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Dollars 90

Far further to-day in purchasing the
necessities of life than they did a few
years ago.
In fact, many persons do not know
how far their money will go.
Scarcely a day passes but men ex-
press surprise at the quality and work
manship in our SO, S15 and $40 suits.
Il never dreamed such thing possi-
ble," is about the sentiment many of
them express when they see what we
show.
Are you of the number yet to be sur
prised?
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wavward Ed Dragoo.

Last November Ed. Dragoo of Win
chester, Ind, was in San Francisco, and
since that time his father, w ]. Dra-
goo, has not heard of or from him. The
prodigaPs mother is worrying herself
into the grave on his account, and the
father begs that anyone knowing of him
or his whereabouts will inform him.
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Races.

All the events of the track at San
Francisco are chronicled daily by
George Rose &t Co. at Seventh and ]
streets. and the result is known here al
most as soon as on the track
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COKER-In this city. January 21st. Melvin
c., only child OF Carlton and Ella Coker 4
native Of Sacramento, Cal, aged 4 months
and "a days.
Funeral private.
MISER-Near Clements, January 18th. Mrs.
Lillian Miser, wife of Fl. u. Miser, aged 90
years and 3 months.
RYAN-In this city, January 21st. Ethel. in
FAINT daughter of James and June RYAN a
native Of sacramento, aged months and
% days.
Funeral notice hereafter.
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Buy your carpenters tools below cosi
from T. L. Enwright, assignee of H. K
Wallace, S15 J street
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cent. less than cost for one week at the
Wallace assignee's sale. S15 J street .
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ChiIblains are cured by using Green's
Sure Cure for Chilblains, at Seventh
and K streets.
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Mems
WinferShOeS

Heavy Calf Engineer or Railroad
Shoes, heavy, double extension soles
and broad toes, So.
Grain Leather or Waterproof Boots,
strong, screwed soles; butchers, dairy
men, brewers, ice men, etc, So.
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Jacob Doll, Conover, Mathushek and
Kranich & Bach pianos at Neale. Eilers
Co, Seventh and ].
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Best standard tomatoes, 4 cans for
25c; asparagus tips, 15c can; Capital
jams, 10c can. A. G. s., Eighth and
IL e
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Cannot
Be Beat.

Seven-Piece HARDY wood Bedroom Suit,
antique finish and bevel-plate mirror,
SIS.
Handsome Ash Suits, 22x2S bevel-
plate mirror, $22 so.
Carved Oak Suit with large bureau
and three-drawer wash-stand. Price,
$25.
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MARRIED.

RHODES BROWN In this city. January
14th. at St. Paurs Church, by Rev. q. A.
Ottmann, Charles Wallace Rhodes OF Vic
toria to Phoebe Cordelia Brown OF Sacra-
mento. No cards.
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BORN.
DIED.

PANKOST-In Washington, January 9TH. to
the wife of s. r. Pankost, a son.
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TO-DAY,
$50 A. M.
TWO
SHLES
ONE
DHY.
SALE 1.
China
Dishes.

We have closed out consignment of
Serni-Chinaware white, with pretty
colored decorations. All of the cele-
brated T. & r. Boote make
Following is a list of ftheleading dishes.
They are all in patterns to match:
Dinner and Dessert Plates, 65c, 7Sc,
soc, 81 05 dozen.
Fruit Saucers, 4c each
Mush Bowls, two styles. Z and 12c
each
Covered Vegetable Dishes, "A and 5so.
Double Egg Cups, &c.
Tea Cups and saucers, with handles,
81 0S. Coffee size, 81 % dozen.
Sugar Bowls, 2sc each.
Pitchers, in different sizes. 13, II. 21
to 41c.
Also all sizes Platters.
Large Meat Platters, "a and 45c.
Smaller sizes, 8, 13 and tic.
Open Salad or Vegetable Dishes, 20.
q and 33c Small Uncovered Round
Dishes, 8 and 14c. Gravy Pitchers, zoe.
Soup Slabs, &c. Covered Butter Dishes,
doc.
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CHANGED DAILY ros wE1EsroCK. IusIs . co.
Conductors
Caps and
Bands.

We have the regulation Railroad
Caps, made of best quality Heavy Navy
Blue Cloth, in all sizes, at 81 %.
Made of best quality Heavy Navy
Blue or Black Silk. Price, 81 75.
Regulation Black Silk Cap Bands,
embroidered with best quality gold
bullion, Conductor" Brakeman,
Baggage Master or mail Agent" !"
Price, 81 each.
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Victor
Extension
Tables.

