The true northerner., 1900-11-16

| day.
Waters & Co. advertise great stove
sale.
o. M. Vaughan of Covert was in town
Monday.
r. A. Shoesmith advertises holiday
furniture.
Frederic Kimball visited his mother,
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Taylor spent Sunday
in Keeler.
q. A. Cross of Lawrence was in town
Wednesday,
Il. Y. Sebring was here from Kalama-
zoo, Monday.
David Anderson was at Hartford, Fri
day, on business.
John G.. Merson of South Haven was
in town Saturday.
r. w. Broughton has been in Chicago
a part of the week.
w. Il. Sellick offers Unprecedented
bargains in his adv. this week
Representative elect G. S. Adams of
Lawton was in town Wednesday.
Elmer Hall of Lawton was a caller at
the Northerner office, Wednesday,
The republican county committee held
a meeting in this place Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. f. Austin of Hillsdale
are calling on old friends in this vicinity.
The Every Friday club will meet with
Mrs. Jay Cummings, Friday afternoon,
November %.
Il. A. Wildey announces that he will
appoint Wells c. Brown as deputy land
commissioner.
Mrs. Henry Holt is slightly improved,
and hope is entertained that she will
get out again.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. j. Woodman left Sat-
urday for Washington, ID. c.. to attend
the national grange.
Hon. w. G.. Howard of Kalamazoo was
in town Monday and Tuesday, on bust
ness in the circuit court.
f. b. Longwell inaugurates another
big sale tomorrow, to last two weeks.
See his adv. in this paper.
Supervisors Wildey and Dillman and
Mr.. j. G. McFellin made up the county
canvassing board this fall.
G.. w. Merriman of Hartford, Alonzo
Vincent and III. S. Grey of Benton Har-
Dor were in town Saturday.
Herbert Welch left last week Wednes-
day for Chicago, where he has position
in large carpet establishment.
A. L. Moulton of Decatur and l.. A..
Tabor of Lawton have been here on cir
cult court business part of the week.
Miss Josie Van Auken returned to
Paw Paw, Wednesday, from South Ha-
ven, where she has been visiting for the
past two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs o. w. Rowland and little
grand daughter, Mary Shaefer, left
Tuesday for a visit of a couple of weeks
with relatives at Big Rock, Ills.
The corporation house and three
fourths of a lot has been sold to b. ODell
for $780, He in turn has sold it to
Stanley Lett, who will occupy it.
The annual meeting of the Van Buren
County Pomona Grange has been post
poned until Thursday, November %, at
10 o'clock, at Lawrence Grange hall.
Mrs. j. A. Drown has sold her resi-
dence on east Main street to Enos
Stevens, who will occupy it. 1t was a
cash sale through E. +. Downing's
agency.
An advertiser in the Decatur Republi-
can says "the weather profit says that
we are to have a cold, severe winter"
That must be the weather profit of the
coal dealer.
G.. S. Hoskins has engaged Martin
Doran to take charge of the farm, and
he and his wife have moved to the viii
lage to care for his aged mother in her
declining years.
The council Monday evening granted a
permit to DR.. l.. w. Curtiss to build a
frame office building on j. ID. Sherman's
lot, west of the corporation hall Work
will commence at once.
f. E. Downing sold this week Horace
Iioveand's 40-acre farm north of town
to Frank Bradfish of Chicago, also Mrs.
browns house and lot and house and
lot to r.. IL. 1lcheny OF Antwerp.
The Mission society of the Free Bap-
tist church will meet with Mrs. Matilda
Wilson, Friday, November %, at 2 p. m.
The curios sent from India by Mr.. and
A. l.. Kennan will be on exhibition there.
Mrs. Beatley entertained % ladies
Tuesday evening for Mrs. Mary Sellick
and Miss Gertrude Sellick, at the home
of Mrs. +. Stanley Briggs. Mrs. w. j.
Sellick gained the prize in the guessing
contest.
Preparations are progressing for the
annual ball of Maple Grove lodge, K OF
p, to be held at the rink, Thursday even
ing, November 22. This is the finest
dancing floor in the county, and the ball
bids fair to be great success.
The snow fall of last week and this is
the heaviest of years for the first half OF
November, in this locality. We arc cred
IDLY informed that the fall at Lawrence
in last weeks storm was about ID inches
probably twice what it was in thi:
place.