The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
WHOLE NUMBER 2133.

Robert Hickman, colored young
man who halls from Dowagiac, was
sentenced by Judge Buck, on Monday
last, to three months imprisonment in
the county jail on his plea of guilty of
aiding in the concealment of a quantity
OF stolen corn in the township of Deca-
tur. Hickman not only pleaded guilty,
but gave material evidence TO aid in
the conviction of Grant Mabuy, his ac-
complice in the commission of the
crime, hence his light sentence.
Kelly, the picture agent, was here
the first of the week, and says that the
false pretense affair grows out of the
fact that the landlord of the Hotel Ben
ton loaned him money. He denies that
he ever got a dollar fraudulently from
the employees of that house. He says
he came here to redeem the horse that
is held as security for the debt, but that
he found the animal injured from over
driving by the officer to whom he turn
ed it over and would not take the horse
until its condition was improved.
C.. w. Young, treasurer for the state
fair society, has been in Lansing this
this week to meet with the executive
board. He made his report of receipts
and expenditures for two years, the
amount of money handled being about
S6S, 600, and his accounts balanced to a
cent. Such a record was so creditable
that the following resolution was
unanimously adopted Resolved, that
Mr.. G. w. Young and his able assistant
Mr.. +. +. Parks, have the thanks of
this society for the able manner in
which the office of the treasurer was
conducted during the years lS94-'5. AS
members of the finance committee, we
know of the many complications and
disadvantages under which they labored
during these particular years" Mr..
Young was elected chairman of the pro-
gramme committee for this years fair.
The case of d. p. Allen against the
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co of
Dowagiac occupied the attention Of
the circuit court for three days the fore
part of the week. Mr.. Allen is an old
farmer of Arlington township and had
his house and barn insured in the com
pany. In October, 1894, both were
burned. No one was on the premises
except Allen at the time of the fire,
and he tells the story of its origin as
follows: The house had recently been
vacated and he was there cleaning up.
He stepped on what he supposed TO be
a parlor match, which ignited and set
fire to the straw on the floor, which
had been under the carpets. He ran
to the well for a pail of water, but could
not extinguish the flames. He then
ran to the barn to turn out the stock
when, to his surprise and alarm, he
found his clothes to be on fire. He
hurriedly threw them off. setting fire TO
the barn. Both buildings were totally
destroyed, with all their contents.
The company refused payment, and in
defense to Aliens suit brought to re-
cover attempted 10 prove or show a
reasonable presumption that Allen had
burned the buildings purposely in or
der to get the insurance. The jury be-
lieved Aliens version of the affair and
gave him a verdict for $713 and costs,
the full amount of the loss. Heckert
IL Chandler appeared for the plaintiff,
f. j. Atwell and S. Tryon for the de-
fendant.
Mr.. W A. Thompson has been here
from Parma, Mich, looking over the
Paw Paw creamery. Mr.. Thompson's
home is i'm the state of New York and
he and his brother are heavily en-
gagged in the creamery business. They
controlled enough such plants last year
to produce four carloads of butter per
week. They desire to make the output
a carload per day this year, and to aid
in that contemplate securing the Paw
Paw creamery. Messrs. j. w. Free
and [. b. Conner, who own the
creamery, offered him the free use of it
at the outset if he would come here,
and he has decided TO do so, provided
the milk from 500 cows is pledged,
although much more milk will be
wanted if it can be secured If the
necessary milk is pledged, they will be
ready to open the creamery May l.
Their plan is TO have the sweet milk
brought in when the cream will be
mechanically separated and the milk
given back to the farmer to take home
with him. Messrs. Thompson will pay
to the farmers four cents less than the
prices paid tor Elgin creamery butter,
which at present would give 16 cents.
Farmers desiring to make contracts to
furnish their milk to the creamery
should see either Mr.. Free or Mr..
Conner. The reopening of the cream
cry would be fine thing for Paw Paw
and profitable for the farmers of this
locality.
Mrs Laura Ives, who has been sick
for several months with complication
of diseases, including dropsy and heart
difficulty, passed away at Plainwell,
Wednesday morning, Jan. 30, at eleven
o'clock. She lost conciousness before
her relatives, who live in neighboring
towns, could reach her bedside. Mrs
Ives celebrated her eightieth birthday
last August, and up to that time had
enjoyed good health. She was born in
Oswego county, N. Y, in the year 1915,
coming to this country in 1S35-aud
locating with her parents near Pine
Creek, Allegan county, coming from
Detroit in wagon, and walking part
of the way For many years they had
no neighbors within a mile except
Indians, who had settlement at the
Creek. When Mr.. Chichester moved
his family to their frontier home he had
to cut the road through the under
brush as he proceeded, a team never
having penetrated that far in the forest.
Her husband, Chas. w Ives, died 23
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