The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-01-17

Mrs. F.. Dickerhoff is i'll and absent
from her duties at the Avery store.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Smith has been very sick with
Influenza but is much better now.
Members Of the Up-To-Date club
will enjoy an Oyster dinner at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Shaefer
on Saturday.
Mrs. A. NJ. DeVall came down
from Kalamazoo the first of the week
to visit old friends and enjoy the Mac
cabee function.
Howard Smith returned home
Thursday from business trip to
Akron, Ohio. While there he visited
the Goodrich Tire Factory.
The Royal Neighbors will have a
Pot Luck supper at 6:30 on Tuesday
evening, January 21st. All members
and their families are invited.
Paul f.. Buckhout of Kalamazoo
and Pearlie II. Barry of New York
called on Paw Paw friends the first
of the week. Mr.. Barry is a Yoe-
man in the u. S. Army and was here
on a furlough.
MauriceWhite came home on New
Years. He has been mustered out of
the service at Camp Custer, and while
he is glad to get home, he has moth
ing but the very best words for the
army and his treatment in camp.
Lowell Clark is now serving Rural
Route No. 1 from Mattawan in place
of the old carrier Lew Towers. Lew
has served this route now for seven
teen years, and begins to feel little
rheumatic. A long rest will assist
him to recuperate.
Ray Wilson has resigned his position
in Flint, to accept a more lucrative
one with the National Refining Com
pany of Kalamazoo. His family have
returned to Paw Paw to live, and
their host of friends are glad of an
opportunity to welcome them back
Mister Austin who lives on the
Frank Kipp place in Mattawan is
feasting on honey these days. For
several years swarm of bees have
made their home between the plaster
and siding in the front of his house.
One day last week he opened up the
place and removed fifty-four pounds
of honey. This pays for being stung
several times and the care necessary
during the summer to keep the bees
in the propr frame of mind.
Paw Paw Changers are to have a
real treat on Saturday evening of this
week. Robert Martin of Lawrence
will tell his Impressions Of French
Agriculture as an American soldier
saw them; and Cyril Bailey Of Paw
Paw will give a short talk on the
Americanization of one foreign born
citizen. Don't miss it, Saturday eve
ming, January 18th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Bland are
happy over the birth of a fine seven
pound baby boy which came TO them
on Tuesday Mr.. Bland is proprietor
of the Paw Paw Garage, and right
now would be good time to get
work done. In his present happy
frame of mind, it is probable that
Roland would do the work at about
half price.
A letter from Mrs. NJ. S. Cook in
Jacksonville, Florida to Paw Paw
friends, contains the sad news of the
death of her son Harold Cook. He
passed away after a brief illness of
Influenza on January Sth. He was
but thirty-one years of age and
leaves a wife and two small children,
besides mother and sister. Harold
was resident of Paw Paw township
for ten years, and graduated from the
schools here in the class of 1916. For
the past ten years his home has
been in Jacksonville. The True
Northerner joins the Paw Paw friends
in sympathy to the bereaved relatives
in the Southern city.
Lorenzo G.. Hunt died at the home
of his brother John Hunt of Malta
wan last Sunday. He was eighty-eight
years of age, and the oldest of {
family of nine children, born to Johr
and Eliza Hunt of Vermont. Johr
Hunt, where he died, is the younges
of the family. He was a soldier il
the civil war, and his Mattawan com
rades together with some Of the boy
in Khaki accompanied the remains I,