This is the handiest dining-table in
the market as it carries its own extra
leaves within itself, and is SO simple
that it can be extended or closed with
the greatest ease. Price, SIP 80 to $25
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PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK.
CROCKER. .WOOLWORTH NATIONAL BANE

Crocker Building, Market and Post
Streets, San Francisco.
PAID UP CAPITAL, sl,OOO.OOO. SURPLUS, s563,O35
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
HISTORY OF A WEEK


William Trout. bose barber at Mays
VILE. Ky. has been fasting for fifty-one
days. except that he drinks only butter
milk and refuses all other food He has
no appetite for anything else.
Judge Arthur, at Colville. Wash. SEN
fenced Adolph Niese and his wife To twenty
years in the penitentiary for beating their
l0-year-old son Co death. Shortly after
the prisoners were taken from the court
room and placed In their cells both cut
their threats with razor. Niese Is dead
and his wife is I'm critical condition
1t believed at Hermosillo. Mex, that a
party Of five gold prospectors which left
there several weeks ago has been killed
and eaten by the Serbs Indians
Victor Donald, janitor in the Security
building, Chicago plunged headforemost
down the elevator shaft from the ninth
floor, but caught the wire screen at the
sixth story, and with the nails and flesh
stripped from his fingers chung TO his hold
until fellow employees rescued him.
General Alfred Baker Smith dropped
dead while conducting prayer meeting
at Poughkeepsie, n. y Heart disease
was the cause.
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state Notes.

The trial of Allen Thompson, charged
with attempting To kill DR. John Sweet.
land at Mottville, Mich, by throwing a
dynamite bomb into his office two months
ago, has been postponed until Feb. 10. DE
tectives claim to have unearthed some
startling evidence tending To exonerate
Thompson
Charles Ruppe, land locker, well
known throughout the upper peninsula.
attempted to commit suicide at Iron
Mountain, Mich. He will recover
Senior law students at Ann Arbor have
organized a whiskers club.
Mrs Charles Hagadorn, has been i'm
prisoned ut lonia, Mich, on a charge OF
conspiring with the hired man TO kill her
husband
An epidemic of scarlet fever at South
Haven Mich. has caused the closing OF
the primary departments in the public
schools
Laban Tyler of Mattawan, Mich, has
been acquitted of the charge of attempt.
ing to wreck Michigan Central passen.
ger train. on the ground that he is insane.
Addison Reed, aged 40 years. employed
In a table factory at st. Johns, Mich, be-
came violently insane and was removed to
Kalamazoo.
Walter Randolph. pioneer farmer.
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FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT.
Sensational Suit Against n Daughter of the
Late Allen q. Thurman.

Los ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 5.-Mrs. Mary
Holiday, "a daughter of the late Allen q.
Thurman of Ohio is one of the prominent
figures in sensational damage suit
which is on trial in this city. Prior to
her marriage to Edward Il. Holiday, who
was formerly well-known baseball play
err Mrs. Holiday resided in Washington,
where she was regarded as one of the
most brilliant and beautiful young ladies
in the national capital
The suit was brought by Mrs. Fannie
l.. Holiday, the defendants sister-in-law,
who seeks TO recover 49, 900 damages for
malicious arrest and false imprisonment.
1t is charged that Mr.. and Mrs. Holiday
falsely and maliciously caused her arrest
in August last on the charge that she had
threatened to destroy their personal prop
erty and had also threatened their lives.
Upon this charge she was imprisoned for
eight days, the proceedings against her
being finally dismissed In their answer
the defendants reiterate the charges made
against the plaintiff and deny that the
prosecution was malicious.
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Princes Remains at Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, Eng, Fob. D. The Brit.
ish cruiser Blenheim with the remains OF
Prince Henry of Battenberg on board en-.
tered this harbor Tuesday morning. All
the flags on the ships, forts and buildings
ashore were half-masted and guards OF
honor were drawn up on the decks of the
battleship Victoria. flagship of Admiral
Nelson and the vessel in which he died,
and on board the port guardship lnfiexi-
BILE as the Blenheim steamed slowly To
one of the wharves, where she was moored,
preparatory to transferring the body to
the royal yacht Alberta for conveyance
across the Solent to the Isle of Wight.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
BONDS IN DIRT ONLY.
Debentures of Canada, Michigan and Chi
cage Railway Company.

