The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-10-25
Additional Local.

N. Thomas.
DIR. Cornish of Lawton was in town
Wednesday.
j. w. Osborn was here from Kalama-
ZOO, Saturday
Mrs. Joe Davey is visiting in Kalama-
zoo this week.
Mrs. j. III Doughty of Mt Pleasant is
visiting at j. s. Tuckey's.
Township Clerk High of Decatur was
in this place on Wednesday.
Hon. James Monroe of Kalamazoo
was in Paw Paw Wednesday.
The w. G.. L. u. will meet with Mrs
Whitbeck next Thursday afternoon at
$50.
Ford Murch of South Haven was a
caller at the NoRTHERNER Office yes
terday.
brother from Rockford, Ills, for few
days past.
Lecture course tickets for sale at
Phillips furniture rooms on Saturday,
Oct. 26; price Sl.00
Regular communication of Paw Paw
lodge, No. %, +. and A. NJ, Tuesday
evening, Oct Goth. Work.
Mrs. Lucas, wife of CDR" Lucas, for
merly residents here, died at her home
in Toledo on the 18th inst, after long
illness.
Broughton sent up a couple OF rockets
Saturday evening, as he had advertised,
with orders for shoes attached. Dave
Kessler and Bert Fales were the lucky
finders.
The committee is doing everything
in its power to make the art loan recep-
ton grand success. All articles must
be at the store by 10 o'clock Wednesday
morning.
The Free Press and Courier had some
thing To say last week about an old
copy of the Free Press, published nearly
fifty years ago by John Mckinney. The
coincidence is mentioned of the editor
being postmaster. The editor of the
paper now wearing the borrowed old
clothes of the defunct Free Press does
not fill that position-yet.
Cummings says that one of the best adj
vertising mediums he has are the peo-
pie who say 80 many kindly things of
his stock, prices and general character
of the business he is doing. For this he
wishes To return generous thanks and
extends an invitation to all to visit his
store and see the large and beautiful
stock in every department.
Wednesday afternoon DR.. Hoyt, in
the presence of Drs. Rose, j. K. aud j.
e.. Maxwell, made post norton eX
animation of Don Haggart and found In
his stomach the brass door key the
swallowing of which has been doubted
by many. DR.. Hoyt, the attending ply
stefan, says, however, that the key was
not the cause of his death.
Fall frosts, light SHOWS corn husking,
potato digging, and other infallible in
dications of the speedy approach of
winter are here, and with them come
rumors of projected electric and steam
railroads from everywhere to anywhere
in this corner of Michigan. Between
now and spring it is probable a line or
two will be built through Paw Paw-on
paper-but it's dollars to dOughnuts
they will melt and vanish away with
the going of the snow in the spring.
Well, these projects furnish little ex-
citing diversion during the long winter
months, they don't cost anything and
don't hurt anybody.
Following is a list of jurors drawn for
the November term of court, summoned
To appear Nov. 10 at IL a. m: Decatur,
Arthur b. Warner, Reuben Colbetzer;
Paw Paw, John Tuckey, Wesley Hall;
Waverly, w. l.: Milliman, Chas Thayer;
Bloomingdale, Samuel Farnsworth, Kit
Parsons, Columbia, Dewey Rogers, Ed.
Flanders; Arlington, Elmer Brown, j.
b. Wilcox, Lawrence, s. X. MCGOWAN,
Geo Crawford; Hamilton, E.A. Osborn,
RIP Rose: Keller, Dwight Foster, Oscar
Adams; Hartford, Geo l.. Huntington,
Gilbert Lammon; Bangor, Henry Glib
ney, l.. l.. Northrup; Geneva, Lewis
Hoag, BENZ. Paddock; So. Haven, Ed
win Hampstead; Covert. Andrew Lang;
Pine Grove, II Ii Crosby; Almena, Rob-
ert Clark; Antwerp, S. Il. Streator;
Porter, Stephen X. Hall.
Sometime during the night, on Mon
day last, Del. Jones, a tramp painter at
LawtOn, awoke with an empty stom-
ach. He was hungry and. naturally,
went to the Hotel Giddings to satisfy
his appetite. He didn't like to disturb
the landlord nor the mattresses, and so
broke one of the kitchen windows,
reached in and unfastened the door and
proceeded to help himself. Thinking
he might be hungry again at some flu
ture time, he proceeded to lay in supply
of bread, eggs, fruit, etc, but just as he
was about to leave the house with his
needed supplies, Nightwatchman Ayers
gathered him in Charged with bur-
glary, he was brought before Justice
Mason and his examination was set for
Monday next. Meanwhile he feeds at
the sheriff's well supplied table.
Between 12 and o'clock on Saturday
last, Free Il Hagerman's saw and plan
ing mill was discovered TO be on fire.
There was, so far as known, no one in
the mill at the time, Mr.. Hagerman be-
ing at dinner. The whole structure was
ablaze before the fire was discovered
and, although the alarm was quickly
given and the fire department promptly
responded, the start the fire had and
the heavy wind that was blowing made
the mill total wreck before stream
of water could be thrown upon il. The
origin of the fire is mystery. The
mill was a large structure and well
filed with valuable machinery. The
loss on mill and contents is placed at