The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-09-06
WHOLE NUMBER 1920.


at the Northerner Office measures IL feet
in length.
The quarterly meeting of the local G..
T.. union will be held at the Disciple
church next Sunday evening, September
10, beginning at six o'clock.
Schuyler King of Lawton, before JUS
tice Rowland, yesterday, pleaded guilty
to having committed an assault and bat
terry on one Peter Henion. The court
said five dollars or ten days.
On account of the pastors absence,
there will be no services at the Free
Will Baptist church next Sunday morn
ing. Sunday school at the usual hour;
prayer meeting Thursday evening.
"All the world loves lover" neat
bit of sentiment and a true one: but
lovers must have clothes, and therefore
the, sentiment is that f. Smith & Co.
lead the procession. Their convincing
prices and tremendous stock compel
recognition.
joe son of County Clerk Buck, has
been visiting in Lansing for few days.
! Monday morning he went from the cap
ital city to Grand Ledge and from there
home by way of Battle Creek distance
of 10S miles, all on his bicycle, and hot
/ day at that.
The meeting of Prospect Hill Cemetery
company, Monday evening, owing to the
school meeting, was adjourned to Tues
day, September II, at p. m, when the
election of officers will take place and
other business will be transacted Each
stakeholder is entitled to vote.
Those individuals who deface the school
house and commit nuisances on the
grounds should know, and probably do
know, that they are violating the law.
They can rest assured that if they do not
desist they will certainly be detected in
their shameful acts of vandalism and
prosecuted vigorously.
There is gentleman at Paw Paw that
! has our sympathy. Ever since a wee
daughter put in her appearance at his
home he has had to use a wheelbarrow
to take home the baby carriage cata-
logues received through the mail-Ex.
1t wasn't "wee daughter" that came to
Lew it was litter of pups.
Mr.. Myron Hoskins was married to
Miss Sarah S. Brown "a years ago last
Saturday evening, and began housekeep-
ing here in a small log house before there
was frame house in this place. They
are housekeeping here yet-but in diff
ferent house. After coming here he
soon began to build the first frame house
here, that has long been known as the
old Gremps house.
1t will be remembered that one Geo.
Collins was arrested and held for trial,
charged with interfering with Sheriff
Thomas at South Haven last fourth of
July while he (the sheriff) was engaged
in official duty. Mr.. Collins has been in
Jail ever since his arrest, and in view of
that fact, the charge was changed to
simply assault, to which he pleaded guilty
yesterday, before Justice Rowland, and
was sentenced to thirty days in Jail
A new form of remittance in the line
of money orders is to be introduced into
the different postoffices throughout the
country, taking immediate effect. The
form will be similar to a bank draft as
to shape, size and usage. Any possible
error in duplicating the order will be
avoided by making carbon or manifold
copy of the original. Attached to this is
a receipt of the amount, number and the
stamp, thereby giving a feeling of security
The business men of Minnesota town
of 600 inhabitants get together one day
each week and offer a prize of 81 to the
farmer who drives the greatest distance
to town on business No tramp will be
considered He must market few hogs
or some product of the farm or must do
some trading either buy some hard
ware or general merchandise, get shave
or patronize the doctor or dentist. He
must prove conclusively the distance he
came, and the farmer who has made the
longest trip gets the purse. 1t has prov
en- drawing card for the town, and men
with families come distance of 40 miles
or more.
The Battle Creek carnival and street
fair enjoys the distinction of having had
printed the largest poster ever printed
in the world. 1t was one mile long. The
printing was done by the Cox Duplex
Printing Press Company of Battle Creek
who are testing one of their new presses
and ran off the poster on a continuous
roll. The press upon which it was print
ed is one that has just been completed
for the printing of the War Cry, the Of
fetal organ of the Salvation Army. This
immense poster was posted between the
street car tracks on the brick paving
in the night, after it had all been swept
off, and was successfully done without
breaking. Great crowds have since
viewed it.
A Washington dispatch says Director
of the Census Merriam has completed
the plans for the division of territory in
to enumerator districts. As foreshadow-
ed in these dispatches, he has decided
that in states as thickly settled as Mich
igan, Illinois, Wisconsin, etc., the enum-
orators districts in rural sections shall
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