The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-05-11

Chit-Chat.

AiiiiOul, o. H. DttotutS tbC duOnidi1
of school board composed entirely of
ladies.
There will be State and Capital
Social at Mrs. Merrifield's residence in
Mattawan on Friday evening, May 18th.
Refreshments will be served and all are
invited.
The number of names reported from
Michigan as signing the petition for
closing the Worlds Fair on Sunday, is
almost double the entire population of
the state.
The u. of M. orator only came i'm
third best in the intercollegiate contest
of May 6, the first prize being captured
by student of the Northwestern Uni
versity at Evanston.
Of the eight "sweet girl graduates"
at Lawton last year, Miss Ophia Burr
is the first one to take school of one
scholar in the person of Herbert j.
Prentice, and now all the rest are won
dering who'll be next.
Buchanan is reported to have "Jack
the-kisser" who makes male escort in
dispensable to every lady venturing ont
after dark. One would suppose it pos
sible easily to run down such nuisance
in city no larger than Buchanan.
The practice of requiring pupils to
get certificates before being permitted
tograduate, entails an immense amount
of labor upon our county examiners, as
of the 50 applicants at the Gobleville
examination only 20 were really intend
ing to teach.
The Young Mems Republican Club at
Grand Rapids is making extensive pre-
parations for the convention of College.
Republican Clubs to be held there on
May 17-1S, at which time it is expected
there will be fully 1900 men in line.
The young men of our country are
showing great interest in the coming
campaign.
South Haven experienced quite a
flood last week, cellars being filled with
water, the ravine converted into a
swollen stream, the basket factory sub
merged to such an extent as to shut
down the works, and all the tracks
about the Michigan Central depot so
far under water as to make the yard
look like big pond
Twenty cents pays the bill for a years
subscription to a diminutive semi
monthly paper christened The Hard
Times and edited at Allegan by Ralph
w. Smith, an ambitious fourteen-yea
old journalist, in a truly workmanlike
manner. A decade hence, should this
embryo editor do as well in proportion
to his years, he may figure on the staff
of some metropolitan daily.
Affairs at the County Farm under
the management of Col. Todd, the new
Supt., are moving in good shape. The
inmates now number 81, most of them
chronic cases. Everything about the
establishment is in the best of order,
and the spring work on the farm is well
up with the season. Col. and Mrs. Todd
seem to fit into their sphere as if to the
manor born.-HarJord Day Spring.
The April number of the National
StenOgrapher has, as frontispiece, a fine
picture of Chas Ii. McGurrin of Kala-
maZoo and contains short account of
his experiences from the time when he
worked in Grand Rapids law Office at
a salary of So per month, down To his
present remunerative position at the top
of the ladder. 1t ranks him among the
most rapid stenographers in the
country.
Hillsdale College has many literary
societies and therefore many oratorical
contests, and we learn that the "Dixon"
quartette is in great demand on such
OccaSlOnS. his QuilJelUc Is SO-nalneu
in honor of Dixon Churchill, the popu-
lar young vocalist who will be remem-
bered by those Of our people who met
him here two summers ago, and the
baritone singer is Ralph +. Jennings.
one of our Paw Paw boys who is making
quite a speciality of music.
A characteristic letter from our friend
Chas f. Galligan of FL Dorado, Kansas,
announces that he is in II very depressed
state of mind and says, Every once in
while there is funny, choking sensa-
ton just under my ten-cent collar
button" The following clipping taken
from the FL Dorado Duly AdUOcate of
May 2 gives the clue To the nature of
his malady;- Married at the residence
of the brides parents, in this city on
Sunday at 8 p. m, Charles q. Rigby, of
Augusta to Miss Ellie Galligan, only
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs G.. +. CALI
gan, Rev. Il. G. Stansberry officiating.
Charles Rigby is the assistant cashier
of Brownies bank at Augusta and is one
OF the best Business young men in the
county. Miss Galligan was one of FL
Dorado's most accomplished society
ladies and was "a general favorite with
our people. The AdUOcate wishes this
couple long life of unalloyed happi-
ness"