The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-08-24

Miss Hattie Butler, teacher in th,
public schools at Cedar Springs. is Wis
iting in this place, guest of her old
time friend Mrs. A. G.. Glidden.
The Marcellus driving club, at theil
meeting to-day and tomorrow, will
have balloon ascension and parachute
drop each day as drawing card.
Bangs Warner and II. w. McCabe
have returned from the northern part
of the state, where they have been
engaged in selling horses at auction.
Dana p. Smith will attend the con.
vention OF stationary engineers III
Atlanta, Ga, rs delegate from the
Battle Creek association of that order
Mrs. Martha j. Molloy, wife of the
station agent at Kendall, was brought
here Monday afternoon violently in.
sane. Judge Heckert admitted her to
the Kalamazoo asylum.
Mrs. Lucretia Willard Treat, superin-
tendent of the Grand Rapids training
school, will deliver a lecture on kinder
garten work at the First Baptist church
this "Wednesday evening.
VIM. Killefer, us agent of the Ohio
Farmers ms. Co., has already put in
! perfect repair the residence of Henry
! Eye, which was considerably damaged
by lightning few days since.
Harry Longwell and wife returned
last Wednesday from their northern
trip, and the next morning George left
for two weeks vacation at Mackinac,
Petosky and other northern points.
A few days since Mrs. j. l.. Tirrell
was paid $3.50 by the Covenant Mutual
Benefit Association of Galesburg, H.,
the amount of life insurance carried in
that association by her late husband.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker has
requested Postmaster Noyes to visit
each postotfice in the county-not in
the nature of an inspection, but to COM
pare notes and interchange ideas for
the good of the service.
A struggling fire got into the fence
around the Catholic cemetery on Sun
day last, destroying it and running
pretty well over the grounds, burning
the grass and destroying much of the
shrubbery and many plants.
The Woman's Missionary society of
the Free Baptist church will meet at the
home of Miss Mary Labade on Satur-
day of this week. Each lady is requested
to bring pieces of blue calico and
bleached cotton. Picnic dinner.
The Paw Paw Democratic caucus
will be held at Town Hall on Saturday,
Aug. 27th, 1892, at two o'clock p. m, for
the purpose of choosing thirteen dele
gates to the county convention to be
held at Lawton Sept. 9th at 10 a. IN.
returned from their visit to the north
ern part of the state, where they went
in hopes of benefitting Mrs. WIS health.
We are sorry to say that she found no
relief and is now in critical condition.
What mosquito uses when he bites
is made up of his attenor, his clypens,
hypopherynx, his lablum epipharynx,
his labium, his mandibles, and his max
illor. We always thought it was some
thing like that, but didn't exactly know
the name of it.
G.. +. Gilman left last Saturday with
string of Cleveland Bays, sixteen in
number, for the usual fall circuit of
fairs. They will spend two weeks at
Detroit, week each at Toledo, Colum-
bus, indianapolis and Peoria, and two
weeks at ST. Louis, Mo.
Mr.. Martin has left the fishing banks,
having succeeded in catching "A 15-pound
cod, and is now resting at Worcester,
Mass We shall look for him home
about Sept. l. From the tone of his
last letter we doubt if he is much, if
any, improved in health.
By private letter from Prof. +. A.
Wilson we learn that the Institute at
Charlotte, at which $50 teachers are
present, and which has been eminently
successful in every particular, will close
this week. Mr.. III. and family will re.
turn to Paw Paw next week.
During thunderstorm at Dowagiac
last Thursday night lightning, either by
telephone or electric light wires, en-.
tered and set on fire Lewis drug store,
damaging the stock to such an extent
that the owners may abandon it tn the
underwriters. Insured for 81, ,O00O
During the recent races at Lansing,
Bennonie, bay stallion by Joe Gavin,
took mark of 2:25 in the 40 race, add
ing another of Joe Gavin's get into the
"mystic circle" of 2:30 and better this
season. Such sires are profitable to
breed to and horsemen are swift to
"catch on"
Our Waverly neighbors who are en-
tertaining Country Week" guests from
Chicago will give their visitors an all
day picnic at Lake Park to-day. Many
of our village people will go and add
their might towards entertaining the
little ones and making their visit a
pleasant one.
A st. Louis man describes the honey
moon as that state of ec,tatic idiocy
that will cause supreme court Judge
to shin up shellbark hickory in his
bathing suit to harvest hornets nest
for his innocent tootsie wootsie." His
preference of hornets nest as a ref
uge from the innocent little tootsie
wootsie comes later
Mrs. M. V. Hungerford on Thursday
last received the sad intelligence of the
death of her grandson, Ralph Hanna
wald, of Berkley, near Denver, Col, on
the 18th inst. Deceased was but 21
years of age, promising young man,
whose untimely death will cast a gloom
over once happy home and bring. sor.
row to the hearts of a large circle OF