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

| VI. w. IyIcr W 20. are receiving al
immense invoice of hardware, stoves
and other goods in their several lines
preparatory to the fall trade.
At the last meeting of the w. c. T. u
Miss Clara Anderson was appointed
superintendent of scientific instruction
on temperance in this locality.
The members of the Maple City
Literary are requested to meet with
Mrs. Julia Freeman tomorrow Thurs.
day. afternoon at three o'clock
Dan Spicer is spending most of his
time these days experimenting the
gathering and shipment of grapes from
his fruit farm south of Lawton.
Lawton and Paw Paw third mines
played ball at the fair grounds last
Thursday. The game resulted in vic
tory for Paw Paw by a close score.
Shafer, he of the ground flood gallery,
has added to his business a fine stock
of stationery, etchings, engravings, etc,
to which he calls attention in his adv.
The September term of the circuit
court for this county will open next
Monday, but the jurors are not required
to present themselves until the 2lst inst.
Mrs. Hungerford's horse, tired of
standing hitched to post last Saturday,
concluded To lay down and take a
snooze. A broken pair of shafts was
the result.
Married, on the 2d inst, by Rev w
j. Hathaway, Ed. Reynolds and Mabel
Mitchell both of South Haven. Same
date, by the same, John Cook and Fan
ME Howard, both of Lawrence.
Little Harry Pepper climed on top
of the fence at the fair grounds last
Thursday the better to view the races
He slipped and fell, and one of his legs
was terrible gashed by rusty nail.
We will cheerfully publish the name
of any business firm in this place hand
ling high test oil, to the end that the
Michigan squawbuck stuff may be as
speedily as possible driven from our
market.
Mrs. Chandler Richards and daugh-
ter Rena, of Kalamazoo, are wishing in
this place. They will soon leave for
Springfield, Mo-, where Miss Rena has
situation as teacher in the Drury
college.
Mrs j. d. Hamilton has decided to
add a department of dress making to
her millinery establishment, and Mrs.
Effie johnson will conduct the same.
Miss Edith McRobberts is again in the
millinery department.
In Justice Masons court, on Wednes-
day last, Henry NJ Hall was arraigned
for carrying concealed weapons. He
waived examination and gave bail in
5000 for his appearance at the next
term of the circuit court.
Fred Bilsborrow has been plodding
along all these years, doing a magniti-
cent business, and employing only
English prose to describe his wares.
Now that he scars off into poetry, it's
hard to tell what he will do.
David Cheeseman, Of Lawrence, is
charged with defaming the character of
George Beldin, of the same place, by
circulating the report that he (Beldin)
keeps house of ill repute. The matter
will be investigated in court.
On Wednesday evening of last week
Frank fuckers Company presented,
for the first time to Paw Paw audience,
"The Noble Outcast' at Longwells
opera house. The attendance was good
and the play gave excellent satisfaction.
For the accommodation of those de-
string season tickets for the ladies' lee
ture course, it has been decided to con-
tinue the sale at the Grange Visitor
Office for short time longer, as that
office has been unavodably closed a
portion of the past week.
Mr.. T. F. Crane and his daughter,
Mrs. j b. Smith, returned home last
81 hot
i'm excellent health and spirits. We had
the pleasure of sampling some delicious
pears, prunes and nectarines brought
by them from Noah Cranes orchard at
East Portland.
The September crop report estimates
this years crop of wheat in Michigan
in excess of 1000, 900 bushels. The oats
yield is 30 AS and 30.79 bushels per acre
in the central and southern sections re-
spectively. Barley, .26 bushels; pota
toes, 50; winter apples 30, and late
peaches 81 per cent OF an average crop.
Mr.. Lincoln H. Titus, who is an ex-
pert in photography, has been per-
suaded to form class in this place for
the purpose of giving instruction in
that useful art, and will do so if sufli-
cient number will interest themselves
in the matter. Those desirous of taking
lessons are invited to meet Mr.. Titus at
his law office tomorrow Thursday
evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Who says marriage is failure?-Ban
gor Reflector. The editor had been four
days married when he sprung that start
ling conundrum. on the public. Let him
Jump out of bed nine or ten times a
night and waltz around the room for an
indefinite period, carrying in his arms
n diminutive chunk of humanity which
is whooping 'er up in about thirteen
languages, and then answer his own
question.
At the annual school meeting, held
on Monday evening, G. w. Longwell
was elected as his own successor on the
school board and the usual account
given of the yearly disbursements. Al
though the director was at pains to ex-
plain several small items, such as
twenty-five cents for drayage, etc, no
mention was made of the fifty dollars
1o ollouod him, hnt u,n ora in form