The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-01-26
Jottings.


Advertised letters William Crowel,
Mrs. Susan Smith.
Col Rood has moved into Mrs. Webb's
house on east Main street.
f. f. Parks has been seriously i'll of
pneumonia, but is now convalescent.
The Odd Fellows will give their an
nual hop the evening Of February %.
Croakers are out. A few frogs ventured
to voice their sentiments last Saturday v
evening. Who heard the robin?
Senator Woodman was appointed a
member of the executive committee of
the state fair and will take an active
part in its management.
Work on the electric line is progressing
rapidly. The "open" winter has been
favorable to outside work, and except
for material there has been little or no
delay at any time.
A lecture sermon on Africa, illustrated
with the stereoptcon, will be given at
the Presbyterian church next Sabbath
evening. Admission free, but an offer
ing will be taken to pay expenses.
Rev, A. w. Mumford was at South
Pittsford, Hillsdale county, Thursday to
preach the 10th anniversary sermon for
Nj. h. church, he having organized the
society 10 yearg ago with 76 members.
The Michigan monthly bulletin of
vital statistics gives the total number of
deaths in Van Buren, county during De.
cember as AZ, eight of whom were per
sons under one year of age. and 27 we're
over % years of age.
The items of expense that can be
properly charged up to the grand jury
are as follows: Fees of grand Jurors.
92.7O; fees of witnesses, SS3O60; off
GERS attending jury S24; miscellaneous
expenses, $50; total expense, S2,1973O.
The publisher who permits his paper
to publish advertisements announcing
sale days for December in his January
issues, cheapens the value of his paper
as an advertising medium and brings in
to disrepute newspaper advertising as
well.
Otto Duco, a commercial salesman of
Chicago, spent Sunday with friends in
the village. This gentleman is an old
roadster and one of the best statesmen
that ever hit the trail. Mr.. Duco says
there Is no "secret of success" in his
work. He simply sells goods because he
feels that he "Otto Duco."
There's something of interest for you
on the program at the farmers institute
roundup at Longwel's opera house
Friday and Saturday, February 2 and 3.
Be careful to plan your duties so that
you may be able to attend every session,
and get what's coming 20 you Jog the
memory of your neighbor little and see
lndC ne comes, TOO,
The following gentlemen from Van
Buren, county have been drawn by u. S.
Marshall Frank Wait to serve as Jurors
at the March term of the u. S. circuit
to be held at Grand Rapids: For the
grand jury, Jay Tolles of Lacota and
Donald Cochran of Hartford. For the
Traverse jury, Chas. Roosevelt, Keeler,
Albert Mosier, Mattawan and G. Hale
Bradley, South Haven.
Now that the railroad is assured, it
behooves our people to get a hustle on
and do something to attract business to
this place. There are two things that
strike anyone most forcibly as necessary
to the future prosperity and we'll being
of Paw Paw, good hotel accommodations
and more manufacturing aud other busi-
ness enterprises, In order to start
the ball rolling, The True Northerner
suggests that the business mems asso-
citation secure options on the Dyckman
house and the water power known as
Landphere's, now owned by j. Nj. Long
we'll and Geo. w. Tyler respectively,
then spend 500 advertising them in
trade and financial journals.