The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-04-29
WHOLE NUMBER 2145.

AdcertiSer is as follows: Services at the
Christian church were conducted Sun
day by the Rev j. H. Rennie, recently
of Paw Paw, Michigan. A very large
and appreciative audience assembled in
the evening and after the service many
inquiries were made with view 10 hav-
ing him fill the pulpit next Sabbath"
In the case of Henry Whelpley VS..
Clarissa 5. Stoughton, the court order
ed verdict in favor OF the defendant.
The suit was on prOmissory note
which, as il appeared on the trial, was
given by the wife for the debt of her
husband. Under the laws of this state,
wife cannot become security for her
husbands debts, and any agreement or
note given for any such purpose is alb
solutely void, even in the hands of an
innocent purchaser.
The Disciple christian endeavor So
ciety has inaugurated new plan. Sew
eral members living in the country find
ii almost impossible to attend meetings
at 6:30, and so for their especial benefit
the first Sunday in every month, the
endeavor meeting will be held at p.
m. This will give the members who
desire it an opportunity to visit other
societies in the evening, and other So
cieties to visit this one in the afternoon.
The first afternoon meeting will be held
next Sunday.
Our people are growing more and
more in the habit of looking to +. Smith
Il Co. for the latest and best, not only
in advertising ideas, but in goods and
values as well. An advertisement such
as the one in to-day's paper is a strong
bid for public attention, but the cloth
ing values being offered over the coun-
ters of the great whaling success are
almost equal to demand upon those
who are economically inclined and who
wish to get the most for their money.
They have great attractions this week
in fancy shirts and straw hats.
The latest scheme for crossing the
river with the narrow gauge tracks is to
run little west of the present track to
the big mill, so as to make the crossing
below the point where the two streams
unite, making it necessary to maintain
but single bridge. Quite sharp
curve would be necessary to reach the
foot of Gremps street, whence the line
would be easy either to the rink or into
the old depot grounds. The present
spur would make one side of the "Y'',
and the other would be run consider
ably to the west to the main line.
Married, yesterday afternoon, at the
residence of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. Nj. Kirkwood, by Elder
John Hurd. James Stephenson of Chi
cago and Clara A. Kirkwood of this
village. The newly married couple at
once departed for Chicago, where they
will make their future residence. The
bride was born in Paw Paw and has
lived here all her life. Mr.. Stephenson
is a stranger to our people, but he is a
fine appearing gentleman, and the
many friends of Mrs. Stephenson can
do no better than hope she has married
a man worthy of her.
Jack Gowens, an employe at the
Dyckman house, and Miner +. Clark of
Kalamazoo got into a Strap the other
day. Marshal Whitbeck interfered and
lodged them in the cooler They were
afterward brought before Justice Sir
rine where each of them pleaded guilty
to having been engaged in an affray
''to the great terror and disturbance of
divers good people of this state" The
court fined Gowens twelve dollars and
two dollars costs, and imposed fine of
one dollar and one dollar costs on
Clark. His Honor explains the differ
ence in the degree of punishment inn
posed by the fact that he established
by inquiry, to his own satisfaction, that
Gowens was the aggressor in the
matter.
Charles f. Yerrington of Keller, the
party against whom the board of edu-
cation of this school district brought
suit to recover for tuition of his daugh-
ter, finally concluded that he had had
litigation enough. The amount claimed
was not quite twenty-five dollars; suit
was first brought before Justice O'Dell,
where judgment was rendered in favor
of the board. Yerrington appealed to
the circuit, where the judgment was re-
versed. The board took the case to the
supreme court, where the judgment in
the circuit court was reversed and the
case sent back for a new trial. Yer
rington concluded to quit and has paid
the claim, together with costs of all the
courts, amounting in all to nearly $3.50,
and this besides his own counsel fees
and other expenses. 1t may have been
fun, but it was expensive.
The case of the Singer Manufactur-
ing Company VS.. w. j Barker and G.. NJ.
Thompson, tried in the circuit court
last Saturday presents some singular
and peculiar features. Barker had been
the agent of the company, and got be-
hind in his money matters and the COM
pany was threatening him with prose-
cution. In order to escape this he gave
the company his promissory note signed
by himself and purporting to be signed
by the other defendant, Thompson. On
this note the company brought suit.
Thompson filed an affidavit denying
the execution of the note. On the trial
of the case Barker testified that Thomp-
son signed the note at his solicitation,
and in this statement he was corrobor-
ated by Mrs. Barker, his wife, who tes-
titled that Thompson had admitted to
her that he did sign the paper and had
requested her to give him mortgage
on her household goods to secure him
for having done so. This Thompson
denied, swearing that he never signed
the note, that while the signature re-
sembled his it was not his, that Barker
came to him and solicited him to help
him out, but this he absolutely refused
to do, telling him that he would not
sign note with him or anybody else.
The jury rendered a verdict against
RarEar for tho onnount dt1a on tho nofa