The true northerner., 1900-08-10

the dnnudl reunion ana picnic OF the
Hutchins family, 6s of them being pres
ent. Mr.. and Mrs. Will Hutchins of
Pontiac and VIII Blatchford of Detroit
were among the number A fine chicken
pie dinner was served and good time
enjoyed.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. NJ. Harrison and
son Doan and Mrs. T. j., Cavanaugh
went to South Haven, Saturday night,
taking the boat for Chicago, Sunday
morning. As the boat was leaving the
harbor, their trunk fell overheard, large
quantity of valuable clothing being
soaked and ruined.
n. w. Armstrong will leave Monday
with party of five TO locate land at Mi
not, n. ID. Those who will go are Robert
Clark, John Clark, Sherman Root, JEFF
ferson Newcombe and Will Markillie.
Mr.. Armstrong will stop on his return
at Cando, n. d., and will return here
about September /.
Rev. A j. Hutchins, who has been at
tending the divinity school at Newton
Center, Mass, for the past two years,
writes that Mrs. Hutchins and himself
are spending part of his vacation at
Northfield, where they are enjoying the
grand scenery and listening to the best
talent that can be had.
In the matter of little Cleita Crittep-
den of Decatur adopted daughter of
Mrs. NJ. Crittenden, the latter was per-
mitted to retain the child, as was stated
in The True Northerner last week, but
under written agreement to give her
up at any time when the county agent
and the probate judge shall think her
misused.
The NJ. +. and First Baptist Sunday
schools of Paw Paw have arranged for
union excursion and basket picnic at
South Haven, Tuesday, August IA. Ar
rangements are made for a delightful
day at the lake; reduced rates for lake
and river excursions and unlimited OPP
portunities for fun in lake Michigan.
| All Sunday schools are invited to join
and assist in making the event success
in point of attendance.
The Maccabees never do things by
halves. The big excursion by Macca-
bees of Kalamazoo and Van Buren, coun-
ties to st. Joe, August Is, will be sure
winner. The excursion is open to all
members of the order, their families and
friends and the general public. You can
leave your lunch baskets in the baggage
car until noon, and put them back there
after dinner; this will save Juggling them
around. Better take your wheels, too;
you can store them in the baggage car if
not wanted, and they might be conven-
| lent.
Mrs. Michael Murphy died August 3, of
old age, at the homes of Henry Cross in
Almena. The funeral was conducted in
the Austin school house, Sunday fore
noon. The remains were buried in the
cemetery near there. Tamsen Colburn
was born in Collins, Erie county, n. Y,
May 4, 1920. She was married to Michael
Murphy in 1850 and moved with her
husband to Michigan in 1856, and in
1859 they settled in Waverly, where she
lived until few weeks before her death.
| She united with the NJ. f.. church at the
age of l6 and remained member until
her death. She leaves two brothers to
mourn her loss.
The boys and mems choir of the church
of the Ascension, Chicago, about 40 in
number, are camping at Three Mile lake.
This is one of the finest musical organi-
cations of its kind in the city, and full
orchestra is their regular accompaniment
at church services. They have arranged
to give concert at Longwell's opera
house next Tuesday evening, and the
program will be such musical treat as
our people seldom have occasion to hear.
On the full choruses, the sopranos and
altos are boys voices. They have fine
maennerchor, tenor alto, soprano and
baritone soloists. They should be greeted
by good house.
Rev. w. F. Aliens sermon Sunday
morning only incidentally mentioned
"One of the Sinners: this individual
will be taken up more thoroughly August
10. The congregation was notable for
the absence of the class of which the
skinner" is type. This only goes to
show that it is, as someone has said,
"easer to criticise the greatest thing su-
perbly than to do the least thing indif-
ferently." Mr.. Aliens discourse was
clear exposition of his topic, "What is a
church," 1t was a broad, liberal dis
course and left the impression in the con-
gregation that the preacher could find
no reasonable defense for denominational
divisions. His next two Sunday morn
ing discourses will be awaited with in
terest.
The council held a special meeting
Monday evening. 1t was voted TO pay
the 500 interest on the $1,000 matured
water bonds, the bank agreeing to hold
them another year. The president and
clerk were authorized to issue 81 coo
bond to the Paw Paw Savings bank, to
pay up a time order. A motion was made
to raise the wages of labor for the corpo-
ration from s1.25 to s1.50 per day; this
was laid on the table until the next regu-
lar meeting. The street committee was
instructed to investigate the safety of
the sidewalks on the north side OF Main
street from the Longwell block west to