The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-12-06
WHOLE NUMBER 2124.

ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. Ii. McGurrin of Kali
amazoo were guests of Judge and Mrs.
Heckert, Wednesday night.
A number of Grand Army and bust
ness friends of r. G.. Nash sent some
beautiful flowers TO the funeral of Mrs.
Nash.
After getting out and coming to the
sherff's Office the fore part of the week.
Emmett Thomas suffered severe re-
lapse and is again seriously i'll.
Rev. f. b. Moody conducted meet
ing for men at the opera house last
Sunday afternoon, which was fairly at
tended and was very interesting
Hon l.. " Moulton of Grand Rapids
visited with Mrs Nellie Raleigh at JAS.
Phillips, last Saturday and Sunday.
Monday he went to Kalamazoo.
Avery's store is filled with new holi-
day goods. 1t has been such busy
time unpacking and arranging them
that opportunity was not found to
change adv. this week.
key to mysteries" will be the subject
of gospel lecture by +. b. Moody, at
the opera house, Sunday afternoon,
December s, at 2;45 p. m. The lecture
will be free to everybody.
Next Saturday, and on every Satur-
day thereafter, Mesdames Marshall &
Gardner will sell Mrs. H. A Chapin's
homemade candies, the very finest con
fectionery that can be procured.
The editor of the NoRTHERNER
takes pleasure in commenting Col K.
Nj. Irish of Kalamazoo, with whom he
has personal acquaintance, as a very
fluent and pleasing speaker. He is the
next lecturer in the ladies' course.
A. Lynn Free has decided to locate
in Paw Paw for the practice of his pro
fession His law Office will be found
over T.. X. Avery's store. Lynn is
Paw Paw boy and has large acquaint-
ance in this locality. He ought to Sc
cure lucrative practice.
We publish this week interesting polit-
ical letters from the pen of Walter
Wellman, the Washington correspond
ent of the Chicago Times Herald. These
letters will be published each week,
and will give to our readers Washing
ton service during the session of con
gress that cannot be equaled by any
other Paw Paw newspaper.
Nathaniel Buckley found an enor-
nous hens egg i'm one of his nests the
other day Mrs. Buckley broke the egg
to use it, expecting to find double
yolk. She was greatly surprised, after
pouring off the white, to find perfect
ly formed egg, in hard shell, where
the yolk of the big egg should have
been. The inside egg contained both
white and yolk, as in any ordinary egg
Wishing to reduce his large and COM
plete stock of ready made clothing, hats
and caps, etc, L. G.. Tyner will, for the
next thirty days, offer great induce
ments to buyers by making heavy re-
ductions in prices. lie has left few
pairs of agents sample shoes in misses
and children's sizes at the same old
price. Parties purchasing these goods
will find that it will be like buying gold
dollars for sixty cents each.
The 23d annual convention of the
Van Buren, County Sunday School Asso-
citation held at Bangor on Tuesday and
Wednesday last was a success. The
Disciple church, in which the services
were held, was filled at every session,
and the papers read, addresses made
and discussions had were interesting,
entertaining and profitable, and cannot
but result in good to the Sunday schools
of the county. The next annual session
of the association will be held in Paw
Paw at date to be fixed by the execu-
tive committee.
Rev. +. Cooley of Marshall is here in
the interest of the Funk II Wagnalrs
formerly Paw Paw pedagOgue, having
at ha ~ 10
taught in the old town hall, and left
here in 1861 He says he sees very
marked improvement in this place, in
buildings and streets, especially the
latter He says graveled roads are in
marked contrast with the deep sand of
"a years ago. He formerly owned and
lived in the house in the south part OF
town known AS the Irwin house. He
sold it to the late Thomas Irwin.
Mrs. Phoebe A. Nash, wife of Mr.. X.
c. Nash, died Wednesday morning,
Dec. a, from quick consumption. She
was % years and 10 months old at the
time of her death. Her husband and
one small son of her immediate family
are left to mourn her death. She had
been married about 81 years. Only
few weeks ago, Mr.. and Mrs Nash
ldiu thtlt llttit DdDy W ItSJ. MS
family seems to have more than its por-
ton of sorrow and bereavment. Mrs
Nash was an excellent woman who had
the sincere respect of all who knew her.
The funeral will occur at the home this
friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. f.
w. Corbett officiating. The burial will
be at Prospect Hill.
BY the death of Benjamin A. Muir
dock, Van Buren, County has lost one of
its oldest pioneers. Born in Hamilton,
Madison County, New York, Jan. II,
1915, he came to Michigan at the age of
twenty-one, spending much of his early
life in the West, farming during the
summers and teaching the winters in
Van Buren, and the adjacent counties.
After year of travel in the South he
returned to Michigan in 1912 and made
Van Buren County his permanent home,
residing i'm Paw Paw almost continu.
ously for over forty-five years. He was
married May 1, 1859, to Mary V. Ander-
son of Little Prairie Ronde, who still
survives him. Their two children = a
son and daughter = died in infancy.
Mr.. Murdock had been i'm feeble health