The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-06-17
Local Department.

Frank Eaton, of Lansing, was in town
over Sunday.
Harry Myers arrived home from
Hillsdale Monday.
Races at Dowagiac on Friday and
Saturday of next week.
Judge Heckert is at South Haven to.
day on probate business.
The American eagle will scream at
Bloomingdale on the Fourth.
Mr.. /. A. Whitman has had his resi-
dence equipped for electric lighting.
Mrs. j. w. Free is at Ann Arbor, and
will remain there until after commence
ment.
Judge Buck held an adjourned term
of the circuit court for this county
Monday.
Children's Day exercises will be held
at the First Baptist church next Sunday
morning.
Work on the abutmentS for the Main
street iron bridge is progressing salts
factorily.
VIM. Simmons, of this place, is boss
baker at James Benefits establishment
in Lawton.
Postmaster McKellar went to Detroit
Monday night on business, returning
this morning.
Miss Fay Kelley, of Kansas City, is
visiting her grandparents, j. Nj. and
Mrs Longwell.
We hear our lady friends speak in
glowing terms of the stock of summer
silks at Sellick's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Crandell, of
Mendon, are visiting friends and rela-
tives in this vicinity.
Hang Lee, a full-fledged Celestial
has opened laundry on Kalamazoo st.
south, in this place.
Mr.. Calvin Wilcox is the owner of a
Belgian colt one year old which weighs
one thousand pounds.
Mr.. +. A. Park, who has been spend
ing several weeks with his daughter in
Detroit, is at home again.
Mr. and Mrs. n. ID. Richardson left
Monday for a two weeks visit with q
daughter at Newark, Ohio.
Harry Showerman has an extensive
with rush these sultry days.
The citizens of Lawton have contrib
uted literally for an old-fashoned cele-
bration on the Fourth of July.
Kerosene oil at cents per gallon is
cheaper than to 60 without. See
Broughtons ady. in this paper.
Mrs. T. A. Granger was given a birth
day party on Monday by her daughter,
Mrs. Col. Rood, of South Haven.
Strawberries are so plentiful and
cheap now that even newspaper folks
indulge in them at stated intervals.
Henry Shaefer, the photographer,
wants 1000 dozen eggs in exchage for
work or goods in his line. See adv
Rev. o. S. Grinnell, wife and daugh-
ter, of Chicago, were guests over Sun
day of Prof. and Mrs. j. w. Roberts.
This time it is a Bangor man who
writes to M, Snow IL Sons, eulogizing
their noted hot-air furnace. See adv.
Allegan's assessed valuation is $685.
500, which is $48, 158 less than last year
A tax of one per cent will be raised.
The ordinance of baptism was admin
iStered last Sunday afternoon To two
candidates by Rev. G.. p. Linderman.
Mrs. Merrifield, of Mattawan, spent
two days of last week in this place, a
guest at the home of Mrs. G.. l.. Eaton.
Several boxes of delicious straw
berries from ID. ID. Crofoots fruit farm
found their way to us Monday. Thanks.
Butter makers will be interested in
the advertisement of the Wolverine
pharmacy to be found elsewhere in this
paper.
According to the Times, Dowagiac
buyers had received an aggregate Of
$4,000 pounds of wool up to Thursday
of last week.
The attention of stock raisers is par
ticularly directed to the announcement
of John L. Breck, proprietor of "Ingle-
wild" stock farm.