The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-06-08
WHOLE NUMBER 1912

| The great bicycle relay race from
Grand Rapids to Detroit made in 16
hours and 13 minutes, attracted the no.
| tice of the entire athletic world, and to-
gether with the relay race from New
York to Chicago, is calling attention to
the fact that this country is several
hundred years behind other countries
in the matter of good roads.
Rev. Mrs. Barton leaves next week for
visit to Lima, N. Y, among friends
whom she has not seen for thirty years.
Her father was pastor of a church there
for seven years. and Mrs. Barton has
been invited to speak to her old friends
from this pulpit. We can well realize
that her visit will be filled with memo
ries of mingled pleasure and pain.
The meeting last Thursday of the
East and West Farmers Club at the
pleasant home of Fred and Grace Wood
man fulfilled all the good times antici-
pated, and was gala day in spite of the
mornings deluge. A fine program was
carried out, the musical part of which
received a welcome addition from
Messrs. Cummings and Salt, who were
present as guests.
While Rev. g. p. Linderman was
preaching funeral sermon last Tues
day at Grand Ledge, Mich, the church
was struck by cyclone, smashing in
windows, breaking plaster on the wall,
and creating a panic in the audience
which promised for time 20 be very
serious, but resulted only in the faint
ing of many and genuine scare of
nearly all who were present.
Harvey Hill, six-year-old son of
Jerome Hill, living just north of L. j.
Chaffee's, on Monday evening accom-
panied his father to the pasture for the
evening milking and, being barefooted,
was bitten by rattlesnake. His limb
at once began swelling and ammonia
was Immediately applied and hasty
trip made to town for liquor At last re-
port, the boy was doing well.
Last weeks issue of the Cassopolis
Democrat gave unmistakable evidence
that it approves of the NORTHERNER'S
literary style by appropriating our ac-
count of the Hathaway-W hitman we'd
ding with only a change in the names
of the high contracting parties and the
omission of such particulars as did not
fit the nuptials of Miss Addie Graham
and Ellsworth Phillips of Marcellus.
Unusually heavy losses have COM
PEELED the Michigan Mutual Benefit AS
sociation to apply to the commissioner
of insurance at Lansing for the APP
pointment of receiver, that its busi-
ness may be closed up, and arrange
ments have been made with the Cove
nant Mutual of Galesburg, ILL.,. where
by the members of the NJ M. b. A will
be re-insured without expense to them
Owing to the fact that the upholster-
ing of the seats is not yet completed
there will be no services at the Free
Baptist church next Sunday, and as
the Quarterly meeting occurs at Wa
verly on the next Sabbath, the Chill
dren's Day services have been post
poned until the last Sunday in June.
This weeks prayer meeting and the
A. G.. f. meeting will be held at Mrs.
Barton's residence at the usual hour.
The Fancy Goods Graphic of New
York City some time ago offered a
prize of $50 for the best essay on "How
to Conduct Fancy Goods Store" and
adopted the novel method of awarding
it to the competitor who gained the
largest number of votes from his econ
stituents." Jay Cummings, our Paw Paw
Fancy Goods man, has the good luck to
be the winner against twenty-four
competing essayists, and on Monday
received the announcement of his good
fortune.
Mr.. Jacob Hungerford died at his
home toan in p..,L., Wayerly Ma May 80,
funeral services were conducted
by Elder Brooks of Paw Paw,
and were held at the house Mr..
Hungerford was born August %, 1861,
in Oneida Co. n. Y, and came to Wayne,
Cass Co, Mich, in 1887, where he
resided until 1869 when he moved TO
Waverly. He leaves wife and five
children, four sons and daughter, to
mourn his loss.
The regular meeting of the Farmers
Association was held at Jason Wood
mans on June 2, with large attend
ance and very merry time. One
episode of the day was the sending of
the following message to the other
Club in session at Fred WoOdman's;--
The Executive committee of Antwerp
and Paw Paw Farmers Association to
East and West Farmers Club-The
parent to its first born Greeting
"Let others come and others 90, but
ve 90 on forever" From all reports,
we think these Farmers Clubs have
more than their share of good times.
Miss Grace Maynard, eldest daughter
of Dr. Henry G. Maynard of Hartford,
suicided in Chicago on last Sunday
night She was living with her sister,
Mrs. Belle Coleman, they having been
engaged together in the millinery bus
mess, and the latter returned from the
theatre to find Grace lying in bed,
drenched in blood that had weled from
a bullet hole in her right temple. A
disappointment in love some two years
ago and another more recently, is
thought to be the cause of the rash act.
Miss Grace was an attractive and ac-
complished young lady, and her sudden
death is a great blow TO her friends.
The following tribute to one whose
work is seldom truly appreciated is
from the New York Recorder: Lift
your hat reverently when you pass the
teacher of the primary school. She is