The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-01-10


annual meeting yesterday.
The annual business meeting of the
Presbyterian church and the ladies' aid
society will be held at the church par
lors, Thursday, January 1S. Dinner will
be served at noon. A full attendance is
requested.
Some men labor very hard trying to
live without work. The gentlemen at
the Great Whale Clothing Success are
laboring to make room for the new goods
just being received by e. Smith & Co.
See the sale proposition on the last page.
At the meeting of the stockholders of
the First National bank yesterday, the
following directors were elected: IL. NJ.
Olney, II. M. Pugsley, Elias Morris, r.
+. Parks, L. j. Cavanaugh, Geo. M.
Harrison and f. p. Grimes. The direc-
tors reelected all the old officers.
As he was about to leave the bench in
Cass county, the bar adopted some very
complimentary resolutions in Judge
Smiths honor, the same to be spread on
the journal. A leading paper says, "he
steps down and out of office the most
popular judge Cass county ever had"
Judge Smith has made many friends in
Van Buren, county in the few months he
has been on the bench here.
At a meeting of the township board
last Monday evening, bills to the amount
of $40 were allowed for sheep killed and
wounded by dogs. Nearly all of these
bills came from one neighborhood, the
northwest part of town, and the damage
is supposed to have been done by one
worthless canine, and that was not all,
as he crossed the line and committed
similar depredations in Waverly.
The new officers of Paw Paw lodge,
/. o. o. f., are as follows: j. f. Bullard,
n. G.: Daniel Spicer, V. G.: Will Rick
erson, S.; w. II. Mason, f. S.; A. f. Nc
Neil, T.; VIM. Signor, W.; O. w. Row
land, Con-; j. b. Rickard, O. e.; f. II.
Bassett, l. c.; B. O'Dell, r. S. n. g.;
j. III. Waters, l.. S. n c.; d. Chapman,
r. S. V. g.; Frank Merrill, L. S. " c.;
l. w. Hubert, Chap.
Monday morning, Mrs. M. n. Dilley
emptied what she supposed was dead
ashes on an old straw stack In the
evening, while passing, Charlie Squires
saw a blaze near the barn and quickly
extinguished it with snow, thereby saw
ing what might have been q calamity. 1t
seems that real smart people sometimes
play real fool tricks.-Messenger Why
should the Messenger intimate that ex
tinguishing fire with snow is fool trick?
At the meeting of the stockholders of
the Savings bank yesterday, the follow
ing directors were elected: r. w. Sellick,
c. f. Lyle, w. J. Sellicl1, w. r. Sellick
J. J. Woodman, l.. II. Titus, Daniel Nor
rison and j. w. Free. The directors
elected the following officers; f. w. Sci
lick, president; j. j. Woodman, vice
president; J. w. Free, cashier; j. b.
Showerman, book keeper. Cashier Free
was given two months leave of absence
on account of i'll health, and w. j. Sellick
was appointed acting cashier during his
absence. A semi. annual dividend of 3
per cent was declared.
The appointment of Bangs +. Warner
to be postmaster in Paw Paw was sent
to the senate by the president yesterday.
The appointment is generally considered
as being dictated by Jason Woodman,
the chairman of the republican county
committee ~ publicly promised to
keep his off the postoffices of the
county. ver, Bangs is capable
man az doubtless make an eff.
cient ID ter. The Northerner con-
gratul IN on his success, and wishes
him ctory and popular admins
trati |e Office. Postmaster Killefer
ente office at 8:45 four years ago
the " of February next, and Just
one from to-day he will have serv-
ed I'd ars, to the general satisfaction n
of Il bile.
Id thursday night about midnight,
m! was seen prowling about the
laund /, as though trying to effect an
entra ice. Nightwatchman Lord took
him to Jail and as he had all the ear
marks. of genuine hobo, charge of
vagrahcy was lodged against him, to
which he pleaded guilty and was given
ten days by Magistrate Rowland Short
ly afterward Officer Chappell was tel
phoned from Kalamazoo to look out
for an escaped lunatic from the asylum.
He was convinced from the description
given that James Buchanan, as the sup
posed hobo called himself, was the man
described, and so informed the asylum
authorities, Within couple of hours
an officer was here and buchanan"
whose real lpme is Patrick Early and
whose residence is Jackson county, was
on his way back to the asylum.
At the council meeting Monday even
ing, it was voted to issue a $500 cleo
tric light bond at 5 per cent, to secure
money to pay for the new dynamo and
other supplies. The matter of selling to
w. j. Thomas the village interest in the
land between the corporation hall and
the bank and also the useof the corpora
ton wall was taken up. 1t was conclud-
ed that neither the village nor anyone