The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-07-13
Local Department.

Mastodon minstrels tomorrow night.
Whitney's mammoth shows July 18th.
In next weeks issue will be given the
date of our matinee.
Advertised letters Il. j. Grover,
Charles Shannon (foreign).
Arthur Campbell of Notre Dame is
visiting friends in this place.
DIR. w. j. johnson, V. d., " S., may
now be found at Longwell Bros.
The w. G.. T. u. will sell ice cream to.
morrow afternoon in court house yard
Some needed repairs have been made
upon the front steps at the Baptist
church.
Mrs. o. A Goss of Grand Rapids was
the guest of Mrs. b. f. Heckert over
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Stevens of Battle
Creek, accompanied by friends, are at
Lake Park.
McCabe's Mastodon minstrels for one
night only, at Longwell's opera house
tomorrow night.
Mrs. Emmett Northrup has returned
home from an extended visit with
friends in Minnesota.
The annual reunion of the 25th Mich
Infantry will be held at Holland on the
14th and 18th of August.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Will Shower
man on the 9th inst, a 11-pound boy
Mother and babe doing well.
Complete census returns give Van
Buren, county population of 31,079,
and increase of 53S over 1890.
Regular communication of Paw Paw
Lodge No. %, +. q A. NJ, Tuesday
evening, July 18th. Work"
Regular convocation Paw Paw Chap
ter No "a, X. A NJ, Monday evening,
July 16. Work. Mark degree.
Misses Lyle Buckhout and Daisy
Longwell are rusticating this week at
the farm of X. +. Buckhout in Almena.
Cadet Ola Bell of the West Point
Military Academy is spending vacation
with friends in this place and vicinity.
The w. CT. u. will hold "mother's
meeting" at three O'Clock this friday
afternoon at the Baptist church parlors.
Come.
Justice Sirrine's office is temporarily
with VIM. II. Mason, but within few
days he will locate permanently in an
Office of his own.
Miss Nora Dunlap has gone to Holly,
Mich, for her usual summer visit. Miss
ID. has host of friends here who wish
her pleasant vacation.
A. l.. Lilly of Lawton, prominent in
Grand Army, Masonic and Odd Fellow
circles, died Tuesday night of blood
poisoning, aged 81 years.
The Central Mills of this place has
just filled an order from Antwerp, Bel
gium, for three carloads of flour. 1t
was put up in cloth sacks.
Whitney's great tent show will exhib-
it at Lawton Monday, July 10th; Paw
Paw nth, and Lawrence 18th-two per-
formances daily-2 and Sp. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. b. Coy returned
home from the east last Saturday, both
in excellent health and spirits, and re.
port having had splendid visit.
The South Haven & Eastern railroad
will give an excursion to ST. Joe by rail
on Sunday next. Round trip, so cents.
Train leaves Paw Paw at TAO a. m.
r. j. Hazelton brought to this office
small limb from an apple tree, on
which within space of fourteen inches
were thirty-seven apples-a clear case
of over-production.
VIM. Branch's Is year old daughter
Celia cut out too swift pace for her
own good, and it has been deemed ad-
visable to send her to the State Indus
trial home for girls.
Mrs. w. +. Birge and Master Claire
are in Kalamazoo, guests of her mother,
Mrs. Victoria A. Taylor, 603 South Rose
street, and her sister, Mrs. Charles ID.
Crosby, 224 Sill Terrace.
The Wolverine, bright and fresh as a
daisy, is now ready to receive its old
land new friends in its own home OPP
posite the court house. Dr. Hamiton's
private Office up stairs.
A Republican caucus will be held at
the court house on Saturday, July 21st,
at 2 p. m, for the purpose of selecting
delegates TO attend the county conven-
tion at South Haven on the Gath.
The attendance at the Teachers In
stitute at South Haven was one hun
dred on the second day and the interest
good. All teachers should make il
point to attend, part of the time at
least.
The ladies are wild over an invoice
of white dress duck just received at
Sellick's, and the general purchasers
are equally interested in the midsum-
mer slaughter of prices noted in their
adv. to-day.
That congress of artists = McCabe's
Mastodon minstrels-the most powerful
aggregation ever under one manage
ment, will appear at Longwell's opera
house Saturday evening, July IA. Re-
served seats can now be secured at
LongwelI Bros.