The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-10-25
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merit, which we have no inclin-
> alton to evade even if we could.
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attention. Don't make it neces-
sary for us to take a single name
from the list.
Miss Jean Warner was Kalama-
zoo visitor last Monday.
Mrs. Philip Lee is now visiting her
son Byron Lee of Paw Paw.
Mrs. Bertha North has been spend
ing the greater part of the week with
friends in Gliddenburg.
Mrs. Anna Ellis was called to
Ogden, Utah Monday by the illness
of her son Clifford, also his wife and
. two children. They are all reported
i'll with Influenza. Mrs. Ellis depart
ed Immediately on receipt of the
telegram.
George Weston went to Detroit the
first of the week to drive home fine
new motor truck for w. j. Warner.
Mrs. Weston accompanied him on the
trip.
Mrs. f. n. Wakeman entertained
her father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. A. Cross of Lawrence and an uncle
James Jennings of Pontiac, Illinois
last Sunday.
Messrs. Charles B. Hays, w. NJ.
|. Loveland, John Pyle, A. B. Shield
and John Klose of Kalamazoo made a
short stop in the village Tuesday en-
route from Watervlet.
Owing to the prevalence of the
prevailing epidemic, and the order OF
the village council forbidding all
public meeting or gatherings, the
Coterie club will not open next We'd
=, nesday as planned. When the order
is rescinded or modified, announce
ment of the opening date will be
given through the local press.
The local Red Cross Chapter will
furnish boxes for sending Christmas
packages to soldiers over seas. These
boxes can be obtained at the residence
of Mrs. J. c.. Maxwell the latter part
of next week. Instructions will be
furnished with each box. No box can
be sent without the official label sent
bv the man abroad to his relatives or
friends at home.
The Charles Frank Auction sale
the first of the week netted the Red
Cross society the sum OF $29.oo'
thanks to the generosity of Mrs.
Frank and the patriotic activity OF
the Mattawan Gun Club. Lunch and
cigars were sold by the club, which
netAed the sum of $14.65. Then Mrs.
Frank donated an ormantel mantel
clock, which was sold and resold until
the amount reached $500. b. ).
Rix was the auctioneer.
Volney w. Olds, of Hartford, is on
the Job every day in the discharge
of his duties as County Food Admin
istrator. AS a result of his investi-
cations. Fred Hamlin, Decatur
Grocer. admitted before the State
Food court, that he had taken exces-
sive profits on flour and had sold II
without the requisite substitutes. lie
was ordered to close his place OF
business for the week, beginning Oct
ober 21st, and to post the following
notice on the front door:-"Closed by
Order of the United States Food Ad-
ministration."
4 letter from Lieutenant Lynn Lake
to his parents Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Lake, gives some faint idea of the
terrible ravages made by the epidemic
and the strenuous efforts made tC
check the disease at Camp Grant
4 I'm to the time the letter was written
4 there had been 1176 deaths IN the
camp and at that time the death rat'
was about twenty per day. An I'm
mense garage, about three times th'
Q, size of Kroth's garage here the let
ter states has been turned into
onI ;o,,tapapt Lake was IN