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

Many Localities I'm Mich
igan.

Calhoun county's poor cost for main.
tainance last year $30,O99.l0.
Horses are scarce in Shiawassee coun-
ty, and buyers can find few for sale.
Twenty car loads of canned tomatoes
were shipped from Adrian the other
night.
While blowing S. p. Henning, of Bed
ford, found wedding ring lost by his
grandmother 20 years ago.
IL cost lngham county $4,250.50 TO
support her poor last year and it has
cost $3,774.92 so far this year.
Calhoun county received $4,000 in
fines last year and paid out $2,2s9 for
the relief of soldiers of the Spanish
American war.
Herbert Hodges, of South Haven, has
not been heard from since he left for the
campaign in Cuba with the First Hi
nos regiment.
John +. V. Blake, who is frequently
mentioned in the Transvaal war dis
patches as captain in the Boer service,
is former Grand Rapids man.
Edward Wall, aged SO, was struck by
Grand Rapids d Indiana train at Shell
byville and instantly killed. He tried
TO cross the track ahead of the train.
According To the yellows commission
ers of cambridge township, Berrien
county, there are now in that township
100000 worth of peach trees all in first
class condition.
DR.. Droste, of Grand Rapids, who has
just returned from the Klondike, says
that Alaska is rich in copper, iron and
coal, as well as gold, and predicts great
future for that country.
Labor Commissioner Cox has just
completed canvass of 100 clothiers and
100 shoe men in the state. He says that
the majority of them report increased
business during the last year.
Articles of incorporation of the Peak
Copper company have been filed with
the secretary of state. The company
has a capital stock of the usual So, $780,
600. Its property is located near Bes-
semer.
Albert Zechlin, local driver for the
American Express company, at Niles,
has been notified that he is one of
three heirs to a large estate left by his
uncle who recently died in Germany.
He will investigate at once.
The state board Of auditors has again
assured the board of tax commissioners
Of their desire not to hamper the latter
in the good work of making people pay
their just share of taxes, and Commits
sioner Freeman has been given to un-
derstand that any reasonable claim will
be allowed.
Gov. Pingree has appointed Joseph b.
Whittier, Of Saginaw. as a member of
the Michigan board of managers of the
Ohio centennial exposition. Mrs. Mary
c. Spencer, state librarian, has also
been designated as Michigan's repre-
sentative to the national association of
state librarians which meets at In
dianapolis.
IT is announced that Gen. ID. II.
Anger, formerly adjutant general of
the Michigan national guard and editor
ri the Charlotte Republican. and al
present receiver of defunct national
bank at Benton Harbor, will engage in
the insurance business in Chicago as
soon as he closes up the affairs of the
bank in the near future.
Gen. Marsh has started out on tour
of inspection of the various companies
of the Michigan national guard. A gen
eral tour of the state will be made.
Gen. Marsh says the inspection will be
made very rigid, although the COM
panies have recently received their
equipment, the lack of which has in
terfered with the work of the militia.
and this will be taken into considera-
ton.