The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-07-22
WHOLE NUMBER 1896

in town on business day or two since
Harry Showerman is off on ten DAYS
jaunt TO Petoskey via Detroit and the
lake.
Messrs. Wise & Tuckey have had q
large engraving of their mills made,
which will appear hereafter on their
flour sacks.
Miss Edith McRoberts, who has been
in the employ of Mrs. j. ID. Hamilton
this summer, has gone to Grand Rapids,
where she will make her future home.
Harry Mcneil and James Whelpley
will go to Tennessee in the employ
of Trescott d Remington. Harry will
return, however, in time to resume his
studies at Ann Arbor this fall.
Hon. Nathaniel A. Earle died at his
home in Grand Rapids on Saturday last
of consumption. Deceased was born in
the township of Arlington, this county;
graduated from and eventually became
principal of the high school of this place;
took the law course at Ann Arbor, and
after graduating settled in Grand
Rapids for the practice of his pro-
fesSion.
Frank Donahue and Robert Hughes, q
couple of horse traders, were before
Justice Warner last Thursday, charged
with assault and battery on Frank
Roberts. On their plea of guilty the
justice assessed them $500, which they
paid. Roberts objected to Donahue
and Hughes crossing his titled fields
with their horses in quest of swap"
hence the assault.
An epidemic of horse stealing seems
to have broken out all over the coun-
try, and ii would be wise TO make care
ful note of the description of horses and
outfits offered for sale or trade by un-
known parties. We hear of teams hav-
ing been stolen within few days from
Mendon, Battle Greek and Elkhart, in
addition to the pair stolen from n. O.
Martin at Lawton.
Our neighbor across the way worked
itself into furious passion last week
over little three-line item which APP
peared in this paper the week before.
1t was its own ''mad," and it had an
undoubted right to indulge it, but the
gratultous advice it proffers us regard
ing the management of this journal is
another affair and looks something
anomalous when its own brilliantly ca
reer is considered.
Six Oberlin students, comprising
quartet of singers and two speakers,
will hold series of union meetings at
the Nj. +. church, commencing on Fri
day of this week and extending through
Monday next. Sunday morning these
students will assist in the services at
the Free Baptist, Methodist and Pres
by terian churches, and in the evening
the union meetings will be resumed.
These young men are spending their
vacation by making an evangelistic tour
of the state, and we hope TO see them
well received.
Bangor has been boasting of late over
the good order that prevailed in that
village, due To the fact that no liquors
were sold there. In its issue of the nth
the Reflector notes a saloon fight, in. the
course of which, as is usual in such af-
fairs, the drunken man was terribly
beaten by the man who sold him the
whisky. In the same issue mention
was made of some loafers pulling up
widows evergreen hedge and cutting
off the tail of a cow belonging to a citi
zen. A very nice, quiet, lawabiding
town, to be sure.
The Van Buren, County Battalion will
be quartered at Camp Beecher'- the
most desirable in the city-during the
National Encampment. Quarters have
also been secured at the Michigan Ex-
change for $50 ladies, if so many ac-
company the battalion. The veterans
from this county are exceedingly for
tunate in being quartered in the heart
of the city and within four or five
blocks of their railway depot Col.
Tyner is in correspondence with the
officers of the Central road, and hopes
To ctooi..1 troin for hic
"Feet socials" are the latest society
fads in rural districts. The girls take
off their shoes and stockings and hide
behind screens, with nothing but their
pink and white tootsie-wootsies visible.
The boys make selection from the
bewitching anatomical display, and the
owner of the pair of feet he selects has
to be taken to supper. At Hartford
the other night a young fellow was sent
i'm after a partner, and coming back
alone he was asked the reason. He
said he could stand foot that took a
mans overshoe to cover up, but he'd be
gol darned if he didn't draw the line
this side of a raisin box.
n. o. Martin returned home last Sat
urday with his horses which were stolen
the previous Sunday night. He traced
them to Middlebury, Ind, where they
had been disposed of-one traded to a
livery man for pony and $40, The other
to the cashier of bank for guitar and
80 The man who disposed of the team
gave the name of VIM. Koons, and as
VIM. Koons of Lawton had been absent
for period corresponding with that OF
the stolen team, he was arrested on his
return Saturday. The Middlebury bank
cashier came over Monday, but failed
to identify Koons as the party from
whom he got the animal, and the sus-
pect was discharged. The Middlebury
gentlemen are now concerned to know
about the whereabouts of their prop
erty and money.
Last Thursday evening, at Decatur,
Mrs Antoinette Chadwick gave mu-
sicale, at which there were some twen
ty or more invited guests. Every
thing passed off pleasantly until after
refreshments had been served, which
were of the finest kind and included