The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-08-12
WHOLE NUMBER 1899

db oW Il dW bulS year, duu LuS
date fixed at Sept. /, and 3. We trust
our citizens will substantially encourage
the officers in their efforts To get the
battalion together at this place The
committee having the matter in charge
will make itself known TO our people at
an early day.
The board of managers of the Grand
Rapids soldiers home met last Friday
and elected Major j. A. Mckee com
mandant, vice Manly resigned. Capt.
Manly is now charged by the board
with stealing $500 80 of the funds of the
Home, and IA lively row is imminent, as
Captain Manly claims to have Manager
Sprague's receipt for all the funds in
his possession at the time of his resig
nation. Reform" goes.
The veterans from this place who at
tended the National Encampment at
Detroit are loud in their praises of the
people of that city and the manner in
which they treated their visitors. A
generous rivalry seemed to pervade all
classes as to who should be foremost in
extending hospitalities and favors, and
it is safe to say that so long as the g.
A. X. has an existence Detroit will have
warm friends to the extent of the mem
bership of the order.
Father Chiniquy, an ex-Priest, is hav-
ing hard time in his efforts to hold
series of meetings at Escanaba Stones
and clubs are hurled through the win
dows of the building in which he holds
forth, and his adherents say his life is
threatened by those who oppose his ut
terances. Some of the over-timid citi-
zens have appealed TO the governor to
send troops up there to assist in main
tanning order, but as the sheriff has not
asked for help of course no attention
will be paid to the appeal.
Notes of warning come from all parts
of the state to be careful about the use
of kerosene in the future. The recent
legislature reduced the test 20 degrees,
enabling dealers to sell oil possibly two
cents per gallon less than heretofore,
but the 20 per cent of gasoline which is
added to the oil renders it exceedingly
dangerous to handle. Care should be
taken by those using kerosene stoves
that they are kept clean and free, and
under no circumstances should kero-
sene lamps be left turned down, as ex-
plosion would be likely to follow.
A heavy thunder storm last Sunday
night, accompanied by Il high wind, did
much damage in the western portion of
this county and on the line between
Van Buren and Berrien counties, blow
ing down corn, upturning fruit trees,
and in several places filling the roads
with timber so that they are impossible.
The house of John McGowin i'm the
township of Watervilet was blown
several feet off from its foundations.
One half the roof of his barn was torn
off and his outhouses blown quarter
of mile away. A man near Millburg,
named Smiley was killed by lightning.
Charley Doughty informed us a few
days ago that he should take up his per-
manent abode at the county house. He
wished to thank those who have be-
friended him in his reduced circum-
stances, and to be forgiven if his en-
gagements have not been punctually
kept that he had done to the utmost of
his ability. He has strong faith that
the wrongs he is now suffering, the eff
fects of which are sending him to the
poor house. will all be righted and he
once more enabled to occupy the posi-
tion in society he has lost because of no
fault of his own.
Captain Consalus, whose home is in
Missouri, 100 miles south of Kansas
City, visited his brother, Samuel Con-
salus of this place, both in going to and
returning from the encampment at De-
troit. Captain COnsaus went to Mis-
souri, in 1857, and had but fairly got set
tied in his new home when the war
broke out, and his outspoken loyalty to
the old flag came near getting him into
trouble on many occasions, as large
majority of his neighbors were rabid
secessionists. He enlisted in Missouri
regiment and served with it through
the war, attaining the rank of captain
He is now an enthusiastic member of
the G.. A. Il.
Mrs. Ophelia Hawley, an old resident
of this place, was found dead in bed at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jared
Loveland, last Sunday morning She
had spent the previous day at the home
of her son, Henry Hawley, south of the
village, returning late in the afternoon
and retiring at the usual hour. Before
retiring for the night, Mrs Loveland
had visited her mothers room and found
her apparently peacefully asleep, with
one hand under her cheek and the other
holding fan. At an early honr in the
morning she was found in exactly the
same position, dead, and from the con-
dition of the body it is thought proba-
BILE she died very soon after retiring.
Deceased was an active member of the
Christian church, and her every day life
consistent with her profession. The
funeral was from the Christian church
yesterday Tuesday afternoon, Elder L.
Brooks officiating.
The Michigan crop report for August
is issued. The average yield of wheat
per acre as estimated by correspondents
on the first of this month is, in the south
ern counties, 1906 bushels; in the CEN
trail counties, 1910 bushels, and in the
northern counties, 11.31 bushels. The
wheat is of fine quality, many of the
correspondents reporting it extra good
Oats in the southern counties are esti-
mated to yield 33 bushels per acre. In
the central counties 80 bushels per acre,
and in the northern counties 10 bushels
per acre. The condition of corn de-
clined in all sections of the state during
July. The hay crop in the southern
counties IN onontitu ,,a, oont 81 An