The true northerner., 1900-07-11
WHOLE NUMBER 1854.

drla, Ind.
Mrs. Nora Dunlap Buell. will spend
few days visiting in Holly, Detroit and
Mt. Clemens. Reta Lee accompanies her
as far as Lansing.
Tomorrow Thursday the first excur-
sion of the season to st. Joseph will be
run from all S. III. & E. stations, all the
way by rail over the S. II. & K. and Pere
Marquette. The fare is 30 cents for the
round trip from all stations. The excur-
sion is under the auspices of the Paw
Paw Christian church. Special trains
will be run, leaving the various stations
on the following schedule: Lawton S:45,
Paw Paw 900, Lake Cora 9:15, Lawrence
9:25, Hartford $40; South Haven 900,
Packard 9:l3, Covert 800, Toquin 9:27.
The arrival at st. Joseph will be at 1870,
and the train returning will leave at 6 p.
IN. This is rare opportunity for a
pleasant days outing at a trifing cost,
and the excursion should, and doubtless
will, draw big crowd
At the Epworth league meeting at the
M. h. church last Sunday evening, Miss
Ruby b. Neville formerly preceptress in
our high schools, gave an interesting
talk on the work being done in the Lee
Moyne institute at Memphis, Tenn,
where she has been engaged as precep-
tress for the past year, and where she
will return again in October Miss Ne
vile stated that the school there, which
Is under the control of the American
Missionary association, is solving the
race problem by teaching good citizen
ship and good manhood and womanhood;
that the present talk or discussion over
the right place of the negro in Amer
lean civilization, as to what he is to do
and what we are going to do with him, is
really being solved by emphasizing the
necessity of a higher education of some
sort. There are 750 pupils in the school,
colored, but she stated that on first going
into the school, one would be struck by
the different shades of color, from white to
the Guinea type. Contrary to the custom
prevailing here, when distinguishing
between white and black, she said it was
the white people there who must be spec
flied instead of the colored In this
same school Miss Elsie Tuttle is doing
excellent work as a teacher and it is the
same place where Miss Luella Waring,
formerly of this place, at one time taught.
The council met in regular session
Monday evening. A batch of bills was
allowed amounting to 5942.64. A petition
was presented signed by Minerva Wilson
aud others, asking for the removal of the
big corn crib of the Paw Paw Milling
company, which the petitioners claim is
a nuisance because it obstructs the view
of residents west of it. The matter was
referred to the street committee. As
the crib is on private property, it is diff
cult to see what control the council can
have over it, Another petition was pre-
sented signed by over 30 residents of the
southwest part of the village, asking the
council to compel the removal of line
fence that has been built by Geo. l..
Bruner between his premises and the
home of II. W. McCabe. The fence is
the outgrowth of neighborly disagree
ment, and is as ugly and unsightly as the
ingenuity of its builder could devise, and
is such blot on the beauty of an at
tractive street as we are sure its builder
would remove on stopping To thinS it
over. However, under the charter pro-
vision and ordinance giving the council
control over partition fences, a resolution
was adopted ordering its removal. An
alternating arc lamp was ordered put up
at the north end of Niles street. This
will be the first lamp of the kind used in
this village, and will be run from the in
candescent circuit. After adjournment,
the council went in body to the water
works and selected locations for the new
drive wells that are to be put down.
The material for them was shipped
Saturday, and Contractor Hagerman
expects to commence work to-day. He
has secured j. A. Newell of Kalamazoo,
the same man who put down the other
wells, to do the work.
The storm of last Saturday was one of
the most severe ever experienced in this
section-perhaps the worst wind storm
we have ever known, accompanied by
drenching rain, vivid lightning and
rolling thunder. This village was fortu-
nate, not getting the full force of the
wind. The dark, whirling clouds would
have driven the populace of western
state into their cyclone cellars North,
west and east of town, a great amount of
damage was done. The barn of VIM.
Nicholson in Waverly was unroofed. A
large tree was blown across the Brummel
bridge, damaging it badly Dave Rich's
barn near Coolies was unroofed. Wind
mills were dismantled, trees blown down,
vineyards, orchards and growing corn
Frustrated. Elsewhere in this paper will
be found an account of the storm in
Kalamazoo. Lightning struck the barn
of l.. III. Titus on his farm east of town,
but did not set it afire. One of his horses
was ruined by the shock; and was
afterwards killed. Mrs. James Mel
son had driven into this barn to avoid
the storm, tying her horse and going her
self into the house; her horse was killed.
Porch posts were blown down i'm b. A.
Cummings house north of town, and beau
tiful trees in frontwere destroyed. The S.
II. d h. had a bad washout in the track