The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-07-26

Dean Rich is in Chicago visiting
friends this week.
Mrs. John Mutchler visited i'm Ban
gor a part of last week.
Mrs. Florence Harris has been visit
ing in Gliddenburg this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Snow and
family spent Sunday last at the
Eugene Salisbury home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Sherrod and
family of Glendale spent Sunady last
with Mr.. and Mrs. Roll Larkins.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Holcomb and
Menita were guests at the home of
Mrs. Rena Beach Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Weston enter
tanned her mother Mrs. Cora Barrows
of Lawrence and Mrs. Ora Heath
last Sunday.
Mrs. Rena Bush and children spent
few days in Glendale and Bloom
ingdale the guests of friends and
relatives this week.
H. A. Cole and family and A. N.
Cole and wife motored to Kalamazoo
Monday evening to call on Mrs.
Stanley Briggs at Bronson hospital.
Mrs. Jake Walker who has been at
Bronson hospital for the past six
weeks, is much better, and her many
friends are hoping to see her home
again soon.
A card from Ann Arbor states that
Mrs. Leonie Barton is resting COM
fortably after having been operated
on Saturday last at the st. Joseph
hospital in that city. DR.. Darling is
in charge.
Rev. Percy Nickless of the Presby-
terian church was in Dubuque, Iowa
last week to attend q session of the
Dubuque Presbytery, and was regu-
larly ordained to the Ministry by
that assembly.
Leonard Bush has purchased a
motor truck in connection with his
Standard Oil business, and will now
be able to give more prompt and
better service. The fine span of
grays formerly used on the wagon
will now be sold.
Lloyd C. Held is recovering from
an operation which removed his ton
sils. He has enlisted in the navy,
and will report at headquarters in
Kalamazoo for duty next Saturday.
He expects to be sent to the Great
Lakes Naval Training station in
Illinois.
The keystone class of the Baptist
Sunday school of which Mrs. Nina
Hirleman is a member gave her a
surprise last Monday evening. Mrs.
Hirleman will soon join her husband
in Battle Creek. We are sorry to
lose them but wish them good luck
in their new home.
The Chicago Herald-Examiner of
July 22nd, contained picture of
Battery C. 149th, Field Artillery of
which Leo r. Mather of this place is
a member. Leo was in the picture,
although the likeness was not very
good, owing to blur on the cut, and
poor press work.
Max Brown, son of Mrs. Will
Brown of Paw Paw has been COM
missioned a Lieutenant and is now
stationed at Camp Bowie, Texas
Max enlisted at Camp Custer Septem
Der 9th, 1917. He was promoted
from private to sergeant October 1st
and is now a lieutenant.
Mrs. Stanley Briggs had the mis-
fortune to suffer painful and seri-
Gus accident last Saturday. She was
eating dinner at the Drew restaurant
when a small chicken bone lodged ir
her throat. She was taken to the
Bronson hospital in Kalamazoo with.
out delay and specialists called. Ar
X ray located the bone down i'm the
bronchial tubes. After repeated
coughing spells the obstacle wa:
elected without the necessity of az
operation, but she has been in a seri
Gus condition all the week, and is no
yet able to be brought to her home.
Adjutant General Bersey calls fol
721 men to report at the Universit!
of Michigan at Ann Arbor on Angus
18th, for instruction as auto mechan
les, carpenters and gun-smiths.
requires men who have had at leas
grammer school education or it
equivalent, and who have som'
aptitude for mechanical work. Mer
selected for this service will receiv,
course of training at government
expense fitting them to serve a
army positions both at the front an,
hak.DI <L4 l.-zc EcnL Ioc,I H.. s.