The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-08-11

The East and West Farmers club
will meet at 1.-The Twin Naples" home
of Mr.. and Mrs. M. j. Gov, September
..
The Ladies' Missionary society of the
Baptist church will meet with Mrs.
Mason on Saturday afternoon at three
o'clock.
The farmers club excursion is not
abandoned, as has been reported, but
will be run on the 18th as noted in last
weeks issue.
The Disciple Y. p. s. G.. f. will serve
ice cream next Tuesday evening, at the
home of NJ. o. Rowland A brief
literary and musical program will be
given. All are invited.
Rev. +. Is. Stearns of Lawrence was
in town yesterday. The Lawrence and
Hartford Congregational churches have
asked him to remain with them another
two years as their pastor.
Dogs have again been killing sheep
east of town. James Nelson has lost
one and A. G. Glidden two and one
wounded. One dog is dead and two or
three others are doomed.
The case of the people VS.. Geo.
Bruner, for assault and battery on David
Shaefer, was tried before Justice War
ner, without jury. Bruner was found
guilty and was fined 81 and costs, which
he paid.
About 80 attended the Disciple Sun
day school picnic at -Four Mile lake,
Friday. All enjoyed themselves inn
mensely. 1t was one Of the most sue
cessful picnics in the history of the
school.
A night blooming cereus with Just a
single beautiful blossom, in the window
of Lougwell Bros store last Monday
evening, attracted good deal of atten-
ton. The plant belonged to Mrs. j.
II. Johnson.
f. Smith & Co.'S sign enlightens all
southwestern Michigan. All can en-
tighten themselves on the price of cloth
ing by reading their advertisements in
this paper. They advertise an eXplo-
sion price suit sale.
Geo. L. Bruner has recently traded
his residence property in Lawrence for
planning mill and machinery in Bloom
ingdale. Clark Wilson, who has been
with Mr.. Bruner for some time, will
nave cnarRe Oh Ine business.
There are a good many thousand
peach trees within radius of ten miles
of this village, but probably there are not
ten bushels of peaches on all of them
put together There is many an orchard
in which cannot be found single peach.
A missionary concert will take the
place of the usual service at the Bap-
tst church Sunday evening. Original
papers will be given by Miss Lena
Wise, Mrs. David Anderson and Mrs
Hewson, and a recitation by Miss
Bertha Wise.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. DeHaven and son
Guy arrived home from California,
Saturday night, and will again make
their home in this village. The climate
OF California was so detrimental to
Guys health as to make their return to
Michigan necessary.
Rev. II. W. Harvey will exchange
pulpits next Sunday with Rev. F. b.
Stearns of Lawrence. The latter will
speak in the Presbyterian church both
morning and evening At the union
evening service, the address will be
especially TO the young people. Mr..
Stearns is president of the Van Buren
County G. +. union.
Clifton Rowlee of Hamilton was ar.
raigned before Justice Rowland last
Monday, charged with having COM
mitted an assault and battery upon the
person of Almon Shoudy of the same
township. Rowlee entered plea of
not guilty and was released on his own
personal recognlZance to appear for
trial on the 25th inst.
By special arrangements with the
Detroit Journal Co., we are enabled to
offer the Northerner and the Semi.
Weekly journal both for 81 so per year.
This excellent offer, or else the North
erHer and the Weekly Inter Ocean for
81 50 per year, should be embraced by
a great many people. These prices are
for strictly advance payment only.
The Northerner is pleased to an
nounce that Mr.. +. A. Wildey has de-
cided To make the buying OF wheat a
business in the Paw Paw market, and
will pay the highest market price for
all that is offered. Mr.. Wildey's stand
ing among the farmers is of the best,
and we know of no man whom we
would rather see buying wheat in Paw
Paw.
A good crowd attended the NJ. f.
Sunday school picnic at Lake Park,
Friday. The pleasure of the day was
marred by A. T. Halls little child get
ting lost He was missed just at dinner
time, and it took diligent search for an
hour and half to find the little fellow
wandering contentedly in the woods.
Aside from this incident, the picnic was
success.
Lyman Hinckley died Thursday
morning last, aged 20 years. He had
been in poor health for many years and
for the past three years he had been
confined to the house most of the time.
Paw Paw township had been his home
since boyhood. He leaves wife
and seven children to mourn his death
The funeral was held at the home Fri
day at p. IN.
The Presbyterian excursion to Maca-
| tawa, last week Wednesday, was n sue
cess, financially and otherwise. Seven
carloads of people took advantage OF
the opportunity for an outing. The
engine was unable to handle the heavy
train nicely, and the run to South
Haven occupied nearly four hours. The
Glenn was ready for the lake trip when
the excursionists arrived, and it was
enioyed by those who were so for