The true northerner., 1900-06-06
Local Department.

town Monday.
Geo. II. Myhan of South Haven wa,
in town Friday.
NJ. Hale and son of South Haven were
in town Monday.
Miss Anna Rowland of Lawrence is the
guest of Paw Paw friends.
Mrs. w. T. Murray of Peoria, H., is
visiting her sister, Mrs. ID. Spicer.
The Tuesday club meeting will be held
June u, at the home of Mrs. Daniel
Morrison.
DIR. j. G. Maxwell and family now oc.
cupy III. L. NcNeils house, west of the
opera house.
The Every Friday club will meet at
the home of Mrs. Emma Smith, Friday
of this week
Kalamazoo high school ball team will
play the Paw Paw high school Saturday
in this village.
The women's guild of st. Marks
church will meet with Mrs. Andrews,
Thursday evening, June Z.
The business meeting of the Presbyter-
ian G. f. will be held Thursday evening
at the home of Mrs. Addie Hunt.
Advertised letters: Mrs. Bertha Smith,
Mrs. Julia Parmenter, Miss Lena Mead,
Mr. Oliver Perkins, Duane Gardner.
The S. II. g. f. is repairing its sidings
and putting in large turntable on its
newly acquired land near the depot.
The fourth annual meeting of the Van
Buren, County Federation of Women's
Clubs will be held at Hartford, June "a.
w. H. Mason and family have moved
into the Stoddard house. Mrs. Haggart
is moving into the house vacated by Mr..
Mason.
The Morgan company, which played
at the opera house all last week was the
best that has been in Paw Paw for
some time.
Old Co. &C" of the 4th Michigan cav
airy will hold their oath annual reunion
at Lake Cora, Friday and Saturday,
June and 8.
Paw Paw now gets mail from east and
west at 7 p. N. This was secured by
request of Postmaster Warner and is a
great convenience.
James Erkenbeck started Sunday night
on his return to Mexico, after spending
several days at the home of his father,
Martin Erkenbeck
Rev. II. r. Murphy, missionary elect,
who will sail for India in September, will
speak at the Freewill Baptist church
next Sunday morning.
Rev. A. H. Whitaker and two daugh-
ters of Jackson were guests at III. III
Jennings last week. Mr. Whitaker was
looking for fruit farm.
The Prospect Valley Farmers club
meets June H. with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Van Ness of Decatur. The entire pro-
gram for March will be carried out.
The details of the Armour & Co. mat
ter are all closed, and it is expected
the representatives of the company will
be here before the end of the week to
prepare for building at once.
There will be an advertisement social
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Lyle,
Friday evening of this week. Ice cream
and cake will be served. Ladies of the
church are requested to bring cake.
The pure, unadulterated article is
scarce limitations are plentiful. When the
price of clothing was the lowest, T..
Smith Il Co. made their enormous pur-
chase for spring. Now comes their great
June sale; step lively if you want first
choice.
Amasquerade ball will be held at Long
wells opera house next Friday evening,
June s. There will be good music.
Dance tickets 30 cents and balcony 10
cents. Entrance at the front door; all
are invited.
Bert Wilson suffered a stroke of pa
ralysis last Thursday on Main street. He
walked as far as Dr. Curtiss' office, where
an examination was had, and was carried
to his home on south Gremps street.
lie is again able to be out with the as
sistance of pair of crutches.
In the storm early Thursday evening,
the large barn of w. w. Crandall in
Gliddenburg was struck by lightning and
was burned, together with all sheds and
out buildings, some ID tons of hay, 800
bushels of wheat and 80 bushels of oats.
All stock, machinery, etc, were saved.
The loss was upwards of 81, 200; fully in
sured in the Farmers Mutual Insurance
company.
James Nichols and John Brown, two
Hartford young men, were arraigned be
fore Justice Rowland yesterday, charged
with breaking into the S. III. q f. depot
at Hartford. Nichols admitted his COM
plicity in the offense, waived examina-
ton and was committed, in default of
bail, to await trial in the circuit court.
Brown denied having anything to do
with the matter and demanded examina-
ton, which is set for next Tuesday.
The council held a special meeting
Monday evening and voted to put down
another we'll at the water plant-a six
or eight inch one, hoping thus to relieve
the shortage in water supply. IL the one
well materially betters the condition, but
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