The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-11-18
WHOLE NUMBER 2174.


Nov "a, for the benefit of the Epworth
league; 10 and % cents.
Frank Lockard of Bloomingdale was
brought before Justice Rowland, Mon.
day, charged with SANDER on complaint
OF Edwin Chamberlain. The alleged
SANDER was concerning Chamberlain's
wife. Lockard pleaded not guilty, and
Tuesday, Dec. l, at 10 a. m, was set as
the time of trial. Lockard was released
under 800 bonds.
To leaf supper" we you invite,
at the Baptist church this Friday night.
By maidens young it will be given,
and deity served from five TO seven
Biscuit, salad, coffee, cake, cheese aud
pickles, all for silver dime or else two
nickles. After supper, a prize will be
given to the ole who can draw the best
oak leaf upon blackboard.
Rev. and Mrs. Z. H. Harvey will leave
next week for jackson, where Mr.. Har-
vey will address the Tourists Club.
Then they will go to Detroit for few
days, thence to Buffalo, and after a
brief stay there they will go to Wash
ington. They expect to spend the win
ter in the capital city and in Virginia,
viewing the old battle grounds where
Mr.. Harvey was during the war.
Yesterday morning, W. Ii. Filley saw
a large eel lying in the bottom of the
race near his home. He took q garden
rake, lowered it carefully into the
water and, before his eelship knew
what was the matter, Filley threw him
out of the water, high up on the bank,
when he secured him without trouble
The eel measured 80 inches in length
and weighed 81 pounds.
A barn belonging to Joseph Kay,
near the Lee school house, burned with
all its contents last week Tuesday night
between 8 and 10 o'clock. The barn
contained six horses, 800 bushels of oats,
1870 bushels of wheat, ID tons of hay, A
acres of unthreshed beans, 400 bushels
of corn, corn fodder, straw, harness, a
buggy and a number of chickens. The
fire is believed to have been incendlary.
The loss is about $1,000, partially cover
ed by insurance in the Cass County
Mutual.
The union Thanksgiving service will
be held at the opera house, Thanksgiv-
ing evening, MIR. Longwell having
donated the use of the hall for this
purpose. The service will be a plat
form meeting. Next Sunday morning,
committee of three will be appointed
from each church, to constitute a COM
mittee to have the work in charge.
Donations of cash, food, clothing, wood,
etc, will be received to be distributed
among the poor of the village. This
central committee will meet at the M.
E. parlors at o'clock Sunday after
noon. 1t is designed to make Thanks
giving, as it should be, day of good
works in this community.
Last Friday afternoon, in the circuit
court, Leon Fellows, Floyd Rymes and
Clarence Young of Porter and Peter
Houghtaling of Decatur, all pleaded
guilty to the charge of having violated
the local option law. Fellows was fined
$75 and S5.05 costs or 80 days; paid.
Rymes and Young were each fined $50
and S505 costs or go days; paid. Hough-
taling was fined S75 and SO so costs or
80 days, and is taking the days. John
Harbin, Freeman Hodges, Frank Nor
ris, John Evans and Frank Gould of Ge-
neva pleaded guilty to burglarizing the
residence of Henry Boyer of Bangor
Monday afternoon, Judge Buck called
the young men into court, gave them
wholesome lecture, and then sentenced
Hodges and Gould to Ionia for six
months each, Morris and Evans to the
industrial school at Lansing until II
years old; in Harbin's case, the Judge
ordered the plea of guilty set aside
and plea of not guilty entered.
These boys are not supposed to be ha-
bitual criminals, but they had been
drinking and thought they were doing
something smart. This left no work on
the calendar for the jury, which had
been summoned for Monday, and the
court ordered that the jurors be notified
not TO appear. This will be q juryless
term.
A. Vorhis Pantlind died at $40 Thurs
day morning, Nov 12, at the Morton
house, Grand Rapids. He would have
been 70 years old had he lived until
Dec 81 next. Mr. Pantlind is we'll re-
membered by the older residents of this
place, having come to Michigan in 1S43,
settling in Paw Paw, where for several
years he worked at the timers trade,
and was engaged in the hardware busi-
ness In April, 1859, he embarked for
the first time in the hotel business as
proprietor of the Exchange hotel in this
place. He has followed the same voca-
tion continuously and with marked sue
cess since. The Paw Paw establishment
was finally destroyed by fire, and in
1862 Mr.. Pantlind assumed the manage
ment of the Bond house at Niles, and
was afterwards landlord of the Forbes
house and Michigan Central dining hall
at Marshall, and also of the railroad
dining halls at Niles and Jackson. Then
he conducted the Bancroft at Saginaw,
the Hibbard at Jackson, the Vaughn at
Eaton Rapids, and then the Morton at
Grand Rapids, where he remained un-
til his death. An especially pathetic
incident in connection with the funeral
Friday afternoon was the presence of
six white haired residents of Kalama-
zoo who are the sole surviving men,
bers of a band of twenty-six men, in
which MIR. Pantlind was included prior
TO his death, who came to Michigan to-
gether tifty-three years ago and who
have continued bosom friends ever
since that time. Soon after settling ia
the state, the young pioneers made a
solemn compact that whenever one of
the band should die, all the others
should attend the funeral, aud that
agreement, made over half century
ago, has been religiously lived up to.