The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1919-02-28

from quite serious illness.
Mrs. David Anderson was Kala-
mazoo visitor on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Campbell
spent Thursday last in Kalamazoo.
Jesse Wilson was slightly under the
weather last week and confined to his
home.
George Tuttle who has been on the
sick list for several days is now on
the gain.
Mrs. J. c. Maxwell is entertaining
her mother and sister from Dowagiac
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Higgs organized a
class in dancing in Lawton last We'd
nesday evening.
Mrs. May Lamson of Covert was
guest at the Gladstone Beattie home
the first of the week.
Advertised Letters-Ted DeMarary,
Mrs. w. c. Murphy, Miss Mildred l.
Murphy, G.. w Walters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Abrams and
daughter, Miss Francis, of Lawrence
were Paw Paw visitors on Thursday.
Miss Winnie Dunham has recovered
from her recent illness and is again
at her post in the First National
Bank.
There will be Box social next Mon
day night at the Baptist church,
under the auspices of the Christian
Endeavor society.
A social dancing party was enjoy
ed by members of the /. o. o. f.
Lodge and their families on Thursday
evening of last week.
Another quota of army trucks made
Paw Paw their stopping place Thurs
day night. The rough roads necessi-
tated a shortening of the schedule.
Mrs. H. w. McCabe is visiting her
daughters in Jackson, Lansing and
Detroit. Hank has a job on his hands
for the next month, but is not COM
planning.
Deputy Game Warden Showerman,
found a trapper in Kendall this week
taking a chance on setting a trap in
side a muskrat house. The expert
ment cost the trapper a total of
$27.5O.
If the last three days of February
are an indication of what kind of
weather March will bring forth, there
will be more real winter during the
month than during all the balance of
the winter combined.
Mrs. Jennie H. Lockwood died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. +. ID.
February 26th, following a prolonged
illness. Mrs. Lockwood was the wife
of the late Ezra L. Lockwood, and
together they were pioneers of Mon
roe County, Michigan. Mrs. Lock-
wood in life was an active member of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and
was the mother Of five children, three
of whom survive her. Mrs. E. ID. John
son of Paw Paw, Mrs. Mary l.. Miller
of Ypsilanti and Judge Harry A.
Lockwood of Detroit. The funeral
services will be held from the home
in Petersburg, Michigan, where the
remains were taken for burial.
The following clipping, under the
head of Ford and His Son, now
Richest Woodchoppers" was taken
from a California paper and sent to
the True Northerner by John H. Sir
"Probably the richest wood
choppers in the world are now resid-
ing near Los Angeles. They are
following the example set by William
f. Gladstone, former premier of
England, and by the late Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, when he was Presi-
dent of the United States. Henry !,
Ford and his son, Edsell Ford, well
known automobile manufactures of
Detroit, chop wood for half hour
every day at their winter home in
Altadena. Its great exercise, said
Mr.. Ford today. The average man
does not exercise enough. Cutting
wood cannot be excelled for keeping
one in physical trim. 1t is also use
full occupation. Mr.. Shrine makes
the following comment on the above
clipping:-"It seems to the writer
that it might be well for the Michi-
gan soldiers, as we'll as others, to re-
member that Edsell Ford, son of
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