The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-06-03
WHOLE NUMBER 215O.

man, has been here for some days look
ing after affairs at the local creamery.
The fact that the number of patrons is
increasing proves that the farmers find
IL a good thing. AT present. farmers
who take their milk TO the creamery
realize about so per cent more than do
those who make their own butter; to-
day merchants are paying 8 cents in
trade; the creamery patrons realize IL
cents in cash.
The NORTHERNER is desirous of pub
fishing in its issue of next week COM
plete list of the bicyclists in the village
and vicinity, and the make of wheels
they ride. That the list may be COM
plete, we have provided register, and
all bicyclists of the vicinity are invited
to come TO this Office and register The
register will close at noon Tuesday.
We do not believe there is town of
the size of Paw Paw anywhere in the
state that has a larger army of bicy-
clists. Let's find out how many there
are. Every rider will be especially in
terested
The laying of brick and cobblestone
crossings is In progress under the di-
rectlon of an expert from Kalamazoo.
This work is an excellent departure
from the expensive plank crossings
heretofore built, and is credit To the
village administration that inaugurated
1t. While the new crossings cost ap-
prOXimately three times as much as
plank, they will last many times as long
and will ultimately be much the cheaper.
In the matter of public improvements
permanence should be should be sought
after as far as possible. The NORTH
ERNER would suggest the practicability
of building each year little sidewalk
from these same vitrifed paving brick
While the cost of building all new walks
needed from this material would doubt
less be too much for the village treas
ury, little might be Quilt each year
until the whole village was covered.
Though the cheapest in the first in
stance, plank walks are the most ex-
pensive in the long run, and the outlay
for walks each year will remain as
great as at the present SO long as wood
en- walks are built.
A NORTHERNER representative Wis
tied the creamery Tuesday morning,
and found it very interesting place.
The amount of milk received is on the
increase, and the output of butter is
now upwards of 10 pounds per day.
Churning has as yet been necessary
only every other day, but daily churp-
ing will soon be the rule. A brief ac-
count of the workings of the creamery
will not be without interest. The milk,
in big creamery cans, is taken in at the
front door and weighed Before being
dumped into the big vat, sam
pie is taken out and put into
bottle "a numbered bottle being
kept for each individual customer The
samples thus saved are for testing the
butter.producing properties of the milk,
and are once a week churned in an in
genious little testing churn. The butter
fat is thus accurately measured, and
each patron receives pay for exactly
what his milk will produce. The
new separator is an interesting ma
chine. The milk from the big vat runs
into il and, by the influence of its 5000
revolutions per minute, the cream is
separated from the milk, the cream
running from one spout into a recepta-
Gle for it, the milk through pipe to a
vat outside, to be returned to the farm
ers 1t is ''skim milk" indeed, no trace
of cream being left in it. The big churn
is similar To any box churn on large
scale, run by power. After churning,
the butter is worked by mechanical
worker and then packed in the usual
butter tubs for shipment. A new worker
has been ordered, of an improved pat
tern and larger capacity, which will
greatly facilitate the work. The butter
is of the very finest appearance, and
from trying it the writer knows it is
just as good as it looks. Here's to the
success of the creamery
A certain newspaper has an idea in
its head that the NoRTHERNER should
change its its character and become a
Sunday school paper Nothing is fur
ther from our intention. The NORTH
ERNER is a newspaper, and as such pro-
proses to give all the news in this vicin-
ity that is fit for publication. The fol-
lowing extract from the little fellows
TRADE will show the occasion for what
we say: 1--WE all remember how indig-
nant some Paw Paw people became
when Mr.. England began to desecrate
the Sabbath with Sunday excursions to
ball games, ETC.; how county seat
Sunday school adopted resolutions of
condemnation, and how the leading
paper refused to advertise the excur-
sions and thus become an aid to the
support of a Sabbath. breaking insttu-
ton. The s. II. d +. is still running
Sunday excursions. But Paw Paw has
been patted on the back, the printing is
done at a Paw Paw Office, and their
Sunday holiness laws seem to have been
amended" The NORTHERNER does not
approve of everything advertised in its
columns. 1t does not approve of Sun
day excursions, but has no good reason
for refusing to advertise them. Many
readers of the NoRTHERNER do not
agree with our views in this respect.
A Sunday school paper would not be
apt to advertise Sunday excursions,
theatres, dances, base ball games, horse
races, and many kindred events; yet
they all find a proper place in the col
umns of secular newspaper. The
only reasons we know why such excur-
sions have not been advertised in this
paper in previous years, are, first-Mr
England would not pay his printing
bills at this office, and such bills were
not paid until since the new manage
ment took control of the road; and,
second-Mr England was so averse to
criticism of his management that he
would not enter the doors of the
NoRTHERNER Office for many months
before he left the road, much less do