The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-08-20
WHOLE NUMBER 1848.
A refreshing shower yesterday morn
ing set all nature TO smiling again.

gains at Bangor to-day. Quite num-
ber from this place are in attendance.
There will be social at the Lee
school house on Friday evening of this
week for the benefit of the Sunday
School. Cake and pudding served. All
invited.
The following gentlemen comprise
the Almena delegation To the conven-
ton 1T Lawrence next Saturday; p. n.
Teed, Nj. +. Miner, A. O'Rourk, c. Pal
mer, G. Breed
Tom Burgess, formerly of this place,
fell some distance through an open trap
in Hubbard's livery stable, at Dowagiac,
one day last week, and was quite
seriously injured.
On Saturday and Sunday of next
week will be held the last quarterly
meeting of the Methodist church for
the current conference year. Presiding
Elder Masters will be present.
The board of trustees of the Michigan
Asylum for the Insane, which met at
Kalamazoo last week, decided TO ask
the legislature for an appropriation of
S25, 900 to build two new cottages
Colum. Engle, Cole Rawson and
others of that ilk begin to exhibit signs
of return of their annual "buck fever"
and it will probably break out in pro-
nOunced form about the usual season.
Almost every newspaper in the
Fourth Congressional district comedies
the probability of the nomination by the
Democrats of 1.-THE boy from Mendon"
for representative. Oh! what a snap
for Burrows!
The State meeting of the Disciples of
Christ convenes tomorrow Thursday
at Grand Rapids, continuing over Sun
day. A splendid programme has been
prepared. One and One-third fare for
the round trip on all railroads.
Brodhead post No. 81, G A. r., will
resume its regular meetings next Mon
day evening, after a vacation of four
weeks. There should be full atten-
dance, as there will be matters of i'm
portance presented for consideration.
C. Towers with his wife and daugh-
ter returned Monday from ten days
camp" at South Haven where they
were entertained by Capt. n. Robbins,
of Grand Haven, Supt. of the several
Life Saving stations on the lake shore.
A. L. Stevenson, chief of the Paw
Paw Fire Department, in behalf of all
who participated in the enjoyable ex-
cursion to South Haven on Thursday
last, wishes to extend hearty thanks To
John Ihling, the genial and courteous
superintendent of the L. x ). III. K. r.,
who so generously furnished them
car for that occasion.
Col j. c. Todd will be shocked to
hear that a sentence of "electrocutiOn"
has been pronounced upon him This
horrid fate the colonel has brought up
on himself by neglecting to attend the
reunions of Co. &, 81 Mich cavalry, of
which he is an honorary member, and
the sentence was passed at its recent
meeting at Lake Cora.
Elder H. A. Pallister preached his
farewell sermon to the congregation OF
the Disciple church last Sunday morn
ing. The house was well filled. The
discourse of the reverend gentleman
was able, logical, convincing, and his
people gave marked evidence of feeling
at the severing of the pleasant ties
which had SO long bound them to their
pastor.
He sat in his door at MONDAY, look
ing lonely and sad; the flies were buzz
ing about him, led by a blue winged
CAD. Not a customer darkened his
portal, not sign of business was there,
but the flies kept on buZZlng around
the old mans hair. At last in misery
he shouted, Great Scott, Pm covered
with flies" and the Zephyrs that toyed
with his whiskers said, "Why don't you
advertise?"
Mrs X. G.. Nash is enjoying a rare
treat, in the form of visit from her
only living sister, Miss Hattie Cleve-
land, of Crawford county, Ill. What
gives especial interest to this event is
the fact that the two sisters had not
met until last "Wednesday night for sew
enteen years, (when Hattie was but six
weeks old J Immediately after the death
of their mother Miss Hattie will make
an extended stay at the home of her
newfound relative.
Van Buren, county, according to the
unofficial figures of the late census, has
population of 30, ,470-a loss of 337
during the past ten years. Six town
ships in the county show a gain, the
largest, 67S, being in South Haven,
while the other twelve townships show
a loss, the largest 462, being in Decatur.
Paw Paw, Lawrence and Arlington are
the three next largest losers, while
Covert, BloOmingdale and Geneva are
the three next largest gamers.
Andrew Christensen, a young man,
native of Denmark, who has been for
several years in the employ of Hon. j.
j. Woodman, died at the residence of
his brother, Christen Christensen, on
Mr.. Woodman's farm, Saturday even
ing, the 10th inst, and was buried in
Prospect Hill cemetery on Monday last,
Rev. III. A. Pallister officiating. De-
ceased was a worthy member of the
Disciple church of this village, favorite
among the young people, and highly
esteemed by all who knew him. His
funeral was well attended and the
service very impressive.
The gentlemen who have been select
ed in this village to "see what can be
done" looking to the suppression of the
liquor traffic in our midst are each and
all enthusiastic and consistent temper
ance men and they can be relied upon,
if the proper support is given them,
land there should be no hesitancy in
extending it, nor should there be any
r,on for doubt as To its penuinenessor