The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-27

or even cost.
Some enterprising thief entered Geo
+. Breck's house about nine O'Clock
last Tuesday evening, during the
absence of the family, took suit oi
clothes and lunch, and gracefully
meandered away.
An excursion will be given by the
South Haven & Eeastern and G.. q w
NJ. railroads to Grand Rapids and
Ottawa Beach next Sunday. Train
leaves Lawton at 7:2O, Paw Paw 7:3O
Round trip, Sl.10.
A two-year-old steer belonging to j
l.. Marshall, south of town, while feed.
ing along near "A wire fence during the
electric storm of last Friday, received a
shock which paralyzed it, and as it had
shown no signs of Improvement up to
yesterday, it was killed.
DR.. G.. A. Critchlow, a recent gradu.
ate of the Homeopathic Department OF
the University of Michigan, has decided
to locate i'm Paw Paw. lie has rented
the Harry Longwell residence and taken
possession with his family. His Office
will be at the house.
Mr.. f. l.. Warner informs us that 60
| L.,
when the Farmers Mutual Fire Ins.
Co. will cease to be responsible for "A
loss To members who have not paid
their current assessments, and that the
ten per cent penalty will be abated ten
days.
Mr.. Jas. Walker celebrated his 6Sth
birthday last Sunday at his home west
of town, where his children, grand
children, and few personal friends,
twenty-five in all. enjoyed with him a
genuine old-fashioned English "plum
pudding dinner" prepared expressly in
honor of the event.
A joint meeting of the superintend-
ents of the Sunday schools of Paw Paw
township, their assistants and the pas
tors of the several churches, will be
held in the Presbyterian church next
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock to
complete arrangements for the Sunday
school rally at South Haven on the 10Th
day of August.
Dr. Ransom. protector and manager
of the South Haven "Around the w orld
Co., -" is missing He went to Chicago a
day or two after the sailing of the expe-
dition, intending to join it at Detroit,
but had not been heard from as late as
Wednesday night. He had considera-
BILE money with him and his friends are
anxious regarding his safety.
Those who desire to secure the great
Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean free of cost
for the coming six months, should bear
in mind that but three days remain
for them to obtain it, as our contract
with that paper expires August 1st.
One dollar pays for the NoRTHERNRR
one year, and we GIVE you the Inter
ocean. This is an opportunity no one
should fail to profit by.
George Buffers second son, Charley,
while standing near the bus in his
fathers yard during the thunder storm
of last Friday noon, received a severe
electric shock from bolt which struck
near him. He was knocked down and
benumbed to an extent that he had to
be carried into the house, and it was
twenty-fOur hours before he entirely re-
covered from its effects.
During a brief stay in Lawton a day
or two since, we took time TO visit the
new and elegant residence of our old
| friend G.. s. Adams, the finest in the
place. 1t is equipped with hot and cold
provements, while on the lawn are IA
to reach its remOtest points Ii man
can't feel himself "at home" with such
surroundings, he had better HE himself
to nunnery.
A couple of weeks ago we mentioned
the fact of a petition being presented
TO the school board. asking the reten-
ton of Miss Lois Wilson as teacher in
the first primary department of our
public school. 1t transpires that she had
been offered and declined reengage-
ment and had already entered into a
contract with the Benton Harbor school
board, so our board was in no position
To make overtures to her, nor she to
entertain them if made.
When the strike on the Grand Trunk
was inaugurated, two Marcellus men
held the position of freight conductors
and were drawing about 1926 month
each. Both quit work, and both were
| invited to resume, one of them being
offered passenger train. One tele-
graphed back, II don't have to-" the
other, $50 to HI with your train" A
few days later, when it became appa-
rent that the strike had collapsed, both
applied for their old jobs, and this time
it was the company that didn't have
to-" and now both men are digging on
the water works bitches at Sl.25 per
day Moral: Don't monkey with buzz
| saw.
o. W. Rowland is an enterprising
and reliable newspaper man or moth
ing; make your own estimate and take
your choice. One day last week he tel
egraped the Detroit and Kalamazoo
papers, which presumably pay him for
gathering neiOS items, that DR. Dunning
of this place was dead, and this cruel
piece of misinformation was copied and
commented upon by papers all over the
country where the doctor is known.
He did not have the manhood TO set
himself right before the people through
his own paper on the following day, but
seized that occasion to make another
blunder-not serious but silly. In the
first column on his editorial page he
printed the official call for the county
convention held at South Haven Tues
day, and got it correct, but in the next
column he stated editorily that the con-