The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-12-27

Ray Wilson and family of Flint
came home for Christmas.
DR.. o. A. Eaton of Central Lake
was in Paw Paw for Christmas.
Fred Longwell of Schoolcraft was
Paw Paw visitor on Christmas day.
Sergeant Bill Killefer of Camp Gus
ter spent the holiday with home folks.
Harry f. Chase of Grand Rapids
spent Christmas at the O'Grady home
! in Paw Paw.
Mrs. l. A. Whitman has started
for Florida where she will spend the
winter months.
Mrs. j. C. Maxwell is entertaining
her mother, Mrs. Ida Stevens of Sioux
Falls, South Dakota.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL Anderson of Cass-
opolis will be guests at the H. A Cole
home on New Years day.
Erven Fisher and Clyde Cochran
have both been mustered out of the
service and are at home.
Mrs. Clara Rennie entertained her
sister Mrs. LeGrand Hammond of
Decatur over the week end.
DR.. Boyd Kelley and family of
Calumet were holiday visitors of Paw
Paw relatives and friends.
Mrs. j. c. Warner entertained her
sons and theirfamilies on Christmas
day. Glenn was the only absent one.
Mrs. Caroline Sellick returned the
first of the week from a trip to Mt.
Clemens and other Michigan places.
Regular communication of Paw
Paw Lodge No. 25, F. and A. M. this
Friday evening. Installation of
officers.
Sunday school with election of
officers will be held at the Presbyter-
ian church on Sunday at the usual
hour.
Douglas Hindenach was home from
Norfolk, Virginia to spend Christmas
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Al
Hindenach.
Mrs. M. L. Barber returned the
first of the week from a weeks So
journ in Chicago. Mr.. Barber also
arrived to spend the holidays at home.
Mrs. Cora Bilsborrow of Kalamazoo
spent several days with relatives here
last week. She left here for Detroit
to spend Christmas at the home of her
son Frank in Detroit.
A.A. Pike and wife entertained her
brother Frank V. Hodges and family
of Paw Paw, and a nephew Leo Hill
and family of Lawton, on Christmas
day.
Miss Katherine Merritt of Blue
Island, Illinois and Miss Winifred
Merritt of Jackson, Michigan arrived
Tuesday to spend Christmas with
their sister, Mrs. Frank Miller, and
family.
Those who had been lamenting the
fact that we were probably to have a
"Green" Christmas, were happily sur
prised when quite a heavy fall Of
snow came Tuesday. Christmas
morning dawned bright and clear, and
it seemed like the old time Christmas
day.
Gerry Dohm is critically i'll of In
VIM. Underwood in this village, and
it is feared he cannot survive. Mr..
Dohm is a boiler maker in the employ
Of the Fruit Belt Railway. He came
here from Manistee some weeks ago,
and was taken sick soon after his
arrival. His wife and child are here
with him. (Just as we go to press
we learn that the unfortunate man
has passed away
On Thursday, January End, John
Atkinson and a large party from
Cass, st. Joseph and Berrien Coun-
ties expect to leave for the lower
Rio Grande Valley in Texas.The
party will be gone about eight days,
stopping off at Houston, Texas, and
also spending one day at Galveston.
Two days of the time will be spent
in visiting the large irrigated farm
lands of the Valley, on which are
raised alfalfa, corn, broom corn, sugar
cane and Rhodes grass. Alfalfa is
the largest crop raised in the Valley
as the hay can be cut from eight to
ten times a year. The party will
also visit large stock farm where