The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-09-14

school at Bay City.
PINCONNING ard + awkawlin have
just sent tive We Indian students to the
school at {. rlisle, Fa
LESLIE SMELL, Of Ionia. aged Il,
was fatally injured by ialling tree,
both legs being roken.
THE lawyers of Ann Arbor will hold
a reception Sept .. in honor Of eX-
Gov. elch's .. III birthday.
THREE Mu kego1 Children ate weed
resembling milKweed and were with
difficulty saved from death.
MILAN'S schoolhouse was bad y
scorched on Wtdne day night 1t will
take about $500 to fix it up
S. PETERS. of Tomkins, let water
out of his mill-race, and found kit of
burglar tools at the bottom.
FARMERS near Trout Creek built a
big wall of dirt three miles from their
homes to keep the fires away.
CHEBOYGAN COUNTY farmers say
that the potato crop is a good one and
are anticipating good prices.
AN Otisville girl quarreled with
n ighbor, went home, and took poison
a stomach pump saved her life.
NJ 'ohld" dSscS NOulUy rally pdFduo
at Owosso was two miles long, and by
actual count contained ! 400 people.
a LAINGSBURG widow took drive
around that little village the other
day for the first time in sixteen years
TRENTONS Common Council has re-
considered the resolution passed at the
last ession to aise 81 !, 600 TO- a water
works.
a POSTOFFICE has been established
at Hiawatha Schoolcraft county, and
John ID. Keller commissioned post
master.
ACCORDING TO the present school
census Mar hall has l,232 chi dren OF
school age, a gain OF twenty-five over
last year.
A PIECE of lath struck vii lam
Hickey in the eye at Cadillac, so that
it hung down upon his face and had 10
be cut out.
BRAKEMAN BARNEY HEBNER, Of Au
Sable, fell under the wheels at McKin-
ley, and both legs Were cut OIL He
cannot recover.
The ladies won at Jack on, Mrs. c.
c. Bloomfield and Mrs. Laura II Ford
being reelected school trustees by
good majorities.
PORT AUSTIN is teeming with vege-
tables this year, all growing on san y
land that the wiseacres said VASE
COOL Tor anything.
The timely rainfall in the UPPER
peninsula has done much to prevent
any more damage to life and property
from the great forest fires
Two CLERKS Of the Pontiac post
,Nttsg 81, Ii, al.
selves over the act that their salaries
have been raised 500 each.
WILLIAM ANDERSON, laborer of
Scott Lake, died on the operating table
just after an obstructing growth had
been removed fl, m his throat.
FOREST fires near Elkton have driv-
en- bears nearer town. The other day
two cubs and a mother bear were cap
tured in steel traps and taken to town.
Il. ID. CHRISTIAN, whose disappear
ace from the 500 caused much local
nervousne :, has settled with his cred
itors and been eXonra5e1 fro IN all evil
intent
IN Homer a good deal of petty thiev-
ing Is going on much to the annoya n e
of the merchants. Some people Cf as
sured probability are implicated in
the business.
The township boards of Arcadia and
Newark have appropriated 800 each
for the Improvement of the roa
across the big swamp in Gratiot
County.
SAULT STE. MARIE citizens who are
given to walking think that it is bout
time an ordinance be passed prohibit
ing bicycle riders from using the side
walks.
FIFTY descendants of Charles An
drews helped celebrate his 10th ami
versary near New Haven. When he
was 80 Mr.. Andrews cleared o II four
acre field with his own hands.
REV. REUBEN 5. GOODMAN, rs years
| old, chaplain of the Soldiers Home at
Grand RAPIDS, died Thursday. He
was graduate of Princeton College,
and had ben minister for fifty
years.
BAY COUNTY is suing Huron County.
After Bay had sent Rachel Ribble to
the Pontiac asylum and paid her ex-
Ienses for "a year the officers learned
she belonged to Huron Huron re-
fused to whack up, hence the suit
GEORGE w. KNIGHT, a Cleveland
printer, stayed two months at Mrs.
Kendalls boarding house in Mt Glenn
ems. Now a warrant is out for his ar
rest, charging him with stealing 500
worth of Mrs. Kendall's diamonds
A SMOOTH chap, claiming to repre-
| sent st. Paul Wholesale firm offered
most astOni shingly low figures on gro
ccries TO a number Of 500 firms, b It
said they would have TO advance
freight charges. The chap disap-
peared with this money, and of course,
the groceries never came.
CONGRESSMAN LINTON won't get
many votes in Owosso, and there are
burned few he won't get in Corunna
He has been sending out public map
on which Corunna appears in black
letters, while Owosso can't be found at
all.
A FEW days ago b. F. Gard, Vol
mia farmer, discovered smoke issuing
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