The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-12-14

Mrs. John Mutchler entertained a
sister from Bangor one day last week.
Mrs. w. j. Johnson has been sick
the past week and confined to the
house with a hard cold.
Mrs. Clyde Bassett and Mrs. Harold
ID. Spicer were Kalamazoo visitors
the latter part of last week.
Dell Mcguire has sold his interest
Prater. Pepper and Prater is now
the name of the new firm.
Mrs. Mary Welch left on Wednes-
day for Charlotte, Michigan where
she will spend the winter at the home
of her neice, Mrs. Clifford Jordan and
family.
A card received from C. ID. Rich
mond states that they are now with
their daughter. Mrs. Fay Amburn in
Peoria, Illinois. All well and having
fine time.
A. F. Hurlbut went to Coldwater
Thursday to take four little children
to the home at that place. His daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mumbrue accompanied him
TO help care for the little ones, the
Oldest of whom was five years of age.
The True Northerner advertises an
auction sale for Neve Hubert on the
Dibble farm 21s miles east and 1a
mile south of Glendale on Tuesday
December 10th. 1t is big auction
and quarter page "ad" in this issue
will give the details.
Murray Boess, son of Mrs. j. u.
Boess spent several days this week
with his mother here. He has beer
taking Naval training at Lake Bluff
Illinois, but is about to enlist in the
Aviation corps of the Army.
The w. c.. Gault auction sale was
held on Wednesday. Notwithstanding
the severe weather, there was a good
crowd present, and it was a salts
factory sale from every standpoint.
1t pays to advertise your auctions in
The True Northerner. It's circulation
insures publicity and crowd of in
terested bidders.
Mrs. G.. S. Scovel has a number of
scrap books to be filled for the soldiers
and sailors. The object Of the book
is for the amusement of convalescents
in the hospitals. These books are to
be filled with interesting reading and
also pictures. Anyone wishing to
help in this work may apply to Mrs.
Scovel.
Mrs. Clara Woodman who has been
in the New Borgess. hospital in Kala-
mazoo recovering from an operation
is at home again. She is not strong
yet, but is on the road to a rapid and
complete recovery. Mrs. Woodman
has many kind words and much praise
for the manner in which she was
cared for at this Kalamazoo insti-
tuition.
Robert Smith is getting ready to
start in on his annual job of mounting
deer heads. He usually finishes be-
tween fifty and sixty heads season,
and while he has not that many on
hand yet, expects to have before the
winter is over Bob is considered one
of the best taxidermists in this part
of the state, and gets work in that
line from all parts of the country.
A card has been received from Mrs.
f. A. Aseltine, dated December 4th,
from Moravia, Iowa. eve are having
a very enjoyable journey, much better
roads and weather than we even
hoped for. We are having a great
time, and hope to see our soldier boy
before the holidays" it reads. Mr..
and Mrs. Aseltine and Mr.. and Mrs.
w. A. Prater are on an auto tour to
Laredo, Texas, for a visit with their
son, Lieutenant Leland Aseltine Of
the 9th, Infantry. CA later message
received by Paw Paw friends states
that the party is snowbound in Kan
sas with the thermometer eight de
grees below zero.)
Under sheriff Lang arrested Claude
Cross a nineteen year old boy hail
ing from Kendall, in Gobleville last
Tuesday. He is charged with forging
the name of Alfred Dickson to
$20.50 check which he cashed at the
Gobleville bank, and also the name of
Carl Phillips as payee of the check.
He protested his innocence to cashier
Graham of the bank, claiming that
he had never been in the bank. But
after night Of meditation in the jail,
he confessed the crime to the under
sheriff Wednesday morning. 1t is
said that the young man is out on,
parole from Kalamazoo county. and
that he has enlisted in the army, ex-
pecting to go next Monday.
once.
The belief is still common among
primitive and unlearned people that
there is a specific remedy for every
disease-an herb for every ill. The
people must be taught that disease is
not an accident or a dispensation of
Providence, or the infliction of an
evil spirit; but the result of environ
ment, the result of lack of proper
living. They must learn that health
does not return by magic or by magic
compounds, but must be restored by
a personal battle with disease. The
greatest weapon of defense is edu-
cation. Read and study the health
questions of the day and be leader