The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-02-01
WHOLE NUMBER 2O8O.


will commence suit against that town
ship To recover damages for injuries re-
ceived at bridge some weeks since.
So says the Leader.
The special sales at Selick's, arranged
for last Saturday, were postponed, on
account of the blizzard, until tomorrow
Saturday, Feb. p, when everything
goes. An immense stock To select from
and prices cut to the quick ought to
attract buyers. See their adv.
Judge Buck Monday sentenced Jasper
1. Houseknecht, who was convicted at
the last term of court OF assault with in
tent To do great bodily horn, to pay
fine of $500 90 or in default thereof To be
confined three months in the county
Jail. 1t will be remembered that House
knecht shot at a boy who was picking
huckleberries in a swamp in Pine Grove
township, the bullet passing through
the lads hat.
Those of our citizens residing in the
vicinity of the corporation windmill on
East Main street made bitter complaints
of the unearthly sounds emanating from
that piece of machinery, averring that
its groanings and creakings make sleep
impossible and render life in that local
! ity burden. Are these complaints
well founded? If so, will not the village
board instruct the marshal To look irto
the matter and see if remedy cannot
be appliedg
Mrs. Frank Tucker, supported by an
excellent company, will appear at Long
wells opera house on Wednesday even
ing of next week, Feb. 9th, in an enter
tainment for the benefit of her husband,
| whn IL will no rampp harab had hiS lan
amputated some time since, and is still
confined to his bed. Frank was always
a favorite with Paw Paw people, and
we are much mistaken if they do not
| fill the house To its utmost capacity on
this occasion.
The customers of Holmes a. Bills
borrow, SO far as they have expressed
themselves on the subject, are most de-
cidedly in favor of the contemplated
change in the business matters of that
| firm. And this approval was to have
been expected, for careful buyers are
ever on the lookout for chance to save,
and net pickup of from 10 to ID per
cent is mot to be sneezed at" They
explain themselves very clearly in their
adv. which appears on the 9Th page of
this issue.
On Saturday last, two narrow gauge
locomotives and snow plow plunged
into the snow drift that was supposed
to extend from this place to South
Haven-and they never came back
until about seven o'clock last evening
Our people did not mourn 50 much over
the absence of the train as because
Supt. England was carried away with
it. The superintendent of telegraph"
on the narrow gauge says the train was
not lost; other people say it was just this
side of Lawrence, headed this way, with
the snow plow in the ditch and the
engines frozen to the track. Nearly
week for the round trip from Lawton
to South Haven is no violation of the
railroad commissioners orders.
A party of seventeen gathered around
the table at the home of Lester and
Matte Brewer, Wednesday, Jan. 80, to
enjoy picnic of their own in honor of
the Olin excursion of four years ago,
in which most of the party were partie-
ipants. A. Il. Foote, who added much
to the enjoyment of the occasion by
producing IA paper brimming over with
"reminiscences of the trip and its varied
accompaniments, was requested to fur
nish the newspapers with IA report of
this unique celebration, but positively
refused To- write it up because he was
''in it," This modesty was hardly ex-
cusable, as the occasion was one that
warranted full report. Cole Rawson,
who was present and who has been On
the sem-invalid list for while, declared
he was improving every minute.
The report of State Land Commits
sioner Morse deals quite extensively
with farm industries and farm labor for
1894. OF $500 male laborers canvassed
81 per cent were American born. The
German, English, Canadian and Irish
constitute 81 and other natiOnalties IL
per cent. The average age is 306 years
and their labor supports ID, 1876 persons.
The average daily wages was 80 cents,
a decrease of ID per cent the last year.
The total earnings were 81 ,0lS, 1893. The
savings were reported at $l96,S9l dis
tributed among 1857 persons. Forty
per cent report scarcity of work and 90
per cent find no scarcity. Only ,OO5
own their own homes and one-half Of
these are incumbered. An average in
terest rate of percent prevails and
the average rental is SO 50 per month.
Only S28 belonging to fraternal organi-
cations and only $40 carry life insur-
ance. Three Thousand four hundred
and siXty-six are of the opinion that
immigration Injuries their occupation,
/ ,529 say no, and the others are non
committal. The showing is not
gratifying one for the agricultural
classes.
AT the time we went to press last
week, a rumor was current here to the
effect that the Chicora had been heard
from; that she was under the lee of
South Manitou island, with all well on
board. But that rumor had no founda.
ton in fact, and the probabilities are
that the noble craft, with every soul ON
on board, went to the bottom of Lake
Michigan during the fearful storm of
Jan. 2l Wreckage has been found
strewn along the coast for several miles
north of South Haven-the latest being
her spars, doors, oars from the life
boats, etc, which were found about one