The true northerner., 1900-04-04
Local Department.


Marcellus.
Geo NJ. Harrison is seriously i'll with
pneumonia.
Mrs. f. II. Harvey is rapidly recovering
at Ann Arbor.
G. II. Avery is in Chicago this week
purchasing new goods.
Mrs. Solomon arrived home from Cali
fornia, Friday evening.
Coterie banquet at the Dyckman
house this evening at 8 o'clock.
II. G. Waters & Co. received carload of
10 Peninsular furnaces last week.
a big show, IA people, all full of fun,
at the opera house, April and 3.
d. III. Patterson and family are moving
into Mrs. Dora Richardson's house.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. L. Warner arrived
home Friday evening from California.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Snow of Water
vliet visited in Paw Paw three days last
week.
The Eastern Star ladies will give an
Easter luncheon April u; watch for
menu.
Miss f.. Gertrude Lyle of Grand Rapids
was the guest of Paw Paw friends over
Sunday.
Miss Walter, preceptress in the high
school, spent the vacation at her home
in Otsego.
DIR. Mcdonald, the eminent specialist,
will be at the Dyckman house, Thurs
day, April II.
Miss Bailey returned from st. Louis,
Saturday night, where she has been visit
ing her parents.
Hogan, Katy and Jake are coming
the kings of laugh makers, opera house,
April and 3, eclipsing all farce com
panies; new costumes, introducing fine
new specialties.
y meeting of those who have pledged
insurance in the Patrons Fire Insurance
company of Van Buren, and Cass coun-
ties will be held at Lawrence, April 20,
for election of officers.
Geo. w. Flanders has moved his busi.
ness from Marcelus to Three Rivers and
will make his home in the latter place.
The many Paw Paw friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. Flanders wish them success.
L. b. Conner has received letter from
his son MERIT, written from London,
England, saying that the young man has
been sent by his firm to Antwerp, Bel
gium, where he will make his headquart-
ers for some time.
Andrew Shepard told the Northerner,
Saturday, that his peach trees have
plenty of buds, and he thinks thinning
will be necessary on most of the trees.
He says other Gliddenburg orchards
promise a good crop.
Miss Grace Henwood has returned
from Detroit, where she has been en-
gagged for the past three weeks getting
the latest styles in millinery before enter
ing upon her duties in the millinery de-
partment at w. j. Sellick's.
The Cummings dry goods store makes
special Easter mention of line of goods
this week that has much to do towards
making Easter day one of pleasure and
satisfaction. The hand properly gloved
finishes the toilet in the best of taste.
The Cummings kid glove stock will enable
all to be fitted at very moderate cost.
Paw Paw has plenty of attractions IN
the amusement line of late Last week,
the home talent production of David
Copperfield," Tuesday evening, attracted
good audience, who were well enter
tained. Kline's moving pictures two
nights were the finest ever seen in Paw
Paw. The Cornell entertainment under
the auspices of the l.. o. T. NJ. Friday
evening was not heavily patronized, but
was good. The various secret societies |
seemed to fix with surprising unanimity |
on Friday evening for their entertain |
ments. In addition TO the one at the !
opera house, the Masonic chapter had !
work, the Knights of Pythias gave very
enjoyable reception and dancing party at !
their hall, and the Grange had good |
crowd at their sugar social and enter
tainment.
Frank Gieser, the Lawton man whose
arrest was chronicled in the Northerner
last week, for brutal assault on his |
iaIhOi, PicauCu Builly W charge vi as
saut and battery before Justice Stanton
of Lawton, Wednesday. The squire :
promptly imposed sentence of 800 fine
or $50 days in Jail, completely ignoring
the fact that the limit of Justices jur-
in criminal cases is 500 or 80
days. Gieser is now in Jail, and will
probably remain there 80 days, when he
will doubtless be released by the sheriff
Before the sentence was imposed the
magistrate was advised by the prosecut-
ing attorney as to the extent of his iuris-
diction, but he evidently consulted the
statute, which fixes the extreme penalty
as he imposed it-but it takes a circuit