The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-01-08

DtdI ullHu tic TtuulOu AT
Kalamazoo, on Friday, the 18th inst.
Mrs Crippen, of Lawrence, was be-
fore Justice Mason Tuesday, charged
with violating the liquor law. Her ex
animation will be had Friday.
A small audience greeted the Wrens
last night at the Opera House. The
play itself had little of merit, and the
troupe still less of that essential.
There is talk of holding mass meet
ing in Paw Paw in the interest of the
County Option movement. Similar
meetings should be held throughout
the county.
! NORTHERNER Office went home sick
last night. Fears were at first enter
tanned that LaGrippe had claimed them
for its own, but the trouble was finally
ascribed TO the inhalation of escaping
gas from the engine.
McFarlin, McCabe and Bulard are
each and all i'm hot pursuit of the light
fingered gentleman who took A. r.
Wildey's watch. Mr.. Wildey offers
generous reward for him, if taken alive,
and a still more generous proposition is
made to the officer who brings him in
a corpse.
W. j. Selick d Son are firm believers
in the efficacy of printers ink, and in
sist that they get just rs good returns
for the money invested in advertising
during dull times, as they do when
business is lively. Don't fail to read
what they have to say this week.
Married, at the NJ f. parsonage on
New Years day, by Rev. w. d. Hatha-
way, Mr.. Frank Hudson and Miss
Orpha Hall, both of Paw Paw And on
the same day by the same at the home
of the brides father, Mr.. Willis Bunker,
of Bloomingdale, and Miss Hattie Jones,
of Almena.
The business men of this village,
have raised fund for the purpose, and
have employed a night watch. Fred
Holt is the man who will look after the
interests of the property holders while
they sleep. Two doors oGbusiness places
were found TO be unlocked one night
recently.
Comrades Monroe, Spicer, Bullard,
Chaplin, Rice and Eaton of this place,
Tyner, of Lawrence, and Waters, of
Antwerp, went down to Mattawan
Monday night to the public installation
of the officers of q. j. Hudson post.
They all enjoyed the occasion very
much.
Prof Geo. W. Oles, the phenomenal
violinist, who assists the Y. l.. Nj. b.,
of the Christian church in a concert
soon, is natural artist and musi-
clan of wonderful abilities. He plays
five tunes at the same time, besides i'm
itating to perfection all the songsters
of the grove. Look out for the date
The annual meeting of the Farmers
Mutual Insurance Company of Van
Buren, county will be held at the coun-
ell room in the village of Paw Paw, on
Tuesday, January 14th, 1890, at one
o'clock p. m, for the purpose of elect
ing three directors and the transaction
of any other business that may come
before it.
The Detroit Journal desires TO re-
ceive, by postal card, the address of all
living male and female descendants of
Revolutionary officers and soldiers of
1776, and, when possible, the name and
state of the ancestor. Wonder if w.
IL. Brearley, proprietor of the Detroit
JOurRdl, is contemplating raid upon
the national treasury?
We see i'm the record of real estate
transfers that, G.. :. Adams has recent
ly purchased the brick building in which
he has So long been carrying on his
hardware business i'm LawtOn and we
are greatly pleased 10 note the success
which has followed the firm of Adams
IL Lich. They intend, in the near
future, to add to, and materially i'm
prove the building, making it the finest
and most attractive in that thriving
village.
The annual report of the Sunday
school connected with the Christian
church shows that in the year 1889 not
a single session was omitted. The
average attendance each Sunday was
56; the average collection S1.19. The
whole amount contributed was S6l 81,
of which sum 80 "a represents birthday
offerings, form of giving but recently
inaugurated, and which is not reckoned
in determining the average collection.
BY private letter from Capt. Geo. |.
Nash, superintendent of the Sanborn
mills and elevators at Marcellus, we
learn that the safes in both those con-
Germs were attacked by burglars on
Monday night of last week. The safe
in the mill was literally blown To atoms
and yielded 81 for the trouble; the one
IN the elevator resisted DOJn the urlil
and the sledge-hammers and, though
battered and Scared, is still doing busi-
ness at the old stand.
Nothing illustrates preacher more
than To have two invitations to dinner
on one day, unless it be to be called
upon to perform two marriage cermOn-
les at places four miles apart, near the
same hour. Such was the perplexity
of certain minister living not more
than a league from Paw Paw, on New
Years morning. He thought he had
it all fixed so as TO attend to both. The
distant wedding depended upon the
wedding i'm town At the hour APP
pointed, the reverend gentleman was
at his post, but the twain whose hearts
were beating but with single thought
did not put in their appearance. In
visible uneasiness he paced the floor.
he pulled out his watch, glancing wist-
fully thereat He disliked TO trouble
any of his brother ministers with such
a ponderous task, being very consider
ate of their feelings But the bride
groom tarried, and perspiration Gov