The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-04-29
WHOLE NUMBER 1884

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as the penalty for committing larceny
from dwelling house, and yesterday
he took Victor Studley, the Hartford
forger, to the same institution, to serve
out two years and nine months.
Department Commander G.. l.. Eaton
got away from his legislative duties at
Lansing long enough To spend from
Saturday afternoon to Monday morning
at department headquarters. Mrs. +.
is visiting in Detroit. She will not re-
turn here until the adjournment of the
legislature-probably about June 1st.
Come to think the matter over in
view of the destruction of Benz. Holt's
residence yesterday, what protection
in the way of water have the citizens
of the southern part of the villageg
There is not cistern i'm town south of
Main street, and it occurs to us that as
the residents of that part of the village
are taxed for the support of the de-
partment, they should have some pro-
lection for their property.
Prof. j w. Roberts, superintendent
of our public schools, has accepted the
unanimous offer of the Tacoma board
of education at $4,000 per year and the
contracts are already executed and eX-
changed. The professor and his fam-
ly will leave for their new home about
August /. He has no teaching to do.
While we regret, with all other patrons
of the school, that Mr. Roberts felt it
his duty to leave us, we congratulate
the school board of Tacoma in securing
the services of one of our best educators
We are indebted to Mrs. Ella b.
Haynes, of Decatur, for full report of
the sixth annual convention of the Van
Ruren County w. G.. II. U., which was
held at Decatur on Tuesday and
Wednesday of last week, but our space
will not permit its publication in full.
The attendance was good, and the re-
ports from local unions showed the or
ganization to be in a tlourishing con-
ditiOn. The officers elected were as
follows; Mrs. +. Neff, Paw Paw, pres-
dent; Mrs. +. H. Brown, Paw Paw,
cor. sec'y; Mrs. Ella B. Haynes, Deca-
tur, recd'g sec'y; Mrs. Helen M.
Haynes, Decatur, treas. Superintend-
ents were chosen as follows: Temper
ance work, Mrs. H. j. Olds, Hartford;
Health and Heredity, Mrs. Anna Car
Isle, of Mattawan; Evangelistic work
Mrs. Geo. Hunt, Paw Paw; Juvenile
work, Mrs. Peacock, Hartford; Scien-
titc instruction, Mrs. Travis, Hartford
That the ladies of this vicinity APP
preciate good thing is well attested
by the large attendance at the second
grand millinery opening of the season
Mrs. HamiltOn's spacious store was
none too large on this occasion, and
presented charming picture with its
graceful draperies and floral pyramids
on every side, forming fitting back
ground for the extensive variety of hats
that, to quote one enthusiastic lady,
were beautiful rs Il poets dream
One hundred trimmed hats seems a
large display for IA town of this size,
but Mrs. Hamilton assures us that she
anticipates no trouble in disposing of
them, and the fact that, during the
rush, she needed the help of Mrs j l.
Breck and Mrs. Rhoda Hopkins in adj
dition TO her two regular assistants,
would go to prove the same. The
opening was concluded on Saturday
evening by the serving of light re-
freshments To some of her young
friends and assistants, and Paw Paw
has cause for cOngratulation that, in
the millinery line, she can vie with
much larger towns.
The concluding entertainment of the
Ladies' Lecture Course occurred on the
evening of April 81, as advertised.
Owing to the skillful labor of Mrs.
Emma Paige and Mrs, Cynthia Bassett,
the stage with its graceful draperies
presented the charming appearance
that has come to be looked for as IL
matter of course. The audience was
smilingly eXpectant over the anticipat-
ed treat which has also come to seem
a matter of course, and which the high
recommendation given Miss Olive
Thompson by the Star Bureau, of n
Y, fully entitled every one to expect
But this world is full of disappointment,
and it was funny to see the look of
stold endurance that gradually settled
over the audience, while the disgust of
the members of the Association was
very plainly written on their faces
Any Bureau that will send out third
rate talent with first-class credentials is
certainly not to be relied upon, and the
ladies declare that as this was their
first deal with the Star Agency so it
will doubtless be their last, while all
assert their confidence in the Redpath
Bureau, from which the remainder of
the course was chosen.
On Saturday afternoon the ladies
convened at the opera house for the
final business pertaining To this first
season of the Ladies' Lecture Course.
AS the treasurer's report of receipts
and expenditures showed a balance on
hand of 500 80, the members nodded
smilingly at one another, over the dis
comfiture of those lugubrious prophets
who foretold financial failure when the
project was first undertaken. The pres
ident, secretary and treasurer having
expressed the desire to have the official
burdens shifted, the balloting for new
officers resulted as follows President,
Mrs. A. Nj. Gould; 1st vice-pres., Mrs.
Anna Wildey; 2d vice pres, Mrs. Del
Hall; sec'y, Miss Jennie Whtmer;
treas, Miss Florence Butler. 1t was
voted that the secretary be allowed to
choose her own assistant, and the Off
GERS being all selected, the price of next
years tickets came up for discussion.
1t was finally decided that course of
seven foreign entertainments should be
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