The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-08-23
WHOLE NUMBER 21O9.

blu 1Ou tftT luluh OI lIg lou owe III
To your town and your fellow citizens to
dress as well as you can afford. The
better dressed the citizens the better
name has the town. Do your share to-
ward making our streets attractive to
strangers by wearing one of +. Smith
Il Co.'S. III. s. & NJ" suits.
Olive Graine, daughter of Mrs ID.
Crane of this village, died on Thurs
day of last week at the asylum for the
insane at Iona. Miss Olive was %
years old, and for seven and half
years her mind had been deranged.
The remains were sent here and the
funeral was held at the family home on
Sunday. The burial was Ut Prospect
Hill.
j. Dewitt Congdon, who for twenty
years had been the night manager for
the Western Union Telegraph Co. in
Chicago, with jurisdiction over the vast
service from there TO the Pacific coast,
died early last Friday morning. He
had suffered an apoplectic stroke We'd
nesday night and never recovered con
sciousness. He has been connected
with the telegraph service from youth,
having been an employe of the Mich
igan Central railroad before the war.
At the outbreak of the war he enlisted
in Michigan cavalry regiment, and
shortly after obtained commission In
1868 and 1864 he served as an aid de
camp on the staff of Gen. Rosecrans,
and after the close of the war was con-
nected prominently with the construc-
ton of the first telegraph lines connect
ing Chicago with the Pacific coast. He
formerly lived at Glendale and his re-
mains were brought there for burial.
The report that bicycles will be much
cheaper next year than they are this, is
denied by dealers. They say that there
will be small cut no doubt, especially
in medium grade wheels, but that re-
ductiOn, Judging from prices already
quoted, will be comparatively small.
1t is said that labor and material will
be higher and that saddles alone will ad-
vance in pricera considerable amount.
Aside from all of these reasons every
manufacturer has sold this season all
the wheels he could make and could
have sold more had he been able to
turn them out. 1t was reported that
the Studebaker wagon company was
going TO turn out high grade wheels at
S35 While no one in the business be-
lleved this, the report has been circu-
lated to such an extent that the Stude-
bakers have seen fit to deny it in
circular letter which has been sent to
the trade, in which they state that they
will not enter against the bicycle man
ufacturerS.
A fine audience assemblead at the
Christian church last Sunday evening
at the union meeting of young peoples
societies, to listen to a report OF the
great christian endeavor convention
recently held at Boston. The report,
which was made by Miss Clara Ander-
son, was very interesting and instruc-
i've and exceedingly well written and
well read. Those who were fortunate
enough TO hear it obtained better
idea of the wonderful work that is be-
ing done by the christian young people
of this country than they could get in
any other way, unless they should be
privileged to attend one of their annual
conventions. Two and one-half mil
lions of young men and women banded
together for the purpose of doing
whatever Christ would have them do"
cannot but exert an influence for good
that cannot be over-estimated. The
endeavor movement is the greatest re-
ligious movement of modern times, if
not the greatest the world ever wit
messed, and the work has been carried
on so quietly that its magnitude is just
beginning to be realized. That 10000
young christians should assemble them
selves in convention, is an astonishing
thing and speaks volumes for the inter
est they feel in the cause for which they
have banded themselves together and
is sure Indication of the onward prog
ress of Christianity in these closing
years of the 10th century. At the c.ose
of Miss Anderson's report, most of her
audience repaired to the Baptist church
to hear a report of the national conven
tion of the young peoples Baptist union
recently held in the city of Baltimore,
made by Miss Kate Merritt of South
Haven, another valuable paper concern
ing a important religious movement,
but differing from the christian en-
deavor in being denominational instead
of nter.denominational. Miss Mer-
ritt's report was listened to by large
and appreciative audience and was of
absorbing interest, and showed that
the Baptist young people of America
are wide awake and active in behalf of
their own church.