The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1902-01-17

ONcI.
The Kibbie telephone company is
working up al exchange in Lawton.
Frank Salm, Bangor barber, shot of
a part of his left fore finger while hunt
ing.
The Benton Harbor Palladium will in
stall Mergenthaler typesetting machine
February l.
The teachers reading circle will con-
vene at the school house, Lawton, Satur-
day, January 1s.
T.R. Smith of Grand Encampment has
been suffering a severe attack Of heart
trouble.-Lawton Leader.
Some Bangor fruit growers say peaches
are all right; others claim there is not a
live bud in their orchards.
A correspondent Of the Lawton Leader
thinks the school house in that town
should have fire escapes. He is right
about it.
A pleasant surprise was given Miss
Kathryn Dillon at the home of Miss
Audrey Vliet by the pupils of the 9Th
grade.-Lawton Leader
The fair store of Tobias Bros. at
Dowagiac has been closed by creditors
holding a trust mortgage for S20,6lOS3,
the amount of their outstanding indebt-
edness.
Owing to irregularity in the registration
in one ward, the special election ordered
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not $4,000 should be borrowed for public
improvements, was declared off,
The state board of health has issued a
timely pamphlet on the smallpox condi-
of vaccination and revaccination by all
who have not been successfully vaccinat-
ed within five years.
The will of the late Burton Jarvis of
Buchanan contains the unique provision
that his executors shall never foreclose
any mortgage held by him so long as the
mortgage keeps up the interest or even
makes an effort and fails.
Burwell Hinchman of Sawyer has been
beaten in a suit for $4,000 against the
Pere Marquette railway company. He
claimed to have been injured by his
horses running away from fright at
escaping steam from locomotive.
Constantine is offering a bonus to a
brass factory at tGrand Haven to move
there and will probably get it. Six years
ago Grand Haven gave the company
site and is opposed to further bonusing
it. Fifty!men are.employed.
From the general character of Pent-
water hydrant water for some time past.
and the offensive stencil it emits when
heated. evidently our village water works
ought to take something and then "go
away back and sit down" -Pentwater
News,
II. ID. Harvey has plans perfected for
the residence which he will! build in the
spring. The plans were drawn by South
Bend firm of architects and are the most
comprehensive.w have ever seen. The
estimated cost is 000-Bangor Ad-
vance.
Lewis Stevens sold 1900 bushels of
corn recently to Mr.. McCord, the Ben
ton Harbor fruit grower, for 70 cents per
bushel, delivered that gentleman buying
for his own use. This probably is the
best sale made by any farmer hereabouts
this Dowagiac Republican.
A rumor has reached this office from a
source to the effect that the
much talked about Three-I road has
been bought by the Lake Shore & Mich
igan Southern Railroad Co. for the Van
dalia people, the former owners of the
line from South Bend to st. Joseph
st. Joseph Herald.
A deputy U. S. marshal from Grand
Rapids has, seized the steamer Frank
Moore, the West Michigan Traction
boat, on a debt claimed for
wages by tlaborer. Attorney Cady,
local head at Benton Harbor for the trac-
ton company, says the laborer's claim is
IN dispute and as soon as that is settled
and his small claim adjusted the boat
will be released.
William Don Minkner of Keller is
about to come intoIpossession of $4,000
worth of Chicago property left to his
father, OttoS Minkner, by the latters
father. The discovery was made by acct.
lent and the boys father, Otto Minkner,
lied in the Cass county poor house about
| year ago not knowing that property
enough to.give him the comforts of life
vas awaitingi his demand assopolis
vigilant.
ThomaslG. Archer of st. Joseph claims
peaches are all right. He says: THE
lardier kinds show better than the more
ender but there.are enough. OF course
here is always danger in the weather
)ut the grunt of the alarmist heard each |
winter has as yet no foundation except |
n imagination, and it should not be |
listened to moment to the injury of the |
interests of. both the farmer and bust
less man in this section"
The electric road company is planning
lpon general electric light system along |
he line of road and with that end in |
rev ascagents out securing takers in |
he resort region on Spring Lake. 1t is
lot at all unlikely that every farmer on
he line OF road will. have electric lights