The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-03-08
Record of the Week,


Twcnty-onc persons were granted third
grade certificates at an examination in
Midland.
The saw and planning mill of Quick X
Grassman. at Sonoma, near Battle Greek,
burned. Loss, $4,000.
Charles $. Hazeltne. of Grand Rapids,
has resigned his position of United States
consul Mt Milan, Italy, and will soon re-
turn to America. Business reasons.
Greedy Cheboygan County would de.
tsch the western tier of townships from
Presque Isle County and annex them to
herself. A bill will probably be intro
duced to that end.
There is pile of logs along the rail
road track MT Dollarvillc so high that
many mistake il for low range of hills
~ they ride through the town. 1t con.
tains over 100000 feet.
Some time ago the T. & A. depot at
Howell Junction was burned, and it
hasn't been rebuilt yet. The company
IL using a passenger coach as depot,
and will do so until spring, when they in
tend to straighten their road at that
point They will wait until after this
change is made before they put up their
new building.
A justice near Beleville has n queer
way of opening court. The other day
when the jurymen filed in, one of them
displayed a pack of cards and proposed
game. immediately the justice cleared
the desk of all copies of Blackstone and
the rules of evidence, md the blind god
dess waited until the game was over.
IL trin hnf
The State and Central Michigan Agri-
cultural Society officers are unable to
make an amicable arrangement whereby
the former can give an exhibition in
Grand Rapids this year without forfeit.
ing its deed To the grounds in Lansing.
The State society. nevertheless, has de-
cidctl to GO to Grand Rapids, and will
arrange dates for the week of Sept. Q.
George W. King. manager of the Michi-
gan Drug Company, was arrested at Mus
kegOn on warrant sworn out by Mar
tinus Jensen. janitor of the building i'm
(which Kings store was located. The
building was partially destroyed by fire.
The police claim to have found in the
drug store n bundle of partially burned pa
per which appears to have been saturated
with some nfammable liquid.
VIM H. Powers, one of the most prom.
inent and active business men of Grand
Rapids. died Monday. after long illness.
He was associated with his father, Will
liam Il. Powers, in the great water power
enterprise along the west bank of the
river. the electric light company, Michi-
gan Iron Works. and many manufacture
Jog affairs. He was also manager OF
Powers Opera House. He was "a years
cf age.
At Battle Creek the Adventists decided
10 establish UNCONVENTIONAL academy i'm
Gusdaaiara Mexico, and Bible schools
IN Hcaldsburg. Cal, Walla Walla, Wash.
South Lancaster, Mass, and several
points i'm the Southern States. Change
Of district presidents instead of district
ministers was recommended by the com.
mittcc on distribution of labor. They
voted TO send missionaries to Zambesi
Africa; Fiji Islands, New Guinea. Soutl,
America and Trinidad. One hundred mis-
siOnarics were given credentials and fifty
men licensed to preach in all parts of the
world.
As result Of the Dunn temperance
meetings at Ann Arbor it Is snd 700 sig.
natures TO the abstinence pledge were
secured. 100 being the names of drinking
men.
-. Lulu Keller. 16. attends the DufIield
School at Detroit, in class of girls who
are several years younger than herself
For several weeks past she is charged
with having caused trouble with her
classmates. II has just leaked out that
the other morning n half dozen school
girls attacked Lulu in the school base
mcnt and left her in a severely injured
eoudition.