The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-07-26
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Advertised Letters Will Elliott,
Miss Ellen Fahey, John Kobmann.
Frank Fuller, cashier of the Home
State Bank in Lawrence was calling
on Paw Paw friends Wednesday.
Mrs. Theodore Davis and daughter
Mrs. Floyd Skinner of Kalamazoo
were visiting friends here Wednes-
day.
Jonn Wilson is back on the job at
Waters store after spending his va
cation last week taking auto trips
throughout Michigan.
E. w. Williams of Newark, New Jer
sey is here to spend the summer with
his sons. He is now at the home of
his son, Verne Williams.
Miss Mildred Layn, whose home is
with Mr.. and Mrs. Will Knight, will
teach the Second Grade in the Paw
Paw schools the coming year.
The next regular meeting of the w.
r. c. will be July 9th, at the Men,
orial Hall. All members are urged
to be present as there is important
business to be transacted.
Miss kosina Waters left Monday of
last week for Arizona, where she will
teach the coming school year. She
will spend a few days in Liberal
Kansas with a brother whom she has
not seen for nearly fifteen years.
Word comes from Mrs. p. H. Kel-
ley, mention of whose serious illness
was made in these columns last week,
that there is change for the better
in her condition. She has regained
her eyesight, and hopes for her ulti-
mate recovery to health are much
brighter.
Azel Mcneil is home from Harvard
He had an acute attack of apperdi-
citis, and was taken to the hospital
for an operation. After further ex-
animation an operation was not deem
ed advisable, but he was unable to
continue his work in the Training
School there.
Collector of Internal Revenue, f.
j. Doyle of Grand Rapids, reports
that for the fiscal year 1918, ending
June 30th, total of $15,377, ,251 ga
was collected in revenues in his dis
trict. This district is made up of
the western forty-four counties of
the state including the Upper PENN
sula.
Levi Brown of Almena, for many
years a member of the county board
of Supervisors from that township,
passed away last week Wednesday,
(. He had wide acquaintance in the
county, and was favorably known to
nearly every person in this commun-
ity. Further details of his life will
be found in an obituary notice in the
Almena Correspondence in this issue
The Paw Paw Unit Of the Red
Cross have organized a class in
elementary hygiene and home nurs-
ing, under the instruction Of Mary
c. Trafford of Kalamazoo. The class
will meet on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Friday afternoons Of each week.
The meeting last Tuesday afternoon
was an open meeting in the Coterie
club house and the public was invited
No longer can DR.. Caroline Bart
lett Crane, state chairman of the
Michigan Division, Council of Nation
al Defense declare that she receives
no pay whatever for her war work
For she has been appointed special
agent of the Federal Children's
Bureau at salary Of $1.00 a year.
This appointment carries with it a
certain authority, and also the frank
ing privilege for all work in connect
ion with the Children's Bureau.
The Michigan Division of the
Women's Defense Committee is work
ing along the definitely outlined plan
cf the Children's Bureau for the en-
tire "Children's Year" which reaches
from April 9Th, 1918 to April 9Th,
1919.
Miss Sara Layn became the bride
of Lieutenant Frederick ]. Roy of
Woodsville, N. Y. on Thursday OF
this week. The ceremony was per.
formed in New York City, and they
will be "At Home" after August 1st
at 52S Hudson street, Hoboken, N. J
Miss Layn is Paw Paw girl, whose
home has been with Mr.. and Mrs
w. B. Knight. She finished the
local schools and went to the Fer.
ris Institute in Big Rapids for a
business course. She went to the M.
A. c. as secretary to the President,
and later passed successful civil
service examination for position in
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