The true northerner., 1900-08-03
WHOLE NUMBER 1867.

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tract for building DIR. Thompson's new
residence.
Mrs. +. p. Merrill and son Edward of
Ithaca are the guest of Mr.. and Mrs II.
G. Drown.
c. w. Young is i'll and has been con
fined to the house for several days, but
is now better.
Mrs. Geo. Pepper received the insur-
ance on her late husbands life from the
X. o. Il. Nj. last week.
Geo. Hopkins is taking Frank 1ess'
place at the Dyckman barber shop dur
ing the latter's absence.
Miss Maxwell of Cadillac and Mrs. Ida
Stevens of Dowagiac are guests of DR..
and Mrs j. c. Maxwell.
E. A. Park, whose illness at Loveland,
Colo, was recently mentioned in the
Northerner, is now better.
The union service Sunday evening will
be held in the Presbyterian church;
sermon by Rev. W. +. Allen.
Miss Letitia Hicks of the Chicago Dea-
coness' home will speak at the NJ. Z.
church next Sunday morning.
Chas. Drown of Minnesota is visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. III. G. Drown.
He has been gone nearly 10 years.
Miss Mabel Andrews, who is spending
her vacation in Kalamazoo, came last
Friday for a few days visit with friends
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Brown of Gin
cinnati, o., have written that they will
be in Paw Paw as guestsof Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. B. Conner, Wednesday, August s.
Ross Broughton, Joe Baker, Wade
Killefer and Ed. Merrill attended the
field day at Alamo, Saturday. The Paw
Paw boys won number of the events.
Harley Whelpley, former resident of
Pine Grove, was drowned the fore part of
the week at Muskegon Heights. He was
relative of James Whelpley of this
place.
William Griffith and Amanda Slack of
Kalamazoo were married in the presence
of few friends, at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Adam DeHaven, Wednesday,
August l, Rev. E. o. Mather officiating.
E. Smith & Co. make bold move for
quick results. They want to make a
clean sweep of all their summer clothing
and know of no better nor shorter course
than a wonderful reduction; see adv. on
last page.
A case in the probate court last week
attracted little attention in which
County Agent Gould was complainant
and Mrs. Crittendon defendant The
charge brought against Mrs. Crittendon
was ill-treatment of her adopted child.
The Judge allowed the mother to retain
her child.
Misses Edith and Vesta and Master
Charles Grimes entertained about fifty
friends last Tuesday evening at their
home. Games were played on the lighted
lawn. Misses Reinke, Baker, Saunders,
Grout and Andrews served the ice cream
and cake. The happy faces of the little
people were proof of a delightful time.
Services will be held in st. Marks
church, Sunday, August ., as follows:
Morning prayer, sermon and holy COM
munion at 1870 a. m., and evening pray
er and sermon at 7:30 p. M, the officiat-
ing clergyman being the Rev. E. Briggs
Nash of Elizabeth, n. J. August q, the
feast of the TRANSPORTATION of Christ, the
holy communion will be celebrated at 10
a. IN.
Last Saturday, little difficulty arose
between Dan Coy and Arthur Redding,
who lives near the Lee school house west
of town, over some hogs which had been
in Coy's cornfeld. A "mix-up" occurred
in which Coy received broken nose and
other injuries. A warrant was sworn out
by Coy before Justice Mason charging
Redding with assault and battery, to
which he pleaded guilty and was assessed
SO and costs, which was paid.
Rev. w. f. Allen of the First Baptist
church announces a series of sermons
reviewing the letters of Zone of the Sin
ners," as published in The True North
erner. The first one, next Sunday morn
ing, is not so much in the nature of
review as preparation for it. His sub
iect will be, What is a church," A
week later, he will take for his topic,
Every man in his place" The third
Sunday morning, August 10, will be the
real review of the Simmer" when Rev.
Allen will preach on christian union;
or, is churchanity, christianity" The
True Northerner bespeaks for Mr.. Allen
good congregations for each of these ad-
dresses, particularly for the last one, and
doubtless Zone of the Sinners" will be
able to get some of the information of
which he has been in quest.
Monday, August 8, Assembly No. l,
International Congress, will run an ex-
cursion-Dowagiac to South Haven via
Lawton and the South Haven & Eastern.
This train will run through solid from
Dowagiac to South Haven and return,
and will be the finest ever run over the
"fruit belt line" 1t will consist of
twelve first class coaches and will be
appropriately decorated with the Ameri-
can flag and emblems of the order. AS
sembly No. of Dowagiac, $50 members
strong, will go in body and, as the ex-
curciop IL oman IN all IL bidc fair IN ha a