The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-08-23
Local and n seeIIGneo-s'

Nell Chappell went 10 chicago, Mon-
d ay.
Marquis b. Eaton will enter the prac-
tice of law in Chicago, September /.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winfield Jones have re-
turned to their home in Evanston, Ill.
A large number of Paw Paw people
are attending the circus in Kalamazoo
today.
Mrs. G.. H. Gibson and son of Chicago
have been guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. E. l.. Swan for 10 days past
H. E. Shaefer has opened photograph
gallery at Bloomingdale, and will be in
that village Friday and Saturday of each
week. The people will find him an ex-
cellent artist.
Miss Richie Hopping of Chicago has
been spending her weeks vacation at
the home of her parents. Her sister,
Mrs Eta Huyck, is expected here Tues
day for few weeks visit.
T. b. Hill and John Robb of this place
attended the reunion of their regiment,
the 9th Michigan heavy artillery at
South Haven, August 20-the 10th ami
versary of their muster into the service
at Kalamazoo.
Miss Mable O'Dell is in Cleveland, de-
signing for the large wholesale millinery
house of Hart & Co. She will be home
the first of September with new goods,
and then Mrs. M. l.. O'Dell's millinery
store will be opened.
Bills printed at The True Northerner
office announce for f. b. WEIGH an
auction sale of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs
and farm machinery, at his farm 215
miles east of Paw Paw, Thursday, Au-
gust 30, at 10 a. M; Ii. W. McCabe,
auctioneer.
Yesterday forenoon, August %, Ralph
Rowland had the misfortune to fall from
crabapple tree, breaking both bones of
his right arm between the wrist and ell
bow. DR.. Hoyt reduced the fracture.
August q, 1897, he suffered a fracture
of both bones of his left leg.
Hartford has waterworks, but recently
had a public well put down so that peo-
pie on the street can get something to
drink. Paw Paw has some available
wells, but should have a drinking foun-
tain supplied with our pure water from
the mains. If some kind of drinking
fountain could be erected before Sep
TENDER ., it would be boon to the big
crowd that will be here on that day.
Fifty years ago this fall, the old court
house was used as a floral hall for Van
Buren, countys fair. The O'Dell house
was standing on its present site, but the
other land west of and adjoining the
court house grounds was covered with
small oaks, and the cattle and other
stock on exhibition were tied among the
trees. The vegetable exhibit in the
hall was one of the fuest ever seen at a
fair IN this county.
The committee on archives is busy
getting together documents to place in
the corner stone of the new court house
Old residents are of the opinion that
some documents were placed in the cor
ner stone of the old building, and
Wednesday afternoon Chairman Wildey
of the building committee and some
of the county officials removed some OF
the old foundation at each of the front
corners of the building, in search of any
such old documents, with the intention
of putting them in the new corner stone
Nothing was found, and it is doubtful il
there was any corner stone laying at the
time the old court house was built, IS
years ago. If the old documents could
be found, they would be interesting
There is nothing in the public records tc
shed any light on the matter