The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-09-03
Local Department.
Every race is filed for the fair.


No lover of horses should fail to at
tend the fair this week.
VIM. Dansby is erecting livery
Office at his farmers sheds.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. j. ID. Monroe,
on Sunday last, a girl baby.
l. b. Conner went to Chicago yester-
day to market load of hogs.
Come with your wives and babies
and see the races and fine stock.
l.. 5. Russell, of the Reflector, was in
town Monday on probate business.
Hon. f. X. Spencer, of Dowagiac,
made us pleasant call on Monday.
Miss Carrie Rood, of South Haven,
visited Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Granger last
week.
Lawton is immensely proud over the
fact that she is to have a new stone
depot.
Mrs. r. G.. Nash has been quite seri-
ously i'll for some days past, but is i'm
proving.
John Blaisdell and Mrs. VIM. Blais-
dell, of Arlington, were in town last
Saturday.
Mrs Elvira Hendrick has returned
from her summer visit to Mont-Eagle,
Tennessee.
Seth Allen spent Labor Day, Monday,
in Battle Greek while his family visited
in Kalamazoo.
Paw Paw Republican township eau
Gus on Thursday of next week. See
call elsewhere.
The best lot of horses is on the
grounds that has ever been seen ut
any of our fairs.
You will see the best races this week
that will be held in Southwestern
Michigan this fall.
Mrs. Peter McKelar returned Fri
day from a short visit to Macatawa
Park, near Holland.
Williamson Mason is still alive, but
growing weaker daily, and his death
may be expected at any hour.
The Congressional convention will
be held in Longwell's Opera House
next Wednesday at l o'clock p. m.
The Horse and Stock Fair promises
TO be blooming success. No pains
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Dopp expect to
leave in few days for Vermont where
they will spend the winter with rela-
tives.
Rev. w. j. Hathaway will leave next
Tuesday for Muskegon To attend the
annual session of the Michigan Confer
ence.
Thos. Mason, of Lima, Ohio, has been
i'm town the past week, called here by
Mason.
w. j. Sellick & Son extend cordial
invitation to visitors to make their
store headquarters while in attendance
at the fair
X. w Noyes has been spending few
days at home. He left to-day for Leele-
nav county on business connected with
his official duties.
Marshal Hubbard has been at Ken
dalls to inspect brick to be used in the
large cistern soon to be constructed
near the school house.
Harry Showerman is painting for an
opportunity to give bargains To all the
painless who may favor him with
visit. Read his poetry.
At a meeting of the school board last
Saturday evening" Miss Dora Smith, of
Lawton, was elected as teacher in the
second intermediate department.
The teachers in our Union school
have returned from their several vaca-
tion trips and are hard at work direct
ing the flight of the proverbial idea.
The store buildings to be occupied by
our two new firms are undergoing Il
thorough course of refitting prepara-
tory TO their being opened to the pub
lie.
Married, by Mrs. Barton at her home
in this village on the evening of the
26th of August, Squier Burns, of Almena,
and Miss Hannah Palmer of the same
place.
The Courier is fortunatel in having
for its local news gatherer such a
"hustler" that he even anticipates
would be surprise parties with men
tion of the same.
Attorney o. A. Goss has returned to
Paw Paw much improved in health as a
result of his long vacation, and can be
found hereafter at his office in the
Longwell block.
The fell term of school opened last
Monday with large number of scholars
i'm attendance. The outlook is most
promising and all indications warrant
the belief that the good reputation of
our schools will be fully maintained.