The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-06
Local Department.


Sunday.
Mr.. Frank Thomas of Kalamazoo was
in town over Sunday.
Mrs. VIM. Fowler and children spent
the Fourth at Bangor.
Miss Cora Nelson of Chicago is home
for few weeks vacation.
Mrs. Ella Stevens Jones of Chicago is
visiting friends in this place.
Miss Addie Sherrod of the State Nor.
NAL school is home for vacation.
Mr.. A. ID. Ferguson has placed a
pretty little steamer on Eagle Lake.
Miss Zell Richmond of Denver, Col,
is visiting old.time friends in this place.
Mrs. G. G. Chappell of South Haven
visited in this place part OF the week.
Mrs. Musser and son of White Pigeon
are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Davey.
Mr.. l.. w. Dickinson and party, of
Lawton, are camping at Lake Park this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. b. Coy are expected
home next Monday from their visit in
New York.
Our Bangor neighbors seem to have
much difficulty in Kidding themselves
of scarlet fever.
Official figures give Kalamazoo pop
ulation of 81 ,OS9, an increase of 1S per
cent in four years.
Messrs. Wise & Tuckey of the Paw
Paw Mills have dissolved partnership,
Mr.. Wise retiring.
The Paw Paw second nine wiped the
earth with the Decatur giants at Eagle
Lake on the Fourth.
Mr.. H. H. Hill of Almena, whose leg
was amputated on Wednesday of last
week, died Saturday
The most realistic stage production of
modern times-"OurC Country Cousin
at Longwell's tonight.
Will the Almena correspondent who
has OF late written us two or three let
ters please call at this office.
Next Wednesday the Bloomingdale
ball team will come over here and play
our boys on their new grounds.
Robert Munger of Dowagiac is spend
ing few weeks in this place, the guest
of his aunt, Mrs. A. L. Stevenson.
Ex-Gov Edwin b. Winans died of
heart disease at his home in Hamburg,
Mich, at 4:30 p. m. July 4th, aged 6S
years.
Superintendent and Mrs Wilson left
Yesterday for Blssfeld, Lenawee coun-
ty, where they will visit with relatives
during vacation.
The mandamus case of Thomas VS.
Hamilton was reversed in the supreme
court yesterday. The issue involved the
costs in both courts.
Willie Strowbridge, s years old, fell
out of an apple tree in Geo. Burners
yard yesterday forenoon and broke his
right arm at the elbow.
Miss Lizzie Roundy closed her school
in district No. z, Almena, last Friday
afternoon with picnic. Loa Wait and
Lucy Campbell graduated.
j. j. Brott and +. c. Stapleton left
yesterday for st. Paul, Mimi, where
they expect to 60 into the employ of
the Northern Pacific railway.
Benz. Phillips, who formerly owned
and operated the Phillips mill between
Lawton and Mattawan, died yesterday
morning at the Masonic Home, Grand
Rapids.
MIR. and Mrs. Alfred Crandell of
Mendon came out last Sunday to attend
the funeral of their sister, and are
spending the week with friends in this
place and Decatur.
The State Teachers Institute at So.
Haven opens next Monday and will
continue until the 27th. Prof. j. A.
O'Leary informs us that indications
point to very large attendance.
The young people of the Baptist
church will serve ice cream in the
court house yard tomorrow Saturday
afternoon and evening, beginning at A
o'clock.
The Christian Endeavorers of the
Disciple church will give musical and
literary social at the home of MIR. and
Mrs. Albert Harrison this friday even
ing All are cordially invited.
James Downey returned to his home
near Dowagiac at the close of the
school. During his stay here of year
Jimmie" made many warm friends
who sincerely regret his departure.
The Grand Rapids Eagle, with an en-
terprise characteristic of its present
management, outdid all its former
achievements in that direction by its
magnificent Fourth of July edition.
Correspondents frequently send us
"cards of thands" for publication. They
should bear in mind that all such no.
tices are charged for at the rate of FIVE
cents printed line = about seven
words.
A deputy sheriff and two detectives
from Wayne county flew through this
place like whirlwind about o'clock
Tuesday morning. They drove Kala-
mazoo team, halted but long enough to
give their foam -fecked horses swallow
of water, and sped away westward.
Our school board has received notiti-
cation that the school is again on the
University list and that for the coming
two years its graduates will be admit
ted without examination to all courses.
President Angel says this is the small
est school in the state enjoying that
distinction.
One A. F. Shattuck of Pokagon has