The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-04-02

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Friday evening was not "A success, onll
about dozen couples being present.
Special communication of Paw Paw
lodge No. 20, F. q A. NJ, on TUESDAY
evening, April sth. Work on NJ NJ
degree.
As soon as the weather will permit
Jerome Warner will begin the erection
of new residence on the site of hi:
present one.
Geo. w. Gould is coming from Da
kota to take charge of A. G. GlidGen'S
farm. His wife is expected to arrive
by April Sth.
The Paw Paw Alumni took time 10y
the fore lock" and held business meet.
ing at Mrs A. G.. Martins on last Sat.
urday evening
Mrs. j. w. Free, who has been very
sick for several weeks, is gradually i'm.
proving, with good promise of complete
restoration To health.
Thunder and lightning in the midst
of n genuine snow storm is "A new com
bination quite in keeping with the sim
gular weather of this year.
Jos Davey has taken contract for
the superintendence of fine new resi-
dence soon to be built by Robert Nor
rison on his farm east of town.
A goodly number of Grand Army men
from this place and neighboring towns
left Monday noon for the state encamp-
ment now in session at Adrian.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Rice have re-
turned from Mine LaMotte, Mo, where
they have spent delightful winter with
their daughter, Mrs. j. ID. Sanders.
The regular monthly union temper
ance meeting will be postponed To the
second Sunday in this month on ac-
count of Easter services next Sunday.
BY request, Mr.. Hutchins' class at the
Dayton school house, in Waverly, will
next Friday evening repeat its recent
concert, with few changes in the pro-
gramme.
w NJ Thayer has been having a
severe tussle with la grippe, and one
night last week came very near strang-
ling. We are glad to hear that he is
much better.
Cadet +. w. Clark, at the West Point
military academy, attained his majority
few days since, and his father sends
him the NORTHERNER for year as a
birthday present.
The republicans of Antwerp will hold
caucus in Mattawan on Friday, ut one
O'clock p. m, for the purpose OF placing
in nomination candidates for the sew
eral township offices.
MIR. and Mrs John Wall. having given
Dakota fair trial, pronounce it Il rank
failure as country for poor people,
and have sold out there and returned
to Waverly, their former home.
Dan Morrison, having purchased the
old Bragg farm, has recently moved
thither, while Jim Nelson, the former
occupant, has rented and taken posses
sion of the farm vacated by Dan.
Mr.. James F. Bullard has engaged
with Conner & Osborne for period of
six months from April lst He will be
on the road most of the time, and we
predict will prove valuable assistant.
H. w. McCabe has received the APP
pontment of Deputy u. 5. Marshal for
Van Buren, county. The selection is a
good one and reflects credit upon the
Judgment of u. ). Marshal j. r. Clark.
Il
unanimous call from the Stevens Ave.
Free Baptist church, Minneapolis, Min,
at $1,000 per year, and leaves with his
family for his field of labor this week.
One of the pleasantest parties of the
season occurred at the beautiful home
of Jos Davey, on Monday evening, at
which time Mr. and Mrs. Will Miller
entertained "A large number of their
friends
An Easter social will be given at Wa
verly Grange hall on Saturday evening
of this week, for which an excellent
programme is prepared. Heaps of eggs
and lots of fun, all for twenty-five cents
a couple.
Frogs, spring poets and exaggerated
hens eggs are now on tap. OF the lat
ter Mr. n. ID. Richardson exhibits one
of the Plymouth Rock persuasion that,
barring Ed. Stewards story of last week,
is the largest on record.
At the M. +. church, next Sunday,
there will be sermon in the morning
appropriate to Easter. In the evening
the Sabbath school will give an inter
esting programme. The exercises will
be of a pleasing character.
John Burns has leased JAS Benefits
barn and will buy and fit for the city
markets horses which he thinks will de-
velop into good gents drivers. Johnnie
is a good horseman and good fellow,
and we doubt not he will succeed.
The project of a spring fair is meet
ing with all the encouragement its
projectors could wish Our business
men, with hardly an exception, have
taken stock in the enterprise, and its
success is already almost an assured
fact.
Our merchants report the prospects
good for favorable spring trade. A
glance at the immense stocks of goods
on hand in the stores would certainly
confirm the statement that ample prep
aration has been made for meeting the
demand.
Mr.. +. NJ. Snow was at Watervliet a
few days ago TO confer with the school
authorities at that place in regard to
putting one of the Snow Hot Air Fur
naces into their new school building
It's cold day when n Snow furnace
can't heat any building.
John II aud Mrs CLAIM raturno1