The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-08-17
Large Crowds Here and All
Thoroughly Enjoying
the Week.
SURpASSES PREVIOUS YEARS.
Reception Wednesday Night and
Picnic Thursday Were
Great Successes.
FRIDAY, AUGUST II.

FRIDAY, AUGUST II.
Forenoon.Calling on old friends.
500 p. m.-Ball game, Bloomingdale
VS.. Paw Paw. The Bloomingdale
band will furnish music on the
streets and at ball park.
700 p. m.-Double band concert, court
house lawn.
500 p. m.-Old folks dance, preceded
by musical program by the Huyck
family and others.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18.
$50 a. m.-Quoit pitching contest.
NJ. J. Coy and DR.. Chan Ocobock,
captains. Prizes to winners, shaw
ing ticket and nickel lamp.
1;30 p. MOO yard dash. Prize, base
ball shoes.
so yard fat mans race-200 pounds
or over. Prize, scarf pin.
Wheelbarrow race. Prize, UNI
brella.
Girls foot race-14 years or under.
Prize, white slippers.
Pacing contest The man who
PAGES off 20 rods the most accu-
rately will receive pair of outing
pants.
Tug of war-10 men on each side
julie Clapp and Wilbur Warner,
captains. Prize, box of cigars.
All contests will be held on south
Kalamazoo street except the QUOT
contest, which will be at the ball
park. Uncle John Cook of Deca-
tur will referee the sports.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 10.
Special services at the various
churches. A silk umbrella will
be given to the pastor having the
largest number of home comers in
his congregation and sack of
flour to the one having the small
est number.
MONDAY, AUGUST 20.
Rides in the country and visiting in
the park.
500 p. m.-Young peoples dance, pre-
ceded by musical program by
the Huyck family.
TUESDAY, AUGUST d.
1000 a. m.-Bait casting contest.
Prize, Dowagiac bait.
2:3O p. m.-Base ball, Lawrence Us.
Paw Paw.
800 p. m.-Good-b
Prize for most attractive window
display, fancy clock shelf.
Prize for best kept lawn, hand
painted tankard.
Prize for most elaborately decorated
residence, pair of ladies' shoes.
VIM. H. Mason has charge of the
registration book at headquarters
All home comers be sure to register.
Again we are in the midst of another
home coming week, that which has
in it so much of pain and pleasure;
pleasure at meeting those whom per-
haps we have not seen for years, and,
when the week of festivity has passed.
the pain of parting, knowing that
some who are now making merry with
US will in a year hence have gone to
the vast beyond, where home coming
is continuous, and where separations
are not a part of the program.
Home comingl Home coming
What a wealth of pure JOY is clothed
in the thought. The pain of our part
ing passes as naught when we look
retrospectively over our past and can
say to the consciousness querying
here, For the final home coming
there's no cause TO fear.
This home coming week has come
to be a fixed annual event with us
and for it we are glad. To our older
residents and home comers of mature
years, who were in their youth resi-
dents of this village and vicinity, it
means much. To the younger ones
now on the field of action it is an
event looked forward to with pleasur-
able anticipation. We meet, greet
and welcome those hoary heads whose
duty it was to clear the forests and
hew from the giants of the woodlands
material with which 10 build homes
TO protect and shelter those depend