The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1917-12-14
Local NeUs
Pau Pau and Vicinity

Sheriff Gladstone Beattie and
family are in Chicago this week.
Attorney Glenn E. Warner was in
Kalamazoo last Tuesday on business.
Ed Finley of Hartford was in Paw
Paw last Monday.
Fred Mau was a Kalamazoo visitor
last Saturday.
DR.. ]. C. Maxwell and wife were
il Kalamazoo on Tuesday.
Mrs. John Mutchler and daughter
Marie were Kalamazoo visitors last
Saturday.
:. Mr.. and Mrs. milford Buskirk
|r the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL Anderson of Cass-
-opolis were guests at the H. A. Cole
home last Friday
Beulah, daughter of Rev. and Mrs.
c.. III. Heaton is confined to the house
with Chicken pox.
Ray Pugsley of the Emporium
made a business trip to Kalamazoo
on Wednesday.
Lieutenant Mark Chaffee came from
Camp Custer to spend Sunday last
with his mother and sister.
Mrs. Edward Harvey has moved
nnto the home of Mrs. Louise Thayer
andl daughter Martha for the winter.
Mrs. Frank Fuller of Lawrence was
the guest of Paw Paw friends on Fri
aay} and Saturday of last week.
Mks. d. R. Thayer spent the week
end lin Kalamazoo the guest of Mrs.
L. B. Garlick.
Mks. N. E. Dillie who has been in
nj health for several weeks is re-
portted much better and able to sit up
sshYle.
Mrs. Warrick of Mattawan was a
Paw Paw visitor again last Tuesday.
She is making frequent trips to our
town having dental work done here.
The Mems League of Paw Paw en-
. joyed an oyster supper at Memorial
hall last Tuesday evening. Judge
Anderson had charge of the program,
and the High School orchestra fur
nished the music.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. II. Lindsey of
Decatur, Mich. announce the marriage
of their daughter Lora Louise to
: Glenn MCGOWAN of Lawrence. The
ceremony was performed at the home
of the brides parents OH December
ffth, and the couple will be at home
at Maple Glen farm in Lawrence
after January first.
). The Paw Paw merchants have an
ticipated the wants of the Holiday
trade this year, and there will be no
need for any one to go out of town
to buy suitable gifts. There seems
to be tendency this year to con-
fine the gifts more to something SER
viceable, than to luxuries as in the
years gone by. But for those who
want the luxuries, their wants can
be satisfied at the local stores.
, Following is the Christmas pro-
gram at the Coterie next Wednesday
afternoon, December 10Th. Mrs.
Louise Thayer, Chairman. Roll Call,
/. Christmas Sayings. Original Christ
mas Story, Mrs. Mabel Miller; The
Trye Spirit of Christmas, Mrs. Nellie
Purrington; Christmas Recitation,
DoAthy Charles; Solo, Miss Irene
GH; Reading, Miss England.
High school students gave a party
at the Maple City club rooms last
Saturday evening in honor of their
instructor in Manual Training Mr..
Harboldt who has resigned to enter
TIE Aviation corps of the U. S. army.
MIR. Harboldt has made many friends
IN Paw, Paw during his stay here,
. and was popular not only with the
students but with the patrons as well.
His going leaves a vacancy that will
be hard to fill.
Have you mailed your Christmas
Parcels yet? If not, it is about time
ito think about it. The congestion of
the mails at Christmas time makes
~ It practically impossible to insure
delivery of parcels in time if they are
mailed at the last minute. The clerks
at the post Office will all have more
1han they can do just prior to Christ
cas-, and from every conceivable
standpoint it is desirable for every
person who contemplates the mailing
I or Christmas parcels to get them in
the office early. The regulations
permit the Inscription, "Dont open
until Christmas" Mail your parcels
now.
u Extensive building operations of
Government in cities especially
ort cities, make a great demand
labor, which is hard TO get. A
H2ping from Charlestown, West Vir-
ginia, sent by l.. II. Harrison gives
sTecital of the immense plans for
- fge-renment construction in that citv
alone: A projectile plant to cost
$1,75O,OOO (now under construction
and a $1,000. 900 armor plate planf
Is demanding thousands Of additional
: dwellings in that city. One company
alone OF that city has contracted to
build 2,200 dwelling houses for the