The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-06-22

| marry ~. LouRWell, lS luuelluitely post
poned. Ii will be given, however, some
time in the future.
Of course ladies must 'dress" for the
afternoon, but on these sultry days il is
difficult To look well and feel comfOrta-
BILE at the same time. Those delight
fully cool and elegant shirt waists at
Sellick's solves the problem. Wear
them, and neatness and comfort are at
once attained.
Good Republicans should do all in
their power to increase the circulation
of sound Republican newspapers. OF
this class the Inter Ocean stands at the
head. We gice the weekly edition for
six months to all old or new subscribers
to The NORTHERER who pay one year
in advance-Sl. 90.
Colum. Engle, Cole Rawson, VIM.
Thayer and one or two of their old
chums from Schoolcraft, last week took
"a couple of days off for fishing at Bank
sons lake. The string was not unusu.
ally large, but the stories they told, and
the pipes they smoked, and the battles
they fought lover AGAIN. were fully up
to the average of such impromptu re-
unions.
The Democratic state nominating
convention will be held at Grand Rapids
on the 2Sth inst, to be followed on July
4th by the Populists at Lansing. 1t is
to be hoped that the two aggregations
will select their best materials, for the
Republicans, in mopping the earth with
their opponents this fall, would be glad
to meet foemen somewhere near worthy
of their steel
Statistics in the Office of the state
board of health show that medical sci
ence and knowledge are as impotent to
successfully cope with smallpox as in
the past. About 40 per cent of the cases
reported in this state during the past
few weeks have terminated fatally; so
it would seem that vaccination and re-
vaccination are the only barriers that
can be interposed between the people
and this loathsome pestilence.
Teachers Institutes in southwestern
Michigan have been assigned as follows
South Haven, July 8, &. III. Gurney, con-
ductor; Cassopolis, July 16, Austin
George, conductor; Hillsdale, July %,
w. ii. Cheever, conductor; Niles,
August 13, e. j Edgecumbe, conductor;
Charlotte, August 30, G.. j. Edgecumbe,
conductor; Sturgis, August 16, g. j.
Edgecumbe, conductor; Hastings, Au-
gust 20, &. l.. Bemis, conductor.
The three years-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Palmer of Glendale was at
play "A few days ago in the yard near
the house, when the mother, hearing
him scream, ran to him and saw large
massasauga gliding away into the grass.
The child had been bitten on the side
s. 81 So
minutes the limb was fearfully swollen.
DIR" Lockman was hastily summoned
and applied his never-faiing remedies,
and the little fellow is now all right.
Paw Paw is really to have base ball
team. Our citizens "chipped in" about
eighty dollars to defray the expenses of
send-off, and at meeting held last
Friday night an organization was per-
fected, as follows: Il. j. Cavanaugh,
manager; Bert z. Bryar, secretary and
treasurer. Team - Messrs Furhman,
Smith, Cole, Briggs, OLeary, Allen,
Noyes, Pugsley, Snow and Nelson. The
uniform selected is TO be entirely of
black. so the boys will always have on
clean clothes. Practice is to begin at
once.
Married, at the home of the bride on
Tuesday evening last, Miss Clara Belle
Horning, youngest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. G.. Horning, and Mr.. Jesse L.
Wilson, Mrs. Anna Barton officiating.
Invitations were extended only to the
immediate family friends of the high
contracting parties. The happy pair
went Immediately to the home already
prepared for their reception and at
once centered their energies towards
the solution of the great problem of
life. The NORTHERNER extends its
heartiest congratulations.
Van Buren county has had another
prize fight pulled off within her limits.
At an early hour last Sunday morning
Ed Parsons of Niles and Charley Hayes
of South Bend, two heavy weight bruis-
ers, with about one hundred of their
steamer Joe and ran along the coast
township, where they landed and the
mill came off without Interruption
Sixteen hotly contested rounds were
fought when the battle was decided in
favor of Powers by foul blow from
Hayes, who had the best of it up to that
time. The fight was for $3.50 and the
gate receipts.
Among a batch of decisions handed
down in the supreme court at Lansing
last Saturday, three were of more or
less local interest here. Among those
affirmed were the cases of Parks VS..
Norris and The People VS.. Stanley. In
the list of those reversed was the case
of The People vs. Hamilton, wherein
the respondent, who is druggist, was
prosecuted for selling liquor to man
whom the prosecution claimed to be an
habitual drunkard, aud convicted in
the circuit The finding of the lower
court is reversed and respondent dis.
charged, which result was pretty gen.
orally expected. L. j Cavanaugh, Esq,
had charge of DR.. Hamilton's case.
There is no possibility of mistaking
the meaning of the sturdy old Repub.
lican SturgiS Journal when it says edi-
torially: 1.-The hue and cry set up by
the Turner-Pingree-Bliss triumvirate
against a second term for Gov. Rich
would never have seen the light of day
were it not for the prospect of sweeping
Republican victory this fall. They are
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