The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-10-25
Local o7 4 n ooIIGneous.
Mrs. Ed. Duffield is seriously i'll.

Mrs. Ed. Duffield is seriously Ill.
w. II. Selick is IN Chicago on bust
ness.
r.. b. Copley of Decatur was in town
on business last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs Chas. G.. Davis visited
their son Ed in Chicago over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Mcleod and daughter
Mabel left last evening for the Pan
American.
Born, last evening" to Mr. and Ro bert
Webb, son. They have christened it
Charles Robert.
&C. Chappell, l.. d. Hadsell and VIM.
Showerman are at the Pan merican
exposition this week.
Miss Kittie Helms left yesterday af
ternoon for a visit of several weeks with
friends in Bangor and Benton Harbor
Mrs. Bertha Frye of Chicago was call
ed here Wednesday on account of the
sickness of her sister, Mrs. Belle Duffield.
DIR. and Mrs Moore of Minneapolis
MINI, arrived here Tuesday to visit at
the home of Mr.. Moore's brother, Isaac
Conner.
Sheriff Thomas and j. d. Holmes went
to Kalamazoo, Tuesday, to take VIM.
Connery of Pine Grove township to the
asylum.
Misses Matte Cooley and Edith Rood
attended the play "Bostonians" in the
Kalamazoo Academy of Music last
evening.
A portion of the sewer pipe has ar
rived and has been distributed along the
route of the proposed sewer. Work will
be commenced soon.
Messrs. and Mesdames Geo. W. Adams
of Sister Lakes and Defendorf of Dowa-
giac were guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs |. b. Conner this week.
Mrs. Herbert More and children of
Chicago arrived here last evening. Mr..
More will follow about January | and
they will make their home in Paw Paw.
Miss Bertha Bovles of Charlotte has
been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. f. n.
Wakeman several days. She left yes.
terday for a visit with friends in Law
renee.
The ladies of the Every Friday club
will have a variety of home baked bread,
pies, cakes, cookies doughnuts, etc, for
sale in c. w. Tylers store window Sat
urday, October %, and ask your patron
age.
Mr. and Mrs Geo. Quarterma of Val
paraiso, Ind, arrived here Wednesday
and have bought Dan1 Morrison's So
acre farm east of Paw Paw. They will
move into Mrs. Seabury's house until
March, when they will take possession
of their new home.
Mrs. Olivia Woodman will give lee
ture at the Presbyterian church, Tues
day evening, October 80, under the aus
pieces of the first committee of the ladies'
aid society; Sight seeing" Our people
will know Mrs. Wooiman's jovia and
pleasing way of treating subject
The LIST Michigan engineers held their
Both annual reunion at Charlotte, Octo-
Der Is, about 80 of the survivors being
in attendance. Those present from this
county were Mr.. and Mrs II. III. Jennings
and NJ V. Whitford Of Paw Paw, J. II.
Root of Gobevile and D. F. Austin.
The ratio of divorces to marriages, in
the state of Michigan, as shown by the
official Crds of the last three years, is
about one to y. The marriages for 1898,
1899 and 1900 were 65,3l0; divorces, 5,444.
A consolidated public record of the lat
ter has not been kept for an earlier per-
iod than 9S.
Mrs. James Bale died last Friday night
at her home east of Paw Paw Isabella
McBain was born in Albany, n. Y Feb
ruary 10, 1910. Her parents, William
and Ellen Cowie McBain, were natives
of Aberdeen, Scotland and in 1889 moved
to the state of New York, returning TO
Scotland three years later, leaving their
daughter Isabella with her grandmother.
She was first married to Geo. Chesbro
August 8, 1856, who died on the march to
Georgia during the civil war December
90, 1882, she was again married to James
Bale She leaves to mourn, husband,
two children of the former marriage, an
orphaned grandson, two sisters and four
stepchildren, besides a multitude of other
friends Funeral services were held at
the residence, Monday, Revs. f.. o..
Mather and Henry Harvey officiating.
Mr.. Bale and Rev. Mather accompanied
the remains to Grand Rapids for burial.