chSo Sohpduys
LANSING. Mich, Feb. ii. V. II Lott
of Detroit has thrown light on the Can.
ada. Michigan and Chicago Railroad COM
pany, concerning the bonds of which the
commissioner has lately been receiving
inquiries from all parts of the country
Mr.. Lott was secretary of the company,
which was organized in 1872. He says
twelve miles of road were graded, but
never ironed, that e. 750, 600 of bonds were
authorized and small amount sold in
London, but that owing to the inability
TO float the balance those bonds were re-
deemed and the project abandoned.
Before surrendering the cash balance in
his possession ex-Secretary Lott says he
made it his business TO see that no pecun'
larry obligation of the company was unsat-
isfied, and he cannot account for the fact
that numerous bonds have now turned up
In various sections of the United States.
The principal stockholders of the com.
pany were residents of London. and most
of them are now dead
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
SATURDAY.. Feb. 4.

The topic for discussion at the meeting
of the Chicago Political Equality league
tonight will be as follows: Resolved,
That voting is not right of citizenship
even in republic"
John Hayes Hammond under arrest at
Pretoria, South Africa, charged with high
treason, has cabled to Senator Jones to
enlist the good offices of the United States
government in his behalf.
Spacious quarters are TO be added TO the
Chicago Academy of Sciences which oc-
cupies the Matthew Latin Memorial
building in Lincoln park. Collections
are pouring in and more room is neces.
sity. George II. Latin has intimated that
he is ready To furnish the means for the
new building. Visitors to the museum
last year numbered 1870, 100.
HOUSEKEEPING and forcibly stealing his
own wife is the charge against James
Myers, arrested at Montgomery City, No.
She had left him and he broke into the
house and took her with him by force.
The st. Paul, American liner, which
ran aground off Long Branch, n. j., is
still stuck hard and fast.
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Confined at His Own Request.

ST. LOUIS, Feb 4.-Dr. Dexter V. Dean
of 1863 Olive street, is confined in an in
sane asylum at his own request. He is
suffering from paresis, and has sense
enough to know it, A week ago he APP
piled at the health department for quar-
tiers at the asylum, stating the nature of
his trouble He was examined and his
diagnosis found to be correct. He was
sent TO the asylum and put in a private
room, where he will be kept for the time
being at least. DR.. Dean is IA well-known
physician. He was superintendent of the
city hospital for two terms ten or twelve
years ago.
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Not Worthy of His Species.

MIDLAND Mich, Feb. las Paul w.
Swartz was returning from party be-
tween and o'clock in the morning he
heard strange commotion in one of the
shade trees across the street from his
house. A large eagle was perched upon
one of the topmost branches, and flying
around him and bouncing down upon
him with loud WHO'S" were two owls.
The eagle offered no other resistance than
to spread out his wings and utter fright
ened squawk. The eagle hearing Swartz' s
approach flew away, followed by the pug
nacious owls
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
Running Behind Financially.

SAGINAW, Mich, Jan. 3I.-At Wednes-
days session of the Masonic grand lodge
of Michigan resolution that the grand
lodge accept the management and prop
erty Of the Masonic Home association at
Grand Rapids, was defeated by small
majority. The home property val.
ued at 100000, has been run
ming behind financially for some
time, on account of uncertain revenue, the
only support it has had being voluntary
contributions from various lodges in the
state
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07

ended his life with a shotgun In field
near Union City. Mich He was laboring
under the halluclnation that his family
was starving. He leaves a widow and two
children.
Breeders Of Michigan are shipping
horses TO Atlanta and other southern
cities where there is good demand.
Citizens OF Hartford, Mich, have
formed an improvement association To Sc
cure the location Of manufacturing indus.
tries.
Canon Smith, pioneer OF Michigan,
was killed at Edwardsburg by kick from
an unruly horse.
A young Michigan farmer secured a
wife in a novel manner. He gave the girl $
father half hog weighing 1875 pounds for
har
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
Joseph Cook Nearing Death.

CLIFTON SPRINGS n. Y, Feb. 4.-The
condition of Joseph Cook, the noted lect'
urer editor and author, who is staying at
the sanitarum here, has become so
alarming during the past three days that
his relatives have been telegraphed that
the end is near. In fact, the physicians
expect the end at almost any time. Mr..
Cook came here about six weeks ago.
During the first two weeks he appeared
to be improving, but later he suffered a
severe attack of vertigo
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
Friday, Jan. 81.

