The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-06-10
WHOLE NUMBER 215i.

If you want to hear Pingree speak at
Lawton, Friday, go, and the :. ii. & K.
Will bring you home on special train
at the close of the evening exercises.
Chas. Bilsborrow and Horace Mackel-
lar found the balloons that carried the
tags calling for shoes, sent up by
BrOughton, Maccabee day. His adv.
this week tells about it.
Slayton's Jubilee Singers will appear
at the opera house, Friday evening,
June 10, under the auspices of the
Coterie. Admission, gallery % cents;
down stairs 80 cents; reserved seats
without extra charge.
Miss fioy Snow has been awarded
the college prize, gold medal, for be-
ing the best student in history of music
in the teachers certificate class at the
Chicago musical college. This Is a high
honor TO the young lady, and we are
sure her studious habits and high
musical talent deserve the medal she
has won.
The annual commencement exercises
of the Paw Paw high school will be
held at the rink, Wednesday evening,
June "a. In accordance with resolu-
tion adopted at the last annual school
meeting, there will be an admission fee
of ten cents. Mrs. w. l.. Miller will
have charge of the decorations. The
Dowagiac orchestra will furnish the
music. The graduation exercises of
the grammar school will be held at the
opera house the next evening. The
same admission fee will be charged
Frederick A. Luce was born at Com
stock, Kalamazoo county, Mich, Nov
20, 1870, and died last Sunday, June z,
| 1896, at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. B. Nj. Luce, in this village
He had been for many months a severe
sufferer from consumption, and his
death was not unexpected. He was
the youngest of the family; three
brothers and two sisters survive him.
He was an excellent young man.
The funeral will be held at the house
this afternoon at 2:30, conducted by
Prospect Hill, beside his brother, who
died a year ago last winter from the
same dread disease.
Concerning Slayton's Jubilee Singers,
the Chicago Inter Ocean said: "Old
Plantation Days was given by Slayton's
Jubilee Singers. As the curtain rolled
up, it showed the company in dresses
and suits which might well have been
worn amid the cotton fields and corn
They sang old melodies and hymns
which even to-day may be heard in the
South, and sung them with such pathos
that the audience recalled the singers
again and again. She whom they call
the original Black Patti, sang Away
Down upon the Suwanee River and
when she tried to leave the stage such
an encore was given her that, stage
manager or no stage manager, she was
forced to come out and sing annie
Laurie And, the stage manager once
detied the rule mo encores' was broken,
and that was why the line of carriages
before the Auditorium stood half an
hour later than they were ordered"
At the examination for the appoint
ment to the naval academy at Annapo-
lis, the committee recommended Jas.
l.. Ackerson of Barry county for the
appointment, and Chas n Roach of
this county for alternate They found
but one point difference in the mental
examination, one being credited 81,
the other SO. Among those who took
the examination, there was great
deal of dissatisfaction, and the boys
freely charge that it was not fairly con-
Quoted. The Van Buren county mem
Der of the committee was not present,
and the chairman has refused to send
him the papers for inspection 1t is
quite probable another examination
may be held between Ackerson and
Roach, by 4 new committee, before
Congressman Thomas decides whom
to recommend for the appointment.
Roach once won an appointment to
Annapolis in the third district, but was
thrown out because he was not resi-
dent of that district, and ut another
time was one of five who were tied for
first place at Niles, in an examination
for appointment to West Point He is
a bright young man and the NORTH
ERNER hopes no injustice will be done
him in the present instance.