The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-06-12
Whole Number 25I6.

" Miss Edith Scbeurman has resigned
her position in the high school for next
year. She has accepted a position in
Cadillac.
DR.. Henry G.. Maynard of Hartford
has been appointed as the Eclectic men,
ber of the state board Of registration in
medicine
The True Northerner is under oblga-
tion to DR.. l.. h. Dibble for copies of the
Kansas City Times and Star containing
accounts of the recent food.
Nathaniel Atwell of Lawton, an old
and well known resident of this county,
committed suicide Tuesday morning by
drowning himself in cistern. He was
6S years old, and his mind had been af-
fected by dependency over the death of
his wife, and it is supposed his reason
was unbalanced when he took his life,
as no reason is known for the act
q At a regular meeting of the village
board Monday evening notice of claim
for damages of Mrs. Matte Brewer was
presented to the board. Mrs. Brewer
was hurt some time ago on defective
sidewalk. . A committee was appointed
to confer with her regarding settlement.
a resolution was adopted withdrawing
all permits granted heretofore to carry
the city water out of the corporation
limits. The resolution is to be in force
within 20 days, unless those using the
water In such manner petition the board
of supervisors to so extend the limits of
the corporation as to take in their prop
erty Claims were allowed amounting
to ol,ll5.67. At special meeting held
Tuesday evening it was voted to levy a
tax of one aDd one-fourth per cent on
the assessment roll for the year 1903.
| With the general raise in assessments
and the addition of one-fourth to the
rate of taxation, the taxpayers will know
when they have paid their taxes this
year.
a Calumet paper speaks in the follow
| ing high terms of the Memorial day ora
tion given by a former Paw Paw boy:
after the opening exercise, Rev. A. j..
! Hutchins Of the Laurium Baptist church
was introduced by Col: Cox as speaker
of the day. Mr. Hutchins spoke with
out manuscript, and gave what was one
of the best orations of the kind ever
heard in Calumet. He omitted much
that one usually expects to hear from a
Memorial day Grafton and confined his
remarks to the application of the lessons
which the occasion taught. He spoke
of the motives which had prompted the
wars in which the United States had
participated, and pointed out the differ
ence between this country and most
European lands in that respect. He
said that every war in which the United
States had been implicated was for one
of two causes, either liberty or unity, and
never the common European motive of
acquiring more territory. Without any
reference in political way, the reverend
gentleman came out plainly in his state
ment that the United States never had
any imperialistic ambitions. Whatever
the politicians may think or whatever
they may have had in view in the times
preceding the Spanish A merican war,
he went on, the American people as a
body polite thought only of the prin-
ciple of liberty, and the war was fought
for that principle and nothing else In
his comment on the work of the great
American commanders on land and sea,
he paid deserved compliments to the
heroes of both wars, but came out
strongly in giving the credit for all the
victories of American arms to the men
in the ranks The address was listened
to by a large and attentive audience"