Peabody museum, OF Yale university.
has been robbed of $4,000 worth of speci
mems, and son of Professor Addison
Verrill, curator of the geological collec
ton, has confessed to being the thief.
Hugh Dempsey, the Pittsburg labor
leader who was convicted of n conspiracy
TO poison non-union men employed at
Carnegie's Homestead mill, has been
recommended for pardon by the Pennsyl'
vania pardon board and will be given an
ovation when he returns home.
London policemen refused TO permit a
demonstration by "Legtimists" (the rem
nant which clings To the Stuarts) at the
statue of Charles l. on the anniversary
yesterday of his execution by order of par
lament.
The National Board of Trade in session
at Washington sent greeting to the
British similar body expressing the hope
that there would be no war between the
two great English-speaking nations.
The Farmers Loan and Trust company,
of New York, has filed bill in the United
States court to foreclose mortgage for
81, 775, 600 on the Lake Street Elevated
road, Chicago.
Ravenna, o., has religious crank who
accosts every female he meets and insists
on taking her TO church.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
Monday. Feb. g..

Farmers in the vicinity of Farnnont
Mimi, were busy sowing wheat last week.
Colonel Colt, of the Ohio National
guard, has just been acquitted of man
slaughter at Circlesville, o. AS com.
mander of the militia he fired on IA mob at
Washington Court House and some of the
mob were killed Hence the Indictment.
Richard j. Stump, well-known travel.
ing man, was shot and instantly killed at
St. Joseph. Mo, by William j Keller.
The men had previously quarreled
Emperor Wilhelm is reported to be
firmly set on having the German navy
doubled in effective strength.
William Caesar, a condemned murderer.
died suddenly in his cell in the New York
state prison at Sing Sing. Fatty degen-
Grafton Of the heart. His case was pend
ing in the court of appeals
The amount of the gold reserve at the
close of business Saturday was SOS, $40, 537.
Flood in the Ouachita river promises a
disastrous overflow in Arkansas. Del.
uges of rain have fallen in that state and
Texas
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Gave No Such Assurance.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-The Russian
minister, Mr.. NJ +. DE Kotzebue, was sur
prised and amused when shown the state
ment in the st. James Gazstte, saying
that he had informed Secretary Olney
that Russia would see to it that Turkey
paid any indemnity required by the Unit
ed States and that upon this assurance
the United States abandoned contem-
plated naval demonstration in Turkish
waters. Minister De Kotzebue says he
has given no such assurances To Mr.. Oh
lhnAr
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
NEWS OF OUR STATE,
TeleGRApHIc REPORTS OF MATTERS
OF INTEREST.

Compilation OF the Most Important Hap
penings OF tho Week Which win Bs
Read with Interest-various state News
Given in Condensed Form.
MARSHALL. Mich. Jan 81 Harvey
Page, wife and two young sons. years
and 3 months. respectively. were en-
trapped and burned 10 death in their
home In Marengo township. six miles
southeast of this city. at o'clock Thurs
day morning. Harvey Page and family
occupied one. half of the double loghouse
where they lived. his brother Wilbur and
family the other half. The latter family
however. slept on the first floor.
Harvey's family slept upstairs When
Wilbur discovered the fire he and his
hired man tried vainly to reach the help
less people upstairs, who were overcome
by smoke and burned TO death. There
was but one window in the upstairs ROOM
The house burned TO the ground and the
bodies. horriSly charred. fell into the cell
lar
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
Victim of Jealous Rage.

TOLEDO, Feb. 4.-Walter Shean, brick
layer, shot his wife while in jealous rage
Monday His wife had left him and was
employed as housekeeper. Shean called
her to the door and placing the muzzle of
a revolver against her breast fired it, He
then turned away and surrendered to a
policeman The woman was removed to
the hospital where she died some time
LATER
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07

CLEVELAND, Feb. 5.-Fire supposed to
be of inoendiary origin destroyed the
large building occupied by the Cleveland
Wire Spring company, and also the big
brick structure adjoining occupied by the
Forest City Storage company, at the cor
ner of Hamilton and Wason streets. The
loss of the wire spring company will APP
proximate $4,000; insurance, $4,000. The
loss Of the storage house and contents
will foot zap about $4,000; partially in.
snred
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
To IL. Executed March "a.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-. Feb. 5-Divi.
sion No. ? OF the supreme court Tuesday
affirmed the decision of the Buchanan
county court in the case Of the wife-mur.
derer. Thomas Punshon, and fixed the
date of execution at March -. Punshon's
case is peculiar, in that at his first trial he
was sentenced to twenty years imprison.
nent, but he appealed the case and the
decision was reversed and new trial
granted The last trial resulted as stated
above.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
Tuesday. Feb. 4.

