The true northerner., 1898-05-25


sociation, arrived at home last Friday
evening. They report successful meet
ing.
|. Z. X. Avery, as usual, has list of
money-saving bargains in this weeks
Northerner. The prices quoted are new,
and no one would suspect from them
that there was any such thing as "war
prices"
We have received from Fred Gooding
a copy of the Shoshone, Idaho, Journal
of May 20, with the following item
marked: "The Gooding wool consign-
ment, composed of a special train of 20
cars, left here Sunday"
The railroad bond Injunction matter
was argued at Kalamazoo, Saturday.
Attorney w. G.. Howard appeared for
Mr.. Dodge, and Attorneys Kelly and
Cavanaugh for the railroad. Judge Buck
has not yet made decision.
Rev. f. H. Harvey will deliver his lee
ture on "The Franciscans" at the Pres
byterian church, Saturday evening, May
%. This is a subject of much interest
1t will be well worth making an extra
effort to hear this lecture One admis-
sion, ID cents, or two for % cents.
Messrs. Thomas, Hinckley and Lam
berson, who went to Battle Creek last
week to enlist in the regular army were
all accepted and are now on their way to
join the second infantry at Tampa. Mon
day, number of young ladies remem-
bered them, sending dainty box of del
icacies to them.
The First National Bank of this place
subscribed for $4,000 of the Michigan
war bonds, which bear interest at 3l5
per cent. The bonds were sold by the
state at premium of one per cent The
subscriptions so far exceeded the bond
issue, that only $1,000 were awarded to
the First National.
Messrs. John Haworth, l. J. Cummings,
w. b. Barton, r. Smith, Messrs. and
Mesdames Henry Holt, O. B. Smith and
Will Strowbridge, Mesdames Jennie Bus
kirk and ID. Chapman attended rally
of the international Congress at Dowa-
giac, Tuesday evening" given by Dowa-
giac assembly No l.
Everybody is busy to-day on the Ad-
ventist camp ground, and by tonight it
will be covered with white cottages for
the ten days meeting to begin Thursday
A large tent for books, healthfoods, gro
ceries, etc, has been set. A large double
tent is being seated, which will furnish
comfortable seats for all.
a letter from John CRANE brings the
news that he succeeded in getting into
the army, in Chicago, having enlisted in
the cavalry for three years. He passed
examination and was accepted last
Thursday, was ordered to Fort Sheridan
and expects to go to Tampa or some
other southern point very soon.
The Unity Whist club went to School
craft, Saturday evening, as guests of Mr.
and Mrs. L. X. Woodman. They were
pleasantly entertained. Mr.. and Mrs
Woodman were old members of the club
and they expect to soon leave Schoolcraft
for a suburb of Chicago, to which place
the ladder factory of which Mr.. Wood
man is manager will be removed.
A short time since, one Fred Grant OF
Pine Grove made complaint before JUS.
tice Rowland that his employer, George
Spencer, had committed a grievous as
sault upon him and, in proof of his ale
CATION, he exhibited badly bruised anC
highly discolored visual organ. A war
rant was issued and Spencer was ap
pretended. Meanwhile, he Spencer
had made complaint before Justice Cros
by of Pine Grove and had procured {
warrant for the arrest of Grant for al
alleged assault and battery growing out
of the same transaction, and to substan
tiate his complaint he exhibited badly
bruised and wounded arm, the result, a:
he alleged, blow struck by Grant witt
an iron rod, pump handle or other letha
weapon. That the parties had been en-
gagged in something more than a friendly
bout, the wounds and bruises on eacf
of their persons were ample proof Ac
cording to the story told by each of the
participants in the atfray, the relator was
wholly sinned against, while the othel
fellow was "bad" man. 1t is just pos
sible that each might have been convict
ed had the cases come to trial, but the!
did not Each party dismissed the cast
he had begun and paid the costs hc
had caused to be made, thus ending tht
IsN.