The true northerner., 1898-04-27

LuWdIu outIou, iOrlntTly Oi IllS place.,
is member of Co. "C", and went with
them from Kalamazoo, Tuesday, to
Island Lake. II is probable they will
go to the front.
The board requests all owners of lots
in the Wildey cemetery to meet there on
Friday, May 6, to fix up the lots, as some
of them are in bad repair. 1t is desired
to give the cemetery more pleasing ap-
pearance.
The G.. A. r. hall was crowded Mon
day evening, at the entertainment given
under the auspices of the order. The
program was an excellent one, and the
veterans entertained their guests in a
happy manner.
VIM. Signor was exhibiting new pota-
toes few days ago, raised by himself at
his place in this village and large enough
for home consumption. He did not say
whether he raised them by the parlor
stove or kitchen fire.
The art exhibition and musical enter
tainment announced for last week, will
surely occur at the Presbyterian church
parlors, Friday evening, April 20, at 7:30
o'clock. The fine collection of pictures
on exhibition will be for sale. Come pre-
pared to buy if you find what pleases
you. Admission ID cents. Light refresh
ments will be served.
The fall of Moro castle will occur
simultaneously with the fall of prices at
the great whale success. War will raise
the prices of all luxuries and commodi-
ties, and the prices of clothing will nee
essarily be higher than they are now.
They have therefore arranged a grand,
radical reduction all along the line
simply to meet this emergency of war
offering you emergency prices that must
of necessity move you thitherward.
April g. the high School Athletic asso-
citation of Van Buren, county was organ
lied at Lawrence, for the governing of
athletic sports among the high schools of
the county. The officers are as follows:
Pres, j. A. O'Leary, Paw Paw; lst vice
pres, L. l.. Griswold, Hartford; I'd vice
pres, f. G. Penoyar, Bangor: sec'y, A. ID.
Prentice, South Haven treas, w. V.
Sage, Decatur. The officers are super
intendents of schools in their respective
towns. The first field day will be at
Hartford, Saturday. May %, with all
kinds of athletic contests. The event
promises to be an interesting one.
Johnny Cook has sat upon the North
erner again. Johnny evidently cannot
tell the Northerner from chair: he sits
on it at every opportunity. This time
| it's all because the Northerner said it
hoped that Deputy Game Warden Thayer
would be able to stop the illegal spear
ing that has nearly ruined the fishing in
our lakes. The Northerner is "squelch-
ed" by Johnny's arguments, but still be-
lieves in the enforcement of law. Evi-
IDENTITY Johnny doesn't. When he goes
to the legislature, he may be able to ac-
complish the repeal of the fish and game
laws. Until then, the Northerner will
continue to advocate their enforcement
A Washington dispatch to the Detroit
Free Press says: michigan has many
patriots, without doubt, but Senator
Burrows has received a letter from Geo
w. Myers of Hillsdale, that proves him
as Enthusiastically loyal now as when he
served his country, as he says, from 1862
to the end of the war He is not able
he writes, to go to- war and endure all its
hardships, but if the senator can find
any Michigan man here in any of the de
partments who is able to go and desires
to do so, whose place he can fill during
his absence, he will gladly come and re-
lieve him, and will allow him to dra W
his present salary, while he Myers will
take the soldiers pay for his services"
On the Sth day of January last, some
body stole some skunk skins from the
storehouse of Ellsworth Nicholas at Law
renee. The skins were traced to Dowag-
lac, where they we're sold. Nicholas, on
the 30th day of March, made a complaint
of burglary against Arba Martin, Bert
Lawton and Victor Cornwell, all of Law
renee, charging them with breaking and
entering the storehouse and stealing the
skins. A warrant was issued and, or
Saturday last, the boys were arragned
before Justice Rowland. They all ad
mitted the larceny, but denied the bur
glary, claiming that they entered the
building through an open window The
prosecutor, thinking it very doubtful il
burglary could be proved dismissd the
case and instituted new one charging
simple larceny, to which the boys pleaded
guilty. They were each sentenced tc
pay fine and costs to the amount oi
forty-fve dollars or to forty-fve days in
Jail. Martin and Cornwell paid; Lawtor
is serving out his sentence.
THE LATEST.