The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-10-25
Local Department.

Miss Pearl Waters of Lawton was in
Paw Paw, Saturday.
d. II. Patterson was in Chicago the
fore part of the week.
Mrs. j. II. Desmond and family have
returned from Chicago.
E. E. Downing has purchased Frank
Coles fine pacing mare.
New paint adds much to the appear
ance of the NJ. h. church.
G. II. Mosier was i'll and confined to the
house, but is now out again.
Will Hopkins of Petoskey has been the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Grimes.
Attorney Sam Kelley of Benton Har-
Dor has been in town this week.
Col. and Mrs. j. G.. Todd of Bangor
were in town Friday and Saturday.
f. l.. Moe, who has been dangerously
i'll from blood poison, is some better.
Mrs. John McCloskey visited friends
in Decatur the early part of last week
Lawyer Tuttle of Hartford was in town
Monday on business before the probate
court.
Mrs. ID. F. Hicks of Boston is spending
few days with Mr.. and Mrs. III. G..
| Waters.
Mason Fish expects to leave next week
for Cadillac, where he will make his flu
ture home.
Nearly everybody from this vicinity
went to the Kalamazoo street fair, Thurs
day and Friday.
Mrs. Snow and daughter, Mrs. Pearl
Pritchard, visited last week in Hartford
and Watervliet.
A large delegation of Paw Paw Ma
sons attended the funeral of John H..
Everest, Sunday.
l.. f. Trescott has purchased the
Beddo house and is repairing it, prepar-
atory to moving in.
This promises to be the banner stove
season with III. G.. Waters & Co, their
sales to date numbering 72 since Septem-
ber /.
There will be quarterly meeting services
at the NJ. r.. church next Sunday morn
ing; sermon by Rev. r. w. Van Schoick,
d. ID.
A large number of Paw Paw Sunday
school workers will attend the county
convention at Gobleville, to-day and to-
morrow.
Married, Saturday, October 21, at
Paw Paw, by Justice o. w. Rowland,
Mr.. William Henry and Miss Jessie Cogs-
well, both of Geneva.
For the benefit of the Sunday school,
box social will be given at the Lee
school house, Friday evening, October
81 All are invited.
The S. III. & e. company have been do
ing great deal of work on their track
and road bed, which is now in better
condition than ever before.
Married, Saturday, October q, at
Lake Park, by Justice o. w. Rowland
Mr.. Alex. II. Rudow and Miss Bessie
Jarvis Bradley, both of South Haven.
Harry Douglas, who is taking another
two years to complete the course in the
chemical department at the university,
is also employed in Calkin's drug store
at Ann Arbor.
Prof E. A. Reed of Kalamazoo college
will address the county Sunday school
convention at Gobleville this evening
and Hon. Thos. f. Barkworth of Jackson
tomorrow evening.
The Hartford Day Spring takes very
common sense view of the county seat
question. While it would like the county
seat for it's own town, it can see no ad-
vantage in removal to South Haven.
Henry and Fred Hinckley and their
families left Monday for their new home
in Hastings. They took their livery
stock across the country Paw Paw loses
estimable residents by their departure.
A letter from Jesse B. Thomas says the
soldiers left Fort Smelling, Sunday, for
San Francisco and expect to go the Phil
ippines in very short time. He says
his regiment, the 45th U. S. V. Inft., is
the finest he ever saw.
l.. E. Shepard has purchased Germain
Prater's farm. Mr. Prater has bought
and will occupy A. w. Showerman S
house in the north part of the village
Mr.. Showerman and family will move
into the Mrs. Rose Smith house.
The Courier says that under republi-
can rule the Northerner received S15 per
term for printing court calendars. The
only answer we have to make is that il
the Courier refers to anytime within the
last ten years, the Courier lies.
The present season has been a busy
one in Paw Paw in a building way. A
number of new houses have been built
and great deal of repairing done anc
additions built to older residences. Paw
Paw to-day looks what she is, the mos
lively and prosperous town in the county