The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-13
Local Department.

Corn planting this week.
John II. Bryar and wife are in town
The wool market is not yet open
here.
Rus Menter has completed his new
residence and moved into it.
Advertised letters: John Gafler, Dora
Bellatean, Miss Oda Blaklidge.
Marcellus is going to worry along
with only two saloons this year.
The w. G. Il. U. will meet with
Mrs. j. Hurd on Friday next at 2:3O
p. m.
DR.. Keables, of Decatur, was in town
last Friday and made us IA friendly
visit.
Miss Fannie Thomas has been visit
ing friends in Grand Rapids the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Miller are now
nicely settled in their new and elegant
home.
Mrs. p. Nj. Gray, of Cassopolis, is n
guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Eu-
gene Cooley
The passenger steamer Williams is
now making regular trips between So.
Haven and Chicago.
Mr.. Eli Wise is making extensive i'm
provements on the Woke house, recent
ly purchased by him.
Joe Syke is delivering the stone for
the abutments for q new iron bridge at
the foot of Main street.
&. r. Malone will deliver gospel
temperance lecture at the Free Baptist
church tomorrow evening.
W. II. Dansby's trotter Ned ID. has
gone to Centerville to be schooled by
the great master, Geo. Brush.
Hiram Stevens had leg broken in
Wyman's mill yard, Bangor, one day
last week while handling logs.
Terrible forest fires are raging in
Northern Michigan, and many villages
are threatened with cremation.
Col T. G.. and Mrs. Tyner returned
Monday evening from weeks visit
with friends at Tyner City, Ind.
H. T. Howe and family, of Chicago,
Mrs. Mary +. Jones, the walkist.
Mrs. Jas. Bale and Miss Jennie Bale
have returned from Grand Rapids. Mr..
Bale will not come for some time yet.
A large brewery located one mile
south of the center of the city of Jack
son was destroyed by fire last Saturday.
The mission concert which was post
poned last week, will be given next
Sunday evening at the Free Baptist
church.
Mrs. Driscolrs daughter Kittie has
been making a somewhat extended
visit with relatives and friends at Co
bleville.
Harry Showerman is making great
drive in ladies' walking shoes, and
quotes prices this week that will attract
purchasers.
George Eldred of Bloomingdale town.
ship, had one of his horses drop dead
while on the road to this place yester-
day morning.
Mr.. l.. b. Coy tells us that fifty-eigbt
years ago to-day snow fell in central
and western New York to depth OF
from six inches to foot.
The Decatur giants did not keep their
tryst with the Paw Paw Juveniles last
Saturday, so our boys had to 60 to Law
ton for the constitutional"
"The Leaders" open the straw hat
campaign this week. Their other lines,
however, are not neglected, as will be
seen by reference TO their adv.
Because the duty on hops has been
advanced by the Mckinley bill, should
restaurateurs make a corresponding adj
vance in the price of frogs legs'
Nelson +. Cole, an old and much es-
teemed citizen of Almena, died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. j. &. Horn
ing, on the 9th inst, aged 80 years.
Several new cottages will be built at
Lake Park soon, and Mr.. Dansby looks
for large number of visitors at that
pleasant retreat the coming summer.