The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-05-15
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Osbon.
A committee from Bangor was here
Friday to look over our electric light |
plant.
( Mrs +. f. Clark, who has been confu-
ed to the house nearly all winter, is able |
to be out again.
y Chas. Thurston and Bert Lyle are
moving into the house recently vacated |
by Pearl Pritchard.
Joe Shermans place is being greatly
improved by new porch, new roof and
painting the house.
u The school board has awarded the
contract for plumbing the school build
ing to j. ID. Holmes.
At regular meeting Of the village
board Monday evening claims were
allowed amounting to 54436S.
Mrs. Geo. w. Matthews, formerly of
Paw Paw, died suddenly Wednesday
evening at her home in South Haven.
~ Photographer Grouse of South Haven
has purchased the gallery of ii. f.
Shaefer and is prepared to do first class
work.
A number of young people from Kali,
amazoo, Lawton and Decatur attended
/ the dance at the opera house Tuesday
night,
About % members of the Masonic
lodge went to Gobleville last evening,
to visit the lodge there. The ladies of
the Eastern Star served a banquet.
DR.. John Merrtte Driver of Chicago
will deliver the address at the commence
ment exercises this year which will be
held Thursday evening June Is.
The weather is exceedingly dry for the
time of year, and farmers are beginning
to complain. The roads are dry and dusty,
and the dwellers in our well sprinkled
village do not realize how dry it really is.
=, w. A. Prater has purchased the inter
est of Peter Mackellar in the Country
Visitor, and the paper will be published
by Glidden d Prater, the work being
d one in The True Northerner Office as
heretofore.
= Monday, Arthur Hutchins suffered
9Nite a serious accident. While assisting
in moving a shed from the First National
bank lots, his legs were caught under
the full weight of the shed, bruising
them badly and spraining one ankle so
that he will be laid up for several weeks.
Fortunately, he carried an accident
policy.
While our last weeks edition was on
the press the jury came in with a yer
dict of $4,000 against the railroad com-
pany in the case of VIM. Culver vs.. the
S. II. 81 r. The news was published in
part of the edition, and is noted again
this week for those of our subscribers
whose papers went out on the rural
routes before the verdict was announced.
Ia Aaron Harrison has taken The True
Northerner since 1850; L. Crandall
doesn't date quite back to the beginning,
but he has been a True Northerner
reader ever since be first came to this
/ locality in ls5S; Mrs. Henry Jennings
says The True Northerner has been a
familiar friend to her almost from the
first number, although of course she
was not subscriber in the beginning
being but a girl at that time.
The True Northerner respectfully sug-
gests to the council the propriety of hav
> ing the street grades permanently and
uniformly established by competent
surveyor where new cement walks are to
: be built this year. While it would mean
a little extra expense, it would ado
much to the beauty of the town. No
man, however competent he may be II
the construction of walks can make q
uniform grade all over the town witt
nothing but his eye and a stretched liuC
I for a guide, and some walks heretofore
built by this haphazard system testify tC
the need of an established grade.
: Major f. A. Mansfield, who is at pres
| ent going over the county records IL
J. Van Buren county, says that the grape
has given the farms of that section thei
great value. Improved farms sell read
j. lily for 500 per acre. Paw Paw las
e year alone shipped out $4,000 worth o
j grapes. One man alone cleared 81, ,l0
e from nine acre place, and another 50,
GOO from a 80 acre place, and all in al
- the grape is making Van Buren, farmer
wealthy and independent. The maio
U believes that Ottawa farmers could wei
follow in their footsteps and make tn
= light sand of this locality just as valua
BILE. Our soil he says is fully as good
and we have advantages which they d
not share.-Grand Haven Tribune.
The supervisors committee returne
= Friday from their tour of inspection o
court houses and have received man
= = valuable pointers, which will be reporte
} to, the board to-day. Supervisor Morric
says that of all the buildings the
: visited he likes the one at Paw Pa'
y the best, with Ithaca second. The for
q mer is very attractive building artist
70 and substantial, and the offices are com
modious and well arranged. The vault
= for records, instead of being dark dur
- geous, are we'll lighted and ventilated
and additional room is provided in tn
= basement for "dead" records, but whic
must be kept. The cost of the buildin
- was S54.0O0, and il this price can b
duplicated would leave a nice sum fo