The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-01-04
WHOLE NUMBER 2O76.

will hold its next meeting at this place
March and 8. DIR. K. q Boone of
the State Normal will lecture on the
evening of the 8th
Senator James Mcmillan was nomi-
mated as his own successor by the unan-
imous vote of the Republican Senatorial
caucus Wednesday night. The caucus
for nominee for the short term was held
last night and Burrows nominated.
AlonzO w. Stevens, one of Paw Paws
most highly respected citizens, died
last Saturday morning of pneumonia,
aged sixty one years. Of his immedi-
ate family. he leaves only his widow to
mourn, their two children having died
in infancy. The funeral was conducted
by Rev. W. X. Stinchcomb in the Dis
ciple church on Sunday afternoon. rhe
burial, conducted by the Masonic fra
ternity, was in the Towers cemetery In
Antwerp.
At meeting of the Pastors Union. it
was decided to hold week of prayer,
beginning on Sunday evening at the
Free Baptist church; Monday evening
at the First Baptist church; Tuesday
evening at the Methodist church; We'd
nesday evening at the Church of Christ;
Thursday evening at the Presbyterian
church Rev. +. w. Mutchler of the
Church of Christ will give the address
Sunday evening. Let everyone join ia
this work. All are invited.
When Sheriff Thomas sent breakfast
TO the prisoners Sunday morning, he
couldn't make the number of inmates
and the number of rations prepared
balance, and count of noses disclosed
the fact that III. S. Nyc, the Gobleville
depot burglar was conspicuous by his
absence. BY some means unknown to
the common herd, he had got possession
of a couple of small saws, had cut his
way into the corridor, thence into the
water closet, thence again over the
high fence surrounding the jail yard, TO
assist in scaling which he had con.
structed ladder from his bed clothing
and the rounds of a chair. A reward
of $50 is offered for his recapture.
In Harper's Bazar for January 5th
(the first number of the twenty-eighth
volume of this periodically there will be
charming indoor toilettes from Paris,
by Sandoz, and also elegant visiting
and street costumes Margaret Sutton
Briscoe will contribute the second of
suggestive series of papers about women
dI loLic duu III PIolesSiOus, TIE series
being happily entitled The Days We
have a beautiful story, "Elizabeth's
Charities" And Marrten Martens will
begin his splendid new story of Holland
life, "My Lady Nobody" The Bazaar for
January 18th will have Marion Har-
lands story "A Fin lie Steele Prodigal,"
and the first of series of essays on
Colonial danes. An interesting series
on the actual necessary cost of "A
woman's dress in good society, and the
amount IL may cost, i'll begin in Jan
uary.
Mrs. Ann Shaw Bugbee, mother of
H. A. and G.. G.. Cole of this place, died
at the home of the former New Years
day of heart failure, aged 66 years. She
was convalescing from severe attack
of pneumonia, and was sleeping as qni-
etly and sweetly as babe but mo-
ment before Mrs. Cole discovered her
to be dead. Thus ended life spent in
self-sacriticing devotion to her family,
friends and home, and a large acquaint-
ance will sincerely mourn the loss of one
so highly esteemed Brief services will
be conducted by Mrs Barton and Rev
Samuel Cole of Mattawan at 10 o'clock
this morning at the residence of Editor
Cole, after which the remains will be
taken to Decatur for interment i'm the
family lot at Lakeside. Deceased had
been Jealous and active member of
the Presbyterian church ever since the
organization of that society in Decatur.
Peace 10 her ashes.
The ladies of the several Aid socities
of this place are agtating the matter of
doing something in aid of the destitute
people of Southwestern Nebraska. The
crops in that section the past season
were almost an entire failure, and tho
suffering among the people is appalling
Whatever is to be done should he done
quickly. Committees should be ap-
pointed at once To solicit money, food
and clothing. The cry of distress has
never been unheeded by our people,
and we are confident that as soon as
they are made aware of the extent of
the destitutiOn existing among our
Western neighbOrs the response will be
swift and liberal. In this connection it
gives us pleasure to note that ex-GOv-
ernor Northern is heading a movement
to send corn from Georgia to- the starv-
ing people of Western Nebraska and 10
with success. On Jan. IS
long freight train will leave Atlanta
IdueH WIFI grain, NEW ear present
from the overflowing bins of Georgia TO
the empty cribs of suffering Nebraska.
A year or more ago the two Baptist
church organizations of this place inau
gurated a movement having for it's OBJ
ject the consolidation of the two mem
berships. Outsiders had little, If any,
faith that such desideratum could be
reached, on account of the peculiar
tenets held by the "Close Communion"
Baptists regarding the sacrament and
the partaking of it with any but
the simon pure. Mrs. Anna Barton,
pastor of the Free Baptist church, closed
her church building and transferred
her services and congregation TO the
First Baptist church, pending the nego-
tiations for consolidation, and the two
societies have worked along together
in apparent harmony through all this
time and up TO the past week, when it
was found that the scheme of consol-
dation must be abandoned and each
society henceforth stand upon its own
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