The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-09-27
WHOLE NUMBER 1928.

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of Mrs Il. o. Mather, Thursday after
noon, September %. This being the
anniversary of the birth of Frances r.
Willard a suitable program will be rem
dered.
James Bennett left at the Northerner
office on Monday last, branch from a
pear tree, well filled with fully developed
blossoms-th second of the season. The
branch came from his farm six miles
north of the village.
Indications are that the South Haven
and Saugatuck r. r., the extension of
the S. H. q E., is to be constructed. Of
ficials of the road were in consultation
with Contractor Gaylord this week with
reference to driving spiles for their
bridge across the river, and we under
stand it was practically settled that he
is to do the work. The report also comes
from Saugatuck that engineers have late
ly been at work there revising the sur
vey. The company has kept its own
counsel, but apparently has attended
to the preliminaries, among which is
permission from the government to build
the bridge.-South Haven Messenger.
A number of inquiries have been made
lately about the game laws. The state
game warden sent letter to Frank Raw
son, the game warden of this county,
from which we take the following extract,
which may be of benefit to local sports
men: GAS the hunting season approaches,
we are receiving promiscuous reports
that quail and partridge as we'll as squir-
rels are being killed. The season for
hunting squirrels opens October /, while
quail and partridge cannot be lawfully
killed until October 20 | desire to i'm
press upon you the Importance of being
very vigilant from now on, to the end
that these laws may be respected in your
county. Report promptly any complaints
that may come to your knowledge, and
rest assured that every assistance will be
given you from this office. | also desire
to call your attention to the necessity of
watching carefully the lakes in your
county, as the temptation to spear will be
very strong these dark nights"
For years past every grape harvest
has brought to Lawton a well dressed,
slippery stranger to fleece the fruit grow
er, and each succeeding season yields a
crop of "lambs" anxious to be shorn.
Said stranger comes each year with
different name, but with the same old
game played in the same old way. This
year it was Jones" No one ever heard
of him before, and probably will never
see him nor the value of their grapes
again. He secured five cars of grapes at
promised fancy prices, shipped them to
distant parts forgot his board bill at the
hotel, and disappeared, leaving the fruit
growers holding the empty sack" 1t
was sindeed a dirty trick; but hasn't it been
] worked enough times for people to know
better than to trust their crops to stran-
gers with big prices?" There is no neces-
sity for it, as the town is full of response
BILE buyers who have been known for
years, who pay the best cash prices that
the market will stand, and everyone
knows at night where they may be found
the next morning. But one mans ex-
perience is no warning to his neighbor
and next year will find score of fellows
anxiously waiting for the "Joneses that
pass in the night. ."-Lawton Leader.
Paw Paw also contributed one car
of grapes for the benefit of this same
slippery Jones'"
The council held lively session Mon
day evening The question at issue was
bill from Free & Hagerman for build
ing 5000 square feet of cement walk be-
/ tween the bridges. The contract for
this work was let at s cents per foot, the
bill was rendered and approved by the
claims committee at 81. Trustee Row
land moved to amend the report of the
claims committee by cutting y cent per
foot from the bill, and Trustee Miller
supported. Trustee Sabin of the street
committee explained that he had author
lied Mr. Hagerman to border the blocks
at the additional cost, and that Trustee
Rickard, another member of the COM
mittee, had acquiesced. Trustee Miller,
the third member of the committee, had
not been consulted. Trustee Rowland
expressed himself as opposed to any
committee changing the terms of writ
ten contract entered into by authority of
the council. The amendment was put
to vote, which resulted as follows;
Yeas, Trustees Miller, Rowland and War
ner; nays, Trustees Cole, Sabin and
Rickard; the president cast a deciding
vote against the amendment. The claim
was then allowed at 81 cents by simi-
lar division of the council, the president
casting the deciding vote. The clerk
read letters from two different firms,
quoting prices on five-sixteenths steel
for well at the waterworks, 16 feet
across by 30 feet deep. The cost of the
material as quoted was 1000 to 81, 200
for plain steel-more for galvanized No
action was taken in the matter. Trus-
tees Cole, Rowland and Rickard were
appointed special committee to confer
with the railroad company concerning a
deed for a strip of land the company
agreed to sell to the village, on which
portion of the standpipe is. No deed
has ever been made. An incandescent
| LIGHT was ordered put i'm the alley north