South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-12-20
BERR1EN SPRINGS, MICH.

I I
oliver DiIIey was a week end Wis
itor with his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
for the Celfor Tool works in Blu
chanan.
George Murphy, in the United
states service, now located at Hat
| tiesburg, Miss. is home for a week s
visit with his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
VI. G. Murphy.
w. +. Emmons has finished wiz
ing the A. J. Barnhart house on
Mars St, and the new cement house
on Mechanic St. being built by
Abram Heaton. for electric lights.
Miss Helen Skinner was surprised
by a number OF her friends of the
high school, at her home Thursday
evening, who gathered TO remind
her of her 18th birthday. a social
evening and music were enjoyed,
after which a dainty luncheon was
! served.
Thomas Mars LaCrone and fam
| lily have returned from Jacksonville.
Fla, where they have been for the
past month. Mr.. LaCrone will work
in Detroit.
Charles Rockwell is on the sick
list.
p. c. Immell and his mother and
Mrs. Lizzie Ward have taken rooms
with the latter's mother, Mrs. Mary
Beshens for the winter months.
H.
house on Mechanic ST. ready for
plastering.
Mrs. Rose f. Wic0ff Of Falkland
visited friends here Sunday.
Fitzpatrick Post have elected o.
fcers for the coming year as fol-
lows: Commander, Orlando Nelson;
ST. vice, Abram Heaton; jr. vice,
William Gardner; quartermaster,
William Burton; guard. Dick New
ton; adjutant, Lewis Rollow; Of
! hcer of the day, John w. Hill.
Joint installation Of officers with
Major Murdoch circle will be held
Saturday, Jan. >.
Mrs. Dwight Dunbar is visiting
her mother in Morenci, o.
Mrs. Freda Jesswein of Crab or
chard, Ky, is a visitor at the home
Of her brother, Herman Rudolph.
III. +. Buckley and family of Ber-
rien township have moved into the
Lawrence house on Bluff st.
A union service in the interest of
the Red Cross will be held at the
town hall Sunday evening. Every
one is urged 10 be present.
Born. Monday. to Mr.. and Mrs.
Vernon Hart, twin boys.
Mrs. Z. A. Mason was a South
/ Bend visitor Monday.
Christmas exercises will be held
/ at the Methodist church Monday
evening.
Mrs. Louise Corwin is visiting her
sister. Mrs. VIII Snyder, in Berrien
township.
Mrs. Belle Smith was a st. 10
seph visitor Tuesday.
Owing TO the shortage of fuel. the
Abotbt restaurant has been closed
and meals will be served at the w.
! y. Skinner home, corner Ferry and
/ Cass SITS.
Charles +. HoOpingarner of Camp
Custer is here for a few days Wis
7 il with home people.
Union prayer meeting will be held
al the Methodist church Thursday
evening. The union prayer meetings
each Thursday evening will be held
at the several churches during the
winter months.
Mrs. Blanche Vaughn Johnson Of
T - hn1 Nv
with her mother. Mrs. d. r.
/ Vauhgn, and her sister, Mrs. Ora
ham O. Macomber.
Mrs. Kenneth Stahl and little son,
Robert of st. Joseph, Mich, were
+ visitors at the T. L. Patterson home
7 Tuesday.
The Aid Society of the United
Brethren church met Tuesday in the
Red Cross rooms for work.
Eugene Michael of Camp Custer
was a weekend visitor at the home
Of his father. John Michael in Ber-
rien Center. He says he cannot say
too much in praise of the Red Cross
and Y NJ c. A. work at Camp Gus
ter. He says their care and thought
/ fulness add much TO the comfort OF
the soldier boys.
Berrien Springs faced a coal fam
inc Friday and Saturday. NJ. r.
Cashier. one of the local coal deal
ers, had car lying in the p. NJ.
yards at Benton and he call
/ ed up Pros Atty John ]. Sterling
and asked him if he could not send
the car up here. Mr.. Sterling
( promised 10 do his best and later
/ phoned that the car would be here
/ Saturday evening and it came in
/ that evening. Early Sunday morn
I ing Mr.. Cashier put an extra team
I 20 work and deliveries of coal were
made all day Sunday TO homes that
had no fuel. The people of this vii
I lage feel very grateful TO the prose
I cutting attorney for his timely help
\ in relieving their distress.