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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01
MIdey District.

Miss Nora Sutton spent Christmas in
Dowagiac.
Old Mr.. Searles has gone to Grand
Rapids for the winter.
Miss Bessie Melvin has been spend.
ing her vacation in Chicago.
Leora Blaisdell is visiting her grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Blaisdell,
of Arlington.
The Christmas exercises "a, 40 school
house were exceptionally fine and the
tree we'll filed with many valuable
aud useful gifts
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01
Last to Come Under Salary
system.

The last county officer to come under
the salary system is Register of Deeds
Mutchler. The salary law was enacted
during the term for which he was
elected, and did not effect his office
until the expiration of the term. He
will start in January first with salary
of $500 per year, the minimum figure as
fixed by the law.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01
Her Abidinq Youth.

81 am afraid | never will grow ND
and look like a woman" pouted the
bride-to-be THE other day, while
was having one of my new walking
suits fitted and was insisting that 1T
would have to be finished this week,
the tailor asked me: When does your
school open? And that frock is
part of my rousseau"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01
NEW TIME TABLE next MONDAY
Evening Train East Discontinued.
Several Changes In Time OF
Other Trains.

A new time table will be in effect on
the X. l.. >. and G. r.. r. next Monday
Jan. 4 Train no. 6, which left South
Haven at 4:40 p. m and arrived at Law
ton at 6l5 has been discontinued
Trains will leave Paw Paw as follows:
Going east, Gals a No., l0:l5a. m. $40
p. M Going west, $50 a. IN. 4:l0 p. IN.
There will also be a train leaving Ksla.
mazoo at 6:l5 p. IN. and arrive at Paw
Paw at 7:l0 p. IN. The complete time
table can be found ia this issue.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01
Death OF Mrs. Lovina Raymond

Mrs. LoviDa Amelia Raymond passed
away at her home in Paw Paw on Mon
day last aged sixty four years. She
had been in i'll health for several years,
and suffered stroke Of apoplexy which
carried her away. She leaves a hus
bard and one son to mourn her death.
The funeral was held from the residence
on Wednesday. Burial at Prospect
cemetery.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01
silsnce Not ALWAYS a Virtue.

There is a time when silence is an
excellent quality and a noble virtue,
and there is a time when it shows a
lack of moral courage and great cow
ardice.-H. Lee.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01
File Your Bnls

All bills against VanBuren county
must be on Gle in the county clerk s
Office not later than Saturday, January
,, 1909 10 order that they may be proper
ly placed before the claims committee
OF the board OF supervisors at their
January session.
VIM. G. Mosier,
1872 County Clerk.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01
IMAGINATIVE Irish.

The quality which distinguishes our
selves (the Irish from our English
brethren is the divine possession of
imagination.-Du Irish Homestead.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01
The Groom S Part.

When a girl gets married she is
practically the whole show. The man
only plays a sort of bridegroom obliga-
to.-Chicago Record Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01
lawrence.

Mrs. A. Ii. Abrams was in Paw Paw
Monday
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Carris, of south
Lawrence, are the happy parents of a
baby girl since Dec, 2S
Mr.. aud Mrs. Wm. Boyles of Char
lotte are visiting her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. James Bray brooks.
Cards from Grand Rapids announce
the arrival OF a little daughter at the
home of DR.. and Mrs. l. A. Stebbins.
Anise, the two year old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Barnes died Mon
day night from poisoning caused by
eating the heads of parlor matches.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01
462
Sore
Throat
Wisdom


