The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-05-04
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The electrical storm of last Wednes-
day evening played some pranks in
and about South Haven, the steeple of
the Nj. +. church being completely
wrecked The lightning was unusually
severe for an April storm.
Last Wednesday evening Mr.. and
Mrs. Il. &. Tyner were summoned by
telegram to Tyner City, Ind, to attend
the funeral of brother-in-law residing
there. They left Thursday morning
and returned Saturday night.
The big drain laid out last week by
County Drain Commr Tuttle and Coun-
ty Surveyor Lawton, is expected to re-
claim large slice of the big swamp
that encroaches on the eastern part of
Arlington and western edge of Waverly.
Maggie Bryar was home Sunday for
a visit with her brother John before his
return to the West Accompanied by
his wife and baby, John started Tues
day for EmpOria, Kansas, where he in
tends making headquarters for time.
Our sister villages of Lawton and
Hartford figured conspicuously through
Ou, the state press last week the former
through its shooting affray, the latter
through tisticuff between Messrs.
Heald and Reynolds, two of its promin-
ent citizens.
The doctrines of the Farmers Alli-
ance will be given to the breeze in this
section with an unstinted hand soon
in the issue of 1000 copies of trial
paper edited by Sullivan Cook of Hart
ford, and published by l. w. Van Fossen
of this place.
Walter Freer, son of o. j. Freer of
Waverly, arrived from Grand Rapids
Saturday evening bringing his deceased
wife here for burial. The funeral Oc-
Cured at the Methodist church on Sun
day morning and the remains were in
TERED in the Glendale cemetery.
Will Downing arrived this week from
San Antonio, Texas, bringing with him
the two little sons of the late Frank
Millington and information that Mrs.
Millington was not at present well
enough to undertake the journey, but
Another case of diphtheria at our
State Agricultural College settles the
question that it lacks the sanitary az
rangements and appliances necessary
to such an institution, and at last a
committee has been appointed by the
State Board to make thorough in
spection of the sewerage system and
water supply.
The 18th annual convention of the
Michigan State Firemen's Association
will be held in Hillsdale on May 18th.
Each department belonging to the AS
sociation is entitled to three delegates
with the Chief as a delegate at large
All such departments are requested to
elect delegates at once and notify ;. w.
Baxter, president, Grand Rapids, Mich.
A good deal Or growing was done by
concert-goers on last Wednesday even
ing as they groped their way home
through the darkness, but we are in
formed that the eclipse of the electric
lights was due to the breaking of wire
by the wind, thus causing an open cir
cult which could not safely be repaired
during the continuance of the thunder
storm.
The people are beginning to respond
to the call of the l.. l.. A. by sending in
names, but every one should remember
that, if hundred people should each
think it made no difference if their
name were not sent in, the ladies would
be lacking just a hundred tickets in
consequence. Little drops of water,
little grains of sand," &C., is very APP
plicabe in this case.
General satisfaction is expressed by
the many interested spectators of the
trial over the verdict awarding $4,000
to Mrs. Elizabeth Van Auken for inju-
ries inflicted by carelessly managed
work train on the G.. IL w. Nj. Il. K. last
September. Railroads should be taught
most unmistakably that they cannot
run trains across the common highway
without headlight or whistle.
Despite the rainy weather, large
crowd collected at the Methodist church
on Sunday evening to listen to the en-
thusiastic utterances of Mrs. Mary La
throp, who has the benefit of fifteen
years active experience in the temper
ance work, and kept her audience
thoroughly Interested for an hour and
half. The temp workers great
ly regret that so few men were present
to hear Mrs. Lathrop's lecture.
The citizens of Paw Paw are to be
commended for the alacrity with which
they clean up their premises upon the
advent of Spring, thus making our cosy
little village not only healthy, but also
attractive. We note that several are
engaged in terracing up the grass plat
outside the walks that surround their
dwellings. Now let our village Board
fall into line with a coat of paint on
that unsightly windmill in the east end
of town.
The concert ut Presbyterian church
was all it was advertised to be and met
with general approval. Miss Snow, who
had il in charge, plainly showed that
she had lost none of her facility in the
execution of difficult music, and little
Miss Livingstone left very favorable
impression on this, her first appearance
i'm Paw Paw. Not the least pleasant
memento of the occasion is the S25
added to the ladies' Missionary fund.
Rev. DIR. Theodore Nelson, president
of Kalamazoo college, died at Alma
Sanitarium last Saturday evening, aged
81 years. For many years school