The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1916-02-23

Stephen Reynolds, aged II, civil war
veteran and lifelong resident of Eaton
Rapids, is dead.
James Crawford, of Escanaba more
than half century, is dead at the age
OF seventy-eight years.
Several of Co. c, M. N. G.. are Ii
able to court-martial for failure to ap-
pear at the last inspection.
Patrick Culligan, IS, president of the
Alpena County Savings bank, resident
of Alpena since 1870, is dead.
Charles Beals, we'll known through
out the upper peninsula and northern
Wisconsin, is dead of apoplexy.
Sam. Gate, resident of Lake Linden,
veteran mining man and resident of
the copper country for more than ti,ir-
ty years, is dead.
Capt. G. Smith, known in marine cir
cles on the great lakes, and former
pilot of the steamer Friant, is dead at
his home at Marquette.
A $4,000 fire visited the village
of Hermansville, Mich, and for a
time threatened to destroy the large
lumber mills and yards.
r. N. Roberts, of Escanaba, veteran
lumberman and employe Of the l. Ste
phenson company, is dead, following
a short illness with pneumonia.
The government selected site Az
miles from Eagle river on what is
known as Sand Point, for the erection,
of lighthouse and fog signal station.
DR.. Herman Ostrander, for 25 years
connected with the Kalamazoo State
hospital, has been elected superin-
tendent to succeed the late Alfred /.
! Noble
Mrs. j. Potvin's son, Victor, aged 2,
was burned in a fire which destroyed
the Potvin home, three miles south of
Ossineke.
Word is received of the death in
Charlotte, N. c., of Mrs. Thomas Cor
nelson, wife Of Rev. Thomas Cor
nelson, former pastor of Hastings
Presbyterian church.
Brainard Dalton, killed by a pas
senger train, was the SON of r. p. Dial.
ton, former assistant superintendent
OF the Grand Trunk, with headquar.
tiers at Battle Greek.
The Menominee school board by a
unanimous vote approved plan to
create a bond issue of $165,000 to be
| used in making extensive changes in
school buildings there.
Dreaming she was being pursued and
she and her baby were in danger of
death, Mrs Joseph Kliniwk held the
child SO closely in her arms that it
was killed at Grand Rapids.
Authorities are informed by Sec.
rotary Lansing that John N. Dolkie, a
native of Calumet who has been de.
tained by British authorities at Man
chester, England, has been released.
The City of Sault Ste. Marie
will have new charter if a PROPOSE
tion calling4fOr charter revision car.
ries at theyypripg election in April,
following action taken by the city
council.
Logging in copper country was cur
tailed about 80 per cent since the first
of the year, according to K. A. Hamar,
manager of the Worcester Lumber
company of Chassell. The snow is the
cause.
Henry Ford is preparing to
launch countrywide campaign of
newspaper and magazine advertising
against the program for huge naval
and military expenditures now before
congress.
Miss Emma Train, about IS, known
throughout the upper peninsula as "the
mystery woman of Au Train" and al.
so known as "Swede Emma" is dead
in her little cabin on the shore of Au
Train lake.
Word from Illinois officers was re-
ceived at Coldwater that Ralph Nor
| tom, Of that city, son of Frank Norton
had been arrested at Kankakee, ILL.,,
charged with the murder of a tramp
companion.
Locked out of his home when he re-
turned from the Howe military acad-
envy, Howe, Ind, Frederick Travis,
Jr.. son of a prominent business man
and capitalist, was forced to seek shell
hr at the Clinton county poor farm.
Mrs. F. May, a Kalamazoo won.
an, said to have at one time been
prominent resident of northern Indi-
ana, where she was active in church
and fraternal circles, was sentenced
to serve sixty days in the county jail
for running blind pig"
The telephone served a unique pur.
pose at Manistique when l.. G. Barnes
of Escanaba entered plea of guilty
to charge of hunting deer with dogs
without leaving the confines of Delta
county. Justice Mckinney fixed his
fine of SIS. to be forwarded by tele-
graph.
Shortages of seed corn in the northern
states are becoming more serious as
the Importance of the crop in this
area increases. In 1903 the acreage of
corn in the northern tier of states