The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-11-30


The entertainment given at the Dis
ciple church last Friday evening by the
Temple Quartette Concert Company of
Boston was simply superb; and nothing
but words of praise were expressed by
the large, intelligent and critical audi
ence.
The attention of our lady readers is
specially directed To the prospectus OF
Harper's Bazaar in another place in this
issue. The Bazaar, aside from its high
literary merits is the fashion journal
par excellence of America the patterns
furnished with the magazine alone be-
ing worth much more than the price of
the publication.
The crowded condition of our col
umns, rendered SO by the demands of
our advertising patrons, compels us to
surrender the space usually occupied
by editorial matter to the proceedings
of the board of supervisors in the OctO-
ber session, the publication of which is
begun this week and will be continued
weekly until finished.
George W. Merriman, state senator
from the Eighth district, and Mrs. Jen-
ME Smiley Phelps, sister of Mitchell j.
Smiley, are to he mOrried Wednesday
evening, Dec 5th, at the home of the
brides brother. 300 Cherry ST., Grand
Rapids The guests will be limited to
relatives and immediate friends. Mr.
Merriman and his bride will live in
Observation-Disclosures Telegraph.
We used to read about caravans
traversing the great deserts of the East
and going day after day without seeing
drop of water, a blade of grass or
green shrub, and with what Joy the
sight of an oasis was hailed, where the
weary travellers might rest and their
beasts of burden get cooling draught.
500 with people in search of bargains
Having become foot.sore, weary and
faint hearted from following false and
Elusive signs" how gladly they en-
brace the opportunity to rest from their
peregrinations when they find a place
like Sellick's, where everything is as
represented and prices are on bed
rock. See their adv.
Mr.. Chas. Delamere of South Haven
Tuesday morning presented TO Judge
Buck a petition, signed by the repre-
sentative citizens of his village, praying
that Heald and Garland, the two boys
implicated in burglarizing the Michigan
Central passenger depot at South Haven
some months ago, be discharged on a
suspended sentence. The examination
of the accused had been held before
Mr.. Delamere, and of course he was
cOnversant with the case i'm all its bear
ings; therefore when he supplemented
the appeal of the petition with per-
sonal request, the judge thought so fa
vorable of the proposition as to release
the boys, merely requiring them To re-
port to him on the 21st day of January,
when, if all conditions continue favor
able, il is probable their discharge will
be made complete.
Hundreds of newspaper publishers
throughout the great Northwest will
feel sense OF personal bereavement in
the death of Charles Edmund Strong,
general manager of the Chicago News
paper Union, which occurred at his
home in Chicago on the 14th inst. An
apprentice at the printers trade in Mil
waukee in 1855, in his 14th year. he
worked his way through all the grades
of the art until in 1862 he was made
foreman of the Evening Wisconsin,
which position he held until 1870, when
his employers sent him To Chicago To
establish and put in operation the Chi
cago Newspaper Union, which has be-
come, under his superb management,
the largest auxiliary printing house in
the world. Mr. Strong possessed social
qualities of high order and to his
natural gifts he had added the charm
and graces of cultivated mind He
leaves wife and two children.