The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-03-09
From Far and Near.

FROM ana near.
CORNELIUS DoHERTY, the last inde-
terminate sentence prisoner at jackson,
has been discharged.
Mrs. CHRIS HEINzMAN of Bay City
was terribly burned, a pan of boiling
ointment which she was preparing being
overturned. .
BARABA GUNDERMAN, OF South Bend,
Indiana, is~visiting a large number OF
Michigan towns looking for 13-year-
old sister.
COUPLE Of trappers at Hubbell
Junction, Mackinac County, are said to
have killed seventy deer this winter, be-
sides several hundred otter, marten, and
beaver.
l.. HILLIcKER was seriously wounded
at Owendale by bolt which was hurled
from a saw and hit him in the face, tear
ing away his cheek bone and breaking
his jaw and collar bone.
CADILLAC kids, 900 eds, too, must be
home before p. m. They don't use
warning bell but, blow big, ugly,
screechy steam whistle that has none Of
the poetry of the old curfew bell.
FITzGERALB BROS, of the Dry Dock
Iron Works at Port Huron, have
purchased 200 feet frontage on st. Clair
River and will begin to erect large
building as soon as the weather is-favor-
able.
DIR. E. S. KIMBALL, prison physician,
reports all the convicts at jackson re-
covered from the attacks Of la grippe.
There has not been death among the
800 odd who were at one time or an
other down with the disease.
II is suspected that j. d. S. Hanson,
former prosecutor. and ID. T.. Mcclure,
who have purchased and consolidated
two Hart papers, are in this action ar
ranging the preliminares for booming
Judge Fred RUSSELL of Hart, for Con-
gress.
A MOST remarkable marriage took
place In Jackson. William Ii. Plumb,
aged 81, wass married to Mrs. Amanda
Bentley, aged 81, of Grand Rapids.
There is no romance connected with the
match, as it was business matter and
brought about to perfect the heirshiDto
valuable property in Canada.
SOME of the not-so-competent In
dams Of Isabella County, although un-
able to sell their lands, have been SELL
ing their timber'in one big lump. Uncle
Sam does not sanction this, and +. w.
Worden, special Government timber
agent, is on the ground, and the pur-
chasers will be out what they have put
! in. for the not-so-competent noble red
will never pay white man back.
THE following interesting statistics
are taken from the Superintendent Of
Public Instructions tabulation of the
annual reports Of the officers of the
$500 whole and 1921 fractional school
districts in Michigan for 1891. These
| 70 oh no hn1 Of al
dren between the ages of and 20 years
to be 666, 391; between the ages of and
ii years, 2S6, 664; between 5 and 20
years that attended school during the
year, 445, 939; between the ages of and
IA years that attended, 245 ,028; number
OF nonresident pupils, 1908; number
of days school during the year by quail
fed teachers, 1,109,6 1888; number Of
volumes added TO district Libraries
during the year, 36,S32; whole
number of. volumes in district
Libraries, 1925; number of stone
school-houses, II; brick, 1,277; frame,
1854; log, 404; number Of pupils
that can be accommodated, 564 1856;
value of school property, $14, 534 ,203;
bonded Indebtedness of districts, ST. 767,-
1916; total Indebtedness, ST. 1868, 956.69;
amount due to districts, $218, 087.77;
number of qualified male teachers EN-;
ployed, 3,48S; females, 1881. Finan-
cial statement-Money on hand Sept. 1,
1890, 81 ,067 ,705.04; received from one
mill tax, 1888, 432.0S; from primary
school interest fund, 1915, $3.50; from
nonresident tuition, SCI, 1881; from
district taxes for all purposes, S3,4SS,-
1914; from loans, 1904, 494.31; from all
other sources, $3.50, 467 A; total Pc
sources for the year, $6,6S2 ,356.4O. Ex7
penditures-Ma0 teachers, $942, 951.74;
female teachers, So, 4S9, 1877 .2S; building
and repairs, $685., 350.3S; library books
and care of Libraries, Sc, 1913. SO; principal
of indebtedness, 1904, 574.77; interest on
loans, $104, la. 43; for all other pur-
poses, 81 ,030, 1853 23; total, S5,6S3, 1861.
Amount on hand at close of year, ST.
11S, 9402S.
THERE is still good sleighing up
Cadillac way.
INGHAM COUNTY people are agitating
the local option question.
GEORGE WILSON, Of Alpena, for
stealing DR.. Dunlap's valuable brood
mare and getting caught at it, will spend
five years at hard work in Jackson
Prison.
JOHN MCDERMICK, farmer living
| near Blackman StatlOn, Saginaw COun-
ty. disputed the right of way of the rail-
road company and drove along the track,
Both Of his horses were killed, but he
he will recover.
INVESTIGATION Is going on as to the
practicability of a railroad from Cadillac
to Hammonds Bay, by way of Grayling
and the Ocqueoc River route. Such
road would open one of the best lumber
districts In the State.
A SCHOOL district near Lapeer has
had but two weeks of school since
Christmas. A teacher had been engaged,
but it was found that he had a certificate
which was no good in Lapeer County,
and nobody seemed to be willing to un-
dertake the Job.
A COUPLE OF 13-year-old boys, con-
structed on the plan of the young Lam
sing desperate, began shooting at their
teachers desk, near Shelby, while at
tending spelling school. The building
was vacated by those present in short
order. The school board settled the
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