The true northerner., 1900-09-14
Local Department.
Mrs. Esther Harrison is having he
house repainted.

Mr.. and Mrs. III. >. Sheldon arrived
home from the East last Friday.
Mrs. j. II. Doughty of Mt. Pleasant is
visiting her sister, Mrs. S. &. McEntee
The True Northerner is indebted to
Messrs. J. Horning and Smith for some
fine melons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Strowbridge went
to Chicago, Saturday, returning Wednes-
day.
Mrs. f. p. Grimes and daughter Edith
have gone to Petoskey for ten days
outing.
1t is expected DR.. Hoyt will reach New
York September q, on his return from
Europe.
There will be a musical service held at
the Presbyterian church next Sunday
evening at 1870.
Rolla Loveland has purchased and
moved into the Frank Bass house on
north Gremps street.
Mrs. H. A. Sherman of Cassopolis ac-
companied her husband here for the
present circuit court term.
f. c. Berry, who is connected with the
business of Armour & Co. in Chicago, is
the guest of E. E. Downing.
Misses Mabel Winn and Florence
Jones of Kalamazoo were guests of Miss
Pearl Haggart the first of the week.
The Michigan conference met at Bat
tie Creek on Wednesday of this week.
Rev. f. o. Mather is in attendance.
Mrs. j. d. Boone is seriously i'll with
typhoid fever. Mr.. Boone was also i'll
for several days, but is now out again.
Ed. Fuller has returned to Paw Paw
with the stations Homeward and Ash
land Prince, to remain during the fall.
John II. Charles and family from Fair
mount, Ind, have come here with the in
tention of making this village their home.
Mrs. n. r. Raleigh returned home
Saturday evening, after an absence of six
months in the West with her sick friend,
Mrs. d. a. Lamport.
Mrs. Pearl Pritchard has been appoint
ed secretary of the Van Buren, County
Sunday School association in place of
Miss Simmons, resigned.
Before Justice Mason, Monday, Squire
II. Morton pleaded guilty to charge of
drunk and disorderly and was fined 50
and S3.45 costs, which he paid.
Bert Tracy and wife of South Haven
will go soon to the Pacific coast, for Mrs.
Tracys health. She was formerly a
teacher in the Paw Paw schools.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Dunn of Indianapolis,
Ind, j. b. Dodge of Warsaw, H., and A..
Dodge of Lexington, KY, are visiting
their neice, Mrs S. G. McEntee.
The top was broken from the demo-
cratic peoples -union-silver pole by Tues
days wind. The little piece that was
blown off was the peoples union silver
portion.
Mrs. Van Fleet is home with a new,
bright stock of millinery. She will go
to Chicago in a few days and be ready
for an opening about the last of the
month.
There will be special meeting of the
Paw Paw chapter, o. E. S., September
10, for installation and the transaction of
other important business. A full at
tendance is desired.
Mrs. James Galligan of Hood River,
Oregon, formerly a resident of Paw Paw,
is visiting Mrs. Helen Grout and other
friends here. She is en- route to Cleve-
land, o., where she will visit relatives.
Attorneys James O'Hara, Hammond
and S. III. Kelly of Berrien county, III. G.
Cook, w. G. Bessey and G.. j. Wicksall
of South Haven, and Il. Nj. Chase of
Bangor are among those called here by
the circuit court session this week.
Andrew McMaken of South Haven,
charged with keeping a place where
liquor was sold, was discharged on exam
ination before Justice Mason last Friday.
Eva McMaken, his daughter. also charged
with violating the local option law, was
likewise examined and discharged
Misses Vivian Broughton and Mabelle
Cummings and Wilbur Warner took part
in the Ward-Balch wedding at Kalama-
zoo last Wednesday evening. Others
who attended from this place were Mes
danes Maxwell, Warner, Broughton,
Miss Lulu Sherman and LaRue Mosier.
Following are the newly elected officers
of the Paw Paw chapter of the Eastern
Star: Mrs. j. +. Chandler, worthy ma
tron; VIM. Killefer, worthy patron; Mrs.
L. w. Curtiss, conductress; Mrs. r. w.
Broughton, assistant conductress; Mrs.
T.. S. Briggs, secretary; Mrs. j. G.
Maxwell, treasurer.
r. w. Broughton, with other masonic
grand lodge officers, was at Muskegon,
Wednesday, at the ceremony of the ded-
ication of the magnificent Hills Memoir
ial temple in that city. The temple,
completed and furnished, was gift to the
order from the member of the fraternity
whose name it bears.
DIR. A. M. Gugan of the Kalamazoo
asylum was here Tuesday in consultation
with the attending physicians on the
case of Miss Julia Harrison. Wednesday,
DIR. Hugh T. Patrick, the eminent brain
specialist of Chicago, and DR.. +. A. Pal
mer OF Hartford were here in a similar
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