The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-03-25
WHOLE NUMBER 1879

ate services at the Disciple church in
this village on Monday evening, April
@. All are cordially invited 20 attend.
The Woodman Mfg Co. is consider
ing the project of organizing rs "A stock
company. Stock to the amount of
$1,000 is already subscribed pending
the final decision of the company. New
machinery is now arriving and a larger
variety of chairs will be manufactured
than heretofore.
The people of Niles are considerably
exercised over the Buchanan project Of
daming the ST. Joseph at that place.
At the first glimpse this opposition
seems strange, but when the spring
diet of the average Niles citizen
suckers and milk-is considered, the
mystery is solved.
Reports to the state board of health
show influenza, bronchitis, rheumatism
and neuralgia in the order named as
causing the most sickness i'm Michigan
during the week ending March IA:
Diphtheria was reported at % places,
scarlet fever at 80, typhoid fever at 8
and measles at So places.
The ''poverte parte" at Waverly
Grange hall last Saturday evening was
bowling success in every particular.
The receipts were SlS at ten-cent ad-
mission. The worst looking man in
the crowd was Bert Whipple, while
Lilah Davis got away with all competi-
tors of the female persuasion.
Roy Tuttle and Frank Pugsley,:: of
the high school, show themselves ex-
perts in carrying out electrical expert
Tlaap l,t
phone, by which the ticking of clock,
placed on table in the laboratory,
eXcites an electrical current so that the
ticking is reproduced more than forty
feet from its source.
j. III. Bryar is still suffering much
from his limb, and, having tried the hot
baths at Pueblo, New Mexico, is now
trying the curative powers of the hot
springs of Las Vegas. We hope to hear
a favorable report from this last exper-
iment and that, ere many months, we
may see him walking the streets of his
native town with the same elastic step
as of yore.
Last Saturday evening the Paw Paw
cornet band gave serenade To Hon. &.
l.. Eaton, department commander q.
A. r., X. W. Noyes, asst-adjt gen'l,
and Dan Spicer, asst quartermaster
general, at their several residences.
Each of the recipients of this cOmpli-
ment came out and thanked the boys
for such graceful recognition, and EN-
phasized their thanks by liberal dis
of cigars and fruit.
Allison Cook, the young man men
toned last week as having stolen
horse and carriage from Samuel Vought,
a liveryman of Marcellus, was given
hearing before Justice Manning, of
Marccllus, and in default of bail COM
mitted to jail for trial at the next term
of the circuit court. Cook had left "a
fine wolf robe belonging To the outfit at
Sage's feed barn in this place, as he had
no money to pay for the feed of the
horse.
Henry A. Rogers, former resident
of this place, died at the residence of
his son Dell in Kalamazoo last Sunday
night and the remains were brought
here for interrment. Funeral services
were conducted yesterday morning by
Rev Linderman from the residence of
o. w. Longwell, Esq The burial was
i'm the war of the rebellion, and the
pail bearers were selected from his late
Last Friday Octavius Tyler, a colored
tough from near Covert, was committed
to Jail here for 80 days by Justice Nor
timer, of Hartford. Tyler had attended
a dance given by people of his own
color in Hartford on Tuesday evening,
and got as drunk as Dutch lord on
the occasion. After knocking down
two or three girls he got out his little
razor and proposed to slice up the en-
tire aggregation. Officer Packer car
rallied the festive coon, and the result
is indicated above.
Department Commander G.. l. Eaton
arrived in Paw Paw last Saturday af-
ternoon and established the headquar-
ters of the department of Michigan at
this place. The assistant-adiutant gen
eral, Capt. X. w. Noyes, will occupy
the elegant rooms heretofore used as
the private office of The NoRTHERNER,
which will make pleasant and easily
accessible quarters-indeed, said to be
the finest the department has ever had
in the state Mr.. Eaton returned to
his legislative duties at Lansing Mon
day.
Prof. +. NJ. Russell, for five years
of our public schools,
died of pneumonia at Leipsie, Ohio,
where he had been called to attend the
funeral of his father, on the 10Th inst
over two years ago Prof.
Russell resigned the superintendency
Of our schools to accept like position
at Battle Creek, where he was still en-
gagged at the time of his death. De
ceased was As years old and had many
very warm personal friends in this
place Memorial services will be held
1t the M. +. church in this village next
sunday morning.
The Ariel-Thomas combination has
come and gone, and, though the severe
,olds contracted by several members of
he troupe detracted perceptibly from
he concert, still it is the almost univer-
'al verdict that il was one of the most
enjoyable entertainments ever given in
Paw Paw. Nothing could be more har-
nonious than the sweet strains of the
cuckoo, or the whistling song, and the