The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1898-09-14

Waverly, with Miss Brummel as teacher.
This will be five years for Miss Brummel
in this district, which speaks well for
her as a teacher.
Miss Mabel O'Dell has been spending
a longer time than usual in Chicago this
season, studying the new styles in milli-
merry. The new goods are arriving at
Mrs. O'Dell's store, and she invites the
public to inspect them.
Rev. f. II. Harvey will speak before
the schools on Books and how to use
them" at the high school room, Friday
afternoon of this week at 2:45. The
students will surely enjoy it, and doubt
less many patrons will be present.
The annual session OF the Free Will
Baptist quarterly meeting convenes with
the church at Pearl at seven o'clock on
Friday, September 10. Election of Off
GERS at business session Saturday. Young
peoples work Saturday afternoon.
Showerman Bros, while in Chicago,
purchased 169 children's suits which
were used as sample suits. AS they
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actual worth, they are going to treat
their customers by offering them for half
the usual price.
The new steel on the railroad. it is
promised, will be laid into Hartford not
later than Friday of this week, and the
gauge will be widened next Sunday.
Another standard gauge engine-a heavy
locomotive of 20 tons-has been pur-
chased and is now at Lawton.
The street fair committee on attrac-
tions have many applications from ex-
cellent people--enough so that the sue
cess Of the fair is assured-but have not
yet closed all contracts. A balloon as
censlon is decided upon, and other at
fractions will be announced soon.
c. G. and John Searles have purchased
through f. E. Downing, the Frank
Rhodes farm, on the Four Mile lake
road. They will put the buildings in
first class repair, and John will move on
to the farm. Paw Paw people will be
glad to welcome him and his family back
TO this community.
Married, Wednesday evening, Septem-
ber Z, at the home of the brides parents
in this village, Mr.. Charles A. Norwood
and Miss Edna Folsom, Rev. Ross Mat
thews officiating. The bride and groom
are two of Paw Paws best young people
and the Northerner wishes them happi-
ness and prosperity.
Crossroads Of the Pacific" is the title
of the lecture soon to be given here by
Mrs. Cora d. Martin. 1t is unnecessary
for the Northerner to tell Paw Paw peo-
pie that anything done by Mrs. Martin
will be done well, and that the lecture is
sure to be entertaining. We hope the
opera house will be crowded to greet
her.
There was a great deal of complaint
among the republicans who attended the
convention at Hartford last week, over
their inability to secure enough to eat
| There is no excuse for such inadequate
arrangements for feeding a crowd, as
were made by our sister village. Moth
ing will so soon relegate town to the
rear as place foT holding conventions
and other like assemblages.
A letter from Jennie A. Hunt says
that she called on Roy Hinckley in the
hospital where he is at Brooklyn, and
that under the excellent care he is re-
ceiving, he is recovering from a severe
sickness from malaria and dysentery
While there the other day, Chas. Roach
also called on Hinckley, and says he
found him on the gain, cheerfully look.
ing forward to the time when he car
come home.
Following is the exact description
contained in a certain deed recorded in
the registers office last Friday Forty
acres of land off the east part of the
north east quarter of section No. six C.
in town No. four (4) south, range sixteer
90 west, according to the United States
survey thereof" 1t would take a mine
reader to determine just what forty
acres of land was intended to be con
veyed by such description. 1t is en-
tirely safe to say that it is not according
to any United States survey.
G. f.. Robinson of Lawrence, county
agent for the state board of correction:
and charities, requests the Northernel
to announce that the state public schoo
at Coldwater has, at present, an unusua
number of bright, attractive boys, rang
ing from one to ten years of age, foi
whom they are desirous to find gooC
homes. Responsible people who arc
willing to take one of these boys int
their homes can do so by applying tt
Mr.. G. f. Robinson or directly to Supt
j. b. Montgomery at Coldwater
Isaac A. McCon was born in Orang,
county, n Y, September l, 1914. WheI
he was IL years of age, he moved will
his parents to Tompkins county. A
the age of 19 he united with the Presby
terian church. He was engaged in tn
lumber business most of the time iron
1888 until 1915, when he was married t
Miss Eliza Teers of Ithaca, n. Y. II
! then bought farm near Ithaca, wher
5 he lived until 1857, when he sold ou
] and, with his family, came to Michiga
= and settled near Kalamazoo. In 1876