The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-11-09

amount to anything.
A new bank was recently organized
at South Haven, to be known as The
Citizens State Bank of South Haven.
The capital stock is $4,000.
The circuit court for this county con-
venes for the regular November session
on Monday the 14th inst. The jurors
will not report for duty until the 2lst.
George Buffers new residence is now
in the hands of the plasterers and will
soon be ready for occupancy. 1t will be
an ornament to that part OF the village.
Ed Morgan of this office has lost his
Shepherd dog Don. Color black; white
on breast and front feet; long nose. A
good reward will be paid for his return.
Commr. Hinckley has received from
Supt. of Public Instruction Fitch the
appointment as one of the visitors of
Spring Arbor seminary for the year
1928.
Supervisors Spaulding of Hartford
Tolles of Geneva, Cox of Arlington and
Phillips of Hamilton, were visitors at
this Office on Friday last. Come again,
gentlemen.
Will Barton, like the patriotic citizen
he is, betook himself with his crippled
arm to Dowagiac Tuesday morning for
the purpose of depositing straight Re-
publican bollOt.
The concert to be given by the Shipp
Brothers at the Disciple church next
Monday night is sure to prove treat.
Single tickets can be procured at the
door for 45 cents.
Our cadet friend, Elmer w. Clark, is
captain of this years West Point foot
ball eleven. Hdrper'S Weekly has an
illustrated article on the game and
gives good picture of Elmer.
Mrs. +. A. Blackman of Hillsdale,
accompanied by her son Hiram, arrived
here last Saturday. Mrs. b. will visit
friends at this place and Decatur for
several weeks. Hiram returned home
Monday morning
A rifle, bearing the name of j. II.
Baker, and supposed to have been lost
by him nearly fifty years ago, was
found in the river at Watervliet short
time since by workmen while removing
the foundation timbers of an old saw
mill.
Mr.. M. b. Wilson was more seriously
injured by the overturning of his
carriage one day last week than at first
thought. 1t is now found that some of
his ribs were fractured and he received
other internal injuries, He is doing
well, however.
Some OF the firemen, when they
found that their dance had put some
thing over hundred dollars INTO the
treasury of the department, wanted the
dollar back which they had paid for
their ticket What on earth did they
get up benefit dance for?
On Thursday, Nov. II, at the farm of
the late John Reynolds, three miles
south of this place, an auction sale will
be held of horses, colts, cows, corn,
corn fodder and farming implements.
Ii. w. McCabe will conduct the sale,
which will begin at p. m.
The avocation of the Hello girl" is
doomed. A LaPorte, Ind =, man has in
vented an appliance which entirely
does away with the switch board at
central telephone stations. It's opera
tions are automatic and it is claimed to
be an entire success. "By-by," little
girl.
The semi-annual apportionment of
primary school money is now being
made by Superintendent of Public In
struction Fitch, and will be completed
this week. The apportionment will be
"a cents per capita for all children of
school age, this being seven cents
greater than ever before.
The officers of the Ladies' Lecture
Association ask as a favor that persons
on entering the church shall not occupy
the chair at the end of any seat until
that seat is filled, as position in the
latter is equally as good as the chair,
and people are greatly inconvenienced
by being compelled to crowd by.
w. l.. Davis of Worcester, Mass, who
came out here for few days sport
with quail and partridge, had but one
day in which he could do anything, and
it rained most of that day. He succeed
ed, however, in bagging sixty birds.
He left for home Saturday. His father,
j. Walter Davis, followed on Monday.
The farmers in the neighborhood
south of town have organized them
selves into a club to be known as The
Prospect Valley Farmers Club. The
organization was perfected on Thurs
day of last week at a meeting held at
the home of +. N Douglas, officers were
elected, and we presume they will
shortly be heard from through the
public print.
Fast Friday evening, as Lew Shower
man was busy in the vicinity of the
stairway leading to the cellar of the
Wolverine Pharmacy, he was dunn
founded to see large muskrat sedately
and leisurly emerge from the cellar-way
and start out as though to make a
survey of the premises. Lew dispatched
the visitor with broom handle, but the
question still remains: How did his
ratship get into the cellar.
Mrs. Stone of Cleveland, Ohio, who
had been stumping this section of the
state for the Prohibition party, made a
temperance address at the Disciple
church Sunday evening, during when
she took occasion to reiterate the same
old chestnut used by her during the
late local option canvass, VIZ; Ihat
there was plot on foot in this county
to assassinate j. p. Warner oil Decatur
and anotbar man ttnOw present IN tnlS