The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-12-27
Sleighs are running.

Advertised letter: Mrs. Ike Vanhoute
Guy DeHaven spent Christmas
e Kalamazoo.
Will Barton was here from Dowagia
for Christmas
BERTHE Cole is spending a few days
Grand Rapids.
: Miss Lottie Showerman is home to re
main until March.
The boys are improving vacation weel
skating on the ponds.
Miss Lois Wilson of Mt. Pleasant i
home for the holidays.
The Northerner wishes you a happ,
and prosperous new year.
Communion service at the Free Bap
tlst church next Sunday morning.
Harry Snow is attending the state
teachers association at Lansing this
week.
Miss Rose Floring is spending the hol
ldays at the home of her parents, at La
Grange, Indiana.
Prof. and Mrs. p. III. Kelley of Ann
Arbor are spending the holidays with
Paw Paw friends.
Rev. r. II. Harvey has sold his fine
place north of town to Ed. Thayer. VIVA,
Thayer will occupy it. T"
Paw Paw grange will elect officers
next Friday evening. The fourth de
gree will also be conferred.
r. l.. Webb, teacher in the grammar
school, will be married at Hartford to-
day to Miss Elsie Nicholson.
Mr.. EIelmes from Mt. Verno,. Ohio.
has bought from J. w. Free tIte house
occupied by Frank Pugsley.
Eugene Bennett, a promitSnt Hart
ford business man, will be married to
day to Miss Alice Babbitt of Ypsilanti.
Married, December 20, 1899, at Paw
Paw by 0. w. Rowland, Esq, Mr.. Chas.
Burch of Porter and Miss Creta Kinney
of Schoolcraft.
Birney Buck of Paw Paw has purcbas-
ed the Elmer Markle farm of 40 acres
and will move on to it in the SPRING
Lawton Leader.
The church bells of the village will
ring the old year out and the new year
in, so don't think it's fire at midnight
next Sunday night
Married, December 20, 1899, at Paw
Paw, by o. w. Rowland, Esq, Mr.. Sam
uel Orton of Bangor and Miss Nettie
Bigelow of Arlington.
Prof. and Mrs. w. V. Sage of Mt
Pleasant are holiday guests at David
Dillon's. Prof. Sage goes to Lansing for
a day or two this week.
Miss Grace Henwood, who has been
employed in w. j. Sellicks millinery
department during the past season. re
turned to her home in Dowagiac lasti
Mr. l.. Fluette and daughter, Mrs.
juliette Preece of South Haven. and
Miss Anna G. Eldredge of Sturgis are
guests through the holidays of Mesdames
Clark and Freeman.
The independent l.. l.. w. r. G.. will |
meet at the ODell hall Friday after
noon, January II, at 200 o'clock. Mem
oers are requested to be present. as inn
portant business is to be transacted.
Brodhead post, c. A. r., will have a
public installation of officers, Saturday
evening, January 13, at 700. After the
installation the grand army ladies will
'lve an entertainment and picnic supper.
AT the council meeting last Thursday
vening, Councilman Cole reported that
lie had seen Engineer Pierson and had
ecured compromise of his bill against
he village for $3.50, which amount was
rdered paid.
There will be union watch-night ser I
ice at the M. f.. Church next Sunday {
vening The opening service will be-
in at 7:3O. 1t is hoped that large
umber will be present and assist in this l
losing service of the old year. q
A letter from A. f. Hayes, written
'om Los Angeles, Cal, says he can look
'om his window and see oranges on the
'ees and the snow-capped summit of i.
Did Baldy" at the same time. Straw :
erries are daily diet with him now.
Ie would willingly exchange a Mich ,
an blizzard for heaping dish of fresh !,
rawberries.
According to the, state agricultural
'llege report the Hessian fly appeared
the vicinity of Paw Paw as early as in
VIZ, and was reported in New York in 7
70. Paw Paw was not much of town s.
1887, and wheat raising was not very C
G industry; and the fact that this pest T
I'd already found its way there shows j
at it is very enterprising. 1t has no C.
her good qualities worth mentioning. "
Another suit should be added to the q
10 of damage suits, or actions on the :,
sc, as they are technically called, pub =
he'd in last weeks Northerner. This y
st is an action brought by Josephine a. ~
'tts of Decatur against tn village of a.
ecatur. wherein the plaintiff claims =,
images to the amount of 5000 for al :. -
red injuries which she incurred on the - -
th day of May last, by falling on de- - =,
Sive sidewalk in that village. ~ ~