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

Miss Veda Brown was a Sunday
visitor at the home of Mrs. Rena
Beach and children.
The Three Links sewing club will
meet with Mrs. Fred Bassett this
Friday afternoon.
w. N. Scott is assisting temporarily
at the Eaton and Mosier store, taking
the place of Roy Hess who is now
member of the national army.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Van Tassell
went to Chicago Wednesday morning
accompanying Miss Mildred a short
distance on her way to the coast.
Mrs. M. l.. Barber entertained the
Maids and Matrons club last Friday
evening at her home on North Kala-
mazoo street. A delightful time was
reported by all.
Mrs. A. w. Slovenian was called
to Detroit last Friday to care for her
grandchildren, during the absence of
their mother Mrs. J. B. Slovenian
in Detroit.
e. d. Johnson, Master of the Paw
|
the Grange at Memorial Hall on Sat
urday of this week. There will be a
Pot Luck dinner at 1890, followed by
the annual election of officers. Come
and bring fellow member, he saws.
The Modern Woodmen Of America
announce that they will not build
Fraternity house at Camp Custer as
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with many other fraternal organi-
cations will devote their entire sup
port to the Y. M. G. A.
A. N. Cole returned home from the
Bronson hospital in Kalamazoo last
Saturday. He made the trip via
auto and stood the journey well.
| While he is yet weak, he is recover
| ing rapidly and will soon be on the
Job at The True Northerner office.
Mr.. Reeves of the Idle Hour
theatre announces the Rosary" for
Saturday and Sunday nights. This
is the first opportunity the people Of
this vicinity have had to see this
celebrated feature and the theatre
should be crowded for both perfor-
mances. The Sunday night show
will start at 7:30 o'clock.
The numerous enlistments in Paw
Paw during the past two weeks is
just a sample of what is going on
everywhere. Everybody is waking up
to the seriousness of the situation,
and the best young men of the land
everywhere are answering their coun-
try's call. Recruits are pouring into
every concentration camp every day
by the thousands.
Raw Wheaton was calling on Paw
Paw friends Wednesday. He ex-
pressed himself as being well pleased
with his business at Hartford. He
| has designed a new label "Wheat-
Hart" for his bread and states that
the merchants of that village recent
| ly met and agreed to sell nothing but
bread baked at the home bakery. he
certainly has no fault TO find with
the encouragement offered by the
home merchants.
John Ketcham, master of the Michi-
gan state Grange in his annual ad-
dress to the state organization. calls
upon the u. S. Government to fix the
price of cost to the farmer as well as
the selling price. He urges "the same
speed be made in regulating the price
of articles the farmer buys, as has
been made in regulating those of the
products he SELLS" There is consid-
erable force to the logic of the argu-
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Larue Chappell will
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will reside with his father &. &. Chap
pell. A partnership has been formed
and commencing next Monday, the
firm name of the Paw Paw cigar
store will be Chappell and Son. The
many Paw Paw friends of this esti-
mable couple will be pleased to learn
that this place where their school
days were spent, will be home to
them again.
The ladies of the Coterie held one
of the most successful bazaars this
week ever conducted in Paw Paw.
1t was planned for two days bazaar
but so good was the patronage that
everything was closed out the first
day, and the ladies closed up shop
in the evening. The Laverty store
was tastily trimmed with holiday
decorations for the OCCASION; lunches
were served at noon and evening, and
various booths in charge of COM
petent sales ladies gave the place
busy citified appearance. The Coter-
lie will realize something over $4,000
from the efforts of its members.
Paw Paw people generally were
interested in the outcome of the box
ing contest last Monday night at
Racine, Wisconsin, in which Homer
Smith went ten rounds with Bill Bren-
nan of Chicago. While the newspaper
decision was all in favor of the Chi
cago fighter, it is by no means dis
graceful defeat for the Paw Paw boy.
Brennan is one of the most promis-
ing contenders for the heavy weight
championship in the country, and by
his decisive defeats of nearly all his
opponents has come to be known as
"Knock Out Brennan" Homer has
defeated nearly all of the second