The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-06-10
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Seventy seven friends and neighbors
were entertained at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Smith, June 3, the occasion
being their 30th wedding anniversary.
They received many beautiful and use
full presents of which the following is
partial list Mrs. Ella Stout, Chicago,
silver gravy ladle; Mrs. III. 9. Hill, Will
bur, Neb., Battenberg center riece; Mr..
and Mrs. Charlie Morrison, st. Joseph,
Mich, china water pitcher; Harry, John
and Volney Morrison, st. Joseph, 50;
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. w. Green, Hillsdale, sill
YER pickle fork; MIR. and Mrs. j. ii.
Doughty, Mt. Pleasant, Lockwood pansy
Jar; Mrs. G. l.. McIntee, Kalamazoo,
pickle dish; Mrs. Pike, Kalamazoo, china
cup, saucer and plate; Mr. and Mrs. w.
C. Mosier, Mattawan, china chop plate
and cake plate.
Flint, Mich, June s. Marquis Eaton
of Chicago, and Miss Mabelle Jacquette
Hunter of this city, were the principals
in one of the prettiest weddings of the
season, celebrated today at noon at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Flint p. Smith.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. Il.
r. Macduff, rector of st. Pauls church,
jackson, and was attended by few
intimate friends of the bride in this
city and relatives of the contracting
parties and other guests from out of
town. rhe brides attendants were Miss
Gwennole Smith, as maid of honor,
and Miss Mabele Turner of Lansing, as
bridesmaid. f. Stafford Eaton of Chi
cago, a brother of the groom, assisted as
best man. - Detroit Free Press. Mr..
Eaton formerly lived in Paw Paw and
has many friends here who, together
with The True Northerner, wish the
young couple a happy and prosperous
married life.
In its report of the proceedings of the
interstate commerce hearing in the mat
ter of freight rates on fruit, held in Chi
cago last week, the Record Herald says;
1.-The interstate commerce commission
has decided to make a general investiga-
ton into the private car industry through
out the country with view to ascer-
tainIng whether the railroads cannot be
made to furnish all equipment demanded
by shippers. This fact became appar-
ent at the investigation yesterday into
the operation of the Armour Car Line,
which carries fruit in Michigan. From
the testimony it appears that the Ar
mour Line has benefited the fruit trade
of Michigan greatly in the way of better
service and wider markets. but that the
Armour people have taken advantage of
the necessities of the growers to tax
them highly for the service w. G.
Wildey, manager of the Paw Paw Fruit
Growers Union, said that formerly the
icing of car to Dubuque cost $50, aud
that it now costs $3.50 Nj. NJ. Walker,
a fruit dealer from Dubuque, said the
Armour charges sometimes amounted to
one-third of the freight rate. Only one
fourth of the former amount of Mich
igan fruit now is handled in the Du-
buque terri tory"
The Hartford Day Spring contains an
article this week on the high prices
charged by the railroads for refrigerator
cars written by II. l.. Gleason, an extern
sive fruit grower, in which he blames
the railroad companies rather than Ar
mour IL Co. for the difficulty. After ex-
pounding the advantages of using Ar
mour cars, which he says are subject to
the smallest loss OF any cars he ever
used, he says: 1T seems to me that the
fault of high charges is not so much
with the Armour Co. as with the rail
roads. The latter ought to give the
shipper of fruit as low rate as they do
Oh eggs, or like pershable commodities
requiring quick transportation. If you
ship a car of eggs worth 81 800 or more,
they will charge you second and some
times third class rates, with no one to
help stand any responsibility in case of
loss; and eggs require as careful handling
as do the peach. But if you are shipping
a car of peaches, worth $500 TO S400, and
backed by Armour e. Co. as far as proper
refrigeration goes, they will charge you
first class rate, or one and one half first
class rate east of Buffalo unless Grated. If
the railroad company would give us even
second class rate we could afford to pay
Armour & Co.'S charges"
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