The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-02-01

q non-partisan prohibition league.
A Port Huron man says he doesn't 20
sleigh riding. He prefers to stick his
feet in ice water.
An Arenac bride was welded in the
moonlight, lantern aiding the preacher
to perform the ceremony.
Orders for 100000 fruit trees have
already been received from fruit growers
between st. Joseph and Traverse City.
Three hundred Iron Mountain residents
took out full citizens papers in one week.
Fully two-thrds are Italians and Austri-
ans.
The Bay City Council fixed the price of
gas as follows: Fuel, 81 Il thousand; light,
5000 feet and over, $1.20; under 5000
feet, SIPS.
Bay County supervisors have drawn
thousands of dollars for committee work,
which, IL seems, is illegal. The supervisors
are now preparing bill to legalize such
pay.
A gilt-edge Muskegon dude was found
stark, raving crazy from smoking cigar
cites. His father took him out of police
court on the promise to refrain from the
man-killers.
The new altar Of st. Peters Church
in Mount Clemens will cost 1900 and
be a work of art. One hundred electric
lights, besides candles, will be used in
its illumination.
II. s. Browns large frame store build
ing, occupied by n. G. Monroe's general
business, G.. A. II. post and Forester post,
burned at Gagetown. Browns loss is
$4,000; Monroe's, $4,000.
Mrs. Flossie Pool got verdict of $500
damages from the Grand Rapids Street
Railway Company. The Supreme Court
charges ate up almost the entire amount,
and there is little if anything left for
either Mrs. Poole or the lawyers.
Dude got on n Grand Rapids train.
Half his seat empty. Brawny lumber
man sat down. Dude, much annoyed,
remarked: you had better not get too
near me; have just recovered from scar
let fever" "Oh, that's nothing" said
the wocdsman I'm Just let away from
the smallpox hosspittle."
A chap named Post visited all but two
of the Grand Rapids banks, claiming to
represent McKillip, Walker & Co., of
New York. To each one he offered the
Grand Rapids agency which he repre-
scented was worth $4,000. The only
the thing he asked was an entrance fee
of $50. When the bankers met they
learned that all had been offered ground
floor positions. The man in the meantime
had disappeared.
Macomb County lays claim to a man
who is so chronically absent-minded that
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matter would get entirely away from him
and never materialize again. He makes
a business of cleaning carpets and sitting
up with sick folks. 1t is alleged that once
in an absent-minded mood ho sat up all
night with n roll of carpet and the next
morning he everlastingly walloped a
sick folk" with a club meant for busting
carpets.
The power of the Jonesville electric
lights is furnished by wA,er from a pond
nearly mile away. The lights were n
little faint by spells, and an examination
resulted in the finding of large numbers
of cells congregated under the power
house. highly charged with electricity.
The city fathers are contemplating con-
tract for line of these cells to run the
n high tower, which will light the country
for miles around.
Mrs. Frank Sczcyslowski, of Grand
Rapids, got tired of that name and also
of her husband and filed bill for sep
arate maintenance, alleging that her hus-
band called her names even worse than
Sczcyglowski Hubby came back with
n bill for divorce, hurting back other
charges. but the Judge said nay. Then
the husband left for Dakota and filed an
other bill. 1t is alleged that some of his
statements were not strictly correct, and
the woman's lawyers are at work in
| Dakota.
At this time last year at Mackinaw
City ice sixteen inches thick was put up
while now the strait is clear from shore
to shore. For a couple of weeks the
channel has been filed with field ice, and
the prospect was that il would freeze
solid, but an unusually severe westerly
gale carried il into Lake Huron. Snow has
been flying in binding clouds, entirely
blocking the sidewalks in places and ex-
posing the gravel in others. Trains are
all delayed, not being able to make regu-
lar time by ut least an hour, though pre-
coded by plows and in some cases run.
ming with double headers.
An interesting matter has been discuss
cd by the Jackson papers recently. II is
in relation to postal cards, and shows that
Jackson was the first postoffice in Mchi-
gan to receive them after they were issued
by the Government in 1873 w. l.. Seu-
ton, who was then postmaster in Jackson
received 1000 of them, and Immediately
sent one to his daughter i'm Detroit, that
being the first that ever passed through
the Detroit postoffice. The 1000 which he
received at the first was then enough for
a month, but now it takes $4,000 to sup.
ply the Office at the prison city that
length of time.
The Michigan Supreme Court filed m
opinion overrulng a motion for new
trial in the celebrated murder case Of AL
bert Moliter, of Pressure Isle County
Fourteen years after the murder of Moli
ter men named Vogeer, Grossman and
Jacobs were last year convicted of the