The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-09-23
WHOLE NUMBER 1905

Misses Edie Newell and Cora Sheldon
and Dell Pepper are warm personal
friends, and it SO happens that their
birthdays occur on the same date, Sept.
10Th. So, they pool their issues and
have a joint celebration, each i'm turn
giving party in honor of the occasion
This year it fell to Miss Newell's lot to
entertain, and the brilliant affair of
last Saturday evening at her home at
tests her capacity in that respect The
assemblage was jovial one. the re-
freshments were superb and the pres
ents appropriate, useful and valuable.
Miss Newell received a gift of S25 from
her grandfather, Mr.. G.. Erkenbeck.
Next year if all are living Miss Sheldon
will do the honors.
In our issue of Sept. o we made men,
tion of the fact that Mr.. G.. W. Boyle,
inventor of Boyle's Feed Regulator, was
DESTROYS of organizing stock company
at this place for the manufacture of his
machine. We now learn that of the
$50, 900 stock required, all is provided
for but $1,000 and an effort is being
made to have the Business Mems Asso-
citation of this place take that amount
Mr.. Boyle assures us that with this
amount of stock taken he will at once
begin manufacturing and will need the
labor of fifty men at least. Mr.. B. also
assures us that his device will have
quick sale at 80 per cent. profit, and he
exhibits a large number of testimonials
from practical millers certifying to the
practicability and value of the inven-
ton. Will not our citizens who have
idle capital look into this matter, and
see if we cannot have another profitable
/ industry lOpatpd in nup town9
On returning home from church last
Sunday, Robert Morrison discovered
that his house had been entered during
his absence and $50 in money taken. A
stranger had been seen by some of the
neighbors to pass along the road short
ly after II O'Clock, as they claimed; his
description was given, and posse went
in pursuit. The man was found in this
village, identified as the one seen, and
taken to the sheriff's office, although
rigid search failed to reveal single
cent of money on his person. Several
persons who had attended the M. f.
church in the morning, among them
Mr.. +. M Snow, one of the ushers, Wis
tied the office and positively identified
the stranger as having attended the
services at that church and remain
ed to class-meeting, SO he could not
have been in the vicinity of Mr.. MOrri-
sons house at the hour claimed, but
had passed there while that gentleman
was still at home. These matters fully
explained, the stranger was discharged
from custody and nice little purse of
money "chipped in" for him by num-
Der of persons who had congregated at
the court house on hearing of the oc-
currence.
1t isn't every day that Charley Butler
and Josh Bangs get left, but they did,
in every thing that the term implies
the other day while en- route to the
Grand Rapids fair. At Kalamazoo they
had seated their wives in the train and
went to the ticket Office for tickets
But the train didn't wait, for as they
emerged from the depot the tail end of
the rear car was vanishing in the dis
tance. The ladies, having neither tick
cts nor money, were liable to be fired
at the first station, and to avert this
Charley and Josh kept the wires Sizing
hot with messages to different officials
to allow the ladies to proceed to Grand
Rapids. IL happened, however, that ga
friend i'm need, F" i'm the person of MIR. A.
Hathaway, was on the train, and learn
ing the condition of things paid the
fares. This was at noon, and the boys
could get no train out of Kalamazoo
until p. m; and, worst of all, they
had no idea where to look for their
wives on their arrival at the Rapids
But the ladies had provided for this
emergency. and, when too late for any
evening entertainment, the parties got
together again, all tired out from the
excitement, fret and worry of the after
10 har In f,
vor OF allowing the wife to carry the
purse.
OF all the many pernicious acts, pass
ed by an incompetent legislature, none
are more far-reaching i'm their disas-
trOus effects than the act of the late
Michigan squawbuck aggregation i'm re-
ducing the test for illuminating oils
This law endangers every life and every
home in Michigan and vitiates every
insurance policy where the loss can be
traced to the use of low-test OIL The
number OF fires occurring in the state
since the use of that oil began is fright
full to contemplate, and at least one life,
that of the DeHann boy, in Grand
Rapids, (noted elsewhere in a news
item), is directly attributable to the use
of this 'squawbuck" stuff. And this
the people of Michigan will be COM
PEELED to endure for another year and
half, and during that time the fire
record must continue to show the start
ling increase already inaugurated. The
law should have been entitled "An act
for the promotion of conflagrations and
as an excuse for the employment of a
hungry horde of party heelers as deputy
oil inspectors. Not only is there not
even Democratic paper i'm the state
that attempts defense of this nefari-
Gus act, but in recent issue ef the De-
troit Free Press, the acknowledged
organ of the party in the state, we find
the following: Nv. p. Hutchins, of
the Greenslade Oil Company, speaking
of the new test for illuminating oils
enacted by the last legislature, con-
demned it as unsafe. Up to date, Mr..
Hutchins says, there is record of go