A Brooklyn man has secured patent
on boomers, and hereafter the new WON.
an will have TO pay a royalty.
Henry Watts, 80 years old, was found
dead and kneeliDg before his bed in the at
titude Of prayer in room at the New Era
lodging house at Chicago He is said to
have been civil engineer, and the wreck
OF an educated and once prosperous man.
He had been a hard drinker.
Former Police Commissioner Stephen
b. French. of New York City. committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
heart. He was 81 years old, and seems to
have been off his mental balance.
John and Eleanor Moulder celebrated
their sixty ninth wedding anniversary at
Kokomo, Ind.
Mrs. A. b. Cody. of Chicago, mysterious
ly disappeared last Friday while shopping
at Tacoma, Wash, and no clue to her
whereabouts has been found.
Mrs. Thomas ;. Foote, Jr., daughter OF
the late Justice Lane, of the Illinois SUI
preme court, has decided to apply for di-
voree from her husband, whom she says Is
too familiar with Vera Beverly.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
Left TO Save His Life.

BENTON HARBoR, Mich, Jan. 31.-A
mob of thirty Infatuated men who had
been searching fer George TO- near
Glendora, this county, found their man.
They refrained from lynching him on his
promise that he would leave the county
and not return. Tic is alleged TO have
caused his wife's death by inhuman treat
ment. He was arrested but was released
after his wife died, she being the only
prosecuting witness.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
Wednesday Feb. 8.

Senator-elect Foraker Is i'll with ton.
silitis at Cincinnati
DIR. Dexter V Dean OF st. Louis, is con-
fined in the insane asylum at his own re-
quest his diagnosis that he was suffering
from paresi, proving upon examination
TO be correct.
A Burlington, n. j., magistrate has
sentenced habitual drunkard TO attend
thirty temperance meetings.
President Cleveland has committed to
two years imprisonment the sentence OF
Banker A. A Cadwallader, of West Su.
perior. who is now prisoner i'm the Mil
waukee house Of correction The sem
tence was originally for a term of five
years.
The liquidating trustees Of the Standard
Oil trust have divided n sum equal TO 81
per share on the stocks remaining In their
hands, and also an extra dividend of go
share.
/. N. Freese, a farmer residing six miles
west OF Forest, o., committed suicide by
hanging because Of dependency over the
death Of his wife.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07

ROME, n. Y, Feb. 4.-The directors of
the Fort Stanwix National bank held an
other meeting Monday and they are now
convinced the surplus of ESQ, OOO and the
undivided profits of $40, 0Oo are wiped out.
They express themselves as fearing the
shortage will reach $500, 900, IL not more.
The directors believe Cashier Barnard,
who committed suicide, unwisely loaned
money on bad and unprotected paper, and
all attribute the shortage to this
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
Deepest shaft in the World.

CALUMET. Mich, Feb. 3-The vertical
shaft at the Calumet and Hecla copper
mine is now 4,SSO feet deep. At twenty
feet deeper work will be stopped and cross
cutting and drifting will begin TO develop
the mine production. The shaft is a quar-
ter of Il mile deeper than any outside OF
Calumet and far the deepest in the world
The miners working in it command ex.
ira wages because of the intense heat and
the acid waters which cause ulcers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
schlatter May BE Dead.

SANTA FE, Feb 5.-Francis Schlatter,
the healer, has not been heard of for the
last two weeks. He was seen by Solomon
Block Of Valencia going to the Mogollon
mining district over q mountain trail
that most men would not undertake to
cross In the winter. 1t is possible that he
has persisted In the snow.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
Money In Raising Peppermint.

NILES. Mich, Feb. Farmers in
southwestern Michigan, especially those
who have large tracts of marsh land, will
give their entire attention the coming
season TO the raising OF peppermint. Last
year the yield was immense. and a vast
amount OF money was realized upon the
oil, and the wood was afterward cured
and brought IA handsome price as hay
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-02-07
To Clean white Wells.

To clean white wells make solution OF
white CASTLE soap and let the veil soak in
1t Is minutes. Then press it between the
hands in warm water and soap until clean.
Rinse in clear water, then pour boiling
water. on teaspoonful of starch, soak the
veil in IL for few minutes and then clap
1t between the hands until nearly dry.
Spread a towel over pillow and pin the
lace in each point smoothly over It and let
it remain until perfectly dry.