The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-12-06

Bangor will have fire escapes on its
school building.
Coldwater contemplstes a complete
sewer system tn cost about Sll6OOO.
Burrell Trip will build a new opera
house at Allegan that will seat 1000
people.
The first Pere Marquette train was run
over it's new downtown extension at AL
Logan, Tuesday.
Now it's Kalamazoo that has soft
coal famine 1t is feared some manufac-
turing concerns will be compelled to
shut down.
After January |, the passenger rate
on the Michigan Central will be two
cents per mile No round trip or excur-
sion tickets will be sold.
None Of the Lawton hunters who were
exposed to small pox have as yet shown
any symptoms of the disease and it is
thought the danger is past
II. NJ. Hendelmann OF Berrien Springs
has been brought to Kalamazoo by his
physician. DR. r p. Partlow, to undergo
the Y ray treatment of cancer.
Lawton Maccabees we're visited last
night by Great Commander n S. Boynton
and Great Commander Frances r.. Burns
OF The great camp and great hive.
During the past week j H. Haynes
has shipped by express six carloads Of
celery and several carloads have also
been shipped by freight. 1t has all gone
west, the heaviest sales being in Missouri
aud Kansas Decatur Republican.
In its aus sers to inquirers" depart
ment, the South Haven Sentinel prints
the following Irrespective Resident
No: the residents of this place do not
carry pIauks with them to lay down, SO
that they can cross streets without
sticking fast IN the mud"
Arthur Dodd of Dowagiac, aged 10,
while cunning Sunday lost the thumb
of his right hand. In hastily climbing
a barbed wire fence the thumb came
squarely over the mouth of one of the
barrels and the hammer of the gun
caught on wire and discharged it,
The Marcelus correspondent of the
Cassopols Vigilant feelingly alludes to
recent leading society event in that
place as follows: Jonathan Whitaker,
% years old whose wife died three
months ago and who wanted to be bur
led with her, was married to Miss Esther
Reggie, % years old, both of this place.
For several days great numbers of
minnows have been coming up the Paw
Paw river. Just below the water wheels
at the paper mill they are as thick as
oysters in a pail. Nine barrels were
scooped up and planted 10 the millpond.
They are supposed to have been driven
in from Lake Michigan by the heavy
Winds Watervlet Record.
The Berrien Springs Oil and Gas Co.
has struck oil on the George Dean farm
two miles east of Berren Springs. An
expert has been sent for, and Monday
the shooting process will be brought into
play to shatter the rock. Considerable
excitement prevails in that vicinity and
real estate is taking on fancy prices
The same company is drilling a well for
oil in Dowagac.
Some left over fire works exploded in
j. j. Nash's store and came near causing
a serious conflagratioD. They were kept
under the book shelves next to a chimney
so they would be dry, and it is probable
that the paper in which the explosives
were wrapped may have been SO heated
from the chimney that they caught fire
VIII Brady started to investigate wher
he heard the sizzling and stopped over
in front of the door just as the first ex
plosion came. 1t blew the door off its
hinges and knocked him down SO that he
had to he dragged out. Prompt ap
plication of water saved the store, but &
plate glass case was broken, the shelly
ing injured and some stock slightly
damaged. -Marcellus News.