloom
ingdale.
Patch" Harrison having tried the
waters of the mineral spring, inwardly,
to his satisfaction, is now giving his
cOrns and bunions chance, the initial
treatment having been given Monday
evening.
The spiritualists of Texas, Kalama-
zoo county, will hold a picnic and grove
meeting Mt Parsons grove, near Crook
ed lake, on Sunday next. Good speak
ing and vocal and instrumental music
will enliven the occasion.
Major Duncan, postmaster at Niles,
has purchased 10X1S Detroit Tribune
flag, and proposes TO float il to the
breeze from flagstaff over the post
Office every day, except Sunday, that
wind and weather will permit.
If marriage is failure, " as is claimed