The true northerner., 1901-12-20
L0e0I an d Miscellaneous
Jottngs.

j. G. Gould is quite ILL.,
Read the inside pages this week.
The True Northernor wishes all its
readers merry Christmas.
The Paw Paw Savings bank publishes
a statement in this paper, making line
showing.
In spite of the extremely cold weather,
work has not been suspended on the
court house, and the roof is being rapid
ly put in place.
Paw Paw merchants never showed a
finer assortment of holiday goods than
the present season, and as usual big
rush of trade is coming to this place
The Eastern Star ball which was held
last evening was fairly well attended.
The train being late, Fischer's orchestra
did not arrive until after o'clock and
the grand march was dispensed with.
The mercury has been disagreeably
low all this week, falling below zero each
night and not getting far above that
point in the daytime. The lowest tenn
perature was 10 degrees below zero Sun
day night.
Miss Melissa Graine died Monday, De.
cember l6, at the home of her mother IN
this village, of consumption, aged 81
years. She was bright young woman,
and had many friends. The funeral, con-
Quoted by Revs Mather and Miller, was
held at the residence Wednesday after
noon burial at Prospect Hill.
The Temple quartette concert Tuesday
evening, as was anticipated, was a fine
entertainment, though but poorly patron
lied. 1t is unfortunate that our people
do not encourage companies OF this
class when they visit Paw Paw. The
people are very fortunate this season in
the high character of entertainments
that are coming to the opera house.
Fire caught Tuesday morning in a
clothes press Of G. L. Bruner's residence,
and the contents Of the room, including
suit of clothes, an overcoat, some dresses
and other clothing, were burned. 1t
is supposed the fire caught from the ig-
milton of some matches which were in a
pocket of Mr.. Burners overcoat, by
catching in the door. Luckily, the fire
was discovered and put out before fur
ther damage was done.
Jacob j. Grayer, whose family has
lived in this village and vicinity for sew
eral years, was found dead in his room
in Chicago boarding house Tuesday.
A gas Jet was turned on, and it IS sup
posed he had committed suicide. He
went to Chicago only few days before
his death. No cause is known for his
rash act The first news of his death
received by his wife was through a dis
patch sent TO Marshal Stevenson by the
chief of police of Chicago Some of the
Chicago papers, and some Michigan
dailies following them, attached some
highly sensational details TO the case
which had no foundation whatever in
fact.
At the county convention of the Anti
Saloon league held at Paw Paw, Monday
r. b. Randall Of Covert was elected
county vice president to fill vacancy.
Steps were taken to organize each town
ship as soon as possible and plan for
more aggressive temperance work in the
county. The purpose of the Anti-Saloor
league is the abolition of the liquor
traffic and the enforcement of temper
ance laws. 1t does not affiliate with any
political party and maintains an attitud,
of neutrality upon questions of public
policy not directly concerned with The
traffic in strong drink. Any organiza
tion in the county opposed to the liquor
traffic may become a part of the Anti
Saloon league, even though organized
under different name.