The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-05-02
Local Department.
Advertised letter: Mr. Henry Werner.
Elmer Shrine was at Kalamazoo, Mon

Advertised letter: Mr.. Henry Werner.
Elmer Shrine was at Kalamazoo, Mon
day.
f.. b. Longwell advertises cut prices
this week.
Dr. f.. A. Palmer of Hartford was in
Paw Paw yesterday.
See the new card of the Womens Ex-
change in this paper.
Rev Ross Matthews has been spending
several days in town.
w. j. Sellick advertises cut prices in
seasonable merchandise.
The guild will meet with Mrs Chas
Chappell, Thursday evening.
The annual tax sales were commenced
yesterday by the county treasurer.
Chas. Cole has gone to Marion, Ind,
for treatment at the sanitarium there.
The X. o. T. NJ. degree team will meet
in their hall tomorrow Thursday even
ing.
Rev. A. A. Glovier spent Sunday with
church in Illinois, in the Mississippi
valley.
Miss Mabel Mcleod returned home
Thursday after short visit with friends
in Kalamazoo.
Concord ranch" will be the name of
the 50-acre vineyard Sheriff Thomas is
setting this spring.
Z. j. Cavanaugh, II. A. Cole and Bert
! p. Bryar attended the democratic state
convention in Port Huron.
John Oten, who lived near Kendall,
was drowned last Thursday night He
fell overheard while fishing in North
lake.
A letter has been received from Dan
Robb, written March 2S He says the
Paw Paw boys in the Philippines are
all we'll
f.. f.. Thomas of Ottawa, Ills, was
home to visit his wife last week, at Go
bleville. They came to Paw Paw for a
couple of days.
The Northerner is in receipt of a long
letter from Frank Long, who is in the
Philippines. \ part of it will be pub
lished next week
At meeting of the school board at
Watervliet, Harry Nj. Snow was elected
superintendent of the Watervlet schools
for the coming year.
The G. G. G. were guests of Mrs. +.
Stanley Briggs, Monday evening, and
will be entertained next week at the
home of Mrs. DR.. Curtis.
Hon. e. A. Wildey, II. A. Chaplin, Wells
G.. Brown and a. G. Martin are the Paw
Paw republicans who will attend the
state convention in Detroit.
The annual business meeting of the
High School Alumni association will be
held Friday evening at III. ID. Spicer's.
a full attendance is requested.
There is pretty nearly an epidemic of
measles in Paw Paw Children attend
ing school have nearly all been exposed
to the disease and the cases are numer-
Gus.
Mrs. David Woodman is making fine
recovery, being now all right mentally
and on the gain physically. Her many
friends all rejoice over her improved
condition.
The South Haven News relates how
Judge Smith sentenced Heal to Jackson.
Who is Judge Smith and how came he
to be sitting on Van Buren, county's
woolsack?
Rev. J. III. Darling occupied the pulpit
of the +. w. Baptist church last Sunday
morning, in the absence of the pastor
1t is reported that he preached a very
able discourse.
T.. +. Parks is clearing his fine lots on
north Niles street, preparatory to build
ing a new residence on them. The old
house was sold to A. McDougall and
moved onto his place on west Main street.
1t is surprising how many loads of fur
niture Shoesmith hauls into the sur
rounding country. Schoolcraft Lawton,
Lawrence, Gobleville and Benton Har.
Dor are some of the places to which his
goods have been delivered.
Clothing that has had the magic touch
of artists in the cutting room-skilled
men who have made the grace and charm
of dress life study, are specials in the
great month of May sale at f. Smith &
Co.'S. See adv. on last page.
BY request of the board Of directors, all
those interested in the Wildey cemetery
are invited to meet on Friday, May IL,
bringing garden rakes, grub hoes, or any
other tools necessary for the improve
ment of the lots and grounds.
The Bangor Advance says that Mrs.
Eta Albright of Bangor and p. G. Alters
of South Haven surprised their friends
by going to Benton Harbor and getting
married. If the Advance states their
places of residence right, the young
couple could legally obtain a license to
marry in Van Buren, county only-and
they didn't