The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-08-19
WHOLE NUMBER 1900

The sale of tickets to the ladies' lee
ture course opened satisfactorily. If you
intend to be among the lucky 400, your
ticket is at present date awaiting you
at Grange Visitor rooms, in the post
office block. The parable of the ten
virgins, five of whom were wise, is APP
plicable in this case. Get oil in your
lamps in season.
A campmeeting is in progress at
Scott Lake, commencing yesterday and
to continue over next Sunday conduct
ed by sect or denomination styling it
self "the church of the Living God-the
| pillar and ground of the truth" They
invite call parties interested in re-
turn to primitive christianity" to par
ticipate with them.
The state board of equalization, COM
! posed of the secretary of state, state
treasurer, commissioner of the land of
flee, auditor general and the lieutenant
governor, is now in session at Lansing.
Each county in the state has repre-
sentative before the board in the person
of one of its supervisors Supervisor
Mitchell, of Geneva, representing Van
Buren,. The time for meeting is fixed
by statute for once in five years.
Lovers of good music have rich
feast in store for them in the return of
the Oberlin Student quartet, for one
night only, Tuesday, August 25th, at
the M. f. church. In addition to the
quartet of Messrs. Williams, Penniman,
Davis and johnson, Mr.. w. L. Upton,
fine piano soloist of the Oberlin Con-
servatory of Music, will assist in the
concert. The program will consist of
quartets, duets, solos and college glees.
tickets, % cents; on sale at the Savings
Bank and the store of Geo. w. Koons.
Don't fail to secure seat.
1t has become quite the proper thing
nowadays in England for people among
the higher classes to send their sons
either to Australia or America to work
on farms long enough to acquire the
rudiments at least of practical farming.
A boy of high rank in social life in
London is spending the summer in this
way at the home of James Bale, east of
this place. His blistered hands and
sun Drowned face is quite contrast to
his luxurious home life in England,
where his simplest wants were minis
tered to by menial hands. We under
stand that this scion of English aristoc
racy is quite enthusiastic and heartily
enjoys the radical change in his domes-
tic status. OF such is the kingdom of
Michigan.
A few days ago q bottle was picked
up on the beach near Benton Harbor
containing piece of brown paper on
which was written the following: "We,
the undersigned, are passengers on the
Thomas Hume. The schooner's hold is
rapidly filling with water and we have
Nf tl,n
Joseph course and have been drifting
for hours. We have friends in McCook,
Neb., and Elkhart, Ind Please notify
them of our fate. (Signed) Frank M
Maynard, Wilbur Grover" About the
10th of last May the schooner Thomas
Hume was lost on Lake Michigan with
seven men on board. Not the slightest
trace of the vessel has yet been found
1t was owned by Hackley Il Hume, of
MuskegOn.
Brodhead Post G. A. r. held a special
meeting Monday night to talk up mat
ters connected with the approaching
reunion of the Van Buren, battalion, to
be held at this place Sept. 1, 2 and 3.
Col. Tyner reported that he had the
consent of the sheriff to encamp the
battalion in the court house yard,
WDtlC bHtlt 10 SOOu dlN PiChIJ
of excellent water. Committees were
appointed to look after the various de-
tails-music, speaker, funds, etc, and
an old time enthusiasm seemed to per-
wade the boys, who declare their inten-
ton of making this reunion one of the
most enjoyable of any in the history of
the battalion. Handbills will soon be
issued and next week further announce
ments, including the program, will APP
pear in these columns.
A little before o'clock last Thursday
evening, when Sheriff Thomas went to
lock the cells for the night, he discov
cred that his three boarders had taken
their departure. These were Peter
Bowman, Henry Vanderhoof and Bert
Hammond, held to the circuit court for
trial on charge of larceny from
dwelling in Covert township. They
had wrenched leg from an iron bed
stead, and using this as pry, had
drawn the hasps and staples from the
door of the corridor, which gave them
access to the yard. Then, using bed
stead as ladder, aud tearing their
blankets into strips and making rope
tberefrom, one end of which was cast
over the high fence, and they were at
liberty. This is another argument in
favor of q new Jail, as the present one
is and has been for years unfit for the
safe keeping of criminals. The three
prisoners who escaped were the only
ones confined there and no blame at
taches to the sheriff for the event.
At the preliminary examination of
every liquor case in our town, and even
before the higher court, perjury pre-
sents itself as the impregnable armor
of the whisky interest. To questions
that do not involve the guilt of the re-
spondent, witnesses are usually frank
in their answers and admissions; but
when a truthful answer will convict
the whisky seller, the whisky drinker
grimly shuts out all moral responsible
ity for his statements and deliberately
perjures himself before every person at
the hearing. Not every witness does
this: there are honorable exceptions,
else no case would go beyond the JUS
tice's court but the majority of the fre-