The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-09-27
Local Department.

Local Department
w. w. Hodge of South Haven was in
town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs c. V. Burdick spent Sun
day at Covert.
Mrs. A. C.. Martin returned from Chi
cago, Saturday.
The front of the First National bank
is being painted and penciled.
Editor A. n. Moulton of the Decatur
Republican was in town Monday.
Mrs. Solomon is enjoying visit from
her daughter, Mrs. Caldwell of Reed City.
|. b. Conner has new mill for clean
ing beans and gasoline engine for run
ming it,
Bert Bryar is at the First National
bank this week, in the absence of Mr..
Parks.
DeLace Siggins of Grand Junction
called at lthe Northerner Office one day
last week.
Fred Bilsborrow has returned from
South Haven, and will remain here for
the present.
E. F. Parks, G. w. Young, j. E.
Kingsnorth and l.. W. Whitbeck are at
Grand Rapids, attending the state fair.
Mrs. Tensia Stevens returned on Fri
day last from a months visit to Reed
City and other points in northern Michi-
gan.
The first session of the Coterie for the
year occurs to-day. The Northerner
wishes the ladies a pleasant and profit
able year.
The Disciple aid society will have
coffee social at the home of Albert Har-
rison, next Tuesday evening, October 3.
All are invited.
The remarkable story, I'm His Steps"
by Charles M. Sheldon, will be published
as a serial in this paper. The first in
stallment appears this week.
John Dillon is taking a four weeks va
cation from his duties as mail clerk on
the S. II. & E. r. f. and, in company with
bis wife, is visiting in st. Louis Missouri,
where they formerly resided.
The Hamilton Liberal Spiritualst So
ciety will hold its first annual meeting at
Hamilton grange hall, Sunday, October
l. The famous traveller, author and lee
turer, DIR. j. NJ. PEBBLES, will deliver the
addresses at 10:30 a. m. and 80 p. m.
The grape harvest has practically clos
ed and while the crop has been much
smaller than last year it has brought
more money into the county and, by
reason of better prices, has been much
more profitable to growers some of whom
have realized ten cents per basket or more
for their entire crop.
There will bequite Paw Paw colony at
Ann Arbor this year. G. Frank Young is
hospital physician there, Misses Mabelle
Andrews, Mabelle Cummings, Gertrude
Buck, Daisy -Longweli, Verne and Rena
Van -Fossen, Julia Harrison and Mr..
Charles Waters attend the university.
Prof. and Mrs. Kelly are also there.
A number of Paw Paw Masons attend
ed the funeral of Hon. John S. Cross of
Bangor, Thursday afternoon, 200 mem
bers of the fraternity being present. Mr..
Cross was one of the county's foremost
citizens. and his death is sincerely
mourned He was a leading republi
can, having served in two sessions of the
legislature. He was prominent in Free
Masonry, having been master of the
grand lodge. He was 80 years old.
At special council meeting Wednes-
day evening, the matter of water sup
ply was talked over, Frank Cutter ap-
pearing before the board and giving his
ideas in the matter. He believes a steel
reservoir IA feet across and 20 feet deep
to be feasible, practical and sufficient.
On recommendation of the president, it
was voted to refund the $1,000 of out
standing six per cent electric light bonds
with new four percent. The old bonds are
optional as to payment by the village five
years after issuance.
A county exchange speaks of the acci-
dental discharge of pistol in the hands
of boy and says: "The ball passed
through the limb of his sister and also
through the limb of his mother" Web
ster defines climb" as an extremity of the
human body, as an arm or leg. 1t is a
matter of small importance whether the
sister or mother or either of them was
wounded in an arm or leg, but as a mat
ter of curiosity, some people might like
to know. Can anybody give any good
reason why modesty permits a man to
have sturdy pair of legs while it com
pels woman to walk with namby-
by pair of limbsY