The true northerner., 1891-11-11

seys at auction at the residence of T.. l..
Warner, on Saturday, Nov IA, at one
o'clock p. m. The lot consists of four
cows and two yearlings.
Mrs. Mary johnson who has been
blind for five years, recently spent two
weeks in Kalamazoo being treated by
DR.. LaCrone, and now rejoices in the
recovery of her eyesight.
Miss Belle Gremps returned last
week from Texas township where she
has been spending ten days with her
old friend Mrs. Worthington, formerly
known as Miss Lora Burchard.
In packing up his household effects,
r. II. Annable unearthed some queer
specimens of old local newspapers, one
of them being Free Press of 1857, in
which not single local item appears.
Mrs. o. W. Rowland returned on
Thursday from a four weeks stay at
her sons in Eaton Rapids where she
has heen helping the young folks to be-
gin their first venture in housekeeping
The Hackley school over which Miss
Mary Bryar is acting principal, is in
Muskegon, not Grand Rapids, and en-
ploys 16 teachers. This shows how re-
sponsble a position she now occupies.
The Gobleville Net0S will this week
celebrate the first anniversary of its
birth by moving into better quarters,
and Editor Hall reports an encouraging
outlook, whereupon we congratulate
him.
The morning train on the Il. q S. III.
road will connect at Hartford with the
excursion train for Grand Rapids on
Nov. 10Th, and special returning train
will be run in the evening Fare for
round trip from Lawton to Grand Rap
ids, only S1.50.
The millions upon millions Of leaves
with which our streets have lately been
carpeted, were many of them gathered
in last week, giving the boys their fill
of bonfires, and greatly improving the
looks of our town.
We are very grateful to our editorial
and other friends, for the kindly words
of encouragement given us in our new
field of labor, and shall do our best to
merit them, though we cannot hope to
avoid all mistakes.
The drawing of numbers for chances
at the board in the selection of seats
for the Hedley lecture, passed off very
smoothly for a new experiment, and
seemed to give satisfaction to the large
majority. Certainly, no one can say
that it was not fair.
On Thursday evening as County Com
missioner Hinckley was driving in from
the country, he accidentally collided
with Democrat wagon, taking off his
left forward wheel. No blame is at
tached to any one, it being entirely due
to the darkness of the night.
Our old acquaintance Henry Ran
dolph, formerly living east of town, is in
sad affliction, as Monroe Stevens, the
husband of his daughter Ada, lies at the
point of death with typhoid pneumonia,
while his younger daughter Stella is
very i'll at her fathers with nervous
prostratiOn.
The pastor, elders and trustees of the
Presbyterian church, on last week Tues
day evening met at n Nj. Pugsley's, at
which time Rev. Clizbes proposal to
conclude his duties here at the eXpira
tion of the calendar year, was duly ac-
cepted, SO that there remain but two
months of his pastorate.
If the artificial rain producers would
come to Van Buren county, they would
not be obliged to suspend operations on
account of wet weather, as they did a
short time since. TLATER.-The bare
mention of these gentlemen has been
followed by an old-fashioned rain. This
shows the value of the NoRTHERNER as
an advertising medium.
Mrs. Susan Glidden, relct of Elisha
Glidden, once prominent citizen here,
was obliged to apply for admission to
the County-house some two weeks ago,
and went into rapid decline that re-
suited in her death on Nov. 5. Her re-
mains were inferred on Prospect hill
on the Sunday following
The following replies culled from the
teachers papers at the recent eXamina-
ton, are Illustrations of the intellectu-
ality with which our County Examiners
are sometimes obliged to wrestle
Question-How do you teach penman-
ship? Answer-By the athletic system.
Question-State how and why exercise
increases the circulation and purifica.
tion of the blood? Answer
exercise makes the heart inforce the
blood faster to the lungs and therefore
the rapid flow of the blood through the
lungs, and it does not exchange car
bolic acid for OXYGEN.
On Tuesday of last week Mrs. S. c.
McEntee left for Lexington, KY, in re-
sponse to a telegram summoning her to
the bedside of her son Bert, whose seri-
Gus illness we mentioned in our last is
sue. Upon her arrival, she found him
perfectly conscious and prepared for
the last great change, and early Friday
his spirit left its frail tenement
of clay. The bereaved mother started
that day upon her sorrowful homeward
journey, bringing her sons remains
with her, and the funeral was held yes
terday from her home, Rev. II. w.
Harvey officiating, assisted by Rev.
Mrs. Barton. The deceased was an es-
young man who had just at
tanned his majority, was getting fine
business start under his uncle's guild
ance, and left many friends, both old
and young, TO mourn his death.
John p. Bathrick, familiarly known
as "Uncle john" has been ailing for
nearly year, having, for some time
past, been seriously i'll. On last Satur-
day evening he was sitting propped up
in his easy chair, with his children