The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-10-11
WHOLE NUMBER 1925.

The clutches have arrived for the
electric light plant. Rain in plenty may
now be expected
There is great interest in the yacht
race off Sandy Hook and everyone is
hoping that the Columbia will distance
the Shamrock. r. Smith & Co. claim to
distance all competition for lower Mich
igan at their "half the usual profit"
clothing sale. See their bulletin on the
last page.
The oldest residents of the county say
that more snow fell in September, 1899,
than they ever saw before in Michigan.
Advance. "Oldest residents" must
have short memory. We have seen
more snow fall in Michigan in half an
hour than fell through the entire month
of September, 1899.
The Cummings dry goods store is to
have its first large jacket, cape and fur
sale on the 24th 25th, Goth and 9th of
this month. To this sale they invite the
trade of Paw Paw and vicinity ip their
new adv. They report a wonderfully in
creasing business, due to the well select
ed stock of goods there found.
Mr.. w. G. Drury, who has had the
management of the Lawton Leader for
the past year, left Saturday for Wyom-
ing, where he is interested with his
brother in the printing and mining busi-
ness. He will be succeeded in the Leader
office by Mr.. L. A. Hubbard of Decatur,
who for the past year has been foreman
of the Decatur Republican.
| Fred Burk, Mrs. Rosa Moon and Mrs.
May Stocking had an accident in Kala-
mazoo, Thursday. Their horse became
| frightened at street car at the corner
of Michigan Avenue and Academy street,
and the carriage was overturned, throw
ing them out. Mrs. Moon was quite
seriously injured, the others were un-
hurt. All returned to this place Satur-
day. The rig was from a Paw Paw
livery.
The Courier said last week that no ar
rests had been for the Lawton dynamite
outrage. At the very time, Stocking the
husband of the woman in the case. had
been taken into custody, adjudged in
sane and placed in the Kalamazoo asylum,
where he had been before. There is not
the slightest doubt that actuated by
jealousy, he perpetrated the crime that
might have been fraught with so serious
results. His disordered mind made him
entirely irresponsible.
About 1880 Monday night, the town
was aroused by an alarm of fire. The
residence of Mrs. L. B. Irwin was in
fiames and was practically destroyed
with all its contents. The fire depart
ment did good work, but the fire was
too well under way before its discovery
to make it possible to save the house.
Mrs. Irwin lived in the house, which she
had insured for 800 and her household
goods for $500, which will not fully cover
the loss. Mrs. Wells, who lives next
door, was the first to discover the fire
and gave the alarm.
The Northerner complains that more
than three months have elapsed since
the legislature adjourned and all the laws
have all gone into effect and nobody, in
Van Buren, county at least, knows what
they are. Guess the Northerner man is
off his base. The Advance has copy of
the public acts of 1S99 and the North
erner man can get one if he knows how.
Advance. OH The Northerner man
knows how, ali right enough. He could
have somebody to steal one for him, or
he could go to Lansing and steal one for
himself, but as the law requires the sec
retary of state to send him one, he pre-
fers to wait, even if the over-worked state
administration don't forward it until the
next legislature meets.
"Paw Paw man wants his money back"
says the South Haven Tribune, speaking
of the Goss- Overton board of trade case
recently tried in the circuit court. The
Tribune will please take notice that
neither of the litigants in that case were
Paw Paw men. The Tribune also says,
speaking of the parole of Melvin Howard
by Gov Pingree, that Howard was sent
up for life for seriously cutting Deputy
Sheriff Henry McCabe in the abdomen.
Howard was not sentenced for life and
McCabe was not wounded in the abdo-
men nor in any other part of his anato-
my, at least not to the best of his recol-
lection, and he thinks he would remem-
ber it if it were so. The Tribune would
hardly take first prize in guessing con-
test.
The following named young men, re-
Gently mustered into the 10th regiment
of U. S. infantry, left Paw Paw last Sat
urday for Fort Smelling, Minn., where
the regiment will rendezvous, prior to
going to the Philippines: Jesse b.
Thomas, Mark Chaffee, Dan Robb, Will
Ca mpbell, Henry Nichols, Chas. Krauft-
haus, Frank Long, Frank Hanson, Nor
gan Burns, r. F.. Nicholson, Verne Phil
lips and David Green. Only one of these
boys, j. b. Thomas, who was at the siege
of Santiago, has ever seen any military
service. When they reached Lawton
they we're joined by seven other recruits:
James Ickes, Henry Wilson, John Cronk,
James Shanahan, Harlan w. Cross, Bert
Morley and Clarence Mack. The Paw Paw
boys were escorted to the depot by
martial band and crowd of old soldiers