The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-03-09
WHOLE NUMBER 2O33.

suddenly of heart failure at the home
of her son, M. u. Richardson, at 8
o'clock Wednesday evening, aged 70
years. Funeral from the house at 10 a.
m. tomorrow, Rev. G. p. Linderman
officiating. Burial at Prospect Hill.
Sellick, the dry goods man informs
the readers of the NORTHERNER that
this spring they will have superb line
OF private patterns in ingram carpets.
AS these patterns will not be shown in
other places near Paw Paw, prospective
buyers should wait until they have
examined this magnificent line which
can not be surpassed in quality or style
A late number of the Kansas City
journal announces the death in that
city of Will G.. Van Fossen, from pneu-
monia, az the home of his brother, Dr.
G. S. Van Fossen. The young people of
ten years ago will remember him as
musician and captain of the Zig Tag
Polo Skating club of this place. He was
the oldest son of Col. John Van Fossen
of Leavenworth, Kansas, and his ago
30 years.
At the election for village officers
held last Monday, there were 302 votes
cast, and the scratching" was fully up
to what we usually have here at our
corporation elections. There were SO
straight Democratic ballots, and SO
straight Republican ballots voted. G..
X. Avery, Democrat, was elected presi
dent by 30 majority over Daniel Spicer
Republican. The balance of the Demo.
cratic ticket with the exception of
treasurer) received about the same
treatment. III. w. Showerman, Repu5-
lican, was elected treasurer over A. Il.
Stevenson, Democrat, by II majority.
The vagaries of the average voter are
unaccOuntable and there is nothing
gained by attempting to figure out the
why's" or "wherefores" of the result.
The people speak. Candidates bow in
submission. SO mote it be.
We learn that we are and have been
for some time in imminent danger of
being left in total darkness again by
the going out of the dam at the electric
light station. 1t is said that it will re-
quire at least one thousand loads of
dirt to even temporarily strengthen the
dam; and that in order to make it what
it should be and ought to have been in
the start, the water should be drawn
off aud the work begun Systematically
by piling and the use of fascines-the
only known way of making a dam of
dirt that will hold water any length of
time. Indeed, this dam had so nearly
collapsed that o. A. Rice's team, while
being driven on it with load of dirt
Wednesday morning, was precipitated
into the pond by the face of the dam
sliding away by the heft of the team.
By the time this dam is rebuilt and
made substantial, the ax-payers of this
" w hat tn
made by this journal of the expense of
the undertaking was very conserva-
tive one. The end is not yet
Hon. j. Sterling Morton, secretary of
agriculture, took occasion some time
ago to be interviewed by the Washing
ton Evening Star and delivered himself
of quite "a harangue with regard to the
Natioual Grange z. of H., and especially
to the action of that body in criticising
the following language, used by him in
a speech before the Agricultural Con-
gress at Chicago on the 10th of October
last. "The most insiduOus and destruc-
tive foe to farmers is the professional
farmer, the promoters of oranges and
alliances, who for political purposes
farms the farmer He will not succeed
better by forming oranges and alliances,
which generally seek to attend To some
other business than farming Hon. j.
j Woodman, secretary of the executive
committee of the National Grange, in
an open letter published in the Wash
ington Star of recent date, handles
Mr.. Morton and his charges and in
situations, as he does every other topic
or thing which he gives any attention,
without gloves, and it is quite safe to
say that Mr.. Morton hereafter will be
willing to concede that the National
Grange has i'm it material able to de-
fend itself against all comers.
Within the past two or three weeks
several prominent capitalists and rail
road promoters have been here, and ii
became pretty generally understood
that project was ON foot to survey a
line of road from Beuton Harbor to
Kalamazoo, taking in Coloma, Water
vliet, Hartford, Lawrence and Paw
Paw. The line would be about fifty
miles in length, and would traverse an
excellent territory throughout. The
Kalamazoo Telegraph of last Saturday
gives the substance of an interview
with Mr.. Nj. IL. Lane of that city, who
is one of the prime factors in the move
ment. That gentleman is quoted as
saying that the proposed road had
been under consideration for some time
and that a number of influential men
were back of it. Mr.. Lane went on to
explain that arrangements could be
made to run in connection with the
Graham IL Morton Transportation line,
which would convey passengers from
st. Joseph TO Chicago. Assuming that
the road from Kalamazoo To st. Joseph
would be fifty miles in length, the fare
between the two places would be 81 80,
or $3 for the round trip. The fare on
the Graham & Morton boats for the
round trip from 81. Joseph to Chicago
would be 81. Therefore the cost of
round trip between Kalamazoo and
Chicago via the proposed line would be
only 81; whereas the cost of the same
trip by the Michigan Central is now SS.
In addition, the passengers would have
nice trip 10y lake. The time of MAX
ing the passage between Kalamazoo
and Chicago would be about five hours
There would also be a great saving TO
shippers, both in time and money. Mr.
Lane said that il would be possible to