The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1900-05-23
WHOLE NUMBER 1857.
See Mrs. Van Fleets new adv.

Mrs. j. ). Buck is improving in health,
under medical treatment at Battle Creek.
Memorial day will be observed in Gid
denburg next Sunday, by an address and
poem by Mrs. Barton; services at 1920.
The Home bakery has neat ice cream
and lunch room. Their delicious cream
is made by new process secured from
an expert.
The relief corps will meet at the grange
hall Saturday, May 26. Members are re-
quested to be present to arrange for
Memorial day.
During June, July, August and Sep
tember, the S. III. g. Il. will sell tickets
from Paw Paw to Chicago good going
Saturday and returning Monday, at S2.75
for the round trip.
The best way to get an idea as to the
amount of paper used, would be to com
pare 1T with other tonnage carried by our
railroads: coal is first, paper second, corn
third, hay fourth, iron fifth, wheat sixth.
The prospect is good for getting large
number of city people to come to Paw
Paw for the summer Some have already
arranged for boarding places. Any parties
who are willing to take such boarders
and roomers should notify III. L. Mcneil,
secretary of the board of trade.
In addition to the excellent program
prepared for field day, in the way of
games and sports, the merchants of the
town have engaged an acrobat and wire
performer to give free exhibitions on the
street. The day will be lively one in
Paw Paw, and there should be a big
crowd in town.
Miss Mabel NJ. Wrigley of Corunna has
been engaged as teacher in the first prim-
airy department of the Paw Paw schools
for the next year. She is graduate of
the Corunna high school and Mt Pleas
ant normal and is highly recommended.
Miss Bertha Bailey, whom she succeeds,
has been in this school for several years
and is capable teacher, and has made
host of friends here.
The Sunday Chicago Times Herald
contained the following: Summer re-
sorts along the east shore of Lake Michi-
gan are making extensive preparations
for large business during the coming
season. The South Haven e Eastern
railroad has arranged to put on regular
trains connecting with the III. w. Will
lIams line boats so as to land passengers
at Lake Cora and a number of the resorts
of that vicinity"
Mrs. Phillip Sherrod died Saturday
morning, May 10, after severe ill
ness of six months The funeral was
held at the house at 2 o'clock Sunday,
conducted by Rev. Anna Barton. The
remains were taken to Pennsylvania for
burial. Delilah Himebaugh was born
in Venango township, Crawford county,
Pennsylvania June IS, 1888. She was
married to William Sherrod in 1852, who
departed this life in October 1892 She
was the mother of two sons and two
daughters, the daughters having pre-
ceded her to the other shore. Alfred l..
Sherrod, the elder son. resides i'm Mead
vile, Pennsylvania, and Emmett. the
younger, is a resident of Kalamazoo.
February 20, 1889, she became the wife
of Phillip Sherrod, with whom she lived
until her death.
The sixth committee, under the leader
ship of Mrs. Anna Young, gave the ladies
of the Coterie and their friends a very
delightful afternoon, Wednesday, May 16.
The program opened with an instru-
mental duet by Mrs. Bertha Harrison
and Miss Bertha Wise. Mrs Young then
introduced Mrs. Alex. Custard of Men
don, I'd vice president of NJ S. +. w. c.,
who gave her entertaining presentation
of Famous French Portraits" Mrs.
Custard's first picture was Blessing the
Harvest" which was faithful portrayal
and easily recoguiZed; then followed the
portraits of religious, political and social
leaders, men and women who have been
brilliant lights IN the literary world, with
others who at present delight and in
struct as dramatists or novelists. Mrs.
Custard's style is very pleasing, many of
her portraits were familiar faces, while
her introduction to the earlier celebrities
gave to their acquaintance an added
charm. A vocal solo by Miss Bernice
Robb closed the program. During the
social hour that followed, delicious re-
freshments were served.
Uncle Sans census enumerators will
on Friday, the first day of June. This
will be the 18th census of the United
States and will be taken as of the above
mentioned date. Each family should be
prepared to answer all questions as of the
date of June l, as all changes subsequent
to that date will be wholly ignored by the
enumerators. 1t may, perhaps, seem to
some people that useless questions are
propounded, but the census officials will
ask nothing more than the law requires
them to ask and the people to answer,
and they should receive ready and truth
full replies to all queries. No one need
hesitate to give all the information re-
quired, as the officer is absolutely for
hidden, under a heavy penalty, from
making public or communicating to any
one any information received by him in
his official capacity. People will find the
courteous and gentlemanly
in their demeanor and their visit to each
dOnipila will no br,af 4, uo..;octor