The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-01-07
Local Department.

January 20.
John Dillon is coming January Goth.
Watch for small bills.
Miss Rose Mckinney, of Lawton,
visited in town Monday afternoon.
Ed. Darling and wife, of Detroit, have
been making visit to friends in this
place.
family from Hartford to Belding, Ionia
county.
We are indebted to Mrs A. T. An
derson, deputy county clerk, for official
courtesics.
At 12 o'clock noon on New Years
day thermometers at this place regis
tered A
Mr.. and Mrs. A G.. Martin are ex-
pected home from their eastern visit in
few days.
w. X. Shrine has accepted the office
of Under. Sderiff rendered him by Sher-
iff Thomas.
We learn that several cases of scarlet
fever have developed in our sister vii
lage Decatur.
w. j. Sellick Il Son announce the in
auguration of great clearingout sale.
See their adv.
The 18th Michigan Infantry will hold
it's annual reunion at Kalamazoo on
Friday, Jan. 10th.
Ladies in search of dress goods should
not fail to examine those on sale at w.
j. Sellick IL Sons.
f. l.. Warner left Saturday night for
the state of New York on n business
trip of a week or SO.
Edgar f. Bartlett and w. l.. Eaton,
of Kalamazoo, have bought the Rock
ford, H., daily Register.
Hon. G.. L. Eaton and "'Quis" left for
Lansing last Saturday. Mrs. Eaton will
go "A couple of weeks later.
Secretary Cornish says he feels proud
of Van Buren's representation at the
State Teachers Association.
Division headquarters of the l.. s. d
Nj. s. railroad have been removed from
Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids.
+. p. Grimes and family, of this place,
attended a reunion of the Ives family,
of Plainwell, few days since.
Sheriff Thomas will occupy the pleas
ant pair of front offices recently vacated
by Prosecuting Attorney Breck.
Elder Ii. N Allen, state evangelist,
will preach at the Christian church
next Sunday, morning and evening.
The Michigan State Board of Phar-
macy will examine candidates for reg
istration at Saginaw Jan. and IA.
The Van Buren County Farmers In
stitute will be held in this village on
Thursday and Friday, Jan. % and 23.
Attention is called to the prospectus
of that sterling sheet, the Detroit Free
Press, to be found elsewhere in this
issue.
We are indebted to Bert Bryar, agent
for the Orient Insurance Co, of Hart
ford, Conn, for some elegant calendars
for 1891.
The Decatur Republican has changed
its day of publication from Wednesday
to Saturday, the change to take effect
this week.
Freese & Rohde have again applied
the knife to their already low prices,
and make quotations this week that are
attractive.
The new depot at Lawton is COM
pleted, and is not only an ornament to
the town but credit to the architect
and builder.
Benton Harbor gets a nice plum in
the way of the G.. q w. N. car shops,
which are TO be removed from Holland
to that place.
Letters remain uncalled for in the
Paw Paw postoflice addressed TO Grace
Clark, Maud Cornell, James Geerhost,
Nora Harris.
Married, i'm Paw Paw, Dec. 31st, by
Rev. w. j. Hathaway. Thos. Solomon,
of Burlington, ILL.,, and Mrs. Harriet
M. Ashman, of Paw Paw.
The annual meeting for the election
of officers of the w. G.. L. u. will be
held at the Presbyterian church on Fri
day of this week at 2:30 p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Niles Anderson, of Kal-
amaZoo, spent part of last week in
this place, guests at the bone of their
cousin, A. Il. Anderson.
Burns, another of the six men who
broke Jail at Kalamazoo two or three
months ago, has been rounded up. He
was found i'm Milwaukee,
The week of prayer is being observed
by the individual churches this year,
instead of union services, as has been