The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-10-03
Whole Number 1899

MRS. w. j. Warner and Miss Jean
were Kalamazoo visitors on Monday.
Postmaster Cole and wife and Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Latshaw motored to
Kalamazoo last Sunday. They were
accompanied by Mr.. John Latshaw of
Chicago who spent the week end at
the home of his son.
We understand that Clarence Brown
Eaton and Mosier's genial clerk and
his family will occupy the Dunbar
residence just as soon as vacated by
the Thayer family who will leave
soon for Washington, d. c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Warner were
here for the week end and left early
Monday morning for Kalamazoo t.
pack their household goods prepara-
tory to their moving to De Kalb, ILL.,,
which city will soon be their home.
Max Reynolds who has enjoyed an
extended vacation at the home of his
father, c. w. Reynolds, has returned
to Los Angeles, California. His
brother Lynn accompanied him. The
boys stopped off enroute to visit
their sister, lone, in Hammond Indi-
ana, and a brother Lee and family
in Chicago.
Miss Beulah Knight and friends,
Itha Gay, Fern Raymond, Ruth Ray
mond motored to Otsego last Sunday
with Carl Breed, and spent the day
at the home of Allie Coulson. The
young people were favored with
tour of inspection through the Paper
Mills of that city.
The Van Buren county fair at Hart
ford had rather a wet opening last
Tuesday, and as result of the
heavy rains that day and during the
night, the big show will continue an
other day later, closing Saturday
night instead of Friday as announced
The racing program and special
features were carried over one day,
and Thursday was school day in
stead of Wednesday. With good
weather conditions it is anticipated
that today and Saturday will be the
big days of the week. 1t is said that
the exhibits, special features amuse-
ments and all, surpass anything yet
attempted at the county fair.
The quota for Van Buren, county
in the Roosevelt Memorial associa-
ton drive is S1,750. The precinct
quotas together with the personel
of the county organization will be
announced early next week. Sub
scriptions to this memorial fund are
to be entirely voluntary, but every
man, woman and child in the United
States will be given an opportunity
to contribute and to have a part in
the Nations tribute to the memory
of that great exponent of pure un-
adulterated Americanism. The drive
will start on Monday, October goth,
and close on the evening of October
I27th, which is the anniversary of the
birth of the man whose memory it is
proposed 70 l.c.cr.
Emily l.. Stoughton was born IN
Oakland county Michigan, June 24th,
1851 and passed from this life at her
home on September 22nd, 1919 at
the age of sixty-eight year and three
months. When four years OF age
her parents moved to Van Buren
county into the neighborhood which
was then a wilderness, where she
spent her whole life. June 4th, 1870
she was united in marriage to Silas
A. Breed. To this union two sons
were born, Charles j. of Paw Paw
and Glenn of Salina, Kansas. In
1875 she gave her heart to God and
united with the Baptist church at
Covey Hill where she has been an
active worker in all the departments
of the church as long as her health
permitted Death came to her In
the same house in which she and her
husband had lived nearly half CEN
tury together. She has been a faith
full wife and loving mother, whose
untiring hands never ceased to do
for her beloved family. Besides her
husband and two sons she leaves to
mourn her loss seven grand children
two great grand children, two sisters
and six brothers. These lines may
be we'll applied to her.-"Her lamp
goes not out by night. She looketh
we'll to the ways of her household,
and eateth not the bread of idle
ness" Give her of the fruit of her
hands; and let her works praise her
in the gates" The funeral services
were held from the Covey. Hill
church on Thursday forenoon. Rev.
C. A. Lemon officiated and was assist
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