The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-07-19
County and State.


wells for its water plant.
Emancipation day will be celebrated
at Kalamazoo, August l.
The Michigan Central will build a new
$4,000 depot at Dowagiac.
The Marcellus creamery, not proving
a financial success, has been closed.
Williams Bros. & Co. of Detroit are
building pickle factory at Lawton.
The pension of Chas. Ort of Glendale
has been increased to SO per month.
John Huffman's hand was cut off by
boiling saw at the Lawton basket
factory.
drowned while bathing at South Haven,
Sunday.
Among the corporations that filed
articles last week was the Gobleville
milling company, with a capital of $4,000.
The Michigan Central will build another
line between Niles and Buchanan, via the
st. Joseph river route, to accommodate
its freight traffic.
The Crystal Springs camp meeting
this year will be held August 81 in
elusive. Some of the leading men in
Methodism will be present.
A Newburg girl sent ID cents to
Chicago firm which advertises for that
amount to send a receipt for softening
and whitening the hands. This was the
reply: Soak them we'll in dish water
three times a day while your mother
rests"
A good many resorters are oming by
the boats, but there is complaint among
the resort keepers that they do not fill
up very fast. There are so many places
to divide the patronage that it needs the
rush to fill them up.-South Haven
Messenger.
Fifteen suits have been commenced by
the Berrien Springs Canning company
against parties who took stock, and owing
to its failure to pay dividend refused to
settle One case has been tried and won
by the company and appealed to the cir
cult court.-Dowagiac Republican.
The Michigan Central is to have a
new terminal in Chicago. Together with
the Lake Shore, Nickle Plate and Rock
Island, the Central will use the new depot
to be built on Van Buren, street. For
nearly 30 years the Michigan Central has
used the depot of the Illinois Central.
A temporary injunction has been
granted by Judge Carr, restraining the
city of Dowagiac from paying the SD,
600 bonus voted to the Dalin railroad.
The Michigan Centrals attorney, \. III.
Stewart of Kalamazoo, represents the
five Dowagiac taxpayers who ask for
permanent injunction.
The Dunkley company, now operating
the steamer Petoskey will build a new
side wheeler for the South Haven't Chicago
route. The new boat will be $50 feet
long and will carry 900 passengers.
The berths, instead of being in staterooms,
will be arranged after the style of a
Pullman sleeper. The company is said
to have leased a boat for the fruit trade
this fall.
Moses BeDunah, the man who put
down the cement walks in this village
this spring, left town without paying his
DOdIu Dlli. ne ldO Dtcu stay lllR Will
Mrs. n. Davis, who keeps frst-class
boarding house over the postoffice. Be
Dunah claimed to have plenty of property
in farms and money, and as he did not
return to settle the bill the landlady
swore out papers for his arrest and
under Sheriff Britton rounded him up
over in Kalamazoo county. He was
brought to Bangor and the justice gave
him 20 days in the county jail.-Bangor
Advance.
Mrs. f. T. Shrindon and sister of
Grand Rapids spent the Fourth of July
at the home of j. G. Lyle in Lawrence
township. They returned Friday. Two
months ago Miss f. Gertrude, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. G.. Lyle, who is
trained nurse of high standing in Grand
Rapids, was called to the home of Mrs.
Shrindon to care for her three months
old twin babies. One of the twins died
the same day. the other, a tiny skeleton
weighing three and one-half pounds, Miss
Lyle took charge of a few weeks later
she came to her home to spend the sum-
mer and brought the infant with her. 1t
is now five months old, weighs six and
quarter pounds and gives promise of be-
coming man some day.-Decatur Re
publican.