The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1909-01-29
WOLVERINE
JEWS BREVITIES


Savings bank declared a semi-annual
dividend Of 80 Per cent The follow.
ing officers and directors were elected
for the elsling year: l.. W. 0ns,
president. +. A. Miller ard h. III.
Chapman. yice-presid ents; l.. A. Pab-
bit. cashier. Harry Seeley, assistant
cashier; George Spencer, r. q. Rich
ardson. r. c. Yerkes, Charles Cold
ron. directors.
BenZOnia.-A number of young
women students narrowly escaped be-
ing burned to death when the dor
mitory In Benzonia college here
burned to the ground Students who
slept ON the third floor were rescued
with great difficulty by means of lad
ders and reached the ground scantily
clad. The property loss was $4,000.
Menominee.-Paul Anderson local
contractor, has been awarded the con-
tracts TO construct the residence for
the superintendent OF the agricultural
school and the janitor's house. The
residence will cost $3,617 and the
ianitor's house $1,773. c. H. Norton
plumbing
acknowledging with raising a
check from 81 TO $S4 and passing il on
the Kalamazoo Savings bank, ALBION ].
Pancost was placed under arrest at OF
sego. Pancost has been in considera-
bic trouble during the last year and
the court placed him under the guard
ian ohf Of
Haven.
Saginaw.-For a long time river
thieves have given the several hun
dred owners of boats and launches
here much trouble to break up the
the systematic plundering of boat
houses. Officers landed Frank
Bruske, alias William Phillips as one
Of the river pirates.
Menominee.-Andrew Carnegie has
agreed to contribute half of the cost
OF an organ for the new Methodist
church in this city. The organ will
likely cost $4,000. Mr.. Carnegie's gen,
erous gift has been secured through
tor of the church.
MarShall.-Bert Milbours OF Lee
township accepted a position as sales
man for an Indianapolis cigar company
which advertised in local paper and
sent five dollars by mail for an outfit.
He never heard from the company or
his money and now has made com.
plant.
Mason.-The honor of Michigan as a
grain growing state was we'll upheld
at the recent national corn show at
omaha Neb., by Arthur w. Jewett, of
Mason, who, with % exhibits of grain
among the 1000 entered from all over
the country took Is prizes.
Carleton.-The twenty-ffth anniver-
sary of the dedication of the NJ f.
church in this village was observed
with a banquet at the l. o. o. F. tenn
pie. Several prominent speakers were
in attendance and an excellent pro-
gram was carried out
rOit-Announcement was made
here that a merger of the Detroit &
Cleveland Navigation Company and
the Detroit & Buffalo Steamboat Com
pany will probably be adopted at the
annual meetings of the two COM
panies next month.
Kalamazoo.-In response to a re-
guest from the Michigan Federation
of Labor, asking that petitions in ia
vor of womans suffrage be circulated
in Kalamazoo, the Kalamazoo council
has decided to circulate the petitions.
Saginaw-Ralph Sexton, an employee
of Writer'S laundry, had a close call
from death when the cylinder head
Of the main engine in the plant on
Jefferson avenue blew out. The large
engine also was completely wrecked.
acknowledgements Bailey, 70 years
Old of Lee was arrested on the charge
Of perjury preferred by John F. Benz
ton. Benton is owner of a farm on
which Bailey lived and a dispute
arose over the division of the crops.
Kalamazoo.-There is no consolation
in leniency for Roy Mccarthy and
Robert Summerville, the Battle Creek
half brothers, who were held in jail
here on a charge of burglarizing the
f. w. Irwin drug store at Fulton.
halamaZOO.-A1ter an absence OF ~
years from Kalamazoo, Lemuel Sim
mons returned for a bride, the love
of his youth. Mr.. Simmons was mar
ried to Mrs Edith Purinton at the
home of the latter's daughter.
Ann Arbor.-James Kostakas, Greek
confectioner is away from the city.
Clarence Sweet, a local cigar dealer,
in whose debt Kostakas stood STA,
took out an attachment and closed the
two Kostakas stores.
Tecumseh.-Th twelfth auxiliary
meeting of the Michigan Dairymen's
association was held at Witherell hall.
An interesting and instructive pro-
gram included papers by visitors from
out of town.
Ann Arbor.-Farmer members of
the Washtenaw Mutual Fire associa-
ton headed off move TO have a light
ming rod clause inserted i'm the poll
IL.