The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-11-28

Mrs. Della MacLaren is entertain
ing daughter from Toledo.
Prof and Mrs. Castle entertained
her mother from Muskegon last
week.
Mrs. l.. c. Hurd of Kalamazoo was
the guest of Mrs. Addie Hunt last
week.
Mrs. John Mutchler and daughter,
spend Thanksgiving with relatives in
Grand Rapids.
Mrs. Percy Nickless and baby
leave this week to spend the winter
with her parents.
The Friday club will meet this Fri.
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
George l.. futile.
| It is rumored that the Allen Bros.
of Glendale have sold their store in
terests to Harry Stowman.
Miss Jean Warner is convalescing
from a serious illness. She is still
under the care of a nurse however.
Mrs. Louise Thayer and daughter
Miss Martha of Kalamazoo were
Sunday guests at the DR.. w. F. Hoyt
home.
The proceeds of the Methodist
Ladies chicken pie dinner and bazaar
amounted to considerably over one
hundred dollars.
G. A. Ironsides, wife and daughter
of Hastings are guests at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. A.
Cross over Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Jennie Paul has returned to
the home of her daughter, Mrs. H.
A. Cross after spending the summer
with son in Wisconsin.
Mrs. Aggie Wiley Green of Ben
ton Harbor was in Paw Paw last
week to attend the funeral of her
aunt, Mrs. S. j. Orton.
H. A. Sherman left on Sunday for
Cassopolis for his official duties in
Circuit Court. Mrs. Sherman will
join him there next week.
Something doing this Friday eve
ming at l. o. o. F. Lodge. Bring in
your blank properly filled out. One
hundred per cent Oddfellowship is
the motto.
Father Clarson and niece, Miss
Annie of Marshall were calling on
Paw Paw friends last week. Father
Clarson officiated at the Donovan
Barret wedding.
Mrs. Alice Grimes is steadily i'm
proving in health and will leave next
week for Hillsdale to spend the win
ter with her daughter, Mrs. Edith
Kirby and family. Her sister, Mrs.
Travis who has been with her dur
ing the illness will go south for the
winter.
Senator Frelinghuysen of New
Jersey has introduced a resolution to
amend the constitution so as to pro-
cvide for the ratification of Consti-
tutional amendments by popular vote
instead of by action of the State
legislatures as now stipulated in that
instrument. Other resolutions of a
similar nature are now pending be-
fore the Judiciary Committee, to
which Mr.. Frelinghuysen's measure
has been referred, and it is possible
that legislation of sort will be at
tempted in the present Congress
Sheriff Lang has succeeded in
rounding up a quartet of Paw Paw
citizens who have confessed their
fondness for chicken and pork chop
and acknowledged that they are
guilty Of entering their neighbors
chicken coop in quest of fat yellow
legged fowl. Martin Conklin, Charles
Lyke, Ed Peck and Newton Winborn
are the parties apprehended. The
first three are strong for chicken
and the fourth likes the pork chops.
Conklin, Lyke and Winborn are ser,
wing thirty days each, and if fine
of $1,000 is not paid by the expira-
elton of the sentence they will serve
an additional thirty days. Peck gets
sixty days with fine of $1,000 and
thirty days additional if not paid.
The particular offense admitted by
Conklin, Lyke and Peck is stealing
chickens from r. A. Castle and feast
ing on the same at the home of Lyke
Winborn admits the killing and
carrying away of one fat pig owned
lby farmer east Of town. There
has been considerable petty thieving
going on in this vicinitv for several