The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-08-31

week.
M. S. Carney Of Decatur was in town
Monday.
Charles Paige is pow employed at
Sellick's.
Mrs. M. Il. Whalen is the guest of Paw
Paw friends.
Gridley Toof of Decatur was in town
on business yesterday.
Mrs. j. j. Woodman will leave Monday
for northern Michigan.
Broughton advertises his white goods
sale, beginning tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. n. Piper of Chicago
are guests of Mr.. and Mrs c. f. Ocobock.
The three sons of Ernest Very have
gone to Alexander, Ind, to work in the
glass works.
Frank Bass has sold his interest in the
| Dyckman house barber shop to Walter
Cash of Lawton.
s. +. Heindel and family will move
back from Kalamazoo and occupy the
Van Fossen house.
County correspondence and other in
teresting home matter will be found
on the inside of the paper this week
Ed. Nash was quite severely scalded
on his left leg with hot water at the
canning factory, Wednesday. j. E.
Kingsnorth was slightly burned on the
arm.
The annual meeting of the Prospect
Hill Cemetery company for the election
of officers will be held Monday evening,
September 3, at p. m, at the Paw Paw
Savings bank.
Emerson said the world belonged to
the energetic. The loafer can claim only
a small part of the earth T.. Smith &
Co. are energetic, and rank high as cloth
iers in this part of the earth.
The Epworth league has invited the
young peoples societies of the other
churches to meet with them next Sun
day evening at $50, to listen to an ad-
dress by Beatrice CRANE on "The South"
Mrs. Ola w. Bell of Normandy. Mis-
souri,, Mrs. Markillie and Mr.. Vern Bell
of Gobleville, were guests of r. M. Buck
and family Wednesday. Mrs. Bell will
sail soon for Manila to join her husband.
Mrs Robert Morrison, Mrs. Levi Lyle,
and Mrs. II. II. Jennings are camping at
Bay View. Mrs Wm. Golfer of Cassopolis
was with them till Monday, when she
was called home by the death of a
brother.
The annual school meeting will be held
at the high school room Monday evening
at 1880. The usual business is to be
transacted, including the election of one
trustee in place of l.. III. Titus, whose
term of office expires.
Miss Pearl Barker of Chicago who has
been visiting her mother at Mendon,
came to Paw Paw, Tuesday. She has
been the guest of Mrs. Harry Waters.
Miss Barker has been engaged as teacher
at the Steeple school house for the COM
ing year.
w. f. French, one of the oldest citizens
of Almena township died Tuesday morn
ing, aged 50 years, after a long illness.
Mr.. French had served his township
several terms as supervisor, besides hold
ing other offices. The funeral was held
at the home Thursday at p. M, Rev. I.
p. Bates officiating.
The condition of Miss Julia Harrison
remains practically unchanged. She has
not regained consciousness since the ac-
cident chronicled in The True Norther-
ner last week. Drs. Maxwell, Thompson
and Young are constant in their attend
ance, and trained nurses are doing every
thing possible for the unfortunate young
lady. DR.. Darling was here from Ann
Arbor again Wednesday night. The
physicians are hopeful Tor her ultimate
recovery. Mrs. Pershing is getting along
nicely and Mrs. Cavanaugh has entirely
recovered from her slight injuries.
The council held a regular meeting
Monday evening. Early in the season,
Geo. w. Tyler made an application for
the extension of the water mains to his
place west of the river. The application
was denied because there was no money
in the village treasury with which to do
the work. He came before the council
Monday night and asked for rebate in
his taxes because he had been refused
water. The request for rebate was de-
; MED. The issuance of a 81 800 bond was
authorized, to pay an outstanding order
against the village. 81 1,057.29 of claims
: were allowed, of which S7S3.21 was from
! the waterworks fund, s666 being pay
; ment for the two new wells.
Next Sunday evening, Mr.. and Mrs
, Myron Hoskins will have been married
65 years-a remarkably long time for q
man and woman to travel life's road to-
gether. Mr.. Hoskins is nearly SO year,
old, his good wife past "a. Immediately
after their marriage, in the state of New
York, they came to Paw Paw. The old
Dodge tavern was the only frame build
ing in the town at that time, and they
commenced Housekeeping in a log houoc
near where Chas. Mather now lives. Mn
Hoskins helped build the old Gremr1
' house, now owned by Eli Bierce, whfc1
J is the oldest building now standing IA
} the village. He also worked on the = =,
+ dence now occupied by III. G. Drown
! one of the early buildings of this p1oG
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