The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-08-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Monroe OF Law
renee were Paw Paw visitors on We'd
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Coy of Kalama-
zoo are guests of Paw Paw friends
this week.
. A. j. Miller of Richmond. Indiana
lis the guest of his brothers, Charles
and Nick.
John Marshall of Porter township
was in Paw Paw on business last
Wednesday.
G.. A. Cross and Frank Thompson
of Lawrence were Paw Paw visitors
on Tuesday.
Mrs. Jane Roach and two children
Virginia and Richard are camping at
Three Mile lake.
Mrs. George Longwell Jr. enter
tanned a sister Mrs. Catherine Corey
of Chicago the latter part of last
week.
John Munson and family are spend
ing the week camping at Pugsley's
Lake.
Mrs. L. f. Griffith and two child
rem and Miss Mary Shrine spent
Wednesday with friends at Three
Mile lake.
James Heffernan is visiting friends
in Minnesota. He has sold his place
here to Joe Kline and will move to
Kalamazoo.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Towers have
been enjoying a visit from their sons
wife, Mrs. Walter Towers and little
son from Detroit.
Mrs. Alice Grimes was called to
Plainwell the latter part of last week
to attend the funeral of cousin who
passed away there.
Mrs. F. N. Wakeman returned We'd
nesday from Lawrence where she has
been assisting in the care of her
mother, Mrs. G.. A. Cross.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Sherman and
niece, Miss Nellie Trowbridge of
Detroit, left last Saturday for Eagle
Lake where they expect to enjoy a
weeks outing.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Warner motor
ed to Kalamazoo last Monday to
celebrate their wedding anniversary
and have a little change from every
day ordinary life.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Cavanaugh, Mrs.
F. A. Racette. Mrs. l.. F. Chappell
and Judge David Anderson were in
Grand Rapids last week to attend the
State War Board meeting.
The Misses Ola Killefer and Jean
Warner spent the week end in Kala-
mazoo the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Leo Warner. They were accompanied
home by little Miss Margaret Jarden-
iery.
Van Buren, county has been called
on to furnish a quota of 141 men dur
ing the five day period from August
26 to 30. This number will exhaust
Class 1 of the 1917 registration and
make considerable inroads on the 1913
list.
Claire Doran, son of Mrs. Frank
Holcomb is home on a fifteen days
furlough. He enlisted in the Navy
three years ago and is stationed now
on the u. S. Ship "Vermont." Those
who knew him as a boy, will hardly
recognize him now. He has straight
ened up, filled out, and looks the real
fighting man that he is. He is
4 hnI hi in 60
which account in some degree for his
changed appearance.
Twenty-six years ago last May,
Rev. |. p. Bates joined in wedlock,
Miss Isabelle NJ. Buckout and DR.. j.
w. Gum at Alamo. Michigan. Last
Saturday he was called to Watervliet
to officiate at her funeral, and Sunday
went to her mothers home in Alamo
for the final services and burial. Be-
sides the husband she leaves one son,
Harry, now in the Medical Reserve
Corps.
Wouldn't it be a good idea for
every person in Paw Paw to wake
up and see that The stars and stripes
fioated from every business place and
every residence during Chautauc
week ?Home folks have become accus-
toned to the lack of flags in the will
age, but next week many strangers
and visitors will be here. Let every
one exhibit little pride, and show
their loyalty by liberal display Of
the stars and stripes. Get them up
early Monday morning and see z at
they are in evidence all the week
George w. I.ogwell Sr celebrated
his birthday last Tuesday. When
asked how old he was, Mr.. Longwell
replied, "68". To be strictly accurate
however, the figures should be rever-
sed, as this venerable pioneer has
passed his Seth. milestone. He has
been identified with the business and
industrial activity Of Paw Paw since
the early days, and enjoys relating
how he earned his first fifty cents,
when a boy by selling a pickerel to
Mr.. Broughton (father Of our towns
man r. w. Broughtonl. Mr.. Long
we'll is hale, hearty and as keen and
active as the ordinary man at sixty.
His host of Van Buren, county friends
sincerely trust that he may live to
enjoy many more pleasant birthdays.
HE dauohfor Mrs Rertha Harrison