The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-08-26
WHOLE NUMBER 1901

SeTNeu. large attendance Is desired,
as an election of officers will take place.
The number of Harper's Weekly pub.
lished August Goth (to.day) contains
two pages of illustrations of the races
and other incidents at the annual
Canoe Meet which took place recently.
The supplement to the number will
comprise an article, with portraits, on
"The Young Men of New York" Civ
ing some interesting facts regarding
the very large number of comparatively
young men who have achieved marked
success in the professions OF in busi-
ness in the city of New York.
The arrangements are perfected for
the reunion of the Van Buren, County
Battalion G.. A. r., to be held at Paw
Paw Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, Sept. /, 2 and 3. The citizens of
Paw Paw, the officers of the battalion
and the members of Brodhead Post
have seemed to enter into a generous
rivalry as to who should do the most
toward making the old heroes welcome
to our village and their stay pleasant.
A program of the exercises of the en-
campment will he found elsewhere in
this paper.
Cadet Elmer w. Clark leaves to-day
for the United States Military Academy
at West Point, N. Y, where he is re-
quired to report at 2 p m. Friday to
resume his studies. Cadet Clark has
spent his two months vacation with
friends in this village and vicinity, and
in this brief period he has made many
new friends by his correct habits, gen.
tlemanly department and soldierly bear
ing, and he can feel assured that his
stl uggles during the ensuing two years
will be sympathized in by the same
friends who will rejoice.with him over
the victory in the end
Mr.. Guy F. Harrison, the genial man
ager of the Paw Paw Electric Light Co.,
gave another proof of his proverbial
liberality last Friday evening, on the
occasion of the lawn social at the home
of Mrs. G. f. Chappell, by connecting
wires with his main line, running them
across the front and along the south
side of Mrs. C.'s residence, where they
supplied twenty or more incandescent
lights which were suspended in white
and colored globes, producing charm
ing effect. "Sir Guys" ears would have
tingled could they have heard the pref
ty things said of him by the assembled
ladies.
Last Wednesday afternoon about 40
of the friends and relatives of Mr. and
Mrs. j. 5. Barton gathered at their
pleasant home to witness the marriage
of their daughter Minnie to Mr.. f. A.
Aseltyne. Shortly after O'Clock the
march was sounded and the
bride and groom appeared, followed by
Miss Lora Glidden and Mr.. Jamie Erk-
enbeck, who were to assist in the cere
mony, which was performed by Mrs.
Barton, the brides mother. After the
had been extended, re-
freshments were served on the lawn,
and about dark the guests dispersed,
wishing the newly welded pair long
and happy life. Among other presents
the bride received the gift of horse,
harness and carriage from her father.
1t seems as though the fire fiend had
q special antipathy against our friend
Q. Z. Rawson, living two and-a-half
miles south of town Barely recovered
from the loss sustained in the burning
Of his dwelling and the expense of
building a new one, at halfpast five last
Friday afternoon his splendid barn was
discovered to be on fire, and in very
few minutes the structure and its con-
tents were in ashes, together with seven
other buildings-sheep shed, corn crib,
wagon house, hog house, ice house and
TWO tool sheds. The barn was filled to
the peak with hay and this years wheat
crop, unthreshed. In the horse stable
hung several sets of harness, blankets,
ETC., and on the main floor stood two
wagons, one of which was saved. In
the sheds and tool houses were stored
such vehicles and implements as will
be found among the belongings of the
thrifty, well-to-do farmer. But few of
these were saved. The flames were first
discovered issuing from the cupola on
.he roof, and must have originated from
spontaneous combustion. Insured for
81 900 in the Cass County Mutual. The
oss will be nearly or quite double that
amount.
Church and society circles at Glen
1ale and vicinity are stirred to their
utmost depths over church scandal.
The trouble has been brewing for a
Ong time, and finally eliminated in
Mr.. l.. A. Rogers, "a prominent member
Of the Methodist church and respect
able citizen, preferring charges against
Mrs John Shered, also II respectable
of the same church, charging
her with induiging in "sinful words and
temper, and of defamation of charac- /.
ter" The case was tried on Tuesday
and Wednesday of last week in the
Glendale church, before the Rev. w. L.
Coggshall of Kalamazoo, and a COM
mittee of six others. The case was hotly
contested on both sides. Mrs. Shereds
interests were looked after by Judge
Davis and Elder Armstrong, of Kala-
mazoo, while the prosecution was con-
Quoted by George Hopkins, of Kalama-
zoo, and Judge Parkhurst, of Decatur.
The "sinful words and temper and de-
of character" complained of
consisted briefly in statement alleged
10 have been made by.Mrs. Shered that
Rogers had been guilty of unseeming
conduct with one Mrs. Allen, in fact
hat the two had been lovers. Rev.
Mr.. Chase, pastor of the church, swore
hat she had made such statement, and
Rogers admitted that he had written
etters TO Mrs. Allen. The testimony
also disclosed the fact that the letters
nad been discovered and that trouble
between Mrs. Allen and her husband
nad ensued In spite of all this how