The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-10-26

WILD strawberries are In lesson
In the woods in the vicinity OF White
mere.
WORTHWHILE business houses have
agreed to clcss at p. m. until April
j, 1875.
ELLIOTT e. c., Grand Rapids gro
GERS, have fled mortgages amounting
to S. u.s.
pounds of honey this sumner from two
hives of bees,
Now has 1:-year-old boy who can
pick up barrel of apples aud throw
1t into wagon.
DEAD minnows Q floating in Back
River. Port Huron sewerage Is too
much for them.
The new Methodist mini ter at
Worthwhile is an expert bicyc.e rider,
as well as an expert preacher.
LARGE quantities of fine pins lumber
have bee drifting ashore NJ Eag
River since the recent storm.
MRS. ALFRED ELFTMAN, of Bliss
field, was fatally injured by the acct
dental discharge OF revolver.
JOHN Il. WINDOES, of Kalamazoo,
has filed chattel mortgages on his
whiplash factory amounting to 81 ,440.
A CERTAIN Mount Clemens hotel is
said TO have kept two profes ional
gamblers all summer in the guise of
walters.
THIRTEEN Muskegon schoolma ans
we turned down at the recen5 exam
nation. Who says Is ism an unlucky
number?
The truckmen and Lumber pliers of
TIE Diamond Match Company at On
tonagon struck for an increase in
wages.
The Presbyterian synod at Alma an
! proved the action of the Cadil &C
Presbytery in Opposing j. f. Hooper
from the ministry.
LAKEvIEw was nearly wiped out by
fire few molths ago. The other day
the citizens voted' down props sition
for increased fire protection.
AT Mt. Clemens motion was made
for new trial in the case Of Alfred
Willett who was convicted recently OF
the m rider of Nellie Vaa Zant
JOSEPH BOUGHTON'S bond as record
keeper CT the Michigan Maccabees was
rejec ed and Thomas Watson, of Ros-
co mon, was appointed to the place.
! RED JACKET feels much stuck up
over its first bootblack. Everyt ody in
town is shedding ten cents day, and
the pioneer sinner reaps the benefit
FLORENCE CAMPBELL, a 2-year- old
girl, of Grand Narais, got no of a
bottle of carbolic acid and drank some
Of the contents. She lived but short
time.
| WILLIAM TREACHLER, aged 10
years, Of Au Gres, was killed by the
&C ideatal discharge Of gun in the
hands of his uncle while the two were
hunting.
The Osborne House, Mt. Gle nens, is
to be enlarged. 1t will he 80 feet long,
have a sun parlor, and in general
become one of the bic gest hotels in
Michigan.
IT is understood that Morgan, Drexel
~ Co, of New York, will bid in the
Bay City and Alpena Railroad and
buy the Alrena and Northern, extend
ing the latter to Cheboygan.
II is estimated that 40. eco bushels
of peaches have been shipped from
| Western Michigan to other States this
fall-that Is, from the G. & w. M.
Railroad points and lake ports.
LEWIS RoBB says he ha mt confessed
the shooting of Mayor Hobbs. at Ben
| ton Harcor, nor has he declared that
Alex. Vance, now serving twenty
year sentence, Is an innocent man.
The house and contents of Mrs.
George Willard Parker, Of Hanover,
we,e burned. The fire was caused by
her son, aged Il, dropping lighted
match on the carpet. No insurance.
WILLARD PATTERSON, of Berrien
Springs, cut open the stomach of his
dead dog, and found there a piece Of
meat tied up in paper. The poor
animal couldn digest the paper and
died
DURING the past year ,6S7 men were
employed In the mines OF Dickinson
County. There were only six fatal ac-
cidents. At the pre-, ent time 4 4 more
persons arc employed than at this iile
last year.
Two Echo town fellows got drunk
in a Bellaire hotel and proceeded TO
do up boarder. An officer who inter-
fered was terribly beaten, and before
long nearly the whole town was in
volved in the fight. The toughs were
arrested.
CHARLES CHAMPION was found dead
In the hay loft OF the Commercial
House barn at Schoolcraft. He was IS
years OF age, and lately returned from
Dakota He was without money and
despon1eat. Everything point, to q
case of suicide.
THE Michigan State Board of Health
proposes to take radical action for the
pre- ention OF consumption, which has
been clearly demonstrated to be
communicable disease. 1t will ask the
next Legislature to pass bill pro-
| hibiting any person from teaching
school or acting as PROBES ionll nurse
without having a certiiicate from
re yutab'e physician st ting that the
proposed teacher or urse is free from
any communicable form OF tuberculosis
1t will also ask for law to prohibit
mi kman from selling milk in ity
unle he has License from the State
| ] i've Stock Commission, showing that
his COWS have be IN examined b. a
competent veterinarian and found to
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