The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-03-08

Charles l.. Caller Of Camp Custer
spent Sunday with his aunt Mrs. A.
+. Douglas.
A. t. Foote has gone to Eaton
Rapids for an extended visit at the
home of his sister.
Don't forget the Republican town
ship caucus at the Opera House to-
morrow, Saturday afternoon at 200
o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Austin of
Mattawan spent Sunday last at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Winnie Fisk
east of town.
Hon. Frank o Gilbert of Bay City
Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge.
F. and A. M. of Michigan called on
Paw Paw friends Thursday.
Bert Mcleod will ride in new
Buick Four this summer. The car
was purchased through the Warner
Whitehead agency the first of this
week.
The fate of the Library Question
in Paw Paw is at stake next Monday.
Every voter in the corporation should
go to the polls on that day and cast
vote on this question.
A. M. DeVall has returned from
Kalamazoo. He was unable to stand
the duties Of his position there in the
paper mill and will conduct the
Hamburger Stand here this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Cleveland
near Gobleville have rented the
Moyle place east of town, better
known as the Harwick farm. He
will move soon and commence work
on the forty acre vineyard.
Lew Jacobs has moved his garage
to the building formerly occupied by
the Paw Paw Creamery in the rear
of Tom Browns cigar and billiard
parlor. This gives him a large COM
modious garage well lighted and
convenient.
Mrs. E. A. Aseltine writes from
Miami, Florida, ordering The True
Northerner held in Paw Paw until
their return. "Don't know just when
we will arrive, but hope to reach
Paw Paw ir about three weeks" she
says.
Kenneth Van Tassell played a solo
before the high school last week on
an Auto Horn" says the Courier.
Kenneth is quite an artist for boy
on the Alto horn, but it is not gener-
ally known that he is able to get
much real music out of an "Auto
Horn"
f.. F Stanley of Kalamazoo has
opened garage and general
machine shop in the building former
ly occupied by DR.. w. E. Jacobs and
Lew Jacobs, on west Main street.
Stanley is competent machinist,
and will be equipped to do all kinds
of general repair work including
Oxygen-Acetelyne welding. Adver-
tising space giving details of the new
business will be used i'm The True
INortherner next week.
We have stack of letters from
some of the wide awake erterprising
ladies of the village giving a million
reasons why the Library question
should carry next Monday. We sin
cerely regret the fact that limited
space will not permit their publica-
ton. We do hope however that their
dreams for civic improvement and the
welfare of generations to come may
all be realized. The vote next Mon
day will tell the story.
Following are the ladies who met
with Mrs. Roy Mosier east of town
last week to do Red Cross work.
Mesdames Ayars, Haworth, Bangs,
Bailey, White, Clapper, Farr, Boess
and Bale and the Misses Marian
Boess and Jennie Bale. By invitation
Messrs. A. T. Foote and A. w.
Mosier joined i'm the dinner hour.
"Talk about your Pot-Lucks" said
Mr.. Mosier, eff all pot-luck dinners
are like that one, l would like to
have one every day.
If there is a single reader of The
True Northerner who has any doubt
about the value of advertising. let
him ask Frank Avery. Last week
under the heading "From the True
Northerner of February 22nd, 1899
we published nearly column clipped
from the issue Of that date. Among
them was an item giving few
prices on commodities advertised by
c. r. Avery at that time, STANDARD
Prints 5 cents, Ginghams 5 cents
etc. AS a result of this item, scores
of people who failed to notice that
| it was taken from an old paper
flocked to the Avery store last Sat
urday to stock up on cent prints
and ginghams. 1t caused consider
able commotior and annoyance at the
store to explain the error, but il
demonstrated beyond the question OF
doubt, that it does pay to advertise
Monday, March 18th, at promptly
9:30 A. M. there will be held at Al
mena in the M. f. church Var
Buren, County Farm Bureau Insti.
tute and Farmers Conference al
which a very interesting program
will be given. Mrs. Olivia Woodmar
will talk on Cooperation. Mrs
Woodman's subject will be as usua
pleasing and interesting. w. c
Eckard, County Agricultural Agent
will take up the subject Maintain.
ing Soil Fertility" and will be pleas.
ed to meet as many farmers from
the section as possible to become