The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-03-29

Monday in Paw Paw.
Mrs. w. j. Warner and daughter
Miss Jean, were Kalamazoo visitors
last Wednesday.
Mrs. Lena Trey has been assisting
Mrs. Quartermas in her millinery
shop during the past week.
Rev. c. II. Heaton entertained his
mother from Kalamazoo the fore
part of the week.
Mrs. Paul Smith has been sick
this week with Liberty Measles"
and confined to the house.
Mrs. Roy Tuttle was hostess to the
Maids and Matrons last Friday eve
ming. A good time was the verdict.
Mrs. Frank Fuller of Lawrence
was here the latter part of last week
the guest Of Mrs. II. w. Showerman.
Prof. w. ID. Henderson of Ann
Arbor was entertained at the home
of DR.. and Mrs. w. F. Hoyt while in
our city.
This has been vacation week and
nearly all the teachers went home to
spend the time among their relatives
and friends.
Mrs. Addie Hunt returned to her
home in this city Tuesday after
spending the winter with her son
and family in Joliet, Illinois.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Jennings,
former residents of Paw Paw and
now of Ravena, Ohio have been here
the past week visiting old friends and
neighbors.
There will be a special communi-
cation of Paw Paw lodge No. 20 F.
and A. M. next Tuesday evening.
April End, for work in the first de-
gree.
The program for the Coterie meet.
ing next Wednesday afternoon will
be as follows: Music; Book Review
Mrs. Clara X. Towers. Discussion
"Mr. Britting sees it Through" by
Chairman Miss Ella Pike.
Longwel and Warner have sole
several farms during the past week
Tony Pedowski of Indiana Harbol
purchased the timber land and Joseph
Tauchen Of Traverse City the cleared
land, all being a part of the former
j. j. Woodman estate, two miles
north of town. John Pedowski has
bought the old Doughty farm inside
the limits of Paw Paw.
The adjourned annual meeting OF
the Paw Paw Fruit Growers Unior
for the election. Of officers and the
transaction of other business will b,
held in the Maple City club rooms
tomorrow Saturday at 1000 o'clock
Growers who desire to order supplies
for the. coming fruit season should
be on hand to place orders at this
time. 1t is mighty important this
year that all supplies be ordered
early.
This is about the last day in the
Afternoon for filing annual income
reports. These reports must be ir
the hands of the collector at GranG
Rapids by April first, which is next
Monday. Thi s is mandatory, and
the Revenue department announces
that no slackers will be tolerated
There is heavy penalty for failure
to comply with the law. The depart
ment is doing all it can to assie'
people in making the report. This
week, j. F. Everett, deputy collector
from Grand Rapids is at The First
National Bank in Paw Paw to assis,
the tardy with their reports. H.
will be here until Saturday night.
Any resident of Michigan who has
knowledge of the presence of a case
of communicable disease and who
fails to report to the local health
authorities, as the law requires, may
be a real enemy to the country. The
Division Surgeon has impressed the
State Board of Health with the
necessity for keeping the communi-
cable diseases under strict control
now that we are at war. Attention
has been directed more particularly
to the minor diseases, such as
mumps, measles, scarlet fever, Ger.
man measles, etc., they being regard.
ed as minor ailments, and thousands
of cases go unreported every year
Yet they are classed among the most
dangerous communicable diseases
and single case, not properly re-
stricted, may be the cause Of an out.
break that would reduce greatly the