cure every time a child has it.
Your family physician will verify the
statement that it isa positive fact that ever
child with sore throat is in immed ate dan
ger of contracting Group, Quinsy, Tonsiiitis
or Diphtheria, and is not removed from tina
danger uL.il tl3t throat i3 cured. Thin fit
Linimcnts G. .,,,...t 9pl---.i on Of
medicines d. not and cannot cure the all.
ment, though the may offer temporary
relief. Neither con you cue fc~e throat
with cough syIup OF a cV.d cure.
To cure, You mt at 30 seat Of
the disease, removing tie car-o. Moth.
ing does that so Qlicniy, SAFELY ant.
surely as TOIISILiNE. 81. - dose O.
TONSILINE taken upon the iir-t appear
ance OF sore throat may save lon weeks
sickness, great expense, worry, even death
TONSlLlNE is the stitch in time.
Use little sore throat wisdom and la
bottle of T0NSIi-INE today. You may
need it tomorrow.
TONSlLiNE; is TIC STANDARD core
throat remedy best known and xIIST
most effective and most used. Look "a
for the long necked fellow on the ny
% or 80 cent sized bottle when you I'D
go to the drug store to geteit. "a
The Tonsilne Co., Canton, OHIO. VI
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01

"Generally debiltated for years. Had
sick headache, lacked ambition, was
worn. out and all rundown. Burdock
Blood Bitters made me well woman"
Mrs. Chas. Freitoy, Moosup, Conn.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-01

If every mother coult
realize the DANCER tla
turks behind every case o.
sore throat, she woulln /
rest until she has effected
Montana news., 1909-12-16
Railroad Commission
Empty Fraud
Do Nothing With Switchmen's Strike.
Subsidized and Controlled by
Railroad Interests

way to accept the job of commission
motion in the railway service, in fact
Danny had risen rapidly, but he
throws aside all opportunities on the
railroad 10 become head OF the Mon
tana Railroad Commission. Dan was
always known to be corporation man
and always opposed to union labor
while a railway official. and IL Is not
to be wondered at that his heart is
with his old love--the railway cor
poration-during the present strike
OF the switchmen,
In our opinion Danny has not lost
his chances OF promotion In the rail-
way service and II he should happen
not to be reelected he will get nice
fat office on some railroad. The fact
OF the matter is. the corporations try
to control the railroad commissions
of all the states, and endcavor to get
their faithful henchmen elected as
commissioners. just for the same rea-
son as they have spoilers in the rail-
way unions, to sidetrack anything
that comes that is opposed to corpo-
ration interests.
Dan Boyle was elected Railroad
Commissioner of Montana by work
ingmen votes and in all railroad
towns of the state he got a large ma
jority OF votes and the railroad boys
In general whooped 1t up for Dan
Boyle.
Had socialists been elected Rail
road Commissioners II is safe BET
that the switchmen's strike would
have been settled ere this.
Railroad men. vote for your class
interests and not for the interests OF
your boss,
Montana news., 1909-12-16

What has become of the Montana
Railroad Commission? one never
hears thing about II during these
days of the switchmen's strike.
The Railroad Commission was Great
ed to secure for the people better rail
road service. and to generally humbug
the people into believing that the rail-
roads are being forced to respect the
people, and to pay a good fat salary
To the three men who are the COM
mission. The strike of the switchmen
has tied up the freight regardless Of
all that the railroad companies may
say to the contrary.
The freight trains on the branches
are few and far between, some branch
lines having had no freight service for
over a week and the people i'm the
small towns along the branch lines
are feeling the effects of the strike,
and the supply of sugar. flour and
other staples is running low and a
Iahilns iiItdNtntus II 10 "llHln ah'
power of the Railroad Commission
ers to force the railroads to run
freight trains on these branches and
I'll the functions of "A common car
rier. But IL the commissioners did
such an act as TO force the railroads
to deliver the freight. II would neces-
sarily mean that the railroads would
have to settle with the switchmcn.
and the railroad commissioners don't
care to help the union men, but pre-
fer to look around, smoke boxes of
fine cigars donated by the railway Of
hcials, mutter "the people be damn
ed" and draw their salary.
There is a railroad man head OF
the Railroad Commissioners. Dan
Boyle. He gave up nice lucrative
position on the Northern Pacific rail-
Montana news., 1909-12-16
Trial Huge Farce.

