The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-08-09
WHOLE. NUMBER 21O7.


ommend them. Sold at Waters hard.
ware store.
That newspaper is public edu-
Gator is conceded by everybody, but
there are many people who take this
course of instruction, who kick like
thunder when asked to pay for their
tuition.-EI.
Someone is making regular nocturnal
visits to Squire Warmers potato patch
down by the big mill. Now. if these
visits are prompted by the same cause
which made the old darkey dig so per-
sistently after the wOodchuck, all right;
but il 1t is purely commercial enter
prise, the Squire objects.
John s. Tuckey has purchased a new
smoke stack for his engine house at the
big mill. 1t will be erected in few
days and then the mill can be run full
time in spite of the low water in the
river. Mr.. Tnckey can scarcely sup
ply his sack and custom trade now, be-
cause of lack of power, but will be all
right again soon.
The annual pilgrimage, under the
auspices of st. Augustine's church of
Kalamazoo, to Notre Dame and South
Bend, will be on Thursday, August Is.
Train will leave Lawton at 7:30 a. M,
Decatur at 7:5O. Fare, round trip from
Lawton, 81 90; from Decatur, 80 cents.
Children half price. Lunch baskets
must be properly labeled. Tickets sold
at depot. All are invited.
The teachers institute is progressing
finely. The total enrolment has now
reached 1852, a fact that shows that Van
Buren, county has wide-awake and
progressive corps OF teachers. All OF
the instructors are doing good work,
and the result cannot but be of great
benefit to the cause of education in this
county. The attending teachers will
parade the streets this afternoon, just
previous to the ball game.
A representative of the Standard Saw
ings and Loan Association has been
working here and succeeded in organ
izing strong local board, with 1872
shares of stock subscribed The local
officers are as follows: President, j w.
Free; vice-president, Gilbert Mitchell;
secy, Ed. II. Lindsey; treasurer, +. (.
Parks. There is also q board OF direc.
tors of nine members and board of
appraisers of five members.
Thos. y. Tyner has purchased the
clothing and shoe stock and business
| IL
possession. The stock is in excellent
condition, well assorted with new goods,
Mr. Tyner is a gentleman who is well
and favorably known as careful busi-
ness man and pleasant gentleman to
deal with He will surely receive lib
erai patronage. Frank Pugsley will re-
main in his employ. Mr.. Showerman
has no definite plans for the future
A crowd of four or five hundred peo-
! pie attended the meeting of the Paw
Paw Valley Spiritual association at
! Eagle Lake last Sunday. 1t was per-
| haps the most successful and interest
! ing meeting of spiritualists ever held
in this county. The speaker, Mr.. w.
+ Sprague of jamestown, n Y, is
magnificent orator and, should the as
sociatiOn be able to secure him for au-
other meeting, the grounds would be
packed with those anxious to hear him.
These Eagle Lake meetings are growing
III favor every day.
Twenty years ago, the orchards of
northern Van Buren county were yield
ing fine crops of apples, and the fame
of that region extended into adjoining
states, where the fruit found a ready
market and returned large profits to
the growers. Year by year the crop
has grown less, and in many localities
wheat fields cover the site of the once
blooming orchards This season the
home supply is SO small that apples
from Southern Illinois are finding a
market there Detroit Free Press. This
is news indeed, in view of the fact that
early apples are so plenty in this
county that they can scarcely be given
away.
Last week Friday afternoon, an inter
esting game of ball was played at the
Cleveland Bay grounds between the
teachers institute nine and a picked-up
nine of Paw Paw players. The insti-
tute nine won by score OF IL to IL.
! The mines were made up as follows:
Institute nine--Allen of Glendale, Briggs
of Paw Paw, Chamberlain of Decatur,
OLeary of Paw Paw, Taylor of Glen
dale, McFarlane of Ypsilanti, Wheeler
of Mattawan, Lewis of Bangor aud
thinner OF Kent City. Paw Paw-Sut-
ton, Lee, b. Showerman, Eaton, Pugs-
ley, Haggart, Warner, Beattie, + Show
erman. Allen caught the game for the
institute, while Prof McFarlane, Com.
missioner OLeary and Briggs occupied
the box. Sutton and Lee were the Paw
Paw battery. The game was an inter
| eStluR one anu WOulu nave Dttu luOl-
oughly enjoyable if the itinerant fog
horn could have been muzzled.
The University Association of Chi
cago, an organized institution which
has for its object thorough and syste-
matte study of history, has sent to our
village two of its representatives, Mr..
Jno. Wilson and Mr.. Chas. G.. Smith,
for the purpose of organizing and es-
tablishing a branch here. The associa-
ton aims to extend the benefits of the
college to the home circle, and the ed
ucators back of the movement conceiv-
ed the idea of forming a permanent as
sociation and issuing monthly a series
of lessons on history, embracing the
whole range of the worlds history from
the earliest known period to the pres
ent time. The work is conducted on
the university extension plan, similar
to the Chautauqua, and at a trifling ex
pense. The officers and instructors are
men well known in educational circles,
the instructors being from the faculties
of the leading American universities.