The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-05-10
WHOLE NUMBER 2407.

Mrs Spaulding has change of adv.
this week.
w. II. Garfield of Detroit is visiting
friends in Paw Paw.
Mat. Dillon is building a large barn
on his farm near Glendale.
Miss Alice LaGrave is remaining at
home on account of sickness.
Messrs. Pierce and Bond went to
Watervliet to-day in the interest of the
Paw Paw Music Co.
The condition of Mrs. Peter Mackel-
lar, who is sick at Kalamazoo hospital,
is reported to be better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Cooper of Benton
Harbor visited friends in Paw Paw a
part of last week and this
Miss Minnie Walter has been retained
at an increased salary as principal of the
Prescott, Arizona, schools.
The ladies of the Free Baptist church
are requested to meet with Mrs. Grout
to morrow afternoon at o'clock.
Mrs. Henry Holt is very much better
and her recovery is now hoped for. She
has been sick many months, and if she
RECEIVERS it will be little short of miracu-
lous.
Mrs. Nora Dunlap Buell. has opened
millinery parlors at her home on south
Broad street, Holly, Mich. She will look
for location in Paw Paw for the fall
trade.
At o'clock last Sunday morning, the
fire alarm was given. The kitchen at
the Dyckman house had caught fire from
the chimney. The blaze was extinguished
before much damage was done.
DR.. Marvin Fauzdik of Almena was in
town Monday. He lives now and always
has lived on the farm where he was born,
which is a remarkable fact for man of
his age in this section of the country.
Mesdames Carrie Coulson and Mary
Whitcomb, Mr. and Mrs. w. j. Ellis and
Mr. and Mrs j. b. Rickard and families
gave picnic at Jolly point, Tuesday, in
honor of Mr.. and Mrs. Will Cooper of
Benton Harbor.
The Smell family, who,for some months
have lived in the west wing of the Van
Fossen residence, have moved to
Dowagiac. The rooms are now rent
ed to Col. Rood's family, who have
been living in Arizona and are soon TO
be here.
O. w. and F.. f.. Rowland started Tues
day morning to 90 down the river in a
boat to Paw Paw lake. They got as far
/ I - tlo hnx
| found the atmosphere above about as
wet as was the water lbelow. They then
gave up the trip until the sun shines
again.
F.. S. Hilton, a bright, keen stranger,
went into Lawrence and other neighbor-
| ing towns some months since, selling
carriages on the coupon" plan. 1t is
said the plan was all right-for Hilton,
! but that most of the parties who put
money into the scheme never got their
vehicles. Officer Chappell brought Hill
ton from Grand Rapids, Tuesday, to
answer TO a charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses. He will have an
examination Monday before ustice Kelly
of Lawrence.
The building committee of the board
of supervisors met in this village Mon
day, to look over plans for the new court
house prepared by Architect Claire Allen
of jackson, who has been selected for the
work. The new building will be very
nearly like the Hillsdale court house as
to exterior, with interior arrangement
similar to the Ithaca court house. The
proposed building will be of stone, as
will also the Jail. The committee is
undecided as to what site to recommend,
but doubtless either the present site will
be enlarged or the block south of it pur-
chased.
Brodhead post, G.. A. r., has decided
not to undertake the burden of public
Memorial Day service this year, and will
merely decorate the graves of their de-
parted comrades with the ceremonies of
| the order For several years, small
amount has been appropriated from the
village treasury to help defray the ex-
penses of public Memorial Day services,
and the occasion has been an interesting
one to the people of the town and sur
rounding country. This year the council
declined to appropriate any money for
this purpose Whether the use of pub
| lie money for the occasion is right or
not, it is certain that the observance
of the day in proper manner is not
matter that concerns the Grand Army
alone, and the post should not be ex-
pected to pay the expenses, which it is
not able to do, for public meeting that
is for the benefit of the whole people.
1t is mistaken idea that some people
seem to have, that Memorial Day is for
the old soldiers alone. Such is not the
case The True Northerner believes the
day should be observed in Paw Paw this
year as usual, and we suggest that the
amount usually appropriated by the
village be raised by private subscrip-
tions and turned over to the post, with
request that the organization arrange a
program. A small donation on the part
of each one who should be interested
will be sufficient. This is merely an ex-