The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1905-07-14

cents per bushel from our local buyers.
Arthur Mcdowell of South Haven and
John f. Thompson of Covert were ex-
amined before Justice Rowland yester-
day on the charge of keeping places
where Intoxicating liquors are sold con-
trary TO the local option law. The testi-
mony was taken and the cases adjourned
until July "a.
A serious accident occurred in this
village Thursday morning in digging the
sewer on Kalamazoo street. The level is
at depth that requires safeguarding
the ditch by pfanking. This was done,
but owing to the rains there was cave
in that resulted in seriously injuring
Max Benton and slightly iniuring Frank
j. Pugsley, the contractor. Mr.. Benton
was buried TO the neck, and was held by
the planking which made it extremely
difficult in extracting him. After being
taken from the sewer he was carried
home on stretcher ard placed under
the care of DR.. Hoyt
Sheriff Britton brought Wm. Davis
here from northern Michigan the first of
the week. He was tried for on-support
and sentenced to pay $50 and costs or
spend 30 days in the county Jail He
took the Jail Davis was a former res
ident of Kendall Herbert Sullivan of
Chicago is also boarding at the Jail. He
was brought here from South Haven,
Tuesday, and is awaiting examination
on charge of assault with intent to do
great bodily harm. His examination is
set for this morning. VIM. Holmes and
VIM. DeWor of South Haven are two
more visitors with the sheriff for 20 and
% days respectively. They were brought
here Tuesday charged with being drunk
and disorderly.
South Haven by the lake is having
troubles OF her own, for when Mayor
Hulburt of that city undertook to have
the places of amusement closed last Sun
day be was met by storm of indigna-
ton from those directly interested in
having South Haven the Coney Island
of Chicago. The proprietors of the
amusement places and the boat lines
were alike concerned, the one for the fl
nancial loss on passenger traffic, the
other because Sunday is harvest day in
their business. What the outcome will
be is uncertain, and the question to be
solved is whether to make a town that
will attract summer residents from Chi.
cago, who will invest their money in
summer homes for their families, or
whether the proprietors of amusement
places shall be allowed to attract a class
of visitors who are out for a good time
and will look upon Sunday as a day of
pleasure rather than as day of rest.
A letter from Emil ~ Sternberg of
Tacoma, Wash, to the editor, contains
many interesting statements concerning
the wonderful resources of that far off
state. In speaking of the timber he had
occasion to refer to some transactions by
the L. S. government in behalf of the
Panama canal He writes: Last week
boat left here for the Panama canal
laden with 100000 lineal feet of spiles
besides other timber, and it is expected
that l50, 100000 will be annually shipped
to that port from here Query How
many 40 acre tracts of Michigan timber
would it take to supply this great de-
average Michigan forests to supply this
deinand-40,0 acres of timber to one
port alone. Is this forestry question of
any moment to our country? To the
mind of any thoughtful person no one
subject can so appeal to him as the future
forest supply. There are many trees lin
ing the streets, which were planted with
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day. Had IA 40 acre tract been planted
with the same variety at the same time
it would have been worth fortune to
its owner The future is brighter with
promise for the same proposition. Moral,
plant trees.
We hear and read much about June
weddings, June brides, marriages in the
month of flowers, etc, and this has Great
ed popular impression that June is the
favorite marrying month, but such does
not appear to be the case in Van Buren,
county, at least. During the 10 years
from January l, 1895, to December 81,
1904, there were 3,095 marriages recorded
in this county, which were divided among
the different months as follows: Jan
uary 163, February $50, May lS9, April
22S, March and August each 236, July
239, June 2S4, October 3l3, September
31S, December $40, November 800. 1t
will be observed from these figures that
the fall of the year, beginning with the
early September frosts, is Cupids fav-
orite season. The near approach of cold
weather seems to remind manageable
people that it is more comfortable to
double up" than to face cold winter
alone. Then the holidays, Thanksgiv-
ing and Christmas, give an added i'm
petus to the marrying fever, after which
there seems to be a decided falling off
and the little god OF love takes brief
rest, January and February weddings
being only about half as frequent as
those of November and December With
the exception of the month of May, at
which time there seems falling off pre-
paratory to a noticeable June increase,
the tide shows little fuctuation. From
these figures it will be observed that
June, the so-called bridal month, is but
little above the average being the fifth