The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-04-25

Jimmie Briggs played Dy Melflll
/ Wragg in the Junior play is some boy
Mrs. c. l. Young and children spent
the week end with relatives in Kala-
maZoo.
Miss Mildred Beach is the new
clerk at the Paw Paw Drug Co.'S soda
fountain.
The usual services of the Presby-
terian church will be held next Sun
day in the Coterie rooms.
Hugh Harrison of Charleston, Vir-
ginia visited his sister, Mrs. Zilpha
Ferguson the first of the week.
Alva Burt came from Kalamazoo
where he is employed, to spend the
week end with his wife and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Lyle and Mrs.
Levi Lyle were callers at the home of
Mrs. Alva Burt on Saturday last.
w. J. Warner and family, Miss
Franc Warner and Mrs. r. w. Brough
ton were in Kalamazoo on Wednesday
Mr.. and Mrs. Neil Leggitt and baby
of Kalamazoo have been the guests of
her parents, Sheriff Lang and wife
this week.
The interior of the Presbyterian
church is undergoing extensive re-
pairs. Herman Soeffgen and Charles
Sheldon are the decorators in charge
of the work.
Miss Thelma Thayer was home
from Chicago for visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. David Thayel
last week. Miss Thelma has fine
position in that city.
Max Clark of Gliddenburg. well
known to Paw Paw people was mar
ried to Miss Florence Dannefful of
Watervliet last Saturday. They will
reside on the Will Clark farm in Ar
lington.
Next SUNDAY, April 9th, Rev. |. T.
Bates will preach in the East Airing
ton church. This will be the Goth,
anniversary of his ministry, and it
was in this church that he preached
his first sermon.
Mrs. Dollie Conner entertained a
company of ladies last week Monday
in honor of her friend, Mrs. VIM. Le-
mauX of Indiana, who was here on
visit with her daughter. Mrs. f. K.
Avery and family. Covers were |:
for sixteen, and a pleasant afternoon
enjoyed.
Rama G.. Ampey has been discharg-
ed from Naval service, and visited his
brothers here last week. He has
spent nearly two years in the navy
and has made nine trips to Brest,
France on the U. S. Ship George
Washington. He left on Saturday to
spend Easter with friends in Peoria.
The High School base ball team
is pulling strong to be in the finals on
Field Day this year. Their percent
age to-date is 1000. One of the hard
games of the season comes this Fri
day afternoon when Bangor comes.
The boys all feel confident of the
game however, and it is suggested
that the business men of the village
patronize the game and give the boys
the support they merit.
Swift justice was meted out to the
youthful but brutal murderers of w.
w. Mattison, the Kalamazoo druggist.
Arthur Sterling, aged twenty, and
George Bird, aged fifteen, both Kala-
mazoo boys were arrested for the
murder at so A. M. Tuesday, plead
guilty in Circuit Court at 11:5O the
same day, and were on their way to
Marquette prison to spend the re-
mainder of their lives at 800 p. M.
Credit for the clever work in appre
hending the murderers goes to Under
sheriff Putnam of Kalamazoo.
Supervisor Roy Tutte was in Grand
Rapids last week to confer with the
State Highway Commissioner in re-
gard to Paw Paw township road mat
ters. He then called a citizens meet
ing at the Council rooms on Tuesday
evening to go over the matter and
talk over the proper procedure for
the West Main street paving. Paw
Paw voted the sum of $4,000 for
bonds to build this pavement; but
this street will be part of a main
truck highway crossing the state, and
will he built under the new state
laws. Application will accordingly be
made at once for the building of this
stretch of pavement this year, under
the so-calied "Aldrich Law" AS the
law now stands, Paw. Paw township
will have to pay 45 per cent of the
expense of the paving. 1t is confident
Ily anticipated however that the
Especial session of the Legislature will
amend this law whereby but 22 per
cent of the expense of the work will
be borne by the township. In any
event, the expense of the paving will
be considerably less than if built as a
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