The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-10-25

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hathaway
were Kalamazoo visitors last Saturday
DR.. o. M. Vaughan Jr. of Covert
was reelected member of the Board
of County Poor Commissioners.
Mrs. Charles Sunny who had an
attack of pneumonia is reported much
better and on the road to recovery.
Ed. M. Bailey of Detroit has been
spending part of the week with his
family here. His son Carl has been
quite i'll but is now better.
The John w. Free Co. Bank has
been designated by the Board of Sup
ervisors as the Van Buren county
Depository for funds during the COM
ing year.
Mrs. F. A. Racette, who volunteer
ed her services as nurse at Camp Gus
ter has been very i'll with Influenza.
Late reports however state that she
is convalescent.
DR.. and Mrs. A. f. Van Week will
leave the latter part of this week for
Detroit where the Doctor will attend
the annual meeting of the State Os-
teopathic association.
Theodore Ferguson who came home
from Borgess. hospital last week Fri
day is fast gaining strength again and
will soon be able to return to college
work in the Students Training Corps
at the Western State Normal.
Arrangements have been made with
a great London department store
whereby packages may be sent for
Christmas or any other time to our
men in France. The order is sent to
London and the goods forwarded
across the channel to France, thus
saving American ships without depriv-
ing our boys abroad of packages from
home. A number of these Shopping
Lists have been received by the de-
partment of Civilian Relief, American
Red Cross, and may be obtained by
application to Marion II. Boess, Di-
rector, Phone 81, Paw Paw.
Mrs. Norah Culver of Gliddenburg
was elected County School examiner
to succeed Harry M. Hough of Hart
ford. Mrs. Culver is recognized as
one of the best teachers in Van Buren
county, and the honor is we'll merited.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank McCon of Law
renee township have moved into their
new home in Paw Paw recently pur-
chased from A. M. DeVall on East
Main street. Paw Paw extends
cordial welcome to this estimable
couple.
Ray Pugsley has gone to Battle
Creek to accept lucrative govern
ment position. His family will probab-
ly remain here during the winter at
least. The store is closed, and Mrs.
Pugsley is taking care of the West
ern Union business at the residence.
Mrs. Ford Wilber and mother, Mrs.
Taylor were in Keller last Friday to
attend the funeral of a girlhood friend
of Mrs. Wilbur, Miss Gladys Foster.
Miss Foster was a Red Cross nurse
serving in a hospital in Chicago and
died following a brief illness of In
fuenza.
The Board Of Supervisors were
guests at a fine Chicken Banquet at
the Hotel Dyckman last Monday, SER
we'd to them by the City of South
Haven. The courtesy was in sppre-
citation of an appropriation of $4,000
for highway construction in the out
outskirts of the city of South Haven.
The wife of Mr.. George Longwell
Jr. has been very i'll with typhoid
fever the past week at the home of
his parents Mr. and Mrs. f. b. Long
we'll on North Kalamazoo street
They came here from Battle Creek for
a visit, when she was stricken. Late
reports say she is much better and
will soon be out of danger.
The Board of Supervisors this week
voted to renew their contract with
The True Northerner for all county
printing for the ensuing year. The
Board appreciate the fact that no
office in Van Buren, county is so well
equipped to turn out all county work
to the satisfaction of the County
Officials and the county in general as
The True Northerner.
The following quota of Van Buren
county boys left for Camp Eustis,
Lee Hall, Virginia on Tuesday of this
week. Albert l.. Ayres, Oliver A.
Bowen, Eddie Yonker, Gobleville;
Gust S. Chouvallos, Battle Creek;
Floyd f. Grimes, Breedsville; William
p. Howley, Watervliet; Thomas II.
Newton, Bangor; Paul Pilowsky, Co
vert; Albert w. Plaebn, South Haven;
and Henry NJ. c. Lummp, Paw Paw.
The Board of Supervisors are still
in session, but are about through with
their labors. One of the important