The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-07-23
WHOLE NUMBER 1874.

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A. Il. Foote is attending to the tele-
phone business for Fred Bassett while
the latter is spending week at Lake
Park in company with l.. w. Osborne
and family.
Mrs. Thos. Galligan is enjoying a
visit from her friend Mrs. Frank, of
SchOolcraft, who thinks of purchasing
property and making a permanent
home with US.
The Methodist Sunday School will
hold their annual picnic at Lake Park
next Saturday. All intending to go
are requested To meet at the church at
nine O'Clock a. m, sharp.
Mrs G.. c. Searls, having filled her
engagement at the store of e.. X. Avery,
has returned To her home in Grand
Rapids. She will probably return here
ut the opening of fail trade.
The laborers on the new bridge, hav-
ing worked faithfully every day for sew
eral weeks, took "A day off last week
and celebrated their Fourth of July on
the 18th at Lake Park.
j. b. Fanckboner, formerly pupil
in our school, now one of the proprie.
tors of the South Side Printing Com
pany of Englewood, H., is visiting rela-
tives and friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs f. Dilley are among
the large number of Chicago people
stopping at Lake Cora, and who occas-
iOnally make this village the scene OF
their perambulations
Mrs. Orrila Kirkland will start for
California about August first, where she
expects to remain until next spring
She will be joined by her mother and
an aunt from the state of \. Y.
Preparations are making for big
time at the Grange picnic in Hartford,
on the 9Th, and 9TH, of August. The
fact that Gov. Luce and Col. Brigham
are to be present will insure a large
attendance
Rev. II. II. Pershing, who has been
visiting Mrs. Geo. Harrison, is now at
South Bend. He is expected Paw
Paw again tomorrow for a few days
stay prior to returning to his home at
Kittanning, Pa.
The Kalamazoo Reunion was talked
over by the boys at last weeks meeting
of Brodhead post and all present ex-
pressed themselves as being determined
to allow nothing ordinary to interfere
with their attendance.
Seventy-five teams and not less than
three hundred people were at Lake
Park last Sunday. Several new cottages
are in process of erection, with others
in contemplation. This place is sure To
become in the near future "a favorite
resort"
Dowagiac is making rapid strides to-
ward becoming citihed, even the minis
terS of that pretentious hamlet being
eager to exchange five dollar William
for cake of soap and a supposed Xxx.
The soap was O X, but the twenty that
he longed for wasn't there.
Private letters from Miss Lena Snow,
who is spending the summer vacation
at Lakeside, Ohio, are to the effect that
she is enjoying herself hugely, acquir-
ing voracious appetite and much
physical vigor, and hopes to come home
materially benefited by the visit.
+. NJ. and w. NJ Snow were at Mar
cellus last Friday in consultation with
the business men of that place in refer
ence To the removal of their foundry
and furnace works To that enterprising
village. No definite conclusion was ar
rived az, but the Messrs. Snow have
under consideration some very liberal
propositions
On Wednesday of last week DR..
Whalen, assisted by DR.. Rose, of Deca.
tur, performed an operation on Mrs
Miller, living near the fair grounds, re-
moving a cancer, which of late had be-
come so painful as To- prostrate her
very much. The operation was sue
cessful, and at the present writing the
patient is doing well.
A. G. is delighted with the consolidate
ed Saginaws and writes that her citizens
are among the most generous, enter
prising and hospitable of people. The
expenditure of $500 a day, during the
three days of the meeting of the associa
ton in that city, shows that no expense
was spared to give the pencil-pushers
of Michigan good time.
If this vicinity is not favored with
rains soon, the corn crop will be total
failure and the oat crop materially in
iured - indeed, but these crops are al
ready injured. 1t is well that large
hay crop is secure, and every additional
day of this drouth enhancing its value.
Our advice to farmers would be to hold
their hay for better prices.
Mrs. f. NJ. Russell and Oracle came
down from Battle Greek a few days
ago, and the Professor and Myrta will
join them soon. They will remain here
until about September 1st, at which
date the Battle Greek schools open for
the fall term. 1t is exceedingly graft
flying TO Prof. Russells host of friends
here that his reelection as superintend-
ent of the Battle Greek system by the
Board of Education should have been
accompanied by so many expressions
commendatory of his administration.
1t is amusing to see with what gall
old pension attorneys try to appear so
wise, and dub others as Crossroads
attorneys" 1t was not so i'm other days,
when your humble servant was asking
his comrades to sign fee contract for
S25, very much against his will, and to
the qualification of said old attorney.
Oh, yes; it was all right, then. My eff
forts were profitable To said o. a., but
without compensation to myself.
Read my terms in another column of
this paper, and satisfy yourself who is
right. Write TO me, and if you have