The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-06-10
That elegant soda water fountain at
the Wolverine pharmacy continues to
attract throngs of visitors.

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be report from the state convention
A full attendance is desired.
Paw Paw lodge No. 1S, I.O.O.F., is
receiving frequent accessions to its
membership of late and seems to be
enjoying revival of interest.
County Surveyor Lawton was in town
last week and located the exact posi-
ton of the new iron bridge to be thrown
across the river at the foot of Main
street.
A union meeting of Sunday School
teachers will be held at the home of
Mrs. Darling on Friday evening. Let
all interested, whether teachers or not,
be present.
Mrs. A. G.. Martin left Tuesday for n
four weeks visit with her sister, Mrs.
II. S. Williams, at Aberdeen, South
Dakota. A. G.. accompanied her as far
as Chicago.
Sebastian West, an old resident of
Hartford, was killed by a falling tree
last Wednesday, while engaged in cut
ting timber about two miles from Hart
ford village.
A Cheboygan man in court the other
first name, although they had been
married 13 years. He always called her
"old woman"
j. IL. Waters q Co. have in stock a
full line of haying and harvesting tools;
also the finest lot of oil and gasoline
stoves ever brought to Paw Paw. Call
and examine them.
The regular annual meeting of the
Christian church for this district will
be held at this place, commencing
Thursday, the 10th inst, and continu-
ing until Sunday evening.
1t now looks as though the Benton
Harbor-St. Joseph consolidation
scheme was dead, as bill passed the
House last Thursday, granting a city
charter to Benton Harbor.
Will Snow was at Dowagiac yester-
day setting up furnaces sold to parties
there, and tomorrow he will go to
Marcellus on the same business. These
furnaces are going like hot cakes.
John Conrad, of Decatur, was COM
mitted to jail here last Wednesday
from Justice Moulton's court on SEN
tence of sixty days, for maliciously SLAM
dering his halfsister, Mary Conrad.
Judge Buck, who is an active work
ing member of the Kalamazoo Epworth
League, will address the League of this
place at the Nj. f. church next Monday
evening All are cordially invited to
attend.
The later variety of Strawberries will
be plentiful in this vicinity in few
days Henry Eye showed us a sample
of seedlings which he is growing, some
of which measured four inches in cir
cumference.
Mr. III. III. Jones was quite severely
kicked by a horse in front of Spicer's
store Monday, while endeavoring to
pull a couple of fighting dogs from un
der the team. Next time he will let
them fight it out.
Capt and Mrs. &. l. Nash and their
daughter Lena, from Marcellus, were in
town last Friday for the purpose of con-
sulting physician in regard to the
factory condition.
James Ellis, an old and esteemed res
ident of the Decatur valley, has sold
his farm and is going back to England
on a visit, intending to sail in few
days. He has been in this country
about forty years.
Prof. Cornish was the recipient of
some very tlattering resolutions passed
at the recent meeting of the Teachers
association at South Haven. We shall
take occasion to speak more fully of
this matter later on.
Luke Cooney, who won 50, 900 from
Nehemiah Chase, Kalamazoo capital
ist, for malicious prosecution, has be-
gun second suit for like amount,
claiming Mr.. Chase owes it to him as
Of the M. b. Shaw estate.
The Industrial AdUocate, the official
organ Of the Farmers Alliance of
Butler county, Kansas, finds its way TO
our table. The paper is ably edited
and its advertising columns bear evil
dence of its popularity among business
men.
The Richardson bill providing for a
rate of 20 cents on the first ten words
of a telegraph message and one cent
per word for all in excess of ten from
point to point within the state, has
been agreed to in the house committee
of the whole.
A pair of j. M. Longwell's ponies got
away from their driver near the west
bridge Sunday afternoon and made
very lively time from there to the
Dyckman House barn, where they
fetched up in the office. A broken axle
was the sum of the damage.
1t wasn't cyclone, exactly, that
struck Paw Paw last Saturday night,
but it was one of the most disgraceful
drunks that has been paraded on our
streets in long time. A list of the
names of the participants would aston
ish some mothers and wives.
The exercises of Children's Day held
at Grange hall on last Friday evening
were participated in by so large a num-
Der of bright-eyed youngsters as 10
create quite demand for a juvenile
grange in this vicinity, and there is
talk of having one established here.
William Murdick, he of the many To-
calities, was before Justice Mason
again last Thursday morning on the
same old charge--drunkenness. His
honor decided il was about time for