The true northerner., 1899-05-24
WHOLE NUMBER 23O5.

lib. Conner has been having his houses
repainted.
Amos Bierce returned from Missouri
last evening.
There will be ball game at the park
Tuesday, after the exercises.
l.. +. Shepard says he will have sew
eral hundred bushels of peaches.
There was a light frost two or three
mornings last week, but no damage was
done.
III. ID. Jennings is preparing to build
residence in town, on north Kalamazoo
street.
Married, May II, at the M. E. parson-
age, by Rev. r. o. Mather, Jens Hanson
Wester and Wilhelmina Slee, both of
| Bangor, Mich.
The latest news from Mrs. j. H. John
son. in hospital at Kalamazoo, is favor
able and strong hopes are enter tanned of
her ultimate recovery.
j. ID. Holmes is showing some fine car
riages this spring he's selling them,
too. Any desiring vehicles of any kind
would do well to see him.
j. w. Hastings of Geneseo, Ills, is
here doing business with e. r. Downing,
the real estate man. Mr.. Hastings ex-
poets to buy farm in this locality.
Isaac Burhans has purchased the
house at the corner of Paw Paw and La
Grave streets, north of John Walkers,
and will make Paw Paw his permanent
home.
Many farmers are ploughing up their
wheat and will put in corn. The fly is in
nearly every piece, and the prospect is
that the wheat crop will be the smallest
for many seasons.
Jay Smith and Ross Combs we're
brought before Justice Kelly of Law
aence yesterday, charged with larceny.
They pleaded guilty and were each re-
quested to deposite five dollars and costs,
with which request then complied-be-
cause they had to.
The council held special meeting
yesterday afternoon, going over the
whole waterworks matter with Mr.. Pearl.
The amount due him was 500 above the
original contract, but most of that
amount was in pipe, etc., not laid and
sold by him to the village. The final
settlement and acceptance is not many
days in the future.
Rev. Chas. Y Abrahamson, Armenian,
addressed large audiences at the M. E.
church, Sunday morning and evening,
and at the Baptist church Monday even
ing He is talented young man and
gave his hearers new insight to the Gus
toms of his people and the prosecutions
to which they are subjected by the
Turks. He is now an American citizen
and was educated in an American col
lege.
At II o'clock Monday night in mid
lake, Ed. Arnold, who was passenger
on the steamer Glenn from South Haven
drowned. The accident was seen by
about 40 nurses who were going to Chi
cago from training school at Battle
Creek The nurses and Arnold were the
only passengers on deck at the time the
accident occurred. The nurses, instead
of reporting the matter instantly, rushed
to the side of the vessel and watched be-
hind the boat for a sign of the man in
the water. Collecting their wits about
ID minutes later, they rushed to the
engineer, Perry Knaggs, in a body, and
all began talking at once. The vessel
was not stopped, but continued on her
way. Arnold had been drinking. Sew
eral years ago, he was resident of Paw
Paw and was for long time employed
in and around the Dyckman house, and
was married while here.
At the council meeting Monday even
ing, the gasoline engine at the electric
light plant was accepted and the bill for
it ordered paid, although some members
of the board are not fully satisfied with
: the machine. However, it seems to full
, fill the guarantees in the contract of
purchase. The assessor presented his
roll, which was approved, the total valu-
alton being s6l6,700. The finance COM
/, mttee recommended one per cent tax,
and submitted an estimate for the year,
showing probable deficit of $1,000, in
view of paying for the gasoline engine
and the construction of water extensions.
j. However it was deemed better to bor-
row as might be necessary during the
+, year, rather than to levy a heavier tax.
r The recommendation was adopted. The
fire and water committee was instructed
l to meet with Contractor Pearl and Engi-
g neer Pierson and figure up for final set
| tlement of the waterworks contract.
Contractor j. w. Pearl returned last
Saturday, and on Monday the water
works we're finally tested, Engineer Pier
son being present. The test was salts
: factory in all respects, except an evident
: shortage in the water supply when both
,. pumps were running at full force. How
ever, this is no concern of the contractor
as the village put in its own wells. The
:, !, supply is sufficient for all ordinary uses
: but might be overtaxed at a big fire
Additional wells can be put down al
'' small expense. The work on the plant
r has been thoroughly done throughout
j and our waterworks plant is sure to be I