The true northerner., 1899-08-09
Local Department

Mr.. III. G. Drown returned from the
East last Thursday morning.
Miss Daisy Orr has returned home
from trip to Iowa and Illinois.
Prof. and Mrs. w. G. Brown are at
Athens, Calhoun county, camping.
County Clerk Buck and family are
taking an outing at Three Mile lake.
Rev. A. A. Glovier will preach at the
East Arlington church next Sunday
evening
Fred Terrill has been visiting friends
and relatives in town. His mother, Mrs
Cynthia Doughty, has also been making
visit here
Mr.. and Mrs. Barton have rented their
house to George Cook of Kansas and
will remove to their farm, three miles
east of town.
Union meeting next Sunday evening
at the Presbyterian church, to be ad-
dressed by Elder Linsell, pastor of the
Church of Christ.
There will be an ice cream social at
Maurice Cagney's, in Glendale, Thursday
evening, Aug. II, for the benefit of st.
Mary's (Catholic) church.
Born, to Sarah Showerman of the 10
cent -hitch-in, on Friday last, five little
black and tans. Sarah is as proud as
though she weighed a ton.
Members of the Coterie who expect to
attend the county federation, which will
convene at Bangor, Aug 18th, will please
notify Mrs. Bertha Harrison as early as
possible.
Born, to Mrs. and Mr.. Frank Rhodes,
August 5, ten pound boy. Both mother
and child are doing well at the home of
her parents, DR.. and Mrs. b. O'Dell in
this village.
Prosecuting Attorney Chandler, ac-
companied by Sheriff Thomas, went to
South Haven, Monday, to investigate
the circumstances surrounding the recent
shooting affray.
In its issue of July %, the Bangor
Visitor places at the head of its editorial
columns, "Levi DeHaven, proprietor" )" in
place of "Thresher & DeHaven," as it
had Heretofore appeared.
The Bangor Breeze, deploring the ad-
verse vote on the waterworks proposition
naively remarks that water may not be
the best thing to drink, but it beats
everything else for putting out fire.
"a great cash sale at must go prices
is Broughtons theme this week. The
long list of liberal reductions quoted in
his three column advertisements sure to
attract customers from all parts of the
county.
You cannot miss seeing T.. b. Long
wells four full column adv. in this paper.
People have learned to look for his adver-
tisements in the Northerner and the
crowds that fill his store show that they
are read and understood to mean what
they say.
The lawn social last Friday evening, at
the residence of Samuel Orr in the Lee
district, was a success. The sum of
about ten dollars was realized to apply
on the organ recently purchased for use
at the Sunday school and other public
meetings.
w. j. Sellick, as usual, is sin the swim -
and uses two columns of printers ink to
inform his patrons of the unprecedent-
edly low prices at which those who pat
ronize his great August sale" can have
their needs supplied. And the people
will be there
Owing to an unusual demand for space
in this issue of the NoRTHERNER, adver-
tisers will find themselves, in some in
stances, occupying unusual positions, but
none of them are left out. Considerable
interesting reading matter has also been
transferred from the outside to inside
pages.
A daring thing that no other store
would do. Thousands of dollars worth
of desirable clothing and furnishing at
figures that will create the liyeliest buy
ing ever witnessed in Paw Paw at "the
great whale clothing success" A great
August carnival in which the public at
large will participate.
Prosecuting Attorney Chandler arrived
home from his fishing trip at Long lake,
near Cheboygan, last Saturday evening.
He came sooner than he had expected on
account of the South Haven shooting af-
fair. He hasn't got over feeling good by
reason of the fact that with six ounce
bamboo rod he safely landed a pike that
kicked the beam at fourteen and one
half pounds.
Freeman Hodges and Ed. Ostrander
of South Haven are in jail charged with
chicken stealing. They are both old
offenders. Ostrander is now under bonds
to appear at the circuit court to answer
to charge of larceny from the person
Hodges has served a term in Ionia for
burglary and was, at another time, con
victed of similar offense and released
under suspended sentence. He has dis
graced the honorable name of his an
cestors. 1t is said that they disposed of a
wagonload of stolen fowls at a market in
South Haven on Thursday morning last
the day of their arrest. Their examina
tion is set for August IL before Justice