♦ NEW TROY. ♦4444444444444444idWe haven’t been out much since Porcuhog day. Will be at home the next six weeks.S. G. Penwell Co., W. N. English and wife, SiBter Balling, Brother P. H. Morley and others are all filling their ice houses. You can tell who is going to keep cool.There is quite an inquiry for corn but few farmers have any to sell.Our doctor claims but few are sick. It’s a great place to take preventa-tivee.Pen well Co. have their store (the P. O. building) all ready fci their new stock of goods. / Shines.Some talk of turning center of the World into a sanitarium, haa quite a start now.Telephone business is good. It they would only give “time” would do more business.P. E. Wood talks of moving to state of Chlckaraing, south of Sawyer, on a farm.Several sales advertised for this week that looks like Bpring was near.toill♦ BERRIEN CENTRE, 4 *444444444444444Grace.We have several champion checker players in town. They stand ready to challenge the best.The lee cutters are busily engaged putting up Ice at Paw paw lake. They expect to finish this week, filling the large ice house at the lake.Several thousand feet of logs have been hauled to the mill.The Umphrey machine shop is doing a good business repairing engines, lamps and general mechanical work.Mrs, William Hawker was in Benton jHarbor Monday, consulting a physician in behalf of her baby.Our boys won both basket ball games from Millsburg and Hartford high schools last Friday evening.4 4 4 444*4444444444 GLENDORA. 444444444444444444Everybody has worn Cheir telephone out and now they have Bet-tied down to business once more.Mr3. Granger and daughter went to Benton Harbor last Saturday.Mr.‘ Bishop, the creamery man, had his Ice house filled with an excellent quality of ice last week. Also a lo* of teams were hauling ice to New Troy. They will need a lot of ice down there next summer.Mrs. G. Kramer was severely burned last Monday afternoon. She died Monday evening about 6 o'clockTapp Hartltne and family started for their home in northern Michigan last Tuesday.Chas. Klaaner and wife visited in Galien last Tueaday and Wednesday.Mr. Graham returned to hla work tin Sooth Bend last Saturday.Giles Layman died February 6(h at his home, two and one-half miles northeast of Berrien Center, of paralysis, aged 77 years. His wife, Diana Marquis, preceded him some ten years. Three sons survive him, Frark, Allen and Ernest. Frank and Ernest are residing here, and Allen lives at Brampton, S. D. Three sisters are left to mourn the death of their last brother, three of them having died in the last three years, Joel, Esom and John. The sisters are Mrs. E. T. Dixon, Mrs. Giles Strong and Miss Martha Layman, all residents of Berrien Center. Funeral Sunday at 1 o’clock p. m. at the Franklin chapter, Rev. Gardner of Berrien Springs, pastor of the U. B. church, officiating. The six Jinkins brothers will act as pallbearers. The deceased was a pio neer of Berrien township, having spent sixty-seven years of his life here In honest toll, quiet and unassuming in manner, kind to his fam ily and at peace with his neighbors all these years.Mr. and Mrs. Closson and daughter of Riverside, were guests over Sunday at the Ed. Closson home, east of town.Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ferry and Mr. and Mrs. Elizah Puterbaugh of Pipestone, vfere Monday guest3 of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Willett.Mrs. Jesse Toney has been in Ann Arbor for some time, being the gucet of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Walker.Ben. Calvin will go Saturday to Fennville for a short visit with ms sister, and from there to Bryan. 0., his home.The CommercialST. J0SEP1Capital $50,000.00. Surph Interest Paid on Ctrl Safety Boxesoffic:Jas. M. Ball, PresidentA. N. Reece DIRECTJas. M. Ball M. W. Stock '1 Frank P. Graves A Ci