The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-05-16
WHOLE NUMBER 1856.

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this week.
Waters Il Co. advertise paints and
builders hardware.
f.. b. Longwell advertises monster
May sale, with bargain prices
The Thompson. Furniture company has
opened business in the Grange building.
Mrs. O'Dell is Offering some desirable
millinery novelties. See her new card
this week.
] Rev. 1atsuji Masada was greeted by
good congregations at the NJ. f.. church
last Sunday.
Misses Eva Sherburne and Matte Ras-
sette of Hartford have been visiting Mrs.
Robert Webb.
f. ID. Greenman of Flint is spending
few days with his wife at the home of
Calvin Wilcox.
Miss Bertha Stowe of Hartford is visit
ing Mrs. Robert Webb and the O'Dell
J girls this week.
Ninety in the shade is the summery
midday temperature we have enjoyed
for several days past.
! George Pepper has returned home from
Chicago, a sufferer from consumption.
with little chance for improvement in his
condition.
Paw Paw is the handsomest town in
Michigan to-day, with its excellently
/ graveled streets, fine homes, well-kept
lawns, and beautiful naples Just coming
into full foliage
Sympathy for the offender caused the
citizens to donate substantial sum to
Lochiel Hagerman, who was fined for
catching a mess of fish with a screen in
the tail race last week.
Lewis A. Moon of Kalispel, Mont. was
married at South Haven, May 2, to
Myrtle Nj. Ross of that place Mr.. Moon
formerly resided in Paw Paw and has
many friends in this locality
Frank Koons, sentenced by Justice
Wallingford of South Haven to go days
IN Jail for being drunk, escaped from Of
ticer Leitch of that place last Monday
morning, while on the train bound for
Paw Paw. When near Lake Cora. he
was permitted to go to the toilet room
alone. He raised the window and jumped
from the moving train.
The fruit Gamers Of western MICHIGAN
met at Hartford last Thursday and per-
fected an organization. G.. w. Young of
the Paw Paw Canning Co. is president.
! VIM. McEwing of the South Haven Pre-
serving Co. is secretary and treasurer.
The aim OF the organization is to main
tain a uniform pack of goods among
Michigan factories and thus establish
Michigan standard.
Speaking of the eclipse of the sun that
will occur on the morning of the 2Sth
inst, the astronomer of the South Haven
Tribune says: There is some doubt as
to the totality being visible in America,
the leading astronomers locating it in
Spain" This will he news indeed to
"leadIng astronomers" who are generally
supposed to be able to locate not only
the exact time when an eclipse will oc-
cur, but also the exact locality in which
1T will appear as total, if it is total at all,
and also Just how much of the suns sur
face will be eclipsed in any given place.
There is no doubt about the matter. the
Tribune astronomer to the contrary not
withstanding. Suppose a line drawn
from New Orleans, through Mobile and
Raleigh to Norfolk, Va, and along that
line for space of fifty miles in width,
the face of the sun will be entirely OBJ
scured. If the Tribune astronomer
doubts it. let him 60 and see and be con-
vinced. He may not have another op-
portunity during his entire life.
The council held long session Mon
day evening and transacted a large
amount of business, all members being
present The street committee made a
supplemental report in the matter of
sidewalks, so that walks were recon-
mended along some $500 feet of frontage,
besides ~ crosswalks, the total expense
of which will be 81 200 or 81 500. Trus-
tees Longwell and Rowland wanted the
amount of sidewalks exclusive OF cross
walks limited to $1,000, which would
have cut off some four or five hundred
dollars from the recommendations of
the committee; but the rest OF the board
were against them and all the walks were
ordered. n special council meeting will
be held next Monday evening to let the
contracts for building them, and parties
desiring to bid can find specifications at
the Office of the village clerk. 1t was
voted the build the walk in front of
the Darling property of paving brick
instead of cement, because of the trees
being SO near the walk. The street COM
mittee reported against the opening of a
public alley between Niles and Kala-
mazoo streets, back of the stores on the
north side of Main, but urged that all
occupants be required to keep their
premises clean. The report was adopted.
The fire and water committee reported
against the building of extensions of
water mains on west Main and Hazen
streets, because of the finances of the
village not warranting the expense. The
report was adopted. The village assessor
presented his roll for acceptance. The
total assessed valuation is S70I ,0O0-an in
crease of about $4,000 from last year