The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-06-10
WHOLE NUMBER 1890

On his way home Tuesday evening
q professional gentleman picked up q
package which had all the outW ard ap-
pearance of being valuable find. 1t
was carefully opened on his arrival
home and found to contain only sand,
and he was the maddest doctor in
Paw Paw.
The Children's Day exercises will
take place at the NJ +. church next
Sunday morning. They anticipate
pleasant time, as an exceptionally fine
program has been prepared for them by
the Educational society 1t is hoped
that all will be on hand promptly at
1870 o'lock.
There is one thing that the cold
weather, drought and forest fires can
not kill, and that is the weather bureau,
which comes up, smiling as usual, with
the information that the rains and high
temperature of the past week have been
beneficial to crops all over the state
Nobody but the bureau men noticed
any remarkably high temperature.
The book of proceedings of the Mich
| igan State Press Association for 1890,
! Just issued under the superintendence
of eX-Secretary Fred Slocum, by the
finely equipped printing house of See-
man & Peters, of Saginaw, is a model
of taste and neatness, and admirably
calculated to be cherished souvenir of
the royal outing" it SO vividly illus
trates.
Albion College commencement occurs
on the 25th inst. This year has been
the most prosperous in its history. A
faculty of twenty-five teachers and an
enrolment of five hundred and twenty
nine pupils, with Freshman class of
twenty eight show the institution not
only to be in a flourishing condition but
entitled to rank among the promising
schools of the West.
DR.. +. w. Bartram will sail for
Europe about July for the purpose of
buying Cleveland Bay horses for the
Indian Grove stock farm. He will also
buy large importation OF Shropshire
sheep Mr.. Bartram is an excellent
Judge of stock, and it may be confident
ly expected that his purchases will be
the finest ever brought to this county.
Breeders will anxiously await his return.
We are told that the Memorial Day
exercises at Marcellus were of an un-
usually interesting character and par
ticipated in by an immense concOurse
of citizens of all classes, yet the NeUs
of that place dismisses the whole sub
ject with a 10-line item. A humbug
Indian medicine gang which is fleeing
the people of that place out of their
surplus dollars is considered worthy
of "A puff occupying over one-fifth of a
column in the same issue. This, prob
ably, is the comparative worth of the
two subjects in the estimation of that
journal.
A representative of the NORTHERNER
had occasion to drive across country to
Marcellus one day last week, and re-
ports the outlook for an immense crop
of wheat and hay in the section trav-
ersed as excellent. OF course it is yet
TOO early to talk about corn, but about
an average acreage is planted and the
stand is good. Fruit, also, will be in
abundance, the damage by frost to fall
and winter apples having been largely
overestimated. Sheep shearing is pref
ty nearly through with, but the clip is
yet substantially in the hands of the
growers.
On last Monday evening the ladies of
the Browning Club met with Mrs. +.
+. Parks for their final reading, and, at
its conclusion were ushered to the din
ing room where a pleasant surprise
awaited them in the daintily garnished,
fower-decked table, around which they
discussed the most delicious refresh
ments, amid such confusion of
tongues" as must have deafened any
but feminine ears. Mrs. p Mcclellan
addressed the president, Mrs. A. G..
Martin, expressing the sincere wishes
of all that she might have pleasant
journey and n safe return from the
land of cyclones, and the company adj
journed, with the understanding that
later in the season there should be one
more meeting, to which the male mem
berS of the Club should also be hidden.
A prominent and wealthy farmer of
Almena township, IA lifelong Democrat,
said, in conversation with a Gobleville
merchant the other day, that he was
better off by six hundred dollars by rea-
son of the passage of the Mckinley bill.
An egg-shipper had that morning paid
this farmer 81 for 100 dozen eggs, and
this little transaction brought about the
conversation. One year ago, under ex-
actly the same conditions saving the
tariff of five cents per dozen now levied
on the Canadian product, seven cents
was the top of the market in wholesale
lots. And these are the arguments that
make votes. Free trade stump speak
ers may howl themselves hoarse, and
free trade journals may burden their
columns with the vaporings of the at
torneys and agents of English syndi-
Gates, but the difference between the
eleven dollars of to-day and the seven
dollars of year ago is too palpable to
be swept aside by sophistries.
Notwithstanding the fact that last
Wednesday was ushered in amid dark
and threatening clouds, the pioneers of
Van Buren county, who had seen dark
er days when facilities for enduring
them were fewer, gathered at Bangor
to the number of eight hundred or more,
and the program of the exercises was
substantially carried out The address
of welcome was made by Elder j. II.
Reese, of Bangor; Hon. j. S. Cross
history of Bangor and vicinity; Vice
President Hon c. j Monroe made an