The true northerner., 1892-07-20

picnic at Lake Park on Wednesday OF
next week. All members of the congre.
CATION are invited.
The regular annual picnic of the
South neighborhood" will occur on
Thursday of next week at Lake Park.
These are always very pleasant affairs.
Memo Graft has been visiting here
for several days past He is according
to his statement) building several hun
dred large blocks in Chicago. His
brother Harry was also here.
The Woman's Missionary society of
the Free Baptist church will meet on
Saturday of this week at the home of
Mrs. James Nelson to sew for Mrs.
Minerva Wilson. Picnic dinner.
Henry Sherman has repaired and
fixed up the Criterion spring property
and will bottle and ship the water to
Chicago; also, deliver to all who wish it
here in town. Terms made known on
application.
Miss Gertrude Snow will give lessons
during the summer at the residence of
Prof. +. A. Wilson. Those wishing to
study with her may call there Tuesday,
July 26, when arrangements for hours
can be made.
Bob Buchanan had his examination
before Justice Mason on the 18th and
that of Parker and Butts was concluded
on the same day-all three being held
to the circuit court for trial. These are
three of the four Covert robbers.
The Peoples party will hold their
congressional convention at Lawton on
the 10Th of August. 1t is thought that
by that time the fusion scheme now
Matching will have become sufficiently
feathered out to stand exposure to the
air.
The wife of W. Fl. johnson, the genial
gentleman who is well known to our
people as agent of Golfers publications,
died at her home in Chicago on Monday
morning of consumption, from which
dread disease she had long been a suf-
ferer.
Charles w. Snodgrass, mention of
whose critical illness at Bloomingdale
was made in these columns last week,
died on the evening of the 18th inst
The remains were buried at Prospect
Hill on Thursday. Deceased was about
30 years Old.
John johnson, an old resident of
fer's lake, last Friday took two table
twelve hours Of untold agony De-
ceased was sixty-five years old and
leaves family.
The Grand Rapids Democrat of the
18th inst. gave another exhibition of
the enterprise for which it has become
noted by issuing a 24-page edition.,
every page "filled to the chases" with
matter of general and local interest.
Politics aside, the Democrat is a hum
mer.
The lecture of Prof. Cheever before
the Normal school and large audience
of citizens on Wednesday evening of
last week was intensely interesting.
The only criticism we heard upon it
was that it was too short. 1t is hoped
he will favor us again before the close
of the Institute.
w. w. Hodge of Geneva announces
himself as candidate for sheriff of this
county Mr.. Hodge Is well qualified to
fill the office, having served ten years
as deputy and under-sheriff and, in case
of his nomination, THE NoRTHERNER
will cheerfully and to the best of its
ability support him.
Another spelling school at the Normal
this evening, and it is hoped that those
who were never known to misspell a
word will eschew Worcester, Choctaw,
and all kindred schools of photography,
and cOnfine themselves to plain, every
day Webster. That standard is good
enough for common folks
Since our last report the following
additional students have been enrolled
at the Summer Normal Bertha Frisbie,
Carrie Watson, Maggie Reynolds, Lena
Lyle, Mary Clark, Mrs. Marcia Beattie,
Lulu Davenport, Cora Hinckley, &. IL.
Broughton and Herbert More. Total
attendance; ladies 113; gentlemen II.
The only child of Prof. and Mrs. A.
ID. Prentice of South Haven, sweet
little girl of five years, died on Mon
day morning. The faculty and students
of the Summer Normal now in session
here, in proof of their esteem and SYM
pathy, ordered some rare floral pieces
sent from Kalamazoo to the afflicted
family.
Ihe verdict OF the cOronerS jury in
the case of Mrs. Carrie Hammond
Paige, whose mysterious death at Ban
gor was mentioned in this journal last
week, was to the effect that "she came
to her death from the effects of slow
poison administered by herself or by
some other person or persons to the
jury unknown"
HI. w. McCabe, while at work on his
his new house last Friday, met with
quite painful accident. By the tip
ping of board on which he was stand
ing he was thrown between the joists,
the force of the fall being sufficient to
take the cuticle off the outside of his leg
from knee to hip. Henry is now in dry
dock for repairs.
Mrs. Eliza Van Hise, widow of the
late VIM. D. Van Hise, died at her home
in Decatur on the 18th inst. Deceased
with her husband were among the early
pioneers of Southwestern Michigan and
together they celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary two years ago
last spring. Both were widely known
and universally esteemed.
Of the swarms of bootleg and back
allev whisky dealers that infest our