The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-12-01
WHOLE NUMBER 1928.

ROlla Loveland commenced teaching
Monday morning in district No. /, De-
catur, in the southeast part of the
township.
Miss Rosa Goss, daughter of Hiram
Goss, died this morning at the home in
the south part of the village, from
Bright's disease. She was 10 years old.
According to Niles dispatch, Con-
gresham +. l.. Hamilton declares him
self decidedly in favor of annexing
Hawaii, and believes tina. congress In
its next session will certainly ratfy
treaty with the Hawaiian republic.
John Il. Hiler, the much married
man, whose matrimonial career is fa-
miliar To Northerner readers, is back at
his home in Grand Haven, living with
his latest bride, "A Cincinnati girl. Hiler
says his father-in- law, police sergeant,
is the best he ever had.
The Northerner has it on good
authority that the G. j. q M. assumed
control last night of the branch of the
Z. ~ w. M. running from Allegan to
Holland. This gives the &. j. & M. its
much talked of lake connection, and
renders it improbable that the road has
any connection with the narrow gauge
changes here, as has been thought by
some. Now the question is, who owns
the narrow gaugeg
The course of Monday evening lec-
lures at the Presbyterian church will
begin next Monday evening, December
6, with "A Trip through Britain" by
Rev. John Gray, ID. d., of Kalamazoo.
The following Monday evening, Decem-
ber 13, with lecture by Rev. H. w.
Harvey entitled, "a Look Backward.
The closing lecture will be given De-
cember %, by Rev. Geo. +. Hunting,
ID. D., of Marshall, entitled pictures
and Parallels" Tickets for the entire
course, 30 cents, may be had at the
Savings Bank or at Jay Cummings store
Some time since, the representative
of a new telephone company having
lines running out from Grand Rapids
in various directions, was here looking
over the ground with view TO build
ing line to this place. AS will be
seen in our Glendale correspondence,
the line is now there and will be here
soon. Ii will be welcome, especially
as it promises to give service to large
Scope of territory, eventually. Any
thing that will give even partial relief
from the bigh-class prices and low
class service of the Bell people, will be
an Improvement. We understand the
new line is metallic one.
President A. A. Patterson and his
father and Attorney Kelly of the S. III.
q f., with a couple of other officials of
the road, came here by special train
from Hartford, Monday afternoon, to
confer with Superintendent Meredith.
They inquired of him as to the posi-
bility of getting the rest of the standard
guage iron laid as far as Hartford this
! fall and getting standard cars running
for the winter, provided the iron is Sc
cured and the work done at once. Mr..
Meredith told them he thought it could
be done and they talked as though an
effort would be made to push the work
to completion, in spite of the lateness
of the season. President Patterson is
anxious to meet the leading business
people of Paw Paw, to talk the railroad
situation over with them, and it is init
mated he may have something to offer
that will be worth while. The Norther-
ner believes an arrangement should be
made for meeting the railroad people,
and that they should be met half way
in any,efforts they may make in the di-
rection of giving us adequate railway
service.