The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-02-07
EVENTS OF A LOCAL NATURE.
Happenings Of the Past Week in
Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.

Regular meeting Of the 0. E. s.,
Wednesday evening" Feb. IL.
Buy your ticket at Longwers for the
Lyric Glee club, February l3.
Mrs. David Anderson and two chill.
dren are quite sick with the grip.
Miss Elva Packer is no me from Chi
cago to spend some time with relatives
nd friends here.
An opportunity to see the passion play
at the opera house next Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings.
Married, last Tuesday, by Justice Kill
lefer, Miss May Perring and Milton f..
! Reynells, both OF Porter.
"The Holy City" never fails to please
See it dt the opera house next Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings.
III. S Mackellar uses the most improv-
ed moving picture machine. 1t has the
Edison lamp, strictly fire proof
j. G. Lee and Sam Landphere left
It uesday on a two weeks prospecting
tour in Tennessee and Virginia.
The G. E. OF the Presbyterian church
held delightful chicken pie social in
the church parlors last Tuesday.
A Slayton attraction, the Lyric Glee
club, at the opera house, February 13.
Tickets % cents; reserved seats 10 cents
extra.
"The Prodigal Son." new film, will
be shown for the first time at the opera
house next Tuesday and Wednesday
! evenings.
The many friends OF w r. Shrine
will be pleased to know that he has re
covered from his recent illness and is
able to be out again.
A letter from F. S. Doud, descriptive
of the Isle of Pines, on page 6 OF this is
sue, will be of special interest to the
readers OF the Northerner
VIM Flock and wife have been in Chi
cago the past week. They left that
city Thursday for Cuba and the Isle Of
Pines, where they will spend the remain
der of the winter.
G.. II. Smith, young man employed
in the NJ G. office in Detroit, spent the
while here subscribed for so acres Of
land on the Isle OF Pines.
The concert, which was announced
for next Sunday morning at the First
Baptist church, has been postponed 10
the following Sunday evening, February
l6. Offerings will be received.
Louise Bessie, dau ghter of Wallace Fl
and Lena T.. Clark, was born in Waverly
township October 4, 1907 and died Janu
uary "a, 1908, aged 3 months, 3 weeks
and 3 days. The sorrowing parents have
the mpathy of the community.
The ladies' OF the First Baptist church
are preparing copy for another edition
OF those popular cook books. They hope
to put the same on the market some
time in March. The book this year will
be the most complete edition ever at
tempted Watch for them.
The Lyric Glee Club, which will ap-
pear at Longwell's opera house Thurs
day evening, February l3, is one the best
male quartets on the road. they are
with the Slayton LyceuD Bureau, and
Paw Paw people are fortunate ia having
an opportunity to hear them.
The moving picture show at the opera
house next Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings will be gi 'en by H. S, Mackellar
OF Bangor under the auspices OF the Paw
Paw chapter o. f. S. These pictures
are said by those who have seen them TO
be the bestever shown in this section.
The opera house should be packed.
Leland Gorton will leave next Mon.
day for Chicago, to resume his course Of
study in the Straube Piano factory.
THIS enterprising young man is deter
mined to thoroughly master the art OF
piano construction from the time the
lumber enters the yard to the time when
the finished instrument leaves the fac
tory.
II. w. McCabe has a hobby for col
ecting relics, old pictures, chairs, etc.
The latest addition to his collection is a
chair at one time owned and used by
Ex-Governor Blair The chair was pre-.
sented to Mr.. McCabe by Chas. Blair,
Judge OF the supreme court OF Michigan,
and it is needless to say that it is highly
priced by its present owner.
A card from S. II. Shattuck OF Covert
who is an exhibitor at the international
poultry show at Cleveland, Ohio, states
that in his class (Orpington fowls) he
won third cock rel, making q hit. BE
beat all the first prize winners from
Canada and four birds in millionaire
Ovens" entry. Orpington quantit,
J and quality are the best ever shown IN
any country, many prominent ones uo'
! getting a place.
The Van Buren, County Teachers In
stitute is in session today and will b'
continued tomorrow. There is n large
! number of teachers present and the pro
I gram is exceptionally good. Prof. @. .
Hoyt OF the Ypsilanti Normal school vii
} give an address at the Presbyterian
\ church tonight. Subject: with Pesta
I lozzi in Switzerland" Prof. Hoyt is
foe speaker and the church will b.
crowded No admission will be charged