The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-01-24
Whole Number 1863

Attorney w. j. Barnard is in Okla
homa on legal business this week.
Mrs. J. c. Kennedy of Almena is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. B. Breed.
Sheriff Andrew Lang and wife were
Kalamazoo visitors on Friday last.
/ Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCon of Law
renee were Paw Paw visitors on Mon
day last.
Miss Mildred Shepard and Miss
Marian Boess were in Kalamazoo on
Tuesday.
Mrs. Vera Ford Immell of Battle
Creek is the guest of Mrs. Bennett
McKinstry for few days.
Rev. and Mrs. Henry w. Harvey
of Kalamazoo were calling on Paw
Paw friends last Friday.
Mrs. Daniel Riley of Benton Har-
Dor is the guest of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. o. Duncombe.
A dinner was served last week by
Mrs. Lafayette Butler in honor of
her mother, Mrs. Wells Raleigh's
ninetieth birthday.
1t is reported that the 85th, Di-
vision will soon return from France.
This division includes many Van
Buren, county boys.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. S. Scovel and
Mrs. Charles Hathaway and son
Harold were dinner guests of Mrs.
c. f. Wallace at her Four Mile Lake
home last Thursday evening
The News-Palladium Benton Har-
Dor daily newspaper has been sold to
j. n. klock and Lieutenant Stanley
r. Banyon. Mr.. Banyon is we'll
known in this county.
f. X. Warren, millionaire of Three
Oaks, died at his home in Evanston,
Illinois last Thursday. For many
years Mr.. Warren had been closely
identified with the business interests
of Three Oaks, and was known to
many people in Van Buren, county.
Cards received from Mr.. and Mrs.
II. ". Showerman announce their
safe arrival in the land of sunshine
and flowers, and they are now located
in Los Angeles. They report a visit
to the ranch of Cyrus Sherrod where
they were treated to all the oranges
and grape fruit they could carry
away.
The State Association of Young
Mems Chistian Association, held
training conference at Camp Custer
the first week of the month, at which
all secretaries of the state were
gathered together to consider and de-
wise means for a constructive pro-
galm to be adopted during the re-
constructive period. So successful
was the conference that a second has
been planned, and will be held in
Camp Custer beginning the 22nd, and
continuing through the 9th. This
conference is to be made up very
largely of business men from the
various counties. Van Buren, county
is fortunate in having filled her quota
The men going from this county are
F.. r. Smith, South Haven; Paul Har-
rison, Bloomingdale; C. A. Lemon,
Gobleville; C. F.. Lewis, Lawton and
X. w. Wildt Bangor.
Lee Nelson a farmer living five
miles west of Bangor, in Geneva town
ship, was found dead in his home on
Sunday, from shot in the head. The.
officers were notified and the Sheriff,
Prosecuting Attorney, Stenographer,
and o. w. Rowland, Justice of the
Peace went to the place Sunday eve
ming and held an inquest. 1t was
found by the jury that he had met
death by gun shot wound inflicted by
himself. He had used an old musket
and fire shovel to work the trigger.
He had not been seen by any of the
neighbors for three weeks and it is
believed that he committed the deed
some three weeks ago. He was a
bachelor, about fifty years of age,
and lived alone in a small house on a
ten acre parcel of land on which
there was a good orchard. There was
$4,000 in currency on his person, and
it is believed he had other money, as
he was known to have made consider
able money from his orchard, and to
live a very miserly, selfish life. He
leaves two sisters, one living in Chi
cago, and one in Manistee, and one
brother, Andrew Nelson, living in La.
, Port Indiana. IL Is believed the mar