The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-11-22

The county Of Van Buren,, one of the
finest in the state of Michigan, is located
in the south western corner of the state
and borders on the east shore OF Lake
Michigan, being only 80 miles 10y steamer
and 10 by rail, via the NJ. G. r. II. from
the great city of Chicago, the metropolis
of the West, which with its teeming mil
lions of people furnishes an ample and
constantly increasing market almost at
our very doors.
Paw Paw. the county seat, a village of
upwards of 800 inhabitants, is situated
on the line of the South Haven d Eastern
railroad, four miles north west OF Lawton
on the main line of the Michigan Central,
where it has close connection with all
trains on that great thoroughfare.
1t is located in the very heart of the
celebrated Michigan fruit belt and is
the shipping point for immense quaint
ties of grapes, peaches, apples and other
fruits which are produced throughout
the adjacent country, thousands of acres
of flourishing apple, peach and cherry
orchards and vineyards being found
within few miles of the village not to
mention the small fruits of various kinds
that are produced in great abundance,
all of a quality that may not be surpassed
and seldom equaled.
Paw Paw is one of the pleasantest
towns in Michigan and no more desirable
place for a residence or for the transac-
tion of business can be found anywhere
in the state.
1t has one of the finest school houses
and school grounds in the state and its
public schools are known far and wide
as being always of the very highest
grade, its graduates being admitted into
the University of Michigan and other
public educational institutions of the
state on their diplomas and without eX-
animation.
There are seven churches in the
town, Presbyterian, Disciple, Methodist,
Baptist, Freewill Baptist, Episcopal and
Catholic, and all have good, substantial,
commodious and comfortable church
buildings.
There are three good hotels in the
place and numerous first class restaurants
and boarding houses, where the travel
ing public can find the best of accommo-
dations
Main street and Kalamazoo street, the
two business streets of the place, are
built up on either side with substantial
business blocks and the stocks of goods
carried by the merchants of the town
are unexcelled, large numbers of people
coming from other towns to trade be-
cause they have learned that they can
get the best goods at the fairest prices.
The town is filed with fine residences,
nicely painted and kept in the best of
condition; its streets are well graveled,
edged with cement walks, lined on either
side with stately naples that in many
places completely arch the highway, and
bordered with well-kept, verdant lawns,
all tending toward making it what it
really is, one of the handsomest towns in
Michigan. indeed the place has all the
accessories of a modern, up-to-date town.
Its electric light plant, owned and
operated by the people, is of the very
best, no town of its size anywhere being
better lighted or having a better system,
both for public and private lighting.
There is also a first class system of
waterworks, owned and operated by
the people, both for public and domes-
tic use, the water being pumped from
flowing wells and being the purest and
./best. The arrangement for extinguishing
fires is complete and is seldom equaled
In a town of its size. In connection with
the waterworks a sewer system has been
established, money having been raised
and the contract for the construction of
the same having been let.
There are four good water powers
within the corporation and another im-