The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-01

We learn that George Hopkins, a
former resident of this place, is i'm a
Chicago smallpox hospital i'll with that
disease.
The annual encampment of the Mich.
igan state troops will be held this year
at Island Lake, near Brighton, com.
mencing August 18th, and continuing
for five days.
Messrs. Free e. Hagerman employ
half a page of the NORTHERNER this
week To tell the people about the old
and reliable Paw Paw planning mills
Everybody should read it.
For many years past our people have
been privileged to listen on Memorial
day to an address from some able and
eloquent speaker. No provision was
made this year for such an observance
of the day, but our readers will be
amply compensated for this by reading
the mastery address delivered at Union
City on Wednesday by Judge Benz F.
Heckert, and which we are permitted
to print in full in this issue
Quite notable wedding was solem-
nized last Saturday by Rev. G.. p. Lin
derman at his home in this village, the
groom being no less q parsonage than
Mr.. William Markillie ("Uncle Billy') of
Almena, who made Mrs. Wealthy Odell
of Gobleville his wife, the combined
ages of the pair being 139 years. THE
NoRTHERNER extends hearty congrat-
ulations, and hopes the declining years
of this worthy couple may be the hap
piest and most useful of their lives.
An excellent program has been pre-
pared for the oath annual meeting of
the Van Buren County Pioneers asso-
citation, 10 be held at South Haven on
Wednesday of next week. We notice
on the program such names as Hon
G. ID. Lawton, Hon. A. b. Copley, Hon
A. s. Dyckman, and other prominent
men, as being down for addresses,
while i'm the matter of music ample
provision is made. The round trip fare
from Paw Paw is 80 cents, special
train leaving here at S:15 a. m.
The frost that visited this section last
Sunday night was the most disastrous
OF any for a number of years. The
grape crop is shortened by at least 80
per cent, possibly more, while pota-
toes, corn, and most kinds of garden
stuff are cut down in many places. The
injuries, if any, to wheat and rye is not
yet apparent. Many grape vineyards,
and some of the most extensive IN this
region, will not yield pound of fruit,
while others will yield all the way from
one-half to one-eighth of crop. The
loss in this one industry i'm this county
will aggregate many thousands of dol
lars, not taking into account the hard
ships that will accrue from the loss of
employment by hundreds of laborers
In 1872 Stephen A. Whelpley, now a
resident of this village, lived in Waverly
township. His family consisted Of him
self and wife and a son and daughter
aged respectively 20 and Is years. For
some reason, best known to herself the
daughter left home during the year
named and was never heard from but
once afterwards land then that she was
dead until few weeks ago when let
ter was put into Mr. Whelpley's box
addressed to his son, Stephen NJ, who
has been dead for 1S years. Mr..
Whelpley opened the letter and to his
astonishment found it to be from the
long lost daughter, now a matron of
40 years, living in Clay county. Ark
In this letter she pleaded with her
brother Gf alive) to write to her and
inform her if her father was still living,
closing the pathetic appeal with MAY
God have mercy on us both if you re-
fuse to write to me-" Mr.. Whelpley at
once answered the letter, of course Civ
ing all the family news and probably
assuring the daughter that the past was
forgotten and forgiven, and intimated
that he thought of coming TO Little
Rock this spring. Back came another
letter from the daughter, now frantic
with JOY at the prospect of again seeing
her father urging him to come at once
to her. He did so, and found her living
in cypress swamp in northeastern
Arkansas, where her husband has been
employed for IA number of years in cut
ting and rafting cypress logs. Arrange.
ments were made for the removal of
future, where they will permanently
reside.
While Paw Paw is not classed as a
manufacturing town, proper, yet we
have a number of industries here of
which we are proud-industrie whose
growth and stability have contributed
in no small degree TO the general well
fare of the village and the country trib-
utary to it. Standing well towards the
head of this class of industries is the es-
JdDllSniilenJ OI Free W I1dBeIilldu-Jne
old, reliable, Paw Paw Planning Mills,
than which no similar concern in this
part of the state is more thoroughly
equipped with all modern machinery
and appliances for the successful pros
ecution of the business for which it was
founded. In one department is the in
tricate machines used in planning, turn
ing, scroll and band saving, surfacing,
etc, etc, and merry music they make
when they all sing in chorus. In an
other department is going forward the
manufacture of doors, sash, blinds, ETC.,
while in the store rooms, sheds and
yards are kept for sale lime, hair, ce-
ment, brick, lumber, lath and shingles.
DO you wish to build a church, a store,
house or barns Give the dimen-
sions and specifications to Free & Ha-
german, and they will place the mate
rials on the spot in readiness to be put
together. And you will find no mis-
takes made. They don't cut, and try,
and experiment with your job ut that
mill; they don't have to; they are me-
chanics. MIR. Hagerman, the managing
partner of the concern, has had four