The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-03-14

"A new Daby girl came 10 the nome
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ella Curtis last Tues
day.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles M. Howe died last Mon
day. The little one lived but two days
after birth.
Mrs. VIM. Welch came from Grand
Rapids on Wednesday to spend few
days among Paw Paw friends.
Special communication of Paw Paw
Lodge No. 25 F. and A. nj. next Tues
day evening, March 18th. Work in
the First degree.
Attention is called in this issue to
the finely written article on the
League of Nations, written by Tom
Poole, one of the seniors of the high
school.
There were 5,296 deaths reported
to the Department of State in Michi-
gan during the month of January
and $3.50 births during the same
period of time.
All members of the Royal Neigh
Dor Lodge are requested to be at the
Memorial hall on Tuesday evening,
March 18th, at six o'clock. The ladies'
will be guests of the gentlemen for
supper.
Sheriff Lang apprehended one Ed
ward Slack in Almena last Saturday
who is wanted in Allegan on a charge
of rape. He is twenty-one years of
age and halls from Otsego. The
sheriff of Allegan county came for his
man the first of the week
A dispatch from Detroit states that
Miss Ida Hill of Paw Paw, who has
served as nurse in France for the
past year, arrived in New York in
charge of a Michigan Unit of Chateau
Thiery Heroines last Sunday. Miss
Hill is acting head nurse of the party
and stated that these young women
spent many weeks at time just be-
hind the front lines in Field Hospitals
under fire. One entire team was cited
for bravery at st. Mihiel, Verdun and
in the Argonne. Miss Hill is the
daughter of III. p Hill of this place,
and excerpts of one of her letters to
her father were published in these
columns last week.
M. c. Wheaton and daughters were
happily surprised the first of the
week to receive through the mails
from Washington ID c., a Lieuten-
ants Commission IN the Field Artil-
lery for his son Harold L. Wheaton.
The commission was mailed to
Harold's home address instead Of
France for the reason that he is
scheduled to leave for the states soon,
and may possibly be on the way now.
The young man who has been thus
honored enlisted for service early last
year and reported for duty at Colum-
bus, Ohio. He went Over Seas as a
private in May and was in action
several of the big battles of the war
up to and including the "Argonne
Forest" where he received shrapnel
wounds which confined him to base
hospital for period of two months
or more. He was promoted by the
war department from private to Lieu
tenant for meritorious conduct and
valor on the field of battle. The COM
mission is an added honor for the re-
turning hero, and is a source of much
pride and satisfaction to the father,
sisters and brothers.
Doris, the five year old daughter of
Mrs. Hazel North Bailey was brought
here from Grand Rapids for burial
last Sunday. She was stricken with
Scarlet fever at the home Of her aunt,
Mrs Royal Z. Hall in Grand Rapids,
and passed away after an illness of
oniy a week. The funeral was held
from the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Lake, Rev. Percy Nckless officiating.
The grandmother, Mrs. Bertha North,
came from Chicago, and her uncle
Royal T. Hall from Grand aRpids, but
the mother was denied the last sad
duty en- account of the illness with the
sane disease of younger daughter
which necessitated quarantine. Mrs
Bale. and children have spent their
summers with her mother, Mrs
Bertha North here on North
, Kalamazoo street, where little Doris
! was the pride and joy of the house
, hold, and the delight of the friends
and neighbors. She was an exceed
ingly bright lovable child, and il
!. Il. - L..