The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-08-31

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Murray DeGraff, who arrived home
from Montauk Point last week, contin-
ues very seriously i'll and is in critical
condition.
If you wish to hear good singing, go
and see Beale's Black Boomers at the
opera house, Thursday. September /;
15 % and 80 cts.
A. L. Hall purchased last week a fine
Whaley gelding from Howard Lobdell
of Hartford, and sold him to Mr. Cappon
of Holland, Mich.
Supt. OLeary will be at the high
school room Saturday from l to 4 p M,
to classify applicants for admission.
Conditions" may be removed at that
time.
w. X. Sellick is in market this week,
making fall purchases of dry goods. We
! are informed this house has made great
preparations for showing a fine line of
goods.
The Bloomingdale Milling Co.'S mill
burned at Bloomingdale, Saturday night.
w. w. Whitney, formerly of this village,
was one of the owners. The loss was
S1l 900, insured for $1,000.
Mrs. J. f. Brown of Des Moines,
Iowa, daughter in-law of Mr.. and Mrs
Jesse Brown of this place, was quite Sc
riously injured in a runaway accident
in that city last week.
After the picnic at Lake Cora Wednes
day, Hon. +. l.. Hamilton came to
Paw Paw and took supper here. He met
large number of friends during his
short stay in the village.
A dispatch received by Mayor Stearns
of Kalamazoo announces the death of
James X. Evers, one of the kalamazoo
hustlers," at Dawson. This is the party
with whom Fred Longwell went to
the Klondike.
1t will be bitter pill for some Paw
Paw democrats to swallow, to vote for
Roman |. Jarvis for Congress and some
of them openly say they won't take the
dose. The local democracy wouldn't
permit him TO speak here two years ago.
Over 800 visitors inspected the new
waterworks well last Sunday. The wa
ter is found to have magnetic properties
and numerous knives were magnetized
The wells will be flowing next Sunday,
and on week days also, so that all can
have the opportunity of seeing them.
Next Friday evening, Mr.. A. c.. Glidden
will speak to the grange on What | saw
and heard in Arkansas" The session
| 30 Nha - =
is hoped each member of the order and
many others will be present to greet Mr..
Glidden. The order will meet promptly
at 7:30.
While II. NJ. Rice and his wife were
driving along the highway the other
day, rifle ball wounded one of their
horses so that it died. The gun was
fired by L. G.. Newton, who claimed he
was shooting at chicken. A man who
aims at chicken and kills horse ought
to make a famous hunter for big game.
Legal proceedings will likely follow.
Mrs. c. r. Ocobock has rented the
fine rooms on the first floor of the Con
ner building, opposite the abstract office,
and will open dressmaking parlors there
September l. Mrs. Ocobock is known
to the ladies as an exceedingly tasteful
and fashionable dressmaker, and will
doubtless enjoy fine patronage in her
new location. The parlors are finely ar
ranged.
A reward of 500 is offered for the ar
rest and conviction of the parties who
blew the doors from the safe of III. NJ.
Olney IL Co. at Hartford last Thursday.
The firm offers $3.50 and the sheriff $3.50.
There is no clew to the perpetrators.
The Northerner understands the robbers
would have been well paid for their
trouble had they succeeded in blowing
open the vault.
Paw Paw merchants have agreed, com
mencing September l, to close their
stores at o'clock each evening except
Saturdays, until January /, and at I
o'clock from the first of the year until
Nav /. This is movement in the inter
est of the clerks, to give them their
evenings, and it seems to Us as though
the public should be willing to conform
to the new condition, so as to work no
inconvenience or loss to either the bust
ness men or their patrons.
Llewellyn ID. Bradley, better known as
Dick. was caught in the cellar of Ham
ilton's drug store last Sunday morning
by Mr.. Callahan, clerk in the store
who says Dick was leaving the store
with cargo of whiskey in bottles. He
obtained entrance through the transom
On complaint of Mrs. Jennie Hamilton
= propretress of the store, Bradley was
arrested and arraigned before Justice
f; Rowland on charge of burglary. He
waived examination and, in default oi
? $500 bail, was committed to jail to await
5 the sitting of the circuit court.
, Mr.. II. w. Montross of Galien, who il
in town, is making some changes will
his horses and is disposing of some o
!, the colts from his famous race and brooC
|. mare. Minnie Warren, 2:274. The hand
n some black stallion, Campfire 20760, stree
}. by Young Wilkes, goes to Mr.. f. ID
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