The trial for conspiracy was a huge
farce. Prosecutor Pugh and the other
Montana news., 1909-12-16
Unexampled Barbarites- Imnora1ities i'm
the Prisons -Scurvy Spreading Because of
Starvation Atrocities Press as Well
as Free Speech Crushed Under
Foot i'm Spokane

Ignore the fact that no inferior juris-
diction can make a law in contradic-
ton to its superior.
The police have been itching to get
Miss Flynn. She was thrown into a
cell with prostitutes. insulted by the
police, who came with their vile FAM
iliarity in the night. and abused ter
ribly by the prosecuting attorney,
Pugh. She is in a pregnant condition,
and the greatest fears are entertained
for her safety, the first child being
lost owing TO her overwork on thu
platform. Her husband. who is in
Missoula. is worked up to an extreme
nervous tension through suspense enc
anxiety.
Montana news., 1909-12-16
ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN
SENTENCED FOR CONSPIRACY
Three. Months for Conspiracy. Jury
of Business Men Condemn and Sem
tence Her in Twenty Minutes.
Law and Order Torn in Shred
by Spokane Official Anarchists

the spirits of the men. The prisoners
are put in a concrete cell every night
naked to get bath. Steam is turned
on in the cell until they are thor
oughly soaked with the vapor. Then
cold water run through a hose is
played on the ceiling of the cell and
drips down on the prisoners. Some
of the men have contracted pneu-
monia from this treatment. and the
I. w. w. have established a hospital
to take care of their men.
In some cases the prisoners have
tubes thrust down their throats by
the police, and are fed that way.
At times the rations are reduced to
two thin slices of bread twice a day.
Some of them have the legs terribly
swollen with dropsy contracted by the
treatment
Montana news., 1909-12-16

ABOLISH THE CAP
ITALIST SYSTEM
Montana news., 1909-12-16

Convicted In Twenty Minutes.
The jury was out just twenty min
utes that convicted her. IL was COM
posed entirely OF the capitalist class.
n business man. two retired farmers,
a mining man. president of the Spo-
Montana news., 1909-12-16
Popular CD Legislation.

This is what friends OF the peo-
pie labor" legislators do in Mon
tana. bind themselves. the working
class and their children in TO abiect
slavery to the money power. the STAN
dard oil, the Amalgamutcd Copper
Company, the great Rockefeller inte-
ests, that are already dominating the
country It's banks and It's industries
This is what stupid republican and
democratic workingmsn have fasten-
ed upon themselves 10y voting the
tickets that the boscs iiN up for them.
They have abdicatcd their powers as
free men. We have no longer de-
mocracy. but an oligarcby run by the
great interest OF the Standard oil.
The trust is organized to control
everything In Montana, the workers
are suplnp, the labor movement il
honey combed with emissaries e
Standard oil
workingmcn. you must awaken
You must take your stand for life and
freedom!
Montana news., 1909-12-16
TWENTY-FIVE MILLIONS
TRUST IN MONTANA
Copper Company Gets
House Bill 160 Through Legis-
lature and Proceeds to Or
ganize Universal Trust of
All Industries

Articles of incorporation have been
filed in the office Of the secretary of
state in the state capitol of Montana
of a new corporation that is capitaliz-
ed at twenty-five million dollars.
The company is known as the Big
Blackfoot Lumber Company and ev-
cry director in the company is an
Amalgamated Copper company offic-
al. The company is organized to deal
in grain, llour-milling, saw-milling.
construct and operate irrigation
ditch, own and operate electric power
dams. supply electric light and pow
er, and acquire stock in other corpo-
rations and engage in any other busi-
ness its directors or shareholders de-
sire. The articles OF incorporation
give this company unlimited power.
In fact It is a trust organized tc
gobble up the state and other corpo-
rations.
Montana news., 1909-12-16

