The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1905-12-22
Jottings.

There will be a regular meeting of the
L. O. r. NJ. Saturday afternoon, Decem-
ber 23.
The M. E. Sunday school will have a
Christmas tree and attendant exercises,
Saturday evening.
Miss Minnette Welch, who has been
seriously i'll of congestion of the lungs,
is slowly improving.
Mrs Charles Butler has purchased
of Mrs. Plank the Eaton property on
south LaGrave street.
The family of l.. q. White left last
Saturday for Flint, where Mr.. White
has a position in electrical work.
Advertised letters: w. F. Carr, Miss
Ella Foster, Mrs. Levi Fuhrman, Mrs.
Harry Skinner, Mrs. w. W. Smith.
Come and see the log cabin at the
church of Christ Saturday evening.
Appropriate exercises will be given begin
ing al 1880.
Miss Rena r. VanFossen came to-day
to pass the holiday vacation. This is the
second year of her engagement in the
Winona, Mimi, female seminary as
teacher of latin.
The Dunkley- Williams company held
it's annual meeting in Chicago last Satur-
day. Action was taken in regard to
providing another large boat for next
seasons business, in place of the Iriquois,
which has been sold.
Dallas Boudeman of Kalamazoo, who
is nonresident lecturer on sta.uteaw
in the law department of the university
of Michigan, is at the university this week
delivering his course of lectures before
the second and third year classes.
Col. Anderson of Berlamont visited his
son Judge Anderson last week. The
colonel is a specimen of the sturdy stock
that helped to clear up the forests of
Van Buren. In an early day he engag-
ed in the lumber business at Bear Lake,
where he owned saw mill
The newly elected officers of the Chris
tian Sunday school are as follows: E..
Hawley, supt.; Hattie Cooley, asst, supt.;
VIM. Howe, secretary; Lizzie Roundy,
treasurer; Lena Harrison, organist; Mar
! jorie Cole, asst. organist; f.. II. Lindsey,
chorister; Sadie Hawley, asst. chorister.
j. Bert Travis of the Gobleville News
called at this office last Friday Mr..
Travis is pleasant gentleman to meet
and is hustling for business, and success.
fully, too His home people are giving
him cordial support, and he is appreciat
ing it by improving the appearance of
the News very much.
The supreme court has reversed the
! finding of the circuit court in the case of
Martha Morris ct al. vs.. LeGrande t.
Anderson, and ordered the transfer OF
about SS0000 The circuit judge found
for the plinatitfs. The case involved an
accounting with respect to certain
mortgage lands in Van Buren, county.
Capt VIM. II. Hugo dropped dead in
judiciary square, Washington, ID. G.
December 4, while on his way to the u
S. pension agency. His body was taker
in charge by the union veteran legion
and Inferred under the auspices of thai
organization at Arlington cemetery. The
Masonic fraternity was represented by
delegation from Almas temple of the
order of the Mystic Shrine of which
the captain was a member. Many OF the
boys who followed the captain to the from
in 81 have preceded him on this las
| march, but number of them still survive
him and are among US The last years
of Capt Hugo were spent in Washington
away from kindred and friends. Blu
that be was without friends cannot b'
said, as the letter conveying the news o
! his death has this to say: major Huge
was an almost nightly visitor to oul
Masonic bodies, and was much beloved
by our brethren, who had a deep sym
pathy for the lonely old man whose kindl
nature was never swerved by misfortune
Rest to his ashes and peace to his soul.
| These kindly sentiments will be echoe,
by all who knew him here. The Tru
Northerner so far has been unable t
] locate the members of his family, bu
believes that his son Charles is in NeV
York City. OF his daughter no infor
| nation has been gained.