The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-03-27
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l.. +. Shepard is i'll of la grippe.
Arba Hawley is working in the post
office
John Baker is building an addition on
his house.
Born, Thursday, to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Shears, a son.
Mrs Thomas Tuckey has been quite
i'll of the grip.
w. L. Miller is making improvements
on his residence.
Work is in progress grading the new
court house yard.
Mrs. Eliza Roach has moved into Mrs.
Hogmires house.
Emory Ball is confined to the house on
account of sickness.
Geo Harrison is confined to the house
on account of sickness.
Chas. Scott has purchased JOS. Davey' s
shop building on west Main street
A. w. Cummings has carpenters at work
putting an addition on his residence.
Mrs. j. III. Desmond is slowly improv-
ing from severe sickness of pneumonia.
VIM. and Claude Snow have purchased
20 acres of fruit land from j. j. Wood
man.
j. w. Free has greatly improved the
looks of his premises by removing the
fence.
The board of education has voted to
retain all the teachers who desire to re-
main another year.
Rev. |. p. Bates will address a local
option meeting at the Lee school house
Thursday evening, April =.
Mrs. j. H. Rennie writes home from
Battle Creek that her husband is no bet.
ter, but remains seriously i'll.
NJ. ID. Buskirk has purchased 40 acres
of f. l.. Moe and 40 acres of Mr.. Van
/ Auken, two miles west of town.
| New boarders at the county Jail are
John Often and Loren Wise, both on a
charge of drunk and disorderly.
A reception was given at T.. O. Mather's
home Tuesday to his Sunday school
class. A good time was enjoyed.
At the teachers examination yesterda,
there were 81 applicants for certificates
present, of whom II were ladies.
Rev. L. A. Miller will address a loca
/ option meeting at the Gliddenburg
school house, Wednesday evening, April
Advertised letters: Miss Ethel Shave
Mrs. Margaret Crippen, ID. o. Sproat
Harry Odell, Jersey Silk Mill and Chas
| Upham =.
! Married, at the NJ. +. parsonage, March
26, by Rev. f.. o. Mather, Harvey Roy
/ Clark of Glenn and Miss Marie Matilda
| Fortine of South Haven.
DR.. G.. Frank Young of South Haven
who arrived at the home of his parents
last week, is rapidly convalescing from
his severe sickness of typhoid fever.
Chas. ID. Leach has purchased part oi
the old Van Fossen building on the
court house square, and will move it tc
his lot west of the river for a residence
T. G. Elce of Clinton, Mo-, has pur
chased the A. Lynn Free place in the
northwest part of the village and will
occupy it at once. ID. III. Walker, rea
estate agent, made the sale.
A good congregation attended the
union service at the Presbyterian church
last Sunday evening, and listened to ar
excellent local option address by Rev. j
A. Pierce of South Haven.
The many friends of Harry Folsom
who is attending college at Ann Arbor
will be pleased to know that he has beer
chosen out of lot of 30 students tC
play on the varsity base ball nine as 3ro
baseman.
A fair audience was out "Wednesday
evening at the opera house, to listen tC
the loeal option address by Rev. S
G.. Strickland of Kalamazoo. Nathar
Thomas presided over the meeting
Music was furnished by double quar-
tette of mixed voices.
G.. II. Taylor is about to make some
fine improvements in his barber shop
He will occupy the entire front of the
building, giving him large, light room
and will put in new furniture and ho
water heating plant. Mr.. Conner viii
put new plate glass front in the build
ing.
Jay ID. Roberts, by Cook q Donovan
his attorneys, has begun an action OF
the case against the South Haven anC
Eastern r. r. Co, laying his damages
at the sum of $4,000. He alleges tina
a train on said railroad negligently col
lided with a vehicle in which he wa
crossing the track in the city of Soutl
Haven, injuring hir so severely tha
amputation of his right leg became nee
essary. He claims that the train wa
moving rapidly and that 10 warning wa
given by ringing the bell or blowing tn
whistle as required by statute.