The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-03-17
WHOLE NUMBER 219i.


The ladies Of the Coterie have been
exceedingly fortunate in securing Col.
Geo w. Balm, the Kentucky orator.
10 lecture for them. Thursday evening,
March %, the subject being The New
Woman and the Old Man" 1t will be
remembered that Mr.. Balm gave
lecture here last year and made most
favorable impression. At Longwelrs
opera house; admission, 25 cents.
The bills advertising the entertain
ment To begiven at the opera house this
"wednesday evening, under the aus
pces OF the young people of st. Mary's
church, indicate pleasant evening for
all who attend. The Candidate for
Congress" is an extremely funny com
edy, and the "Up-to.Dates' are said to
give fine concert. The double pro-
gram is big when compared with the
size of quarter of dollar.
The next meeting of the high school
lyceum will be held Friday afternoon
of this week comm sncing at o'clock.
Instead of debate there will be an
oratorical contest for the school, TO de-
eide who will represent the school at
the district contest, to be held at Paw
Paw, April 8. The contestants will be
Mr.. Fred Webb, Misses Viola Salisbury
and Viola Monroe. Good music and
other exercises will be interspersed.
The past week has been busy one
for our surgeons. Aside from the
accidents mentioned elsewhere, DIR.
HOyt, assisted by DIR. Maxwell, removed
tumOr from the person of Mrs. Freer,
of Waverly and also performed an
operation on Mrs Ward of Almena,
and performed n delicate operation on
the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. +. b.
Longwell. DR.. Maxwell, assisted by
DR.. Hoyt, removed (enucleated) an eye
for the son of John Clary of Antwerp.
Stephenson's maguiscope and concert
phonOgraph company will give enter
tainments at Longwells opera house,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday even
ings of this week The magniscope is
mechanism that produces what are
practically living pictures, thrown up
on screen as with stereopticon, but
SO life-like as to he startling. The
press of Niles and other places where
the company has appeared speak highly
of the entertainment.
The Paw Paw Valley Spiritual asso-
citation will hold its anniversary meet
ing at Paw Paw, Saturday and Sunday,
March 27-2S. The business session for
the election of officers and to consider
change in the bylaws will be held in
the grange building Saturday at p m,
after which there will be picnic supper
and social in the evening Mrs Marion
Carpenter of Detroit will give lee
lures and tests at 1920 and $50 Sun
day, at the opera house.
AT the Free Baptist church last even
ing, commenced a series of lectures on
"The Nazarene, or the Reasouableness
of Christianity" by John B. Koehne of
Pittsburgh, Pa. The subject last even.
ing, The Orient; this evening, THE
Occident; Thursday, Judaism; Friday,
Christianity. There will be no lecture
Saturday night. Sunday morning he
will speak on Miracles" Sunday even
ing on The Church; Monday.
"Ingersollism;" Tuesday, The New
Aristacracy" These lectures are
all free except the closing one, and are
worthy the at tention of thinking people.
The cannery talk has been revived
with new vigor. A gentleman from
Indianapolis, Mr.. Hubbell, a manufac-
turer of canning machinery who is also
extensively interested in canning plants
in Indiana, came here in hope OF
selling machinery for a factory. He
| found the outlook here so favorable for
such an enterprise that he has offered
to take 81 500 worth of stock in $1,000
company, and several local business
men are interested in it, some of them
manifesting desire to take consider
able stock. The prospect for a cannery
is now brighter than at any time dur
ing the winter, and 1t does not now
seem improbable that the factory will
be started. 1t would be a fine thing
for the town, and for the farmers as
well
In the case of Mary A. Murphy, ad
ministrator Of the estate of Agnes
Murphy, deceased, VS.. the Michigan
Central railroad, tried in the u. ).
court at Grand Rapids, judgment of
$S, 900 was entered against the railroad
The action was for damages for the
death of Mrs. Murphy of Lawton,
formerly a Paw Paw lady, caused by
being thrown from carriage on the
railroad crossing at Lawton. The case
was first tried in the circuit court OF
this county, where judgment of 5000
was recorded in favor of the plaintiff.
The defendant removed the case TO the
supreme court, where it was reversed
and sent back for new trial. MIR.
Tabor, attorney for the plaintiff,
abandoned the case and commenced
over in the u. :. court, with the result
stated above.