The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-05-06

cember
Attention is called to the new adv.
of '"The Leaders" in this paper. This
firm is making many friends among
our people by their methods of doing
business.
j. G. Genung, proprietor of tenn
perance (O saloon and billiard room in
Decatur, was fined so one day last
week for running billiard tables with
out license.
We quote from the Dowagiac retail
market: Lara 8, oats 30, eggs 10, but
ter 1S, potatoes 50. The same arttles
here sell for-10, 50, II, 20 and 81 10
respectively.
We understand that Mr.. and Mrs
JAS. Bale, who have been living at
Grand Rapids for several months, will
soon return to their home and farm
east of this place.
w. j. Mckinney, one of Lawton's
best citizens, has been appointed agent
at New Buffalo for both the Central and
G. ~ W. M. roads, and has removed his
family to that place.
Several boys who were candidates for
the naval cadetship from the Eighth
district were rejected, the examining
physicians finding their hearts affected
by cigarette smoking.
Elder Linderman is making quite ex-
tensive repairs on his house by shing-
ling the upright and painting the whole,
making great improvement in the APP
pearance of the place.
j. ii. Waters a. Co.'S store is filled to
the ceiling with as fine a hardware
stock as was ever shown in Paw Paw,
and their prices are as low as the low
est. Give them call
The ladies of the Free Baptist church
will give a social at the home of Philip
Sherrod on Tuesday evening next.
Refreshments will be served. All are
cordially invited to attend.
Geo. H. Miller, of Grand Rapids, lost
a pocket book with $40 in it 10 years
ago. 1t was found the other day in the
bottom of hay bay in the Walker
hotel barn, exactly as it was lost.
The inmates of the Soldiers Home at
Grand Rapids mingle business with
their sports. They catch large numbers
of fish from the lake adjacent, sell them
TO the Home, and then eat of them.
A man named Warren was plowing
on the Gilman farm, east of town, last
Friday, when his team took fright and
ran away, i'll the course of which eXer-
else one of the horses had its back
broken.
J. f.. Taylor, state secretary of the p.
of l., says the order now contains So
600 members in Michigan and that the
Patrons commercial union is doing "a
business of from 81 800 to 81, 500 week
in the state.
In Grand Army circles there is con
siderable activity preparatory To Me-
mortal Day. Commander Spicer will
soon issue an order relative to
the observance of the day by Brod-
head Post of this place.
At an early hour last Thursday morn
ing oil was struck at Allegau at depth
of 1860 feet. 1t is said to be of good
quality. There is great rejoicing over
this result, and oil stock was sold at
three times its par value.
The Prentice & Goodale through
route is now open to customers. The
service is excellent, employees polite
and attentive, and fare lower than any
other line in the county. See time
table elsewhere in this issue
Judge O'Hara at Cassopolis last
sentenced Samuel II. Case
to thirteen years ut jackson for incest;
Charles Hatfield two and-a.h half years,
and Allison Cook, a former Paw Paw
boy, six months at Ionia, for larceny.
Master Horace Mcclellan and the old
gray pony had quite spirited dash
Main street last Friday. Hor-
ace, finding he couldn't hold her, put
the old mare before the wind, kept
everything taut, and finally beached
her. No damage.
Kalamazoo masons were on Monday
granted new trial i'm their suit against
Nehemiah Chase for $4,000 damages
for violation of his contract in failing
to fit up Chase block as Il masonic tenn
pie. The masons received verdict of
5000 some time ago but were not salts
fed.
A movement is on foot among the
fruit growers of Lawton and vicinity
looking to the organization of compa-
ny in Lawton for canning fruits, vege-
tables and other food products. The
matter is now i'm the hands of com
mittee, and definite action may soon
be expected.
A. f. Hayes arrived at Paw Paw last
Saturday evening from a trip to Cali
fornia, Oregon and Washington, re-
turning by the Northern Pacific route.
He left Los Angeles about the Goth of
April. The Paw Paw contingent in
that section were all doing well, con-
tented and happy.
Reports to the state board of health
shows influenza, bronchitis, rheuma-
tism and neuralgia in the order named,
as causing the most sickness i'm Michi-
gan during the week ending April %.
was reported at 1S places,
scarlet fever at 30, typhoid fever at 8
and measles at 40 places.
Thos. l.. Stevens, a former resident
of this place and for many years presi-
dent of the First National bank of Niles,
died at his home in that city last Satur-
day night, after a long illness. Deceased
was rs years old. He leaves widow,
two sons and three daughters, all resid-
ing in Niles save one son, Fred L., who
resides in Plankington, Dakota.
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