The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-09-20
Additional Local.
Mrs. Aida Huntley is the guest of
her daughter, Mrs. c. p Linderman.

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her daughter, Mrs. G.. p. Linderman.
Broughtons new stock up to date. "
For further particulars see his new adv.
Jay Cummings, always public spirited,
advertises both his fine stock and the
Jubilee"
The w. G. Il. U. will meet with Mrs.
j. Hurd next Thursday aftern Don at
half-past two.
l.. +. Prescott, the evaporation man,
has arrived in town and now the firm is
pushing things.
Mrs Barney O'Dell who has been ill
with inflammatory rheumatism, is re-
covering her health.
Henry Shefer and wife visited friends
in the western part of the county the
forepart of the week.
The NORTHERNER was favored with
a call from Editor Dewey of the Decatur
Independent on Tuesday last
Mrs. o. N. Hilton of Denver arrived
in town Wednesday evening to visit her
numerous Paw Paw friends
Mrs. Inez McCahon came from her
Ohio home to attend the funeral of her
nephew, Fred n. Richardson.
u. S. Pension Examiner Roethe of
Kalamazoo, was in town last Monday,
looking after pension matters.
According to the Standard, Dowag-
lac people are luxuriating on an abund-
ant second crop of raspberries.
Mrs. Ira Cross, after six weeks visit
in Paw Paw and Kalamazoo, returned
to Chicago on Tuesday, Sept. II.
Married, by Rev. e.. P. Linderman,
Sept. 10, at his residence, Ned A. Cook
to Lena K Rassett, both of Hartford.
The Dowagiac union fair association
will hold its nth annual fair; Oct. s, 8,
10 and IL, in the city of Dowagiac, Mich.
Miss Emma Howard of Brockport, n d.
Y, and Mrs. Frank Cutter will visit
relatives and friends in Chicago this
week
Hon George Hannahs, Hon. G.. j.
Monroe and his brother, Lyman S., of
South Haven, were in town last Mon
day, on business.
Nj. T.. Mckee, editor of the Bangor
Breeze, called on us yesterday. He is
one of the panel of jurors at the pres
ent term of court.
The following letters remained un-
called for in the Paw Paw post Office,
Sept. 20: John Conner, Miss Blanch
Osborn, II. A, Williams.
The Rebekahs will give another of
their enjoyable supper socials at Odd
fellows hall on Saturday evening, the
2Sth inst. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all.
A wise man may be twice mistaken,
but it is fool who makes the same
mistake twice. Few men like to be
caught the second time with shoddy
clothing. When you are tired of second
best, try +. Smith & Co.'S III. 5. Il M"
kind They are the best and cost you
no more than the other makes.
The October number of Hdrper'S
Magazine will open with handsomely
illustrated paper by Edwin Lord Weeks
on the troublous phase of life in modern
India, indicated by its title, 'Hindoo
and Moslem" This article, following
DIR. Thomson's paper on "Arabia-Islam
and the Eastern Question" in the Sep
TENDER number, will give readers of
Hdrper'S Magazine both the historical
and present aspects of an important
racial and religious problem.
The jury that tried the case of the
people vs. Alvadore Meachum was out
from ten o'clock Wednesday morning
until the opening of the court Thursday
morning when they came in with a
verdict of not guilty, which was very
satisfactory indeed-to Meachum. The
jurors, who had occupied the soft sides
of the benches in the court room for
couches, did not appear particularly
bright and cheerful in the morning.
Evidently, their slumber had not been
of sound, restful nature
In the case of the people VS.. Edward
Haight, wherein the respondent is ac-
cused of having made an indecent as
sault on the person of a thirteen-year-
old girl, the jury returned verdict of
guilty. OF course, the verdict is not
to be questioned, as the jurors alone
are responsible, under their oaths, for
what they do, but such verdict was
unexpected, to say the least, and the
impression prevails that justice, in this
instance, has miscarried. Mr.. A. l..
Free, counsel for the defendant,
promptly entered motion for new
trial.
In the case of Peter Johnson and Otto
Ellsworth, two of the chaps that COM
mitted larceny in the residence of
Geo. Chamberlain at Hartford, last 4th
of July, the jury was out only long
enough to take one ballot, when they
returned with verdict of guilty,
These are the parties who have at
tempted to break Jail and who have
given the sheriff so much trouble and
who have had to be locked up in cell
nearly all of the time since their arrest.
The other two parties who were arrest
ed for the same crime, Shirley and
Hueeleman are now on trial