The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1893-01-18
Local Department.

Mr.. f. p Merrill of Ithaca, Mich,
was in town over Sunday.
Eli Wise attended the Miller's state
convention at Lansing last week.
Frank Walker of Pipestone, Mimi, is
visiting his parents in this place.
Special convocation Paw Paw Chap
ter No. a. II. A. NJ, Monday evening,
Jan. odd.
j. G.. Hornng last week enjoyed
visit with his brother j. Nj. from Jack
son county.
Frank Osborne completed his visit
home and last Saturday left again for
| st. Louis, Mo.
The Van Buren County Farmers
Alliance holds its annual meeting at
Hartford tomorrow.
bud" Evans is managing Lew. Rob-
erts' barber shop, and there's where
you can get good shave.
Mrs. Frank Keith of Charlotte is
making somewhat extended stay with
her mother, Mrs. Kimball, in this place.
German Prater and Anna Stoddard
of Gliddenburg were married by Mrs.
Anna Barton at her home in Paw Paw,
Jan Cd
VIM. Killefer of this place and G.. S.
Adams of Lawton are in attendance
upon the Grand Chapter, now in session
in Detroit.
Rev. Bower, Congregational pastor
of Dowagiac, will speak in the Nj. +.
church on Friday evening of this week.
Everybody invited.
II. w. McCabe has sold his residence
on LaGrave street to Mr.. George NJ
Weston, who takes possession March /.
Consideration, 81, 100.
Charles ID. Burton of Covert, charged
with being implicated in the murder of
Van Allen i'm that township last fall, is
on trial in the circuit court.
We are informed that the electric
| light muddle in Allegan is finally fixed
by common council unanimously adop
ting the Harrison system for the street
! service.
Mrs. Lyman Hinckley last Wednes-
day suffered the amputation of the
third finger of her right hand, rendered
necessary by blood poisoning from a
needle wound.
Fred Engle, brother of f. c. Engle
of this place, died at his home in Ira
verse City on the 18th inst of consump-
ton Deceased was born and lived here
all his life until a few years ago.
The Berrien county board of super
visors offer $500 for the arrest of Geo
Taylor, the supposed murderer of
Mary Comley at Niles few weeks
since LATER.-They have got him.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Disciple
church will give a surprise social ut the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Rowland
on Saturday evening of this week. A
general invitation is extended to all.
Adiutant-G General Eaton spent Sunday
in town returning to Lansing Monday
morning. Mrs. Eaton expects to follow
sometime during the week and their
home in this place will be closed for the
winter.
Quite a number of our subscribers
usually pay their subscriptions in wood
this time wood is little better than
cash and is at all times legal tender"
at this office.
Sixteen carloads of hogs, numbering
about 1, 200, were frozen to death in the
tunnel yards of the Grand Trunk rail
way at Port Huron one day last week.
Where is the society for the prevention
of cruelty to animals?
We wish our contemporaries through
out the state, when speaking of the
Representative from this county,
would put ''y" on the end of his name
1t is Wildey; not "Wilde," as they
persist in printing it.
John l.. Wilkinson, aged %, died at
an early hour last Wednesday morning
of the grip. Brief funeral services were
held at the house Friday afternoon and
the remains deposited in the vault at
Prospect Hill cemetery.
The next number of HdrperS Weekly,
published to-day, will contain a superb
ly illustrated article on the city of
Brussels-the sixteenth paper in the
unrivalled series of descriptions of "The
Great Capitals of the World"
The Matron's League of Waverly
grange will give night-cap social on
Friday evening of this week. Each
lady is expected to furnish night-car
and lunch for two. Everybody is in
vited to come and have a good time
Bill 10 cents.
} Judge Heckert and Jas. +. Chandler
drove over to Bloomingdale last Friday
afternoon on professional business, re
turning Saturday. They report fear
: full experience, floundering through
drifts of snow as high as the waysidt
: fences, and half the time it was an open
question whether they were in the road
or not. They want no more such iaunts