The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-08-17

| his rlRnU mana teafIully cfuSneu III the
sausage machine at OcObOck Bros
market yesterday.
Mrs. PennOck of Adrian, daughter OF
the late Judge COmstock, accompanies
by her two children, is visiting at the
home of John j. Paige.
N Nj. Pugsley, daughter and two
grandchildren will spend two or three
weeks at Mackinac, Petoskey and other
points in Northern Michigan.
Some thirty or more of the resorters
at Lake Park came up town Monday
evening for an ice cream ard soda
water lunch at the Wolverine.
A number of our people will attend
the meeting of the Marcelus Driving
club next Wednesday and Thursday
Some good sport is anticipated.
Mrs. H. X Wells, Mrs p. A. DeGraff
and Mrs. Joe Syke, our Canada"
neighbors, have been taking in the
numerous excursion trips of late.
If you want to know what sort of a
paper Whitelaw Reid edits, you can
have it New York 7ribune) and the
NoRTHERNER one year for $3.50.
The Lawton Ledder says: "Mrs. n d.
b. Mckinney started for Helena, Mont,
Saturday, for an extended visit with
her daughter, Mrs. Rose DePue."
Rev. c. p. Linderman, who returned
from Boston week ago, left Friday
evening for the east, again. Will be
home again in a week or ten days.
We hear it limited on the street
that the magnificent water power which
once ran the Phenix mills will soon
again be utilized in an important in
dustry.
Roman l. Jarvis of Benton Harbor
called an old-time acquaintances in this
place last week. Roman |. has large
sized congressional bee buzzing in his
bonnet
Geo. +. Butler, our bus man, is fifty
years old and never was outside of the
state of Michigan until last Monday,
when he went on an excursion to South
Bend, Ind.
The village council, at its meeting
last Thursday evening, declared the
old building on the Lane lots, Paw Paw
street, to be public nuisance and
ordered its immediate removal.
Earl Wilcox, who has been living
with his grand parents and attending
school in Paw Paw the past three years,
has gone on visit to his parents, who
reside in LaMoure, North Dakota.
S. T. Bowen and his son from Chicago
arrived in town last Thursday morning,
Mr.. Bowen going on to Traverse City
in the evening, while "Steve" remains
guest at Will Gorton's for while.
There were 101 certificates issued as
the result of the recent teachers eX-
animation in this place. first grade,
IL second, and 80 third grade. The list
is published elsewhere in this paper
Prof. Zeller and family of Lafayette,
Ind, are spending a few weeks with
their old-time friend, Mrs. G. III. Scott,
enjoying the fresh air and cool breeZes
of our beautiful lakes. They expect to
remain a week or more in this vicinity.
Several Decaturitcs were over here
Saturday night and Sunday, SOLDERING
off; that is, they were nearly as sober
when they left as when they arrived.
But the hilarity was not altogether con-
fined to the Decatur boys, rs we learn
they found plenty of congenial company
here.
About 7:30 Saturday evening Will
Mosier's little boy tipped over a gaso-
line stove in his mothers Kitchen and
for while it looked as though confla-
grafton was on tap. An alarm was
given and the fire department turned
out, but the flames were subdue d with
out outside aid.
The South Haven Sentinel says that
Mitchell Hogmire of Arlington owns
tract of 445 acres of swamp land that
original cost him 81 per acre; that he
has So acres planted to peppermint
which nets him 1913 per acre, and that
he intends fitting and planting the bal
ance of the tract to the same crop.
The noted stallion Harry Noble 2:17t,
owned by w. S. Kirby d Co. of Gales
bnrg, died at Grand Rapids last Friday
morning of heart failure. He was en-
tered in the great $4,000 stallion trot
which came off on Friday afternoon,
and was in good health up to Thursday
evening. He was valued at 100000.
A very pleasant family reunion oc-
Cured at the home of Mrs. Margaret
Pepper last Sunday, on which occasion
every member of her family was pres
ent. These were her two daughters,
MIS- IleuTy IlOlI anu MIS-. II Tdnk DOWu-
ing, and five sons, Charles, John,
George, Dell and Harry. In the after
noon Shaefer photographed the group
from the porch of the residence.
1t will be remembered that the
Disciple church of Bloomingdale was
struck by lightning short time since
and considerably damaged. The build
ing was insured in the Ohio Farmers
CO., VIM. Killefer of this place agent
MIR. X. day or two since received in
structions from the company to adjust
the loss at his discretion and pay it at
once. This is feature of the Ohio
Farmers.
John Cook of Southeast Decatur de-
nies that his party (the People's) is
fusion party. ''To make fusion" he
says, requires fusor and fusee,"
aud now that he has been nominated
for the Legislature by the Peoples party
it will be interesting to watch the course
of the Democrats and see whether they
propose to be the gun or the target. 1t
will he all the same to John later i'm the |