The true northerner., 1898-05-18
WHOLE NUMBER 2252.

The board of review will meet Tuesday
and Wednesday, May "A and %, at the
Office of the superintendent of the poor
in court house, Paw Paw.
BY order of the post commander, the
following gentlemen have been detailed
to decorate soldiers graves in the various
cemeteries Memorial Day: Bangs ceme-
terry, Comrade III. III. jennings; Wildey
cemetery, Comrades Buys and Wilson;
Lee cemetery. Comrade Hiram Goss;
Waverly cemetery, Comrade w. III. Carr;
Almena cemetery, Comrade Geo. Whelan;
Clapp cemetery, Comrade H. j. Love
land; Old cemetery Comrade o. A. Rice;
Catholic cemetery, Comrade VIM. Sig
nor. The post goes in a body to Pros
pect Hill. Flags will be procured for the
work of above details from /. w. Hubert.
Flowers for decoration will be left at j.
{. Warmers store, and the public are in
vited to furnish as many as possible.
The prohibition party seems to have
gotten together, as evidenced by the fol
lowing call, sent TO the Northerner by
Chairman Fred r. Britten of the state
central committee, and signed by G. A.
Salyer, William Walker and William
Payne, citizens of Van Buren county:
"a mass convention of the prohibition
party of Van Buren, county is hereby
called to meet at the court house in Paw
Paw, May "A, at 2 o'clock p M, for the
purpose of appointing delegates to the
state convention at Lansing, August %.
All who formerly acted with this organ
ization and all other friends of prohibi-
ton, without regard to past party affilia-
tions, are cordially invited to cooperate
with the prohibition party of this county
and state and to participate in the
county and state conventions. State
Chairman Fred G. Britten will be pres
ent and address this county convention"
The street committee of the common
council is investigating the matter of
of cement and brick walks, with view
to recommending some more permanent
system than the plank walks that have
heretofore been built by the village. The
committee and some other members of
the council went to Decatur a few days
since, to inspect the brick walks that are
quite extensively in use there. Probably
the building ofallnew sidewalks of cement
will be recommended and adopted by the
council, and vitrified brick and stone
for crossings. The Northerner trusts
such action will be taken. Plank, while
cheap in the first instance, is in the long
run fearfully expensive material to use
for walks, and those who live here gen
Grafton hence, should the present system
be continued, would find their sidewalk
tax as great as it is to-day. We believe
well-constructed cement walks furnish a
permanent solution of this perplexing
question.
The Adventist campmeeting, to be
held from May 26 to June 6. bids fair to
be meeting of more than passing in
terest. All that is possible will be done
to make it interesting and profitable to
the people of Paw Paw. 1t is not intend
ed to be an outbust of religious fanaticism,
nor is it a money making scheme, as
every meeting will be free: but it is in
tended that it will be an educational af-
fair, to which every one is invited. The
preaching will be largely of a practical
nature, treating of great christian prin-
ciples. Instruction is also to be given in
healthful cookery, by scientific teachers
from the Battle Creek sanitarium. This
is matter of growing interest every
where, and the sanitarium is authority
on this point. Mrs. S. NJ |. Henry, late
national evangelist and now vice presi
dent of the w. G.. T. u. representing S.
ID. Adventist work in that line, will be
present and will speak. There will
be a reception tent with chairs and
couches, where the feeble ones can rest.
The meeting will be held on the old de
pot grounds on Kalamazoo street, which
have been donated for the use of this
meeting. Elders Stureman and Good
rich are already in town, making pre-
parations for the meeting and getting
acquainted with the people.
Under the heading, "In honor of a
brave man" the Sunday Free Press
highly eulogizes the late Gen. c. L..
Eaton of this place, in connection with
the naming of the camp of the state
| troops III MS nOnOr' fOllOWlnp are SOlne
of the praises bestowed: Quarter
master General Will l.. White of
Grand Rapids struck a popular chord
when he named the military camp at Is
land Lake in memory of Charles l..
Eaton, the late adjutant-g general. No
name, perhaps, could have been selected
more appropriate and fitting more graft
fying to the citizens of Michigan, militia
ry and civilian, than that of the brave
soldier and distinguished gentleman,
who was adiutant- general and chief-of-
staff under Gov. Rich. All who knew
Gen Eaton realize that had his life been
spared he would have been foremost
figure in the present crisis, and it is
, therefore eminently proper that his
} name should at this time be recalled al
J the encampment of the Michigan Ma
tional Guard, in whose service the last
J years of his life we're spent. y y
) The youngest of all the commanders o
the Michigan department of the Crane
Army of the Republic, Gen. Eaton was
the first tn reSnond tn the dread sum