The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-09-13
WHOLE NUMBER PIP.

A visit to the South Haven peach or
chards last week showed that the half
million baskets of fruit that has been
shipped from that port had made but
slight impression on the immense crop
of that delectable fruit with which the
people of that section have been SO
abundantly blessed.
There was no evening service at the
+. b. church last Sunday The old
lamps had been taken down, prepara-
tory TO putting in electric lights, which
were not ready for use. The interior
of the church has been repapered and,
when the electric lights are in, it will
be one of the pleasantest audience
rooms in the village.
Justice Warner seems TO have got
onto the renters racket, and proposes
to try and pay his rent by moving He
has secured the rooms over Philips fur
niture store, recently vacated by DR..
Hamilton, where he has a very pleasant
office and hopes to remain at least "A
month before his landlord tumbles to
his little game and compels him To
seek new quarters.
On Tuesday morning last, David
Dillon was succeeded by Seth +. Allen
as janitor of the Paw Paw school build
ing Mr.. Dillon had occupied this po-
sition for 25 years and 81 days, and had
performed his duties faithfully and
we'll Those who have attended the
Paw Paw schools during the past %
years would hardly feel at home now
in the old building without seeing I'm
Gle David" as lord of the halls.
'The apparel oft proclaims the man."
said the poet Shakespeare. How true
that is, and what do you suppose peo-
pie think of you when you go looking
just as shabby as you can? Don't you
know that a very few dollars invested
at the Long Brick Store will proclaim
you different man? Every "H., S. &
M" suit is a passport to gentility, and
from the "H., ). q NJ" down, every
thing sold by f. Smith & Co. is good
moneys worth.
One day last week the little eighteen
months old child of Henry Stevens and
wife of Waverly crawled through the
fence into a field where there was
herd of hogs. The mother, hearing
the child scream, rushed out of the
house, scaled the fence as though she
had wings and rescued her child from
under the feet of an old SOW. A min
ute's delay would, without doubt, have
cost the child's life, but, fortunately, it
was saved unharmed.
The Lawton Ledder'S account of the
ball game at Decatur could have been
fifty headed "The slaughter of the inno-
cents" When Lawton ball players be-
come an easy mark for bulldozing and
submit meekly to injustice, the time
will be near at hand when the Leader
man can get green cheese for his dessert
direct from the moon. That's too thin.
Own up that you are beaten, three
straights, for the sole and only reason
that the Paw Paw team plays the best
ball
Claude Hammond is out wheel. He
rented it to brother of Rev. Kennan;
that is the last he has seen of il. Mr..
Kennan states that young man called
and represented himself to be messen-
ger sent by Hammond for the wheel,
and that he let him have it. Mr.. Ken
nan, being a stranger here, did not
know the pretended messenger. The
sheriff offers ten dollars for the arrest
and conviction of the thief. 1t was a
Rambler wheel, "a pattern, rear tire
cracked badly and sewed up with black
thread one of the front spokes has a
brass nut near the rim of the wheel.
The Chicago Inter Ocean had the fol-
lowing to say concerning the reelection
of our former tOwnsman, Mr.. G. K. La
Grave, as secretary of the railway mail
clerks association: 1.-The railway postal
clerks held warm discussions i'm their
meeting room in the Palmer house yes
terday. 1t was all over the selection of
the secretary for the coming year.
There were five candidates in the field,
but only one stood any chance of being
elected. That was the incumbent, G.. +.
LaGrave of Chicago. Mr.. LaGrave has
held this position for the last five years,
which is a lucrative one, and on that
account brought out many aspirants to
the position"
The following is a Benton Harbor
special to the Kalamazoo NeUs: "Sev-
eral Chicago capitalists were here to-
day in the interest of the proposed
trans Michigan oceanic ship canal to
connect the southeast end of Lake
Michigan with the west end of Lake
Erie at Toledo, and also for the pur-
pose of inspecting the territorial road
across the state with view to the con-
struction of an electric railroad from
Benton Harbor to Detroit via Decatur,
Paw Paw, Kalamazoo, Battle Greek,
Marshall Albion, Jackson and Ann
Arbor. They say the canal across the
state is an assured fact" Doubtless the
people along the line of the proposed
electric railway, like the citizens of
Paw Paw, will be ready to welcome the
new electric road-when it comes. 1t
is not likely to be far behind the ship
canal, which is an assured(?) fact.
A NoRTHERNER representative spent
a couple of hours in the various depart
ments of our public school last Wednes-
day morning and found everything con
nected with that institution to be NOV
ing along in excellent shape. The ex-
treme hot weather of the past few days
has been somewhat enervating, both to
pupils and teachers, but, notwithstand-
ing this, no previous school year ever
opened with greater promise of sue
cess The total number of pupils en-
rolled, of whom 40 are foreign scholars,
is 317, as follows: First primary, Miss
Baily teacher, 50, no foreign pupils; I'd
primary, Miss Cooley teacher, AZ, one