The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-12-09
WHOLE NUMBER PITT.

| fixtures have arrived, and his new place
Of business is being elegantly fitted up.
IL will be one of the pleasantest stores
in town when completed. Ed. expects
To be open for business some time next
week and avails himself of the NORTH.
ERNER's advertising columns to an
nounce that fact. Don't fail TO read
| his adv
Little Nina Shaefer. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs II. + Shaefer, whose critical
condition was mentioned last week,
died at | o'clock Friday from the eff
fects Of her injuries, without having
regained consciousness. The accident
that caused her death was sad one,
and she, the youngest of the family,
was the first TO be called. She was
just past two years old. The funeral
was held at the house at O'clock Sun
day, conducted by Rev L Brooks. The
burial was at Prospect Hill, beside the
grave of Miss Nina Rowland, for whom
the little one was named.
L. G. Tyner has "the suit that suits"
Why? Because it is made from good
material; because il was cut by an artist;
because it was put together by finish
ed workman. He has hundreds of just
such that he intends to close out within
the next sixty days regardless of cost.
Your suit is in the lot waiting for you,
II you care to avail yourself of this
opportunity, as he intends TO close out
his stock of clothing, consisting OF
mems, youths and childrens suits and
overcoats. He expects in the future to
deal exclusively in boots, shoes and
gents furnishing goods.
At meeting of the common council
! MOndaU aUaninn tho clarl Wao in
structed TO order two new street lamps.
DR.. &. +. Thompson was appointed by
the president as village health officer,
and the appointment was confirmed
Bills were allowed TO the amount of
1906 90. Trustees Cole, Hathaway and
Spicer were appointed committee to
confer with Z. II. Gremps concerning
a settlement for lands belonging to him
that are overhowed by the electric
! light pond. The whole council recently
visited the premises, having the pond
! lowered to its former level SO that the
actual area overflowed might be de-
termined.
Nathan Mears, the lumber king who
died Sunday in Chicago, was a resi-
dent of Paw Paw from 1886 to 1S4S.
Three brothers settled here at that time
and opened general merchandise
store, trading with the settlers and
Indians In 1889 he became sole pro-
prietor of the store and conducted it
under his own name. In 1910 he was
married to Mrs. Anna +. Gilbert of
Battle Creek In lS49 Mears sold his
store here and went to Chicago, begin
ming lumber business under the firm
name of the Charles Mears Lumber Co.
Later it became Mears, Bates & Co.
During the war Mr.. Mears in every
way aided the union cause. He left
an enormous fortune in pine lands,
mills, etc. 1t is estimated that he owns
100, 900 acres of standing pine in Mich
igan.
We do not profess to be up to all the
little fads and niceties of mems dress,
but we do know that there has rarely
been exhibited in this town line of
mems suits and overcoats so perfect in
fit and handsome in finish as the Hart,
Schaffner Il Marx goods, which hav-
won such favor among the people here
and in the surrounding country. One
reason for their popularity is that the
medium and low priced garments are
cut on the same patterns as the finest
ones, and as they are all made strong
and reliable in every way, one is GER
tain to get, even at a low price, gar
ment that will be stylish, graceful and
full of satisfaction. They are sold only
by the Whale Clothing Success, and
our readers should go in and look at
them, and also see the wonder halfoff
wool sock sale.
For some time there has considerable
sentiment in this village for a reduction
of prices of electric lights to private
consumers. The force of such feeling
was shown by abandoning the charge
for meter rent, a few months since.
Now, at the meeting Monday evening,
the council instructed the village attor-
ney TO draft a resolution for a general
reduction of one third in the charges
for all lights to private consumers, and
the proposition is the occasion of a
lively discussion. 1t is contended, and
with much force, on the part of those
who favor the reduction, that the un-
derstanding and intent has all along
been to furnish lights rs near as possi-
BILE to actual cost, and that three years
experience has shown that lights are
not being so furnished, but on the con-
trary that the plant is being conducted
at an actual profit to the village. Ref
erence to the last years financial state
ment shows that private consumers
/ pdiu luIO tuC ciCNtiiC iik1b iubu hNaAAy
S400 more than the entire running ex-
penses of the plant, so that users of
lights are not only paying for the run
ming of their own lights and the street
lights, but are helping to meet the in
debtedness as well, and at the same
time, of course, paying their portion of
village taxation. Those who oppose
the reduction contend that, as private
consumers are now getting cheaper
lighting than can elsewhere be found,
they should ask no further reduction;
that it was an argument used TO get
votes when the bonds were voted, that
enough private lights would be used TO
run the plant, and that the promise is
now only being being fulfilled; that it
is only a question of few years at
furthest, and perhaps of very short
time, ia case of accident, until the viii
lage will be called upon to make a
heavy expenditure for repairs or new
machinery, and that contingent sink
ing fund should be created to meet
such emergency; that private consum-
ers ought to pay more than cost, be-
cause of the extra investment of the
villaua i'm commercial lighting euuip'