The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-12-21
Local Department.
A merry Christmas to all.

A merry Christmas to all.
Opera minstrels-to-ni night.
School closes Friday for the holidays.
r.. l.. Warren of Detroit was in town
yesterday.
The matter of electric lights is being
talked up.
Dan. Syke of Mancelona is home for
the holiday season.
The NORTHERNER and Weekly Inter
Ocean for So 20 per year.
Our advertising merchants report
brisk trade in holiday goods.
H. A. Cole has sold his farm north of
the village to John II. Minnich.
We continue to pay the highest mar
ket price for wood, green or dry.
Almanac editors say that to-day dec.
21) is the shortest day in the year.
Mr.. and Mrs Will Nelson rejoice at
the birth of daughter on the 18th inst.
The boys are having barrels of fun
skating on the ponds near the village.
The famous Guy Brothers minstrel
troupe at Longwel's opera house to-
night
The Michigan association of ex-pris-
oners of war meets at Lansing Dec. 9th
and 2Sth.
Mrs. f. M. and Miss Lena Snow will
spend the holidays with friends in
Detroit.
Ii. +. Squier, county clerk k-elect, will
occupy the residence recently. vacated
by Geo. w. Myers.
George b. Horton of Fruit Ridge,
Lenawee county, is the newly elected
master of the state grange.
Mrs. Henry Hall of Lawrence last
week visited Mrs. Alice Fritchard and
Mrs. Porter Dean in this place.
Merritt Conner is home from Ann
Arbor in rather poor health. He eX-
poets to return after the holidays.
The colored people of this place will
have dancing party on the goth inst.
at Longwell's opera house. Music by
Phillips Bros. orchestra of Kalamazoo.
Geo. w. Longwell has sold his Ham
bletonian stallion George l.. to Mr.. +. e.
Annis, of Leslie, Mich. 1t is understood
that the horse was purchased for Snow
Brothers of Boston.
The "Coterie" for Dec 2Sth has been
postponed until Jan. 4th, when it will
be held at Mrs. j. G.. Warmers and the
Henry VIII. program taken up. The
usual holiday engagements necessitate
the change.
John Gaunt, the veteran typograph-
ical tourist, arrived here last Friday
afternoon little ahead of schedule time,
having Caught ride" part of the way
| from Allegan. He is south bound and
pulled out Saturday morning.
Ocobock Brothers will during the
holidays make one of the finest displays
of dressed meats and poultry ever
shown in Paw Paw, and they invite
their customers, friends, and everybody
else, to step in and look them over.
A representation of ''The Old Oaken
Bucket" with appropriate exercises,
will be given at the Disciple church on
Christmas eve. In addition to the en-
tertainment, there will be two Christ
mas trees. Come out and enjoy an
evening with Santa"
The Guy Brothers minstrel and vari-
ETY. aggregation will give one of their
delightful entertainments at Longwell's
opera house tonight. They come to
us with the most fattering comlhenda-
tions from the press everywhere. Seats
can be secured this morning at Long
well Bros.
During the session of the state grange
at Lansing, last week, Hon. j. j. Wood
man, superintendent of the states agri-
cultural exhibit at the w orlds Fair, re-
quested the passage of resolution ask
ing the incoming legislature for an
additional appropriation for this exhibit,
as the 81, 900 at the committees disposal
is wholly inadequate.
Paw Paw is in thick darkness. The
electric lights are gone, and even our
old-time lamps are out. What are our
village fathers going to do about itg
We cannot afford to let this state of af-
fairs continue. We must let our light
so shine before men that they may at
least see the holes i'm our sidewalks and
be warned of them. Let there be light
Ii. F. Bowen, an old and esteemed
resident of this county, died at his
home near Gliddenburg at an early
hour last Friday morning after an i'll
ness of three months, aged seventy
three years. Mrs. Barton conducted
the funeral services Sunday forenoon al
the Gliddenburg school house and the
remains were buried in the Harwick
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