The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1902-01-10

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The Herald is new and newsy twice.
a.week paper at Vicksburg.
S. Van Ostrand and A. G. Runyan have
asked the council at South Haven for a
franchise for the establishment of gas
plant.
The Lawrence Times is authority for
the statement that 364 carloads of freight
were shipped from that station last year,
in car lots.
Bangor is getting to be one of the best
advertising towns in Michigan. The
merchants are very large users of news
paper space.
The fourth annual concert and ball Of
the XIX Century club at Lawton will be
held at the opera house Thursday even
ing, January 10.
A hundred and eighty South Haven
freeholders have petitioned the council
for an election to vote on the question of
incorporating as a city under the general
law.
DR.. G. w. Cornish, who has not been
very we'll for several days, was obliged to
take to his bed Thursday, and it is
feared that he has typhoid fever. He
is at Colvin Kinney 's.-Lawton Leader.
The new German church at South
Haven is all completed and the building
committee is waiting for the seats to
arrive SO that they can be placed. The
dedication ceremonies will probably take
place in a couple of weeks.
Eugene f. Bradt, we'll known in this
county, has been appointed general sup
erintendent of mines and explorations of
the Clergue syndicate of Sault Ste. Marie,
with its territory extending from Stud
bury, Ont, to the Michigan ranges.
H. l.. Sutton has presented the Re-
publican snowy owl which measures
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of its wings and weighs Ga pounds Mr.
Sutton saw it perched on the top of his
hen house Christmas night and shot it,
1t is fine specimen.-Decatur Republi-
can.
Geo. Chapman of the Farmers and
Merchants bank has sold to the West
Michigan Savings bank his business and
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soon for the Pacific coast on account of
his health and will undoubtedly locate
somewhere in the est.-Bangor Visitor
The report of Prosecuting Attorney
Master of Kalamazoo county for the six
months ending December 30, shows an
increase of so per cent in the business of
the Office for the year, which is greater
than in any previous year in the history
of the county. The office disposed of ST.
cases.
With its last issue the Decatur Repub-
lican entered upon it's sixth year under
the present management The publisher
is Justly proud of the fact that the paper
has grown some since the first of Janu-
airy, 1897, when the Independent expired
and the Republican was revived. It's
number of subscribers has more than
doubled,
From points of acreage and produc-
ton the Decatur celery crop is the larg
est it has ever been. A close estimate by
one in a position to know places the
amount of money received by growers
from the sale of celery at $4,000, This
is certainly a great industry for our
village and should be encouraged in
every possible way by our business men.
We have hundreds of acres of choice
celery land and the acreage should be
greatly increased next year.-Decatur
Republican.
Two representatives of Williams Bros.
Co. of Detroit were at Coolies, Monday,
by request, to look over their plant with
a view of running it if satisfactory, and
also to see if it was advisable to erect a
sailing plant for cucumbers there. We
are reliably informed that the canning
plant was not satisfactory for their use
and they thought it useless to put in a
sailing house when they will have one at
Kendalls and their large plant at this
place, only four miles away.-Blooming-
dale Leader.
Statement of condition of peach buds
on Lookout Fruit farm, X. w. Noyes
owner. The first figure following the
name is the per cent of good buds, the
second number is the bad: Kalamazoo,
80 80; Elberta, 2 50; Gold Drop, 50,
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Late Smock, 30, 90 Lewis Seeding, 80,
10; Early Michigan, so, 10; Sneed, 70, %;
Champion, %, 10; Wonderful, 80, TO-;
Beers Smock, l. 90; Cranes Yellow, 2, 90;
Old Nixon, 2, 90. Total, 625, 763.-South
Haven Messenger.
Monday, the announcement was made
on our streets that our citizen and mer-
chant Mr. David Smith, had failed and
creditors had taken possession of his
stock of goods and other property to
satisfy their claims against him. They
Immediately commenced to invoice the
stock. We very much regret this mis-
fortune which has overtaken friend
Smith. In a business way Mr.. S. has
been great help to our town. We are
pleased to know that Mr. Smiths finan-
cial condition is not as bad as at first
announced, and we are informed from a
reliable source that after all debts are
paid he will probably have balance in
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