The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-01-01
MICHIGAN Hal. vLNlNu0'
EVENTS AND INCIDENTS tn
LATELY OCCURRED.
At HAVE

An Interesting Summary of the Moro H.
Portant Doings OF Our Neishbors-Wed,
dings and Deaths 90 Crimes, Casualties,
and General News Notes.
The following Michigan pensions
have been granted:
Original mvalid-Dewitt G. Beadle, Saranac
George Brimley Is. H., Grand Rapids; George
Il. Brown, Otisco Henry s. Burnes, Lftchheld !;
samuel V. Pangburn, Calvin; navy John j.
smith, Fostoria Squire Taylor alias John A.
Johnson, Coopersyille; Peter Houser alias
Benjamin Hassel Constantine; BENJAMIN
Crossley, Webberyille Augustus Buman.
Pike, Trufant; Edmund Nj. Fessenden Ferry :;
Orrin Lifts, INLAY City.
Restoration and Reissue-Robert H. Low De-
troit; Leonard 4. Gemuend. Ionia; Chas. II.
Bradburn, Manton: Jas. Sheehan, Roscom-
mon Geo. Sauer, sheridan; Cantonia +. Craw-
ford, Union City; Michael Murrihy, Detroit;
Henry Baragar, Greenville.
Increase-Wm. T. Ryder, Agnew; Henry II.
Jones, Hillsdale; Absalom Cargill, Battle Creek /;
John r. Allen Bronson Peter Fisher Bill ssield :
Isaac H. Banghart. Ovid; Lyman Goodell La
peer; benjamin Rppleman, Brookfeld; Andrew
Granger, ST. Johns Charles Hays, Ithaca Will
William S. Pailthrop. Mt. Morris; George s.
Clark, KNOXVILLE; Abner W. Beck. Fostoria (;
William A. Staten. Elsie.
Reissue-George NJ. Butts Soldiers Home),
Grand Rapids Burton s. Howe, Coldwater I;
John w. Thompson, East Detroit.
Reissue and Increase - William s. Horton
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Shaw, Kalamazoo.
Increase Martin b. Capper, Elm Hall Har-
vey Dupuy, Nandalia Peter Carpenter, Man
ton Alya Snyder, Eaton Rapids Spencer G..
Moon, Roxana Simon Thoma, Eaton Rapids (;
Monroe Redding. Dayton Jason Gee, Dundee (;
Walter b. Morrison, Muskegon James s. Gil
lespie, Caro-; John j. Gaatian, Brighton Jul
Jus :. Allen, Flint; Abraham ID. Allen, Sturgis
Morris Trout, Wyandotte; Moses jerome, Evart (;
Emanuel Cramer, Lake Odessa Edwin 9. Good
speed Little Prairie Ronde Cyrus Slosson,
Kalamo; Samuel b. Sherwood, Manchester;
Thomas ID. Butler, Montgomery; Abram Prick,
Otisville; Oliver A. Purchase, Freeland Fran
els Leloy, Bay City; John s. Decker Otisville (;
navy Charles Buxton, Milan: Edward H.
Dickerman, Fenton William G. Holmes, Gin
ton; Isaac Dickson, South Haven.
Original " idows-Julia A., mother OF Joshua
Morehouse, North Adams Susan, widow OF
Peter Plum, Monroe.
"A correspondent of the Detroit Free
Press, who lately made an inspection of
the Soldiers Home, near Grand Rapids,
writes as follows about that institution:
The grounds Of the Home are quite extensive,
with goOdly portion in timber, quite wildly
grown up with underbrush and as romantic on
the hillside and in the glens as one could hope
to see in The enyirous of large city Through
the middle OF the grounds winds brook
damned in its course and giving a sufiiciency Of
lNwer to run certain machinery as well as sup
plying fresh water.
The main building has the administration
Offices and quarters OF the cOmmandant, which
are in the front part, and rooms for the adj
lutant and certain Of the official staff in the
wings. The kitchen, the dining-room, and
library are upon the first floor. The base
ment Is given over 20 storage room, the quar-
sterma5ter's department, the laundry, bill
lard room, card rooms the carpenters, the tail
ors shoemakers and painters The upper
floors are used rs dormitOries and for n compact
ana coy little theater. with parq uette ana gal
lery, seating 500 persons, and used for meetings
OF the Grand Army Post and other meet
ings, and for dramatic and musical entertain-
ments.
The hospital is arranged upon the Ruttan
system, which provides plentiful supply of
fresh air, warmed To any mild temperature,
ana with perfect ventilation. The odors are
immediately carried away, and the atmosphere
is sweet and pure. The closets are purified by
Smead hot-air furnaces, and the whole arrange
ment is perfect that Architect Hollister re-
ceives, rs he deserves unqualified praise. The
main building accommodates 500 soldiers. The
kitchen arrangements such would be
found in a large hotel. The dining room seats
about 300 Mt one time IL il IA beautiful room,
with mulliOned window in front, and pleas
ing design in colored glass. The library and
reading rooms are comfortably arranged. In
the second story is balcony with a balus-
trade opening over the corridor below. Here
are pleasant seats that give extensive views
across the country Potted plants are dis
posed about, and thrive and bloom in the win
doys.
The dornitorv building warmed and ven
tilHted by the Ruttan method as is the hospital,
has beds for 100 men.
How do the soldiers pass away the time in
the buildings and grounds, receiving therefor
the Government allowance OF thirty cents a day.
Others make Kaleidoscope, pipes aud small
TOYS some are knitting some mending, nearly
everyone is smoking tobacco being one of the
regular rations. There is always an animated
gathering about the billiard table and the card
tables-in number dozen or more-who excite
attention and produce no end of amusement.
Outdoor sports that old men can indulge in are
common enough in pleasant " Gather. Twice a
week every inmate is required TO take bath.
At Bay City l0-year- old son of JAS.
McRorie was shot in the eye with bull
let from an air gun in the hands of a
sparrow hunting boy. He will lose the
sight aud probably the eye.
Michael Grimes, aged IL years,
reached Bay City recently from Ireland,
having como all the way unattended. His
father left him in the old country when
the child was l | months Of age, in charge
of his grandfather. The latter dying,
money was sent to the old home and the
little fellow started out alone. He was
introduced to five brothers and sisters he
had never seen.
Detroit Free Press: Geo. Fred.
Lewis, the amiable oarsm an, hunter, ed
itor, farmer, miller, fisherman, ANTIQUARIAN
and all-round good citizen of the Saginaw
Valley, has "a dictionary of the Otchipwe
language explained in English. This
language is spoked by the Chippewa
Indians, as also by the Ottawas, Pottawa-
tamies and Algonquins. with little differ
ence. For the use of missionaries and
other persons living among the above
mentioned Indians. BY the Rev. Frederic
Baraga, Roman Catholic Missionary
among the Otchipwe Indians, Cincinnati,
1853" There are few copies of this
valuable work now extant, and Fred S
copy is all the more precious because
Bishop Baraga presented it to Rev. Geo
Dufield, at Ioro'nte, in 1855, and Few,
! Geo. Dufield, the second. presented it to
Geo L. Lewis in 1881. A deal of specu-
lation concerning tie meaning of Chicago
having appeared in the Bay City Press
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