The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-20
Local Department.
Republican caucus tomorrow.
Mrs. Riley Bangs is seriously i'll.
Erad Snov of inna nhio IL in tov


Fred Snow of Lima, Ohio, is in town
Mosquitoes, flies and "blind robins
are now in possession.
The l.. o. Il. M. will serve ice cream
in the court house yard Aug. 3rd.
Miss Mary O'Grady of Chicago is Wis.
iting her brother Ed. in this place.
Mrs Albert Grout and her daughter
Grace are visiting in Conneaut, Ohio.
Jas. A. Leech has been suffering for
the past week an attack of lung disease.
Miss Nellie Lewis is entertaining her
cousin, Miss Theo Anderson, of Hart.
ford.
The w. c. T. Il. will meet with Mrs
Ed. Fuller this friday afternoon at 3
O'clock.
Mr. and Mrs. G.. A Sherrod of Green
vile, Ohio, are visiting friends and rel
atives in this vicinity.
Miss Eva Shrine has gone to Pent-
water for an extended stay with her
sister, Mrs. +. l.. Bates.
Jesse Brott is firing passenger loco
motive on the Black Hills division of
the Northern Pacific railway.
Mrs. Martin Clarey is home from the
North on visit to her parents and
other friends in this vicinity.
Farmers insist that, unless we have
rain within very short time, the po-
tato crop will be a total failure.
Colum. Engle and wife, Cole Rawson
and wife, and VIM. M. Thayer and wife
are camping at Three-Mile lake.
Mrs. Will Snow and children and f.
A. Lindsley left yesterday for Grand
Rapids for visit of several weeks.
William Leroy, the third victim of
the fire on the steam barge Ross at
South Haven, died on the 18th inst.
Some fifteen or twenty of the guests
at the Peninsular, Lake Cora, came up
Tuesday night to the Whitney show.
Embers from threshng machine
cleaned out fine crop of wheat be-
longing to Geo. S. Babcock near Niles.
A gold pin, set with rubies, was lost
on the street here recently. Finder
please leave at Tyler's store and receive
reward.
Mrs, Mary Russell and Miss Lena
Snow expect to start within few days
for an extended visit in the state of
New York.
On Thursday next, on the Paw Paw
grounds, the Decatur and Paw Paw ball
teams will compete. Play will begin
promptly at 2:3O p. IN.
Mr.. Jos. ii. Hall, the genial and eff
cient Michigan Passenger Agent of the
M. G. r. r., was i'm Paw Paw Tuesday
on business for his road
JAS +. Bullard has been suffering an
attack from the old maladies contracted
in the army, and for several days was
unable to attend to business.
The upper section, so feet in length,
of the flume of the Paw Paw mills is to
he taken out and rebuilt l.. w. Whit
beck has charge of the work.
The lumber beavers at the Benton
Harbor boat docks are on strike, de-
manding twenty-five cents an hour in
stead of twenty, the prevailing price
Mr. and Mrs. r. Rogers are enjoying
visit with their daughter, Mrs. Gladys
Ferraro, of Chicago, who is accompa-
MED by an Italian lad, a nephew of her
husband.
Hon. II. X. Pattengill, superintendent
of public instruction, will visit the In
stitute i'm session at South Haven next
Friday. The attendance is 10 and in
terest good.
The survivors of Company G, Third
Michigan Cavalry, will hold their ninth
annual reunion at South Haven August
3 and A. The Juniors" are expected
to be in attendance.
Iorco orou,d ottaodad Tho Wh;toou
show Tuesday night and everybody was
delighted with the performance an
inch o. good fat going onto the ribs of
every child in the tent.
Mr. +. l.. Warner has opened an Office
over Tyler & Co.'S store, where he will
do business as justice of the peace and
secretary of the Farmers Mutual Fire
Ins. Co. of Van Buren, County.
Captain Jas. ID. Henderson, brother
of Don G.. Henderson of the Allegan
Journal, is dead. The captain partici-
pated i'm the seige of Vicksburg and in
the final surrender of Fort Sumter.
Mrs. Chas. d. Thayer Monday morn
ing gave birth to a nine-pound girl
baby at the home of her mother in
White Pigeon. Mother and child doing
finely; Charley has not yet reported.
Sellick reports an unprecedented de-
mand for hot weather goods in all the
various lines, of which they have a big
stock. Those delightfully."- cool shirt
waists ere still in great demand and the
line is kept full. Prices right.
Since the collapse of the railroad
strike and the resumption of business,
Billiards. grocery is again stocked with
everything the market affords in the
line of fresh vegetables, fruits, etc,
and Jim" is pleasant man to do
business with. Try him.
Fire was discovered in the railroad
trestle work near the Paw Paw Mills
little before midnight last night, and it
was fortunate discovery, for the fire
would have reached the mills i'm ten
minutes more. The department quickly
responded to the alarm and soon sub
dued the flames which probably had
their origin in sparks from locomotive.