The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-09-30
Events Queer and Commonplace.

Events Queer and Commonplace.
OcEANA COUNTY is astonishing every
body by her fruit, and now the atcd
-pomologs' are tickled because they
have secured an outlet to the North
west, as far even as Fargo
REPORTS TO the state Board OF Fcalth
| show that there are ) cases OF typhoid
fever ut Iron Mountain, 2i at Grand
Rapids, and IL at Bara2a. There are
A. cases OF scarlet fever in Calumet
Township, Hough:On County, ~ in De-
trolt, and II In kalamazoo
JONI WENMAN, of Pipestone, sunk a
barrel in a moist place to obtain water
for his cattle. His idea was "a fellcitous
one and he obtained an abundance of
Gear. cold, spring water. lie was
greatly astonshed one day to observe
certain fish swimming in the barrels
transparent contents and coping them
o 1t founl they were trout several inches
| long He has s'nce obtained (aily a
supply for his table and an occasion
ne 5 for neighbors. The nearest stream
is m lie and ha away and the who o
count is wondering how the fish got
| into the barrel
y WOODS near kalamazoo has been de-
yasiated by catcrpllars until every leaf
has been deyourcd. The worms remain
OH the trees until, their food being gone.
they be ONE SO weak from starvation
that they "a to the ground. So numer.
Cus are the worms that are thus making
! the descent on an empty stomat h that
2 ance through the woods conveys at
first the impress on that Il IA n storm is
in progress, while the noise of their fall
on the ground combines into storm
| like roar that adds 10 the illusion. The
ground is already covered wit alter
pillar, but there seems to be little
diminuton in the number on the leaf
| eSs tire, IS
Charles f., ROGERS, of Crystal Lake.
is Young man, and during the summer
has made it practice to prowl along the
| shore armed with big telescope and
wa.ch the rcsorters at long range. One
day he saw Mrs. stroupe reclining under
Il tree near the lake shore with man,
and the next day she received a letter
demanding SO or threatening exposure
! The man proved to be her husband, and
to him she CAV the letter and then wrote
Rogers to meet her after dark, when the
money would be paid. The husband and
two officers went to the rendezvous, and
when Rogers arrived the husband gave
him Il thrashing and then the officers ar.
rested him for carrying concealed weap-
ons, a revolver being found on his person.
He was fined for that offense AMI then
turned o er to the Fo erJl authorit es
for using the mails for illegal purposes
He has had sew raj Crystal Springs citi-
re: on the DO ks, and there is rejoicing
there that he is out of the way.
A COMMITTEE of the creditors will
make close investigation into the
charges OF croOkedness i'm connection
with the Milford bank failure.
New YORK creditors charge the bank
rupt Lustig Cigar Company, of Grand
Rapids, with dispOsing of their property
before failure, and will institute suit at
Grand Rapids.
ARNICA and camphor and feather DIS
were in demand at Ovid A picked nine
Of fellows over fifty years old played the
old game of base ball, but found they
weren't las young as they used to be
CADILLAC has n population of 5000,
and they have to go away from home to
buy cemetery decorations. They want
some one to go thc,e and start a regular
sacred to the memory OF r. l. p. shop"
cool patronage guaranteed.
| A CROWD of Brown City toughs and
young boys snapped the Sabbath by GO
| ing TO the woods to practice with their
revolvels Jake Zimmerla practiced on
Tom zones leg and the ball cannot be
extracted. There is danger that coffin
will be wanted.
TIE Ovid business men are trying the
"heave, yo, heave" p an on the Scofie.d
carriage works again. The factory has
absorbed hard cash fur several years.
years, and still when man in Ovid
finds he has few dollars more than he
knows what to do with, he throws Il in.
SECRETARY REYNOLDS of the State
Board OF Agriculture lays that warm
weather has placed corn beyond all pos
sibe danger Of frost, and has done much
to improve the condition of late pota
toes, although the latter will suffer il
the warm weather should continue much
longer without rain.
THE Business Committee of the State
| Ayr cultural Society has submitted its
final report, whereby it appears that the
total receipts of the recent fair were
So, 537. 65, and the actual expenses OF
this years exhibition 1926. 30, which
included 81, $50 paid for row of horse
sta Is erected this season.
Ar Kalamazoo, Miss Nellie Frielink,
while in q dclirium OF fever, slipped out
of the house clothed only in wrapper
and wandered away. FearS were enter
tanned that she had gone To the river
and thrown herself in. Searching par
ties were organized and she was found
near Twin ! axes completely exhausted.
| Mrs. WALTER RICHARDS, wife of the
man who set the spring gun that killed
John Castle, near Bad Axe, left her
husband during the trial which resulted
in his acquittaL About W elk ago she
returned to him. During a night soon
after, unknown masked men took her
from her home into the woods, stripped
her and applied an allopathic dose of tar
and feathers.
AVERY CHAPMAN, of Gaylord, held for
trial charged with a criminal assault on
his step-daughter, is at large, having
escaped from the jail. II o jail being in
the second story, he used blanket for
the descent after cutting a hole with