The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-03-15

Seats are now on sale for the grandest
show on the road; reserved seats 90
cents.
Paw Paw Grange is to confer the Bird
and 4th degrees upon large class, Friday
evening of this week. All candidates are
expected to be present.
Married, March 13, Mr.. Will Harp OF
Kalamazoo to Miss Nora Seely of Paw
Paw. at the parsonage of the First
Baptist church, Rev. w. +. Allen officiat-
ing.
Were clothes awarded prizes, +. Smith
& Co. would win blue ribbons by the
score for thousands of the SWEETEST and
most fashionable spring suits have
arrived.
Bills printed at The True Northerner
office announce an auction sale for Henry
Hawley, l Is miles south of town, Friday,
March %. Horses, cows and farm prop
erty will be sold; III. w. McCabe, auc-
tioneer
The Gus Sun MINISTRIES, travelling in
their own private Pullman cars, 90 peo-
will give one of their famous shows at
the opera house, Saturday, March Is;
reserved seats 80 cents, gallery 30 cents,
children % cents.
There is talk of new state normal
school, and an effort is being made to
secure its location in Decatur. A legis-
lative committee is expected to visit that
village to look the ground over. 1t
would be fine addition to our hand
some sister village, and The True North
erner would be pleased to see it secure
the school.
w. G. Bliss, for many years a resident
of this village, died of pneumonia We'd
nesday, March l3 at 5 p. ~, after an i'll
ness of but few days. He was 6S years
old. Mr.. Bliss was respected by all who
knew him, a good and useful citizen.
The funeral will be held at the residence
this afternoon at 2 o'clock, under Masonic
direction. Mrs. Bliss is also seriously i'll
of pneumonia, but is gaining slightly,
and her recovery is expected.
Jay Reynolds has sold his fine 50 acre
! fruit farm, just south of town, to M. S.
Cook of Cadillac for $4,000. This is one
of the finest places in this vicinity. Mr..
Cook will make the farm his home and
will begin making extensive repairs on
! the buildings as soon as the weather is
suitable He is Grand Army man and
to those who met him appeared a gentle
man who will be an addition to the COM
munity. Mr.. Reynolds intends to go to
| California in the fall on account of his
poor health here in the winter months,
and will remain in California if the
climate is beneficial.
The South Haven Tribune wakes funny
in its remarks about Paw Paws water
works system-and as usual when it is
making county seat arguments, doesn't
confine itself very closely to the truth
Paw Paw has the best water plant in
Van Buren, county, furnishing the best
and purest water. 1t provides adequate
| fire protection, and no such instance of
inadequacy as the Tribune tells about
has ever occurred. AS proof of the truth
of our assertion, it is only necessary to
call attention to the fact that not single
fire has occurred in this place since the
! plant was built that was not confined to
the building in which it started, and not
single building here has been totally
destroyed by fire. There has been but
one fire in which the loss has exceeded
81 900, and that one was caused by a
gasoline explosion, and people know what
that means in the way of hard fire fight
ing. Most of the fires here have been
extinguished 10y our fine waterworks
system with losses that were merely
nominal