The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-03-22

Lear MdSten, MISS Lena IL. Dell.
A carload of Champion binders and
mowers came into town Saturday, and
made an interesting parade as they
passed through the street. They did not
half fill the orders booked by r. j. Har-
rington.
Mrs. McGruder will entertain the ladies
of the Coterie in their rooms this after
noon with talk and exercise ON physical
culture. The regular work for the day
will be postponed until the following
Wednesday, March 20.
III. C.. Waters & Co. have secured the
services of Geo. Robischung, an expert
plumber, to begin work about April l.
Mr.. Robischung has been a trusted
foreman with the Kalamazoo Construc-
tion Co. for the past two years.
5000 pounds per hour" is given by
the Sentinel as the capacity of the new
Geneva Center creamery. That at ten
hours per day would amount to %, 100000
pounds year, a big lot of milk, or cream,
or butter, or whatever was intended by
the Sentinel.
Miss Zella Harvey has accepted posi-
ton with w. r. Taylor in the abstract
Office at Kalamazoo and left for that city
Monday. She is an unusually bright
young lady and efficient in office work.
Miss Lyle Buckhout takes her place in
the registers Office here.
Mr.. M. V. Meredith is ready and anx-
ious to start a basket factory in Paw
Paw, and will do so if proper encourage
ment is given him. He will submit
definite proposition soon, and everyone
in this village and vicinity should do
something to aid in securing this new
manufacturing institution.
Rev. Anna Barton will close her labors
as pastor of the Free Baptist church in
this place next Sunday, March 26. She
has labored long and faithfully for this
church, and in her the people of her
congregation, and of the community
generally, have found true friend and a
welcome comforter. The cessation of
her pastoral work is to be regretted.
S. B. Worden, charged with violation
of the local option law, was examined
before Justice Warner last Thursday and
held for trial at the circuit court. In
default of $500 bail, he was committed to
Jail. He is charged with keeping place,
the old John Robb harness shop on Kala-
mazoo street, where intoxicating liquors
were furnished in violation of law.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to the
city of Atlanta the sum of 100000 for a
| fraa rub1ic Ebrarx, on, condition, tbat +ba
city furnish a site and maintain the
! library at cost of not less than 5000
year. e. Smith & Co. have offered
through the columns of this paper,
proposition to the people which should
score them an enthusiastic triumph.
Before Justice Rowland, on Monday
last, young man calling himself A. b.
Jones, who had just completed a jail
sentence of fifteen days, imposed upon
him for stealing an overcoat, pleaded
guilty to having defrauded Landlord
Giddings of Lawton out of his hotel bill.
The magistrate gave him twenty days
sentence, which he is now serving at the
Hotel Chappell.
John S. Allen, of Elmira, N. Y, brother
of M. p. Allen, whose illness was
mentioned in the Northerner, died on the
first day of the present month, aged Y
years Mr.. Allen was quite well known
to many of our people. Mr.. Allen was a
prominent Oddfellow and had been per-
manent secretary of his lodge for twenty
one consecutive years. His funeral was
conducted under the auspices of that
order.
We are informed that Supt. Patterson
of the S. III. & E. guarantees that the
freight rate on sugar beets will be no
greater to Benton Harbor than to Kala-
mazoo. The Benton Harbor company
has already contracted for about 80
acres in this locality, and will have all
the acreage it desires within short time.
Those wishing contracts should make
them at once. The Benton Harbor
people say they purchased their seed
January l, and that it is first class.
Between 20 and so guests were present
at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Taylor, Wednesday, March 10, at o'clock,
to witness the marriage of their daughter,
Ella G. Taylor, to Mr.. Rsa Cleveland of
Texas, Kalamazoo county. Rev. III. w.
Harvey officiated Refreshments we're
served, and many presents were given to
the happy young people. The bride is a
bright and attractive young lady, a
graduate of the Paw Paw high school,
and is very highly esteemed IN this com
munity. The groom is an excellent
young man, and the union is full of
promise for happiness and prosperity,
which promise the Northerner hopes may
be fulfilled.
During the month of February there
were fifty-three deaths in Van Buren,
county, as follows: Almena, /; Antwerp,
township l, village of Lawton l; Airing
ton, L; Bangor, 2; Bloomingdale, B; Col
umbia, 3; Covert, 3; Decatur, 1; Geneva,
3; Hamilton, 2; Hartford, township 2
village l. Keeler, 3; Lawrence, township
3, village l; Pine Grove, 3; Porter, J;
South Haven, township /, village 10;
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