The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-10-14
WHOLE NUMBER 1908

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The board of supervisors convened
J on Monday, but their work is not yet
sufficiently advanced to make special
note of. Every member of the board is
in his seat and the various committees
are busy with their work. Tuesday
afternoon Jos. III. Haynes, of Decatur,
was elected one of the superintendent
of the poor in place of Col. Anderson,
whose term expires.
The new parlors of the Presbyterian
church will be finished this week, and
the ladies are loud in praise of the ac-
commodating spirit manifested by Mr.
Davey throughout the work, as well as
the pains taken to have everything COM
plete, even to some details that were
not specified i'm the contract. The rooms
are particularly neat and cosy, and will
be a great convenience in many ways.
j. T.. White, an old and highly es-
teemed resident of Antwerp, died on
Saturday last from heart failure, aged
70 years. Funeral from the late home
Monday, six sons of deceased acting as
pall-bearers. While the funeral service
was in progress, dispatch was deliv-
cred announcing the death at Auburn,
n. Y, of an elder brother of deceased,
the two brothers dying within the same
hour.
Among the indictments found by the
United States grand jury recently at
Grand Rapids, one was against William
Thayer, of Niles, for collecting $1,000
pension attorneys fee from a widow,
and one against Beund Muller, editor
of German paper at Manistee, for
publishing the advertisements of the
Louisiana Lottery Co. In the latter
case fine of 800, the minimum pen
atty, was imposed last Saturday.
The Niles District Conference of the
M. f. church will be held at st. Joseph
on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct 81
and 2S, commencing at p. m. Tues
day. An interesting program is pre-
pared for the event, every branch of
church work receiving attention in the
papers to be read and discussions to be
had. The district stewards meeting
will be held at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday.
1t is earnestly desired that all pastors
and all other members of the confer
ence be present.
While at Chicago last week to attend
the unveiling of the Grant monument,
X. w. Noyes took occasion to visit old
Libby prison, which, as most everyone
knows, was several years ago removed
erected at Chicago exactly as it stood
while used as place for confining fed
eral prisoners of war. Going up stairs,
Capt. Noyes found and recognized the
identical post against which he sat on
the memorable day when carried in,
desperately wounded and a prisoner
Naturally enough his mind flew back
through the years and settled at that
particular day-Oct. 6, 1S64-exactly 81
years before.
Among other DEGREES entered by our
court during its session last week was
one constituting one of the provisions of
the will of the late Riley Bangs. IL was
claimed that the widow, who is the ex-
ecutrix, was given authority under the
will to sell the real estate of deceased,
if she deemed it expedient and neces-
sary to do so, and invest the proceeds
in her name as executriX. Her power
to do so, however, was doubted by some
of the heirs and bill was filed to deter
mine the question The Court held that
Mrs. Bangs has the authority under the
will which she claimed, and it was de-
creed accordingly that she be at liberty
to exercise such power.
The ladies of Paw Paw, through
whose energy and tepacity of purpose
first-class lecture course was planned
and successfully carried out last year,
are now seeing their good work bearing
fruit. The ladies of several of our
neighborng villages are interesting
themselves IN the same direction, and
ere long we shall see the people of
every village with any pretension to
culture enjoying these helpful and edify-
ing entertainments. The Hartford la
ha LOT mi lno
association, and we are informed that
a canvass of the village and vicinity
has met with the most fattering en-.
couragement and the financial success
of the enterprise is assured.
A conference of the temperance peo-
pie of Van Buren county will be held
in the Presbyterian church. Paw Paw,
commencing at 10 a. m. Wednesday,
Oct. 2l. 1t is especially desired that
every church and temperance organiza-
ton in the county should send delega-
tions - the larger the better = to this
conference. The purpose of the meet
ing is in no sense political, but to secure
the thorough enforcement of existing
laws relative to the liquor traffic; and
for the moral influence of the confer
ence upon the liquor men and upon the
undecided or Indifferent, it is important
that the gathering should be large
one.
The great battle of speed which was
to decide the mooted question of superb
ority as between the stations Allerton
and Nelson, was fought to finish at
Grand Rapids last Thursday afternoon
and resulted in victory for the Iowa
horse. Nelson took the first heat in
2:13, and that was about all he had to
do with the race, for Allerton was an
easy winner of the next three heats
in 2:14i, 2:15, 2:16i. While no one sup
posed that either horse would trot very
close to his record, on account of the
lateness of the season and the newness
of the track, yet all were disappointed
that heat in that race could have been
won in :16t.
Last Saturday afternoon, as w. X.