kane Dry Goods company. and a real
estate man. So easy was it TO tell
what the verdict would be that while
they were out Miss Flynn wrote
twelve kilograms to her friends stat
ing that she had been sentenced.
Her husband is a mason and every
Juror was a mason. as well as the
judge and prosecuting attorney, but
fraternal bands signify nothing when
capitalist class interests are at stake.
{ 4nd what sort of morality and hu-
,ms4 justice have We here? Was Mrs.
Jc6es tried by a jury of her peers
Are men the proper persons to sem
ter p prospective mother TO three
months in jail? How long will hu-
manity dumbly assent to such uot-
RACES?
Trial Huge Farce.
The trial for conspiracy was a huge
farce. Prosecutor Pugh and the other
Continued on Page 4.
Montana news., 1909-12-16

The stand OF the !. w. w. for Free
Speech in Spokane is making the
history that will disclose the hollow
ness of the claims of personal liberty
the American constitutional govern
ment has made.
The brutal treatment OF the prison
ers has not been excelled In Russia.
The Franklin schoolhouse where over
200 of them have been incarcerated
is kept In a state of unparalleled
filth. The floor has never been
scrubbed; there are no receptacles for
expectoration.a filthy pail is provided
for the calls of nature. often over
flowing. No beds or hunks are pro-
vided, and the men have to lie in this
filth. There was no fire or stove. but
the men began tearing down the
building and making a fire on the
floor. and so a stove was furnished.
Scuryy Broken Out.
Scurvy has broken out among the
men from the continuous diet OF only
bread. A third Of a loaf twice a day
was given as food. A committee OF
investigation came, one man being a
senator. The jailers said the men
were given half n loaf twice a day.
The prisoners contradicted them
there and then. when they were
chased out of the room and since
then only sixth of loaf has been
given them twice a day.
This to men who are not criminals.
who are political prisoners for insist
ing on their constitutional rights OF
Free Speech.
The teeth of the men are loosened
and falling out When they are let
out they stagger like drunken men,
and cannot walk. but have to be help
ed by friends. Their stomachs are in
terrible condition so that they cannot
retain food, and many have to be
taken TO the hospital
When 200 of this gaunt, emaci-
ated crowd were marched across the
city under shotgun guard. to the jail
to take a bath. they were received
with ovations by the crowds on the
street, and food and fruit thrown at
them: One fruit dealer told the crowd
to throw his whole stand of fruit at
them. The guards beat them over
the head for eating the food.
The Tor'nrc Process.
The police are inventing the most
Montana news., 1909-12-16
Harmless" HouJe BliI 100.

The company is enabled to incor-
porate under the law by the passing
of House Bill l6O at the last session
of the legislation. A special passed
at the dictation of the AmaIgamated
and voted Tor almost unanimously by
democratic and republican Legislators
alike.
one Of the most glaring features
of the bill is that il gives this great
corporation power To get control Of
an unlimited supply of money to buy
up the controlling Interests in other
companies There is NO limit in
what business this new trust may
engage and no restriction put on It
as to how and where 1t gets the
money 10 finance its deals. Every
body comes under lJs dominating in
fiucncc, ana the trust collar is put
around tho neck OF every one living in
Montana by the democratic and ru-
publican members of the last lcgisla-
ture. 1t is time that We had a few
socialists in the Montana legislature
Montana news., 1909-12-16
Elizabeth GurIey Flynn Sentenced 4
Three Months.

Miss Flynn, or rather Mrs. Jones
in private life. was arrested while
walking on the street. on the new
conspiracy charge that is now being
used against the Industrial Workers.
She has been editing and getting out
the paper. the Industrial Worker.
since the force was arrested.
This conspiracy" charge makes
any one concerned in comng or bring
ing people to Spokane to test the city
ordinance guilty of the crime of con-
spring against the peace OF the city,
and the authorities are working this
to the limit. They even claim that
their ordinance is superior TO thu
Washington state laws, or the United
States constitution. They completely