The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-09-16
Local Department.

". II DulltI anu Wllt are NlSlIlDO Ill
Grand Rapids this week.
Mrs. Amos Stevens, of Battle Creek,
is reported to be quite i'll.
JAS f. Chambers father, from Kala.
maZoo, visited him Monday.
On Saturday, Sept. 10, Mat Wixom's
great show will be ut Paw Paw.
James Erkenbeck has returned to
Hillsdale to complete his studies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Dopp are expect
ed home from Vermont this week.
Rev. w. j. Hathaway and wife are
expected home from conference to-day.
Mrs. G.. p. RawsOn is enjoying visit
with her sister, Mrs. Martha Bills, of
Dowagac.
&. r. Avery spent most of last week
in Chicago purchasing his fall stock of
dry goods.
The w. G.. T. u. will meet at the res
idence of Mrs. II. p. Nelson on Friday
at three p. m.
Rev w. G.. Mccarthy, Of Lawton,
will preach at the First Baptist church
next Sunday evening.
Mrs w. j. Bale is enjoying n visit
with her old friend, Mrs. +. A. Urch,
from Charleston, Mich.
Mat WIxom has no fakirs or conf
dence men following his show. Paw
Paw, Saturday, Sept. 10.
Grapes began moving from Lawton
last week at the rate of about eight
thousand baskets per day.
Mr. and Mrs j. Il. Clapp returned
last Saturday from visit of several
weeks in the great Northwest.
The Cassopolis grocers have entered
into compact to keep their stores
closed on Sundays after Oct.
The trained ponies and educated dogs
with Mat WiXom's great show will de-
light the little folks. Let them all go
and enjoy it.
Miss Carrie Melchor, of Los Angeles,
Cal, spent day or two of last week
in this place. We believe she has re-
turned to California.
Nine people composed the school
meeting at Hartford recently. Mrs p
Il. Heald was elected trustee in place
of DR.. II. G. Maynard
G.. p. Rawson is getting the materials
together and will at once begin work
on new barn to replace the one re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
One thousand and seventy-four mar
riage licenses have been issued in this
county since the marriage license law
went into effect in 1887.
The ladies of the Presbyterian society
will hold social at the residence of
Robert Morrison on Wednesday even
ing, Sept. %. All are invited.
The state board of equalization has
fixed the state valuation at 81 no, ,000,-
600. In 1886 it was S945, 450, 900 The
figures for our county are not yet at
hand.
The members of the Paw Paw Book
club are requested to bring their books
and meet at the home of Mrs. e.. +.
Chappell tomorrow Thursday at three
o'clock.
Prof. Kern and wife visited Mr.. and
Mrs. +. M. Snow one day last week
On Monday they left for Florida, where
they are under contract to teach the
ensuing year.
On the trial of the SANDER suit of
Beldin VS.. Cheeseman in Esq. Mason's
court, last week, the defendant was
fined ten dollars The case will go to
the circuit court.
The stations of Berlamont and Co
lumbia on the X. & s. II. r. X. have
been closed, as the business was not
sufficient to warrant the company in
keeping them open.
Six weddings are on the tapis and
will shortly occur, involving the happi-
ness of some of our best young people.
But we are "buttoned up" on the sub
iect further than this.
The Cass County Mutual Insurance
Co. promptly adjusted the loss of G.. p
Rawson, whose barn burned recently,
at 81 900, the full amount written. Mr.
Rawson's net loss is probably $500.
A little grand daughter of Mrs. Susan
Wilkinson, hearing it said that her
grandmother was baking coon for
dinner, rushed over there and told
them she wanted to see the cooked
niger"
Hon. j. G.. Burrows left Kalamazoo
Monday for two weeks campaign in
Ohio. He will then go to Massachu-
sets for one week, then to Iowa for
one week, then back to Ohio to the
finish.
Newspapers all over the state are
talking about big chair factory that
is to go into blast in this place about
January 1st. Let 'em come; they are
welcome; but the scheme is news in
this neck o. woods.
The Michigan NJ. f. conference voted
last Thursday at Grand Rapids, 146 to
"a, in favor of admitting women as del
gates to general conferences. The an
nouncement of the result of the vote