The true northerner., 1897-01-20
WHOLE NUMBER 2f83.

The general rally of the Free Baptist
missionary society will he held at the
home Of Mr.. and Mrs. IL. II Jennings
on Saturday OF this week. Teams will
he at j :. Barton's at 10 "A. m to carry
those who have no other way Of going;
picnic dinner, program and collection.
Abont O'clock yesterday morning,
fire was discovered In the county Jail
and the alarm was promptly given.
The rooms above the Jail proper were
filled with smoke, and investigation
showed the fire to he around the jail
stovepipe, where il passed through
partition. A few pals of water judi
ciously thrown through hole chopped
in the partition extinguished the tire in
a few minutes, no water being thrown
by the engine. The damage is nom
inal
The quiet aud pleasant home of Mrs.
M. A. Pepper was invaded last Friday
evening by some eighteen or twenty
members of the l.. o. L. NJ. bringing
with them well filled lunch baskets, and
they proceeded at once upon the enjoy
ment of delightful evening, at the
close of which thoughtful and con-
siderate present was made the host
Il
cluded her second term as lady com
mander of the local hive, and this
demonstration was an expression of
the esteem in which she is held by its
members.
In the appointment of senate com
mittees, Mr. Merrimau was hOnOred
with two chairmanships-the very i'm
portant finance and appropriations
committee, and the committee on roads
and bridges-and he is also member
of the committees on banks and cor
poratiOns, counties and townships,
judiciary. labor interests. In the house,
Mr.. Phillips is chairman of the com
mittee on state capitol and public
buildings and member of the commit
tees on education, central Michigan
normal school, revision and amend
ments of statutes. Van Buren's legis-
lators were very well cared for.
An effort is being made to reopen the
creamery. Farmers should be Interest
ed in this matter, and il seems as
though the present low price of butter
would awaken them to the value of this
institution MIR. Thompson, manager of
the company that conducted the cream
cry here last summer has been here look
ing the matter up and has consented
TO give the business one more trial
here, provided sufficient encourage
ment is held out To him. A meeting
will he held at the court house on Sat
urday afternoon of this week at two
o'clock, and all interested, especially
those who will furnish milk to the
creamery, should be present.
Usually, the U. 5. treasury depart
ment will receive minor coins, nickels
and pennies, from government credit
ors, only in legal tender sums. twenty
five cents. A large quantity of such
currency having accumulated in the
Paw Paw post Office, Mr.. Killefer wrote
to ascertain if the postal authorities
would not accept the same rs part of his
ordinary remittance. A reply was re-
ceived stating that il was an unusual
thing tn do, but under the circum-
stances they would accept what he had :.
Mr.. Killefer Rad been careful not To
say how much of that kind of stuff he
had on hand, but as soon as permission
To ship il was received, he gathered NJ
seventy dollars worth of pennies and
sixty dollars worth of nickels, weighing
about seventy pounds, and sent them
in. Everything went except one nickel
and few pennies which were returned
because they had holes in them.