The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-10-28
WHOLE NUMBER 1910


ed on tract of reclaimed swamp land
at Decatur, killed 33 rattlers i'm one day
recently, and his daily average right
along will run about dozen. Is this
the result of Decatur's strict enforce
ment of the local option laws
Messrs. COlum. Engle, Cole Rawson,
VIM. Nj. Thayer and Seward Hawkins
will leave tomorrow Thursday for
Northern Wisconsin on their regular
annual hunting excursion. Another
party, consisting of G.. III. Butler and
Samuel and Mulford Buskirk, leave at
the same time for Northern Michigan
They will remain in the woods during
the month of November
V. 0. Harrison, of Lawrence, men
toned in these columns last week as
having been arrested on the charge of
incest with his 16-years- daughter,
had an examination before VIM. H.
Mason, Esq, last Friday, and was COM
mitted to jail for trial in default of $500
bail. The details of the crime, as elc-
tied from the girl, are of revolving
character, and it is said the miscreant
is far safer in Jail than he would be
where the infuriated citizens of Law
renee could get hold of him.
A Waverly man came home from
Bangor the other day, filled to his chin
with some 'tonic" he found there, and
crawled into the haymow to snooze it
off. Before accomplishing this, how
ever, he rolled off and fell with that
same dull thud upon the barn floor,
distance of 10 feet, sustaing bangs and
bruises that would have discouraged
mule. After a survey of himself and
surroundings he handed down the fol-
! 10y ItnIn 4 Inv
drunken N a billed owl, that fall would
have killed me-"
Some fellow gained access to Chad
wick's store, in Decatur, last Saturday
night by forcing rear window, and
packed up pile of silks all ready for
removal, when he was frightened off
by some means, leaving the plunder
and a pair of gloves behind. To facili-
tate his exit from the town he stole
horse from the stables of the Hinckley
Stave Co, rode it as far as the farm of
b. w. Clark, on the road leading to this
village, where he exchanged it for an
other, " hich he rode to within a mile
of this place, where he turned it loose
Both horses were recovered Sunday.
There is no clue to the identity of the
thief or as to his whereabouts.
Our readers will probably remember
the arrest and conviction, some time
during the past summer, of five men
from the western part of the county,
for lifting the pOund-nets of Capt. T.. T.
Paxton, which were set in the lake of
Covert, and stealing fish therefrom.
Included in the complaint were the
names of three men whom the officers
were unable to locate, but Prosecutor
Annable "kept his ear to the ground"
and on Monday learned that one of
them, VIM. Carter, of Covert, was back
in his accustomed haunts, and an officer
was sent down to arrest him. He was
arraigned before Justice Mason yester-
day and held To the circuit court in
three hundred dollars bail.
At the county temperance conven-
ton, held at the Presbyterian church in
I this village on Wednesday of last week,
! fifty delegates, representing ten town
ships, were in attendance. The delib-
erations of the body were harmonious
and characterized by the zeal usually
manifest in kindred assemblages An
organization, to be known as the Law
and Order League of Van Buren, Coun-
ty, was perfected and the following Off.
GERS elected: A. VanAuken, president;
Rev. A. G.. Jones, secretary; j. w. Free,
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tee appointed by the convention will be
found elsewhere in this issue.
Again the TRUE NORTHERNER has
changed hands and again A. G.. Martin
is sole owner and takes full possession
after to-day's issue of the paper. Hon.
G.. l.. Eaton, the retiring member and
editor, has been connected with the
paper for two years, and, although it is
his first experience in newspaper work,
his efforts have been crowned with sue
cess and he has shown himself an able
political writer Although the teach
ings of the paper always have been, are,
and we presume ever will be, mislead-
ing, politically, it is fine property, and
much of its success can be attributed to
the able management of its present
owner and editor, A. G.. Martin, who
has been connected with the paper for
the past eight years.-COarier, oct. Fl.
In 1871 Mary Matchett. of Buchanan,
then sixteen years old, married George
Swearinger, and daughter was born
to them. They were divorced shortly
afterwards and she marriad Mr.. Sher-
wood, who soon died. Soon after his
death she married George Thompson,
who was sent to jackson for one year
for adultery with her daughter by
Swearinger. While thompson was in
prison she secured u divorce. Immed-
ately upon his release she again mar
ried him, and on Tuesday of last week
she was granted second divorce from
him. On Thursday last she welded
George Swearinger, her first husband,
who had recently returned from Colo
RADIO with a small fortune. The much
married woman, now but 80 years of
age, has grand-child four years old.
Lottie Hanse, thirteen-year-old girl
who had been living in the home of
Geo. +. Butler, of this place, for some
months, came mp missing on Tuesday
of last week, and her clothing, even to
the most intimate garment, was found
on the bank of the race. But this fact
didn't mislead any one into the belief
that she had shielded. for cOincident