The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-09-28

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Secretary Baker Of the State Board on
Health, lately returned to Lansing from
his tour of inspection rs one of the
Quarantine Inspection Commissioners
appointed by the international Boards
of Health conference, gives the follow
| ing sound advice: "Quarantine may be
barbaric, but permitting cholera to
spread without effort at restriction is
much more harbaric. Inspection, isola-
ton, and disinfection are the essential
elements in the restriction of cholera,
whether done at the seaboard or in the
interior, whether on lines of travel or
in the homes of the people, in cities or
in country districts. Every person VINO
has regard for the public welfare should
respect such effort for the restriction of
cholera. just now the interests of
Michigan and of the Northwest seem to
demand a thorough inspection of all
immigrants before they enter this state;
the exclusion and isolation of all found
sick with cholera or diarrhea or sick
ness which may prove to be cholera,
disinfectiOn OF baggage, etc. Cholera
having certainly entered this country
at the seabOard, the methods there are
certainly defective. Throughout Mich
igan sanitary laws should be strictly
Obeyed and every place should be put
in the best possible sanitary condition.
All human excreta should be disinfected
or cremated, and all suspected water
used for drinking or culinary purposes
| should first be boiled"
The following letter shows how well
our old Prospect Lake correspondent
likes his new home, and we are glad TO
hear of his prosperity:
THoMPsONvILLE, Benzie Co.,
Mich, Sept. 18th 1892.
TRUE NORTHERNER:
Dear Old Friend
Having become thoroughly acquainted
with this country and its resources, and
finding it the place of all places for "a
person of limited purse as well as the
capitalist, thought it might interest
some laboring man to come and investi-
gate and probably find IL home where
he could get start in life.
This place is the junction of the &. &
w. Nj. and the l.. Il A. A. II. Ry's., only
about two years of age, and now num-
bers nearly 1000 souls with the follow
ing business houses: Four general
stores, one drug store, one general
fancy and notion store, two hotels, two
saloons, two saw mills, one single and
one planning mill, and splendid water
power, the big Betsy river The soil is
gravel laden, adapted to the growing of
grasses, roots and vines. Corn is a
good crop this year; potatoes are
immense; squashes, pumpkins, cucum-
bers and cabbage are larger than ever
grown in Southern Michigan. Although
it is not wheat soil, some fields thresh-
ed 80 bushels per acre. Several speci-
mems of blue or June grass have been
found measuring over four feet in
length, and timothy and clover grow
large.
The timber is maple, beech, elm,
Eastwood, ash, hemlock and cedar,
some cherry and some pine.
Land can be bought for from 80 80 to
$500 per acre. Fruit grows as we'll
here as any where in Michigan. Plums,
apples and small fruit grow as well as
any where. Our place needs some
manufacturing industries, and would
be a good location for furniture fac
, tory, as all kinds of timber can be
found here suitable for the work. We
boast a new graded school of two rooms
with about $50 pupils enrolled; "a new
Congregational church with fair
representation of all the isms and sects
known. Unlike other new places. it is
orderly and destined to be the largest
place between Grand Rapids and
Traverse City, being twensy-seven
miles from the latter. Anyone
wishing home with the opportunity
of paying for it with labor can find no
better site. The county seat will be
) here within "A couple of years, as
it is the best location i'm the county, and
the present county buildings are unfit
for stables. Both of the railways here
are doing lots of work and are still
, pushing further. There are thousands
of acres of land here for sale cheap
Another great reason why this place
will grow is that there is a prepOnder-
ance of McKinlcyism and reciprocity
, OF course we cannot forget old Van
Buren, county and the many friends
left there, but we can do better here
than there We began i'm the woods to
clear the ground and know some of the
hardships to be endured, but there is
novelty in it; and our advice to labor
ing men who wish to secure a home is
to come to BenZie county and start be
fore it is too late.
The NORTHERNER reaches us each
Friday and is a welcome friend. We
were pleased to read that 81 other vii
dey was at last chosen to fill the posi-
ton SO ably filled by Bro Eaton, and
hope that the entire Republican ticket
will be elected again this fall, and that
the banner county will roll up big
majority, and that the Boy from Men
don and Sullivan Cook of Hartford will
be sent up Salt Creek where they belong
Should you deem it the proper capeI
: give this space.
Yours respectfully,
! ELMORE s. NORTHRUP.