The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-08-24
STATE SPECIALS.

One OF the most enthusiastic teach
crs institutes ever held In Charlevoix
county closed at GRarlevoix Wednes-
day.
Buyers or fall apples throughout the
state are having difficulty In securing
enough barrels TO make their ship
ments.
Horsemen of Battle Creek are max
ING unusual efforts for successful races
Aug. - to 81. The association is In
the Michigan circuit
The Democrats of Shawassee couD-
" want w. X. Burt, Of Saginaw, as
! the Democratic nominee for congress
in the Eighth district.
The Riverside Coal company is sink
| ing a shaft for a coal mine south OF
Saginaw on the Fitzhugh farm. The
shaft is down about 100 feet
Mrs. Henry Williams. young wo-
man of Hartford. committed suicide
while temporarily insane by taking poi-
son. She had been married but a few
months.
Col Bliss has accepted the Invitation
to speak at the farmers picnic at
Whitmore Lake on Sept l. Mayor
Maybury had heretofore accepted a
similar invitation.
The Michigan Central Knitting Mills
at Centreville which has been in the
hands of a receiver for the past six
months. nave been sold 10 +. 5. Cum
mings for $500.
Secretary OF State Stearns has caused
Ill
ton Of the election laws which are
now being distributed. Copies may be
had on application.
Miss Bessie Phillips, a teacher In the
Kalamazoo schools. and Judson r. Sci
leck. superintendent of the .Durand
schools. We're united In marriage at
Kalamazoo Wednesday.
"A dwelling house AZ Battle Creek
owned by G. Il. Dell and occupied by
Franklin Marsh. was damaged $1,000
by fire Wednesday. The fire originated
from a gasoline stove.
Three fakirs who have peen making
business of going around To farmers
picnics and working the grangers
were rounded up by Jackson officers
and sent up for thirty days.
The proposition TO bond Mayville for
$1,000 for II municipal electric lighting
plant was voted down Wednesday. The
council will now probably grant a
franchise for private plant
Mayor Moore of Port Huron has is
sued a proclamation ordering next
Tuesday, August %, ~ civic holiday.
1t is the occasion OF the merchants and
manufacturers annual outing, with its
its excursion TO Bay City.
John Gutter, Of Thetford, Genesee
county thought it did not pay TO carry
insurance. About year ngo his policy
became delinquent. Now his barns
and the seasons crops lie in ashes, Ell
failing total loss of 81 900
There are very great probabilities
that Surgeon Major Belser will resign
his position with the Michigan Nation
al Guard as he finds that his private
practice is too great 10 be interfered
with by military duties.
Willie Liebject, the Port Huron boy
charged with forging his mothers name
10 orders ON her bank account and
drawing $50 before his game was de
teeted. has been bound over to the
Circuit Court for trial
5. Il. Horning. OF Bay City. young
man about p years old, got his right
foot under the wheels OF moving car
on the Pere Marquette Tuesday night
and 1t was badly crushed He was
taken to the Saginaw hospital
John g. Colesworth and Abe Ram
bier were lodged in Jail at Flint Mon
day night on charge of burglarizing
the store of II. NJ. SERVER, of Goodrich.
few nights ago. The alleged thieves
bad gone as far as Port Huron when
arrested
The firm Of Williams Brothers q
CharbOnneau Of Detroit who have n
pickle sailing factory at Plainweu.
made their first payment 10 the cucum-
Der growers Tuesday OF $1,000 The
farmers are very much pleased win
their success.
The board OF state tax commission
crs made some stratling changes in the
personal assessments OF individuals
and firms of Saginaw, increasing the
assessors figures by a total Of $2.06S,-
500 Corporations and business firms
were hit heavily.
a 4OxS4 foot barn belonging to III.
.. Hanford. one and One-half miles
north of Cherry Hill, was struck by
lightning Tuesday highland burned TO
the ground. One horse and a large
crop OF hay and grain was consumed.
Loss $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Frank Kear. a 12-year-old Inlay city
boy, was running across Il neighbours
lawn Wednesday evening when he
came in sudden contact with clothes
line. 1t struck him in the neck and he
was thrown back and struck the
ground with such force as 10 break his
collar bone.
The cereal coffee establishments of
Battle Creek have had one good effect.
1t requires the best grade of wheat in
its manufacture, and in such large
quantities that its purchase has raised |
the Battle Creek wheat market TO the
highest In the state, all of which |
pleases the farmers.
The Republican senatorial conven-
ton for the lyypntv-aighth district