The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1905-05-26

will also deliver the Decoration Day adj
dress at Hartford, Tuesday, May 30.
Centerville unveiled soldiers monu-
ment May Is, Dowagiac is preparing to
erect one to cost 5000, Paw Paw is Just
as patriotic and needs the right people
to take hold OF it TO build fitting one
to her soldier dead. We have the place
for one now and it should be built. Talk
it over with your neighbor and interest
him. You will find he is Just as eager
as yourself to do anything that will adorn
and beautify our already handsome viii
lage. Let's build one.
At hearing IN the senate chamber,
Banker Potter of Saginaw, in a speech
opposing the passage of the law provid-
ing for the examination of private banks,
waxed warm over the proposition claim
ing that the legislature had no right to
meddle with a mans private business.
Any business that depends upon the
public to furnish the financial aid for
the transaction of business ceases to be
private affair and should be governed
by the same rules as are other institu-
tions of like character.
r. w. Broughton, F. G.. w. NJ, and
f. S. Briggs, W. M. of Paw Paw lodge,
+. & A. NJ, left Thursday morning for
Detroit to attend the Michigan grand
| lodge, f. a. A. Nj. This event marks the
closing of the longest year in the history
of the grand lodge in Michigan. The
annual sessions of this most important
order have heretofore been held in Jan
uary, but at the session held in January,
1904, it was decided, on account of Upper
! Peninsula members whose attendance
was seriously Inconvenience by block
AIDED trains during the winter, to extend
the year until May, 1905. These sessions
are always largely attended and this will
be no exception.
The American Sheep Breeder says,
"Governor Gooding is determined to ex-
terminate scab in Idaho, and to that end
has invited the federal authorities to
! take hold of the matter" Governor
Gooding of Idaho is the youngest son of
the late John Gooding who was we'll
known to our older residents The Good
ing brothers, Thomas, Frederick and
Frank, went to Idaho several years ago
and engaged in sheep husbandry, and
Frank is now one of the largest sheep
owners, if not the largest, in that state.
The success of these English lads should
inspire young men with ambition to sue
ceed in life for opportunities are plenty
for all who will hustle.
The Rodney Stock Co., which is at the
opera house this week, is presenting the
best shows which have been seen in Paw
Paw for long time. The plays are of
great interest to everyone who attends,
for it is a relief to the citizens of Paw
Paw to witness play of such high class
after the many poor ones which have Wis
tied this place. lhe specialties are of
the best and the costumes are greatly SUI
perior to the average costume seen on
the Paw Paw stage. The company has
been playing to fairly good houses, but
the house should be well filed. Mana
ger Longwell should be congratulated on
engaging a show of this class, and il it is
followed by Others of the same kind the
house will be filled to ITS full capacity
for each entertainment, for Paw Paw is
bgood show town when the people know
that good play is to be presented.
Station Agent Barnes is in receipt of
letter from II. f. Moeler, general pas
senger agent of the P. M. railroad, in
which he says: 81 desire to secure a
suitable location for Jewish chatauqua
assembly, and enclose herewith blanks
covering the information desired by the
committee having the matter in charge"
1t will not be necessary to detail the ad-
vantage it would be to our business men
and others to have this assembly located
in or near Paw Paw. We would suggest
that Paw Paws board of trade get
move on and try to locate this in our
midst. We have an ideal location at our
doors, either bank of the electric light
station reservoir. The removal of the
old stumps that disfigure this otherwise
beautiful sheet of water can be accom-
, plished at little expense and would be
advantageous in several ways. 1t would
give pleasant boating place, and the
grounds about the reservoir could be sup
piled from our village plant at little adj
ditional expense. The location of this
assembly would bring to us annually sew
eral thousand people, and it is worth
J trial anyway.
ne Clly papers IuIOuSuOuL IHe SIdlo
have been quoting largely from the testi-
mony of two shippers who are claiming
that the fruitgrowers are satisfied with
the service and charges of the Armour
refrigerator line. One great factor
claimed in this satisfactory service is the
promptitude with which the public can
: be supplied with refrigerator cars. This,
| in the opinion of the gentlemen who are
favoring the Armour people, to an ex-
tent overcomes the exhorbitant charges
for icing. To certain extent this is
true, but there is something above and
beyond all this that the interstate COM
merce commission should take into con-
{ slderation, and that is the prohibiting of
j competition from other refrigerating
! lines. The outcome of this investigation
Q should be competition between private
e car lines and an opportunity to the ship
g per to order and obtain any refrigerator
i car that will give him the best service at