The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-12

ted to the asylum from this county
since the first of October, 1898.
Holmes x Bilsborrow have an inn
mense stock of stoves on band, new
and second hand, and the prices are
down out of sight. They will trade
you new stove for your old one and
give you square deal. Try them.
Elder Linderman, while engaged in
digging his potatoes the other day, run
across nest of whoppers and decided
to weigh them. Three weighed III lbs.
and the largest of the three At. They
were of the Beauty of Hebron variety.
The work of repairing the highway
between this place and Lawton is being
pushed forward rapidly. Some fifteen
or twenty teams are hauling gravel, and
within few days the road will be in
excellent condition for hauling heavy
loads over it.
s. Nj. Chaffee of Elk Rapids, son of our
townsman Il. j. Chaffee, was nominated
for Sheriff of Antrim county by the
Republican convention held on the End
inst. AS Antrim is a solid Republican
county, our friend Chaffee is certain to
be its next sheriff.
The funeral of Mrs Kate Donovan,
who died at her home in East Arling-
ton last Monday, was from st. Mary's
church in this place Wednesday fore
noon. Burial in Mt Olivet cemetery
Deceased was widow and leaves five
children of tender ages.
The Sunday School Institute of Ant
werp, Almena and Porter townships
will convene at the M. +. church in
Mattawan tomorrow Saturday. Hon
James M. Davis of Kalamazoo will be
present and deliver an address in the
evening. Everybody is invited.
Selick's new fall and winter mlln-
cry has arrived and is now ready for
inspection. Many novelties are shown,
the styles being strictly up to date. The
prices, also, are very attractive. All the
several lines carried by this great con-
Germ are unusually full Give them a
call.
Everybody who likes a good cup of
coffee should call at Holmes q Bilsbor-
rows hardware store and see the Won
derful Falls City Coffee Pot in operation
and take cup of the purest necter ever
drank by man, distilled by this pot in
less than one minute. See adv. in this
paper.
The farm house of Miles Whitford,
two miles north of the fair grounds, to-
gether with most of its contents, was
totally destroyed by fire Wednesday
afternoon. The fire is supposed to have
had its origin in defective tlue. There
was some insurance on the property,
but we have not the particulars.
The cozy home of Mr.. and Mrs. VIII
| 4 4, 1,
Methodists and their friends to enjoy a
coffee social given by the Ladies' Aid
society. Eighty partook of supper. An
enjoyable feature of the occasion was
| the superb rendering of several selec-
tions by the Methodist male quartet
r. w. Broughton moved his stock of
goods across the street into his new
store Monday night, it requiring fifteen
or twenty men with hand carts and
wheelbarrows most of the night to COM
plete the transfer. He is now nicely
settled in his new quarters and invites
the public to call and look him over
Quite a number of our society young
ladies are at present devoting consid-
erable time and attention to bicycle
riding, and are becoming proficient
therein. IHdeed, several ride very
gracefully and, with their bifurcated
skirts, jaunty caps and stunning gaunt-
lets, make an attractive appearance.
The National Republican Text Book
for 1894, just issued, is one of the most
complete volumes ever presented to
the people. 1t contains 800 pages ar
ranged in the form of political ency-
clopedia. Send twenty-five cents in
postage stamps to Thos. III. Mckee,
secretary, 210 Delaware avenue, n. F.,
Washington, ID. g., and get copy.
And now comes the anti.Hill Demo-
Gratis of New York and puts in nomna-
tion Everett P. Wheeler of New York
city for governor, endorsing Lockwood
and Brown, the Saratoga nominees for
| lieutenant-governor and judge OF the
court of appeals respectively. 1t really
begins to look as though David b. was
going to encounter hard shedding in
the Empire state this fall.
Our Allegan neighbors are again in
whirl of excitement over the Hurd
murder case. Mrs. Hurd and man
named D. w. Ludlow, an apple buyer
from Benton Harbor, are in jail charged
with the crime. Ludlow, however, is
said to be able TO account for every
minute OF time between u ana III O'CLOCK
on the night of the occurrence, and the
crime was committed before l0:30.
Mr. f. l.. Goodale received a tele-
gram Monday from Kansas City bring
| ing the sad intelligence of the death of
his sister, Mrs. III. A. McCrary, in that
city. Her father, mother, and sister
| Pigeon were with her. The remains
were brought to Kalamazoo and buried
there yesterday. Deceased was about
thirty years of age, and her untimely
death casts a gloom over large circle.
Miss Matte Tanner, youngest daugh-
ter of Rev and Mrs. j. ii. Tanner, and
who has been teaching for two or three
years past in the Plainwell schools, has
resigned to accept position in the Big
Rapids schools. Miss Tanner is most
estimable young lady and is highly re
garded as teacher. She has hosts of
| friends i'm this place who watch with
interest every turn of fortune that in
any way affects her.
The great whale" slaughter sale of