The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-01-07

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corporate limits of that bailiwick.
In another place in this paper ma,
be found the prospectus of the Inter
| Ocean, in our estimation the ablest con
Quoted newspaper on this continent.
We have another railroad cloud peer
ing above the horizon no larger thar
mans hand, perhaps, but several ex
pectant telescopes are turned toward:
it. May it grow.
Marcellus is reveling in the luxury o.
female barber, and now the beardless
youth of that hamlet has just discov
cred "how much better a man(D feels
after being shaved"
The regular annual meeting for the
election of officers for the Van Buren,
County Farmers Mutual Insurance Co
will be held at the court house in this
village on Tuesday next.
Mrs. +. NJ. Snow went to Detroit last
Thursday, called thither by the serious
illness of her sister, Miss Helen Cole
man. Her mother, Mrs. Coleman, also
went to that city Monday.
j. G. Gould had occasion to take a
boy To the Reform School at Lansing
on New Years day, and attended the
reception given to Ex-Governor Luce at
the armory in the evening.
M. f. Russell succeeds his father, l..
S. Russell, in the editorial and business
management of the Bangor AdUdnce-
Reflector. We extend to Bro. Russell
the usual compliments of the craft.
Sheriff elect Reagan, of Cass county,
did wise thing before entering upon
the duties of his office in taking to him
self wife in the person of Miss Jose
phine Cullinane, of Silver Creek, on
the 30th ult.
Property is already beginning to
change hands in the vicinity of the old
Landphere pond. Geo. w. Tyler & Co
have bought twenty-five acres of land
from the Gray estate, south of the Mat
tawan road.
Some friend from the Pacific coast
has sent us the Jan. edition of the
Portland Morning Oregonian "a NAM
month sheet, comprising thirty-two T.
column pages, "filled to the chases"
with live matter.
Fenner Hayes spent the holidays in
Chicago. He claims to have perfected
arrangements for adding two more sto-
ries to the shot-tower, the work to be
completed in time for the Worlds CO.
lumbian Exposition.
II. j. Olds of Marcellus, the defeated
candidate on the Democratic ticket for
register of deeds for Cass county, has
had a balm applied to his lascerated
feelings in the form a clerkship in the
land office at Lansing.
The 18th annual encampment of the
of Michigan g. A. r. will
be held at Muskegon, March 10th, 18th
and 18th, 1891. Full particulars regard
ing railroad fares, hotel rates, etc, will
be published hereafter.
The holiday trade and general traffic
over the counters of our merchants are
both reported To be much better than
last year. If there are any dead"
towns in the county, Paw Paw is GER
tainly not one of them.
The annual election of officers for the
Disciple Sunday School, held last Sun
day, resulted in the selection of the fol-
lowing: o. w. Rowland, sup't; Eds
asst supt; Miss Clara Ander-
son, sec'y; Mrs. o. w. Rowland, treas'r.
"Chan" Ocobock arrived home New
Years Eve, having been granted va
cation of few days by his employers.
He is in excellent health and likes his
situation very much. He is in the
counting room of Marshall Field & Co,
Chicago.
Cloth is now being manufactured
from glass, and it is said that garments
made from this material can be worn
with perfect comfort. Now, that's all
right enough, but who wants to be
to wear Venetian blinds for
Miss Clara Germany, who comes to
us highly recommended and with ten
years experience, has opened an insti-
tute for the teaching of telegraphy,
book keeping, shorthand and type
writing in the Blackman building, on
Main street. See local adv.
The January number of that elegant
monthly The Song Friend, pub
lished by S. w. Straub & Co, 243 State
street, Chicago, is on our table and ev-
licences the usual care in the selection of
its contents that has always character
lied that popular publication.
We are indebted to Joe Sherman, of
Spokane Falls, Wash, for bundle of
late papers from that region, among
which was the New Years edition of
the Spokane Falls ReUieO, consisting of
80 pages, principally devoted To statis-
tics of that new and prosperous state.
Thanks, Joe.
A few days since the Michigan Cen
tral railroad received from the Sche-
nectady locomotive works what is said
to be the fastest locomotive in the
world. 1t is compound, low heeler,
and capable of hauling the heaviest ex-
press trains on the Central at an aver
age speed of sixty miles per hour.
The Woodman Mfg Co. will not
move its works into the Electric Light
Co.'S building, as originally intended,
but instead thereof have leased, with
the privilege of buying within a year,
the old Everett sash and blind factory,
on the west side of the river, which will
at once be put in repair and occupied.
Mrs. Frank Clancy has been missing
from her home since last Thursday
afternoon. She left two small children,
the youngest about ten months old. 1t
is rumored that she has been heard