The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-09-15

church last Sunday morning.
Another lot of 25 Italian shovelers
arrived here yesterday afternoon, and
are quartered at the Dyckman house,
where the railroad company has con-
tracted for their board and lodging for
three months.
Charles Swoap of Geneva is in Jail,
committed by Justice Taylor of that
township, charged with being disor-
derly person, in that he ran away and
refused TO support his family. His
sentence was $40 or go days.
At meeting of the board of educa-
tion held Monday evening, the follow
ing officers were all reelected: y. w.
Rowland, president; r. w. Broughton,
secretary; j. w. Free, treasurer. The
bond of the treasurer was fixed by vote
of the board at the sum of s6, 900.
Paw Paw grange will hold a festival
of fruits and melons on Friday evening
OF this week, at grange hall, to which
will be added literary program under
the direction of Pomona, !" one of the
goddesses of the grange. The doors
will be open to all members of the
grange, without regard to financial
standing. Let there be general rally
and reunion, with feast of reason"
as well.
Gen. Weyler is reported to be making
systematic effort to destroy all grow
ing crops in Cuba and to seize all live
stock in the hands of the Cubans, for
the purpose of starving the patriots in
to submission. +. Smith & Co.'S system
attic efforts to destroy high prices in
clothing and furnishings are bringing
them volumes of success, with their
greatest stock in the history of clothing
to select from. Their sign enlightens
all buyers.
On Thursday last, so "dagoes" ar
rived, to work on the S. H. Il F., and
Friday 80 more of the same kind of
laborers put in an appearance. They
are now at work at Lake Cora cutting
down the grades each side of the lake
and filling up the hollow. The Allen
hill, near Lawrence, will also be cut
down and the grade made much easier.
This work is preparatory to the widen
OF the gauge, but no one here is able to
say when the laying of iron will COM
mence.
Harrington Bros. took pretty nearly
every thing in sight with their Poland
n,
follows: 1st on boar two years old or
over; I'd on boar one year old or over;
1st on boar under six months; sweep
stakes on boar any age; sweepstakes
on boar and four of get; special
on best boar under one year; Cd on sow
two years old or over; Sd on SOW one
year old; I'd on SOW under one year; 1st
and I'd on SOW under six months; I'd on
hard. . nramiIims i'm all
Saturday afternoon, Mrs. II. w. Har-
vey met with painful accident. In
company with Mrs. McEntee, she was
driving home from town. A package
laundry they had with them was falling
over the dashboard. Mrs. Harvey
reached toward to catch it.. The horse
was frightened at the package or at her
motion, and kicked, one hoof striking
Mrs. Harvey squarely in the face. One
malar bone was broken, her nose, cheek
and lip severely cut and the roof of her
mouth injured. Under DR.. Hoyt's
care, she is recovering rapidly, but her
face will carry some Disagreement from
the accident.
In the educational fair at Gobleville
last week, Hugh Hurd won first prem
iums-an album and a handkerchief
box-for general drawing and village
map. Viola Monroe secured scholar
ship at Hillsdale for the best Grafton
from the 18th grade. Chas Burnham
won scholarship at Parsons business
college as first prize for penmanship.
Ada Smith secured first premiums
book-for the best and neatest examin-
alton papers. These four young people
were the only pupils from the Paw Paw
schools that competed for prizes, and
| they entered no contests except those
in which they secured the first prizes.
AS usual, Paw Paw schools were at the
! front.
The board of supervisors met Tues
day forenoon in special local option
session, pursuant to call of the county
clerk, and organized by the election of
of supervisor +. A. Chase of Waverly
as chairman. just after dinner, L. II.
Titus, attorney for the anti-saloon
league, came before the board and gave
them his version of the law, pointing
out some places of posting that he con-
sidered defective, and calling attention
to the affidavit of posting in Almena,
which he claimed showed only eight
DAYS instead of ten between posting and
| filing T. j. Cavanaugh, attorney for
the petitioners, presented their views
of the matter Prosecuting Attorney
Chandler, legal advisor of the board,
gave them an exposition of the law,
after which the board went to work, in
committee of the whole, comparing the
petitions with the poll lists. The ex-
animation of the petitions will probably
be completed to-day.
Pursuant to call published in last
weeks Northerner, goodly number of
Paw Paw ladies, many of them leaders
both in society and church, assembled
at the Disciple church and organized
themselves into a society to be known
as the "Anti-Saloon Daughters of Mich
| igan.n There were 40 charter members
of the society and the following officers
were chosen: Mrs. j. j. Woodman.
president; Mrs. A. G.. GlIdden, secre-
tary; Mrs Dan. Spicer, treasurer. The
avowed objects of the order are to pro-
mote the temperance cause and espec-
tally, in Van Buren county, to aid in
maintaining the local option law.
1t is intended to organize promptly in
every township in the county and, by
means of personal canvass-if an
election be called-to obtain the senti-
ment of every voter in the county in